Fighting Fatigue Naturally Through Simple Lifestyle Changes

Fighting Fatigue Naturally Through Simple Lifestyle Changes

Fighting fatigue naturally through simple lifestyle changes can work better than taking medications or drinking caffeine for the millions of people struggling with being tired each day. Making certain dietary choices and taking supplements have been shown to be helpful.

Fighting fatigue naturally can resolve many of the causes of fatigue. Origins of fatigue include anemia, an under-active thyroid, a cold, sinus infection, or a virus. However, in many cases it is simply a lifestyle issue rather than a medical one. All too often we’re just not taking care of ourselves. Here are some simple steps to take to get you started to avoid that rundown feeling.

Drink more water: The amount of water you drink can drastically affect your energy levels. Many people suffer from dehydration without knowing it. If you are thirsty, you’re likely already dehydrated-so try to get the recommended 8 or more cups of water, especially if you are a highly active individual. Replace those sugary beverages with water to prevent blood sugar spikes. Drinking more water also curbs some food cravings-including fatty and greasy foods, which also cause fatigue.

Exercise regularly: Moderate and consistent sessions of aerobic exercise, 3 or 4 times a week for 30 to 45 minutes, will help increase your energy level. Overdoing exercise is counter-productive to your goal of increased energy and decreased fatigue. Exercise reduces stress, which is a serious cause of fatigue. Higher-intensity exercise and cardio also reduce stress, providing an outlet for frustrations and releasing endorphins-which also fights off fatigue.

Adapt a regular sleeping pattern: Inconsistent sleeping patterns or not getting enough sleep at all is another major contributor to being tired. Going to sleep and waking up at regular times every day will help you avoid this, and prevent fatigue during the day.

Adjust your diet: Eating a proper breakfast can serve as an energy booster. Skipping breakfast drains your energy, contributing to the fatigue problem. It’s important to eat nutritiously at every meal, but focus on breakfast to start your day off right. What you eat has a serious bearing on what your energy levels are like throughout the day. Eating large amounts of fatty, greasy foods will make you sleepy. Avoid eating foods stocked with a high amount of sugar because these cause a spike in glucose levels. The best approach is to eat a balanced, healthy diet low in junk food. It is even better if you avoid large meals, and opt for more frequent, smaller meals during the day.

Stop fatigue with vitamins and supplements: Simple lifestyle changes discussed above can beat fatigue and boost your energy. Supplements such as Vitamins B6, B12 and C are all important for well-being and fill the void caused by low nutrition foods such as fast foods and processed foods that make up a large portion of our diets.

Conclusion: Fighting fatigue naturally helps you avoid feeling tired all the time. How often do you wonder to vending machines and coffee pots to fend off the energy crash during the day? But this caffeine fix is only a temporary solution that leaves us even more tired and unproductive. Therefore, it is important to understand ways in which we can stop fatigue naturally to increase energy levels without a chemical dependence. Therefore, drink more water, exercise, get a good night’s sleep and eat healthy foods.…

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8 Symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Women

8 Symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Women

Most women today multitask in a major way. They generally run their homes and their husband’s and children’s lives with the precision of an army general, while holding down a job, which helps with the family finances, and still manage to cook, clean, shop and be a wife and mother, too. It is, therefore, not surprising that there are times when women just feel that we cannot go on at such a frenetic pace any longer, because of simple tiredness or extreme fatigue.

Unfortunately, for many women world wide, the option of lying down and putting their feet up while all their daily chores are done by someone else is simply a dream which does not come true. Ladies, therefore, continue to do are their motherly and wifely duties, without taking into consideration all those little aches and pains which seem to crop up the more tired we become. As they continue to pay little attention to what their bodies are trying to tell them, the list of damages which they are causing becomes longer and longer – until they are forced to take a step back, slow down and pay a visit to our doctor. The simplest diagnosis they will be given, after all serious illnesses and disorders have been ruled out, is that of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – which is not simple at all.

The following 8 symptoms, over and above being really physically and mentally exhausted, are what the medical profession look for when making a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:

1. Loss of memory and/or a loss of concentration.

2. Enlarged or swollen lymph glands in the armpits and/or neck.

3. A sore throat.

4. Severe headaches which are unusual in their severity or pattern.

5. Painful joints which do not display the typical redness and/or swelling of arthritis.

6. Sore muscles.

7. Waking up from sleep still feeling very tired.

8. Extreme exhaustion from minor physical or mental activity which lasts for more than twenty four hours.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is treated in various ways to try to alleviate the symptoms and give the sufferer some relief. The most commonly prescribed medication to treat this syndrome is anti-depressant drugs. This is because many women who suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome often become very depressed and feel that they are not able to cope. These drugs also calm the sufferer and creating a ‘feel good’ situation which, together with also helping the patient to sleep, is seen as the best treatment option.

Sleeping pills are also often prescribed, because the medical thinking is that a good night’s sleep will go a long way to making the patient feel better; and thus in a better position to cope with her extreme fatigue.

