Our bodies are meant to have energy fueled by nutrition, but instead many people find themselves exhausted and eating food that isn’t translating into energy.
What is the missing link?
It isn’t just one thing. Many factors are causing chronic fatigue.
What Does Fatigue Feel Like?
Fatigue is this persistent, almost nagging sense of being worn out, no matter how much sleep you get.
It’s not just about feeling tired after a long day; it’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion that affects every part of you. Imagine waking up after a full night’s sleep, but still feeling like you could crawl back into bed and sleep for hours more. That’s fatigue.
Symptoms of Fatigue
The symptoms can vary from person to person, but there are some common signs. You might find it hard to focus on tasks, with your brain feeling like it’s in a fog. Even simple decisions or everyday chores can seem overwhelming.
Physically, your muscles might feel heavy, and you might struggle with headaches or muscle aches. Some also experience irritability or mood swings because their energy reserves are just so low.
Fatigue can also make you feel unmotivated or less interested in things you usually enjoy. You might notice you’re more prone to mistakes or that it takes longer to get things done. It’s this overall sense of not having enough fuel to get through the day, and it can be frustrating because it’s not always easy to pinpoint why it’s happening or how to fix it.
Factors that Cause Fatigue
We are in a new world of threats causing chronic fatigue. It isn’t a simple equation of sleeping more and eating more to overcome fatigue.
At the cellular level, fatigue is linked to low ATP, the cellular energy that is in the mitochondria. When addressing energy, or lack thereof, you need to address mitochondrial health.
The following factors contribute to chronic fatigue via degrading mitochondrial health that you may be experiencing.
Iodine Deficiency
When you don’t get enough iodine, it’s a huge problem for your mitochondria—the little powerhouses in your cells.
Iodine deficiency is the top cause of mitochondrial failure.
Instead of producing 36 units of ATP (the energy currency of your cells) with sufficient iodine, they can only manage 2. This drastic reduction means way less energy at the cellular level, which is essential for a healthy metabolism and to combat fatigue. Inside the cell, iodine plays a vital role in boosting energy and metabolism, reducing inflammation, and clearing out toxins like fluoride, bromide, chlorine, lead, mercury, xenoestrogens, and radiation from your cells. Externally, iodine helps with things like fighting off pathogens, supporting liver detox, balancing hormones, easing symptoms linked to spike protein exposure, and regulating blood sugar levels.
Hypothyroidism
Fatigue as a symptom of hypothyroidism is like this never-ending sense of exhaustion that just doesn’t go away. Even after a full night’s sleep, you can wake up feeling drained and unrefreshed. It’s a deep, bone-weary tiredness that affects every part of your day.
When your thyroid is underactive and not producing enough thyroid hormones, your body’s metabolism slows down. T4, the inactive thyroid hormone is either not effectively converting into the active T3, or it is converting into Reverse T3, which is the stress hormone known to slow down metabolism, cause fatigue, lead to unexplained weight gain, and more. This means your cells aren’t getting the energy they need to function properly. As a result, you can feel physically and mentally wiped out. Simple tasks that used to be easy now feel like monumental efforts. Walking up a flight of stairs can feel like climbing a mountain, and just getting through your daily routine can seem overwhelming.
Mentally, hypothyroid-related fatigue can cause brain fog, making it hard to concentrate or remember things. You might find yourself feeling more forgetful or having trouble focusing on tasks. This can be incredibly frustrating and can affect your productivity and overall quality of life.
Additionally, hypothyroidism can mess with your mood. The constant fatigue can make you feel irritable, down, or even depressed. It’s like a heavy cloud hanging over you, sapping your energy and enthusiasm.
Xenoestrogens
Xenoestrogens are sneaky compounds that mimic estrogen in your body and mess with your hormonal balance. They’re everywhere—in our food, water, and environment, thanks to herbicides, pesticides, plastics, and parabens. These chemicals not only disrupt your mitochondria, but also lead to diseases, lower energy, and weight gain. Your body tries to protect itself by storing these toxins in fat cells, which unfortunately leads to even more exhaustion and weight gain.
Radiation
Radiation, whether from non-ionizing or ionizing sources, is bad news for your health and energy. It ramps up insulin resistance, oxidative stress, and DNA damage while wreaking havoc on your nervous, endocrine, and hormonal systems. It also causes fatigue, slows down your metabolism, boosts fat storage, and reduces ATP production, leaving you feeling drained and low on energy.
