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 Please note that the following answers do not constitute medical advice, nor are they a substitute for specific personal advice based on a full analysis of your symptoms and history. No responsibility can be accepted by Nutritionhelp Ltd or Erica White for any effect of the general advice given on this web site in those attempting self-help treatment. For details of an on-line Personal Nutritional Report, click here.
What causes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Can anything be done to help me get over Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? In the ‘Beat Fatigue Handbook’, I say that the various contributing factors are like pieces of cargo on a ship, the ship being the immune system. If something makes a hole in the side of the ship, water gets in and the weight of the cargo will make the ship sink – in other words, your immune system has become waterlogged and sunk! You need to be able to identify the specific pieces of cargo which are weighing down the ship, and then take steps to offload each one. Once the unnecessary and unwanted loads have been removed, the ship can float to the surface and sail on again! Reading my book might help you to identify your pieces of cargo, but otherwise you would benefit from a tailor-made Nutritional Report. (see Questionnaire) Some factors are more commonly found than others. For instance, not everyone has low blood sugar (though many do), and not everyone has problems with stress, but a great many people have unsuspected problems with allergy – whether hidden sensitivities to food or to environmental substances such as bathroom toiletries or chemical smells. The one piece of cargo I have found in every single one of the hundreds of cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome I have come across is an overgrowth of the common yeast Candida albicans, which means that everyone with CFS/ME will benefit from following my anti-candida four-point plan, including my specific anti-candida diet. (see FAQs for Candida.) It’s very possible that in many cases the onset of CFS/ME occurred because the immune system was already over-stretched through trying to cope with invading candida. Bringing yeast overgrowths under control takes an enormous load off the immune system, allowing it to deal more efficiently with any other invader. Is it really possible to make a full recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ M.E. ? I would hate to build up a false hope in anyone but the fact is that I have seen very many people make a full recovery. In my ‘Beat Fatigue Handbook’, there’s a chapter called ‘’Now I feel Great!’ where several of my clients who have followed my full nutritional advice have written their own stories – and the next chapter includes my own story! And I’m talking about full recoveries – like the young man who spent his teenage years with M.E. but became well enough to go white water rafting in Turkey for his holidays! And the teacher who became so well that she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro! And two young women in wheelchairs who are now married and leading extremely active lives as mothers – one with three small children and the other with four! With so much encouragement, it has to be worth trying this nutritional approach – doesn’t it? Is there any scientific evidence that candida plays a part in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / M.E.? From July 2002 until December 2003 I ran a research project for which I was given approval by the South Essex Research Ethics Committee. The object was to gain evidence that a nutritional anti-candida approach, i.e. my own Four-Point Plan (see FAQs for Candida will lead to improvement in cases of medically-diagnosed C.F.S. / M.E. The report was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine in October 2005. It showed encouraging improvement in the space of one year in 83% of participants; one lady became 100% well in just eight months! Full recovery does not usually happen as quickly as that, but it has certainly been achieved in an enormous number of my clients. I started to follow your nutritional advice and thought I’d begun to improve but then I suffered a relapse, so I gave up. What went wrong? Almost certainly, nothing went wrong! Read my answers to the previous questions in this list and think about the various pieces of ‘cargo’ on your particular ship. This could well help you to discover what happened. For instance, did you experience some type of allergic reaction which increased all your symptoms again? Had your liver become log-jammed with toxins and needed more support? Had you been constipated and re-absorbed toxins from your bowel? Were you suffering from a fresh infection? (Did other family members feel unwell at the same time?) Had you been killing off candida too quickly and so experienced an increase of die-off symptoms? (see FAQs for Candida) I followed your nutritional advice for a year and then I felt so much better that I went Scottish Country Dancing for the first time in four years. It was wonderful! Then two days later I felt so ill that it was obvious I had overdone it and caused myself to have a relapse. Now what should I do? The first thing to do is to assure yourself that you are NOT having a relapse! To explain what I believe has happened, I need to teach you a little biology. All the toxins in the body are collected up in the lymphatic system where we don’t notice them too much, but it has to empty its contents into the bloodstream at the base of the neck – and that’s when the toxins do make their presence felt in terms of aches and pains and headaches and other unpleasant symptoms, until eventually they can be eliminated from the body. Unlike the bloodstream, the lymphatic system doesn’t have a pump so it has to find other ways of circulating the toxins and tipping them into the blood – and it happens with our own muscular movement. All the time you were really ill, you didn’t move about very much so the toxins accumulated