Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the way out

  Summary

Stress can be of various kinds:

• psychological (time pressure, anxiety, bullying, horror, trauma, grief, guilt, etc.)
• spiritual (experiences of ghosts and other unwelcome entities)
• physical (hard work, malnutrition)
• difficult conditions (stress of various kinds)
• electromagnetic smog
• chemical (e.g., neighbours who ruthlessly smoke cigarettes on the balcony)
• visual (advertising, living environment, etc.)
• acoustic (including neighbours playing loud music until five in the morning)
• tactile (e.g. uncomfortable clothes)

Systemic feelings as Bert Hellinger takes up in Family constellations may end up somewhere between mental and spiritual stress. When disturbed, therefore, the person experiences other people's feelings (as distinct from their own).

• adrenaline allows us to keep high tempo and keep many balls in the air and think it is great to keep track of many things and have several projects in the pipeline tax
• noradrenaline range muscles and keeps all your senses on edge
• task of cortisol is shutting down, both physically and mentally so that we don't notice how stressed and tired we really are

Overproduction of noradrenaline may be expressed in various forms of muscle spasms:

• through clenched jaws, especially at night (can be partly alleviated with a tray)
• pains in the back, shoulders, neck
• cramps in the calves or feet (can be treated acutely with TFT, long-term with magnesium supplements)
• respiratory ailments with heart infarct like symptoms

It is stress that makes the body get rid of zinc and magnesium. During zinc deficiency its difficult for the gut to take up zinc. That's why you need to take an overdose of zinc. It can take more than half a year before we can see the effect of a zinc supplement. Most doctors don't even know that blood test can show a normal zinc-level even when pronounced zinc deficiency. A reliable zinktest is to taste a teaspoon of liquid zinc. If you immediately spit it out, then you have a good zinc-level. Those who, however, likes the taste, need to take higher doses of a zinc supplement. Zinc deficiency not only affects the immune system, metabolism and the production of testosterone. Even our minds can be disturbed by zinc deficiency. Anorexia is thought to be caused by zinc deficiency. It is said that lack of zinc makes the starving anorexics perceive themselves as overweight, when they see themselves in the mirror.

Another mineral, which influences the level of estrogen and testosterone, is boron. Boron are also required in order the conversion of vitamin D to its active form. That in turn stimulates the uptake of calcium. Unfortunately, there is too little boron in the Nordic lands.

Supplementation of magnesium can be an effective way to create a positive cycle. I myself have tried taking 2x800 mg strong magnesium a day during severe fatigue at all levels. After a week, I felt like having received new fingers. Take magnesium in the morning and the afternoon. When cramps at night postpone afternoon dose to the evening.

To the thyroid gland to produce hormones, necessary iodine and the amino acid tyrosine. Hormone deficiency can also be caused by lack of selenium and other minerals. A quick way to get a hint of how the thyroid is doing is facial diagnostics. Typical for thyroid is often losing the hair on the side of the eyebrows. If eyebrows tend to grow together, means one eat too much protein that cannot be digested.

More than half of the burnt-out has an underlying allergy. In many cases, completely unaware that this is the case. You can mitigate or even eliminate allergies by relieving the immune system. Ways that are worth trying are gluten free or nearly gluten-free diet. Try eating a vegetable omelett or sausage with cut tomato and capsicum for breakfast. Instead of regular pasta, try buckwheat pasta. Recipe for homemade buckwheat noodles is 100 g buckwheat flour, 1 egg and one teaspoon of olive oil. Delicious to bean, lentile and liver casseroles. Works great with pasta sauce. Can you imagine pulling down firmly on cereal products? Try the stone age diet. If not 90% of readers turned sour, I would advise against coffee and black tea. Those who find it difficult to cut down on sweets can try it by a number of successive steps. Suggested reduction of sugar 5% per week. Drink rather unsweetened green tea or clean water.

Avoid fast carbs in fruit, especially overripe such. Eat more vegetables and berries instead.

