Are you tuned in to the right station when you listen to your body?

Person doing yoga pose

Whether you often find yourself feeling exhausted or even have full blown chronic fatigue or even Long Covid one of the things people often find themselves doing is resting. It’s understandable isn’t it? That’s where I found myself some years ago, while at university when I first came down with a bad flu virus which…

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Long Covid

Person slumped at desk struggling with illness recovery

Struggling with fatigue and other symptoms from Long Covid? It sounds all too familiar. As someone that suffered with Chronic Fatigue for over 4 years I really empathise with the struggle people recovering from Coronavirus are going through. One in 10 of those who’ve had the virus have experienced symptoms not just of fatigue but…

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Fight or Flight (The Brains Only Trying to help!)

Trevor Gardner talks about fight or flight

Fight or Flight guest Blog by Trevor Gardner Henry Marsh, the neurosurgeon and writer, chose ‘Better Not Look Down’ by B.B. King as one of his record choices on the BBC’s Desert Island Disks. He explained that brain surgery isn’t much more difficult than other surgery with practice, yet the results when things go wrong…

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I survived ME now I’m thriving

Saul Levitt who survived ME

2006 seems like a long time ago. I guess it is! That’s the year I fully recovered from M.E. Let’s back up a little….. In the late 90s while studying a degree in Marketing at Plymouth University, I was struck down with a horrendous bout of the flu. It meant I couldn’t return to university…

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Payback’s a bitch!

Hikers - don't overdo it with CFS

6 years a slave to CFS During my 6 years of struggling with CFS through university, 3 jobs and 3 home moves, one of the things that always seemed strange to me, was that I could be exhausted, have aches and pains and other horrendous symptoms but if I did something I enjoyed like seeing…

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Overcoming CFS

Saul who recovered from CFS

Using 6 years of illness to help others Waterskiing, clubbing and attending the odd lecture were all part of my fairly regular university experience. That all changed very suddenly though when in 1999 in my second year at Plymouth University I was struck down by a flu virus which kept me off university for over…

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