Extreme fatigue strangles the joyous life that many people want to live. Millions of people today are just plain exhausted. The medical establishment has been unable to find the causes of extreme fatigue and because of this no treatments are available.
Patients often go to their doctor and when nothing wrong shows up, the physician proclaims that it's all in their head and writes a script for a depression drug. Depression can lead to tiredness but it's only a symptom and extreme fatigue is caused by many different things not functioning well.
Doctors cannot find a neat, single cause for fatigue and many ideas have been presented but there is no consensus. The following is a list of some possible causes:
* post-viral illness
* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system
* post-viral illness
* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system
* free radical damage
* adrenal gland exhaustion
The Causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Have Not Been Identified
Clinicians have their hands tied behind their backs because there are no effective therapies available. Some doctors will try diet change, exercise, or cognitive treatments to try to help people regain some normal function.
The mitochondria are in all your cells and produce energy to power life by converting food chemicals into usable energy. They process these and combine them with oxygen. They can also produce a small amount of energy without using oxygen. There's speculation today that fatigue and tiredness occur when the mitochondria are not functioning well and may be experiencing oxidative stress.
Oxidative stress leads to a breakdown in food and oxygen processing. A potential cause may be drugs of any kind including those that are prescribed. The chemicals interfere with specific steps along the processing path by poisoning it.
Drugs attack specific targets in the mitochondria and this is where the toxic substance does the damage. An example of a drug that is frequently prescribed is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. Inflammatory diseases are extremely common today. Some drugs produce free radicals and these breakdown the membranes of cell walls in the mitochondria leading to problems with the movement of ions across cell membranes.
Minerals such as potassium and sodium serve as ions and their movements in and out of cells create electrical charges. These electrical movements make life possible. The drugs used in cancer treatments often target mitochondria which produce the energy used by the body's cells. The production of energy and electrical pulses decrease and the outcome is extreme fatigue.
Novel Approaches in the Battle to Stave Off Extreme Fatigue
Although medicine has been trying to understand what causes chronic fatigue, its quest has failed to turn anything up. In addition, since there are no known causes, there are no known or effective treatments for fatigue and its more serious forms, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
Therefore, it seems that we have to enter the non-medical world to seek effective treatments. Some of the possibilities include:
* exercise, particularly tai chi
* advanced detoxification programs (homeopathic remedies are best for this)
* the low-carbohydrate diet to reduce inflammation
* advanced detoxification programs (homeopathic remedies are best for this)
* exercise, particularly tai chi
* advanced acupuncture programs such as electro-meridian imaging rather than classical acupuncture
* homeopathic remedies, particularly the class of remedies known as drainage remedies
* nutritional supplements
* overview of our exposure to environmental pollutants
Hundreds of people were analyzed in the Body Burden Study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control. The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of how many environmental pollutants had accumulated in our bodies. The final outcome was that 98% of the people enrolled in the study had significant accumulations of over 200 tested toxins.
Elimination of toxins is the primary goal of many practitioners who don't follow the guidelines and practices of modern medicine. They use many products that medicine frowns upon such as homeopathic remedies. In the case of the CDC, no one addressed the potential hazards of having pollutants in our bodies.
Extreme fatigue may have one of its major causes arising from pollutants. This is not an avenue of investigation of modern medicine. This viewpoint only exists within the world of alternative medicine.
Patients often go to their doctor and when nothing wrong shows up, the physician proclaims that it's all in their head and writes a script for a depression drug. Depression can lead to tiredness but it's only a symptom and extreme fatigue is caused by many different things not functioning well.
Doctors cannot find a neat, single cause for fatigue and many ideas have been presented but there is no consensus. The following is a list of some possible causes:
* post-viral illness
* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system
* post-viral illness
* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system
* free radical damage
* adrenal gland exhaustion
The Causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Have Not Been Identified
Clinicians have their hands tied behind their backs because there are no effective therapies available. Some doctors will try diet change, exercise, or cognitive treatments to try to help people regain some normal function.
The mitochondria are in all your cells and produce energy to power life by converting food chemicals into usable energy. They process these and combine them with oxygen. They can also produce a small amount of energy without using oxygen. There's speculation today that fatigue and tiredness occur when the mitochondria are not functioning well and may be experiencing oxidative stress.
Oxidative stress leads to a breakdown in food and oxygen processing. A potential cause may be drugs of any kind including those that are prescribed. The chemicals interfere with specific steps along the processing path by poisoning it.
Drugs attack specific targets in the mitochondria and this is where the toxic substance does the damage. An example of a drug that is frequently prescribed is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. Inflammatory diseases are extremely common today. Some drugs produce free radicals and these breakdown the membranes of cell walls in the mitochondria leading to problems with the movement of ions across cell membranes.
Minerals such as potassium and sodium serve as ions and their movements in and out of cells create electrical charges. These electrical movements make life possible. The drugs used in cancer treatments often target mitochondria which produce the energy used by the body's cells. The production of energy and electrical pulses decrease and the outcome is extreme fatigue.
Novel Approaches in the Battle to Stave Off Extreme Fatigue
Although medicine has been trying to understand what causes chronic fatigue, its quest has failed to turn anything up. In addition, since there are no known causes, there are no known or effective treatments for fatigue and its more serious forms, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
Therefore, it seems that we have to enter the non-medical world to seek effective treatments. Some of the possibilities include:
* exercise, particularly tai chi
* advanced detoxification programs (homeopathic remedies are best for this)
* the low-carbohydrate diet to reduce inflammation
* advanced detoxification programs (homeopathic remedies are best for this)
* exercise, particularly tai chi
* advanced acupuncture programs such as electro-meridian imaging rather than classical acupuncture
* homeopathic remedies, particularly the class of remedies known as drainage remedies
* nutritional supplements
* overview of our exposure to environmental pollutants
Hundreds of people were analyzed in the Body Burden Study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control. The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of how many environmental pollutants had accumulated in our bodies. The final outcome was that 98% of the people enrolled in the study had significant accumulations of over 200 tested toxins.
Elimination of toxins is the primary goal of many practitioners who don't follow the guidelines and practices of modern medicine. They use many products that medicine frowns upon such as homeopathic remedies. In the case of the CDC, no one addressed the potential hazards of having pollutants in our bodies.
Extreme fatigue may have one of its major causes arising from pollutants. This is not an avenue of investigation of modern medicine. This viewpoint only exists within the world of alternative medicine.
About the Author:
Dr. Gregory Ellis specializes in the area of chronic fatigue and all its related syndromes. Dr. Ellis was able to then design a system using multiple modalities to beat fatigue and blogs regularly on what people can do to deal with fatigue-related issues. Sign up TODAY for his FREE 5-Part Tired-Rescue ECourse at his blog site.
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