ADRENAL & CHRONIC FATIGUE RESOURCE DIRECTORY

"The strongest have their moments of fatigue"
Friedrich Nietzsche

Doctors will say there is no known cure for CFS. According to the Mayo Clinic, "treatment is aimed at symptom relief and improved function." "A combination of drug and nondrug therapies is usually recommended." However, the most obvious reasons or pre-conditions, if changed, will eradicate the conditions the body is serving up. This website is dedicated to revealing true restorative strategies that in the long run benefit the client.

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
Vince Lombardi

STRESS FOUNDATION

Can we measure up to this expectation? For awhile but when reach into our 40s, The ability to push long hours on the job, exercise to exhaustion, party hearty, regenerate the next day and do it all again the next day, doesn't work the same way as it did in your early 30s. Add to that a familiy, marriage, kids, finanacial goals, and you have ongoing stress.

If one has a childhood history where excess stress and trauma occurrs then the person may become vulnerable to an intolerance to stress. This can show up later as hypervigilance or extra excitability. This pre-condition makes later stress more challenging. When a normal stress event presents itself then the psychic charge is more than doubled. This makes for an extra challenge. Even though, a lot of us are walking around with this experience, may have an opportunity for empathy and support, most will choose to suffer quietly and be left alone.

PERPETUATION OF STRESS - MIND-BODY-SPIRIT CONNECTION

In the present, when stress is experienced, the fight or flight response is more heightened as opposed to a neutral, thoughtful, analytical and non-reactive communication. With a habitual response of going beyond unrecognizable boundaries of energy reserves, eventually, the store of energy contained in the kidneys and adrenals becomes depleted. If the stressed person cannot stop themselves from running themselves down, then eventually, the body will give out in one of a multitude of imbalances:

• Chronic Fatigue
  
• Anxiety
  
• Allergies
  
• Panic Attacks
  
• Diabetes
  
• Cancer
  
• Heart disease
  
• Digestive Problems
  
• Insomnia
  
• Spasms
  
• Tremors
  
• Paralysis (one side or both)
  
• Emotional/Mental Imbalance
  

Many people, from my observation, continue in their burnout behavior, even though, they are becoming symptom and disease ridden. This strongly suggests that there is an additional psychic-spiritual component. In the past, a key person said something to wound the person and that keeps him or her locked into the destructive demeanor. The pattern is very similar to an addict who can't stop the dependency behavior on the drugs and lifestyle. In similar fashion, The person cannot stop the energy depletion cycle:

• stay up late and burn out their adrenals
  
• eat a diet that keeps them up at night and breaks down their digestive balance
  
• career-work behaviors which exacerbates the body's energy deficiency syndromes.
  
• take on more family resposibilities beyond their current physical capacity
  

After studying and writing on these conditions, I have determined that these imbalances are truely diseases of living in a modern civilization:

diabetes, chronic fatigue, anxiety, menopause/andropause, heat attack, stroke, cancer, obesity, arthritis, MS, shortened life span, etc.

The underpinning is an irrational spiritual conflict. People are caught in the belief they must continue in behaviors that sacrifice the body. They believe they have to work harder to be secure. But instead of making themselves secure, they do the opposite. They wear themsleves down til the adrenals/kidneys run down. Then, all the organs stacked above, that depend on the energy provided by them, start failing. The heart skips beats, we feel anxiety or palpitations. The liver is weak and so blood isn't filtered, the stomach hurts with nausea, gall bladder problems, then all the organs become undernourished. In this general, weakened, sluggish state, there is no wonder, we are overwhelmed and lost, as to which way to turn. Some will say to themselves, "I have to go harder!", when the body is screaming, "Stop, take care of me!" Other voices have become too loud to hear yourself think and feel.

Analogy: Your body is like a car. Remember when you were driving your car and your car was almost empty of gas. You looked around for gas and could not find a station. So you went further, and now your car was running on gas fumes and vapor. The car starts to sputter, it jumps, accelerates and slows down, back and forth. You hope you can make it to the filling station. But you don't make it and your car stalls. You now have to walk down a dark road to rent a gas can and then walk it back. You put the gallon in. You start the car and it takes awhile for the gas to start. Gas is finally going to the engine, You flood it with too much gas. You have to wait for the gas to subside. Then you start without gas. Then it goes. But not for long because you have to stop to fill the car up. Fill it up and now you are on your way.

