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Fatigue, Motivation and Help

JoelW1lls
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JoelW1lls Apprentice
JoelW1lls
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Hello everyone,

 

So lately I've been having trouble again with interrupted sleep and not being able to fall back asleep, so sometimes I'm not getting enough sleep that I require. I then sometimes get fatigued and not enough energy to do my work for university, and this makes me feel depressed and unmotivated for the future because I think to myself that things are just going to go wrong like they did last academic year where celiac came out of no where and I had problems with fatigue and then my results. And when I have these moments of fatigue it obviously makes me feel more nervous and feeling down for returning back to uni in September (the work I'm doing now is for preparing for returning). Like yesterday I had a long day of shopping and came back and was exhausted and just couldn't do anything.

I'm just asking how do you combat this and in general how do you all stay motivated and get over this process if you ever had any?

 

Thank You.

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Scott Adams Grand Master
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I hope that you're diet is 100% gluten-free, and if not, that is the first place to start.

Also, do you work out or get regular exercise? I find that when I don't exercise enough I get fatigued easily.

Another thing to consider would be additional food intolerance issues, like casein/dairy.

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B vitamins regulate a lot in our bodies. I am finding much improvement in my sleep by adding specific B's, in addition to a multi-B supplement. And only take in the morning.  Lately, I have added B3 flushing niacin and niacinamide, and finding that really helps.  @knitty kitty probably would have more specific info on that.

knitty kitty Grand Master
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@Beverage is correct! Certain B vitamins can help with sleep.  Other B vitamins can help with the fatigue.

I take 1000 mg of Tryptophan and 50 mg of B6 (pyridoxine) an hour or so before bedtime to help me sleep.  I also take a magnesium citrate supplement.  Magnesium helps our muscles relax. Take the magnesium last.  Magnesium can coat the intestines preventing absorption of the other vitamins (or excess stomach acid).  

Tryptophan is a different form of Niacin (Vitamin B3).  Our bodies can make tryptophan from niacin (or Niacinamide) and vice versa, but it's an easy hack taking the tryptophan form.  Tryptophan promotes intestinal healing, too.

For the fatigue, take a B Complex in the morning and some additional thiamine (100 mg thiamine HCL or 50 mg benfotiamine or 50 mg allithiamine) with each meal.  Thiamine (and B12) can keep us awake at night, so don't take them too close to bedtime.  Remember our brains use as much thiamine just thinking as we use doing physical labor.  Allithiamine crosses the blood brain barrier, helps clear that brain fog, and provides energy to combat fatigue.  

Lysine is also helpful for better sleep and helps relieve anxiety.  Used daily, lysine has been proven to be as effective as an antidepressant without the side effects.  

Theanine can also help with relaxation.  Theanine is found in oolong tea as well as supplements.  

The B vitamins are water soluble and nontoxic.  So there's no need to worry about taking a B Complex plus individual B vitamins.  Our bodies excrete any excess in urine. 

Also, low Vitamin D contributes to depression.  Vitamin D levels in the seventies or eighties (nmol/l) allows our bodies to use Vitamin D as a hormone which can help regulate our immune systems and alleviate depression.  

Hope this helps!  Keep us posted on your progress!

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JoelW1lls Apprentice
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On 8/5/2021 at 7:30 AM, knitty kitty said:

@Beverage is correct! Certain B vitamins can help with sleep.  Other B vitamins can help with the fatigue.

I take 1000 mg of Tryptophan and 50 mg of B6 (pyridoxine) an hour or so before bedtime to help me sleep.  I also take a magnesium citrate supplement.  Magnesium helps our muscles relax. Take the magnesium last.  Magnesium can coat the intestines preventing absorption of the other vitamins (or excess stomach acid).  

Tryptophan is a different form of Niacin (Vitamin B3).  Our bodies can make tryptophan from niacin (or Niacinamide) and vice versa, but it's an easy hack taking the tryptophan form.  Tryptophan promotes intestinal healing, too.

For the fatigue, take a B Complex in the morning and some additional thiamine (100 mg thiamine HCL or 50 mg benfotiamine or 50 mg allithiamine) with each meal.  Thiamine (and B12) can keep us awake at night, so don't take them too close to bedtime.  Remember our brains use as much thiamine just thinking as we use doing physical labor.  Allithiamine crosses the blood brain barrier, helps clear that brain fog, and provides energy to combat fatigue.  

Lysine is also helpful for better sleep and helps relieve anxiety.  Used daily, lysine has been proven to be as effective as an antidepressant without the side effects.  

Theanine can also help with relaxation.  Theanine is found in oolong tea as well as supplements.  

The B vitamins are water soluble and nontoxic.  So there's no need to worry about taking a B Complex plus individual B vitamins.  Our bodies excrete any excess in urine. 

Also, low Vitamin D contributes to depression.  Vitamin D levels in the seventies or eighties (nmol/l) allows our bodies to use Vitamin D as a hormone which can help regulate our immune systems and alleviate depression.  

Hope this helps!  Keep us posted on your progress!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for the advice! I have been trying to undergo a film project and surprisingly, when I'm working till late to do that, it has helped me sleep. What I'm worried about with taking those tablets at night is that I am currently taking herbal sleeping tablets which has been crucial to my sleep but I don't want to take too many tablets at night in case there's a side effect? I know on tablets it says not to take more than what it says on the label, so would I be ok to be taking two sleeping tablets plus the B6 and magnesium one you have recommended?

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knitty kitty
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@JoelW1lls,

What kind of herbal sleeping tablets are you taking?  What are the ingredients?

 

 

JoelW1lls Apprentice
JoelW1lls
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It says extracts of valerian, hop strobile and passion flower, methanol and ethanol

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There should not be any problems taking magnesium, B6, and tryptophan with that.  I take passion flower with my magnesium, B6 and tryptophan sometimes and have had no problems.  You might want to try the combinations when you have the next day off, just to see how these affect you.  

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