Science Fact: Chronic Fatigue
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Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Science Fact of the week: Chronic Fatigue
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| 0:00.0 | Let's get straight into the brain fact of the brain fact is chronic fatigue syndrome and dealing with general fatigue. |
| 0:18.7 | Okay. |
| 0:19.5 | So chronic fatigue syndrome is also known as myelagic encephalomyelitis. |
| 0:27.1 | Say that 10 times in a row when you're drunk, okay? So basically it's an illness, which is defined by a |
| 0:34.4 | combination of symptoms. And it is something that you need to get diagnosed with. |
| 0:39.1 | You can't just self-diagnose it. |
| 0:40.5 | You need someone to kind of let you know what's going on. |
| 0:43.5 | So the first thing is profound fatigue, where you are feeling tired or fatigued. |
| 0:48.4 | Then along with that is impaired memory and concentration, |
| 0:53.6 | muscle and joint pain, headaches, and then something |
| 0:57.7 | called post-exertional malaise, which is basically a worsening of those symptoms after exertion |
| 1:05.2 | and relatively minimal exertion. So you'll do something that normally wouldn't require |
| 1:10.8 | that much effort that normally wouldn't require that much effort that normally |
| 1:12.2 | wouldn't tie you out and then you feel a worsening of the above symptoms that I just mentioned. |
| 1:17.8 | Like you'll be even more tied. You'll feel really sore. You'll get more of a headache. |
| 1:21.2 | Your memory and concentration is just shot to pieces. So it's obviously very debilitating |
| 1:26.3 | this chronic fatigue syndrome. |
| 1:29.0 | And this post-exertional malaise is also common in something called fibromyalgia as well. |
| 1:34.5 | Now, there is a difference that doctors or scientists are able to see in the central nervous |
| 1:39.5 | system of patients that suffer from this chronic fatigue syndrome. |
| 1:43.8 | And it's got to do with the spinal fluid. |
| 1:46.8 | So when they analyze the cerebral spinal fluid of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome |
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