As with the car, we have to learn not to go too far or we will get stranded or exhausted. And when we do get some energy, we have to go slow at the start until we have enough energy to run. We have rebuild our energy reserves and maintain it.

Some come into the world knowing how to maintain their natural energy, whereas some have to learn how to do it, while others play Russian Roulette with their it.

Our Environment of Stress

• We believe we must be the steady rock or be strong for everyone else. The result is we drain our reserves.
  
• Our boss and jobs expect us to give everything.
  
• We have to have the bigger house or 2 houses.
  
• Then the domestic engineers take on too much because the other spouse is felt to expect it.
  

Couple this with our poor nutritional food from all the grocery stores, our immune systems can't defend us. The food that is grown in longevity pockets of the world, does not require pesticide, mineralization, hormone, etc. All waste material is put back into the soil for natural fertilization. All their crops are not vulnerable to any disease. They defend themselves from insects without being stressed. The result is the peple's immune systems are stong and rarely sick, living the longest on the planet. What do we do with our waste? Our waste goes through waste disposal, plumbing, sewer and into the ocean. Natural vitamins, enzymes, minerals gone by the millions of pounds per year. Now, we are getting sick, can't defend against disease. The antibiotics are not enough. The herbs work because they are loaded with nutrients supplied from other countries. But for how long before our technology takes over those countries? Everything is globalizing. Not long. Unconscious natural extermination. Whoa!

The end to this exhaustion syndrome will come when the sufferer seriously matches the problem(s) on a body-mind and spirit level. The wounds need attention from:

• Medical professionals: doctors and ancillary staff are valuable for diagnostics and making recommendations per symptoms. Patient management and direction can be valuable when the practitioner is aware of the options that best match the patient's needs. Some clients want pharmaceutical and/or 100% natural formulations.
• Chinese Medicine Herbalist: The physical wounds may be better served by a seasoned Chinese medicine master herbalist who can communicate comfortably in the client's language. Though they cannot diagnose, they can assess according to Chinese medicine practices. He/she will offer herbal formulas that are customized to meet physical symptoms while the patient processes the mind-body-spiritual connection. The Chinese medicine practitioner can give you a diet that enhances your restoration rather than defeats your recovery. An accupuncturist is usually not trained at doing this procedure. The practitioner has to have a strong desire to practice herbology after their education.
  
• Spiritual Life Coach: The wounds need attention from an adept Spiritual Life Coach whether professionally trained or a highly skilled coach. What matters is that the practitioner can help the wounded get at the underlying, irrationally charged, unconscious message that drives the individual to expend beyond physical reserves. Effective counseling skills are essential. Their skill level and life experience is an added benefit if the client desires to move quickly through the mental obstacles.
  
• Chiropractors: Clients may present with skeletal-soft tissue complications. For instance, if the back is compressed and thus cutting off pathways then adjustment can be very valuable. Connective tissue can benefit from chiropractic manipulation. They have more techniques than can be listed that many report freedom from constriction.

There are other skilled practitioners that should not be forgotten. They have demonstrated effective support: Naturopathic doctors, Massage therapists, Iridologists, Energy medicine practitioners, etc.

"The weakness of a soul
is proportionate to the number of truths
that must be kept from it."
Eric Hoffer

The foods below, restore the essence or foundation of the life force within your body. Pure foods that are unprocessed are critical to improving the body's function. Below the preferred food are foods to avoid that rob the energy that sustains the body:

ENERGY & STAMINA FOODS
Whole grains (sprouted wheat - hard red winter wheat, Amaranth, Barley, pearled, Buckwheat (kasha), Bulgar, Oats, whole kernel, Rice, brown, Rice, wild, Rye, whole kernel, Quinoa, Wheat, whole kernel, All Bran with Extra Fiber, Bran Buds, Fiber One, Kashi, Go Lean, Shredded Wheat, Shredded Wheat and Bran, Buckwheat Groats, Oat Bran, Old Fashioned Oatmeal, Steel-Cut Oats), Acai berry, Bananas, Black sesame seeds, Black soybeans, Chestnuts, Citrus peel, Chia seed, chicken, herring, Mulberries, mussel, Raspberries, Strawberries, shrimp, lamb, sunflower seed, sweet potato, water cress, winter squash, almonds, Ghee, Nettle leaves, Micro algae, Goat milk, Placenta, Royal jelly, Salmon, Trout, Bee pollen, Doddler seeds, Walnuts, Wheat grass

STRENGTH FOODS
If you want to become strong, eat carbohydrates before your workout and eat plenty of protein afterwards. Normal amounts of insulin help muscles grow, and eating carbohydrates causes your blood sugar to rise, which, in turn, causes your pancreas to release insulin. Taking in large amounts of protein after a workout helps muscles to recover faster from hard exercise, so you can do more hard work and grow larger and stronger muscles (Journal of Physiology, Volume 573, 2006).

