Tiredness – What is the real reason you are tired?

Tiredness and Fatigue

Tiredness and Fatigue

Many people experience extreme tiredness on a consistent basis, even constant tiredness on a daily basis is quire frequent. Despite being such a common problem there is a persistent misunderstanding of the actual causes of tiredness.

What Causes Tiredness? Common Beliefs That Must Be Debunked

• Physical causes of tiredness

Constant tiredness means that you are unlikely to get enough physical exercise. Even more so, as you become more unfit you will be even more tired when you try to do something. When you experience chronic tiredness you fall into a vicious cycle where you get weaker and weaker.

Being overweight or underweight can cause tiredness. If you are overweight your body has to work harder than normal to do everyday activities. If you are underweight you have less muscle strength, and you may feel tired more quickly.

Conditions such as anemia, an underactive or overactive thyroid and asthma can also cause excessive tiredness.

Sleep problems, such as insomnia and sleep apnoea (abnormal breathing while asleep), can prevent you getting a good night’s sleep. This is particularly problematic in those who are overweight and this leads to tiredness and exhaustion.

When you feel physically weak tiredness and fatigue should be viewed as the same thing.

Many people experience headaches and tiredness at the same time. This is because tiredness influences your blood pressure and heart rate. Blood pressure that is too high causes headaches by creating intracranial pressure. Blood pressure that is too low leads to hypoxia. Both high blood pressure and low blood pressure can thus cause headaches and many times tiredness can be the culprit behind both of them.

The same thing happens in the case of dizziness and tiredness.

Nausea and tiredness can likewise occur together but this is more common to tiredness in women.

• Emotional causes of tiredness

Stress and worry are actual causes for tiredness. Facing a stressful situation can be draining, especially when you can’t see a solution to your problems. Feeling that you have no control over a situation may make you frustrated, irritable and tired.

Tiredness can also be triggered by stressful situations. This may include a recent bereavement, financial circumstances, moving house, family issues or work problems.

Mental health problems such as depression or anxiety can make you feel more tired. They can also prevent you from sleeping properly.

• Lifestyle and Sleep causes of tiredness

If you have an unusual or disturbed sleep pattern, for example if you are a shift worker, nurse, doctor or nursing mother, you may find it difficult to get refreshing sleep. Try not to focus or worry about your disturbed sleep routine as this may further disrupt your sleep.

Looking after small children can be particularly exhausting, especially if children don’t sleep through the night.

Sleeping in the day can prevent you from sleeping at night. Drinking too many caffeinated or alcoholic drinks can also make it difficult to get refreshing sleep, especially if you drink them just before you go to bed.

The Real Reason For The Tiredness Epidemic

While it is undoubtedly true that all of these play a part in the human tiredness epidemic the problem actually goes deeper.

Tiredness is not a condition in itself it is a deficiency. Tiredness is a deficiency in energy. Let’s talk a bit about energy.

Energy is needed at all levels of our body – from the microscopic to the macroscopic:

• At the cellular level, energy is used to make new proteins, to bring nutrients into a cell and expel cellular wastes, to make hormones, to repair damaged DNA, to synthesize neurotransmitters and much much more.
• At the organ level, the heart uses energy to pump blood, the kidneys use energy to filter wastes while recycling precious nutrients, the brain uses energy to generate electrical nerve and process incoming stimuli, the lungs use energy to take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide and so on.
• At the level of the whole person, we use energy to walk, run, talk, chop wood, lift objects, work a computer keyboard, ad infinitum. The energy source for all these levels is the same – it is the bio-energy molecule ATP (adenosine triphosphate) the “universal energy currency of the cell.”

Tiredness and Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)

The processes of photosynthesis and metabolism of foodstuffs are used mainly to produce ATP. It is probably no exaggeration to call ATP the single most important substance in bio-chemistry. ATP is the energy of life. Where there is no ATP, there is no life. Where ATP is low, energy is low. It’s that simple.

The most promising tiredness fighting nutrients (such as Coenzyme Q10, Carnitine and Lipoic Acid etc) are all taken to maintain and increase the ability of the mitochondria to produce high energy compounds such as ATP. The ability of a cell to do work is directly related to its ATP status and the health of the mitochondria. Heart tissue, neurons in the brain and other highly active tissues are very sensitive to this system. Even small changes in ATP can have profound effects on the tissues’ ability to function properly. Many currently available nutritional supplements are effective for maintaining or raising ATP levels.

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