If you have tiredness and fatigue and can’t seem to get a good night of sleep, it’s pretty important to consider your circadian rhythms.

Circadian rhythms is a big term if you haven’t heard it before.

This is a scientific term that means a natural rhythm occurring in your body every 24 hours.

Four Criteria For Circadian Rhythms

A circadian rhythm has four characteristics:

1. The rhythm has to repeat itself every 24 hours.

2. If you are in a new environment, the circadian rhythm must still repeat itself.

3. If you are physically located in a different place where the light and darkness cycle is different, your body’s natural rhythms will try to reset themselves.

4. No matter what the outside temperature is in the environment, your body still has these natural circadian rhythms.

The question you may be asking yourself is what is it that these rhythms are for and what do they do?

Your body can have circadian rhythms for sleeping and waking, thirst, eating (appetite), and body temperature. In other words, at a certain time of the night, you will get tired, no matter what.

At a certain time in the morning, you will want to get out of bed. At a certain time of the day, you will be hungry or thirsty.

And at a certain time of the day–two hours before you wake up–your body temperature will be the lowest it’s been all during the 24 hours of the day.

How Your Body Uses Light And Dark Cycles To Determine Circadian Rhythms

The reason why these circadian rhythms can work at all is that certain types of cells called ganglion cells in your eye are constantly detecting how much light is outside in your environment.

These ganglion cells work no matter whether you are blind or can see. The cells send a pigment called melanopsin to your hypothalamus, which then responds to the information it has received.

The hypothalamus is amazing in that it takes all the information on how many minutes of night light and daylight you get during the day and sends it off to your pineal gland. In response, the pineal gland secretes melatonin.

What Resets The Circadian Rhythms

The melatonin can help reset your circadian rhythms when they are out of whack. But even in this advanced technological age, scientists still can’t say how this is done.

More recent studies have found that lithium can help reset the genes related to circadian rhythms.

This is a particularly interesting fact since there are geographic areas in the world where high levels of lithium are found and other areas where low levels of lithium are found in the soil and the water.

For example, parts of Texas are found to have high levels of lithium and correspondingly, there are low rates of depression there. Whenever a person has depression, he or she will usually have fatigue and tiredness as well.

In Oregon in the U.S., there is a river called the Lithate River, which contains high levels of lithium in its water. People visit this river from all parts of the world to feel better.

It’s a known fact that if the hypothalamus is destroyed, you will not ever be able to set up a natural sleeping and waking cycle. But those who are fatigued don’t usually have this problem.

What Do Circadian Rhythms Have To Do With My Fatigue?

How this relates to your fatigue is in this way: If you are staying up long past 11 p.m. with artificial light on, the cells of your eyes are detecting this artificial light as light from the sun.

You may be able to stay up until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. working but all those extra hours of work have offset your circadian rhythms. Soon it becomes difficult to adjust to normal waking hours.

Here’s an example. Pilots are in a profession where it’s quite easy for them to change time zones during one long flight. They fly long hours as well. They can experience jet lag, lots of fatigue and insomnia.

This same fatigue and insomnia can also be felt if you aren’t a pilot and are traveling outside two time zones from your origination point.

When pilots have disturbed circadian rhythms, it can be quite dangerous since no one really would want to be on a plane where the pilot is fatigued.

Reaction times would be slower than what they should be and he would not be able to make sound decisions.

Drinking several cups of coffee won’t be enough to restore the circadian rhythms; it will only lead to further adrenal exhaustion.

It’s the same thing for you. You end up with tiredness, fatigue, inability to make decisions and even personality disorders when you don’t get normal sleep cycles. All this is because your circadian rhythms need to be a certain way.

How Can You Help Your Body Reset The Circadian Rhythms?

One Harvard researcher found that the circadian rhythms really are set to a very narrow range: Your body operates on a 24 hour 11 minute cycle plus or minus 16 minutes.

Your rhythms will always fall back daily to reset themselves to the same cycle of the Earth’s rotation. That’s where they want to be and they’re quite stubborn about you trying to change them.

So the best thing you can do if your sleep cycles are off is to give yourself about three weeks to get back on track.

