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A Medical Flip Flop for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Posted on March 20, 2017 by

Initially I thought I’d misread the conclusion of the re-analysis of the standard treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). “The claim that patients can recover as a result of (cognitive behavior therapy) and (graded exercise therapy) is not justified by the data, and is highly misleading to clinicians and patients considering these treatments.” Damning words. After all, this recommendation from the PACE study had been Read More

Posted in Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Chiropractic & Physical Medicine, Diseases, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Tagged with: CBT, chronic fatigue syndrome, cognitive behavior therapy, CSF, fatigue, fibromyalgia

Tired All The Time? Useful Info and Two Supplements

Posted on October 24, 2016 by

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As you might expect, fatigue is a fairly common reason people visit doctors. Feeling tired is vague symptom and can be linked to dozens of possible diagnoses, plus there’s a need to differentiate between physical fatigue and mental fatigue (brain fog) or consider both. When your doctor or nurse practitioner starts to ask questions, she’s looking for associated symptoms that will narrow down the diagnostic Read More

Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Knowledge Base, Mental Health, T Tagged with: adrenal fatigue, Corvalen, dehydration, depression, fatigue, fibromyalgia, heart disease, hypothyroid, K-PAX MitoNutrients

Persistent Patient: Linda and the Thyroid-Gut Connection

Posted on January 11, 2016 by

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Persistent Patient: Linda and the Thyroid-Gut Connection Linda, an accomplished woman in her late 30s, was not a happy camper. She arrived for the first time at WholeHealth Chicago certain, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that she had an underactive thyroid gland. Linda had read all the websites, especially Janie A. Bowthorpe’s Stop the Thyroid Madness, and was becoming increasingly exasperated with conventional medicine. Read More

Posted in Blog, Case Studies, Digestion, Knowledge Base, P, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues Tagged with: basal body temperature, bloating, brain fog, dysbiosis, fatigue, gluten, gluten sensitivity, gut health, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, hypothy, hypothyrodism, hypothyroidism, natural thyroid, SIBO, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, thyroid

Healing Adrenal Fatigue

Posted on October 19, 2015 by

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In last week’s Health Tip I described the exhausted state of Patricia, dragging herself through the day and crashing completely in the afternoon. At first, Patricia was oddly supercharged in the evening, unable to relax or sleep. Later, this energy burst vanished and she simply couldn’t sleep. She was tired all the time. Before her visit with us at WholeHealth Chicago, Patricia had had quite Read More

Posted in Blog, Case Studies, H, Knowledge Base, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues Tagged with: acupuncture, adrenal, adrenal fatigue, adrenal glands, adrenal hormones, Chinese Medicine, chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue, glandular therapies, homeopathy, psychologist, stress, stress buffer, supplements

“Every Afternoon At About Four I’m So Tired I Could Sleep At My Desk”

Posted on October 12, 2015 by

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“Exhaustion is my reality. At four o’clock, I’m wiped, totally wiped.” Patricia is 33, happily married as far as marriages go, one kid, steadily employed in the usual American less-than-satisfying corporate job, good eating habits, and, until recently, a health club goer a couple/three times a week. Now she’s too tired for that. Just looking at her, you can tell she’s dragging. Circles under her Read More

Posted in Blog, Case Studies, E, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Knowledge Base, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues Tagged with: adrenal, adrenal fatigue, adrenal glands, adrenal hormones, chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, cortisol, endocrine, endocrine gland, fatigue, general fatigue, mental fatigue, stress

Lyme: The Latest

Posted on November 24, 2014 by

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I’d guess that Lyme disease nears the top of the “more info please” requests I receive from both Health Tip readers and WholeHealth Chicago patients. There are three good reasons for this concern: Lyme disease is definitely on the upswing, both actual patient numbers and geographic spread. Treatment, especially for chronic Lyme, can be a real challenge. When it’s discovered early–within a couple weeks of Read More

Posted in Blog, Knowledge Base, L, Lyme Disease & Morgellons Tagged with: Borrelia burgdorferi, fatigue, flulike symptoms, immune suppression, joint pain, Lyme disease

Six Commonly Missed Diagnoses: Vitamin D Deficiency

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

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Posted 05/21/2012 Much of medical care is hampered by the black-and-white thinking of doctors. You either have a condition (symptoms confirmed by positive tests) or you don’t (symptoms, but no useful test results, and therefore “nothing’s wrong with you”). Doctors are uncomfortable with grey zones, like when test results seem normal but on closer inspection are normal by just a hairsbreadth. To some extent the Read More

Posted in Blog, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, S Tagged with: fatigue, prohormone, rickets, sunshine vitamin, vitamin D

A Newly Discovered Cause of Women’s Fatigue

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

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Posted 12/12/2011 Given the number of women who walk around feeling tired all the time, it’s truly unfortunate that the important piece of research we’re discussing today didn’t generate more publicity. Tucked away in the small-circulation medical journal Thyroid, whose readership is probably limited to endocrinologists specializing in thyroid disorders, there appeared an article about Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that really should have been published in a Read More

Posted in Blog, Diseases, Knowledge Base, N, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, W Tagged with: autoimmune disorder, fatigue, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, T3, T4, thyroid antibodies, TSH

Fibromyalgia: The Fatigue Part

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

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Right up there with pain, the second most common symptom of fibromyalgia is a constant sense of profound exhaustion. Disability insurance companies, people who don’t have fibro, and (sadly) most doctors can’t appreciate the extraordinary degree of this fatigue.

NADH (Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)

Posted on February 14, 2010 by

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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NADH, is a coenzyme made from Vitamin B2, or niacin. It’s present in all living cells. As a coenzyme, NADH serves an important role in helping enzymes to function as they should. (An Enzyme is a Protein that works like a catalyst in the body to prompt chemical changes in other substances; breaking down food into energy is an example.) Most coenzymes are synthesized from vitamins, and for optimal energy production, the body needs good amounts of them. The coenzyme, NADH, is no exception.

Tag: fatigue

A Medical Flip Flop for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Tired All The Time? Useful Info and Two Supplements

Persistent Patient: Linda and the Thyroid-Gut Connection

Healing Adrenal Fatigue

“Every Afternoon At About Four I’m So Tired I Could Sleep At My Desk”

Lyme: The Latest

Six Commonly Missed Diagnoses: Vitamin D Deficiency

A Newly Discovered Cause of Women’s Fatigue

Fibromyalgia: The Fatigue Part

NADH (Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)

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