The Root Cause Of Chronic Fatigue And Fibromyalgia

Chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia are both devastating and disabling diseases that the medical community believes to be different expressions of the same disease. Chronic fatigue patients have severe fatigue but more sore throats, swollen glands, and fever; fibromyalgia patients suffer from severe fatigue and total body pain. No specific treatment exists for either of these diseases. As a result, fibromyalgia used to be called psychosomatic rheumatism. In fact, many physicians still believe this disease is just in the patient’s head. No doubt, these are frustrating illnesses for both the physician…

The New Test For Heart Disease

Ultrasensitive CRP- As the medical community begins to realize that coronary artery disease is decidedly an inflammatory and not a cholesterol disease, more clinical studies are appearing in the medical literature advising physicians of effective ways to evaluate patients. Several studies have looked at various products in the body that give us evidence of the amount of inflammation that is present in the arteries. One such highly preferred blood test is the highly sensitive C – reactive protein (hs CRP). This test measures the arterial inflammation currently present. This test…