You could even take melatonin as a supplement (usually 2 mg to 5 mg) to try to reset the cycles faster than doing it on your own.

When your body has normal circadian cycles, it’s entirely possible that your fatigue will be gone.

Too much compassion? Someone could have too much compassion?

Sure. It happens all the time, mostly in women. Women who have too much compassion may love people too much.

You’ve heard of women who love too much, as discussed by psychologists in their popular press books.

Oh, it’s bad to love too much, they say. You could “smother” those around you, loving them too much.

And then these same psychologists will attack the women who love too much and tell them they have a dependency problem. Does this drive you crazy? Or sound incorrect to you, maybe even unjust?

I mean really, all these women were doing were loving others.

You know what is said about those who attack others, don’t you? They are usually trying to hide something, some sin of their own.

Is it possible that maybe psychologists are trying to judge others too much – and everyone else – and not loving enough? Maybe that is the root problem of all this.

Researchers Start Studying Compassion Fatigue

Well, a research study was reported in a Chinese medical journal in June 2012 about compassion and coping strategies of hospital nurses in Taiwan.

These researchers must have picked up the same frequency as the psychologists about the idea of compassion.

They applied the theory of women who love too much to what was happening there in Taiwan and observed that it was possible for nurses to love too much – and develop compassion fatigue.

That’s a fancy term for fatigue because someone gives out too much compassion.

Their theory was that if nurses were exposed to trauma cases for long periods of time, they could easily get involved far too much in the patients’ lives. They would reach their tipping point by overextending their caring.

If they did this, it was possible that they would become unable to adapt and cope and their lives would go down the tubes as they began to suffer psychologically and physically. And then what would happen to the hospital?

Here’s What The Researchers Proposed For A Theory

The researchers projected that the nurses who cared too much would reduce their own quality of care they gave patients.

Next medical care costs would rise due to mistakes. And in the long run, nurses would leave the profession.

The researchers were really just spouting off in the research paper, discussing their opinions on the matter, and no actual research was started or completed.

That just means that you can expect research to occur in the next ten years.

They mentioned that the topic was already something accepted by the profession. Nurses themselves believed that it was possible to care too much for their patients.

Here’s What Nurses Do When They Care Too Much

Surprisingly, the nurses knew what compassion fatigue was and already had a strategy for it:

1. See what exactly is occurring in the nurse’s situation and evaluate it.

2. Talk with the nurse and have her adjust her attitude (a fancy way of saying stop caring).

3. Hold training sessions on the topic.

4. Increase support systems for the nurses who care too much.

But the nurses never addressed the physical and psychological consequences of the compassion fatigue. In fact, no one really has.

So no one really knows for sure that humans can truly care too much!

How To Determine Whether Or Not Compassion Fatigue Is Legitimate

It turns out that this is one of those topics that you really have to think through to see if it’s legitimate. Here’s one list of potential ways to think it through:

1. What else happens when someone spends time caring for another human being? What thoughts go through their mind? What feelings do they feel?

2. If someone has the potential to feel another person’s pain, then what becomes of that pain?

Does it get “stuck in the body” and block up the energy channels, causing fatigue? How could this be tested?

3. How can anyone draw the line and say, “You’re too compassionate! You must stop caring for the patients!”?

Who would be the judge of whether or not someone has no compassion, just enough compassion, or too much compassion?

4. What happens to a nurse’s heart and soul once she stops caring so much? Does a part of her die and her heart becomes hardened?

5. Are there spiritual reasons for not even thinking that compassion fatigue is an issue? Does the Bible say that we are to share each others’ pain and what exactly does that mean?

What do you notice in your own life? Have you cared too much for someone or your patients if you’re in the healthcare profession? Did you have to stop caring to continue on with your job?

Have you ever loved someone so much that it hurt when they passed away? Is this an instance of caring too much?

Certainly grief brings with it fatigue, thus compassion fatigue might be the label according to the psychologists.

Lots of questions. No answers. Time to decide for yourself on this topic of compassion fatigue. Is it real or not?

Vitamin C is generally associated with immune function not tiredness or vitamin deficiency fatigue.

But in a new study performed at the Department of Health Promotion and Human Development at the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, researchers have found another function of vitamin C.