To increase muscle strength, the weights you lift must be heavy enough to cause muscle burning while you lift and your muscles to feel sore on the next day. The soreness is caused by damage to the muscle fibers themselves. Most athletes quickly learn to lift lighter weights on as many days as it takes for the soreness to go away, and then lift very heavy weights again. The faster muscles heal from hard workouts, the more quickly you can go back to lifting heavy weights and the stronger you will become.

Insulin brings protein building blocks, called amino acids, into muscles to increase the rate of healing. Eating carbohydrates raises blood insulin levels. Protein is the building blocks for all tissues, particularly muscle. So the faster and more protein you can bring into muscle fibers, the more quickly they heal and the faster you can go back to your heavy lifting program. Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

Bitter foods/herbs, Raw or lightly cooked Vegetables, sprouts, Vegetables (leafy greens, carrots, radishes, mushrooms), fruits, grains, legumes, fresh flax oil, stevia sweetener, Salmon, Spinach, Almonds, Cranberries, Wheat Germ, Beans, Extra Lean Ground Beef, Eggs, Tomatoes, Oatmeal, Bee Pollen, Codonopsis, Ginger, Hawthorne Berry, Schisandra Berry, Siberian Ginseng, Tribulus, Blue Green Algae and Wild Yam.

Natural steroid food: Asparagus, Avocado, Bananas, Celery, Raw Oysters, Pine Nuts (the edible seeds of pine trees), Figs, Almonds and nuts in general, Eggs, Basil (Sweet basil), Liver, Salmon & Other Fish, Damiana (or Turnera diffusa), Wild Yam.

CONCENTRATION & FOCUS
fish, fish oil, spirulina, whole grains (Brown rice, Maize, Oats, Buckwheat, Millet, Quinoa, Amaranth, Wheat, Sweet rice, Spelt), legumes and their sprouts (mung bean sprouts, soy bean sprouts, tofu, tempeh, peas, Adzuki Beans, Black Beans, Black-eyed peas, Broad Beans (Fava Beans), Butter Beans, Calico Beans, Cannellini Beans, Chickpeas (Garbanzo Beans), Edamame, Great Northern Beans, Italian Beans, Kidney Beans, Lentils, Lima Beans, Mung Beans, Navy Beans, Pinto Beans, Soy Beans, including black soy beans, Split Peas
White Beans), fresh nuts and seeds, dark green vegetables and microalgae. Flax seed, pumpkin seed, chia seed, borage seed, black currant seed and primrose seed oils

EMOTIONAL STABILITTY FOODS
Whole grains (whole wheat, brown rice, oats), Ganoderm, Poria, lettuce, cucumber, barley gruel, oat groat tea, Fruit (apples, mullberries, lemons), dill, basil, rose hips, Ghee (clarified butter), cabbage, fresh wheat germ, wild blue greem algae, apple cider vinegar,

FOODS TO AVOID

Sweets & Sweeteners: Sugar, or foods with added sugars, Ice cream, Jams and Jellies, Maple Syrup,
Drinks: (sweetened) Regular Soda removes rust from metal, excess carbon dioxide, imbalances digestive system) Cocktails (excess sugar/liver toxicity), Fruit Juice (loaded w/ sugar), Fruit Smoothie (loaded w/ syrup, make your own), Coffee (very cold for digestion and weakens digestion energy), Wine (beyond 1 oz. per day), and other sweetened beverages
Artificial Sweeteners: (alternate try stevia)
Processed grains: or foods containing them (except as listed on the Grains List e.g. packaged cereals, even whole grain cereals, are usually processed, verify), Refined grains (which don't say "whole" in front of each grain on the label) or foods containing them, "Wheat" or "wheat flour" without the word "whole" is usually a code word for "white" (includes white rice, "Flour" listed alone is always white flour),
Baked Goods: (contain excess trans fats, sugars) Cakes, doughnuts, cookies, muffins, Crackers, unless whole grain, pot pies (hi calory/fat), White & Wheat bread (no nutrition)
Breakfast Cereals: unless whole grain and at least 8 grams of fiber per serving (sugar, processed grain, low nutrition)
Pasta: Ramen Noodles (no nutrients, excess sodium), Saltines (excess carb & sodium), White Pasta (extremely hi carb & sodium),
White Potatoes: (solanine-calcium depletion & arthritic pain), Chips & French fries
Oils except for extra virgin olive oil, nut oils, and canola oil, Mayonnaise, Creamy salad dressings, Margarine (highly toxic), Refined Vegetable Oils (corn, cottonseed, soybeans, safflower seeds and canola),
Dairy products that are not fat-free, including cheese, cream cheese, milk, butter,etc., exception goat's milk (pure mucous),
Fatty meats such as bacon or sausage, Anything with hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats in it. Hotdogs (unknown ingredients, sodium nitrate), Luncheon Meats (too many additives, sodium nitrate), Sausages & cured meats (too many additives, sodium nitrate),
Canned foods: Baked Beans (sugar), Campbell's Condensed Soups (hi sodium), etc.
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) foods,
Excessive Protein (loss of calcium, damages kidneys).

