Fatigue is the number one condition I come across in-clinic; it's almost as if people expect it now, it's often presented as a 'given' and normal to have it. It isn't. There are tons of causes of fatigue and we could be here all day, but let's focus on one: poor mitochondrial function. Think of …
It’s Not All in Your Head – Or Is It?!
If you suffer from one of what I call the 'hypersensitivity syndromes' like ME, chronic fatigue, multiple sensitivity to food and/or chemicals or fibromyalgia (or all of them together which is pretty common in my personal and clinical experience so I tend not to differentiate between them much nowadays), then you will have heard the …
Hypersensitive to Everything!
A useful little snippet of video here today for you which nicely illustrates two points. First, this person with ME/CFS describes how she became hypersensitive to any form of stimulus, be that noise, light, food etc, and was controlled by anxious, racing thoughts and a sense of 'existential dread' all the time. That was me …
Magnesium For #Fatigue and #Fibromyalgia
It is National ME month in May so I thought I would share this lovely success story of a lady beating her chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia with transdermal magnesium therapy (ie. through the skin). Not my patient, but useful nevertheless for you. I use the magnesium spray she uses myself. It is a good choice …