A long sought possible diagnostic marker for this illness may have been found, in this case in 83% of the sample.
I read somewhere that fermented foods work better than probiotic pills.
Mmmm...unfiltered beer.
Last year I was plagued with recurrent infections.
I ended up with several hospital stays and IV antibiotics.
Follow up included extended use of oral antibiotics as well.
To avoid intestinal problems I started taking probiotics.
I continued to augment with probiotic after the antibiotic courses were finished.
I am still taking them and I notice that if I miss even as
little as a week of the probiotic my energy level drops precipitously.
Thus it is easy for me to believe that a deficiency in
the proper microbe balance could cause serious fatigue.
BFL
Intestinal bugs!
It’s amazing how much Michele Akers accomplished as part of the US Women National Team over years, while combating cronic fatigue! She was a warrior!
Good info. So many conditions are affected (if not caused) by the gut bug population. So easy to remedy by feeding the bugs the probiotics they need, and helping the population along by eating things grown in healthy soil, by eating fermented veggies and other foods.
By the way, it might be interesting to note that some of the healthiest peoples of the world with great natural diets both plant and animal, actually don’t have “the most diverse” gut bugs. Like real life, it isn’t the DIVERSITY that counts, but the quality of bacteria themselves! :)
Caprylic acid.
Good info here.
KOMBUCHA
KEIFER
Jerusalem Artichoke powder
Chicory root powder
Didn’t somebody just name one of those things after Obama?
Parasites in all sizes are the Cause of leaky gut and such chronic conditions at FM/CFS, Crohns, IBS, etc...
Probiotics help, but you have to kill the dragons first. We have spent years taking expensive supplements and probiotics only to discover that we had illegal aliens taking everything from us, leaving only leftovers. Helminths love multi-B vitamins, especially B-12.
Go to www.humaworm.com and read the testimonials there with regard to FM/CFS.
We worm our dogs, cats, horses, goats....but do we ever stop to consider that we, who are at the top fo the food chain, never consider that periodic parasite maintenance might be in order?
I can say from personal knowledge that TBI causes MANY of the symptoms of CFS, including the gut ones.
Wouldn’t that lean towards a nervous system dysfunction?
Personally I believe it is the MSG and high fructose corn syrup, BPA, Soybean oil, enriched flour (fake flour), fake sugars, etc.
Whenever I eat food with these ingredients I get tired. I can avoid this by eating foods that hopefully do not have this stuff in it but products like MSG are known by over 100 names as the manufacturers know it is bad and so hide it.