The following is an excerpt from James Stewart's latest newsletter. For more, check out www.jamesstewartonline.com.

"The big news I have is that we finally figured out what has been making me sick this year. Only after just about every test known was done on me the week after Vegas, it was discovered through a stomach biopsy that the problem is a bacterial infection in my stomach and intestine. This type of thing is difficult to diagnose without actually going in and removing tissue to study, so I am glad we went after it as hard as we did. The good news is that this is totally treatable. I will be taking antibiotics for a while, but once it's gone, it won't be a problem again. This infection has been holding me back in a few ways. Getting really sick like at Vegas is the most obvious, but it has also made it more difficult for me to get the right nutrition and to be my strongest. The reason I would tend to feel worse around race days is that anytime I would be in a situation where I was getting pumped up for racing it would aggravate the infection, and cause the situation to be more serious than when I was in a relaxed state. I am just really glad to have that behind me going into 2006."