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Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist, Brad Heineck physical therapist
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Today, we're going to talk about seven surprising reasons you are tired all the time.
with this type of situation
I think the first thing is you if you're normally not tired all the time and suddenly you become tired at some point
I think you need to see the doctor
Well that is a red flag and something you ought to be aware of. - You're not a believer in that are you Brad?
No, I am that's especially if there's a sudden change in that.
Yeah, you know some people are just tired all the time and they make themselves tired.
But you gotta know yourself. So basically the seven reasons we're gonna go over today are all medical reasons. -Okay sure.
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So let's talk about number one, Brad. This is the one my son had. He had low iron.
He was anemic and he was an athlete at the time in college and he was training for cross country.
Pretty aggressive and apparently I read you can actually lose iron through the pounding of your feet.
Isn't that strange? Yeah, was it where you've been reading this Bob? Well, I read it, you know on a reputable site.
-Oh okay
So ya never know. - But Brad and I were just talking.
You certainly can get iron through natural ways through like spinach and stuff like that, but even a cast-iron pan, right?
That's one of the claims that cooking with cast iron as you can get --
And then same with that aluminum. They used to say that was a bad thing. --You don't want the aluminum in your system.
That's another subject.
But so here's my son, a pretty much top-notch athlete at the time and he was working for us in one of the nursing homes.
He couldn't hardly make it through the day. He was so tired.
He was just fatigued working through the day.
And so and we found out his iron was way way low, so that that's a real common one
that's probably one of the first things they're gonna check on you to see if your iron levels are low.
Yeah, and that's an easy test. And you're gonna feel cold, irritable, dizzy
You might get headaches. --And was it hard to treat it, Did it work? --It takes a while.
It's not it's not immediate and and again they like to do it naturally too as much as possible. So he started eating a lot of spinach.
Alright number two: under active thyroid. We've had this in my family, too.
I hope my wife doesn't mind but she actually has Hashimoto's. It's a low thyroid.
I hope she doesn't watch this and get upset with you, Bob. --Hopefully not. She doesn't watch any of these.
But you're gonna be tired. You're gonna have dry skin.
Oh and you could be constipated a lot. Maybe she isn't gonna be like this, I don't think she was.
So women are more likely to have this.
Hypothyroidism. But I remember President Bush Senior he had hyper thyroid.
So when they treated that they felt like because he always had so much energy, they felt like his energy levels might go down.
You know he had all this energy. But well you need energy for that job. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah
All right number three: If you're pre-diabetic or diabetic.
You know with high blood Glucose, the blood circulation is impaired.
So the cells don't get the oxygen and nutrients they need. Or if you have low blood sugar.
Let's say it overreacts and you get low blood sugar, you're gonna feel fatigued. and not to have enough fuel.
Number four: Depressed. I mean very simple, when people are depressed they don't even want to get out of bed.
I think that my father-in-law had this.
It's just when he was alive. I think he --with you guys fatigue.
Yeah he spent too much time just you know, laying in the chair and sleeping you know what I mean?
Number five: food sensitivity
You know in this instance, it's real common to have like the gluten allergy.
You know be allergic to wheat and stuff like that. -Gluten Intolerance.
My daughter has this you know what? My whole family's got all these apparently.
She actually is allergic to gluten and eggs. Plus she had a little bit of an infection in her stomach and she went to
one of the best clinics in the in the United States for this. But it made her tired.
You get bloating, brain fatigue
And she did sleep more and and now her energy levels are coming back up. --Just by changing her diet
Yep, just by changing her doctor and staying away from things
And that leads us to number six: chronic infections. Did you ever have mono mono?
Yes, I didI had that when I was 18 years old and I was tired a lot.
I apparently must have had it at some point but because I have the epstein-barr virus, when I was tested.
But I don't remember having it. I think I'm just that tough. --Yeah. Well you are strong like bull Bob.
He's an icon.
That's right, but that was a long --long long time ago.
So I was probably a little kid and didn't know when I'm three years old that I had it.
Well, when you have as many brothers and sisters as you have, it's hard to keep up. Yeah exactly.
And Lymes disease would be another one that would do that. --Oh right, right.
Number seven and we're gonna be doing a video on this: Sleep apnea. which is very common.
I think there's twenty million cases of this in the United States. And it's under-diagnosed drastically.
You know basically your throat starts to close when you're asleep and you that's when a lot of times they snore and stuff like that.
and it wakes them up and then you know
You keep waking up and you don't get into REM sleep and your tired all the time.
You basically deprive your body of Oxygen so you get up in the morning and you're much more tired.
I know people that have CPAP machines to correct it and they notice a big difference. --Yeah big difference.
I've got energy all of a sudden.
Yeah, cuz suddenly you're sleeping eight hours a night you think, but you're not.
You are getting very much less than that. So that's a really common one
I think a lot of people should be you know check for that and a bonus that was number seven.
I know you like the number seven.--I was gonna comment, seven is a very complete number, but we can do a bonus.
We're just gonna do a bonus. Fibromyalgia and or chronic fatigue syndrome.
You know pain is fatiguing and Brad and I work with pain patients all the time.
And you know when you're in pain
You just don't even want to do anything and and it tires you out. --Right it gets me ornery. --Yeah, yeah it does.
I'm tired like you know
If I'm doing a project and I'm doing something I shouldn't be doing on my back like overhead work.
I did that this weekend and my wife, she was very aware of it. --She paid the price. --She did in the evening
Yeah, It's hard enough to be married to you. --Yeah, I do feel sorry for her some time.
Alright, that's the seven reasons.
We want to tell you to go ahead and have it checked out if you you're having fatigue for a long period of time.
Because a lot of these are very treatable
Right and they're treatable oftentimes by diet or behavioral change or something of that nature. So that's good news. Yep. That's right
Very good. Thanks for watching.
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