Chronic fatigue is a milder form of what’s known today as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Fatigue and severe fatigue have plagued humans for many centuries. Cultures have defined fatigue by many different names as was fashionable at the time.
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:
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Post-Viral Infectious Fatigue
* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
* Fibromyalgia
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
* anxiety
* depression
* anxiety
* gastrointestinal disturbances
* inflammation
* inflammation
* anxiety
* depression
* 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.
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
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.
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.