These foods are usually found in the internal isles of your grocery store. Stay with foods on the perimeter walls of the stores. Even better, buy produce directly from sources where you know the quality of the farm production. This is hard to do but this is the only way to ensure your food is free from hormones, preservatives, pesticides and over 200+ versions of MSG.

"He that takes medicine and neglects diet,
wastes the skills of the physician."
(Ancient Chinese Proverb)

"As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness."
Henry David Thoreau

So many of the complaints about pain, digestive disorders, allergies, diabetes, heart palpitations. etc. will have an underlying source which leads back to body energy depletion. If the body doesn't have enough energy then all of your internal organs will not be able to do their jobs. These formulas begin and assist the recovery process while you add all the healthy aspects into your life and remove the draining elements.

EXHAUSTION MASTER FORMULAS:

1. HIGH SPIRITS MASTER FORMULA: (200 capsules) (month+ supply)
Reduces the edge when stressed, irritability, calms your nerves, uplifts spirits,
comforts during social gatherings, eases the tension around the heart area, calms the mind without any depressant effects. Healthy alternative for palpitations, anxiety, anxiety attacks, emotional upset, mania. Tonifying formula which nutritiously, eases agitation and depression, placing you in the zone.

2. VITAL QI MASTER FORMULA : (800 sm. pills) (month+ supply)
Vital Qi invigorates and strengthens individuals suffering from fatigue due to the aging process. Vital Qi targets the lower half of the body by improving the blood flow to the abdomen, legs and internal organs. Improves digestion & lower abdomen energy. Alleviates intestinal hernia pain. Removes abdominal pus due to "leaky gut". Vital Qi boosts the immune system and reverses prolapse.

3. BODY FORCE MASTER FORMULA : (800 sm. pills) (month+ supply)
Immunity Re-builder
Body Force warms the body and thus removes cold. By replenishing the blood, opening the channels, cooled, old blood is reinvigorated, quicker. Body Force energizes the body to normal levels, stimulates red and white blood cell growth and naturally oxygenates the blood. The result-a stronger immune system.
Benefits: Restores the body from flu/cold (initial stages-24 hrs.), improves strength, increases appetite & weight, tidal fever, warms cold hands & feet, improves complexion, post surgery weakness. Tonifies and restores long-term chronic fatigue, improves strength post childbirth, infant's health (4 yrs.+)

4. VITAL YANG MASTER FORMULA: (200 capsules) (month+ supply)
This is not a stimulatory composition. Vital Yang is a 100% all-natural revitalizing formula. Vital Yang opens all the channels, nerves, vessels to peak performance. Vital Yang allows more blood and oxygen to move quicker through body systems enabling you to go places not known before. Vital Yang raises and balances the hormonal environment for increased stamina and physical strength. The formula benefits men and women without the negative effects normally associated with increased hormonal activity. Vital Yang promotes muscle development and overall general healthy vitality. Vital Yang is a great tonic for improving most middle age and elderly conditions. By improving bodily functions, Vital Yang makes possible for more flexible and increased movement essential to enjoying everyday exercise. For the older athlete desiring to maximize their potential, Vital Yang will add years of performance normally forsaken.