Stress
Our fast-paced lifestyle means chronic stress is a big issue, and it takes a serious toll on your energy and causes fatigue through different pathways:
- Leaky Gut: Stress can cause leaky gut, allowing endotoxins to flood your system and mess up nutrient absorption, which is crucial for a healthy ATP production and energy.
- Reverse T3: Stress prompts your body to convert T4 into Reverse T3, a thyroid hormone that slows metabolism, causes fatigue, and promotes fat storage.
- Visceral Fat: Chronic stress means constant cortisol release, which leads to belly fat buildup and lowered ATP.
- Insulin Resistance: Stress alone can increase insulin resistance, making it harder to manage blood sugar and causing your body to store more fat and lose energy.
Dirty Liver
Your liver is your main detox organ, synthesizing the Estrogen Binding Protein (EBP). But if it’s overloaded with toxins, it can’t function properly. This means it struggles with converting T4 to the active T3 thyroid hormone and managing fat and protein metabolism, leading to weight gain. The liver also handles estrogen detox, and if it’s overwhelmed, excess estrogens build up, further contributing to fatigue, weight gain, and hormonal imbalances.
Endotoxins in the Gut
Processed foods, linoleic acid, and excess estrogens can wreak havoc on your gut, lowering cellular energy production and carbon dioxide levels. This creates a breeding ground for bad bacteria that release endotoxins when they die, which messes up your mitochondria even more and leads to fat gain. Once you eliminate these toxins and improve mitochondrial function, your gut health improves, and complex carbs can actually be good for you.
Spike Protein
The spike protein messes with the ACE2 enzyme receptor in your liver, causing a buildup of Angiotensin 2. This can lead to water retention, insulin issues, oxidative stress, inflammation, hormonal imbalance, leaky gut, histamine intolerance, increased oxalates and amyloids, and reduced detox pathways. All of this lowers your metabolism. Increases fatigue, and increases fat gain.
Copper Deficiency
Processed foods and the spike protein have depleted our bodies of copper, which is crucial for managing uric acid levels, insulin resistance, and weight.
Copper blocks the Polyol Pathway, which converts glucose to sorbitol and fructose. Without enough copper, uric acid levels rise, increasing insulin resistance, increasing fatigue, and causing unexplained weight gain. Copper also helps regulate triglycerides and liver fat and manage iron levels, reducing oxidative stress and lowering the risk of insulin resistance.
As copper helps manage iron levels which is an integral key for energy, the lack of copper leads to anemia and fatigue.
The Best Supplements for Fatigue
In order to overcome fatigue, you must increase ATP and mitochondrial health through eliminating the factors that degrade mitochondrial health and adding in supplements, dietary changes, and lifestyle habits that improve cellular energy.
Let’s cover supplements first.
Acceleradine® Iodine: Essential for Tackling Iodine Deficiency and Fatigue
If you’re like most people in the U.S., you’re probably not getting enough iodine—an essential nutrient that impacts nearly every aspect of your health. In fact, a staggering 96% of the population is iodine deficient, which can wreak havoc on your mitochondria, dropping your ATP production from a healthy 36 to just 2. This sluggish mitochondrial performance leads to a slower metabolism, fatigue, and unwanted weight gain.
Why you need Iodine:
- Optimal Thyroid Function: Iodine is crucial for thyroid health, enabling the production of hormones T2, T3, and T4. Modern diets often lack sufficient iodine, and even iodized salt doesn’t meet our needs, potentially leading to mineral depletion and microplastic contamination.
- Boosts ATP Production: Iodine enhances ATP production in mitochondria, ramping up your energy levels and supporting a more active metabolism.
- Cellular Detoxification: It helps cleanse cells of heavy metals, toxins, and radiation, which can impair mitochondrial function, metabolism, and weight loss.
- Displaces Harmful Substances: Iodine removes fluoride, chlorine, and bromide from cells, which are known to contribute to hypothyroidism, fatigue, and lowered ATP levels.
- Prevents Toxic Overload: High-dose iodine administration prevents new toxins from binding to cell receptors, offering protection from their negative effects.
- Mitigates Spike Protein Damage: It may reduce damage caused by the Spike Protein, linked to mitochondrial damage, exhaustion, and metabolic slowdowns.
