When David Fajgenbaum was a twenty-five-year-old medical student, at the University of Pennsylvania, he started to feel so tired that he could barely stand. Fajgenbaum, a former college quarterback, could still bench-press three hundred and seventy-five pounds; he was known for doing pullups on a tree near his workplace. But now he was desperately ill.
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