Did you know that food allergies cause a lot more than sniffles and a red nose? Food allergies can also be related to chronic fatigue.

I found this out the hard way. No matter what I did, I was tired. The only time I wasn’t tired was after a nice warm shower, which invigorated me for about an hour.

The rest of the day, I was so sleepy I would nod off in class, while driving, while watching television, while studying and sometimes during dinner.

The last straw was when I fell asleep at the Phantom of the Opera right there in the theater. That’s when my boyfriend said I better get to a doctor. He believed something was wrong.

How The Connection Of Food Allergies And Fatigue Is Made

Well it took several doctors to find that there was a connection of allergies and fatigue. The good news is that now you don’t have to go through skin scratch testing to discover allergies.

You can do an ELISA test which tests for a food reaction that causes the immune system’s production of cells to increase dramatically.

Another test, called the ALCAT test, measures the immune system reaction at the very start, even before the IgG or IgE cells have a chance to multiply.

Food Allergy Test Results

I’ll never forget the day I received my allergy test results. Since I had my test done back in the 1990s, it was an ELISA test. However, now I would prefer the ALCAT test.

Anyway, on that day, the doctor gave me a list of all the food allergies I had that were contributing to my tiredness.

I had asked him, can allergies cause fatigue, and he confirmed that it can. But tiredness is only one of a long list of problems that are related to allergies.

Here’s a short list of other problems that food allergies can cause:

• Low blood sugar
• Unexplained fatigue
• Chronic tiredness
• Dark shadows under the eyes
• Depression
• Infertility
• Diarrhea
• Dizziness
• Stomach upsets
• Yeast infections
• Headaches
• Unexplained crying
• Skin rashes
• Skin breakouts
• Aggressiveness
• Constipation
• Feeling sick after eating
• Vertigo
• Bloating
• Other infections

The list could go on and on.

What Happens In A Food Allergy Reaction?

What happens when you have food allergies is that as soon as you eat a food you are allergic to, the body’s memory cells remember that the food you ate is one you are sensitive to.

The body then gears up production of the memory cells and gives them the command to attack.

So what is really happening is there is a major war going on inside your body. The immune cells are involved.

If the food is still in your intestine, then the site of the battle could be your intestines, leaving you with tiredness from the food allergies as well as constipation, bloating or diarrhea.

If the food particles have been broken down by digestive enzymes, the remaining particles that cause allergy are now in the bloodstream, headed for the different organs.

Let’s say those particles make it to your weakest organ, such as your joints. Your joints may have been weakened from old injuries.

Then the battle starts in your joints and all types of inflammatory cells are brought in to clean up the mess of the dead cells. Just like what happens when there’s a battle in the real world.

Whatever organ is involved will cry out that it is being attacked. That’s how you know where the battlefront is.

In my case, I had battles going on in my joints, in my brain, and in my vertebrae that had been damaged by car accidents in the past.

I was a mess! I had no idea that food allergies and fatigue were so related.

Food Allergy Guidelines To Eliminate Fatigue And Other Symptoms

I had always associated food allergy symptoms with symptoms my brother had, like red eyes and sniffles. But now I knew the truth. If I had fatigue, it was from the food allergies.

My doctor said I had 23 different food allergies; allergies to grain, milk, sugar, beef, carageenan, apples, oranges, egg, yeast, almonds, strawberries, and other foods I didn’t eat much.

He said I had to follow certain guidelines to eliminate the allergies and fatigue.

Here are some of those guidelines that eventually made me healthier:

1. Don’t eat the foods that you are extremely sensitive to.

2. Rotate the remaining foods in the diet. A food will stay in the body for four full days, so you can’t repeat a food more than once every four days.

3. If you have a reaction, stop it with Alka-Seltzer Gold.

4. Figure out a way to stop your desire for the foods you are allergic to.

How Fast Before Improvements Are Seen?

When I started following the guidelines, I noticed immediate improvement in four days.

The brain fog I had lifted. My joints felt normal again and there was no inflammation in my body.

I can’t stress enough how good I felt when the inflammation lifted. The allergies and fatigue were being eliminated.

The crying after eating milk products went away. I had been like a Jekyl and Hyde and eating anything with milk in it.

You could hide the milk in a food and use me as a test to detect milk in that food. One hour after eating a food with milk, I would begin to cry for no reason at all.

The doctor told me that the milk triggered a reaction in my brain that turned on the tears. As amazing as the body is to do that, I knew the body could also heal.

My weight normalized and 20 extra pounds fell off without any work. I ended up having so much energy that I could work for 14 hours a day without tiredness.

Finding the answer to my question, can allergies cause fatigue saved my life.

To find out more about tiredness, see the ebook, End Tiredness Program. You’ll be glad you did.

Excessive tiredness takes a toll on your body. If you are always tired, you may look in the mirror and see someone who appears exhausted, unhealthy, and older than your chronological age.

It might be more than your appearance that is off. Perhaps your chronic exhaustion has left you unwilling or unable to enjoy any aspect of your life. This can depress you and make you feel even older.

The secrets to increased energy and youthfulness may have eluded you so far, but feeling younger and more energetic is not as difficult as you may think. In fact, some techniques are simple and easy to do.

The following methods are just two of many easy ways you can regain the energy you have lost and begin to feel young again.

Find the Proper Ph balance

Ph refers to how acidic or alkaline a substance, including your body, is. This may sound like a complicated concept from science class, but it is very important in regards to beating chronic tiredness and retaining the vigor of youth.

