You do learn so many fabulous and really important things from having a chronic illness

that it does guide you in a, in actually a really important life direction because you

actually learn the ability to have preventative measures for your overall health and well-being.

So you know, you can help to reduce your risk of other chronic diseases like types of diabetes

for example.

And you know, you go on this journey of just learning so much and it's all self-development

at the end of the day.

So it's trying to kind of see what lessons are there along the way.

Well, that's the voice of Lauren Windos.

She, like approximately 250,000 people in the UK, suffered with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Now a nutritionist, naturopath and co-founder of Ardere, a holistic well-being company

that uses evidence-based science to help others on their own unique journey.

I'm Lizelle and this is the Lizelle well-being show.

The podcast helping us all live a better second half and my mission is to find ways for

us all to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

Now chronic fatigue syndrome is a spectrum disorder and that essentially means that everyone

is affected in very different ways.

There are those who have affected mildly.

They might be mobile and still at work while those suffering severely may well be house

or wheelchair-bound, struggle with things like speech and swallowing and can be very

sensitive to light and sound.

It's in many ways an invisible illness and is difficult to diagnose.

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