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Cfs Unravelled: Get Well by Treating the Cause Not Just the Symptoms of Cfs, Fibromyalgia, Pots and Related Syndromes
Is reading yet another book on How To Treat all your CFS/Fibromyalgia/POTS symptoms REALLY going to create lasting change?
How can you recover from Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), POTS or Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) if you don't even know what is causing the illness or why it perpetuates?
Whilst it has long been officially recognised that this syndrome is a neurological illness, treatments focus has still been on the severe physical dysfunctions that lead to the symptoms.
So forget the old concept of just symptom treatments, or looking for the next "CFS cure" or "Fibromyalgia breakthrough". People all over the world have been recovering from this syndrome for many decades and now you can learn HOW and WHY some people have success whilst others who seemingly try the same strategies, don't.
"What makes CFS Unravelled unique is that it breaks through the noise and focusses you on the underlying dynamics that the medical research communities have wrestled with for many decades. Understanding this is key for you to regain your health!"
Professor Kati Thieme, PhD
"recipient of the 2008 International Award for Fibromyalgia Research"
In this book you will learn:
How the symptoms are created & what treatment options are available How the symptoms and dysfunction are all connected What strategies to explore and tailor to address the root dysfunction for a lasting and robust recovery How to best approach your recovery so you have practical steps to take you forward. Clearly for an illness described as a neurological condition, the focus has to be on how to effect neuroplasticity to regain your health from CFS & Fibromyalgia (including POTS, MCS etc).
By understanding the dynamics of this illness as explained in the book, you will finally be able to understand WHY treatments you have tried in the past didn't have a lasting effect. You will even learn why treatments that weren't helpful, could be key in your recovery once you adjust your approach to the framework outlined in the book.
You can also listen to in-depth interviews with people that have recovered from Fibromyalgia/CFS/POTS/MCS on cfsunravelled.com. With a deeper understanding from the book, you will finally understand how and why they recovered from chronic pain and all the other symptoms.
How can you recover from Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), POTS or Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) if you don't even know what is causing the illness or why it perpetuates?
Whilst it has long been officially recognised that this syndrome is a neurological illness, treatments focus has still been on the severe physical dysfunctions that lead to the symptoms.
So forget the old concept of just symptom treatments, or looking for the next "CFS cure" or "Fibromyalgia breakthrough". People all over the world have been recovering from this syndrome for many decades and now you can learn HOW and WHY some people have success whilst others who seemingly try the same strategies, don't.
"What makes CFS Unravelled unique is that it breaks through the noise and focusses you on the underlying dynamics that the medical research communities have wrestled with for many decades. Understanding this is key for you to regain your health!"
Professor Kati Thieme, PhD
"recipient of the 2008 International Award for Fibromyalgia Research"
In this book you will learn:
How the symptoms are created & what treatment options are available How the symptoms and dysfunction are all connected What strategies to explore and tailor to address the root dysfunction for a lasting and robust recovery How to best approach your recovery so you have practical steps to take you forward. Clearly for an illness described as a neurological condition, the focus has to be on how to effect neuroplasticity to regain your health from CFS & Fibromyalgia (including POTS, MCS etc).
By understanding the dynamics of this illness as explained in the book, you will finally be able to understand WHY treatments you have tried in the past didn't have a lasting effect. You will even learn why treatments that weren't helpful, could be key in your recovery once you adjust your approach to the framework outlined in the book.
You can also listen to in-depth interviews with people that have recovered from Fibromyalgia/CFS/POTS/MCS on cfsunravelled.com. With a deeper understanding from the book, you will finally understand how and why they recovered from chronic pain and all the other symptoms.
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256 pages, ebook
Published May 31, 2017
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May 6, 2022
This gave me all the answers to the questions I kept asking my doctors.
Instead of giving the usual vague answers that "you need to eat right, exercise and breathe" it explains how to do it right and the biochemical reasons why. It made it so much easier to do the things the proper way, because I wasn't just aiming in the right direction anymore but also at the right spot.
I knew to exercise, but not how important it was to do it in a way to prevent blood sugar ups and downs (which was a major unadressed problem for me). I knew to do breathing exercises, but not when to do it. I knew I had to rest often, but not how to do it before I was already exhausted. I knew to avoid stress triggers, but had no idea that my mind kept making more of them.
Besides the already long list of symptoms I'd given my doctor, several other symptoms that I believed to be separate issues, were mentioned in this book. It was a huge relief to know that I didn't have ten different disorders that I had to treat with each their kind of medicine, side effects and specialists. I had to focus on the main problem, which is plenty in itself.
