I Finally Found Answers and Turned ME/CFS Around

I Finally Found Answers and Turned ME/CFS Around - Jeff's Story

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Күн бұрын

In this video, Jeff opens up about the challenges of living with ME/CFS for seven years. He shares the strategies and mindset shifts that have helped him manage his symptoms, regain his energy, and find hope for the future.
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🏠 Jeff Moffatt's author website - www.jmgeorgesson.co.uk
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📕 The Divided Mind by Dr. John Sarno, MD - amzn.to/4buGcN3
🏥 Optimum Health Clinic - www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🤝 Meet Jeff Moffatt
02:10 🏃‍♂️ Jeff's Marathon Experience
03:21 🤔 Common Traits Among Sufferers
04:18 🩺 Navigating the Medical System
05:53 Venn Diagram of Knowledge
06:48 ⚕️ Challenges with Medical Professionals
08:10 🧠 The Mind-Body Connection
14:02 🧠 The Role of the Brain and Nervous System
16:49 🧘 Relaxation and Nutrition
18:58 📈 Bouncing the Boundaries
22:03 ✍️ Writing as Therapy
22:57 📚 Jeff's Book: On a Scale of One to Ten
23:56 🤝 Sharing Knowledge and Hope
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@RaelanAgle Ай бұрын

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@livestrong1976 26 күн бұрын

Honestly I kinda like the long videos. I'm sure you hear this all the time but you're so pretty and upbeat, keep it up!

@Cindyscrossstitch 26 күн бұрын

So many things really come down to brain retraining, eating properly, meditation, breathing, exercise, living a peaceful life. everyone's journey is different. I am mostly recovered from MCS and mold exposure. . You wont find any help from the traditional path to getting better. Trying to put that the best way i can. The system is so broken. Channels like this didnt exist a couple of years ago. Sharing success stories are 🌻so important. Wishing all much success and healing on their journey. NEVER GIVE UP. My journey 9 years. This channel will grow by leaps and bounds. The information is so important and so appreciated.

@RaelanAgle 26 күн бұрын

Much appreciated Cindy! ❤️ ❤️

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

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@jimnevin2255 25 күн бұрын

Like Jeff, finding Raelan's book and channel was a turning point in my me/cfs recovery journey. My experience of the condition seemed so similar to Raelans that i copied her system of progressive movement,strength and aerobic exercise. In three years I have stopped the relapses and post exertional malaise of the previous 22 years. Probably 90 percent recovered and steadily increasing my fitness and reintegrating into regular life. The really difficult part was getting back in touch with the bodies natural rhythms and cycles and trying to quieten that part of the mind that wanted to override them. I think the fight or flight response had been active for so long that i had become unaware of it in the background! I think the most important thing is to commit totally to the healing path that feels correct for you . After that it is daily consistency in doing the things that will bring you closer to your goal. . So. Thankyou Raelan and also to all the good people who have shared their stories and inspiration.

@DDumbrille 17 күн бұрын

@jimnevin2255, I wish you'd contact Raelan and do an interview with her. You'd give a LOT of hope to people who have been sick for longer than 20 years or so. So many of her interview subjects are quite young, and have only been sick for 5-7 years, if that. Congrats on your recovery. I hope you'll consider this...

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

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@SPIRITWILDCHILD28 23 күн бұрын

About 6 months ago I shared one of your videos to a FB CFS group. I was attracted by several members and told you were a fake just selling things and you knew it. They said healing wasn't possible. I was so upset I immediately left the group. I've been watching you for quite a while, while I can't afford anything to help myself I meditate, do tapping, and eat well. I feel better knowing it's possible to heal from CFS.

@Candleflower42-zp3sh 21 күн бұрын

I need to really put an effort into tapping - don’t know why I resist it so. I think mostly because I don’t know what to say and also with the fibro it’s actually a bit difficult to do the physical tapping after awhile. Guess I could just do until shoulders start to hurt. Bought the app one year and rarely used it. How much percentage do you think it helps you?