It has to do with exercise. It has to do with the perceived amount of effort that you have to do when you exercise. It has to do with those who are obese. And it has to do with being on a diet.

What Do You Believe About Vitamin C And Fatigue?

Before you find out the results, take a moment to think about what you believe is true:

1. Do you think that exercise is required for effective weight loss?

2. Do you think that a diet is required for effective weight loss?

3. If you were overweight, would you feel fatigued already before you even got to the health club to work out?

4. Do you think that the vitamin C and fatigue connection would transfer over to what happens when you work out?

Some Known Facts About Tiredness And Effective Diets

The scientists knew at the start that exercise and diet helped increase the effectiveness of a weight loss plan. They knew that people who were obese actually don’t burn as much fat as their skinnier compadres.

And that obese people thought they were working out harder than skinny people during exercise – and that this could potentially affect how they work out.

Think about it. If you’re 75 pounds overweight, you probably:

• won’t move as fast as someone who is lighter

• would think that working out was an awful lot of effort and your body just doesn’t move as freely as it should, thus it is more difficult.

• would avoid exercise at all costs. (Unless something is imminent, why not just stay the way you are?)

The Vitamin C And Fatigue Study Design

Well the researchers found 20 obese adults and gave them either 500 mg vitamin C or a placebo daily for about a month. The study volunteers were on a diet and the only vitamin C in their diet was from the supplement.

The volunteers had to monitor their tiredness. And they had to walk on a treadmill for one whole hour at 50 percent of their maximum oxygen consumption level.

Bouts Of Tiredness From Thinking About It

I don’t know about you, but I myself would not want to be in this study. Walking on a treadmill for an entire hour! That’s boredom to me and causes tiredness just thinking about it.

Sure, the latest treadmills are a lot of fun compared to the old ones. The new ones have monitors where you can watch your progress, and even watch television. This makes the time go by much faster.

But the idea of walking for an entire hour and not going anywhere is what I can’t stomach. I’d rather be on a bike. What about you?

And then there’s the issue of how your feet feel during that hour. Do you have the right shoes and insoles? Without them, anyone would be a dead duck at about 20 minutes.

Unsupported feet are a sure way to increase tiredness, no matter if you have vitamin deficiency fatigue or not.

But once you support your twinkling toes and feet, then there is a a transformation that occurs. If your feet are supported, you feel supported and you can last longer – even on that treadmill.

The Vitamin C And Fatigue Study Results

Anyway, the researchers were really fascinated by the vitamin C and fatigue connection. At the end of the four weeks, they compared the two groups to see what really happened.

The group that got the vitamin C had heart rates that were 11 beats lower than those who didn’t get the vitamin C. Now this is a big deal.

If your heart rate is lower, you aren’t working as hard as someone with a higher heart rate – it’s a physiological fact. This alone is a big plus for the vitamin C and fatigue connection.

But there’s more. The group that received the vitamin C also reduced the perception of fatigue by almost six units. That’s a huge improvement since the control group only reduced theirs by about 2 units on the scoring scale.

That’s three times less tiredness. Pretty incredible.

You can read more about the study here:

Vitamin deficiency fatigue is a real issue. If you have a vitamin C deficiency, it can clearly affect how your body acts physiologically when you exercise and how you recover. There is a vitamin C and fatigue connection and it’s real.

Consider getting a vitamin C test ordered from your doctor. The blood test is pretty simple and even may be found online nowadays. One place you can find it is at www.lef.org under medical tests. The exact link can be found here.

In the meantime, check out the End Tiredness Program which is full of lots of great suggestions for improving your energy levels.

That cup of coffee might seem pretty appealing in the morning but did you know that there’s an association between caffeine and fatigue?

You might want to check out what I’m saying here yourself by keeping a Caffeine Fatigue Journal. Simply set up the pages like this:

1. Know Caffeine-Containing Foods

First review a list of foods that contain caffeine. Here’s a simple list to get you started:

What Foods Contain Caffeine?

• Coffee
• Black tea
• Oolong tea
• Milk Chocolate
• Green tea
• Cocoa
• Mochas
• White tea
• Dark Chocolate
• Protein Drinks
• Protein Bars
• Yerba Mate Tea
• Weight Loss Supplements
• Energy Drinks
• Espresso

Your best way to find out if caffeine is included in your foods is to read the labels and go online to see how much caffeine is included in each one.

