Any nutritional answers for chronic fatigue syndrome? Thanks.?

Answer 1

There's some good information here:

http://www.holistic-online.com/Remedies/cfs/cfs_nutrition.htm

Answer 2

I have had chronic fatigue syndrome for the last 10 years of my life and I am only 26 years old. I truely understand what you are going through. I've tried various medical and non-medical treatments and nothing helped. Then someone told me about a natural product called Reliv. I have been taking Reliv for over a year and my chronic fatigue is a thing of the past. I am able to live normally and am very grateful to the person who took the time to tell me about it. Send me an email, and I will tell you more.

Take care and God bless,
Sherri
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Answer 3

I experienced chronic fatigue (and mild depression) for many years. Since I did not want to take medicines for it, and I strongly believe in holistic treatment, I tried many more natural ways of helping it. This is what I found to be very helpful:

1. Cut back or eliminate refined sugar and white flour products. Something about eating too many sweets or flour products has always caused me to feel depressed and anxious. I've heard this from other people too. I think they also contribute to making me feel tired.

2. I believe I have blood sugar imbalances and have started making sure that I eat at regular times - I try to not let more than 5 hours go between meals - this seems to help with depression. It also helped greatly with insomnia.

3. Flax Oil - I started taking 2 TBSP of Flax Oil per day about a year ago and although the things I mentioned above helped my depression a lot, I still had ocassional bouts of it, it seemed to virtually disappear after adding the Flax Oil. The flax oil also helped with insomnia. The flax oil probably works similar to fish oil - I'd do a lot of research before taking fish oil though, due to the toxicity of fish. There is some controversy regarding flax oil and it's stability, so you might want to research that too - but it helped me immensely.

4. Avoid alcohol - alcohol turns to sugar. I've noticed on those infrequent occasions when I have a few drinks I have a little more depression and fatigue.

5. Make sure you don't have a thyroid problem. I do and I think that at least part of my depression and fatigue had been caused by that. I found no alternative treatment for thyroid that worked and did start taking Synthroid for that. I noticed when my levels were off, the depression would increase.

6. Evening Primrose Oil- I think this has been the thing that helped me the most with my chronic fatigue. After starting to take this and flax oil, my chronic fatigue is now almost gone. I've never read anything about evening primrose oil helping with fatigue, but it did. I started taking this and the flax oil based on recommendations in the book - The Fat Flush Plan - she recommends taking about 400 mg of GLA daily from either Evening Primrose, Borage Oil or Black Currant Oil. I take mine from the Evening Primrose.

Answer 4

I've been battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for 4 years now and when I got this system I was probably at the lowest point of my life. I had no energy at all and was in constant pain. I hated myself and hated the doctors who all shrugged it off and told me I just needed to take it easy or that I simply needed to have proper sleep!

This have completely changed my life. Barely 3 weeks on this system, and my brain fog and headaches are gone completely! I can now also manage to go for a 20 minute brisk walk without feeling exhausted.

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Answer 5

Hi. If you can go to a heath food store or book store and buy this book. The Bible Cure for Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia. Its really a great read, and not expensive at all. The author is Don Colbert, MD. It has wonderful tips and advice on what to eat, what exercise helps and many other tidbits of information. This book really helped my symptoms more than any other advice I got in the past.

Answer 6

You may want to look into this. I work in a health food store for 5 years and remember reading that a much of the problem is related to mineral deficiency. It also has to do with your body's inability to fully rest even when asleep.
There's a company (Enzymatic Therapy) that works with Dr. JacobTeitelbaum that may offer some solutions:
https://www.jacobteitelbaum.com/jthome.nsf
http://www.enzy.com

Answer 7

yes, vitamin D,,,naturally made by some good old fashion sunshine...i suffered from it for a while...then one day out od desperation i didn't know what to do. so i sat out on my back porch thinking of what ever...and the rays of sunshine lifted me up..little by little, when you find your self looking up at the sun...you'll know it's working....

Answer 8

Yes there are. A little too detailed for this forum, you are welcome to contact me.