5. VITAL YANG+ MASTER FORMULA: (200 TABLETS) (month+ supply)
Vital Yang + is a general yang tonic promoting body energy (qi), blood, nourishing the liver, spleen, and kidneys. Vital Yang + opens the vital channels which lead to all parts of the body. Vital Yang+ is especially beneficial by warming the hands and feet, genital area (sexual function), weakness, dizziness, blurred vision, easily fatigue. Vital Yang + opens the vital channels which lead to the genital area enabling males to sexually function, transforming impotence and erectile dysfunction. This master formula is not excessive in stimulation while not over stressing one's constitution.

6. GA MASTER FORMULA: (60 TABLETS) (10 day supply)
GA is a lesser stimulating formula that works directly on adrenal function. It nourishes the adrenals wherein gentle vitality is restored. The experience would be comparable to normal functioning, with a slight extra, to where you feel your old self again.

The best results come from consulting a seasoned master herbalist. The key is their ability to match formula with your body type or constitution. Use the information above to determine which formula works best for you or call Mark Hammer, CMH at (713) 822-2655 or 713-339-3188 for assistance at Longevity Mountain.

"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment"
Dale Carnegie

More and more people who are used to feeling strong and/or expect themselves to be strong are gradually becoming aware of hitting the wall. Stress is re-creating stress:

• Fathers who are used to being the rock in the family are finding their energy slipping away. They push harder thinking they can last a little longer.
  
• Mothers who accepted the program that they must work, take care of the home, exercise, study to be equal or better are finding they can't recover their vitality. That morning coffee is mak'n it as usual. After work, go home, and what?
  
• Marriages are more stressed. Both are working plus hours. Because both are tired, they need more from their partners. This tires the other out. Have some children? "Whose turn is it to get up this time when the baby is crying?" And so it goes. When they are tired, their choice of words contain elements of their stress which the other can easily be misinterpreted. The incongruent expression can lead to arguments with no resolution especially for the untrained in relationship skills. Are we running out of the "juice" to maintain a healthy relationship?
  
• Singles: May quietly prefer to stay that way while the urge to merge is also great. To be with someone or not is tempered by prior relationship learning experiences that did and didn't work out. Given the degree of stress in enough areas of life, singles can be highly affected and may divert more from being with another. Stress has a way of surfacing old wounds. These wounds can be projected into our current relationships and be disruptive depending on how we are doing. Its important, in relationships, that there are elements of calmness and security rather than too much excitement, which is not too far from stress, if prolonged.
  
• Co-workers can't take the stress in the office. Certain workers who are way out of bounds on their stress are taking the rest of the office down the tubes.
  
• Road rage: People are on the road getting more aggressive and less courtesy. Are we more irritable, less tolerance, grumpy, vulnerable to blow up.
  
• Parents at Little League ball games are getting more than excited at their kid's games. Yelling and becoming physical with kids and other opposing kid's parents. A general posturing for neighborhood war is raging in our society. Where is this coming from?
  
• Bosses: Don't think your boss is getting away with anything. The average executive is working long hours (70 hrs.+). Maybe on top they recuperate (hardly) but the middle executive is losing her job and the one holding on is taking her work home every night. She worries if she can handle the next challenge, unable to sleep, doing her subordinates work and hers to meet goals and objectives. However, their productivity gradually wanes and the result is put another healthy part in their place-more stress.
  
• Small Business Owners: Trying to keep up with it all. If you can just get ahead, get some trusted help. Its great to own your business but being stretched so far means late and long hours. If you have a family, you feel guilty you are not around enough. If you sacrifice too much then the body can suffer, chest pains, can't sleep, blood pressure, etc. All signs letting you know, you are going to far.
  
• Health: Since 1990, diabetes has grown more than 500%. Half the population is now overweight. How did this happen? Doctors are the #1 killer, not heart disease. Advertisements on TV about pharmaceuticals are as common as cigarette campaigns before they were made illegal on TV. WOW, thats progress!

My point here is not to be negative. In fact, by pointing this out, the hope for
optimism may have room to rise. The first step is to become aware of the hole
we are digging.



When we are tired, we are more likly to make mistakes in social settings. Its kind of like being drunk. Our brain, in particular, our upper brain (Cortex) doesn't receive enough energy and blood, so it suffers and doesn't serve to normal capacity. The result is we act without our best judgment and are really taking risks with the consequences. The capacity to discern our situation of sustained weakness is not as apparent. We are not conscious and we are not as aware of how we are affecting others. We are less caring and/or empathetic.

