This is an excerpt from Alex Howard's new audiobook, Decode Your Fatigue, a clinically

proven 12-step plan to increase your energy, heal your body, and transform your life.

You can listen to the full audiobook free for 14 days in the Hayhouse Unlimited Audio

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Google. Decode Your Fatigue, a clinically proven 12-step plan to increase your energy, heal

your body, and transform your life. Written and read by Alex Howard.

Part 1. What is Fatigue? Chapter 1. Radical Responsibility

Like most people, I grew up believing that if you full ill, you take a pill, then you

feel better. At least that was until just before my 16th birthday, when I found myself

in a physical hell that no pill could cure. I woke up one morning and something felt very

wrong. It was as though someone had pulled the plug on the energy in my body, and I had

none left. The short walk from my bedroom to the bathroom felt like a marathon. My muscles

ached, and I became lightheaded while doing even the most basic tasks. Following several

visits to the doctor and various blood tests, it was concluded that I had a virus. I just

needed to rest I was told, and all would be back to normal in a month or two. That felt

like a lifetime, for a teenage boy who just wanted to play sport and make music with his

friends. For a while, ignorance wasn't exactly bliss, but it never crossed my mind that what

I was experiencing was anything more sinister than a virus that would pass in its own time,

except it didn't. Three months later, and I was heading to the doctor once more in search

of answers. This time, my grandmother was leading the charge. If anyone could get answers, it

was her. My health hadn't improved since my last appointment. In fact, it had declined significantly.

An attempt to restart school a few weeks earlier had gone horribly wrong. After ten days

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