Episode 25: Matt Fitzgerald on Running and Life with Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
Science & Chill
English - February 07, 2021 13:12 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBScience Health & Fitness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode of Science & Chill, I interview Matt Fitzgerald. Matt is an author, endurance sports coach, and certified sports nutritionist whose work has appeared in national publications including Bicycling magazine, Maxim, Men's health, and Outside magazine. Matt has written several popular books on the science and art of running and endurance sports including 80/20 Running, Racing Weight, How Bad Do You Want It, Diet Cults, Running the Dream, and his most recent book, The Comeback Quotient.
I wanted to interview Matt to talk about his writing and running, but the main reason I asked him to come on the podcast was to discuss his recent struggle with what is being referred to as post-acute covid-19 syndrome (PACS) — the constellation of physical and mental symptoms that seem to arise months after one has suspectedly or certainly been infected with the COVID-19 virus. This is exactly what happened to Matt, who suspects he contracted COVID sometime in March of 2020, but didn’t start to experience severe COVID-related effects until nearly 6 months after his stint with the virus. In this podcast, he details how his athletic and personal life have been impacted by post-acute COVID syndrome and an alarmingly slow to nonexistent recovery. In some respects, he thinks he only seems to be getting worse.
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Relevant links
- Follow Matt on Twitter (@MattFitWriter)
- Follow Matt on Instagram (@Fitzgerald.Matt)
- Purchase "The Comeback Quotient" (print)
- Other books by Matt (Amazon)
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