Are you Tired all the Time?

HOW many times have you walked into your doctor's rooms, sat down and declared "Doctor, I'm always so tired" ?
Modern living is frantic and getting more so. We devote less and less time to balancing our lifestyles because we are trapped in this frantic mode. We feel that if we were to stop for a moment we'd lose our jobs, businesses, our ability to pay the school fees, credit card, overdraft...

Frantic living then becomes translated into stress, layers of it. We don't sleep properly, exercise properly, or relax.

Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? Who got there first, cool, calm and certainly without heart strain?

Out-of-control speed and low nutritional intakes spell future disasters.

How many of us today devote sufficient time to selecting, preparing and eating proper food and taking time to digest It ? Lower the quality of the fuel that is the only daily support your over-taxed body and brain gets, and over time the engine will fall apart, giving rise to symptoms that can not only baffle you, but your GP too.

In the past GPs assumed their patients practised balanced eating. Not so today.
A recent analysis of 65 000 blood tests by a private medical lab in the UK discovered 7 out of 10 were borderline to severely deficient of the Vitamin B group nutrients in their bloodstreams.

The B group affects moods, thoughts, feelings, depressions, fears. It is drained out of the body by alcohol, drugs and "trash" foods, all of which actually destroy the “good" bacteria in our bodies and encourage the overload of "bad" bacteria.
Also, if 7 out of 10 are B-Vitamin deficient, how many are deficient of all the essential vitamins and minerals?

With such deficiencies we can expect a huge amount of yeast overgrowth to occur. Examine your body for symptoms ranging from thrush to athlete's foot, from mouth ulcers to yellowing fingernails.

Candida and ME cause "tired all the time" symptoms, but another equally debilitating cause is an under-active thyroid - hypothyroidism.

Other symptoms range from depression to loss of sex drive. Evaluating hypothyroidism is tricky as the usual blood test mimics hjpoglycaemia. However, a simple reliable home test is The Barnes Basal Temperature Test", listed for years in the Physicians Desk Reference Book.
Take a thermometer, shake it below 95F (35C) and place it by your bed before going to sleep. On waking, place it comfortably under an armpit for a full 10 minutes moving as little as possible. Read and record the temperature and date. Repeat for three days and take the average.

Your basal body temperature should be between 97.6F (36.4C) and 98.2F (36.7C). If yours is lower, it is appropriate to visit your GP and ask for a hypothyroidism test to confirm self-diagnosis.

I came across a statement by a world-renowned endocrinologist, the late Louis Berman, written in 1921. "Without thyroid there can be no complexity of thought, no learning, no responsive energy, no physical unfolding of faculty and function.''

In cases of hypothyroidism be careful not to eat turnips, cabbage, mustard, soybeans, peanuts, pine nuts and millet. These are the currently known goitrogens. Helpful supplements, with suggested daily dosages are: Copper 300mcg; Iodine 300mcg; Tyrosine 50mg; Vitamin A 7,570mcgRE; Zinc piccolinate 50mg; Vitamin E 12.5mcg; Vitamin B Complex (with Niacin) 25-50mg, Vitamin C l000mg; Folic acid 250mg.