Put simply when a person is healthy and his or her body is functioning properly, the person is maintaining a Ph that is slightly alkaline, or around 7.4 to be exact. The Ph scale runs from 1 to 14. Anything under 7 is acidic, while anything over 7 is alkaline (exactly 7 is neutral).

People with a healthy Ph level are typically full of energy. Furthermore, their bodies can easily renew and repair which helps fight the effects of aging.

On the other hand, people who are chronically and excessively tired are known to have Ph levels that are very acidic. Maintaining an acidic Ph level causes many complications in your body. It prevents your hormones and enzymes from functioning properly.

Even more critically, acid binds to every cell in your body making them rigid and unable to adapt to change. In this case, red blood cells cannot flow as easily so they are less able to provide your body with necessary nutrients and energy.

It also becomes difficult for your tissue cells to regenerate and divide into new cells. Your body must work very hard just to maintain itself at subpar levels. If tissue is damaged, it can be almost impossible for your body to make needed repairs.

If your body is too acidic, it has to expend enormous energy just to survive and there is none left for you to perform your daily tasks. This leaves you with excessive tiredness among other health problems.

The obvious solution is to reduce your acidity by raising your pH so that it is at the proper, slightly alkaline level. This is difficult to do if you eat a “typical” highly processed, white-flour, white-sugar diet.

Many common foods can lower your Ph and make it too acidic. For example, instant, boxed, premixed, and otherwise processed foods are typically full of acids that lower your Ph to unhealthy levels. Products made from bleached flour or sugars are also high in acid. This includes many pastas and breads.

Substances like alcohol and tobacco can also produce acidity. Your body will also become more acidic if you are overly stressed and do not take time to relax.

There are supplements you can take that will alkalize your body, but these are short term solutions. The best solution is one that involves natural methods.

Relaxation will help your body stop producing acid-forming toxins. Changes to your diet, such as eating more fresh vegetables and fiber-rich fruits, will also help you balance your Ph.

Unprocessed or “raw” dairy products like milk and yogurt are very beneficial. Many herbs and spices, like oregano, sage, and parsley, can effectively balance your Ph and bring you out of the acidity range. Remember, a healthy Ph is slightly alkaline.

Even sweets like honey and raw molasses can help your body become less acidic. If you take steps to naturally lower your acidity, you will find that you can overcome chronic feelings of excessive tiredness.

Change Your Mental Outlook

It may seem hard to believe, but your mind has a great influence on your level of energy. Your body is a complex machine and your mind controls it.

Your mind regulates adrenal gland function which releases adrenaline. It also controls your metabolism, which converts food into energy, and it affects other hormonal processes as well.

Therefore, if you are not staying mentally healthy your body will not be able to provide you with the energy you need to stay invigorated.

In many cases, your psyche or mental outlook plays the biggest role in determining your mental health and level of energy. Fortunately, you can control your mental outlook.

In fact, making positive changes to your mental outlook may be the easiest thing you can do to improve your levels of energy and overcome chronic tiredness.

The increased energy you achieve from overcoming lack of sleep by eliminating anxiety and thoughts that are keeping you awake is a great example of how your mental outlook can make a difference. As you already know, not getting enough sleep is one of the main causes of chronic tiredness.

Furthermore, not getting adequate rest can prematurely age you, causing aches, pains, and other health problems that affect your mental outlook.

If you are very tired, not being able to sleep may become very frustrating. However, if you let this frustration affect you negatively you may be making your problem worse.

When you prepare for sleep or are lying in bed, it can be easy to let your frustrations regarding lack of sleep overwhelm you. You may be thinking “I’ll never get to sleep” or “I’ve been lying here for hours and I am still awake.”

Unfortunately, this kind of negative thinking will only compound your problem. You will become agitated and sleep will continue to elude you. However, if you use more positive thoughts you will find them to be more effective.

If you say to yourself “I am going to sleep well tonight” and “I will wake up refreshed in the morning” it will help you relax. Your mind will be able to move past your frustration more easily so that you can actually get to sleep.

An overactive mind is also one of the excessive tiredness causes because being consumed with thoughts is agitating. This agitation will put stress on your body that will increase your tiredness.

However, if you teach yourself to focus on relaxing thoughts, such as a dream vacation or a favorite slow song, you will be able to push these racing thoughts out of your mind so that you can focus on accomplishing positive things during the day and sleep well at night.

This positive outlook technique can be applied in other areas to help you feel more rested and more youthful. You may already know that exercise is a key component to feeling younger and less tired.

However, many people let their psyche undermine their attempts to exercise. Saying to yourself “I am too tired to work out” will make you lose motivation and may cause you to give up on exercise. But saying “I am going to have a great workout and feel better” will give you the extra boost you may need to exercise effectively.

More Expert Help to End Tiredness and Feel Younger

These are just two techniques used to end your excessive tiredness. There are also many other aspects of your life that you can modify to increase your energy levels and feel young again.

The trick is to become an expert and thoroughly understand the factors that affect tiredness, how they apply to your body and lifestyle, and how to overcome them.

The e-book End Tiredness Program is a great tool you can use to finally beat your tiredness and begin to feel reinvigorated. The End Tiredness Program expertly addresses the many different factors which influence your body and cause extreme fatigue.

It offers substantial solutions to each of these problems in simple, laymen’s terms. The program is easy to follow and you can use as many of the techniques or as few as you need to find your unique solution.

Before you know it, the End Tiredness Program will have you feeling energized and youthful once again.