Improper diet

Malnutrition is often accompanied by fatigue due to a lack of nutrients, vitamins, and trace elements. To feel awake and energized, you need to monitor the balance of the diet and ensure you are getting all the essential vitamins and minerals.

Gastrointestinal diseases with impaired absorption can have a similar effect on well-being.

Excessive training

It is normal to be tired after a workout. It is not normal to train in such a way that your body does not have time to recover by the next workout. The consequence can be not only chronic fatigue, but also anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders.

The cardiovascular system is the most affected by this.

Lack of sleep

If you sleep less than necessary every night and the quality of sleep is disturbed, you will experience fatigue. Light, noise, uncomfortable temperature in the bedroom, or an uncomfortable bed affects your well-being more than you think.

Shift or shift work, sliding schedule, and frequent change of time zones lead to interruptions in the circadian rhythm, which also causes fatigue.

Snacking on sweets

To cope with fatigue, we often eat a candy bar. However, this is a bad choice! Blood sugar rises sharply and the pancreas responds by producing insulin, which quickly utilizes simple carbohydrates. This disrupts the flow of nutrients, sugar falls, and we feel even weaker.

Eat fruit for a snack when hungry, which has not only simple but also complex carbohydrates.

Being overweight

Being overweight causes additional stress to the body and causes exhausting pains to muscles and joints. We especially notice it when we have put on weight after a vacation or an illness.

Being overweight affects posture, which can also cause fatigue.

Sitting and watching screens

Constant fatigue is a companion of technical progress. The screens of smartphones, tablets, computers, and televisions with their flickering monitors and throbbing icons are just as tiring as physical work.

Upsetting news and information overload make this problem even worse.

Multi-tasking

Doing too many things at once can negatively affect and exhaust the body.

Try to carefully plan even the most unimportant things and try to focus on one thing at a time. This will increase your efficiency and decrease your fatigue.

Taking certain medications

Fatigue can also be caused by taking certain medications. These include medications for allergies, high blood pressure, antidepressants, tranquilizers, and muscle relaxants.

Only take prescription medications under the supervision of your doctor.

Premenstrual syndrome

During PMS, fluids are trapped in the tissues at the end of the cycle, making it difficult for the circulatory system to function.

Increased fatigue is also characteristic of pregnant women due to changes in the body affecting the functioning of all organs and systems.

Other diseases

Fatigue can also be a symptom of diseases such as diabetes, anemia, hypothyroidism, chronic viral infections, heart failure, systemic inflammatory diseases, chronic intoxication, respiratory diseases, and acute infectious diseases.

If periods of fatigue are prolonged, it is worth seeing your doctor, have a general blood test, blood sugar test, biochemical blood test, and thyroid hormone blood test.

03 November 2021