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It is mid-January when I visit Ella Woodward in her flat in south London, and while most of us look grey and bloated from Christmas excess, Woodward, 22, is clear skinned, bright eyed and full of energy. This is all the more remarkable given that two years ago she was sleeping 16 hours a day, struck down by an illness that doctors were unable to diagnose for months. ‘When I stood up my vision would blur and I felt faint,’ she says. ‘It was a really miserable time.’ After four months of gastroenterology tests (her stomach was ‘so swollen I...