Chronic fatigue is a milder form of what’s known today as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Fatigue and severe fatigue have plagued humans for many centuries. Cultures have defined fatigue by many different names as was fashionable at the time.

During the latter part of the 1800’s the condition of fatigue was named “neurasthenia.” This was the main descriptive term. The condition was associated with numerous symptoms which defied providing an easy classification.

By the first World War, chronic fatigue was a common complaint in Europe and North America. Medical concepts have evolved since that time in an effort to understand the underlying causes of these conditions.

The late 1800’s name of neurasthenia encompassed many diverse symptoms. That gradually gave way to attempts to define the condition more narrowly and provide specific names:

* Fibromyalgia

* Post-Viral Infectious Fatigue

* Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

* Fibromyalgia

Unfortunately, the Medical Establishment has been unable to understand and define any of the causes of these different conditions and, therefore, there is no effective treatment available for the millions of sufferers.

Yet, all of the these conditions share the similarity of a constellation of symptoms:

* fatigue

* muscle weakness

* depression

* pain

* pain

* balance difficulties

* balance difficulties

* inflammation

* balance difficulties

* and many other debilitating symptoms

For the vast majority of people who suffer from the many different symptoms, medical tests can’t find anything wrong. Blood work, X-Rays, MRIs and other medical tests including physical exams turn-up nothing out of the ordinary.

The Specific Causes of All Forms of Fatigue Remain a Mystery to Modern Medicine

The best that anyone can say about this whole syndrome of chronic fatigue is that it arises because of multiple agents acting at the same time. Naturally, this befuddles medicine who is used to the idea of “one cause/one disease.”

Since the medical community has no solutions for dealing with fatigue, many people are turning to alternative therapies and ideas. Medicine shouts not to do that because, they argue, these therapies are unproven. The alternative arena has treatments that work but it is also populated by marketers who don’t provide effective solutions.

I believe the alternative choices that are available provide effective and useful therapies. You need to make sound choices and you cannot expert support from your doctor. Workable solutions include:

* appropriate exercise

* the judicious use of diet

* the most appropriate diet is low-carbohydrate

* yet this diet is maligned by the medical community

* the use of selected vitamins, minerals, and herbs

* unfortunately, the public is not trained in choosing these

* of course, medicine knows nothing of this due to its reliance on drugs

I have seen many people overcome their suffering from chronic fatigue but not because of medical treatment. Even the medical community understands that it has no effective therapies. This point is published in many medical journals.

The medical community/business has a long history of putting-down any therapies other than those they support. This is particularly true when it comes to acupuncture, homeopathy, and nutritional supplements. Yet, it these same therapies that offer the only hope that people have who suffer from chronic fatigue.