Video: Hugo Pigeon Shares his Journey from XC Racing to the EWS in 'Second Souffle'

 came here to make this comment. comment was better than expected tbh.

 @conoat: My eyes deceived me, thought it was going to be the story of a rider and his pigeon rather than the usual dog.

 I read that as well. Huge pigeon shuffles his feathers

 I came for this comment bc I saw the exact same thing

 I consider us all friends for having the same thought, even though I know none of you... I swear it read huge pigeon...

 Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Indeed, frequently in medical practice you will get a shrug and a "no treatment available" from many different practitioners and teams before finding a specialist or sub-specialist who, in fact, has a unique hypothesis and solution which works. Your recommendation of gluten restriction, for example, is actually a classical prescription for extreme intestinal permeability.

Sorry for the haters.

 @KJP1230: Do you honestly think he hasn’t tried a gluten free diet already? Just completely changed his racing career without exploring the options?

Platitudes about the human body’s ‘unlimited potential to heal’ aren’t based in reality. Our bodies are capable of amazing things but sometimes, for some people, they let you down and there may not be anything you can do about it.

The fact that he is still competing at the highest level and making the best of things is great and I hope his body continues to allow him to do that.

 @Tim2: I don't disagree with anything you're saying, nor was I personally advocating that anyone on a pinkbike forum is qualified to ascertain what's been tried thus far, nor prescribe possible solutions. My comment was merely to suggest that @paurexs shouldn't be downvoted, as the thrust of what he is saying is accurate and I took it as an attempt to help.

I agree - platitudes about some universal capacity for the body to heal are woo-woo and not rooted in any sense of reality. That said, very often diagnostic and treatment "standard of care" have not caught up with the bleeding edge of research. History is littered with cases whereby patients given a hopeless prognosis go on to find a specialists elsewhere who provide more efficacious practices.

 @KJP1230: That’s fair. Based on my personal experiences being on various restricted diets (including gluten free) with little success, I tend to get a bit triggered by what I would describe as unhelpfully optimistic advice.

I probably should’ve just let it go.

 XC racing is more or less flat-out suffering for the entire even duration. I guess he's saying on the non-timed transitions he can relax a bit in enduro.

 I'm also here for the second soufflet.