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About CFS treatment
Chronic fatigue syndromes (CFS), including M.E., can have a huge impact on someone’s life. In many ways it is still poorly understood, but it appears that there may be many causative or contributory factors including: infection, allergy, toxin and pesticide exposure, stress, micronutrient deficiency, mitochondrial failure and gut dysbiosis. Whatever someone’s health needs, our Balanced Medicine approach looks at all areas of someone’s health, life and environment, and this same philosophy is applied to patients who have a chronic fatigue syndrome. A particularly exciting new area of intervention in CFS is in dealing with mitochondrial function deficits nutritionally, and this area is addressed separately.
A detailed history is very important in CFS, and many of our patients have nutritional and mitochondrial function blood tests, with other tests also being useful for some patients.
A programme for someone with CFS might include:
- Nutritional and antioxidant supplement support
- Specific mitochondrial function supplements
- A low allergen diet
- Detoxing
- Reducing chemical and allergen exposure
- Pacing
- Treatment to address gut dysbiosis
- Progressive counselling
- Meditation Foundation
- Natural healing
- Allergy desensitisation
- Hormone imbalance investigation and treatment
Specialists in Allergy, Nutritional and Environmental medicine have been treating patients with chronic fatigue syndrome successfully for many years. However, the relatively recent introduction of mitochondrial function testing has really taken the management of chronic fatigue forwards. A scientific rationale for the use of these methods is presented in a paper by Dr Sarah Myhill, which is available as a pdf download from the attachment menu on this page.
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