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Professional endurance athlete, trains 8+ hrs/day with b12, creatine kinase out of range high normally and gets sick very easily. recently had epidura?

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Normal: Sounds like a bit much of overtraining. Ck is normally elevated if high exercisers, esp if arican american. You seem to be overdoing it and even if u r a personal trainer, u need a coach. Hrs, md www.Thepmc.Org.

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Answered 6/26/2015

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