How to Find a Fatigue Clinic that Addresses Root Causes
If you feel like you’re in a fog, can’t focus, and have lost motivation, there’s a good chance you’re coping with fatigue. Fatigue is frustrating but can be healed. Our staff at our fatigue clinic has helped hundreds of patients overcome their fatigue with root-cause treatments for health and vitality.
What Is Fatigue?
It’s crucial to distinguish fatigue from just being tired. While being tired can be a symptom of overall fatigue, fatigue is a pervasive condition with distinct markers, including the following:
- Low energy
- Decreased motivation for responsibilities or ambitions
- An inability to focus
- An inability to complete simple tasks
- Decreased quality in relationships
- Reduced quality of life overall
As a pervasive condition, fatigue continues even after a good night’s rest or other restorative activities and is often connected to an illness or lifestyle condition.
Causes of Fatigue
Fatigue rarely occurs as a solo condition and is almost always connected to a condition or set of conditions. Causes of fatigue are usually categorized under lifestyle, mental health, or physical health categories.
Lifestyle Causes of Fatigue
Lifestyle fatigue causes include the following:
- An excess or lack of physical activity
- Lack of sleep
- Being overweight
- A poor diet
- Lack of vitamins or minerals
- An excess of caffeine
- Prolonged or chronic stress
- Drug and alcohol use
- Prolonged or temporary grief
- Certain medications
Physical Health Causes of Fatigue
Physical causes of fatigue include the following:
- Anemia
- Autoimmune disease
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Hypo or hyperthyroidism
- Sleep disorders
Mental Health Causes of Fatigue
Mental causes of fatigue include the following:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Seasonal Anxiety Disorder
Common Mistakes When Treating Fatigue
Fatigue is often treated as an isolated condition when it’s usually a canary in a coal mine. Unfortunately, unlike fatigue clinics, traditional medical clinics are incentivized to see as many patients as possible while making pharmaceutical companies as much money as possible. What’s worse is that insurance companies have infiltrated the traditional healthcare system in a way that restricts doctors from providing healthcare that helps patients achieve optimal health.
It’s not uncommon for fatigue to be treated as an isolated condition, with no regard to uncovering the root cause. This differs from our fatigue clinic, where we apply functional medicine principles to treat the root cause instead of just the symptoms. Treating the symptoms increases the likelihood that the patient will continue suffering from fatigue and the underlying cause for years.
In fact, visitors to the Mayo Clinic website will find this alarming quote:
“There is no cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”
Though this article doesn’t address Chronic Fatigue Syndrome specifically, this quote from an authoritative medical source suggests there is no hope in healing, only temporary relief. At our fatigue clinic, we couldn’t disagree more.
What Are Traditional Fatigue Treatments?
The most common treatment for fatigue is medication. Even if a doctor determines fatigue is connected with another condition, such as depression or insomnia, they’ll likely prescribe medicine for the underlying condition. Though medications can help with underlying conditions, they fail to address the root cause and treat only the symptoms.
When doctors treat symptoms, they’re depriving their patients of the potential for healing while creating a vicious cycle of pharmaceutical use. Our fatigue clinic founder, Dr. Jerry Tennant, experienced chronic fatigue for almost two decades. After discovering no one had a solution, he searched for one and eventually found a revolutionary root-cause fatigue treatment.
Why Would I Treat the Root Cause of Fatigue?
Fatigue is a symptom of an underlying health condition (or multiple conditions). Treating only the fatigue means underlying conditions aren’t addressed, causing threats to your overall health and well-being.
When considering root-cause treatments from a fatigue clinic, imagine a garden. If a weed grows in a garden, not only does it make the garden less beautiful, but the root system spreads beneath the surface, making its infrastructure strong and reducing the garden’s ability to flourish. If you were to pluck the weed by the foliage, the root system would remain, and the garden would still be compromised.
However, if you pull a weed up by the roots, it can no longer fester beneath the surface, and the garden can flourish. Treating fatigue as an isolated condition is like pulling a weed from the foliage, while going to a functional medicine specialist-run fatigue clinic provides root care treatment.
What Is a Fatigue Clinic, and How Can It Help?
Your journey to healing starts with healthcare providers committed to helping you heal and thrive. At the Tennant Institute, one of our main services is helping patients identify the root cause of their fatigue and treating it using a method that brought our founder back to life after a long health struggle.
After identifying your underlying health condition, we go a layer deeper to find the root cause of the underlying health condition and then treat it with something called low voltage treatments. For example, if we found that you’d been injured in a car accident, we’d look at the effects of that injury. If the healing process were going slowly, we’d ensure that your cells had the “battery power” they need to function at full capacity and thus support you in fully healing. If they didn’t, we’d start you on low-voltage treatments immediately.
Getting Started with Our Fatigue Clinic
We’re here to help you overcome fatigue, become healthy and vital, and enjoy all that life offers. At our fatigue clinic, we can thoroughly say there is a way to overcome fatigue, and we’ll do everything we can to help you get there.
To get started, call us at 972-580-1156 or book a consultation online.