Companies usually list this info, but it may be tucked away and you’ll have to dig sometimes to find it.

2. Set Up A Fatigue Measurement Scale

Next set up a scale for you to evaluate your caffeine fatigue.

Use a scale of 1-10, where 10 is that you are so tired you must go take a nap – or if it’s in the morning, you just can’t get out of bed. A rating of 1 means that you are full of energy.

3. Know What Time Of Day To Rate Yourself

You’ll want to rate yourself during the day at these times:

• In the morning when you first open your eyes
• One hour after breakfast
• One hour after lunch
• Before dinner

Use the scale of 1-10 to rate yourself each day.

4. Record Caffeine Foods And Beverages

Include what you ate and drank during the day as well, and especially write down the amount of the foods or drinks if they contained caffeine.

5. Note Differences

What’s really helpful is to then try to go without any caffeine for a few days and write in your Caffeine Fatigue Journal what happens. I think you’ll be very surprised about the results.

Caffeine And Adrenal Fatigue: The Connection

Caffeine – and coffee drinks or tea drinks – can be so loaded with caffeine that they cause the body to go into an adrenal fatigue state.

The association between caffeine and adrenal fatigue is a known medical association.

What happens is that the stimulation of caffeine and coffee on the adrenal glands revs up the gland so much that it puts it in overdrive. The gland then starts to wear out, and can’t keep up with the high demands on it.

The adrenal gland pumps out hormones to help you deal with fight or flight situations.

The longer your body registers a fight or flight situation, the longer it has to pump out these adrenal hormones.

Working Out Is A Fight-Or-Flight Situation Just Like Caffeine

It’s similar to you telling your body to work out not for one hour but 10 hours. How long do you think you could keep it up?

Not very long, because your body wasn’t made to do this. You need to have rest after a short fight or flight scenario. Working out is considered a fight-or-flight situation to the body, by the way.

Coffee Stimulates Catabolism

After you drink a cup of coffee or tea, the caffeine stimulates the production of epinephrine, which shifts the body’s metabolism to something called catabolism.

During catabolism, the body is broken down for energy. Nothing can be synthesized – no new tissues – during catabolism.

And if you can’t synthesize new tissues, you aren’t regenerating your body. Fatigue is inevitable.

When You’ll Feel The Caffeine And Fatigue Connection

The most likely times you will feel fatigue are the following:

• In the morning when you first wake up
• 1 to 1-1/2 hours after a caffeine-containing food
• After a day of consuming caffeinated foods

Caffeine Really Isn’t Your Friend

That protein or energy bar which contains caffeine really is a detriment to you. Maybe you like the temporary surge of energy but the results on your adrenals from the caffeine and adrenal fatigue connection zaps more energy from you.

Don’t think that it won’t get you. As long as you’re human, your physiology works like everyone else’s.

You might be healthier than most people so you don’t feel the crash so soon, but the caffeine is working on your body in a negative way on the molecular level.

And don’t think that you can handle xxx amount of caffeine each day. Caffeine is caffeine and it acts the same no matter what food it’s in.

Look for other stimulants besides coffee and energy drinks and chocolates and tea. Tea does contain less caffeine, but still caffeine is caffeine. Learning to live without it is really the best choice.

For more information on how to beat fatigue, see the ebook, End Tiredness Program. It’s full of lots of good suggestions on how to beat tiredness once and for all.

Exercise is a great habit but it’s the fatigue after exercise that people dislike most about getting a good workout.

This fatigue can range from doing a little yawning and feeling soreness in the muscles to having to stop the day’s activities and take a nap, then sleeping until the next morning.

What It Means To Be Tired After Exercise

The more exercise fatigue one has, the more it’s an indication of a few things:

1. You may be very much out of shape.
2. Your body is deficient in the nutrients that help prevent oxidation.
3. You’re hungry!

It could be a combination of all of these things, too!

Where Do You Get Energy From When You Work Out?

When first starting an exercise program, it’s imperative to keep your mind on the end goal: to be in shape and have plenty of energy.

