💬 “For a lot of people, going through the pandemic has been enormously depleting – when our system goes into a state of sustained overload, it becomes drained,” Alex says
❓Do you have fatigue?
“If you slow down, rest, and months later, you’re still fatigued, there’s something going on that needs to be understood,” Alex says.
“Generally, you need to have had symptoms for at least 3 months to be diagnosed”
Alex says the natural human state should be one of zest for life.
➡️‘If you’re routinely waking up and having to motivate yourself to get out of bed, or use coffee to kick-start your system, the question is why”
📝 Alex uses a 12-step plan to heal people, with the first urging you to take responsibility to change your situation.
Following that, you need to rule out medical issues that could be causing fatigue with a doctor
Next, understand your personality, and how your approach to life could be inherently draining.
👉 For example, the drive to get things right is more important for perfectionists, however much their body may beg for care
Optimising your digestion is another step.
If your body isn’t breaking down and absorbing energy from your food, then it is like a car with insufficient fuel supply.
Consider factors such as how much your chew your food, and if you eat in a calm, relaxed environment 🥣
Stable blood-sugar levels are also critical.
❌Leaving too long a gap between meals or eating foods that are absorbed too quickly, such as refined carbohydrates, will cause a spike in our blood-sugar levels, followed by a crash
“Fatigue is like a puzzle. Certain steps will be critical for some and may not be important for somebody else,” Alex says.
⚠️Government figures reveal fuel deliveries to petrol stations remained steady over the summer despite warnings of a lack of HGV drivers.
Yet the amount of spare fuel stored fell sharply by up to 12% after Sept 1, when the Government introduced greener E10 fuel as the standard
❌When panic buying began, garages found they did not have enough in storage tanks to keep up with demand.
“I don’t blame the Government particularly but the E10 switchover clearly had an unintended consequence” said Brian Madderson, chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association
⚡️The National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO) believes supply will meet demand - but has cut its forecast of buffer supply.
Officials are also warning of high costs getting power generators to fire up at short notice to help balance the system
⚠️Costs are ultimately passed onto household bills - a further pressure when bills are climbing due to soaring wholesale costs of natural gas and electricity
🗣️“We don’t think the claim that the only safe alcohol intake is zero is true as it wasn’t based on a sound methodological approach” says Professor Chris Frost, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
❌Leaked documents of a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) reveal that the international team of scientists planned to mix genetic data of closely related strains and grow completely new viruses
A genetics expert working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that if Sars-CoV-2 had been produced in this way, it would explain why a close match has never been found in nature
❌The PM has been accused of "hypocrisy" in calling for a high wage economy.
Mick Lynch, general sec. of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, said the "twin evils of skills shortages and low pay are leading to an exodus of bus drivers, threatening local services"