H E A LT H
THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE GUIDE TO
good health TEXT: SAMANTHA PAGE
A mindset that puts health and wellness at the top of your priority list is the key to thriving – not merely surviving. You can achieve this by surrounding yourself with people, ideas, strategies and experiences that teach you how to prioritise self-care. We’ve put together a toolkit of digital resources to point you in the right direction.
WATCH
Unrest on Netflix (a documentary by Jennifer Brea)
Jennifer is about to marry the love of her life when she’s struck down by an unexpected fever that leaves her bedridden. Her fiancé watches her steady decline until she can’t even sit in a wheelchair. They consult a series of
specialists and doctors, only to be told that it’s all in her head. At this point, the Harvard PhD student turns the camera on herself – and the community of people with similar symptoms she has assembled – as she looks for answers and fights for a cure. Her diagnosis? Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) – a multi-system disease that causes dysfunction of the neurological,
immune, endocrine and energy metabolic systems of the body. This documentary, which was a resounding success at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, is a riveting and insightful first-hand account of a patient battling the stigma of illness and for the need to be heard by healthcare professionals. THE TAKE-HOME: Always trust your body. If you think there’s something wrong, fight to be heard.
READ
Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age by Dr Sanjay Gupta (Simon & Schuster, ebook or print)
Cognitive decline is a real fear for more and more people as brain diseases like Alzheimer’s are no longer relegated to the elderly. People in their 40s and 50s are
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