{"id":164969,"date":"2025-11-28T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164969\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:21:16","slug":"i-felt-exhausted-and-lethargic-for-no-reason-but-the-answer-was-in-my-irish-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/164969\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt exhausted and lethargic for no reason but the answer was in my Irish genes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ellen Troy suffers from haemochromatosis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ellen Troy Aontu.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ellen Troy suffers from haemochromatosis<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ellen Troy, who suffered for years with lethargy and unexplained fatigue, recalls feeling exhausted for no reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Scottish-born biochemist, who lives in Castleknock in Dublin, said: \u201cI had the symptoms of somebody who was very anaemic but I had a healthy colour. After eating a meal, I would suffer a slump and it was as if the plug was pulled out of me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellen Troy suffers from haemochromatosis Ellen Troy, who suffered for years with lethargy and unexplained fatigue, recalls feeling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16253,3414,615,4593,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-164969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aontu","tag-department-of-health","tag-dublin","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}