Fat Fatigue

I was diagnosed with Post-Viral Fatigue, bed-ridden for the first 6-12 months. My limbs felt like lead yet test results proved so inconclusive that doctors eventually labelled me as psychosomatic. I then spent 15 years going round in circles trying to cure my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (C.F.S.) – or Myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) as it is also known – using every conventional and complementary therapy available, including:

Nyastatin (Anti-Fungal)
Colonics/Bowel Cleanses/Parasite Cleanses
Colonoscopy
Allergy/Mast Tests (It’s not all in the mind)
Blood Tests incl. Glucose/Triglycerides/Immunoglobins
Avoidance Diets/Food Combining
Hypnotherapy
Thyroid Tests
D.H.E.A. Hormones
General Homeopathy
Vitamin Therapy
Acupuncture
English Herbs/Chinese Herbs
Anti-Depressants
Hair Mineral Tests and More Vitamin Therapy
Reverse Therapy
Mercury Fillings Removal

Chronic Fatigue is not All In The Mind as doctors may have you believe.

CFS/ME is a real physical condition and the only way of beating it is to start eliminating the toxin overload that causes it. Very few conditions are genetically passed on – by that I mean that we get sick as a result of our bodies capacity or rather incapacity to interact with an increasingly toxic environment.

The process works because it eliminates and repairs the fatty structure of the bodies cell walls particularly those cells in the brain, gastro-intestinal tract, liver/gall bladder, where toxins such as heavy metals, viruses, parasites, yeast and bad bacteria reside.

By repairing the bi-lipid membrane of the cells, replacing damaged and saturated long chain fatty acids – that are rigid and inhibit the cellular release of toxins – with the correct lipid (fat) balance the body is able to give up it’s toxic burden FAR MORE QUICKLY.

Then through the use of specific supplements that either bind to these toxins or kill them they are able to be safely and effectively transported from the body.

WHAT TO DO NOW:

1) Before anyone can detox it is essential to test for heavy metals and chemicals. A strict low carb diet for a 4-6 weeks and a hair mineral test is a good place to start – without the diet to burn off fat cells and release toxins that reside there the hair will NOT SHOW UP it’s toxic load.

2) Find a qualified nutritionist to help you re-establish vitamin and mineral status. Use kidney and liver support formulas.

3) Follow the high lipid replacement protocol and undertake coffee enemas (not without first having taken Butyrate for 14 days so as to avoid blockages in the bile ducts), and liver flushes.

For those who are interested in more detail please see my website http://www.thiscureworks.com/cfs.

Good Luck

Regards

Ian Solley
B.Sc.

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Dr. Graham: Well from a medical standpoint we know that high fat diets have been linked to cancer and heart disease, diabetes and chronic fatigue. Even candida and most digestive disorders are all linked to the over consumption of fat. I agree, too much fruit is bad for you. People ask me all the time, “Isn’t too much fruit bad for you?” Yes, of course it is. Too much of anything is bad for you. That’s what the phrase means, is that you have a problem. As does the phrase, “Too little.” Part of the problem with too much fat is that you invariably also get two few carbohydrates, so you end up with a double whammy.

As soon as you end up in that ‘too’ category, meaning too much or too little, you’ve got both sides of that seesaw swinging out of control. When you don’t eat enough carbohydrates you invariably end up with cravings. This is why over 70% of all of the eating disorders in the United States are associated with binging on complex carbohydrate foods. Because when you try to reduce your carbohydrate intake below that from which we are designed as a species, which is 80 plus, you invariably start to crave that for which we are designed. It would be like holding your breath. If you try to hold your breath you’re going to invariably really start wanting to breathe, a lot, soon.

So in the Standard American Diet where we’re eating about 40% of our calories from carbohydrates, we still see a tremendous number of people with disordered eating. But when we go to the standard raw approach, when the carbohydrate intake is halved again down to 20%, then we see massive challenges with binging, people going to refined sugars, relentlessly going to candy and alcohol and dried fruits and chocolates and anything that’s a refined sugar source, in order to make up for the lack of carbohydrates that they’re not eating through fruit.

Kevin You mentioned candida, let’s talk about that. There’s all sorts of approaches for this. One is to starve the candida with no sugar and the other is eliminate the fat.

Dr. Graham: Well, I think there’s a variety of approaches. We have to understand enough about candida to at least make some sense. Candida is a microorganism that has a very short lifespan. We’re talking hours, days is not even common. We’re talking hours. If you have a candida problem and you’re trying to get rid of it and you’re trying for more than a couple of days, you’re not trying an approach that’s working because it shouldn’t take more than a couple of days. You’re still feeding the candida.

