Chronic fatigue, and its more severe counterpart, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), are not new diseases. These conditions have been known under a multitude of other names for many centuries.
During the latter part of the 1800's the condition of fatigue was named "neurasthenia." This was the main descriptive term. The condition was associated with numerous symptoms which defied providing an easy classification.
By the first World War, chronic fatigue was a common complaint in Europe and North America. Medical concepts have evolved since that time in an effort to understand the underlying causes of these conditions.
Medicine doesn't do well with conditions that have a large symptom picture and neurasthenia was just that type of condition. Doctors were constantly trying to define the condition with a less broad and more narrow understanding and apply specific names:
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Post-Viral Infectious Fatigue
There is no known effective treatment available for millions of sufferers of the fatigue syndrome. Sadly, the Medical Establishment hasn't been able to understand the specific causes of fatigue.
The symptom picture in all types of chronic fatigue is very similar and consists of a large bag of many different complaints:
* fatigue
* anxiety
* muscle weakness
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* inability to cope with stress
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* pain
* muscle weakness
* inability to cope with stress
* and many other debilitating symptoms
The complexity of the symptom picture and the failure of medical tests, such as blood work-ups and MRIs, to detect anything wrong has led to a wasteland of continued suffering.
The Specific Causes of All Forms of Fatigue Remain a Mystery to Modern Medicine
Medicine operates largely on the theory of "one cause/one disease." A complex condition such as fatigue throws a monkey wrench into the process of trying to diagnose the causes of this condition. What we do know is that fatigue is the result of multiple agents acting simultaneously.
Since the medical community has no solutions for dealing with fatigue, many people are turning to alternative therapies and ideas. Medicine shouts not to do that because, they argue, these therapies are unproven. The alternative arena has treatments that work but it is also populated by marketers who don't provide effective solutions.
I believe the alternative choices that are available provide effective and useful therapies. You need to make sound choices and you cannot expert support from your doctor. Workable solutions include:
* appropriate exercise
* the judicious use of diet
* the most appropriate diet is low-carbohydrate
* yet this diet is maligned by the medical community
* the use of selected vitamins, minerals, and herbs
* unfortunately, the public is not trained in choosing these
* of course, medicine knows nothing of this due to its reliance on drugs
Many people will tell you that they were able to beat chronic fatigue because of alternative treatments. Medicine offers up nothing much more than some ineffective advice and it realizes that it has no effective therapies, a point made in all medical journal articles.
Medicine does not like competition either in business or in philosophy. As such, it argues against alternative therapies are useless, ineffective, and unproven. But the only hope for the public who suffers from chronic fatigue lies in the alternatives to modern medicine. Effective therapies are out there but you need to be careful whose advice you follow.
During the latter part of the 1800's the condition of fatigue was named "neurasthenia." This was the main descriptive term. The condition was associated with numerous symptoms which defied providing an easy classification.
By the first World War, chronic fatigue was a common complaint in Europe and North America. Medical concepts have evolved since that time in an effort to understand the underlying causes of these conditions.
Medicine doesn't do well with conditions that have a large symptom picture and neurasthenia was just that type of condition. Doctors were constantly trying to define the condition with a less broad and more narrow understanding and apply specific names:
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Post-Viral Infectious Fatigue
There is no known effective treatment available for millions of sufferers of the fatigue syndrome. Sadly, the Medical Establishment hasn't been able to understand the specific causes of fatigue.
The symptom picture in all types of chronic fatigue is very similar and consists of a large bag of many different complaints:
* fatigue
* anxiety
* muscle weakness
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* inability to cope with stress
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* pain
* muscle weakness
* inability to cope with stress
* and many other debilitating symptoms
The complexity of the symptom picture and the failure of medical tests, such as blood work-ups and MRIs, to detect anything wrong has led to a wasteland of continued suffering.
The Specific Causes of All Forms of Fatigue Remain a Mystery to Modern Medicine
Medicine operates largely on the theory of "one cause/one disease." A complex condition such as fatigue throws a monkey wrench into the process of trying to diagnose the causes of this condition. What we do know is that fatigue is the result of multiple agents acting simultaneously.
Since the medical community has no solutions for dealing with fatigue, many people are turning to alternative therapies and ideas. Medicine shouts not to do that because, they argue, these therapies are unproven. The alternative arena has treatments that work but it is also populated by marketers who don't provide effective solutions.
I believe the alternative choices that are available provide effective and useful therapies. You need to make sound choices and you cannot expert support from your doctor. Workable solutions include:
* appropriate exercise
* the judicious use of diet
* the most appropriate diet is low-carbohydrate
* yet this diet is maligned by the medical community
* the use of selected vitamins, minerals, and herbs
* unfortunately, the public is not trained in choosing these
* of course, medicine knows nothing of this due to its reliance on drugs
Many people will tell you that they were able to beat chronic fatigue because of alternative treatments. Medicine offers up nothing much more than some ineffective advice and it realizes that it has no effective therapies, a point made in all medical journal articles.
Medicine does not like competition either in business or in philosophy. As such, it argues against alternative therapies are useless, ineffective, and unproven. But the only hope for the public who suffers from chronic fatigue lies in the alternatives to modern medicine. Effective therapies are out there but you need to be careful whose advice you follow.
About the Author:
Dr. Gregory Ellis has researched why so many people are tired all the time for more than two decades. Go to Dr. Ellis's home page and read about how you can deal with this debilitating condition. For a limited time, sign up for his FREE 5-Part Tired-Rescue ECourse that lays out a plan to show you how to overcome the "I'm so tired" syndrome.
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