Special stretching exercises designed for patients by a physiotherapist should be done each day, starting off with just a few minutes exertion and gradually building up the amount of time and the type of exercises patients are able to do, until they recover their strength.…

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Shift Work Sickness – How a Change in Attitude Can Help Boost Your Immune System!

Shift Work Sickness – How a Change in Attitude Can Help Boost Your Immune System!

If you are someone that suffers from shift work sickness, have you ever considered that your attitude might be partly to blame? I’m thinking probably not, so you might be interested to know that optimistic people actually have stronger immune systems.

In fact optimistic people are 77% less likely to die of heart attack or stroke than pessimists, are less stressed, more resilient, tend to age better and even live longer.

Sounds pretty good doesn’t it?

You see as shift workers it’s really easy to be negative and miserable because we’re always feeling so darn tired all of the time, but it certainly doesn’t have to be that way.

Negativity drains people of energy which is not good – most shiftworkers are desperately crying out for more energy!

Negative thoughts are toxic. They release chemicals that are harmful to the immune system, deplete energy, speed aging and damage brain cells.

So as you can see, a negative attitude can literally make you sick!

Studies have also revealed that at least 75% of illness originates in the mind. Prolonged negativity leads to depression which releases more toxic hormones that further weaken the immune system and lower the body’s ability to fight disease.

Instead, people with a positive attitude bounce back faster when things get them down. Positive thoughts release serotonin which makes us feel good, aids memory and can even prevents brain damage.

Now the good news is that a positive attitude can be developed. Since we can change our thoughts, we can certainly change our attitude.

So stop complaining, criticising, and judging. It’s only going to make you prone to shift work sickness – and a person that nobody wants to hang around with.

If you’re constantly getting sick all of the time when you’re working shift work, try changing your attitude – you might be pleasantly surprised with the results!…

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This is Your Endocrine System – Adrenals

This is Your Endocrine System – Adrenals

We have two adrenal glands, each perched atop a kidney. With your spine dividing your back in two, you can locate a kidney in the middle of each half, with the bottom of the kidney right around the bottom of your rib cage. A few inches above that sits an adrenal gland, topping the kidney like a little beanie.

The adrenals handle our everyday energy needs, and our fight-or-flight response in stressful situations. Healthy adrenals don’t even let you know they’re on the job; they just go about their complicated business. Unfortunately, these babies own an uncanny ability to get into trouble.

If heavy stress goes on and on, it can conk out in adrenal fatigue, which is fixable if you take care of business. The first advice you’ll hear is to get rid of your stress, as if you took it up as a hobby.

Here’s some advice you generally won’t hear: Get to bed by 10:00 p.m. every night and get good nutrition. Any form of sugar stomps on the adrenals, so get rid of sugar-even though you probably crave it. Instead of sweets, eat fatty protein. (Political correctness aside, saturated fat is the endocrine system’s friend. Brain’s friend, too.) Then add a good program of vitamins and minerals to your daily routine so your adrenals have something to work with.

Adrenals can also go down by trying to help a bum thyroid. Treating thyroid problems without first checking your adrenal status is asking for trouble, but most doctors do just that. It’s a good news/bad news situation: Not checking the adrenals is the bad news. The good news-of a sort-is that most doctors treat hypothyroidism with Synthroid, which doesn’t help the thyroid enough to get the adrenal glands’ attention, so at least things don’t get worse. You’re still in a mighty deep ditch, but, hey, things could be worse.

A damaged hypothalamus can cause adrenal problems, as can a whacked out pituitary. And things in the environment that we eat, drink, breathe or rub on. And so it goes.

Most doctors use blood tests to check the adrenals, which makes no sense. First off, it measures adrenal levels in the blood, not in the tissues where the action happens. Second, accurate tests of adrenal function cover many hours. A one-shot blood test isn’t accurate-especially since it tests the wrong thing.

Of the doctors who test properly, some use a saliva test while others prefer a 24-hour urine test. Both test adrenal levels in the tissues. The saliva test, done at home, tests for hormones four times in a 16-hour period. The 24-hour urine test explains itself. In that test, both hormone levels and the quantity of urine matter.

Symptoms of adrenal problems are a lot like those of the thyroid-constant fatigue, brain fog, hair loss, etc. Symptoms specific to the adrenals include an itchy back, a patchy loss of leg hair, a craving for salt and difficulty in word recall, especially names.

Small doses of hydrocortisone treat underactive adrenals, but it’s hard to get a prescription. Almost impossible, in fact, so you usually have to take care of business in other ways.

Well, help would be nice, but sometimes it isn’t offered. Sometimes it’s refused. In either case, helping yourself beats giving up.

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Why Am I Always Tired and How to Overcome Tiredness

Why Am I Always Tired and How to Overcome Tiredness

It seems more and more people today bring this topic up to discussion why am I always tired? It can become a burden distracting you from your works and more.

What is the cause? There are just so many contributed factors that can make you feel tired quickly.

