{"id":126672,"date":"2025-09-10T03:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126672\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T03:19:09","slug":"mother-and-daughter-with-life-limiting-illnesses-find-escape-through-fit-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126672\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and daughter with life-limiting illnesses find escape through FIT Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOver the last year we\u2019d just lost that passion and put weight on, so we needed something that gave us more motivation and that sense of community as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a complex multisystem disease of unknown aetiology, which is a posh way of saying nothing works how it\u2019s meant to, but no has been able to find the genetic cause, they just know it\u2019s there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the thing I find hard with motivation is that it\u2019s a degenerative disease so I have muscle wastage, and it does get worse as time passes. There\u2019s nothing I can do about that and actually the only thing that will slow that disease progression is exercise and physiotherapy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davies reiterated the importance of exercise and nutrition, as she explained how FIT Jacks has felt like an escape from her everyday caring duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMyself and Amy have always realised that there is no one tablet that fixes what we have, but there are things that can help and improve it,\u201d added Davies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOver the last year we\u2019d just lost that passion and put weight on, so we needed something that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-126672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}