Question about strong mind and strong body investigator abilities

By dave100, in Arkham Horror Second Edition

Hi there,

This being my first post im brand new to the forums, though I plan to visit here frequently since im officially hooked on Arkham Horror :)

My question is about Michael McGlens Strong Body ability (as well as Harvey Walters Strong mind ability since I would assume the same rules apply)

Unique Ability: Strong Body - Any Phase: Michael reduces all Stamina losses he suffers by 1, to a minimum of 0.

Does this always affect any stamina loss at any time during any phase? Or is this a once per turn ability which is effectively exhausted for the rest of the turn once it is used on a single source of stamina damage?

If the former is true does this basically make him immune to all monsters and arkham encounters which only inflict 1 stamina damage all the time no matter how many sources of stamina damage he encounters during his turn?

This was a problem we encountered in our last game where I was playing as McGlen and aquired the Enchanted Jewelry Unique item:

Any Phase: Put 1 Stamina token from the bank on Enchanted Jewelry to avoid losing 1 Stamina. If there are 3 Stamina tokens on it, discard Enchanted Jewelry.

After failing my first combat check against a monster with 3 stamina damage, I used both my ability and the jewelery at the same time to negate 2 damage. Before my second combat check I was down to 2 stamina but it was unclear wether or not i could use my strong body ability again to ensure I would survive should I fail a second combat check. It was ruled that i could only use my ability once per turn, and after failing a second combat check I was forced to use the remaining 2 uses of my enchanted jewelery to avoid being rendered unconscious. Luckily I defeated the monster on my 3rd combat check but i felt a little cheated as my enchanted jewelry was now gone :(

Any clarification on the strong body/ strong mind abilities would be greatly appreciated, ty :)

P.S. I am aware of the rules regarding voluntary stamina/ sanity losses and these 2 abilities.

The abilities are always on they do not say "Once per turn"

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