Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Body’s Mystery Disease

For most of its short history as a disease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was ridiculed by the medical community. Understandably for those suffering from the affliction this rejection often caused depression. As the medical community now understands it, these feelings of dejection actually helped to perpetuate the disease by further depleting the individual’s immune system. A deficient immune system is one of the main causes for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Symptoms are the Key to Diagnosis

There are two main reasons CFS has been so elusive to pin down. First CFS manifests itself a little differently within each individual. No two people suffer alike. The second reason it’s difficult to discern CFS is because there are no diagnostic tools for the detection of the disease. For years doctors have used a set of symptoms to figure out if a person has the disease. It is generally agreed that if the individual has six of the following symptoms, for at least six months, they have CFS.

Water: Nature’s Elixir To Optimal Health

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Water is essential to our health. When the body lacks water, maintaining the blood becomes a priority over the cells. The body will allow cellular damage to occur before the viscosity of the blood is permitted to be lost.  When it comes to water distribution, the brain is the most important because it contains the highest concentration of water (85%), and for the work it executes as controller over bodily functions.  So losing out on hydration is possibly the worst thing you can do to your body.

Water performs many vital tasks within the body, like breaking down food particles, running the body’s hydroelectric pumps, removing toxins, cooling and carrying nutrients to cells.  Without water the body simply can not perform its necessary functions, and vital processes will shut down.  You need to know when your body is dehydrated and work to counteract the problem.