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Maladaptive Stress Response, Personality Patterns, and Fatigue with Alex Howard

Dr. Kara Fitzgerald | New Frontiers in Functional Medicine, Longevity, Epigenetics

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The Primary Maps of Fatigue

There is a modest amount of genetic an impact when it comes to fatigue. But then what we came to realize overtime is there are certain personality patterns or types which are more likely to be prone towards fatigue, perhaps verses certain other conditions that one may experience. We're constantly putting more demand on our system than it necessarily has the capacity to meet. So these five personality patterns create a way of being in the world which is inherently draining. And i want to be very clear that i'm not suggesting that fatigue is a psychological condition. There'r certain energy depleting psychology, certain ways of relating to ourselves world, which become a drain on our system.

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