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This Week: Swallowing 101: achalasia

Imagine you ate a meal but instead of the food doing what it normally would do (travel through the entire digestive system) it just became stuck within your non working esophagus. As if your body was trying to mimic an emperor penguin by storing food for your baby. Except when you inevitably regurgitate your food, there is no baby penguin to receive it... because your a human woman. This is Kelsey's life. She suffers from Achalasia. 

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Brian was born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, but has spent the last five years working abroad and travelling the world. His passions include adventure, being a do good'er, and making sweet love to his beautiful girlfriend, Chelsea. 

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Jeremie is a multi award winning professional actor and yoga instructor who happens to live with a genetic lung disease called Cystic Fibrosis. He is an advocate for grabbing life by the balls and never letting go. He is married to a super babe of a wife named Bryde, and they own a big goofy dog named Bigby.

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Taylor is a thrill seeking, adventure and travel loving human. If he's not snowboarding or hanging around Jeremie and Brian, he's running yoga studios with his life long lover Kyla. Or playing video games...with Jeremie and/or Brian

 
 
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