Why You Are So TIRED (It’s This Deficiency)

There are many possible reasons why you feel tired all the time. It’s important to identify and address the root cause, not the symptom. Find out how to boost energy naturally by addressing the most common chronic fatigue causes at the source.

Today, we’re going to talk about fatigue. A lot of people are tired, but you have to realize that fatigue and being tired is a symptom. It’s not the root cause. And so, if you treat the symptom, you’re never going to get better. And this is why so many people taking the energy drinks and trying to stimulate their body with more caffeine, they just make themselves worse.

If you can identify the root cause of your fatigue, you can easily get rid of it. All right, number one, let’s talk about insomnia fatigue. Now, there’s many different reasons why people can’t sleep. Maybe they’re getting up several times a night urinating. Maybe they have sleep apnea where they can’t breathe.

Maybe they have cramps in lower calves. Maybe they have restless leg syndrome. So, the problem with not sleeping is that it’s going to really affect the cognitive function, especially if someone’s talking to you. You’re going to have a hard time keeping your attention because the cognitive function’s not there. The other thing you should know about a lack of sleep is it really in a severe way affects your blood sugar.

So, you’re going to want to snack more. You’re going to crave the wrong foods. For insomnia, you want to go for long walks every single day without your cell phone in nature. And I find that I can sleep much better after a long walk. Before bed, I would highly recommend doing a lot of stretches.

I would also keep your lights dimmed very nicely. But the worst thing you can do is snack before you go to bed. So, you have to eliminate that. Let’s go to number two, blood sugar fatigue. If your blood sugar is going up and down and up and down, you are going to be tired, but not for the reason you think.

It’s really because your cells are starving for fuel despite having a lot of food available. If you just take a look at a diabetic, what is a diabetic? It’s someone who has high blood glucose. But the problem is that glucose becomes very unavailable to the cell. That’s why a lot of diabetics are tired because you develop this resistance to sugar.

That’s called insulin resistance. It’s the resistance to insulin. And of course, the resistance to glucose, which is the fuel that’s supposed to give you energy, you can’t get that in. So, you’re literally starving to a certain degree of fuel. You definitely will feel a need to take a nap about 2 hours after you eat, usually because you’re eating sugar or hidden sugar as starch like pasta, rice, bread, things like that.

The simple solution for this one is just to completely cut out all the carbs. And so, you just really need to go low carb and then not eat so frequently. So, in other words, just avoid the snacks and you will find that your energy will just come right up. Number three, slow thyroid fatigue. People that have a hypothyroid condition are going to be tired.

Why? Because the thyroid hormones, specifically we have T3. So, T4 converts to T3. T3 is the active form. T3 goes into your mitochondria.

That is the energy factory. And it controls the number of mitochondria and the amount of ATP, which is the energy currency of the body. And so, certain things will be turned off and just the necessities will be on. Your body might turn down temperature, so you have cold feet because that takes a lot of energy to heat the body. 90% of hypothyroidism is autoimmune.

Usually people know when they have a thyroid problem, but selenium is for the autoimmune thyroid and usually iodine and zinc are for a non-autoimmune thyroid problem. Next one is histamine fatigue. Now, histamines are a neurotransmitter. I’m not going to get into the woods with it, but all you need to know is certain populations have more histamines and that can be aggravated by certain foods that you eat and that’s going to overstimulate your brain and make you tired. This type of exhaustion is going to be more of like you’re irritated and you’re tired.

You can’t relax, but this is more like an allergy fatigue. You might have a thicker heavy sinus issue. You might also feel like your blood pressure’s too low and you definitely can’t sleep. The foods that are high in histamines like cheese, smoked meats, fermented foods, unfortunately, all of these foods will make you tired after you eat them. So, a lot of people ask me, what supplements do I recommend?

Now, of course, I’m not biased with my own high-quality supplement line, but if you go to Amazon and type Dr. Berg supplements, you’ll find more information. Next one, number five, is latent virus fatigue. Certain viruses go into the body and they don’t actually die. They go into a dormant state.

That’s called a latent state. So, with a latent virus that gets reactivated, you’re going to get a draining of your immune system, which is going to be very tiring. Definitely you’re going to have post-exertion fatigue, usually 24 hours later. So, you worked out today, you might even feel fine, but then tomorrow you just feel like, “Oh my gosh, I’m just like completely exhausted. ” What’s going to activate this is some type of stress.

Other things that can bring it on are low vitamin D levels. Eating too much junk food can do it. So, with this one, I always tell people you must do something to reduce your stress. Whether it’s going on vacation, a lot of vitamin D, you need to take at least 20,000 IUs of vitamin D3. Make sure it comes with the vitamin K2 and magnesium.

Number six, salt and potassium deficiency fatigue. What’s interesting about salt or let’s just say sodium, okay, and potassium is that there is a pump in your body called the sodium-potassium pump that actually helps you generate voltage and electricity to power the nervous system and the muscle. So, if you’re deficient in either sodium or potassium, you’re going to be tired, especially in your muscles. You’re going to lack that get-up-and-go, especially if you do any type of exertion. Why?

Because you no longer have the charge in your battery. Your battery is dead. And this is why when people take more potassium, they have all this energy. Usually between both of these, a person’s usually more deficient in potassium than than salt unless they’re on a ketogenic diet, in which case when you go low carb, sometimes you flush out your salts and you need to increase your salt or you’re going to get keto fatigue. And with keto fatigue, you’re going to feel weak and when you take that salt, boy, it just perks you up.

But typically because people require so much potassium, way more than salt, like 4,700 mg, usually people just aren’t consuming that much. They’re probably not eating four or five avocados a day or big salads. So, by taking more potassium, whether from food or an electrolyte drink that’s high in potassium, you can dramatically increase your energy. And the other thing you need to know is when you’re consuming a lot of refined carbohydrates, you’re depleting your potassium right down to zero. Next one is number seven, low oxygen fatigue.

This is fatigue that comes from anemia. Now, there’s a couple different kinds of anemia. You have iron deficiency anemia. You have low B12. If you don’t have enough iron, if you don’t have enough B12, protein in your blood in that red blood cell cannot carry oxygen.

So, if you can’t have oxygen, then the last step of making energy in the mitochondria can’t work. In many cases with anemia, unless you are a female that is menstruating losing blood, that’s when I would give that person iron from red meat or liver to liver pills. Most people with anemia are lacking copper. That’s right, copper because copper helps regulate iron. But I’m just bringing this up because it’s not just a simple answer of just take more iron to get