Most Common Causes of Fatigue: How You Can Come Out on Top
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), the severest form of fatigue, and long-standing fatigue, aren’t diseases just of modern times. Both conditions have a long history of afflicting humans. Over the years they’ve been called by other names, yet fatigue is still fatigue.
The public and the medical establishment in many countries have tried to understand what are the primary causes of fatigue. Early-on it was understood that there were likely many candidates that were involved in causing fatigue. In the late 1800′s, the medical people termed fatigue and its constellation of symptoms, “neurasthenia.”
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
* Post-Viral Infectious Fatigue
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Fibromyalgia
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.
All conditions of fatigue, however, consist of a similar symptom picture that’s remarkable in its pattern:
* fatigue
* depression
* inability to cope with stress
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* inability to cope with stress
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* balance difficulties
* muscle weakness
* balance difficulties
* 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
The best that anyone can say about this whole syndrome of chronic fatigue is that it arises because of multiple agents acting at the same time. Naturally, this befuddles medicine who is used to the idea of “one cause/one disease.”
With medicine frozen in its tracks, many people turn to alternative ideas and alternative treatments. This road is also fraught with danger because the alternative arena is filled with quick-buck artists and marketers.
In my view, the best way to deal with chronic fatigue is to use the therapies that do exist in the alternative arena as long as you can find trusted and truthful guides. Some effective treatments 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.
But because of medicine’s need to squash any competing methods to health care, it ridicules any alternatives to what it offers. The only hope, therefore, to the public is to find effective alternatives. They are out there but one needs to be careful in discovering what works and what does not work.
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