#648 - Understanding Fatigue with Alex Howard

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Ben Coomber

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Fatigue is complex, and there is many levels to it. You've got the initial state of being tired and worn out, then you have overwhelm and burnout, and then you have an illness state of fatigue like CFS/ME, and what many people are now seeing with Long Covid. Alex Howard suffered with CFS for many years and has now made it his life long mission to help others with fatigue, largely in a clinical setting. In this show we explore the intersection of body : mind : spirit and how it all plays a role in fatigue. Recovery is long, slow, and multi-faceted, and it was an honour for me to interview Alex on this wildly complex topic. Whatever state of tired or fatigued you are in, this show will help you see the body in new way.

Check out Alex at: https://www.alexhoward.com

I recommend his book 'Decode Your Fatigue' which I've personally read cover to cover.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Everyone been coming radio how and earth are you doing? Very excited about today's show
0:08.0	and talking about fatigue and a physiological state where there's ill function and this
0:16.3	can be described in many different ways if you are in tune with a conversation that I've
0:22.7	been having on the podcast a little bit with my own long COVID but also the wider landscape
0:27.9	in the world right now with COVID and the prevalence of long COVID and also just zooming
0:34.6	kind of back in terms of a wider energy perspective. Everyone listening to this at some point in
0:41.5	time in their life would have experienced you know overwhelm, burnout, maybe fatigue and maybe
0:47.9	a condition that is linked to fatigue. So I want to be able to navigate today's conversation to
0:53.6	include you all to be able to understand the basis of fatigue and how we can essentially get
0:59.7	our physiology and our psychology into a rut and hopefully how we reverse out of that and I've
1:05.4	brought onto the show the author of an amazing book of recently read called The Code Your Fatigue
1:13.1	by Alex Howard's great book I read it after someone on Instagram actually reached out to me and said
1:18.0	hey Ben I can see you struggling with long COVID this guy's great, knows his stuff, has a clinic,
1:23.4	helps hundreds of people like every day, you should get him onto the podcast so here he is,
1:28.3	hello Alex Howard. Thank you Ben for the interest nice to be here.
1:33.1	Alex, set the tone you have an incredible journey when I look at my journey right now with long
1:40.0	COVID your journey with chronic fatigue I just think oh my god I feel so lucky when I compare it to
1:47.0	your journey and your time on which you talk about in the book give us a whistle stop tour of why
1:53.2	you are now all about kind of fatigue chronic fatigue in these conditions around ill-stated physiology.
2:01.3	I guess the first thing to say is my professional life in this area wasn't a plan in my teenage years
2:08.0	that I was going to become a practitioner and specialize in fatigue I actually my dream as a
2:13.5	teenager was to be a rock star so as much as I could consider myself a successful
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