The 10 Causes of Exhaustion (Fatigue) | DrEricBergDC

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let’s cover the 10 reasons why you might

be exhausted and i have a lot of

personal experience i was being

exhausted a good portion of my life and

i had no idea back then

but i’m going to share some of my

experiences with you in this video

the first and most important thing to do

when you have exhaustion is just to

you know kind of go back in your mind

and isolate when it started and then

take a look at what happened just before

that to get a clue was it diet related

was it stress related was there some

medication you got on and then then

you’ll know okay the real simple thing

that very few people do actually but

let’s take it from the top number one

medications have side effects there are

so many people out there right now on

medications that are tired that are not

connecting the dots in fact i don’t even

know of one medication that doesn’t give

you fatigue

or lethargy

or

some type of lowered energy as a side

effect okay they all

cause you to be tired because they

inhibit or stimulate um

neurotransmitters which are kind of like

hormone little communications in your

nervous system so especially if you’re

in antidepressants or anti-anxiety

medication or high blood pressure

medication

those definitely will make you

tired so find another solution i’m not

telling you to come off your medication

but get with your doctor and see if you

can

do something more natural because if

you’re trying to fix one problem and it

gives you another problem

it’s not worth it so

number two

fuel the fuel that you’re running your

body on is the wrong fuel you’re running

your body on sugar this applies to

those that are new to my channel if

you’re not new

you already know this but

burning fat fuel gives you a lot of

energy burning sugar fuel will make you

roller coaster with your energy and that

was me in my 20s

i was so exhausted i had no connection

it was related to my diet as i was

eating cereal and muffins and

orange juice in the morning

avoiding the saturated fat

pure carbs

and i had no connection i would in fact

my wife

and i would be driving the street and

we’d see a

health food store honey let’s go in

there and take some vitamins and come

out with all these vitamins

in hopes of raising or boosting my

energy well that never worked until i

finally stumbled across a book called

it’s called mastering the zone

and in the first chapter i was talking

about

insulin and

carbohydrates and i’m like why did i

miss this in

college

and i started to consume

more protein eggs and i’d cut down the

carbs and oh my gosh did my energy come

back

fast

and then i got really interested in the

subject and

doing massive deep dive in research and

here i am

okay and if you want that information

what to eat i put the link down below

number three

poor sleep

that’s a that’s a big one if you are not

sleeping through the night if you are

not feeling rejuvenated when you get up

then it could be

your stress level it could be something

you’re missing there’s a lot of reasons

i have probably at least 50 videos on

sleep i’ll put one of the best ones down

below

but if you’re low in vitamin d and low

in zinc

that right there will keep you from

sleeping and one little quick tip if you

take vitamin d3 and zinc right before

bed you may find that you sleep a lot

better right off the bat

of course you want to change your diet

as well

all right number four hidden infection

this happened with me

in high school i had mono okay that’s

epstein-barr virus

and so i had this infection it was

really bad my tonsils were completely

swollen and then later in life when i

went through a lot of stress

i had chronic fatigue syndrome and

fibromyalgia

that was that epstein-barr virus sitting

in the background

being reactivated okay being reactivated

by a stress state

so these viruses tend to go dormant and

then come out later in life not as a

full-blown infection

but as fatigue or achy joints or

flu-like symptoms

what happened with me is i really dealt

with

a major stress in my life at that time

and ridding the stress

caused that virus to go back on emission

because stress

activates cortisol cortisol

paralyzes

your immune cells your white blood cells

so cortisol will just shut down your

immune system the pathogens come out and

create

a lot of problems so

you have to handle this thing right here

to handle this

another time in my life i got lines i i

remember getting really tired just out

of the blue for no reason like why am i

so exhausted and then i looked in the

mirror in my back and there’s a bullseye

rash i’m like oh okay

so i started to take the antibiotic and

boy i did not feel good on that

it felt like my body was like the inside

was a wash machine

it’s like something is just not good so

i stopped that and i started taking um

a series of herbal things and i’ll put

the link down below of what i took

and that took care of those

symptoms and i got my energy back and i

to this day i never had a problem with

that

okay number five post covid

uh fatigue

um

a lot of people are complaining about

this i did a video on it what you need

is a lot of vitamin b1 because

this infection depletes your b1 and one

of the big side effects

is a lack of energy because your little

energy factories your mitochondria need

b1 to create energy so you need a lot of

b1 i wouldn’t take the synthetic version

i would take a natural version and you

will find that your energy goes up

people that have gastric bypass surgery

they’re usually low in b1 and they get

fatigue people that drink a lot of

coffee and tea through the day

are b1 deficient and then that can cause

fatigue and then the need for more

caffeine

all right number six

if you tried the ketogenic diet and you

get keto fatigue that’s merely

that you’re missing either electrolytes

specifically potassium

or b vitamins

the best source of b vitamins is

nutritional yeast unfortified and of

course the best electrolytes are of

course my own brand and of course i’m

not biased

but here’s the thing

with potassium every single cell has

this little

these little pumps are called sodium

potassium pumps okay and what they do is

they generate energy for the nervous

system and the muscular system

so you need a lot of potassium to run

that system because if you’re deficient

and especially if you add keto on top of

it the demand for these nutrients does

go up

which i’m not going to get into the why

but

just add these two things in here and

your fatigue will go away all right

number seven you can have anemia and

take a while guess what food has really

good amounts of b12 and iron red meat

that’s right red meat so taking these

two vitamins doesn’t always work just

simply because they might not be

bioavailable right so

if you switched over to a plant-based

diet or a vegan diet and you start

getting anemia

maybe that wasn’t the best solution in

the world

but so many people have this subclinical

anemia the other reason for anemia is

that maybe you are getting these two

nutrients but the stomach acid is not

strong enough

and so

what you need is betaine hydrochloride

okay simple remedy you take five betaine

hydrochloride before you eat and you

start acidifying the stomach now how do

you know if you need more stomach acid a

really good clue would be indigestion

acid reflux that’s right and if you have

those two symptoms or bloating

just try some betaine hydrochloride and

those symptoms will go away

because you might think that wow i need

to suppress the acid right no you need

to increase the acid so

if you

are on or were on

an acid okay

that could be causing you anemia because

it depletes the acid in your stomach so

that’s another mechanism of why people

are tired

number eight low thyroid can definitely

make you tired it could mean that you

just need a little bit of iodine or

selenium but

most hypothyroid situations are

autoimmune that’s number 10

where you have a lot of inflammation and

that can be causing the fatigue the

remedy for a hashimoto’s type thyroid

problem and

all other autoimmune diseases have to do

with taking more vitamin d3 and you want

to take no less than about

30 000 ius per day okay that is going to

help reduce the inflammation

and

increase your energy

i want to mention number nine

mycoplasmas what is that that is uh some

stealth microbe that is very small

bacteria that can hide in little calcium

igloos they’re called biofilms this can

occur for example i know like in like

the gulf war syndrome

this is really underneath that and so if

you have these

hidden infections

like oregano oil works good any of the

natural herbs like garlic thyme

sage and there’s a whole list of them

you can do as a natural way of

suppressing this as well as dealing with

this the stress here because these guys

can kind of come out when your cortisol

is too

high

all right i gave you a lot of

information i hope i didn’t overwhelm

you but i think the most important thing

to do now would be to implement a basic

eating plan that’s correct

and that’s why i put this video up right

here check it out