Are you tired of being tired? Or are you tired of being sick and tired? This is
the most common reasons why people have fatigue and some ideas of what to do
about it and how to improve your life.
Hello everyone, this is Dr. Jason West and the most common thing that I see in
practice, the most common clinical complaint is fatigue. People are tired,
they're out of gas, they're out of energy. Now that may not be the number one
reason that they come into the office, they may be coming in because of a
sprained ankle or a headache or a hormone imbalance or their stomach isn't
right and then when you ask them, "Well what is the next concern that you have?
Ff I had a magic wand and I could wave it at you and I could fix one thing what
would it be?" And typically they'll say their number one concern and
then it's always fatigue. I don't have the energy, I have brain fog, I go to
sleep and I wake up, I don't feel refreshed and so let's talk about some
of the most common problems with fatigue. Well, one of the biggest things we want
to make sure is that you have enough fuel in your system and that your blood
is healthy and iron deficiency anemia and your red blood cells, they're like
trucks on the freeway, they take supplies from town to town, if you don't have
enough of the right minerals in your system, if you have too much iron it's a
problem, if you have a too little iron it's a problem and so some standard
routine simple, inexpensive blood tests can help say if you have anemia. Now, the
second reason for the biggest reason for fatigue is, you don't have a very good
sleeping sanctuary and you're not getting very good rest, and so what
happens is, people will be on an alternating schedule, they don't go to
bed at the same time, they don't get up at the same time, their sleeping
sanctuary, they don't have a very good bed, they have too much light, they have
two many sound, too much heat and they can't get into rapid eye movement or rem
sleep and so they'll go to bed and then they'll wake up and they'll say, you know,
I could go right back to sleep, I don't get into restorative sleep mode, so where
you sleep is essential for health. If you can't sleep, you can't heal. Another thing
that happens and I found this to be true myself is, when people are really tired
you have to just a little bit of energy to power
everything off and I tell people, you know what, pretend like your body is this
great big plant and all of the workers leave because you know you're done with
your daily activities and there's a night watchman that's going around and
he's trying to figure out, you know, shut everything down, he's making sure all the
doors are locked and he goes over to the power breaker and he has to reach up to
be able to pull and turn the power off for the whole plant and if you don't
have enough power to reach up, you need a little bit of adrenaline to actually get
into sleep mode and sometimes people are way too tired to actually be able to
reach up and turn the power off and so you need a little bit of energy to
actually make you go to sleep. The other thing that happens when people
are taking over-the-counter natural sleep aids is, sometimes they're so
doggone tired that they take one of those sleep aids and they have increase
their sleep apnea. Now sleep apnea basically just means
you're not getting enough oxygen, you're not breathing consistently, and when you
take one of those sleep aids, what happens is you zonk so hard, it increases
your sleep apnea and you're more tired. I learned that from the sleep institute
here in town, I went actually in for a sleep study because I thought I had
sleep apnea, I'm happy to report to you that I don't and mine is more or less
stress-related, I have one of those little woodpeckers on the side of my
body saying, "what about this and what about this and what about that?" And
how I managed that, which is a really good suggestion that comes from our
sleep video, is actually to take a blank sheet of paper and have nothing on it,
take a pen or a pencil, some type of writing utensil and write out whatever
your healthcare concerns on the piece of paper because when you data dump and you
put everything on there, it has a tendency to get rid of the circling
thoughts, when your mind can't shut off, it's one of my favorite things you can
do to help with restorative sleep patterns. The other causes of fatigue is
too much stress. Now, I wish there was a magic pill or treatment or lotion or
potion to get rid of stress, it's really how you manage stress, we talked about
this in the in the stress video in our series that we have, but if you can help
manage your stress by doing something that relieves your nervous system and
for some people, it's exercise, some people it's reading, some people it's
talking to someone in their inner circle, other people it's meditating,
journaling or praying or whatever it is, you've got to have a stress outlet, when
you just internalize stress, it causes disease and it makes it so that you
don't sleep very well. Now the other reasons for fatigue are
chronic infection and I see these all the time and you can have a wonderful
understanding what's happening in your body by doing your annual blood test, you
can do a complete blood cell count with auto differentiation, if you look at your
white blood cell count, which should be between 6 & 8, and then you look at the
differentiate, your neutrophils with your bacterial fighters are 60, your
lymphocytes or your viral fighters should be 30, your monocytes should be 8, your
eosinophils to be 3, and your basophils should essentially be 0. Now what happens
all the time in chronic fatigue patterns is the immune system count will go down,
usually it's hovering around that between that 3.5 and 5 range, which is
low normal and their lymphocyte count, which is a viral count goes up, what that
means is you have a chronic viral infection and it could be the shingles
virus or that or the rotavirus, the rhino virus, cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr,
the herpes, simplex 1 or simplex 2 virus and it's in your system and basically
it's a slow boil, your immune system doesn't have enough mogul to completely
get rid of it and it's just debilitating for people. So with chronic viral
patterns, you want to upregulate as much as you can the immune system with either
IV vitamin C, you can do dilute hydrogen peroxide, some of those are the most
aggressive treatments, elderberry, Lameisha, Liposomal vitamin C, Epi immune,
shiitake mushrooms, Golden Seal, there's all these wonderful
things, then my favorite consultation of all of that stuff, is something called
ImmunoPower from Natures NX, it's my favorite immune system regulating,
and Lameisha, which is a Native American herb that helps to get rid of chronic
viral infections. Another really good thing for viruses is, monolaurin, which
is essentially conjugated coconut oil and it makes it really difficult for the
virus to get into cells, helps the body cell mediated immunity, which is part of
the immune system, that goes after viruses. So we want to make sure you're
not anemic, that you're getting sleep patterns, that you're managing stress,
that you don't have a car viral infection. Now, there's some neat
things that you can do to help you sleep with some low dose melatonin and
something called happy Z's which has a little bit of Atari in it, has a some
gamma-aminobutyric acid or gaba, which helps it so that you don't have too many
impulses, go through the synaptic cleft and then you have that nervous system
short-circuit or you have that little woodpecker that's sitting there all the
time. So some natural interventions, I say this every video but water and hydration
really helps to get people so that they're less fatigued, we want to try and
stay away from sugar, from high fructose corn syrup and caffeine because it's an
artificial crutch and what it makes the body is dependent on that, so that you
start this never-ending cyclic pathway. So chronic viral infections are really
important in fatigue management.
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