The energy you’ll get from working out comes from a lot of different places:

• Toned Muscles Means More Energy

Working out, especially with weights is a way to tone up the muscles. Once the muscles have better tone, they don’t scream out to you to rest when you exert yourself just a little bit.

• Higher Self Esteem

Working out is great for self-esteem and you stand up straighter and slouch less. Slouching is one of the top ways to use up any energy you have and have fatigue.

• Endorphins Released

Working out releases endorphins, which are the brain’s happy chemicals. Just like the name says, these endorphins will keep you happy.

The happier you are, the less fatigued you will be. You’ll suddenly find energy to do things you haven’t done in quite awhile.

• Sharper Brain

Working out sharpens your mind, too, as the brain receives more circulation than before you began working out. It clears out the mind and helps eliminate brain fatigue.

There’s four good reasons that you have to think about how good it is to exercise, and stop thinking about fatigue after exercise.

But how will you cope in the meantime?

Beat Exercise Fatigue With These Recommendations

The answer is clear.

Follow the recommendations below and you’ll see how well these methods work to beat fatigue after exercise.

1. Up Your Vitamin C

One of vitamin C’s functions in the body is to eliminate – or neutralize the lactic acid that results after exercise.

Lactic acid builds up when you exercise and it’s responsible for you slowing down.

When runners run a marathon, it’s the lactic acid buildup in combination with the body converting over to burn fat that makes them ‘hit the wall’.

But the beauty of taking extra vitamin C is that the lactic acid is eliminated.

What that really means to you is that you won’t be tired after exercise or experience exercise fatigue.

The big question is how much should you take? Start with 500 mg vitamin C every hour after you work out. Take about 4 or 5 doses. This should allow you to wake up the next morning refreshed totally and ready to exercise again.

2. Vitamin E Beats Extreme Fatigue After Exercise

While you increase your vitamin C to beat exercise fatigue, it’s a good idea to balance out the vitamin C with vitamin E.

Vitamin E replenishes the vitamin C in the body, and helps beat oxidation. When you can beat oxidation, you can beat fatigue after exercise – and just ordinary tiredness, too.

Suggested dosage is 400 IU daily of alpha tocopherol (vitamin E) or a combination of tocotrienols.

3. Lots Of Enzymes From Fresh Fruits And Vegetables

When you increase your raw fruits and vegetables, you increase your consumption of natural enzymes that are in the food. One excellent way to get more energy and beat fatigue after exercise is to juice after you work out.

Here’s an excellent recovery formula that will help:

Carrot Apple Spinach Juice

2 carrots
1 apple, preferably red delicious
2 handfuls spinach

Directions

1. Wash all vegetables thoroughly. Remove the core and seeds from the apple and discard.

2. Juice through a juicer, starting with the spinach. If the spinach won’t juice that well, add a carrot simultaneously.

3. Mix and drink.

4. You can also make this drink in a blender as a smoothie.

4. Plenty Of Water

One of the signs of dehydration is fatigue and tiredness.

Some experts say that almost 90% of us all are dehydrated and the signs show up in different ways. Some people have random aches and pains in the body while others are overcome with pain.

One woman I know was taking up to 6 Vicodin capsules daily for body pain that prevented her from doing any housework at all. She never could even get to the point where she could work out.

When all she did was make a simple change of drinking water all day long, her pain dwindled to almost nothing.

She didn’t feel that it was in her best interest to stop the Vicodin completely due to the possibility of withdrawal symptoms but went down to only 2 capsules in 24 hours. And her regular personality came back.

If you’re going to exercise, prepare for it. If you have fatigue and tiredness now, give yourself a few weeks at working out to eliminate the tiredness. You’ll soon be a brand new you.

For more info on how to beat fatigue, check out the ebook, End Tiredness Program. It covers a lot more background on the problem and how to successfully beat it.

If you’ve ever wondered whether anemia and fatigue (or tiredness) are related, the answer is a big YES.

You could have anemia for months and not ever realize that you had it until you go to the doctor for a check-up.

A simple red blood cell count test will discover anemia and only requires a blood sample.

