Chronic fatigue syndrome is a flu-like condition that can drain your energy and sometimes last for years. People previously healthy and full of energy make experience a variety of symptoms.

People recover from flu in days or weeks. But with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) recovery is rare. The symptoms are similar to flu, and a tiredness that never improves no matter how much sleep a person gets. It can worsen with mental or physical exercise. Sometimes the symptoms come and go with no regular pattern.

Many people suffer from chronic symptoms that have no real medical handling in traditional medicine. Although the symptoms are serious, they are treatable. Center for Disease Control reports that between one and four million Americans have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and are many of those cannot fully function, are unemployed or on welfare because of it.

Sometimes CFS just appears gradually with no noticeable starting point or identifiable cause. Many more women are diagnosed with CFS than men. Sometimes it comes on after a cold or viral infection or sometimes after a period of heavy stress.

Conventional medicine favors the idea that it’s “all in your head.” This leads to no remedy at all as the patient is sent to psychologists who prescribe harmful drugs. Sometimes a physical therapist or sleep therapist or dietitian get involved. But mainly medicos tell the patient to learn to live with it.

But the condition is not all in your head. You don’t have to live with it, and alternative medicine offers help by finding an underlying cause and a natural remedy. The disease can be stopped and symptoms reversed. The results are available, and you can regain your energetic lifestyle.

If you suffer from fibromyalgia or CFS, your diet can make your condition worse or better. Eating a lot of refined carbohydrates will make the condition worse, whereas eating slow-burning carbs (rich in fiber) will provide your body with more energy. If you consume a lot of saturated fats and refined vegetable oils, the pain will worsen. If you consume foods high in omega-3 fatty acids (like fish and flaxseed oil) your pain will lessen. Diet is very important.

Get an evaluation from a doctor for food allergies. These are often overlooked but are a frequent cause of fatigue and pain.

Natural supplements can also restore the dwindling amounts of seratonin in the brain. Serotonin regulates mood, and a lack of it causes depression. A deficiency can also increase pain sensation. Remedies such as St. John’s wort, SAMe and 5-HTP are much safer and effective at treating depression than Prozac or other anti-depressants, and the natural remedies do not have the harmful side effects as does Prozac. Much solid research has been done to back this up, not to mention the happy patients who applaud the doctors who use them. So if you are suffering from depression, fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue, or any combination of those, there is help for you that really works.

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