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This is the 'how to recover from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome'.
Explanation is using the 'bucket' theory that I haven't seen before, at least not in this format.

In my previous article about chronic fatigue syndrome from 2020, I discussed the symptoms of the condition, possible causes, and research on testing, diagnosis, and treatment. In this article, I discuss some of the ways in which people with chronic fatigue syndrome can reverse their condition naturally.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) typically occurs because the systems of the body, especially the immune system, have become overwhelmed by various stressors: infections, environmental toxins, inflammatory foods, nutrient deficiencies, and stress.

This is often referred to as “total body burden.” Everyone with any type of chronic disease needs to consider their total body burden. As Palmer Kippola describes in Beat Autoimmune, it helps to imagine that we each have a bucket that fills up throughout the course of our lifetimes. Each of us has a different combination and number of stressors in our bucket.

While it may sometimes seem like one specific thing has triggered an illness, we also have to consider what else is filling up our bucket. For example, in the second bucket below, the person’s body is so overwhelmed by an inflammatory diet, chronic infections, toxins, and lack of sleep that one stressful event may trigger a disease. In the third bucket, the person’s body is so overloaded with stress, an inflammatory diet, and nutrient deficiencies that one infection is likely to trigger a chronic illness. In contrast, the first bucket shows a person who has a very light total body burden; this person will recover quickly from an infection, toxic exposure, or episode of stress.

The good news is that we can gradually empty our buckets by clearing chronic infections, reducing our toxic exposure and detoxing, improving the health of our gut microbiome, addressing nutrient deficiencies, reducing stress, and increasing physical activity as appropriate. All of these steps serve to strengthen our immune system and improve the ability of our body to keep up with the stressors we’re exposed to every day.

Clear Chronic Infections​

Approximately 70% of ME/CFS cases are preceded by a viral infection. Some viruses that frequently lead to the condition are Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), human herpesvirus (HHV-6, HHV-7, HHV-8), human parvovirus B19 (B19V), and enteroviruses. There have been dozens of reported outbreaks of ME/CFS, most of which followed viral outbreaks, and some of which occurred due to toxin exposure. Bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infections may also trigger the condition.

It’s important to know that viruses can stay latent in the body for years and even decades. They may not cause noticeable symptoms until sometime later in life when your immune system becomes compromised—in other words, when your bucket fills up and overflows. You may also have a bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection and not be aware of it.

About half of patients with post-COVID syndrome also fulfill the criteria for ME/CFS. And COVID infection often reactivates latent viruses in both ME/CFS patients and healthy controls. ME/CFS patients exhibit stronger antibody responses after COVID infection, especially to Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). These patients also had elevated antibodies to EBV prior to COVID infection, which is evidence of ME/CFS patients having a higher viral load than healthy controls.

Unfortunately, studies of antiviral drugs for ME/CFS have shown limited success in treating patients. This may be because the patients are compromised by so many types of stressors—infections, toxins, diet, nutrient deficiencies, stress, etc.—that addressing just one source of stress on the immune system is not enough.

How to Recover From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Somatic Movement Center

Learn how to recover from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome naturally. Decrease your total body burden of toxins, infections, stress, and more.

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there is also another section on how to recover from fibromyalgia.