You could also have unexplained fatigue, anemia and tiredness but don’t find out that it’s anemia until you end up in a hospital with a diagnosis of internal hemorrhaging. The internal hemorrhaging is what causes anemia.

Did you know that anemia can also lead to heart disease and a coma? It can.

So anemia is no simple matter that can be ignored. If left untreated, you can die from a low quality and quantity of blood.

What Is Anemia Anyway?

Anemia, by definition is a reduced number of red blood cells. This reduced number results from a number of different scenarios:

• Internal hemorrhaging

• Loss of excessive amounts of blood during menstruation

• Iron deficiency

• Vitamin C, copper, or vitamin B6 deficiency

• Lack of intake of food and calories and thus, multiple deficiencies

• Weight loss surgery which affects absorption of foods in the small intestine

• Parasite infections

• Peptic ulcers

The parasitic infections cause anemia because parasites can be pretty aggressive and chew through tissues in the body, causing internal hemorrhaging.

Peptic ulcers are open wounds in the lining of the stomach, and bleeding is involved.

Iron deficiency anemia is most commonly associated with anemia although not all anemias are related to iron deficiency anemia.

Anemia Symptoms Go Beyond Just Fatigue

Other symptoms of anemia

All anemias cause similar symptoms, and the most common symptom is tiredness and fatigue. Anemia and fatigue go together hand in glove.

This anemia fatigue is not just the type of tiredness that results after a hard day of work.

It’s the kind of fatigue that makes it almost impossible to get out of bed in the morning to go to work.

Anemia can also cause these symptoms:

• Dizzy spells

• Sadness

• Pale skin

• depression

• Constipation

• Brittle nails

• Shortness of breath

• High heart rate

• Difficulty breathing

• Decreased resistance to disease

• Dull mental functioning (as if you have brain fog)

• Pica, the desire to eat ice chips, paint chips, pencil erasers and other inedible things

Fatigue Is Not Only Caused By Anemia

It’s important to realize that fatigue can be caused by anemia but it can also be caused by other things that are wrong with the body.

Here’s a short list of some of those things:

• Infection anywhere in the body

• Chemical exposure

• Heavy metal exposure

• Pain in the body

• High blood sugar levels

• Low blood sugar levels

• High blood pressure

• Heart disease

• Lung disease

• Burns or serious skin wounds that require healing

This is why it’s so important to get to a doctor to have your unexplained fatigue analyzed and the root of it uncovered.

While your doctor tests for red blood cell count, he will most likely also test for white blood cell count.

If your white blood cell count is elevated, it can mean that you have an infection. Infections cause tiredness although they may not be accompanied by anemia and fatigue.

A low white blood cell count may mean that you are deficient in vitamin C and other vitamins and minerals that help boost the production of white blood cells.

Low white blood cell count can also be related to anemia and fatigue, especially if an individual has not been eating a proper diet.

Anemia Treatment Is Simple

When anemia is the cause of unexplained fatigue, the reason why there is fatigue in the first place is that the red blood cells carry oxygen to every part of your body.

Without enough cells carrying the oxygen, you will be tired. If the cells don’t get what they need, they cry out for the oxygen and tiredness results. You get slowed down, no matter what you are doing.

Yet, the simple solution can be a blood transfusion if the red blood cell count is exceptionally low, lower than 8 mg/dl when the normal is 12-16 mg/dl. As soon as the IV starts bringing in new blood, the fatigue lifts.

When the red blood cell level is greater than 8, a doctor will send you home to start eating high iron foods, such as liver, spinach, beef, lamb, bison, buffalo, leafy greens like spinach, and different kinds of legumes such as black-eyed peas. Blackstrap molasses is also a good source of iron.

He may also give you an iron supplement that should be taken for three months. It takes a full three months to build new blood cells, which will then eliminate the anemia and fatigue.

Imagine what it will be like to have your tiredness gone! It’s like a breath of fresh air inside your arteries!

For more on tiredness, check out the ebook, End Tiredness Program.

It contains quite a bit of background information that can help you get down to the root of your tiredness.

Do you have unexplained fatigue?

If so, you may want to consider some military intelligence that links bad weather with not only fatigue, but also apathy, nausea, headaches, dizziness, water retention, allergy outbreaks, irritation, anxiety, depression, and even suicide attempts.

