CHRONIS FATIGUE SYNDROME: EPIDEMIC

CFS, or ME or Epstein Barr virus, as it is otherwise known, is spreading. More and more people are enduring the unrelenting tiredness, depression, muscle pain, joint pain and often headaches and symptoms of fever it brings. This is not surprising given the dramatic increase in allergies since the massive industrialisation that’s taken place in the West since World War II. The consumption of sugar and white flour (both of which promote Candida yeast infections) has risen dramatically and our air, water, and food has become significantly chemically polluted.

Candida infection promotes our sensitivity to these chemicals which in turn lowers our resistance to the more common allergies of dust, dust mite, moulds, pollens, grasses, cats, dogs, feathers and foods. Often its the chemicals in the foods we’re reacting to rather than the foods per se. All the evidence suggests that CFS is on the increase in direct line with the increase in the number of allergy sufferers appearing in the statistics. The official allergy sufferer count is 45 per cent of the population, though most doctors and naturopaths agree its closer to 60 per cent.

Most of these allergy sufferers are suffering from varying degrees of CFS. Many of those with mild to moderate CFS didn’t even know they had it until their allergies were treated and they experienced a sudden rise in energy levels. They were so used to feeling below par they thought it was normal. Many a time I’ve had a patient remark to me, ‘I had no idea how tired I was,’ or, ‘Now I’ve got something to compare it to, I don’t know how I got by on my previous energy levels.’

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