Even though this is obvious, hospital administrations still abuse their interns with 100+ hour work weeks. Never mind the treatment mistakes. Have you ever talked to a doctor in this state? They are short, curt and insensitive. What would anyone expect when the status quo is to treat these young, beginning physicians like fodder rather than as human beings. How can they learn, let alone, be sensitive caring doctors. Here they are supposed be role models of health, to spout the bliss of health, however, they are set up to fail in this expression from the beginning.

I know we are trying to do the best we can but it is time to rethink before we can't think anymore. If we continue in this hyper vigilant pattern then its harder to turn it around. Our physical organs become deficient. The kidneys and adrenals, the seat of our life force or energy may not revive. Eventually, we will just crash due to exhaustion as a people and society, economically depressed, socially depriived, etc.

For those not experiencing stress, who have learned to manage it, you are a valuable asset for those who are still learning. I welcome and honor your knowledge and request that if you see someone pushing too hard, let them know what you have learned. You could make a difference.

"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. "
James Russell Lowell

Once a hare was roaming near a lake in a forest. Suddenly he saw a tortoise and mocked at him saying - "Hurry up, you slow coach! Don't you find life very dull taking so long to cover a few yards? I could have run to the other side of the lake by now."

The tortoise felt teased and dared the hare to a race. The race was to be through the wood to a fixed goal.

The hare agreed laughingly. In a few minutes he was away and out of sight.

"What a funny race it is!" he said to himself , "I am already half -way through. But it is too-too cold; why not have a nap in the warm sunshine?"

The tortoise walked steadily on and on. In a short time, he passed by the sleeping hare.

The hare slept far longer than he had intended. When he woke up at last, he looked around in surprise and said to himself," Not even a sigh of the poor tortoise anywhere so far; I had better trot along and finish the race."

The hare ran to the goal. He was amazed to see all the animals cheering the tortoise who had arrived just a minute earlier. how ashamed he felt indeed!

MORAL : Slow and steady wins the race.

Story from Bygosh.com/Features/092000/hare.htm

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces."
Og Mandino quotes (American Essayist and Psychologist, 1923-1996)

1. Working too much: Due to insecurity whether it's boss sponsored or yourself, the end result is you go too hard and long beyond your adrenal's reserves. Your boss can be asking for too much and you may be a willing participant or not but you still go on. You need to honor your needs. The job or others will not. Its time, to take care of yourself. Now, is an opportunity to learn to recognize when you are approaching your exhaustive boundaries.
   
   
2. Incongruence: Personal dishonoring. You say no when you mean to say yes and you say yes when you meant no. This can involve work, friends, community and family. This state causes distress and disgust for oneself. You need to slow down until can hear your voice or higher consult clearly. Then learn to follow through on that premise rather than be reactive.
   
   
3. Over-indulgence: Excessive occupation with anything such as food, drug, sport, etc. can result in an imbalance where your primary needs are neglected. Sleep can be interrupted if your belly is too full, prevents laying down and raises blood sugar where you remain in a wakeful state. Athletics can be conducted beyond your reserves thus weakening your immunity and protection. Sports are OK but there needs to be a steady buildup, not an all out blast of epinephrine, to the point of exhaustion. Consider Tai Chi, Qi gong and Yoga which builds energy rather than depletes it.
   
   
4. Harassment: Whether it's a personal relationship work relationship or neighbor, this can be very disturbing. Sleepless nights are not unusual and need to be assessed as to whether the relationship should continue or remedied. Working with a counselor, psychotherapist or Spiritual Life Coach can be very beneficial in resolving this concern.
   
   
5. Menopause and Andropause: The liver in the body can become excessively warm due to toxicity. The warmth travels up while cold moves down. When liver heat rises, the waves to varying degrees heat up everything up through to the head. At night, the heat causes sweating, keeps us alert, excess thinking, avoidance of deep level (REM) sleep, etc. When you cool the liver with diet and Chinese herbs, this aspect is removed from the equation.
   
   
6. Trauma: Delayed Stress. Shocking events can be too taxing on your kidneys and adrenals. When you are engaged in an emergency all the emergency hormones like epinephrine and nor-epinephrine are employed. Once used up, then the adrenal crash, with you along with them. We may call this fainting, sudden fatigue, collapse, etc. But when it is prolonged, you need to wait and be sincerely patient in their gradual build-up of these hormones. This does not mean when you get a little energy back, you're ready to go hard. Take it slow and easy.
   
