October 2019

What is Insomnia?

Insomnia is a type of sleep disorder. Individuals with insomnia find it difficult to fall asleep, stay asleep, or both. People with insomnia often don’t feel refreshed when they wake up from sleeping, either. This can lead to fatigue and other symptoms.

What is Fatigue?

Fatigue is a term used to describe an overall feeling of tiredness or lack of energy. It isn’t the same as simply feeling drowsy or sleepy. When you’re fatigued, you have no motivation and no energy. Being sleepy may be a symptom of fatigue, but it’s not the same thing.

Fatigue is a common symptom of many medical conditions that range in severity from mild to serious. It’s also a natural result of some lifestyle choices, such as lack of exercise or poor diet.

Causes

Insomnia

Short-term insomnia may be caused by stress, an upsetting or traumatic event, or changes to your sleep habits.

Chronic insomnia lasts for at least three months and is usually secondary to another problem or a combination of problems, including:

• medical conditions which make it harder to sleep, such as arthritis or back pain
• psychological issues, such as anxiety or depression
• substance use

Fatigue

There are many potential causes of fatigue. They can be divided into three general categories:

• lifestyle factors
• physical health conditions
• mental health issues

Lifestyle factors

If you’re experiencing fatigue, your activities and other lifestyle choices may be the root cause. For example, fatigue can result from:

• physical exertion
• lack of physical activity
• lack of sleep
• being overweight or obese
• periods of emotional stress
• boredom
• grief
• taking certain medications, such as antidepressants or sedatives
• using alcohol on a regular basis
• using illicit drugs, such as cocaine
• consuming too much caffeine
• not eating a nutritious diet

Physical health conditions

Many medical conditions can also cause fatigue. Examples include:

• anemia
• arthritis
• fibromyalgia
• chronic fatigue syndrome
• infections, such as cold and flu
• Addison’s disease, a disorder that can affect your hormone levels
• hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid
• hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid
• sleep disorders, such as insomnia
• eating disorders, such as anorexia
• autoimmune disorders
• congestive heart failure
• cancer
• diabetes
• kidney disease
• liver disease
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• emphysema

Mental health issues

Mental health conditions can also lead to fatigue. For example, fatigue is a common symptom of anxiety, depression, and seasonal affective disorder.

What is Biopuncture?

Biopuncture injectable therapy is an effective and inexpensive way to promote the natural regulatory processes in the body that reduces inflammation, enhance the body’s natural immunity, and promotes healing and better health.

❖ Biopuncture is an injection therapy in which specific body zones or points are injected with highly diluted natural products, the majority of which are derived from plants, in order to regulate inflammatory processes and support natural repair mechanisms. Most of these injections are given into the skin or muscles.

Generally, these injections of homeopathic solution are dilute micro doses of plants or minerals given intramuscularly in one small injection site.

The natural substances injected include sterile homeopathic formulas, B12 vitamin, saline, glucose, and analgesics such as Procaine, Sarapin, and Lidocaine.

One injection intramuscularly has a systemic effect on the entire body. For more localized areas, an application known as “Bio puncture” can be used for conditions such as an acute sprained ankle or frozen shoulder. Their application in the area of immune enhancement and pain reduction are paramount.

The injections are cost effective and they generally produce positive results.

What does it treat?

When buying a new appliance or car, you get an operating manual that takes you through step by step on how to care for it, keep it running as smoothly as possible for as long as possible, there is always a section on troubleshooting, we all diligently store and refer to these manuals.  With our wonderfully complex bodies, we arrive into this world without an operating manual.  The sad reality is that many people do not take good care of their bodies until they begin to break down and produce symptoms.  Understanding the basics that govern our health will ensure that we live life more enjoyably and longer.

Many will be aware of the RDA’s (short for Recommended Dietary Allowance) for our various vitamins and minerals that have been promoted as our nutrient guidelines, they will meet the needs of most healthy people.  These recommendations will certainly prevent absolute nutritional deficiency diseases such as scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), beriberi (vitamin B1 – Thiamine deficiency) and pellagra (vitamin B3 – Niacin deficiency), yet the RDA’s are not designed for optimal health.

RDA’s can be compared to “minimum wage”, they keep you away from nutritional diseases (comparable to starvation when you don’t have enough money) but they do not allow you to live a life of optimum health and wellness.

Many studies have documented that doses above the RDA provide significant health benefits.  In saying this we also need to be aware that taking nutrients at high doses for extended periods can also be dangerous for the body.  Important to know is that you can not consume high doses of Iron, Vitamin D, A and E  and selenium for extended periods as they will produce toxicity.  Yet in general, it is individuals who do not ingest sufficient levels of nutrients for optimum health and produce disease than the occasional person who will overdose on a nutrient and cause toxicity.

It is the correct use of nutrients along with a healthy diet, exercise and lifestyle that will result in most people having a well-functioning immune system and a healthy ageing process.

Increasing levels of stress and environmental pollution, poorer nutritional content of foods we are eating and increasing use of chronic medications are all resulting in our nutrients being depleted without us being aware of it.  The environment that we are living in today directs us to seriously consider using a well-formulated multivitamin and multimineral supplement regularly.

Today we have been made aware of the nutritional depletion caused by drugs that people use for chronic medical conditions.  Some well-known drugs used very regularly and some nutrients depleted by them:

A thorough case taking will ensure that we look into what drugs you are using and which nutrients will need replenishing.