@e.williams13 18 күн бұрын

That is why I don't join CFS Facebook groups anymore because they're all so negative and everybody feeds off each other's misery

@neilswherethelightis 15 күн бұрын

@@Candleflower42-zp3sh If you don't feel like tapping is for you, I wouldn't do it. It's not for me either. People heal in many different ways.

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Keep working at the meditation, the body will follow in time - best wishes.

@efi4930 26 күн бұрын

RAELAN THANK YOU ❤ MAYBE SO MANY RECOVERY STORIES HERE ARE WITH MARATHON RUNNERS BECOUSE MARATHON RUNNERS DONT GIVE UP AND ARE NOT SCARED BY LONG DISTANCE JOURNYES ... THEY KEEP EFFORTING UNTIL THE FINISH LINE OF RECOVERY...

@PeaceIsYeshua 26 күн бұрын

@@efi4930 That is actually a really excellent point!!! 🙌🏻 I love that! 💕

@joannesaunderson4506 26 күн бұрын

Very interesting thank you. I will look at all the very useful links and hopefully find help. Suffering intermittently for 3 years and now seems quite constant. I'm uk so happy to see Jeff.

@rezzo7290 22 күн бұрын

thanks for another Raelyn!! ❤️❤️❤️

@yamunadevi68 25 күн бұрын

I’m from the Uk, and had CFS since 2006, the amount of forms I’ve filled out that ask ‘on a scale of 1 to 10 how is …..?’ I’m definitely buying your book.

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment, it means so much to me to have connected in some way. I hope you enjoy the book. Very best wishes for a speedy recovery.

@erikasinternetgerat8019 26 күн бұрын

yes Raelan, you can: transcribe the interviews and get ChatGPT paid version, feed your own custom GPT with the transcripts. You can then retrieve information, such as "how many interviewees mentioned marathons?", no coding skills required.

@lorikendall2213 25 күн бұрын

Thanks soooooooo much for sharing ‼️ will def look up your info and book 🩵

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment, it means so much to me to have connected in some way. I hope you enjoy the book. Very best wishes for a speedy recovery.

@paulatim205 23 күн бұрын

Thank you both for helpful information and HOPE !

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Best wishes for a speedy recovery. In time you will more from hoping, to believing and then knowing you will recovery. Best wishes.

@AnrupB 26 күн бұрын

What a lovely energy he has! So nice to hear this interview. Grateful for Dr. Sarno’s book too, I typically hear of two others of his. 🙏🏼🙂

@PeaceIsYeshua 26 күн бұрын

@@AnrupB He sure does! He seems like such a kind person. 😊

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

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@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

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@silvermoonuk 26 күн бұрын

Great video 📹 Ricky Gervais fellow cast minds in one of shows gas got ME/cfs so that's why he understands it. I think the actor is called David Earl. I'm in the UK myself. I agree that the nhs system here isn't great with people with me/cfs and fibromyalgia. I got told once by a health professional that fibromyalgia is a mental health thing and it is an illness. I was really mad after meeting this person. I understand the mind cause trigger physical health issues maybe. But fibromyalgia and me/cfs are real issues in the body. I agree that the mind and bodies are connected but I feel alot of medical professionals gas light us, sadly.

@jeremyburbank2130 26 күн бұрын

@gitteolsen8358 26 күн бұрын

Your health professional is right! Fibromyalgia and me/cfs is a mind body issue caused by the signals send from the brain. The signals are 100% real, but luckily they can be turned down and go away 👌

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Glad you picked up on the Gervais reference - I didn't know his awareness was based on a close acquaintance. Agreed, NHS could do far better in this area, but feel it will be down to communities like Raelan's to help each other, sadly - 'self-health'.

@georgeavino7153 26 күн бұрын

Been with CFS for 30 years. Haven't found anything that helps. Believe me....tried everything. The worst part is that people think that this is the "real" you and have family members that chastise you for everything you do or don't do.

