Which he gets from changing his diet. Dickon's mom starts sending them a pail of fresh milk, potatoes for baking, and fresh bread every day with Dickon, and Martha starts feeding them the fancy version of the foods she eats at home for breakfast & dinner. Colin's appetite practically triples.

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Yeah. Like, it wasn't woowoo "eat kale to cure your EDS" it was "this kid who is already somewhat medically fragile due to his history of getting things like measles & typhus is also not eating right and also has frequent panic attacks."

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That's only in the movie. In the book they try to coax him to do things like open the windows, eat better, etc, but they won't force him because he's the master of the house and they don't have permission from his father to get strict about it.

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+Dickon teaches the exercises to Colin and Mary, and they do them every day, often twice a day, for months. THAT is why Colin can walk by the end of the book - he literally does physical therapy and they fix his vitamin deficiencies. It's not "the power of going outside."

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+way better than he was before. Dickon also goes to an adult athlete from the village to ask the guy "hey, I've got this friend, he's been bedridden a long time, can you teach me any exercises that might help him get his strength back?" And the guy teaches Dickon basically physical therapy, and+

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