Anna Marsh - Functional Medicine & Fatigue Recovery

Anna Marsh - Functional Medicine & Fatigue Recovery I help women with fatigue increase their energy and regulate their nervous systems. My approach combines Functional Medicine (MSc.

Personalised Nutrition), Coaching and Somatic Work. For more information about how I work, please visit my website at www.annamarsh.co.uk

If you are wondering whether fasting could be helpful if you struggle with chronic fatigue, CFS/ME or other chronic or e...
07/09/2026

If you are wondering whether fasting could be helpful if you struggle with chronic fatigue, CFS/ME or other chronic or energy limiting illness, the answer is…

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If you’d like more detail on everything in this post, read the whole blog on my website. Comment LEARN to receive the link directly in your DMs.

I want you to know that progress is possible without harsh, aggressive or nervous system dysregulating protocols.Sometim...
06/09/2026

I want you to know that progress is possible without harsh, aggressive or nervous system dysregulating protocols.

Sometimes brain retraining doesn’t fix everything.

Regulating your nervous system isn’t a “one and done” process, it is an ongoing relationship with life.

Often it is a well rounded, gentle approach that gives the best results.

04/09/2026

What Happened After My Longest Hike Since Illness

In this episode, Anna shares the experience of completing her longest hike since chronic illness — a 21km hike lasting almost 6 hours — and reflects on what the following 72 hours revealed about recovery, capacity, and nervous system regulation.

This is not an episode about pushing harder.

It’s a conversation about what late-stage recovery often really involves:

• understanding load distribution
• preparing the body appropriately
• supporting recovery intentionally
• and learning how to take on bigger physical challenges without overwhelming the system.

Anna explores:

• training and pacing considerations
• planning around wider life stress and menstrual cycle timing
• fuelling and post-exertion recovery
• sleep and nervous system support
• active recovery tools such as restorative movement, heat, cold and body work.

Blending personal reflection with clinical insight, this episode offers a realistic and grounded look at what rebuilding capacity can look like in the later stages of recovery.

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I’ve had so many questions about my “Containment Fortress” I wanted to answer them all here.I’ve been using this Fortres...
02/09/2026

I’ve had so many questions about my “Containment Fortress” I wanted to answer them all here.

I’ve been using this Fortress daily for 4 or 5 months and without wanting to sound dramatic, it has been a life saver to help me manage anxiety, overwhelm and brain fog that comes with all of that.

I do this almost every morning for 15 minutes (before I start using my phone) and sometimes several times across the day.

My yoga bolsters are from .

More recently I was gifted the lovely weighted bear by @‌heldcomfort

This has been such a wonderful addition to my setup. It is so soft and comforting and the weighted arms around my shoulders are very soothing to my nervous system. You can get your own using the code ANNA15. 🧸

The things I would tell you about Chronic Fatigue Recovery if I wasn’t worried about hurting your feelings...Which one r...
31/08/2026

The things I would tell you about Chronic Fatigue Recovery if I wasn’t worried about hurting your feelings...

Which one resonates with you most?

It is normal to feel frustrated that you are living a life that is so much smaller than you would like it to be. Energy ...
30/08/2026

It is normal to feel frustrated that you are living a life that is so much smaller than you would like it to be.

Energy limiting conditions and Chronic Illness force us to make life smaller and more managable.

In the short term this can provide stability and help to manage symptoms, but what do you do when you want to safely expand and make life bigger again?

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28/08/2026

In this episode, Anna explores the current evidence surrounding creatine supplementation in Long Covid and fatigue-related conditions, including its potential role in energy metabolism, muscle function, cognitive symptoms, nervous system health, and recovery capacity.

Importantly, this episode takes a balanced and non-dogmatic approach. While early research is promising, creatine is not presented as a “magic bullet” or standalone solution for Long Covid.

As always, recovery is complex, individual, and multifactorial.

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This episode is intended for educational purposes only and should not replace personalised medical advice.

Joy, excitement and aliveness can sometimes be referred to as “blended” nervous system states. This means they are a com...
26/08/2026

Joy, excitement and aliveness can sometimes be referred to as “blended” nervous system states. This means they are a combination of ventral vagal and sympathetic activation (mobilised energy).

This means we can feel “energised and good” at the same time - which is a great way to feel if you have been struggling with an energy limiting health condition.

Many brain retraining and nervous system programs use the principles of “training the brain” to feel this way.

It can be a very effective tool.

I’m also here to tell you that it can be an advanced tool.

And if you’re struggling to access these feelings, there is nothing wrong with you.

I’ve had many conversations with clients who feel huge amounts of shame and despair because they struggle to access what seems to come so easily to everyone else.

Perhaps feeling like they need to try harder, they are not doing it right or they are just plain broken.

So let’s look at why this isn’t true and what might be happening.

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If you’ve been struggling to force yourself into joy, perhaps consider that there might be a different way.

In the Nurturing Resilience Membership we teach you how to work gently and slowly with your experiences.

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The 3 most important things for building exercise tolerance in chronic fatigue recovery. Mitochondria require stimulatio...
24/08/2026

The 3 most important things for building exercise tolerance in chronic fatigue recovery.

Mitochondria require stimulation. What we don’t use we lose and therefore, although counter intuitive, exercise can offer a potent signal to induce positive changes in the mitochondria and is therefore essential for healthy mitochondria.

Yet, many people with energy limiting health challenges experience exercise intolerance, resulting in a sedentary lifestyle. There may be various mechanisms contributing to exercise intolerance and post-exertional malaise (PEM). It is likely that exercise induces excessive oxidative stress and inflammation which overwhelms the body and may also result in uncoupling of the mitochondria.

Therefore, when it comes to exercising with an energy limiting illness, there are two things we want to be aware of...

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23/08/2026

When you’re living with a chronic and complex condition, it can feel like there are so many different symptoms and so many things you should be working on.

And when everything feels important, it’s very easy to end up trying to do everything at once — or feeling so overwhelmed that you don’t know where to begin.

But supporting a complex system isn’t necessarily about doing more.

Sometimes, it’s simplicity, doing less, more consistently.

This means getting clearer on what might need your attention first.

That’s why I created my free Foundational Five Quiz.

It looks at five areas I consider important foundations when supporting the body with chronic and complex fatigue:

→ Blood sugar
→ Nervous system
→ Sleep
→ Pacing
→ Inflammation

It’s not a diagnostic tool, and it won’t tell you there’s one simple “root cause” behind how you feel.

Instead, it’s designed to help you take stock of your foundations, identify areas that may benefit from more support, and give you a clearer place to start — without adding another overwhelming protocol to your list.

Because when your energy and capacity are already limited, where you put that energy matters.

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This quiz is for educational purposes only and isn’t a substitute for individual medical advice. Please continue to work alongside your healthcare providers where appropriate.

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