in your body. When you felt well enough to go dancing, your muscular movements were pumping toxins round for all they were worth – with the result that you now literally feel ‘poisoned’ because you are living through the effects of all the toxins which are now circulating in your blood. Although this is not a pleasant experience, it’s most certainly not a set-back! Support your liver as it deals with all these toxins (see FAQs for Candida), rest up a little and grit your teeth till you come out the other side – because you will do, and when you do you will be feeling even better than you did before. But learn from the experience, and for the moment don’t try to be too active too quickly. You’ll get there in good time! Fibromyalgia is the term used for pain in the fibrous tissues of the body – muscles, ligaments and tendons. It was previously known as fibrositis in the belief that the fibrous tissues were inflamed, but more recent researchers have decided that inflammation is not necessarily present. Fibromyalgia is experienced as aches and pains in various areas of the body and might even be felt as ‘pain all over’. The symptoms are very much like the severe muscle pain that is experienced in a bad bout of flu, but whereas flu eventually comes to an end, fibromyalgia goes on indefinitely – sometimes for many years. Other symptoms besides muscle pain are usually experienced as part of the fibromyalgia syndrome, and the most common of these is fatigue – sometimes mild, sometimes so severe as to be incapacitating. In addition, there might be Irritable Bowel Syndrome, frequent migraines, multiple sensitivities, dizziness, sleep disorders, numbness and tingling sensations, poor memory and inability to concentrate. Triggers which are sometimes recognised as part of the scenario include infection, shock and the onset of certain health problems such as thyroid irregularities. However, information from the Fibromyalgia Network states that the actual cause remains elusive, and the various trigger events probably just awaken an underlying abnormality that is already present in the form of genetic predisposition – leaving the sufferer with the belief that little can be done beyond an acceptance of the situation. Against this negativity, however, nutritional therapy in fact holds out a considerable degree of hope, as the following comments will explain. Is Fibromyalgia associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E.) ? A list of the symptoms of Fibromyalgia reads exactly like those of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E.), and the diagnosis of one or the other depends solely on a particular doctor’s decision. What is more, the symptoms of both conditions read like those of severe candidiasis (yeast infection). At Nutritionhelp, experience very clearly shows that the approach most likely to be helpful for both Fibromyalgia and CFS/ ME is a nutritional anti-candida programme. Is there any evidence that candida plays a part in Fibromyalgia? Candida albicans is known to release a minimum of 79 toxic chemical substances into the bloodstream. When toxins reach the muscles, the result is pain. In addition, candida is known to release excessive amounts of certain organic acids such as tartaric acid. These, too, can cause muscle pain. Dr. William Shaw, in his work at Great Plains laboratories in Kansas, USA, has found that tartaric acid is invariably elevated in the urine samples of adults with Fibromyalgia. Another effect of toxins in the blood is fatigue, both physical and mental, together with poor memory and an inability to concentrate. They can also cause numbness and tingling sensations. Candida is known to cause a variety of intestinal problems, and is frequently associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. There are even more similarities between the symptoms caused by candida and those experienced in Fibromyalgia. Can anything be done to help me get over Fibromyalgia? By bringing candida under control, the level of toxins and excess organic acids in the body is reduced, and the symptoms they cause are overcome. In the process of following appropriate nutritional therapy to achieve this, steps are taken to counteract the effects of harmful acids, and also to improve the liver’s detoxification processes in order to speed up the elimination of toxins. (For example, a large percentage of people with high amounts of tartaric acid in their urine respond favourably to supplements of malic acid and magnesium). Low blood sugar is also prevalent in Fibromyalgia, and advice for this condition can be found in my ‘Beat Fatigue Handbook’ (White Publications). A tailor-made on-line Nutritional Report would advise on this and all other aspects of your health problems. (see The online Questionnaire and Report system) You would be strongly advised to follow the nutritional anti-candida four-point plan. You can learn about this from my ‘Beat Candida Cookbook’ (Thorsons) and from FAQs for Candida on this web site. It is necessary to take the process slowly as it is probable that you will experience an increase in symptoms in the process of destroying candida, because it releases even more toxins when it is dead than when it is alive – a situation known as die-off reaction. You will find advice in the ‘Beat Candida Cookbook’ and in FAQs for Candida on how to minimise this die-off effect. If you would like more personalised advice, why not consider registering for a detailed on-line Questionnaire so that nutritionhelp.com can prepare you a tailor-made Nutritional Report? You will almost certainly not experience an overnight improvement but, with determination and perseverance, in time you can hope to overcome the painful and debilitating symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Don’t give up, even after a few months; it might well take longer. But many sufferers, by persevering, have found that they could one day emerge free of their pain and fatigue. You really have nothing to lose! Print this page
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