Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 On the other hand, having hyperflexible joints may be a forewarning of chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition thought to be caused by a virus and characterized by excessive fatigue, weakness, muscle pain, and sometimes fever. A higher incidence of hyperflexible joints has been seen in both young people and adults with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Two potentially serious but often undiagnosed genetic conditions that are frequently associated with joint hypermobility are Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Marfan syndrome. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The above two—especially the first one—are Teitelbaum's classic books on the subject of treating fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome in an integrative, holistic way.
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Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D.
Teitelbaum is the go-to guy for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (FMS/CFS). He's an M.D. who himself came down with FMS/CFS in medical school and is the leading expert on integrative protocols for fibromyalgia. He's the author of a groundbreaking study showing that FMS/CFS patients can have an average 91 percent improvement rate with an integrated treatment protocol. |
Tom Bohager
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 Fibromyalgia is very similar to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); the only difference is that a diagnosis of CFS requires complaints of fatigue, while a diagnosis of fibromyalgia requires musculoskeletal pain.
Enzyme therapy can be used to reduce inflammation, support the body's digestive and immune systems, and balance the pH levels to support overall health.
See also chronic fatigue syndrome. |
Jack Challem
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 When we give speeches and talk about food addictions, one or two people invariably come up afterward to say they
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Overcoming a Soft Drink Addiction
Melinda, in her late forties, had long suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, but she had enough enthusiasm and nutritional support to keep the disease from dominating her life. The one nutritional problem she could never seem to address was her love of soft drinks.
She was, in fact, addicted to soft drinks and for most of her life had consumed about three cans daily. Dr. |
Ron Garner
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 Roberts6 showed that artificial sweeteners containing aspartame, sold under various brand names, cause Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, plus a host of other disease and dysfunction symptoms. This is because the aspartic acid and phenylalanine in artificial sweeteners are neurotoxic without the other amino acids found in protein. They cross the blood brain barrier and deteriorate the neurons of the brain. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 For instance," Peter continued, "consider chronic fatigue syndrome and many other of those so-called 'mystery' diseases. Perhaps we will never find a single or even a host of physical mechanisms for them. Perhaps the real causes are at the level of energy and information fields. That's what we are thinking; it's what the matching tests are telling us is possible. For instance, take multiple sclerosis, or really many of the degenerative nervous-system diseases. I have found that one of the Energetic Terrains may affect the outside of the axon in the Schwann cells of the nervous system. |
| The likely cause: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This is an uncertain diagnosis, not a clear-cut disease but more an identifiable constellation of symptoms with no known cause. It was designated a specific medical condition only in the early 1990s. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 I have found natural hormones to be a great benefit and often a cure for many conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome, PMS, endometriosis, infertility, headaches and migraine headaches, recurrent infections, fibromyalgia, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's, and other autoimmune disorders. It is rare for patients with any of the above conditions not to show significant improvement in their conditions after after balancing the hormonal system with natural, bioidentical hormones. |
Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N.
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 HUMAN ECOLOGY BALANCING SCIENCES (HEBS) MAESTRO2 The book Allergies and Candida with the Physicist's Rapid Solution has several chapters on self-help exercises which are particularly helpful for people with allergies, Candida, chemical sensitivities, and chronic fatigue syndrome. We reprint here one that benefits the heart by integrating and strengthening it. The exercise is called the HEBS Maestro and involves a movement that musical conductors (who in many cases live to old age) do regularly.
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Tom Bohager
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Individuals with hormonal imbalances such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia need extra support to maintain optimum levels of health. Optimizing the endocrine levels in the body can have the benefits of improving memory and concentration, rejuvenating the immune system, increasing overall energy, and feeding and fortifying the hypothalamus. This may also prove beneficial for individuals experiencing fatigue who have not been diagnosed with the above issues. |
| Depression may be caused by stress, nutritional deficiencies, allergies, thyroid disorders, sugar, a battle with a serious physical disorder, or chronic fatigue syndrome. Some people also become more depressed in the winter months when there is less exposure to sunlight. It is estimated that seven million Americans suffer from depression each year and more than eight million Americans take antidepressant drugs. |
| In circumstances when the immune system is compromised, EBV can become reactivated repeatedly, compromising and disrupting immunity, which can lead to other disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia.
