Short excerpt from a YouTube video in which Ashok Gupta and Francis discuss post-exertional malaise (PEM). Gupta defines PEM as feeling significantly worse after physical activity; Francis reports recovering to the point of running half-marathons and doing strength training. The speakers emphasize gradual reconditioning of the body as a path to overcoming residual exertional malaise.
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How will this help with exercise malaise, or post exertional malaise, as it's called. Yep, you're in the right place. Post exertional malaise is a symptom where if you exercise or do too much activity, you then feel much worse afterwards. That is something we've been dealing with for 20 years now at the clinic. So, yeah, it will definitely help with that. Yes. Francis, I believe that in fact, in your scenario, once again, once you got better, you were able to run and jog and all of those things.
Yes. Yeah, I've run a few half marathons since being well and I'm, Yeah. Do weights and stuff like that these days. So, yeah, I'm really into being really physically fit and I also like supporting people on that final leg of the journey to get fully physically fit as well. So. Yeah, yeah. And to get. Overcome that final stage of the exertional malaise, which sometimes is one of the final things to leave. I fully. I noticed. But, yeah.
Because it's once again reconditioning the body back to those activities.