What you have to look at is what does it do, what does it feed? It feeds on sugar, no question. It feeds on sugar and fats. All the cells of the human body are fueled by sugar. All the healthy cells, all the sick cells, all the cancer cells, all the damaged cells, all cells of the human body are fueled by sugar. Which means that there has to be a fuel delivery system to all the cells and that fuel delivery system is the blood stream. This is why doctors can measure what is known as your ‘blood sugar.’ All humans carry blood sugar. If your blood sugar level was zero, you would be dead. Therefore it is actually impossible to starve the candida of sugar by not eating sugar. If you’re on a diet of strictly olive oil, if you’re on a diet of strictly protein powder, or if you’re on a diet of strictly powdered sugar, if your pancreas is healthy and the rest of your system is healthy, the doctors should be able to measure your blood sugar and find out that it is within normal limits, in the normal ranges. It’s going to be the same whether you’re on a fast, not eating anything, or whether you’re on the Standard American Diet. It’s going to run, in American numbers, somewhere around 90-100. What we see is that everyone always carries blood sugar, that’s always there.

At that point we have to look at why does blood sugar rise and how does that affect what’s going on in terms of the candida issue? Essentially it’s like this, we have to bring sugar to the cells of the body. We do so through the delivery system of the blood stream. When we want to get more sugar to the blood
through the blood stream, out of the blood stream, to the cells, this is done through a carrier system, essentially a doorman, that we call insulin, produced by the pancreas.

When the pancreas gets tired or when the pancreas isn’t working fast enough, it will receive assistance by a backup system called the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands, for instance, you’re walking up a hill and walking up the hill from the other direction is a bear. You both get to the top of the hill at the same time and whoa! You get a surge of adrenaline because you need fuel like crazy. You don’t actually have to outrun the bear but you have to at least outrun the other people that you’re with. So off you go, a surge of adrenaline. The adrenaline causes the pancreas to squirt out even more insulin and bam, you get an extra dose. What the insulin does is it attaches itself to the sugar in your bloodstream, helps it cross the membrane out of the bloodstream, helps to cross the membrane into the cell and it becomes essentially a doorman that opens the way for sugar to get out of the bloodstream.

When there is excess fat in the bloodstream, we bump into a problem because fat functions as an insulator. That’s what it does. It insulates us from jarring, it insulates us from electricity, it insulates us from hot and cold, it insulates us from bumps and bruises, it insulates in a wide variety of ways. Fat’s primary role is as an insulator. Does it have other purposes? Sure. But it’s primary role is as an insulator. It’s actually what creates the waterproof barrier of each cell that allows the contents of the cell to stay in the cell and the contents of whatever is outside, the extra-cellular fluid, to stay outside the cell. Fat is the essential barrier, an insulator.

If you pour a thimble full of fat, a thimble full of olive oil, onto a swimming pool, it will coat the entire surface of the swimming pool, creating a barrier. It’s a Please really good insulator. If you had a huge tube full of marbles and you poured in a little bit of oil and shook it up just a bit, that oil would coat every single marble, completely. It does the same thing to the cells inside the bloodstream. The fat starts functioning as a barrier as it coats itself around the insulin and coats itself around the sugar molecules, it makes it less effective for the insulin to find the sugar, for them to hook up. Now you’ve got a situation where there’s sugar in the bloodstream but it’s not getting out of the bloodstream. So the body produces a little bit more insulin. But the fat is blocking it. This is what’s referred to as insulin resistance. It’s actually not that the body is insulin resistant it’s that there’s too much fat in the bloodstream. Take away the fat and the insulin resistance goes away instantaneously, 100% of the time.

If the pancreas can’t produce enough insulin then we have a type I diabetes situation. Occasionally what will happen is that the adrenal glands will come in and they’ll kick in and try to help out the pancreas. That works fine except we can’t do that all the time or the adrenals become fatigued, what we refer to as chronic fatigue. Eventually what you end up with pancreas in the hole, adrenals in the hole, everybody falling down on the job and you’re still ending up with blood sugar levels that are too high.

Fortunately, our bodies are redundant in their design and there is a backup system for the backup system. There is a microbe that lives in the blood stream that literally consumes the excess sugar. The beauty of it is that in a one-all situation the microbe consumes the excess sugar and then as all species do when there’s an excess of food, it then blooms. The bloom creates a massive increase in population but there’s no more food supply so they just as quickly a die off. This is referred to in science as the balance of nature.

In this case what we see is that they’ll be a surge candida that eats the excess sugar quickly. It multiplies, it blooms, but now there’s no more excess sugar. The situation is resolved. There is candida in all human blood. It’s a matter of how much candida. There’s no way to prevent sugar from being in human blood, so you can’t literally starve out the candida in that way. What you can prevent however is blood sugar becoming excessively high.