Recommendations include optimizing and supporting the immune system; viral detoxification with a high protease enzyme formula; establishing a healthy, well-balanced diet; eliminating food allergens that tax the immune system; and getting appropriate sleep and exercise. |
| Sometimes it is misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or other (mainly autoimmune and neurological) diseases. Lyme disease is considered one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States.
The first symptom of this condition is generally the appearance of a rash and a red papule on the skin a few days following a tick bite. |
| These include obesity, skin problems, chronic fatigue syndrome, immune disorders, asthma, some forms of cancer, and of course digestive diseases such as colitis. Dr. Cutler's treatment approach incorporates her profound knowledge of both conventional and natural healing.
KAREN DEFELICE, MS
DeFelice has a master's degree in science and has written two books, Enzymes for Autism and Other Neurological Conditions and Enzymes for Digestive Health and Nutritional Wealth. |
Mark Sircus
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 Reduced responsiveness is an essential feature of chronic fatigue syndrome: an fMRI study. BMC Neurology. 6: 9 doi: 1186/1471 -2377-6-9
6 Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Medicale, Faculte de Medecine, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Anesthesiology 2002 Mar;96(3):627-32
7 For more information, go to: http://altmedicine.about.eom/od/chronicpain/a/back_ pain_2.htm
8 Post herpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a complication of acute herpes zoster infection (HZ), characterized by severe constant pain and disturbances of the sensory nervous system in the skin area initially affected by the infection.
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Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Prior to therapy she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and was treated with various drugs. But the fatigue was a memory, which could only be treated with memory—going back to where it all started and feeling the fatigue in context. Then her vital signs came back to normal, as did the energy levels. This didn't happen after one session, but after many.
Just as conventional psychotherapy ignores the organic disposition of the brain, there is a converse problem in some circles of medicine where health problems are reduced purely to brain function, disallowing any psychologic factors. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Stress is a huge emotional burden, so it is no surprise to find that many common stress-based disorders such as PMT, eczema, acne, psoriasis, chronic fatigue syndrome, digestive disturbances, insomnia, sinusitis, headaches, muscular aches and pains respond well to aromatherapy. Stress is also a trigger for asthma, so aromatherapy can play a part in its treatment too.
The antifungal and antibacterial properties of essential oils also supply the asthmatic with protection against airborne viruses and bacteria. |
Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N.
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| Various people have healed environmental illness and chronic fatigue syndrome through strictly physical means, such as nutritional and environmental changes, or by treating a parasite infection, a Candida overgrowth, and/or other gastrointestinal imbalances.
• It is our observation that the nervous systems of these indiviuals can be profoundly affected, be it from chemical toxicity, emotional stress, the onset of a transformative spiritual evolutionary process, or some combination of these factors. |
| There was truth and simplicity in the notion that recent epidemics of complex, new disorders, like environmental illness and chronic fatigue syndrome, were related to a global tranformational process. The prospect that all of the Earth's people would someday recognize the power of their thoughts to create their reality suggested an astounding, worldwide metamorphosis was possible.
July 1993 marked three years from when I became trapped in environmental illness. I again went to a workshop, this time with Patricia. We spent three-and-a-half days in Maine studying with Vywamus. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Not only that, they have delivered no cures for Alzheimer's, diabetes, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, heart disease, strokes, dementia, osteoporosis, or kidney disease. In fact, after decades of research and tens of billions of dollars in funding, conventional medicine has cured nothing!
What have the scientists been doing all this time with all this money? Members of the public are running around in circles raising money, funding the "race for the cure," dumping their hard-earned cash into a huge financial black hole of so-called research. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Teitelbaum is an expert in pain management, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and many other topics. Thanks for joining me today.
Jacob Teitelbaum: Mike, great to be with you.