@Chelsea-mz4dn 16 күн бұрын

You might have mould!

@ediedaley3701 26 күн бұрын

Great interview! Love his Venn diagram explanation! BTW, There is a double S in his website.

@RaelanAgle 26 күн бұрын

Oh, no! Thanks for letting me know 🧡 🧡 (Just corrected it)

@ediedaley3701 26 күн бұрын

@@RaelanAgle knew you’d want to know…

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Haha, great spot regards my author name, even I missed that! Pleased you like the Venn diagram comment - but genuinely I absorb and use information and advice that way - feel more assured that I am avoiding the charlatans and snake oil sellers that way 😉

@denisebraisby4251 26 күн бұрын

Great interview..I'm in the UK and I can relate to what he was talking about..my trigger was COVID vaccine.I also diagnosed myself and told the GP what it was...they just aren't interested

@leaperrins8373 26 күн бұрын

You would probabaly get more validation if you said the trigger was covid. Drs just don't want to hear that a vaccine can do anything but good. Having said that, I'm not sure there is much help from long covid clinics either, but may be you wouldn't be out right dismissed? I feel like, of all the triggers, covid is the one that's taken more seriously. Although if dr's really understood, then they would realise that the trigger is almost irrelevant.

@Truerealism747 26 күн бұрын

CFS 27 years fybromyalgia 6 pain worst symptom get checked for hypomobility I've found out I have heds causation with a trigger

@akashajones6079 25 күн бұрын

@@leaperrins8373It doesn't really matter what the trigger was. If it wasn't the vaccine it would have been the next time they got sick. The trigger doesn't effect the recovery for CFS.

@PeaceIsYeshua 26 күн бұрын

3:11 Yes!! Raelan, I was thinking this exact same thing when he said he was running marathons. Sooo many CFS stories are about people who used to run marathons, and I’ve heard so many times how long distance running is very hard on the body. It’s a big stressor and does seem to be a factor for some. And then of course, there are people like me who weren’t active at all when they got sick (I was a straight-A student though, so I did have that drive). 😆 But I was “floxed,” as a teenager, so my mild CFS was created by man made drugs. Physics Girl has had long COVID for 1.5-2 years, and she was a marathon runner too. I wish she’d find your channel. 🙏🏻 She recently did a long live stream on her illness.

@joanneclark8256 26 күн бұрын

Could he share what he was eating as his diet?It would be lovely to know because he said that he was eating healthy or thought he was , could he share more

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

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@SamiMusic4you 26 күн бұрын

What he did to resolve this?

@Jamiejamjar 26 күн бұрын

Thus was so good to watch. When I contracted CFS I was in the process of falling in love with a wonderful colleague (at work). Sadly, he realising that I was wanting to sleep during the day, I became ’lazy’ in his mind and I needed help instead but didn’t understand what was happening. I’ve recently reconnected online with him and am in 2 minds as to whether I should tell him about it. Interestingly, he married a doctor!

@margaretwhittaker2291 26 күн бұрын

please don't reconnect, he is married and both of you have moved on. Hope you don't mind my saying this. I wish you well.

@Jamiejamjar 26 күн бұрын

@@margaretwhittaker2291 Thank you, you're absolutely right. I need peace now. I hated being told I was lazy - which was far from the truth. ps. Don't get me wrong, we are both nearly 60 years old so romance is far from the mind :) My pic is a bit old!

