John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz

The results of an Australian survey of more than 1000 women aged 18-54 showed that over 800 of those surveyed say tiredness and fatigue are affecting their lives.

The study conducted by Newspoll released April 14, 2008 surveyed women about the degree to which fatigue affected relationships, work and socialising. The results were astounding – and would suggest about 4.5 million Australian women are affected by tiredness. This would translate to tiredness affecting about 500,000 Kiwi women. Most disturbing, was most just accepted that it was part of life and did not seek help to find causes and possible solutions.

Certainly my observations are that increasing numbers of women and men complain of feeling abnormally tired. If you are tired, the very first thing anyone should do is to get a full medical check. While in many cases there may be no obvious medical cause – it may be something as simple as an iron deficiency.

Over the last 15 years I have spent a great deal of time looking for solutions for those who suffer excessive tiredness with no underlying medical condition. One of the very best examples is that conducted by a team lead by Martin L. Pall, Professor of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences at Washington State University. Martin and his team effectively identified the cascade of faulty cycles of cell dysfunction behind the serious problems of Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and associated conditions.

In my experience the worst thing to do is to try and second-guess which nutrients may be needed. I much prefer to cover as many nutritional bases as possible – with an intensive period of micro nutrient supplementation for three months or so before dropping to a maintenance pattern. The intensive stage will focus on nutrients that help with energy conversion and also those that help protect these important yet vulnerable processes. The maintenance programme is typically based on broad spectrum micro nutrients and essential fatty acids.

So if you are tired, the first thing to do is to eliminate the possibility of an underlying medical problem and then pay attention to improving cell function by adding the micro nutrients so essential for normal healthy energy levels.

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