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Improving COPD with VO2max Training: Your Comprehensive Guide

  Unlocking Your Potential As a person living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), you’re likely no stranger to the challenges that come with managing your condition. From breathlessness to fatigue, COPD can significantly impact your daily life and overall well-being. However, with the right approach, it’s possible to improve your lung function and overall … Continued

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The Breath of Fresh Air: Unveiling the Benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation for COPD

  COPD is a progressive lung condition that can significantly impede a person’s ability to breathe and carry out daily activities. For those grappling with the challenges of COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation emerges as a beacon of hope, offering a comprehensive and tailored approach to enhancing lung function, improving quality of life, and restoring independence.  As … Continued

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When you think you can’t – Know you can!

  It’s been some time since I have blogged but the lessons I’ve learned and applied from the Tokyo marathon are worth a mention. I briefly forgot the power of the mind and how you can apply it to life’s challenges. When I first entered the Tokyo marathon, I read the cut-off time was 7 … Continued

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World COPD Day 2021 Healthy Lungs – Never More Important

  Healthy Lungs is the Holy Grail if you are a COPD patient, as its not something we’ve experienced for years. COPD patients are commonly diagnosed at an advanced stage and have been living with the disease unknowingly for many years. The good news is, why we can’t restore our lungs to their former glory, … Continued

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10 Years of Progress

  Ten years ago, on the 22nd of August 2011 I received my COPD diagnosis. For me it’s not about celebrating having COPD for ten years, it’s about how far I have come in those ten years. That Day Like many COPD patients I had no idea about this disease when I was first diagnosed. … Continued

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COPD – Exercise v Nutrition?

  Managing COPD is vital for any patient who wants to either improve or maintain their quality of life. Apart from taking medication as prescribed, exercise has long been championed as the next best tool to manage COPD. But is it? Data I have been collecting for my own case study would suggest, while exercise … Continued

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World COPD Day 2020 – Living Well with COPD

  This year’s World COPD theme “Living Well with COPD” may sound very foreign to many patients but for a growing number of patients this is becoming a reality. COPD kills over 3 million people a year, it’s a progressive disease which has no cure. When I was first diagnosed with COPD there was not a … Continued

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5 Day diet/exercise challenge

  Four years ago, I started using the ketogenic diet to help manage my COPD. In this challenge I want to share with you my experience with a range of diets I have tried and how they can improve your symptoms and quality of life. To begin with I’d like to make a couple of … Continued

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COVID-19 – Strategy for COPD

  Since COVID-19 started I have seen an increase in patients looking for advice on how to protect themselves from this killer virus. What we are learning about this virus is, it’s frequently changing, but one thing stays the same. We can manage our risk exposure! For those patients who have been living with COPD … Continued

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COPD – TIRED, FRUSTRATED and Disillutioned

  On Wednesday November 20th we celebrated World COPD Day around the world. On the same day a patient friend posted in a COPD Patient FB group. When I read this post it brought a tear to my eye. Not just because of the outpouring of frustration and desperation in her message, this patient spoke … Continued

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World COPD Day 2019 – “All Together to End COPD”

  Each year there is a theme for World COPD Day. This year’s theme in my view is very relevant to how we should approach COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), now and into the future. Bringing patients, healthcare professionals and researchers together in the fight against this debilitating disease can only lead to better outcomes. … Continued

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Patient Partnerships – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

  Patients and healthcare professionals working collaboratively for positive outcomes are always going to provide better outcomes than a solution with a narrow band width. We are seeing patient advocates becoming more involved in the decision-making process of disease management which can only be positive. But are all patient partnerships for the good of patients? … Continued

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“Whether you have asthma or COPD managing your condition can be difficult but it can be done. Take your medications and exercise as much as you can, eat a healthy diet and keep the weight down. Set yourself a goal to help keep you on track and always remember no matter how tough it gets there’s always someone doing it tougher than you. Put simply, the body will do what the mind tells it to!!”

Russell Winwood COPD Athlete

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