Is your tiredness driving you nuts?

Have you been to every possible type of doctor but no one can seem to find out what’s wrong with you and why you’re tired?

Sometimes this happens because doctors only get so much training and many of them specialize in one area.

That means they often end up missing the forest for the redwood trees. They don’t realize that it’s all the little birds in the forest that give clues to what’s wrong with you.

It’s time to start thinking outside the box and find some other reasons for your tiredness. Did you know there are two ways protein can cause you to have a case of serious tiredness?

1. Protein Allergy
2. Protein Deficiency

Protein Allergy Leaves You Saying, “Protein Makes Me Tired”

Well if you ever had allergies in the past, then perhaps you know that protein allergy can make you feel tiredness for seemingly no reason at all.

People are becoming easily allergic to peanut protein – and rates of this allergy are rising every year for some unknown reason.

Almost every food has proteins in it that can cause allergies. And many allergies will be associated with making a person feel tiredness from allergy.

You may have even said, “Protein makes me tired.” It’s not really the protein that makes you tired; it’s the protein allergy that makes you tired.

The allergy reaction is wearing on the body and brings you tiredness. The immune system cells are working overtime, and this is what pulls the energy from the rest of the body.

A protein allergy could be an allergy to milk, casein in the milk, eggs, beef, lamb, turkey, duck, chicken, capon, rabbit, bison, buffalo, pork, shellfish or fish.

In severely allergic people, the smell of the food cooking is enough to send symptoms. Severely allergic people could also react if a non-protein food is sautéed in a pan that previously cooked a type of protein they are allergic to.

It’s a life of walking on pins and needles because an allergic person cannot truly trust that those who don’t have allergies understand the severity of the problem.

How To Diagnose A Protein Allergy

The best way to determine whether or not you have a protein allergy is to order a test called the ALCAT test.

This test will analyze your blood for these allergies by adding the protein of hundreds of foods to the blood.

If there’s a clumping reaction in the test tube, there will be a clumping reaction in your bloodstream as well once the foods are eaten.

Once you discover what you are truly allergic to – proteins or other foods – then you can avoid the foods for a few months and see if this decreases your symptoms.

If you no longer say, “Protein makes me tired” anymore, then the break from the food helped eliminate the sensitivity.

Protein Deficiency Leaves You Tired

Protein deficiency doesn’t only happen in foreign countries where the people are impoverished. It also happens here in the U.S., in Australia, in the U.K., in Russia and even in remote island locations such as the Philippines.

When you think of a protein deficiency, you may think of the photos you have seen on television where the young children are very skinny and have big bellies.

This is definitely one of the signs of a protein deficiency, but it is generally a more advanced sign of protein deficiency.

With not enough protein, there isn’t enough muscle mass left on the skeleton because the muscle has been used for energy. The belly is big for two main reasons

1. The protein contains sulfur which keeps away parasites – and since the children don’t have enough protein, they get parasites. The parasites fill up their belly.

2. When the body doesn’t have enough protein, edema or swelling will set in. The edema could be in the belly or in the other parts of the body.

The one characteristic of this type of protein deficiency is extreme fatigue, extreme tiredness. Protein is necessary in the body for synthesizing enzymes essential to metabolism and all biochemical processes.

Protein is also essential for synthesizing new tissues and cells of each organ. That’s why you see wasting as a result of protein deficiency.

But in developed countries, protein deficiency may look different. The person ends up getting wider and larger. This is because he or she is eating carbohydrates and fat to make up for a lack of protein.

Fat puts on weight. Carbohydrates cause higher amounts of insulin to be produced and insulin makes the body store fat and grow wider.

More people in the U.S. and other developed countries have protein deficiency than realize it.

Quite a few are on vegetarian diets that are really nothing more than a diet of carbohydrates and fat; this is why you will see overweight vegetarians.

How To Diagnose A Protein Deficiency

The best way to find out if you have a protein deficiency is to get a laboratory test for total protein and albumin levels.

If both are low, there’s a protein deficiency. And correcting it could be the end of your tiredness.

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.

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