Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,

The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's

Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the Inside Health podcast with me, James Gallagher. Now, I've not done press-ups since I was forced to in school, so that's a good 20-odd years ago.

And I'm lying on the Inside Health studio floor, and I'm going to see how many I can do.

One, two, right, three.

Now, we're focusing on a healthy body this episode, and we're going to find out if a tiny amount of muscle boosting exercise, like

what I'm doing now, can have a huge impact on our health. I think I'm in double figures

here. This isn't going too badly. Now, if this doesn't sound appealing and you'd be forgiven

if it doesn't, then we're going to see if dogs, yes, dogs, are really good for us. Or maybe you've just been brainwashed

by how cute they are. But first, I want to pick up where we left off last time with Joe House,

who's had long COVID for two years now. You reach a point where for your mental and physical

health you have to accept that you had now, like I just feels weird saying

it. I'm now disabled. I have a long-term chronic condition and I need to rethink how I live my life now.

From where I'm sitting, I would find that the most incredibly frustrating thing,

imagine or not being able to do what I know that I could do?

You just have to reach a point of acceptance.

And by acceptance, I don't mean I've given up.

It's learning to accept what I need to do for now

and resting to heal. It's that convalescence thing that I think we're not very good at. Well, that was Joe House last week, and we thought she's really got a point about convalescence. So that's what we're going to discuss with Dr. Navdroit Lada, who's a GP and clinical editor at the British Medical Journal. Hi, Navjoint. Hi, James. So just help me out because I think

lots of people probably haven't even heard the word convalescence these days because it has drifted so

far out of common medical practice. What is convalescence? Yeah, it's a good question. Convalescence is

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