The truth about post-viral fatigue

Post-viral fatigue is when you don’t bounce back easily after an illness such as a cold or the flu.

You might feel tired and weak or even dizzy.

It’s not a good feeling, and it can feel awkward to be past the normal amount of days you’d expect to be off sick from work.

The link between stress and fatigue

Every time you need to do something quickly or urgently your brain sends signals to your adrenal glands.

They immediately produce adrenalin and cortisol: ‘stress’ hormones that make you rush around and get things done. [Related post]

Your body is designed to do this occasionally.

Not all day every day.

Basically we’re still hunter-gatherers, just the same as we were hundreds of years ago.

Back then, we would only need to act quickly or urgently if we were hunting an animal or perhaps defending ourselves against an attack from an invading tribe.

Nowadays it’s common to work long hours, with many demands and deadlines.

The impact on our health is often:

• poor immunity
• insomnia
• post-viral fatigue

The link between stress and low immunity

Work demands take a lot of energy, and emotional stress is draining.

Relationship breakups, friendship betrayal, family stress, divorce, abuse, bereavement and loss can really affect your well-being.

It’s impossible to separate emotional and physical health.

When we are busy or emotionally stressed it’s hard to eat the right food or get enough sleep.

When we ‘run on empty’ our body has to use all available resources to simply keep going.

This means it can’t carry out essential ‘repairs’.

When you’re depleted you’ll find yourself getting sick all the time, and finding it harder to recover.

My story

When I was a young teacher I was permanently ill.

My skin was awful, I felt tired all the time and I was regularly needing to take a week off work.

When I was struggling to recover my health after strong antibiotics for pneumonia I saw a homeopath for the first time.

My first homeopathy prescription helped me turn a corner.

A lifestyle shift including homeopathy, probiotics and more rest enabled my immunity and periods to transform, and my skin cleared too.

I stopped needing time off work and I felt happy and healthy again.

A holistic approach

During the 19 years I’ve been a homeopath I’ve helped many people with low immunity and fatigue.

When treating chronic fatigue I always look for underlying causes, especially emotional stress, including grief and trauma.

My approach includes homeopathy, homeobotanical remedies and good quality supplements.

Gut microbiome, DNA and blood tests are recommended for deeper insights.

Deficiencies in key nutrients such as vitamin D3, vitamin B12 can be influenced by genes, and are often underlying causes of fatigue.

Medical drugs can affect our absorption of nutrients through the gut.

Everyone is different and to address chronic fatigue you have to look at the person as a whole.

That’s what I do.

“Tracy was so kind and supportive. I felt that someone had my back during my fatigue, not only with the homeopathy but also good advice. I have recovered quickly and feel I have been through a deeply healing process, for which I am very grateful.”