   
7. Prolonged Burn-out: Some of us know we are burning out our adrenals but still keep going. We are gamblers. We say to ourselves, "I'm exhausted but if I can just go a little longer then I will cruise later. I just need to get this project(s) done." In reality, its a habit of putting ourselves off. We are getting tingling sensations, numbing, memory slippage indications, but still we go on. We keep going on fumes! Stop or get help to stop. You can set up strategies where your negative habits are curtailed so as to not cross into those areas where gambling on your health is not rationalized.
   
   
8. Insomnia: Inability or avoidance of sleep can wear down the kidneys and adrenals as most of you know. For some this is standard protocol. Whether its hyper-vigilance or undisciplined behavior, the result is a depletion of body energy. This process detracts from the needed energy to run the body and all of its functions. When this area is plugged up, the body has a great capacity to heal its self.
   
   
9. Incontinence: Waking up every 2 hours to go the bathroom can be distressing. Likewise the pattern prevents deep level REM sleep as well. The reason is because the bladder has lost its energy. The cause of this is adrenal fatigue. This spiraling syndrome requires the adrenals to be supported along with bladder control that naturally suppresses the urinary urge to release even though the bladder is empty.
   
   
10. Wounds From the Past: I saved this for last, not because its last in my concerns but more to delay it. A slight avoidance on my part. Even this writer has to get in touch with the emotions and then dig to make some sense of this. Here goes. When we have been over-challenged in life, it puts a stress on our minds, spirit and, of course, our body which manages the movement of the charge related to that event. To sensitive beings, they can tell you where its located at. For those not as aware, with a little help, you can not only feel its stored location but you can see it. The wound can stem from a major assault against your being or can seem like a small event. All that matters is that your equilibrium has been disturbed. The negative charge can develop with a condescending remark from parents, family, teachers, friends, etc. The judge of its intensity is you not anyone else who decides you are over-sensitive. The wound and its charged event is very important for the injured to transform it in order to be free from it. You can process this with a good talk therapist, hypnotherapist (not hypnotist), Spiritual Life Coach, etc.


11. The Angel Syndrome: I know I said 10 Causes but this keeps coming up in my intakes so I have to point it out. I am finding "Angel type" personalities, mainly women and some men with the following characteristics:
    
    
    
    • caregivers
      
    • people are dependent on them
      
    • people counsel with them
      
    • get things done
      
    • community hubs
      
    • above average - genius intelligence
      
    • feel guilty when saying no
      
    • feel guilty when others help them
      
    • fall in love with someone's potential and try to coach that person to greatness
      
    • may be co-dependent with addicts & alcoholics ("enablers")
      
    • people oriented
      
    • eat for stress reduction
      
    • give beyond their energy reserves
      
    • prefer to be with people, one-to-one
      
    • Get along with most people
      
    • rarely break a rule
      
    • stay in relationships much longer than the average person would
      
    • take on the relationship as an assignment whereby they try to help the person overcome their self doubts and focus upon their strengths and talents

This group tends to have a high vulnerability to CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and/or adrenal fatigue. The over-extension of boundaries becomes too taxing on the adrenal/kidney function whereas all the organs suffer from exhaustion and energy deprivation. This opens the door to many diseases. Many friends will say, "How can this happen to such a good person?" It does every day in our culture of excess.

Summary: I hope this prompts you to seek further support on this challenging condition. To accept this as a way of life will have serious consequences to your longevity and your quality of life. Please move to your next level of release from chronic fatigue.

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
Robert Louis Stevenson

If you have been in the field long, you are bound to run into this type of client. I find about 20% of the clients are unaware that they are in this pattern. The client comes in with her/his complaints about leg pain, back pain, hand pain, neck pain, knee pain, etc. There may have been an accident. So, most practitioners will try to discern how much of the pain is accident or behavior related. So, a good practitioner will further develop an understanding of how the client contributes to his/her pain or weakness. Here, for example, are some of the questions and not so unusual responses from the client:

• "Did you have an accident?" "Yes"
  
• "Where is the pain?" "Lower back and right leg."
  
• "What do you think is causing the pain?" "The car accident."
  
• "Any allegies?" "Not that I know of."
  
• "Do you eat any sweet foods?" "No, I eat only good food."
  
• "How much bread?" "Oh not at all!"
  
• "How late do you stay up?" "I go to bed early every night. Once in awhile, I stay up late."
  
• "Do you overeat?" "No, I eat very little."
  
• "How much is very little?" "A little. Not even enough to make me full."
  
• "Do you exercise?" "Yes, all the time. Four times a week."
  