Mike: Pain is an issue that affects millions of Americans, and unfortunately they tend to rely on over-the-counter drugs that can cause gastrointestinal distress and prescription drugs that have certain inherent risks. You say there's an alternative, a natural alternative, for pain control and relief -- and long-term solutions for this.
Teitelbaum: Absolutely. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 But one can diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or its less severe counterpart, idiopathic chronic fatigue (ICF), without any such abnormalities. If the doctor knows the requirements for diagnosing either of these, he or she may go on to make one of those diagnoses.
For Muscle Aches and Joint Pain
Let's say you are another twenty-eight-year-old whose illness started with a fever, a sore throat, swollen glands, and body aches. Eventually the symptoms of a potential infection—fever, sore throat, and tender glands—go away, and you're left with continuing achiness. |
| In time, the medical profession should come to understand more of these hard-to-diagnose syndromes, providing a template for medically unexplained illness: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and others. For some people the cause may be psychological, but not for others. And regardless of what is causing these ailments, people with these symptoms will still be suffering and in need of treatment. As I will make clear throughout this book, helping patients deal with suffering is the job of the doctor. |
| In our work on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), we have found patients to have problems processing complex information. Finding such a problem can be useful in substantiating insurance or disability claims. In fact, because patients are often aware of this, some do not try to do their best on the tests. This leads to real problems because the neuropsychologist has ways to measure mental effort objectively and because the insurance companies reject disability claims for any patients who make less than a full effort on the tests. |
| If everyone making such a decision answered yes to this question, then only 3 percent of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) would receive the diagnosis of SD. But if these same physicians and psychiatrists happened to conclude that CFS symptoms had no medical explanation and were due to psychological factors, then 97 percent of patients would receive the diagnosis of SD. Now, all of a sudden, a treatable physical illness will be dismissed as "nothing wrong," and you may be told just to "tough it out. |
| Among these illnesses were chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia (FM). The existence of the old idea of hysteria enabled many doctors to conclude that the illnesses didn't really exist. Or, more precisely, even if doctors allowed that CFS and FM existed, they could still argue that these were not diseases in and of themselves. Instead, they were functional disorders related to hysteria: they were all in the patient's head.
Over the years, the idea that these disorders were manifestations of hysteria waned and was replaced by the concept of somatization. |
| It turns out that it's normal for your temperature to be lower than 98 degrees at certain times of the day, and body temperature in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients is no different from that of healthy people. We might know this if we were used to taking our temperature all the time, but of course we don't; we take our temperature only when we feel sick. If you found a temperature of 97.5 degrees in your current health state, it may have startled you, but it is not abnormal. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Thus, there are lowered oxygen levels as expressed through chronic fatigue syndrome, for example, and many phenomena governed by brainstem functions, such as butterflies in the stomach, dizziness, spaciness, and a vague terror. All of the visceral reactions can be included here. Those reactions are controlled by our primitive or ancient nervous system. When terror is set down early, the fetus or newborn has no cortical capacity to dilute its impact. The nature of deep terror is so profound that in the reliving it decades later, it is only possible to feel it for moments at a time. |
Mike Adams
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 Now for those who want to be free of chronic fatigue syndrome, I highly recommend the book The New Detox Diet by Elson Haas, M.D. Dr. Elson Haas is one of the doctors and authors I respect the most. His new detox diet can help you completely eliminate these toxic, addictive substances such as sugars, caffeine, artificial sweeteners, and nicotine from your daily diet.
The diet will also help you get into the healthful food choice habit. Once you do, you will find that the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome tend to disappear. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Teitelbaum is the go-to guy for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (FMS/CFS). He's an M.D. who himself came down with FMS/CFS in medical school and is the leading expert on integrative protocols for fibromyalgia. He's the author of a groundbreaking study showing that FMS/CFS patients can have an average 91 percent improvement rate with an integrated treatment protocol.
Although he no longer treats patients as a physician, he now does life and wellness consulting in Kona, Hawaii, where he helps people from all around the world get a life they love! |
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