Extreme Fatigue: Advice to People Suffering from Chronic Tiredness

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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.

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:

* post-viral illness

* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system

* free radical damage

* a breakdown in the neuroendocrine system

* failure to cope with stress

* immune system dysfunction

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Causes Haven’t Been Uncovered

Treatment programs are directed toward symptom relief with the ultimate goal for the individual to regain some level of pre-existing function and well-being.

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.

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.

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.

Potassium and sodium are minerals and are known as ions since their movements create an electrical charge. Electrical charges are the fundamental functional part of living beings. The mitochondria are the target of many cancer drugs. Extreme fatigue in cancer patients arises because of poisoning of the mitochondria.

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:

* the use of other products from the world of energy medicine

* nutritional supplements

* advanced detoxification programs (homeopathic remedies are best for this)

* advanced acupuncture programs such as electro-meridian imaging rather than classical acupuncture

* an evaluation of prescription drug use to reduce toxic exposure

* overview of our exposure to environmental pollutants

The Centers for Disease Control published the Body Burden Study in which they analyzed hundreds of people to see how many people had bio-accumulated toxic pollutants. The results were startling with over 98% of the subjects showing significant levels of toxin accumulation.

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.

Dr. Gregory Ellis has studied the causes and solutions for on chronic fatigue. He developed a comprehensive system using multiple modalities to beat fatigue and blogs about how people can cope with chronic fatigue and all other conditions related to tiredness. Sign up TODAY for his FREE 5-Part ECourse at his blog site.

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