Fighting Fatigue Guide

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The 3 proven fatigue-fighting strategies. Some of these strategies offer an instant energy boost - just in time to shine for the 4 o’clock meeting. They require a bit more patience, but they’ll pay off big-time in the long run. Once you’ve mastered these energy-boosting strategies, any one of them can make you feel like you’ve just had a tune-up.

Energy Boost #1: Reach for energy food
You may be thinking “candy bar!” but a sugar boost will just leave you lagging again in an hour. For a nearly instant energy boost that lasts, eat a healthy snack containing protein and a complex carbohydrate.

Energy Boost #2: Get moving
For an instant energy boost, drop out of your busy life for 10 minutes and hit the road - or the hallways of your office. Walking is an energizer. Even a 10-minute walk can help you overcome feelings of fatigue.

Energy Boost #3: Take 5 and Meditate
Numerous studies have demonstrated the fatigue-fighting effects of meditation, but there’s no need to light candles, sit cross-legged, or learn a mantra. Mini-meditation can work wonders. A three-minute meditation is a way to calm you down and stop rushing.

Fibromyalgia is an illness often misdiagnosed by medical practitioners. Identified as “chronic fatigue syndrome,” or “chronic myofascial pain syndrome” and many other names. Study shows that 5-6% is suffering from this condition. Majority of this ailment affects women of all ages. Patients who experience this syndrome is complaining of deep aching, stabbing and shooting pains all over their bodies. Some are even experiencing numbness or morning stiffness and discomfort. Fibromyalgia is a disorder that needs complete bed rest. Treatments for this includes regular physical activities, proper diet, enough rest and vitamins rich in C and E. Once, you have experience a troubled pain, it is advisable to consult a physician as early as possible.

The reason for the comparison (lest our hunky jocks complain to be likened to grand-folks) is that the calcium leaking out of muscle cells – something that is prone to both athletes and the elderly. According to physiologists from the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, this process weakens muscle force and it activates protein-digesting enzyme that damages muscle fibers which may eventually cause feelings of extreme fatigue.

The study also says that,

“People with chronic heart failure are subject to this same kind of muscle leak and damage constantly even without doing any exercise,” Marks said in a statement. “One of these patients’ most debilitating symptoms is muscle weakness and fatigue, which can be so bad they can’t get out of bed, brush their teeth, or feed themselves.”

Source: United Press International

Japanese researchers from the Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Soiken Incorporation, Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, and Osaka University of Foreign, Study report that supplements of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) may actually boost physical performance and ease fatigue related to exercise. CoQ10 has vitamin-like properties but cannot be classified as such due to the fact that it is naturally synthesized in the body. According to the study, intake of about 300 milligrams of CoQ10 in eight days can result to a decreased recovery time and even feelings of tiredness.

NOTE: As this is part of scientific research, please be advised that you seek the advice of a professional before taking CoQ10.

Source: Nutra

There is actually a research that focuses on fatigue and interference with a person’s body clock. Apparently, drastic changes in body schedules, such as profound loss of daytime energy, can be considered as a symptom of chronic fatigue.

Thomas Birchler, co-lead researcher from the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland says that the research could be relevant to further studies regarding the relation between the immune and the circadian systems which could eventually lead to a better understanding of daytime fatigue and how it could be treated.

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