CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: FACTORS

Apr 07 2009

As with any disease there are a number of factors contributing to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). CFS sufferers have one or more of the following factors afflicting them:

1. Stress

2. Lack of water and oxygen in the cells

3. An under-active thyroid gland.

4. Lack of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, protein or carbohydrate in the diet.

5. Candida yeast infection.

6. Allergy.

7. Crummy jobs and crummy relationships that are so unfulfilling they’re significantly enervating.

8. Viral infections, hepatitis, glandular fever, AIDS.

9. Tropical and Third-World gut infections like Bali belly, Delhi belly, giardia (blocks absorption of nutrients) or hookworm (causes anaemia). Don’t holiday in the tropics, the Third World, Melanesia or Polynesia (Hawaii is OK as are the islands of the Barrier Reef).

There is no doubt however that Candida yeast infection and allergy are the most common causes.

Whereas it’s true that viruses are the great energy suckers of the body it is invariably allergy and Candida infections that allow them to multiply to energy-sucking proportions.