Altitude sickness is rare at elevations of less than 8,200 feet but becomes much more common at higher altitudes.
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Whether you’re ascending to high altitudes for casual travel or for adventure tourism, there are specific strategies to help you acclimate and reduce the likelihood of altitude sickness.
Feeling wiped out by mental work has different causes than what drives physical fatigue.
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Setting specific, hard-to-reach goals seems to help people maintain motivation, while preventing them from feeling as drained by mental tasks.
Many long COVID sufferers find their symptoms worsen after exercise.
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These findings may provide insights into better ways of managing long COVID.
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While symptoms can be subtle, untreated Hashimoto’s can cause long-term problems with your heart, memory and fertility.
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Participants recorded short videos about their daily lives, focusing on their symptoms, how they were coping, and any lifestyle changes they were making.
Creatine helps muscles recover between workouts.
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But there was little effect on fatigue.
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There’s a lot to learn, understand and organise when you receive a cancer diagnosis. But you don’t need to do it all at once.
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Everyday tasks, such as washing your hair, become impossible.
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Of all symptoms studied, fatigue was associated with the biggest effect on long COVID patients’ daily lives.
Fatigue has been associated with a variety of psychoeducational issues, such as slower educational progress and more frequent school absences.
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Capturing the experiences of students who are deaf or hard of hearing is important so schools can address fatigue related to listening and communicating efforts.
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Could CBT, a widely used form of ‘talking therapy’, help people who have persistent fatigue after having COVID? A recent study suggests it could.
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There’s a blood alcohol limit for legally being permitted to drive. Should we have a ‘fatigue limit’?
A common symptom of not getting enough quality sleep is ‘brain fog’ — when thoughts aren’t as clear and focused as they should be.
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We live in a world where we frequently do not get enough sleep, but we need sleep if our brains are going to stay healthy and function efficiently.
Researchers have long known that sitting at your desk hour after hour is an unhealthy habit.
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Short, frequent walks throughout the day are key to helping prevent the harmful effects of a sedentary lifestyle.
Fatigue can be a sign of a potential B12 deficiency.
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The symptoms of B12 deficiency resemble a lot of other health problems, putting millions of Americans at risk of a misdiagnosis.
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A good doctor can help you work out when tiredness has crossed over into true fatigue.
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We need to take an urgent look at how we manage and treat long COVID. If we don’t start planning now, the problem will only get worse.
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Fatigue can drag for weeks, even when the infection is gone, and sleep doesn’t fix it. But there are simple steps you can take to ride it out.
Some COVID-19 patients experience months of debilitating symptoms.
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As COVID-19 survivors join the ranks of people with disabilities, they could have a long wait to get the support they need.
The concept of placebos – which are sometimes called “sugar pills” – has been around since the 1800s.
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Drug manufacturers often shun the use of placebos in clinical trials. But research suggests that placebos could play an important role in the treatment of depression, pain and other maladies.