Since 1959 when the first studies came to light on this issue of ‘what is it that allows sugar into the bloodstream but does not allow it out of the bloodstream,’ it has been taught in science, in medical school and in health class that the problem is one of fat functioning as an insulator, preventing sugar from exiting the bloodstream. By lowering the fat we invariably allow the sugar out of the bloodstream and resolve a potential candida issue.

The funny thing is that the different approaches that we’re seeing are actually all the same approach. The approach used by some people for candida is to go on a fast, on a water-only fast, consume absolutely nothing for week or two, and give the adrenals a chance to recover, give the pancreas a chance to recover. While the candida issue itself goes away within 48-72 hours anyway and then doesn’t return.

The second approach is to go on a diet of eating almost nothing but greens, in which case blood sugar levels remain the same, the amount of fat in the bloodstream goes down and at the end of the week or two of eating nothing but greens you no longer have a candida problem. Unfortunately, you also don’t
have a healthy eating plan to follow through on.

The third approach is to eat all the fruit you want, eat all the vegetables you care for, but avoid the consumption of overtly fatty foods for a week or two, and allow your body to heal itself because you’re no longer causing the problem.

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How to beat fatigue naturally!

Do you jump of out bed with a smile and energised for the new day, or do you force yourself out of bed and drag yourself through the day like you’re carrying lead weights? This is often more than just standard tiredness, its fatigue. With our stressful busy lives, most people experience tiredness from time-to-time, but usually this resolves with rest and relaxation. For an increasing number of people however, persistent tiredness or fatigue is a major problem.

Fatigue is a common condition in Australia and New Zealand, and is often misunderstood or even worse dismissed. This may occur if there is no identifiable ’cause’ discovered in diagnostic procedures, such as blood tests, but that doesn’t mean if you can’t find a ’cause’ you should stop striving to feel more energised.

Fatigue occurs if the mechanisms which provide the body with energy are not working effectively. The result is everything slows down, physically and mentally, and normal function becomes increasingly difficult. This resulting low energy and enthusiasm affects all facets of life – relationships, performance at work, chance of driving accidents, desire to eat well and exercise etc.

The common mechanisms that can lead to decreased energy production are:

Low iron/B12 and folate
Inflammation and infection
Hormonal imbalances such as low thyroid hormones
Digestive and liver toxicity
Excess body fat and unstable blood sugars
Stress and mood changes.

Let’s go over a few of these problems in more depth.

Low Iron, B12 or Folate

Iron or B vitamin deficiency is a common situation that results in decreased transport of oxygen throughout the body leading to ‘tired blood’ and ‘tired tissues’. Iron is also required for the creation of energy at the mitochondrial level, and for synthesis of carnitine – a mitochondrial fuel.

If iron deficiency is only mild or moderate, fatigue is often only noticed after physical exertion as opposed to constant fatigue. This is due to the increased need for oxygen and the ‘tired blood’ is unable to provide it.

Iron levels and iron stores can be gauged through blood tests. It is interesting to note you may have low iron for several months before it is reflected in blood tests due to the turnover rate of the cells that transport the iron throughout the body – the red blood cells.

Vitamins B12 and folic acid deficiency and digestive insufficiency may also result in fatigue. Iron, B12 or folic acid deficiency may be suspected if fatigue is accompanied by:

Pale and dry skin
Poorly formed and upturned nails
Difficulty staying warm in cold weather
Poor memory and concentration
Lowered immune function, therefore increased rate of infections
Vegetarian or vegan diet
Chronic use of antacids or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, steroid use, aspirin
High intake of coffee or black tea with meals.

Stress and mood changes

Last but by no means least, is the effect of stress on energy production and motivation. Stress is a necessary and needed response to switch us into the ‘go’ position when we need it. We must switch back to ’stop’ to ensure that the body has the time to rejuvenate and get ready for the next ‘go’ requirement. Things go awry when the ’stop’ mechanism is not functioning correctly and the stressors keep building up until eventually ‘burn out’ occurs, leading to mood changes and chronic fatigue. The stress messengers are reliant on various nutrients to ensure they function correctly and, if deficient, the process may not run as smoothly. A number of herbs have also been found to assist in switching to the ‘off’ position.

Excess stress may be suspected if fatigue is accompanied by:

Insomnia
Anxiety
Trembling
Dilation of pupils
Phobias
Pre-menstrual syndrome
Panic attacks
Decreased appetite.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome may be suspected if fatigue is accompanied by:

Mild fever
Sore throat
Painful lymph nodes
Muscle weakness
Headaches
Sleep disturbance
Muscular or joint pain or tenderness, especially when no specific pattern throughout the body
Sleep disturbance.
The other side of the coin is when low mood is partnered with anxiety instead of indifference or apathy. Though they may seem like they are opposite in nature, a vicious cycle of depression and loneliness may lead to fear and anxiety, which in turn leads to exhaustion and then further depression and fatigue – and so it goes on. Low mood and anxiety may be suspected if fatigue is accompanied by:

Nervousness
Difficulty concentrating
Agitation
Irritability
Racing thoughts
Frustration
‘Panic attacks’ with bouts of breathlessness, pounding heart, head spinning, feelings of terror, sense of loss of control.

