Most Common Causes of Fatigue -- How to Overcome People's Main Health Complaint
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.
Both in Europe and America at the time of the first World War, chronic fatigue was a common complaint. Since that time, medical doctors have tried to uncover why so many people suffer from long-standing fatigue.
The broad term "neurasthenia" has evolved into an attempt to more narrowly define the condition, therefore new names have arisen:
* Fibromyalgia
* Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Post-Viral Infectious Fatigue
Unfortunately, the Medical Establishment has been unable to understand and define any of the causes of these different conditions and, therefore, there is no effective treatment available for the millions of sufferers.
Yet, all of the these conditions share the similarity of a constellation of symptoms:
* fatigue
* muscle weakness
* depression
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* pain
* inflammation
* inflammation
* muscle weakness
* balance difficulties
* and many other debilitating symptoms
For the vast majority of people who suffer from the many different symptoms, medical tests can't find anything wrong. Blood work, X-Rays, MRIs and other medical tests including physical exams turn-up nothing out of the ordinary.
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.
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.
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
By using effective alternative therapies, many people have overcome their chronic fatigue and eliminated the symptoms from which they suffered. The medical community is clear that they have been unable to define the causes of chronic fatigue and, therefore, admit to having no effective therapies.
The medical community/business has a long history of putting-down any therapies other than those they support. This is particularly true when it comes to acupuncture, homeopathy, and nutritional supplements. Yet, it these same therapies that offer the only hope that people have who suffer from chronic fatigue.
About the Author
Dr. Gregory Ellis has studied the causes of chronic fatigue for more than two decades. Go to Dr. Ellis's home page
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