“I am tired.” Have you said that recently?
This is not a story about a rare disease that occasionally slips through. It is a story about a common disease that clinicians frequently miss
“I am exhausted every day,” she said. “I searched ‘fatigue’ online and followed every piece of advice I found: drink more water, add more protein to almost every meal, spend more time at the gym. None of it touched it, even three cups of coffee a day. I had been told that my fatigue was menopause, then stress, then simply age.”
Nobody Tells You That Doing Everything Right Can Still Leave You Feeling Lost
Lifespan and Aliveness Are Not the Same Thing
Every ten years or so, your life reorganizes itself around a new center. The person you were at 40, with her sense of what mattered, is not the person you are at 50, or 60, or 70. Not because something went wrong, but because something is always in the process of changing.
Board-Certified Family Physician | Clinical Professor | Author
For more than 30 years, I have cared for patients, trained physicians, led academic programs, and written about medicine, healthcare, and the human experience.
On aging, illness, and the science of choosing a different current
Why Some Find New Streams, and Others Stop at the Shore
Studies on aging and physical function consistently show that the decline we attribute purely to biology is, in significant part, the accumulated effect of the behaviors we adopt in response to what we believe about aging.
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