CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME

Our bodies need a steady supply of micronutrients — vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids— to operate properly. If you have a chronic illness like chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia, you’re especially prone to nutritional deficiencies; in fact, if you have any physical disability, you’re more likely to be deficient in vitamin C, for example.

chronic fatigue Syndrome is Reversible in the vast majority of patients with integrated and holistic therapies that restore the body's damaged ecosystems though the recovery in advanced cases may be painfully slow.

I have two prophecies, Gary. First, chronic fatigue is going to be the dominant chronic problem of the twenty-first century. I make a second prophesy. Chronic fatigue, more than any other infectious disease, more than any other viral disease, is going to push the present model of disease doctors practicing drug medicine to holistic doctors.

There is much more to the story. One vitamin C expert (Doctor C.A.B. Clemetson, author of a monumental three-volume review of the subject, (18)) best described the picture: Clearly about half the boys in the supplemented group showed a very marked increase in working capacity, such as would likely make the difference between losing and winning their next soccer game. Moreover, their improved ascorbate status could lift their spirits and would most probably improve their resistance to infection.

Looking for a medical cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a bit like trying to buy a new Buick from a Ford dealer: it just isn't possible. The first rule of fishing is to put your hook in the water, because that is where the fish are. Let's consider nutrition research and see what REAL options are available for the CFIDS patient that has been told to "learn to live with it."

For years, most physicians dismissed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) as an all-in-the-head problem. And most victims of CFS suffered the indignity of being told that they were hypochondriacs, and that they merely imagined their three main symptoms: (1) disabling fatigue; (2) persistent muscle and joint pain; and (3) severe problems of brain fog, irritability and depression.Many doctors poured salt on the wounds of their patients by labeling their condition as "shirker's syndrome", "yuppie syndrome", and a "syndrome created by the media". Fortunately that is all changing rapidly now.

Diet Related Fatigue - This might be the most common grouping. It is the fatigue that is created by blood sugar imbalances, by individual food intolerances, by yeast overgrowth, by general or specific nutritional deficiencies, or by following a diet that is inappropriate for the metabolism of the individual.

What happens when you eat is that your body absorbs the substances from your foods, mostly across the surface of the small intestine. If you eat a lot of refined carbohydrates, then this process will create high levels of glucose in your blood. When your diet is heavily weighted toward refined carbohydrates (refined = sugary), then our bodies release insulin to the levels necessary to digest this load. When the insulin becomes extreme enough, it will send your blood glucose levels plunging down to a level lower than they were before you ate. Since, under normal conditions, blood glucose is the only source of energy for your body and brain, this is a sad state of affairs.