{"id":323,"date":"2018-01-01T03:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T07:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:24:49","slug":"exercise-specifically-yoga-and-chronic-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Exercise (specifically Yoga) and Chronic Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two common misbeliefs about chronic fatigue are that<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It is mental\/emotional<\/li>\n<li>Exercise can cure it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/bad-science-has-misled-millions-with-chronic-fatigue-court-order-reveals\">Bad Science Has Misled Millions With Chronic Fatigue, Court Order Reveals<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/10\/02\/554369327\/for-people-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-more-exercise-isnt-better\">For People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, More Exercise Isn&#8217;t Better<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For me, my adventure began shortly after I started losing weight via walking\/running and yoga. I&#8217;ve always wondered if that lifestyle change triggered the disorder in me, but I wouldn&#8217;t trade the yoga away for the disorder. I don&#8217;t have it as bad as most (I think) and my worst days sound like good days to some of the stories I read at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themighty.com\">https:\/\/themighty.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, what yoga does bring me is a barometer to my health. I generally like my yoga instructors and some of them I love, so when I start asking myself why I am in a class, what I am getting out of it, and how long until it is over, I know I am near my worst. My worst? I won&#8217;t even go to a class &#8211; despite whatever grand scheme I have in place for attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two common misbeliefs about chronic fatigue are that It is mental\/emotional Exercise can cure it. See\u00a0Bad Science Has Misled Millions With Chronic Fatigue, Court Order Reveals\u00a0and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronic-fatigue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}