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A sport and nutrition lecturer in Palmerston North hopes to use a $25,000 grant to help people with chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME.
Massey University lecturer Lynette Hodges said she had been researching chronic fatigue syndrome for eight years, and received a grant from the ME Society to further her work.
She said people with the syndrome went through a boom and bust cycle, where some days they felt good and others where they felt awful.
"The hope is that by monitoring heart rate over 25 days is that we could assess the boom and bust cycles and hopefully prevent some of these boom and bust cycles, make some suggestions of how we can decrease that," she said.
Hodges said chronic fatigue syndrome was often misunderstood, but would become a bigger issue because long Covid produced similar symptoms.
