| Constant fatigue and tiredness certainly forms a | | | | emotional stress, it's a recipe for exhaustion. |
| huge part of our daily lives, especially if you're a | | | | Did I just describe your typical day as a shift |
| shift worker. But what's quite disturbing, is that it's | | | | worker? |
| not just people who work crazy and irregular | | | | Now since tiredness can so frequently be |
| hours that are suffering from fatigue. In fact | | | | attributed to wrong choices, the good news is |
| fatigue and exhaustion has become so | | | | that you now know that you have complete |
| widespread amongst the general population, that | | | | control over your ability to beat this tiredness. |
| it's now become a global epidemic. | | | | And this is certainly a liberating thought. |
| So why is it that so many people today are | | | | So if you're sick of saying to yourself "... but I'm |
| suffering from constant fatigue and tiredness? | | | | always feeling so tired all of the time" - then you |
| Well to begin with, fatigue is not a disorder. It's | | | | simply need to make better-informed and sensible |
| often mistaken for one, but it is in fact, a | | | | decisions about everything that enters your |
| symptom. | | | | mouth, and the way that you choose to live your |
| You see, it may be a symptom of an underlying | | | | life. (I'm talking about keeping active here). |
| health problem such as anaemia, a sluggish thyroid | | | | Now I know that we don't always exist in an ideal |
| gland, adrenal gland exhaustion, or some kind of | | | | world, and there are often periods in our lives |
| viral infection such as glandular fever. (Which is | | | | when due to work, family or study commitments |
| why I certainly recommend you get checked out | | | | we work exceedingly long hours and lose valuable |
| from top-to-toe by a well respected doctor, to | | | | sleep. And this is when we really start to feel the |
| eliminate all of the possible medical causes). | | | | full effects of stress and anxiety. |
| But there are certainly many contributing factors | | | | Ironically, it is often at times when we really need |
| to fatigue including a lack of exercise, depression, | | | | to increase our nutritional needs, that our diet |
| dehydration, insomnia (well shift workers can | | | | becomes less than ideal, and we also tend to |
| certainly relate to this one), a vitamin deficiency, | | | | reduce the amount of exercise that we do. |
| or even multiple food allergies. | | | | Basically, we tend to do the complete opposite to |
| But, and it is a BIG but - persistent or even | | | | what we should really be doing. |
| intermittent tiredness that is not caused by any | | | | So if you're serious about wanting to recapture |
| underlying illness, is often simply the result of a | | | | your old self, or find a new and rejuvenated 'you' |
| poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle. | | | | - then you're going to have start to change your |
| And this is why shift workers are so vulnerable. | | | | attitude towards your current diet and lifestyle |
| Because if your diet includes lots of refined foods | | | | habits. |
| and stimulants, such as caffeine (which of course | | | | In most cases it's just a matter of making the |
| is found in coffee and all of those high energy | | | | decision to commit to this change, which is |
| drinks), mixed together with a bucket full of | | | | actually not as hard as you might think! |