Causes Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The causes or cause of CFS is not known but the common endpoint of CFS is from multiple precipitating causes. But conditions that are proposed to activate the development of CFS include virus infections or other traumatic conditions, stress and toxins.

It was thought that CFS is caused by a viral infection because of its similarity to acute or chronic infections. But now it is clear that CFS is not caused by any single infectious disease agent.

According to a study there is no association between CFS and a wide variety of pathogens including EBV human retroviruses, human herpes virus 6, enteroviruses, rubella, Candida albicans and more recently bornaviruses and Mycoplasma.

But the possibility of having multiple causes remains and may lead to a common endpoint that some viruses or other infectious agent are contributing for a subset of CFS.

CFS may be caused by immunologic dysfunction but there are no immune disorders in CFS patients on the scale traditionally connected with this disease.

Some researchers found anti-self antibodies and immune complexes in many CFS patients both of which are characteristics of autoimmune disease.

But there is no tissue damage which is typically seen in autoimmune disease in patients with CFS.

Persons with immunodeficiency diseases or immune suppressed individuals have an increased risk of cancer or opportunistic infections are also not observed in CFS patients.

Some of the researchers found lower number of natural killer cells or decrease natural killer cell activity among CFS patients compared with healthy controls but some others found no differences between the patients and the controls.

Not all but some of the investigators found that T-cell activation markers also have differential expression in groups of CFS patients when compared with controls.

Another hypothesis is that various triggering events such as virus or a viral infection, stress can lead to chronic expression of cytokines and then to CFS.

Fatigue may also be caused by the administration of some cytokines in therapeutic doses but there is no particular pattern of chronic cytokine secretion has been identified in CFS patients.

Several studies also showed that the patients have a history of allergies than healthy controls but allergy cannot be considered as an influencing factor since not all the patients have it.

Several laboratory studies suggested that central nervous system plays an important role in CFS.

Physical or emotional stress which is a pre-onset condition in patients activates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis which leads to the increased release of cortisol and other hormones.

These hormones influence the immune system and many other body systems and may even affect several aspects of behavior.

There is also a possibility of disturbances in the autonomic regulation of blood pressure and pulse known as neurally mediated hypotension or NMH. There is no evidence of CFS caused by nutritional deficiency.

But it is good to follow a balanced diet to improve the health in general and balanced diet has benefits in any type of illness.

There are many types of supplements available, and each functions in its unique way. Changing your nutritional diet intake will help improve your immunity levels to better fight off the predatory diseases that attack when your system has been weakened from chemical or viral attack resulting in CFS symptoms.

To help improve your health and join the people who have recovered from CFS, or at the least are able to cope better with their symptoms, you need to explore fully all the alternative health options available to you, including your nutrition.

Find the products that have testimonials from people who have had positive health improvements.

Talk to the nutritionists and wellness consultants who specialize in helping people deal with CFS on a daily basis, and have a good track record of helping their clients to recover. Don’t settle for anything less, you deserve the best!


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