Interview with Alex Howard

Founder and CEO of The Optimum Health Clinic,

London

Suffered with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME for 7

years

Author of Why ME? My Journey from ME to Health

and Happiness

Founder of Conscious2.com

Suffered Symptoms of Fatigue

• Like “someone pulled the plug”

• Housebound

• Muscle aches

• Headaches

Catalyzed a 5 Year Journey to Recovery

• Read 700 books

• Saw 35 different practitioners

• Tried more than 70 supplements

• Realized it was ultimately it was a spiritual

transformational journey

Psychological Factors in Recovery from Chronic Fatigue

Dysfunctional childhood plays a role

Psychological Factors in Recovery from Chronic Fatigue

The “Maladaptive Stress Response” plays a role

Psychology Tools used in Recovery

• Emotional Freedom Technique

• Neuro-linguistic Programming

• Hypnotherapy

• Meditation

Personality Types Prone to

Chronic Fatigue

1: Achiever Types

Personality Types Prone to

Chronic Fatigue

2: Helper Types

Personality Types Prone to Chronic Fatigue

3: Anxiety Types

Personality Types Prone to

Chronic Fatigue

4: Trauma Types

Stages of Recovery from Chronic Fatigue

Stage 1 – Crash

Stage 2 – Wired and Tired

Stage 3 – Reintegration

Research by Geographical Region in Alternative

Medicine for Chronic Fatigue

• The United States tends to lead biochemistry (e.g.

functional medicine, diet and lifestyle)

• Germany leads in energy medicine

• UK leads in psychology

Results of Pilot Study on Clinic Published

in British Medical Journal Open in 2012

• 3 Study Groups

• Nutrition-only, psychology-only and

nutrition and psychology combined group

• Statistically significant improvement in

all three groups

5 Top Tips to Recovery from Chronic Fatigue

Tip 1:

Believe you Can Recover

5 Top Tips to Recovery from Chronic Fatigue

Tip 2:

You Need to be in a Consistently Calm Healing State to Recover

5 Top Tips to Recovery

from Chronic Fatigue

Tip 3:

Match your Treatment to

the Stage of Recovery

you are in

(Crash, Wired but Tired or

Integration Stage)

Tip 4: Recognize Biochemical Individuality

Tip 5: Find the “sweet spot”

There is a point of balance between doing

too much and not doing enough, over-

planning and going with the flow

Finding it comes from listening deeply to

your own body

Ken Wilber’s

“Integral Theory”

For treatment from The Optimum Health Clinic (OHC) to

become available for all free on the NHS funding is

required for further research

The OHC converted to a charity in 2013

in order to raise further funds for

research

A fully randomized controlled trial with

the University of Surrey in the UK is

now underway

• Secrets to Recovery is a world-leading online resource of training videos, teaching you the core

principles of the OHC approach

• 6 Years in development, 18 modules covering psychology, nutrition, lifestyle and more to optimize

energy

• Over 100 hours of content from some of the world’s leading practitioners

• For those unable to afford treatment, it is an amazing opportunity to access an award-winning and

world-leading clinic’s approach

www.SecretstoRecovery.com

www.TheOptimumHealthClinic.com

Thank you!

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