• "How much do you drink?" "Very little."
  
• "Any other problems, people have talked to you about?" "No, I have good relationships with everyone!"
  
• "How is work going?" "Just fine! I am one of the best performers at work."
  
• "How many hours do you work?" "Whatever it takes to get the job done." (If it seems vague here, keep following)
  

"If you are a caring practitioner, you try to give a good educated guess, to get the ball rolling. You give them your best advice and remedy. They are hopeful, like many times before as with their last doctor. You give them a bullet and that will be the end of it. You tell them to call, if the remedy doesn't work, so you can adjust the formula for them. You have a slight feeling that the story is missing a few key elements but you want to be nice and develop the relationship where trust can evolve. The client doesn't come back. You hear from a collegue that he/she didn't benefit from your work. Now the client is repeating the same pattern with the new pratitioner. Now, its too late! The practitioner will never be able to reach that client because she/he is off believing he/she has a very unique disease and requires a new specialist.

Typically, the patient is not conscious of what is happening here. That is, the patient is holding back on telling the practitioner the whole story for a good, unconscious reason. They are protecting themselves from invisable pain that is worse than the pain they are experiencing now.

The client is:

• not able be honest
  
• subtly ashamed of their unhealthy behavior. They really want to get well but not at the expense of someone knowing about their uncontrollable, dependent behavior.
  
• not able to admit he or she is trapped and not able to muster up self - discipline.
  
• unable to admit he or she needs some gentle help with self honesty regarding their health.
  
• incapable of confronting oneself and admitting that they are powerless over this one area.
  
• not able to cease externalizing responsibility for treatment failure (practitioner). This can be tricky. Treatment adjustments may require 3-5 trials before the practitioner-client relationship is insinc and the right remedy is determined.
  
• unable to discontinue moving from one practitioner to another.
  

Unknowingly, some practitioners may take advantage of this because the client isn't serious yet but will pay for another new and improved innovation. The client is vulnerable to jump to the latest "fad" method. There is nothing wrong with the new strategy but what really needs to happen is some practitioner needs to tell the client how their "flight strategy" hurts them in the long run. A manner which reverts this mode to healthy functioning is where the practitioners communicate and team up with the client. The client can have a real opportunity to win this time.

Now, you may wonder, how do I know this person so well? Well, I know, because I am aware that all of us do some of this in our treatment until we finally get it. We turn our malady around by teaming up with people who are strong where we are challenged. All of us have challenges, don't let anything get in the way of your treatment success.

Mark has been a long term student of herbal traditions from around the world. Any attempts to leave this passion has always resulted in his finding his way back to the health restoration field. Whether it be his own need to keep his balance or those around him, his eventual surrender to the healing way has always offered the most joy and most of all, smiles.

• SENIOR MASTER HERBALIST-CHINESE MEDICINE
  Mark provides Traditional Chinese Medicine assessment, herbal remedies and food therapy. His remedies usually provide relief in 2 hours unless a severe chronic case is presented.
  
• SIFU - TAI CHI (Yang Style)
  Sifu Mark teaches the Short Form (24 steps), Intermediate Form (42 steps), TaiChi Sword (32 steps), TaiChi Fan, Long Form (108 steps)
  
• SPIRITUAL LIFE COACH
  Mark focusses on the Body-Mind-Spirit connection related to physical imbalances.In addition, Mark has been meditating over 35 years which has resulted in his providing a comprehensive spirit coach program-assessment, spiritual grounding & protection, ascension, enlightenment, "Finding Your Life Purpose" and "Cleansing Your Soul Grid", etc.

Mark has over 35 years of health field experience. His primary emphasis is on chronic pain, heart, digestive, respiratory, allergy, hormonal, tumor, weight loss problems, women's needs and the MIND-BODY-SPIRITUAL CONNECTION.

Looking at the agriculture of longevity people pockets in the world vs. civilized, technologically advanced people, there are some obvious clues to the cause of our physical complaints.

1. Recognize and accept the condition
weakness, cold, maybe cold-sweat, shoulders, arms are cold, pain in joints, difficulty breathing, etc.
2. Notice the connecting or underlying thread (stress)
3. What to Do First, Quickly!
4. Second,
5. Third,
6. Continually,
7. Diet
8. Activities: Work, Relationships, Exercise
9. Sleep
10. Restoration:

"If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself,
but to your estimate of it;
and this you have the power
to revoke at any moment."

~Marcus Aurelius