Here are a few basic but very sound ways to make sure you build a strong foundation for healthy energy levels.

1. Get adequate, regular and consistent amounts of sleep each night. A sleep cycle of eight hours is recommended, however some people require 9-10 hours, not falling into ’sleep debt’ is essential. ‘Sleep debt’ is the notion that if we need 8 hours and only get 7 hours, then we are 1 hour in ‘debt’ and that hour needs to be ‘topped up’. The ultimate goal is going to bed and waking at the same time each day (yes that means no weekend marathon sleep-ins).

2. Eat a healthy, well-balanced diet and drink plenty of water throughout the day. Depending on the quality and balance of food, your daily diet can either be a medicine or a poison, creating a considerable impact on your energy and vitality. Returning to basics regarding food is one of the best things you can do for your body and often results in increased energy. Naturally ‘fresh is best’ and avoiding processed foods is always preferable. Organic, free-range choices are best when available. Locating and buying at a local produce market makes the process easier to put in place as they frequently provide seasonal produce at a cheaper cost.

3. Exercise Regularly. Regular physical activity helps address many of the underlying mechanisms that may cause or perpetuate fatigue, including stress, immune system problems, unstable blood sugars, mood changes, irritability and excess body fat. Exercise can help manage symptoms and improve physical functioning in people suffering from fatigue. If you have been suffering from long term fatigue it is suggested that you create a graded exercise plan so that you start gently and gradually increase.

4. Learn Better Ways to Relax. We all have stressful aspects to our lives – work, family, finances and illness. When the stress that we feel from these issues is not resolved quickly, we may find our health and wellbeing really start to suffer. Stress is a part of modern day living, it’s therefore important to put in place techniques to manage it in an effort to limit the negative impact stress may have on your body. It is also beneficial to work on ways to reduce your exposure to stressful situations in the first place, which is always easier said than done, but definitely worth thinking about.

Often issues that seem to be very important, and require your immediate attention, can resolve themselves without your input. Sometimes not getting involved in every issue can reduce your exposure to stressful situations. Ask yourself whether the current issue would resolve itself eventually if you were not available, and if the answer is yes, then you can choose to not play a role. One of the keys to managing stress is to understand that your inbuilt stress response is designed to support physical activity. Many people find that Yoga and Tai Chi, both traditional forms of exercise which also incorporate relaxation and stress management techniques, are highly beneficial to calm the mind and ’switch off’ the stress response. They are slow and gentle, and can be performed by just about anyone.

Deep breathing exercises can also assist in relieving stress and, when performed daily, provides a cumulative benefit as it becomes easier to relax into the breathing. The exercises are best performed laying flat on the back on a hard surface, usually the floor. Bend the knees and relax the body (particularly the mouth, nose, and face). One hand should be placed on the abdomen to monitor how deep the breath goes. The aim as you breathe is for the abdomen to rise further than the chest. Take a series of long, deep breaths through the nose, attempting to raise the abdomen instead of the chest. Placing a hand on both the chest and the abdomen may help you gauge the height of the abdomen. Deep breathing can be continued for up to 20 minutes.

5. Avoid stimulants or excess alcohol. All too often it might seem tempting to use stimulants – coffee, energy drinks, high sugar foods and even drugs – to give you a ‘kick’ when you are tired and unmotivated. The benefit from this artificial ‘up’ is short lived and, ultimately, leaves the body even worse off than before as they artificially ‘rev up’ the metabolism. What goes up must come down and quite often comes crashing down after a false ‘up’.

Quick Hints:

Keep high glycaemic load foods (potato, bread, pasta and rice) to a minimum
Eat two pieces of fruit or one cup daily if you are trying to lose weight
Eat fresh vegetables, a minimum of three cups daily
Regular exercise, a minimum 30 minutes most days
Make sure you take time out for yourself, be selfish
Take up tai chi, yoga or meditation to help reduce your stress levels
Having fun and doing things that make you happy and laughter must be a priority as it lifts your vitality
Don’t try and take on the world – it’s too big!

Fortunately nature has provided us with the means to ensure the mitochondria have the necessary nutrients to maximize output and enhance your energy levels. As every person is different, so is your need for certain supplements. Naturally it’s important to also address any of the underlying drivers which were previously discussed. For more information and professional help please contact your natural healthcare provider.

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