Extreme Fatigue: Advice to People Suffering from Chronic Tiredness
The joyful life people expect to live can be short-changed by extreme fatigue. Exhaustion is a daily companion to millions of people. The causes of extreme fatigue aren’t understood by modern medicine with the result that there are no effective treatments available.
In fact, most often, people are prescribed depression drugs since this is an associated symptom of the condition. But, depression is not the cause and is only an outcome of the overbearing issue of extreme fatigue.
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:
* failure to cope with stress
* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system
* post-viral illness
* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system
* failure to cope with stress
* immune system dysfunction
The Causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are Unknown
Even though there are no effective therapies, some clinicians do what they can hoping to help the individual improve his function and return to health.
In all of our cells there are very small power-houses called mitochondria that produce all the energy we need to live. They process the products of food breakdown and combine them with oxygen to produce energy. Some research now implicates mitochondrial dysfunction in fatigue through a process called oxidative stress.
If the mitochondria is under oxidative stress this means that the processing pathways have been disrupted. One possible cause that’s under the microscope are drugs. Many people use prescription drugs today because that is how the health care system works. Drugs may interfere with enzymes by poisoning them thereby creating a situation where oxygen’s mixture with food is compromised.
Several targets within the mitochondria may underlie the toxic effects of some drugs. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may disrupt function in the mitochondria. The toxicity of other drugs arises because of the production of free radicals which damage cellular membranes leading to ion flux problems.
Ions are minerals such as potassium and sodium. These ion exchanges are involved in electrical transmissions in nerve cells, for example. Cancer drugs target the mitochondria and reduce or slow its function in producing energy. Most cancer patients suffer from extreme fatigue.
In the Battle Against Extreme Fatigue We Need New Approaches
I’ve made it clear that medicine cannot pinpoint the causes underlying fatigue. And I pointed out that no drugs exist for fighting fatigue and exhaustion. Even for the really bad fatigue syndromes such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, there are no effective therapies.
Modern Medicine is not the only health model that exists even though it seems to think it is. There are numerous other ways of looking at the issue of fatigue therapies by looking at the views of other schools of thought:
* exercise, particularly tai chi
* advanced detoxification programs (homeopathic remedies are best for this)
* the low-carbohydrate diet to reduce inflammation
* homeopathic remedies, particularly the class of remedies known as drainage remedies
* exercise, particularly tai chi
* the use of other products from the world of energy medicine
* homeopathic remedies, particularly the class of remedies known as drainage remedies
* nutritional supplements
* advanced acupuncture programs such as electro-meridian imaging rather than classical acupuncture
Toxin exposure is a current problem. To assess the level of toxin accumulation in people’s bodies, the Centers for Disease Control planned and carried out the Body Burden Study to test for more than 200 toxic compounds in humans. More than 98% of the subjects tested for significant levels of 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.
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