What’s In The Air? Positive And Negative Ions

You may already have noticed that you seem to feel worse before a storm hits your area, and better after that storm has passed.

Specifically you could feel listless and so tired you can barely move or motivate yourself to move no matter what fatigue supplements you take once a storm is on its way.

That’s because the air is filled with positive ions before a storm hits and afterward, the negative ions predominate.

In fact, it’s not just people in the U.S. who notice these changes.

Unexplained fatigue becomes understandable when you realize that almost every country reports that a certain type of wind – one with hot, dry air – carries positive ions over the land it rushes over, leaving the inhabitants tired and feeling poorly.

Here’s a partial list of some of those different winds:

California – Santa Ana winds
Canada – Chinook winds
Austria – Foehn winds
Australia – The Desert Wind
Argentina – Zonda winds
Israel – Sharav winds

In fact, one author, Fred Soyka, was so convinced that the positive ions of the winds of the Swiss Alps were responsible for ill health, especially unexplained fatigue, that he wrote a book on it called, The Ion Effect.

This book came out in the late 1970s.

The bottom line of Soyka’s book is that negative ions are associated with health. Positive ions are associated with illness and lack of health.

Russians Used Negative Ion Therapy Long Ago

The concept is nothing new to the Russians. They placed their Olympic athletes in environments high in negative ions back in the 1940s.

And why not? The athletes had ten times more endurance than in a normal air environment.

And that wasn’t all that they found. Imagine gymnasts who improved their balance and coordination skills by 300% and split second reaction time by100%.

Who could beat them with these superhuman scores?

The Russians had set up multiple negative ion generators wherever their athletes went to train.

The coaches made sure the negative ion generators were packed up with the athletic gear in the buses.

As long as they could get the negative ions pumped into the environment, simply breathing them in would allow the negative ions to diffuse into the rest of the cells of the body.

And when every cell was “high” on negative ions, fatigue was eliminated. And it was all legal.

Natural Highs From Negative Ion Therapy

This “high” on negative ions is not a bad thing like a high on drugs.

On the contrary, the high on natural negative ions is what happens when you go to the ocean and breathe in the amazingly fresh air. You feel great!

It’s the same as sitting beside a waterfall. The waterfall generates negative ions, and high levels are then breathed into the lungs, which diffuse into the body.

The skin also absorbs negative ions. There are specific ion channels for them to get into the body.

What Happens When Negative Ion Counts Are Low

Negative ion therapy has been reported in the medical literature for decades, especially in the area of asthma treatment. It helps asthmatics improve.

Many people are looking for reasons why asthmatics may suddenly go from being okay to having an asthmatic attack. The attack zaps their breath and causes a lot more than fatigue.

What scientists found was that it was important to consider the negative ion theory.

When positive ions are high in the air, it’s more probable that asthmatics will have attacks.

It’s also probable that those people who have violent outbursts will have them when the positive ions are high.

Animals can also become more aggressive when the positive ions are high and the negative ion count is low.

The U.S. military discovered that if a negative ions generator or ionizer is used in the cockpit, pilots won’t suffer from fatigue. And like the Russians, their reaction time will improve.

Negative Ion Therapy Could Include Water Treatment

Some people have gone to the point of adding more negative ions to the water they drink.

In this negative ion therapy, the concept is the same: if you favor the negative ions in your water over positive ions, you will have health.

Since water is the solute that the whole body is made of and just about everything in the body dissolves in water, ionizing it can bring about an increase in health and thus energy levels.

Try Negative Ion Treatment For Yourself

You can do a simple negative ion therapy treatment session and see what happens to your fatigue. This is recommended, especially if you have unexplained fatigue.

Borrow a negative ion generator or ionizer from a friend and use it every day for a week. See what happens to your fatigue.

If positive ions are affecting you and causing your unexplainable fatigue, the negative ion therapy will lessen your fatigue.

You could also simultaneously drink water that has been ionized, but remember that the body is made of up to 75% water, which takes a lot of new ionized water to hydrate it properly.

It’s easier to just breathe in the negative ions. And banish unexplained fatigue for good.