1. Lack Of Sleeping

Many people believe that lack of sleeping will make you tired very quickly, contrary with popular opinion, lack of sleeping will not make you tired. Many people sleep for only 4 hours a day and still they can run their day full of energy. It is actually an excessive sleep causing you feel tired.

2. Are You Having A Stress

Having a stress or similar emotional costly condition can make you feel tired quickly. Having stress can trigger a surge of hormone: cortisol and adrenaline.

These hormones can lead to a fatigue related symptom, for this problem you might want to take medication or yoga class to manage your stress level.

3. Coffee

Drinking coffee can give short term energy for your body however it will cost you a lot in a long run. Caffeine contained inside coffee can destruct your body metabolism system, block a surge of several recovery hormones and this will make become tired even more. Avoid coffee or drink that has caffeine at all cost.

4. Avoid Alcohol

Sipping a small amount of alcohol at backyard part will never hurt everyone, but consuming it a lot of quantity will cost you a lot.

Not only you get more tired easily but also you will get various health problems such as digestion problem, or liver. Never consuming alcohol excessively, always know your limit.

5. Are You Doing Exercise Extensively

You might do your workout extensively in hope to get lean muscle. However according to recent research, exercise extensively will make your body even smaller and tired, sometimes less is more.…

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Shift Work Fatigue: Some Bright Ideas To Help You Get Your Motivation Back!

Shift Work Fatigue: Some Bright Ideas To Help You Get Your Motivation Back!

Shift work fatigue is certainly the bane of our existence when you work crazy and irregular hours. In fact wandering around in a zombie-like state is something that you never really get used to.

When you feel tired all of the time, you also suffer from a lack of motivation. Motivation that is – to do anything.

You may even have days when you just want to stay in your pyjamas and build a track between the fridge, the bathroom and your bedroom!

So if this is sounding familiar, what can you do to get your motivation (and life) back on track?

Well begin by incorporating more ‘Bright Ideas’ into your life.

Because whenever you are exposed to darkness, your body naturally slows down and you become tired. In fact, for thousands of years the human race has gone to sleep when it’s dark and has woken up when it’s light.

That is of course, unless you work shift work. Unfortunately we push our bodies to do the complete opposite.

So how can you use the power of light to help motivate you? Well according to a study by Dr Bob Arnot, author of The Biology of Success, adding more light into your day radically improves your mood and mental state.

So here’s some Bright Ideas to help you get your motivation back:

* Get outside for a few minutes each day.

* Open all of your windows to allow more natural light into your house.

* If you’re particularly vulnerable to spending too much time inside, then you might want to invest in some good Light Therapy. For example, the Lite Book is a well known product that helps those who suffer from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) by assisting in the regulation of melatonin – a feel good hormone that makes you feel more content and energized.

So start incorporating more ‘Bright Ideas’ into your life and you’ll begin to feel much more alert and motivated throughout the day.

Of course you can never beat taking some well earned “time out” on your days off by going for a walk in the sunshine and getting some fresh air. This will always leave you feeling much more energized as opposed to spending your days off slumped on the couch in front of the telly!…

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How Anti-Fatigue Floor Mats Help Your Business

How Anti-Fatigue Floor Mats Help Your Business

From production lines to offices, millions of workers spend the majority of their time on their feet. This can produce sore feet and legs, back strain, even neck injuries and headaches. While there may be no way to avoid spending the majority of the day standing, there are ways to prevent the kinds of strains and stress that fall on your employees, which in turn cause lost hours and decreased productivity. Healthy employees are much more attentive and productive, not to mention much more loyal and happier overall. Alleviating the strain associated with the hours of prolonged standing also improves the quality of the work being performed.

Comfortable shoes only go so far when it comes to reducing foot, leg and back strain. Anti-fatigue floor mats are designed to provide support and increase the comfort of individuals who spend a lot of time standing in one spot. This is especially true if your employees are working on a concrete floor. Rubber mats allow the worker to spend more time concentrating on the job and hand and less time dealing with sore feet. These mats often have beveled edges which keep cords and other things from catching on them and prevent people from tripping over.

Anti-fatigue flooring is also generally designed to be oil and chemical-resistant. This makes them excellent for use in areas where liquids are being used. Their anti-slip nature makes their safety value even higher. The variety of sizes and shapes that they are available in means that there is most likely an anti-fatigue mat suitable for your work environment. These mats are good for more than just standing on in one place. If an employee moves around in one area quite a bit throughout the day, a larger mat will allow them to work on a cushioned surface throughout the day. They can also be used in high traffic areas.

If the work area changes periodically, then an interlocking mat provides a high level of adjustability. Anti-fatigue mats not only increase productivity and create more comfortable employees; they can play a large part in reducing work comp claims. A more productive and more attentive worker is a bonus for any company. If you have noticed that your employees are taking breaks to walk around or are constantly shifting their weight from foot to foot, then it may be time to invest high quality Anti Fatigue Floor Mats for your business.…

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