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About Optimum Health Clinic

The Optimum Health Clinic has supported several thousand patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (C.F.S.) and Fibromyalgia in over 35 countries around the world. The clinic is an award winning integrative health clinic specialising in M.E./C.F.S./Fibromyalgia, set up in 2004 by CEO and founder, Alex Howard. The clinic is internationally recognised for its innovative approach of systematically researching and testing all available approaches, and integrating them together in the most effective way. With over half the clinic team having themselves had personal experience of M.E./C.F.S./Fibromyalgia, the clinic is also well known for its caring and empathic approach. Check out their website for more information about the Optimum Health Clinic and how they can help you. You can also follow the clinic on Twitter & Facebook.

ME & CFS in the 21st Century – Part 2

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In ME & CFS in the 21st Century – Part 1 published previously, we saw the first excerpts of an interview with Alex Howard, founder and CEO of the Optimum Health Clinic. The Optimum Health Clinic is an award winning integrative health clinic specialising in M.E./C.F.S./Fibromyalgia, set up in 2004 by Alex Howard. The clinic is internationally recognised for its innovative approach of systematically researching and testing all available approaches, and integrating them together in the most effective way. With over half the clinic team having themselves had personal experience of M.E./C.F.S./Fibromyalgia, the clinic is also well known for its caring and empathic approach. We now look at the second part of Alex’s interview with Conscious TV as he continues to discuss the issues surrounding M.E. & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (C.F.S.). Alex Howard continues the interview by talking about how the body can react to certain environmental and other factors when suffering with M.E. and C.F.S.

Alex then goes on to discuss how delayed fatigue is felt when the body does not recycle biochemical products like ATP efficiently and how people struggle within a stress state when their bodies need to heal and repair. Alex talks about his personal experience of overcoming chronic fatigue and how he built his own picture of recovery due to his desperation to get better. Reassuringly, there is a lot more practical information and new discoveries are available from places like the Optimum Health Clinic and other clinics in the world. Alex emphasises that sufferers are treated by protocols focused on the individual.

The interview then covers how sufferers can move forward with treatment by being responsible for their health and seeking out practitioners who are experienced in M.E. and C.F.S. In addition, Alex talks about how the internet can give access to inspirational stories of people who have overcome M.E. and C.F.S. Alex finally talks about the main pre-cursors of getting M.E. and Chronic Fatigue – his model is based on burnout. The body suffers from one too many stressors and chronic fatigue is experienced. The answer is to change perspective, live a sustainable life and see fatigue as a positive experience that sufferers can learn and develop from.

Check out FreedomFromME.co.uk for more information about ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia.

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ME & CFS in the 21st Century – Part 1

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The Optimum Health Clinic has dealt with over 2000 people suffering from the symptoms of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (C.F.S.) and Fibromyalgia. There is still a lot of mystery and misunderstanding about these conditions. The Optimum Health Clinic is an award winning integrative health clinic specialising in M.E./C.F.S./Fibromyalgia, set up in 2004 by Alex Howard. The clinic is internationally recognised for its innovative approach of systematically researching and testing all available approaches, and integrating them together in the most effective way. With over half the clinic team having themselves had personal experience of M.E./C.F.S./Fibromyalgia, the clinic is also well known for its caring and empathic approach.

Alex Howard, founder and CEO of the Optimum Health Clinic, suffered from ME as a teenager for 7 years but recovered from it and wrote a book called “WHY ME? My Journey from M.E. to Health and Happiness”. Alex was recently interviewed on Conscious TV about ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. He discusses his personal experience of overcoming ME, what people should consider after getting a diagnosis, the challenge faced because a range of different symptoms affect different people, and how ME should be dealt with based on the individual rather than using a traditional one-size-fits-all medical approach. This includes considerations about psychology sub-types of the patient.

Alex goes on to talk about physical and nutritional sub-types one should be aware of. He also discusses the impact of stressors on the human body that can lead to people starting to get ill.

Alex then discusses how sufferers can create an environment which supports recovery despite the skepticism and lack of understanding of the condition. This includes working towards getting the body in a healing state rather than a stress state by acceptance, creating a supportive environment and dealing with the underlying physical symptoms of the condition. Alex also talks about how listening to the body, taking proper rest and good nutrition can help sufferers.

To hear the rest of Alex’s fascinating interview about ME and its treatment, look out for ME & CFS in the 21st Century – Part 2 which will be published on City Connect later this week. Check out freedomfromme.co.uk for more information about ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia.

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Former Patient Motorbiking Across Siberia for Charity!

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Thank you to all of those of you have sent feedback on our academic paper released in our recent newsletter. Some of you have said that it was a little overwhelming going through that much information on your computer. So, we are currently hatching a plan to create an “Easy Reading Guide,” and looking at the possibility of actually posting a printed copy of the paper to those on our database. Hopefully this will make it much easier to follow this very exciting paper! If you would like to have a look at the full version in the meantime you can do so at OHC Research Paper. We are extremely excited this week to be letting you know about an incredible charity event that is taking place next month. Simon Limpus, who is a former patient of the clinic and in fact the clinic’s first ever employee, is going to be motorbiking 1500km across Siberia in temperatures ranging from –40 to –60! You can watch a video with Simon and Alex about his journey with ME/CFS and the fundraising event in support of The Optimum Health Clinic Foundation below. All sponsorship received will go directly to the Foundation (with over £1200 already donated), so please do support Simon in this incredible adventure! You can read more about the event and sponsor Simon at www.Icerun2012.com

We hope you have a great week, and we are hoping to be able to announce the brand new Conscious Transformation to you next week!

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The Optimum Health Clinic Research Paper published

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We are very proud to be able to share with you the first published paper for the OHC Research Department. It was published in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice in the USA in December 2011, and has received excellent feedback. It outlines the OHC approach to ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia in academic terms, and is a great introduction to the already published research that supports the OHC model. You can watch a video about the paper with Alex and Dr Arroll below, along with downloading the paper in full. Please do take the time to take a look, we believe this is one of the most important documents we have released in the eight years we have been running. Please also do post your comments!

   Click here to download the paper in full.

Practitioner Course

We still have just a few places left for the practitioner training starting in February, so if you are interested in having more support for your healing path, whilst also opening up exciting future career prospects, please visit www.FreedomFromME.co.uk/scholarship and contactalex@TheOptimumHealthClinic.com if you are interested in applying.

Conscious Transformation

Finally, after a number of requests over the past year, Alex’s groundbreaking seminar “Conscious Transformation” is making a return later this month. It is in a brand new web-based format and broken down into weekly training sessions, meaning you can take part from the comfort of your own home. Alex has also added some very exciting new material! Keep an eye on your e-mail for the official announcement and details sometime hopefully next week!

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