Chronic Fatigue
Next to anxiety and pain, perhaps the most common
complaint we hear from our patients concerns fatigue
and a lack of energy. This problem can have many
causes, including hormone imbalances, sleep
disorders, poor nutrition, chronic stress, anxiety,
and/or depression, and even various kinds of
infections, including yeast infections.
Each of these causes will be discussed as we add information to this website. To begin, we'll start with perhaps the least recognized and most common cause of fatigue (as well as anxiety, panic attacks, and a host of other symptoms): systemic yeast infections.
These result from overuse of broad spectrum antibiotics and other medications that destroy friendly as well as unfriendly organisms, thus leading to opportunistic yeast infections that colonize in the GI tract. In addition to robbing your body of glucose (yeast eats sugar), yeast metabolism releases many toxic by-products including acetaldehyde which can dry the skin and cause hair loss when it infiltrates the hair follicles.
Most people with systemic yeast infections don't know they have them, although they are well aware of their fatigue and associated symptoms related to low blood sugar and aldehyde toxicity (such as headaches, allergies, odor sensitivity, anxiety or panic attacks, "brain fog", gas and bloating, coated tongue, etc.).
To find out if you have a systemic yeast infection, and to find out more about them, click here.
Each of these causes will be discussed as we add information to this website. To begin, we'll start with perhaps the least recognized and most common cause of fatigue (as well as anxiety, panic attacks, and a host of other symptoms): systemic yeast infections.
These result from overuse of broad spectrum antibiotics and other medications that destroy friendly as well as unfriendly organisms, thus leading to opportunistic yeast infections that colonize in the GI tract. In addition to robbing your body of glucose (yeast eats sugar), yeast metabolism releases many toxic by-products including acetaldehyde which can dry the skin and cause hair loss when it infiltrates the hair follicles.
Most people with systemic yeast infections don't know they have them, although they are well aware of their fatigue and associated symptoms related to low blood sugar and aldehyde toxicity (such as headaches, allergies, odor sensitivity, anxiety or panic attacks, "brain fog", gas and bloating, coated tongue, etc.).
To find out if you have a systemic yeast infection, and to find out more about them, click here.