CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS)
NAMETAG DIAGNOSIS
The state of chronic fatigue, in
a sense, is molecular quicksand and entrapment of energy and detoxification enzymes within
whirlpools of misdirected electromagnetic and electron transfer events that deplete the
sufferer of all their energy. This is the essential nature of the syndrome. The tissues
are being beaten like the proverbial dead horse. Treatment with drugs buries the
unfortunate patient deeper into this quicksand. Most important, people who suffer from
chronic fatigue, and develop multiple immune deficits that almost always precede chronic
fatigue, need to become aware of the unrelenting state of metabolic burnout of their
energy and detoxification pathways. Tissues are severely fatigued because they are being
relentlessly punished.
People who suffer from chronic fatigue describe their suffering in many
ways. Physicians who treat chronic fatigue with drugs use many names for it. Physicians
who have written about chronic fatigue have been a creative lot. When we do not understand
what ails our patients, we usually are quite ingenious in expressing our ideas. For
chronic fatigue there is a large menu of terms to suit all tastes. These are terms that
say absolutely nothing. These include:
YUPPIE SYNDROME
Yuppie Syndrome is a diagnostic label for chronic
fatigue that many practitioners of drug medicine adore. We can suppose that they feel it
relieves them of any responsibility to help these people.
SHIRKER'S SYNDROME
Sometimes after the label Yuppie Syndrome became
a legitimate medical diagnosis, a problem arose: What do we call patients who suffer from
Yuppie Syndrome who are not Yuppies? Some brilliant diagnostician rose to the occasions.
He introduced the term "Shirker's Syndrome." Why not be succinct and clear? If
someone shirks work, why not call him a shirker? And why not call the syndrome Shirker's
Syndrome? The term Shirker's syndrome is clearly pejorative, unless of course, the
physician using it definitely knows everything there is to know in the matters of health,
energy and disease, and he is certain that the patient is a liar beyond any shadow of a
doubt.
ALL IN THE HEAD SYNDROME
Until some years ago, the all-in-the-head label
was a convenient medical term we relied on to disguise our ignorance of the true nature of
the clinical problem we did not understand. The term was especially useful when the
patient did not have the courage to challenge our judgment.
NEURASTHENIA
It is easy to put things in the medical
literature. It is extremely hard to take them out when they become obsolete or irrelevant.
A New York physician named Beard popularized this term at the turn of the century. He was
a neurologist and his choice of this diagnostic term reflected his intellectual basic. His
Neurasthenia became a popular diagnosis, and the role of weakness of the nerves became the
prevailing 'cause.'
THE DEPRESSION FATIGUE SYNDROME
Clearly, antidepressants have a place in the
management of chronic fatigue. Of course, it is never the treatment for this disorder.
Antidepressants cause fatigue as a major side effect. Furthermore, such drugs work by
blocking certain enzymes or impairing normal neurotransmitter functions in other ways. As
much as they are useful for temporary symptom suppression, they will only compound the
problems over the long haul. Worst of all, prescriptions of antidepressants rob the
patient of valuable time that must be devoted to the nutritional, environmental and
stress-related issues that create massive overload of aging-oxidant molecules. What it
requires is a holistic approach that is not designed to merely suppress symptoms.
CHRONIC
FATIGUE CAN BE REVERSED through: choices in the kitchen, oral nutrient and herbal
protocols, intravenous nutrient therapies, and restoration of injured energy enzyme
pathways.
