Does anyone out there know much about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
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Marked by profound and persistent exhaustion, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) affects more women than men, most younger than age 50. Patients feel weak and listless much of the time and often have difficulty sleeping, concentrating, and performing daily tasks; many also have underlying depression. Doctors disagree about whether CFS is a specific condition or a group of unrelated symptoms not attributable to a single cause.
Symptoms -
Continuing or recurring fatigue lasting at least six months and not relieved by sleep or rest.
Memory loss, inability to concentrate, headaches.
Low-grade fever, muscle or joint aches, sore throat, or swollen lymph nodes in neck or armpits.
Supplement therapy aims to restore a healthy immune system, so begin with vitamin C and carotenoids. A powerful immune enhancer, echinacea can be added to the mix; it can be alternated with the herbs astragalus, which has antiviral and immunity-enhancing effects,
pau d'arco, which fights many microbes (especially the yeast infections so common in those with low immunity), or goldenseal. For muscle pain, use magnesium too.
it is caused by a lack of total nutrition, and over doses of junk food, caffiene, sugars. Basically it is a metabolic problem.
A good diet rich in fruits vegetables and high quality protiens nuts and grains...
check out http://www.themetabolicplan.com...
you might want to read this...it's about the author of the movie Seabiscuit ( starring Toby Maguire a.k.a Spidey)..
I first saw her story in Reader's Digest; she has been sufferring with chronic Fatigue Syndrome since highschool, I think...
http://www.cfids-cab.org/mesa/hillenbran...
cfs has been linked to the epstein barr virus which causes Mononucleosis. Not much is known why extreme boughts of exhaustion occur but it has only been recent that the link between the virus and cfs has been made. Also it seems that after a time of immense stress the body may react with symptons of cfs.
The most likely link is that someone gets the eb virus and develops Mononucleosis. Residual symptoms after infection might resemble cfs.
*It is said that people can remember a specific day or even hour when they first became sickly feeling. Many people report getting a case of the flu, exposure to an allergen or an infection such as bronchitis, from which they seem never to fully recover and which evolves into cfs.
the cdc says "Of the four million Americans who have CFS, less than 20% have been diagnosed"
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