What Chronic Illness Taught Me with Nicola Singleton #87

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

4.8 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast is a first for me – my guest is a former patient of mine, Nicola Singleton. I met Nicola back in September 2016 on the second series of my BBC1 TV documentary, Doctor In The House. Since then, she has completely transformed her health and I’m so pleased she’s agreed to share that story with you. Nicola was, in her own words, ‘aged 38 but feeling 98’. She had a list of 10 different health diagnoses and was taking 20 different pills a day. Her main issues were feeling crippled with the exhaustion of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) along with the debilitating, widespread pain of fibromyalgia – both complex and misunderstood conditions from which she’d been told there was no hope of recovery. She couldn’t work, couldn’t play with her kids, could barely get out of bed. Nicola also suffered from anxiety, depression, IBS and more. She was so desperate to feel better and start living again that she allowed me, and a BBC television crew, to practically move in with her, her husband and three young children for six weeks. In this podcast, we revisit what happened and how, by removing the illness labels and focusing on creating health, rather than treating disease, Nicola was pain free by the end of those six weeks. Even more enlightening though, is our chat about everything that Nicola has achieved since then, without me. I know you’re going to find it fascinating, whether you saw the TV show or not. Nicola is a remarkable woman and her story a truly inspirational one. Show notes available at drchatterjee.com/87 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee/ Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee/ Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:00.0	You taught me to listen to my body.
0:02.5	And for the first time in my life, I actually started to begin slowly, to take a while, to
0:07.2	understand my body.
0:08.0	I no longer ignore my body.
0:10.3	You know, your body is so clever, isn't it?
0:12.7	It actually tries to tell you that things are going wrong.
0:15.7	And it is so easy to be dismissive.
0:18.7	And that in itself is empowering.
0:21.9	Hi, my name is Rangan Chatschi, GP, television presenter and author of the bestselling books,
0:28.4	The Stress Solution and the Four Pillar Plan. I believe that all of us have the ability to
0:33.4	feel better than we currently do, but getting healthy has become far too complicated. With this
0:39.3	podcast, I aim to simplify it. I'm going to be having conversations with some of the most
0:44.1	interesting and exciting people, both within as well as outside the health space, to hopefully
0:49.4	inspire you, as well as empower you with simple tips that you can put into practice immediately to
0:55.4	transform the way that you feel. I believe that when we are healthier, we are happier, because when
1:00.9	we feel better, we live more. Hello and welcome back to episode 87 of my Feel Better Live More podcast. My name is Rangan Chatschi and I am your host.
1:16.5	Now, before we get started today, just a quick reminder that my latest book, Feel Better in Five,
1:22.0	comes out in the UK in just two weeks' time. In it, I have tried my best to make health as simple as possible. I summarize
1:31.1	the best research in behavior change science and explain why five minutes is all you need to
1:37.6	transform the way that you feel. Every single health recommendation in my new book takes only
1:44.0	five minutes to do. And if you pre-order
1:46.6	a copy before December the 26th, Penguin will send you out a free Feel Better in Five success charts.
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