- Blood Cleansing and Hormonal Balance: Iodine aids in cleansing the blood, supports liver detoxification, and helps regulate estrogen, promoting hormonal balance- all factors that support overcoming fatigue.
Why Choose Acceleradine® Iodine?
Acceleradine® Iodine is unique because it’s the only pure, natural singlet active iodine (I-) suspended in alcohol and enhanced with scalar frequencies. Its single iodine atom structure ensures maximum bioavailability and absorption, even if your body is weak. Most iodine supplements only achieve 10 to 20 percent absorption, but Acceleradine® ensures you get the full benefits.
Accelerated Fast: Beyond a Metabolism Booster
Accelerated Fast™ does more than just boost your metabolism. By enhancing ATP production, the ingredients in Accelerated Fast™ support energy, weight loss and liver health. They also help gently cleanse your liver daily, reducing fatty liver and detoxifying your system, which is crucial for converting T4 to the active T3 thyroid hormone, promoting thyroid health and energy.
Why Accelerated Fast™ stands out:
- Curbs Cravings: The ingredients help curb cravings for sugar and processed foods, preventing ATP depletion and supporting energy and metabolism. By pushing your body into ketosis, they enable you to tap into fat stores for a steady energy source.
- Optimizes Thyroid Hormone Conversion: By promoting ketosis, the formula ensures your metabolism runs smoothly and supports overall well-being.
- Prevents Metabolic Slowdown: Instead of relying on glucose and calorie restriction, which can slow your metabolism and deplete energy, the ingredients in Accelerated Fast™ promote ketosis and optimize thyroid hormone conversion.
Accelerated Thyroid®: Boosting Thyroid Health Naturally
Accelerated Thyroid® is a comprehensive natural thyroid supplement that helps support thyroid function, combining grass-fed thyroid glandular, essential peptides, amino acids, and crucial nutrients. It also includes the Ayurvedic herb Kanchanara, known for its detoxifying and thyroid-supporting properties.
Ingredient benefits:
- Prevents Fatty Liver: Supports metabolism, energy, and weight loss.
- Accelerates Wound Healing: Promotes faster recovery.
- Strengthens Connective Tissue and Bones: Enhances structural integrity.
- Elevates Mood: Boosts overall outlook.
- Improves Digestion: Optimizes nutrient absorption.
- Enhances B12 Production: Supports overall health and vitality.
Why Choose Accelerated Thyroid®?
Enhanced with Scalar frequencies, Accelerated Thyroid® helps clear emotional and physical shock, supports thyroid health, and facilitates detoxification from halogens, heavy metals, and radiation.
Accelerated NucNoMore® Radiation Drops
NucNoMore® is a Scalar Frequency charged ORMES formula designed to remove harmful non-ionizing and ionizing radiation, including EMFs from smartphones, smart meters, and 5G, protecting mitochondrial health and ATP production. Radiation is known to decrease cellular energy, degrade mitochondrial health, and lead to chronic fatigue and disease.
Accelerated Cellular Detox® Powder
This organic powder combines Micronized Zeolite, Diatomaceous Earth, Activated Charcoal, Triphala, Chitosan, and Slippery Elm to detoxify your system and remove the elements that lead to fatigue. Embedded with Scalar frequencies, it helps remove heavy metals, radiation, pesticides, and food poison, promoting regularity and reducing bloat.
HeaWea Microgen Frequency Healing Device
The HeaWea Microgen Device is a portable wellness device using microcurrent and bioresonance technology to deliver specific electrical frequencies to your body. These frequencies stimulate cellular function, promoting ATP and mitochondrial health.
Benefits of the HeaWea Microgen Healing Device may include:
- Energy and Vitality: Boosts energy levels and physical vitality, and specifically can target fatigue.
- Support ATP and Thyroid Function: Increases ATP and addresses thyroid activity.
- Pain Management: Alleviates chronic pain and reduces inflammation.
- Stress Reduction: Reduces stress, enhancing mental clarity and well-being.
- Detoxification: Supports natural detoxification processes.
- Support for Chronic Conditions: Aids in managing symptoms of chronic health conditions.
Sara Banta
Sara Banta is a Stanford University Graduate with a Degree in Economics and Psychology, and a certified Natural Supplement Expert & Graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Sara is the Founder of Accelerated Health Products and host of the health & wellness podcast, Accelerated Health Radio.
