Three weeks before RideLondon, David Bainbridge lay in a hospital bed—malnourished, muscle-wasted, unable to walk. He had no strength. No training. No chance.

But on race day, he didn’t just show up—he went to war.

In this episode, we tell the story of a man with a body in collapse who rode 63 miles at elite intensity. No pacing. No coasting. No mercy.

This wasn’t about finishing. This was about reclaiming identity.

“I’m not done yet.”

Listen to the rebellion.

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Ever felt your bones grinding together? Now imagine it never stops.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is real. It’s brutal. And it’s invisible.
More painful than childbirth, cancer, even amputation—and most people have never heard of it.

Through visceral metaphors and raw testimony, we expose the truth behind this silent tormentor: a dysfunctional autonomic nervous system that never switches off the agony. We recreate what "cold fire" feels like, share why diagnosis is a desperate race against time, and call for something medicine often forgets—compassion.

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“I’ve been in constant severe pain for every second of every day for so long that I can’t remember what it feels like to not be in pain.” - David Bainbridge

In Episode 1 of Born into Pain, David Bainbridge’s story begins before age three—before doctors believed him, before the diagnoses, and before the world took his pain seriously.

This episode explores the raw truth of childhood chronic pain, early opioid prescriptions, and a broken medical system that left a child to suffer in silence.

Narrated by host Josh, this is a brutally honest dive into what it means to grow up in a body that never stops hurting—and a world that refuses to see it.

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