Organic is the best! You get a cleaner conscience, tastier, non-toxic and nutrient-rich food. In animal products you get rid of the hormones that non-organic animal unfortunately eat. Avoid non-certified organic frosen salmon. Most hardly taste anything these days, contains hardly any omega oils and includes both hormone supplements and food colors. Hormone supplements from the animals disturb your hormonal balance further. Show respect to yourself and think about what you put in you!

Vegetarians, vegans and fruitarians should seriously consider to start with some sort of certified organic animal food. Experience of Women Living Naturally is that strict vegetarians never recover from burnout.

Resveratrol preparations made of red grapes will help you to:

• heal inflammation (e.g., arthritis, tennis elbow, otitis media)
• lower estrogen level
• increase testosterone levels
• regulate insulin production
• slimming
• cancer prevention
• combat fungus, mold and viruses (antibiotics)
• protect your brain (treat neurodegenerative diseases)
• extend your life

Irene Ahlberg, medical journalist, praises Rhodiola arctic root. She writes in Nutrition medical journal: "Arctic root increases the sensitivity of the body's important feedback system so that cortisol level can reduce in time. We can recover and rest, and stress tolerance get rised.
– Stress can also reduce availability of important neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine. These are important for all communication in the brain, and not least affect our ability to feel pleasure and sexual desire. Studies show that arctic root seems to increase the availability and sensitivity of serotonin and dopamine. The result is increased joy, initiative and zest for life. Even depression seems to be positively affected. Effect of rhodiola willbe felt quickly, often after just a few hours."

Irene quote Professor Panossian: "if we are under prolonged or repeated stress the supply of energy in our brain is affected. The reason is that the conversion of glucose to the energy that brain can assimilate, ATP, reduces. Arctic root has an ability to increase the conversion of glucose into ATP. Thus, the brain gets more energy, fatigue is reduced and we become more alert." Those with magnesium deficiency (probably all burnt-out) needs primarily magnesium. Magnesium is essential for the management of ATP. Without magnesium gave me rosenrot no effect.

It's hard to say if one can be 100% restored. Don't be surprised if the healing takes a few years. Some part of you may want to return back to the environment that caused the burn-out. But do you really want to be healthy, it is best that you open yourself to a new, more gentle patterns of life.

Dr. Clas Malmström show in a sketch (in swedish) of how the brain is involved in hyperventilation. Actually, the brain is also involved in other mechanisms of burn-out. Somewhere we need to break the circle, and the brain is perhaps the most useful marker in the control system. Reprogram your mind and half is won! E.g. choose to focus you on everything that is good in your life. For example, enjoy you have a roof over your head, you have money to buy food, drinking water flows from the faucet, that you own clothing and shoes. List, you can do forever. Realize that these benefits that we have are not obvious in other parts of the world. Imagine, how happy you would be if you after twenty years of effort finally got hot water in your bathroom. Wouldn't you jump through the roof for it? Gratitude for all these certainties is a very healing feeling. Enjoy it! :-)

Listen to soothing music. Try for example this relaxation: Grace This piece of music distinguishes itself with a careful, smooth flow and at the same time a deep harmonic richness which is not usually found in new-age music. This piece is something like a silhouette of a higher world. A world which can not bee seen by a common human eyes. Grace was composed as opening music for Peace in Mind festival in Stockholm 1995. This music works much like an antidepressant, but without side effects.

Singing in choir can also be very relaxing and liberating. Maybe you'll get new and nicer's friends in the process? Or go on a course in painting or other relaxing theme.

On 9 August 2013 I played live song Adrenal Burnout. As the name suggests, is it about different emotional levels of burn-out syndrome.

Very many who have been burnt-out belongs to the group of friendly nice people. They were burned out because they took more responsibility for others than for their own lives. Learn how to set boundaries. Way borders in good time, before the stress level has risen unduly high. A little inspiration, you can get on the Egoist church website (link to english translation coming soon). It is about developing a healthy ego, humbly seeking balance both on the inner and outer plane. Practical advice can be found in the book "How To Say No Without Feeling Guilty" by Patti Breitman & Connie Hatch.