@margaretwhittaker2291 26 күн бұрын

@@Jamiejamjar I am almost 62 and I had the lazy label pinned to me by a former female colleague, it is always far , far from the truth. Take care

@texasgoddess323 26 күн бұрын

@@Jamiejamjar60 year olds don’t care about romance? I think that is a misnomer that older people aren’t interested in intimacy and companionship. It’s okay to feel attractive and post an updated picture at 60. Accepting and embracing who you are at every age is healthy!🌻

@PeaceIsYeshua 26 күн бұрын

@@Jamiejamjar I’m so very sorry you got sick while falling in love. 💔 But you never know who else may be out there for you. I clicked on your profile, and you are just lovely! I’m sure you still are and always will be! 💕 My parents are in their late 70s, and they are almost literally joined at the hip. I love how much they still love each other. It’s never too late for love. 🥰

@Wonderman62 26 күн бұрын

how did he come out of it...didnt really say

@denisebraisby4251 26 күн бұрын

I used to run and exercise regularly before getting ill

@maggiequinn8087 19 күн бұрын

Raelan where can I purchase your book please, and thanks a million for your channel and amazing help and information ❤

@RaelanAgle 19 күн бұрын

Much appreciated, Maggie! 🧡 🧡

@joanneclark8256 26 күн бұрын

Do you think many have ebv? Dr won't check unless asked?

@MyFriendPeter 26 күн бұрын

EBV is a classic trigger for ME/CFS much the same as COVID.

@domsa_ 26 күн бұрын

Most of us carry the EBV virus. The question is: is it active and causing symptoms. The tests can't confirm that, so they are not worthwhile

@texasgoddess323 26 күн бұрын

I have a high viral load of EBV and have M.E./CFS, fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, and MCS.

@slee7991 26 күн бұрын

@@domsa_ tests can confirm it. Dr do have to know how to run the test though and know what to look for. I had a reactivated EBV ran by a nurse practitioner she said it was reactivated and gave me a book to reference it by. I took that test to 2 different naturopaths. The 1st said-oh that just means you had it in the past (she actually ran the initial ebv test but didn't test the right thing that I had the nurse practitioner verify). The 2nd said-that means nothing everyone has it. I just saw another naturopath recently that said you definitely have it reactivated and that's a problem. Sooooo- be careful who you go to/make sure they know what they're doing. The real issue is both the Nurse practitioners and the 3rd naturopath said it's not your root problem. We have to figure out why your immune system hasn't put it in check. So my best conclusion is my limbic system from past stress has not calmed down. I'm doing Primal Trust and it has helped a variety of symptoms caused by ebv to go Hope this info helps anyone..

@jamesvaughan4274 26 күн бұрын

Hi I have felt unwell since 2021 I tested positive for cmv but my doctor won't prescribe anti viral as he said most adults woukd test positive it frustrates me that he long even try has any one experienced this

@Truerealism747 26 күн бұрын

What's cmv

@jamesvaughan4274 25 күн бұрын

@Truerealism747 it's a herpes virus which I got told 90persent of adults have had its like a cold flu illness from what I understand

@HealwithLiz 22 күн бұрын

I think most people with ME/CFS have higher CMV, EBV, or HHV-6 IgG titers, and some have acute IgM reactivations (I had acute EBV IgM titers, showing reactivations, and high IgG titers). However 11 months of antivirals did not make it go back into dormancy. What did was quitting my job, getting into nature, doing brain retraining, communicating and acting on what was best for my health even if it was awkward, and all the stuff others often talk about on this channel like Jeff here.

@judeandradez 26 күн бұрын

Gps still think its primarily depression and just offer antidepressants 😢

@Truerealism747 26 күн бұрын

That's because of government Train ing...

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Yes, sadly this is the case. n my view, only communities like this can help, sharing experiences and how we overcome the many facets of this condition.

@Truerealism747 25 күн бұрын

Florence nightingale had it to

@volmariiso-hollola1815 25 күн бұрын

And marcel proust mayby

@Truerealism747 25 күн бұрын

@@volmariiso-hollola1815 yes and Charles Darwin had mcas highly comorbid with autism ADHD I've found out the genes for it

@JMGeorgesson Күн бұрын

Wow, what an inspiration to us all!

@DBM-DD 26 күн бұрын

Nothing learned except I need to buy more books thx

@AnneAlready 26 күн бұрын

The core message I picked up was that in his experience nervous system dysregulation needs to be addressed in order to influence the downstream issues that accumulate quite quickly with illness duration. You don't necessarily need more books. :)