This should definitely be on the must read list for anyone with a functional disorder.
Instead of giving the usual vague answers that "you need to eat right, exercise and breathe" it explains how to do it right and the biochemical reasons why. It made it so much easier to do the things the proper way, because I wasn't just aiming in the right direction anymore but also at the right spot.
I knew to exercise, but not how important it was to do it in a way to prevent blood sugar ups and downs (which was a major unadressed problem for me). I knew to do breathing exercises, but not when to do it. I knew I had to rest often, but not how to do it before I was already exhausted. I knew to avoid stress triggers, but had no idea that my mind kept making more of them.
Besides the already long list of symptoms I'd given my doctor, several other symptoms that I believed to be separate issues, were mentioned in this book. It was a huge relief to know that I didn't have ten different disorders that I had to treat with each their kind of medicine, side effects and specialists. I had to focus on the main problem, which is plenty in itself.
This should definitely be on the must read list for anyone with a functional disorder.
July 6, 2022
This feels like a scam. It promises to give you information on how to treat the root cause of cfs. It uses the whole book talking about different mechanisms involved in the disease and just at the end the author explaines that he thinks the main factor in all this malfunctions is a fault in the autonomic nervous system. How to treat this is never adressed. To find out more about how this is done you'll have to sign up for his pricy online programs... The practical advice for cfs given in this book was extremely basic for me. For example : prioritise sleep, keep your blood sugar steady, lower your stress, ++. For someone who is not educated in health topics, it may be useful tho. This book also recommends gradual exercise therapy, which is by many considered dangerous for ME-pasients.
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July 27, 2025
Where 👏 are 👏 the 👏 references?! 👏
The author has struggled with this illness, so that gives him a good grounding to start with. However, he’s a physicist - not a biologist, not a doctor, not a dietitian. He makes claims about bodily functions and health recommendations based on… what? There are NO REFERENCES IN THIS BOOK. ME/CFS is an incredibly complex disease that affects people very differently, and yet he just makes sweeping claims about how X will help you, which is blatantly false. I’ve had this illness for five years now, and I’ve tried everything he has ‘prescribed’ and very little has helped. Some things are even damaging. Eg. The majority of people with ME/CFS have gastrointestinal issues. I’ve worked very closely with a dietitian to heal my gut and none of the information I gathered from these appointments is covered. A lot of advice he spouts, like eating as many raw vegetables as possible, is terrible advice as it takes an enormous amount of energy to digest them and they can greatly irritate an already fragile digestive system. It’s just dumb.
I was looking forward to learning about fixing the autonomic nervous system, which the author says is key, but he doesn’t even tell you how to do it, just advertises his online course. So scammy. Also the writing is TERRIBLE.
You’ll get better advice from Reddit, so save your time and energy and skip this book.
The author has struggled with this illness, so that gives him a good grounding to start with. However, he’s a physicist - not a biologist, not a doctor, not a dietitian. He makes claims about bodily functions and health recommendations based on… what? There are NO REFERENCES IN THIS BOOK. ME/CFS is an incredibly complex disease that affects people very differently, and yet he just makes sweeping claims about how X will help you, which is blatantly false. I’ve had this illness for five years now, and I’ve tried everything he has ‘prescribed’ and very little has helped. Some things are even damaging. Eg. The majority of people with ME/CFS have gastrointestinal issues. I’ve worked very closely with a dietitian to heal my gut and none of the information I gathered from these appointments is covered. A lot of advice he spouts, like eating as many raw vegetables as possible, is terrible advice as it takes an enormous amount of energy to digest them and they can greatly irritate an already fragile digestive system. It’s just dumb.
I was looking forward to learning about fixing the autonomic nervous system, which the author says is key, but he doesn’t even tell you how to do it, just advertises his online course. So scammy. Also the writing is TERRIBLE.
You’ll get better advice from Reddit, so save your time and energy and skip this book.
December 2, 2020
I wish that I'd found this book five years ago! When conventional (NHS) medicine had nothing to offer me, I resorted to consulting a superb Functional Nutritional Therapist who wisely suggested that my easily triggered sympathetic nervous system was likely the main obstacle to my recovery from CFS. I opened my mind to this possibility, started working on some ideas with good results and then found Dan's excellent book, which confirms exactly what I had learnt over the previous five years!! It takes someone as ferociously intelligent as Dan, and who was also a sufferer himself, to take a birds eye view of this multifactorial condition and put all the pieces together....I really cannot commend it highly enough as both an explanation for CFS and associated conditions, and also as a guide to recovery :)
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