Jesse Abair wasn’t all that alarmed when he started to feel oddly tired in the summer of 2019.
He had moved to Arizona the year before, and was still adjusting to the desert heat, which regularly hits 40 C. After playing competitive soccer for more than a decade, Abair considered himself a healthy 27-year-old. Yet his extreme fatigue kept getting worse.
“It was almost like what you imagine feeling like if you hadn’t eaten in several days,” he said.
