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  1. Shadrach Loom
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    Radical rest: evidence and anecdotes

    I’m sure there is a thread for this already, but I can’t find it. I’m starting this one because I’m on the point of giving up a lucrative...
    Thread by: Shadrach Loom, Jan 20, 2023, 30 replies, in forum: Other treatments
  2. Sly Saint
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    What Does It Mean to Really, Truly Rest?

    I confess that I didn’t give the topic of rest much thought prior to getting COVID-19 in January 2021, which was the first time in my life that...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Dec 23, 2022, 2 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  3. Sly Saint
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    Book review: Manifesto for the weary: can rest be radical?

    Workplace culture in a capitalist society constantly demands more of us. A new book suggests that most revolutionary response could be to just...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Dec 8, 2022, 0 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  4. Sarah94
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    Resources re: the importance of rest in the early stages of post viral fatigue

    Hiya I’m asking on behalf of a friend who has asked me for resources. He’s worried about *his* friend, who’s been fatigued post-covid for 2 and a...
    Thread by: Sarah94, Feb 17, 2022, 5 replies, in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19, not Long Covid)
  5. AliceLily
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    Why does it take years to move down a level of ME?

    Is this more likely due to an immune system problem? For me there came a point where after many years with very severe ME where resting finally...
    Thread by: AliceLily, Jul 26, 2021, 17 replies, in forum: Post-Exertional malaise and fatigue
  6. Sly Saint
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    Article in Guardian: I rested my way to recovery from ‘long-haul Covid’. I urge others to do the same | Fiona Lowenstein

    I am not the first person to remain ill after a viral infection, and I am certainly not the first person to utilize rest and pacing in my...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jun 21, 2021, 23 replies, in forum: Long Covid news
  7. Hip
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Moderator note: Use this thread to discuss the possibility of an ME/CFS or ME/CFS-like illness following Covid-19. Initial posts have been moved...
    Thread by: Hip, Jan 21, 2020, 5,543 replies, in forum: Long Covid news
  8. Sly Saint
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    Essay: No Rest - by Alicia Puglionesi

    Interesting essay 4,900 words long. In 1877, the neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia published a therapeutic guidebook called Fat...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Aug 17, 2020, 2 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS news
  9. Marco
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    Chilled worms live longer

    Scientists combining studies in humans, mice and nematode worms suggest that levels of neural excitation modulate longevity in all species and...
    Thread by: Marco, Oct 17, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  10. Andy
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    The Times [UK]: We’ve forgotten the vital need to convalesce

    It’s binary and there’s little room for nuance. Once we’re back in the workplace we’re expected to perform, snapping back almost overnight from...
    Thread by: Andy, Feb 28, 2019, 6 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  11. WillowJ
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    What I learned about weight loss from spending a day inside a metabolic chamber

    A healthy control describes the NIH metabolic chamber which is also being used in the ME study....
    Thread by: WillowJ, Sep 23, 2018, 21 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  12. Daisybell
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    The Times reports ‘GPs give rest cure its marching orders’.

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/pick-up-thy-bed-and-work-out-gps-give-rest-cure-its-marching-orders-792w52z38 Under the NHS-wide Moving...
    Thread by: Daisybell, Sep 2, 2018, 27 replies, in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  13. MeSci
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    Radio prog - Four Thought on public resting places

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pmbdp This programme is on at 1900 today, but it can be listened to already: Dreams of Public Resting Spaces...
    Thread by: MeSci, Aug 4, 2018, 3 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
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