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It’s very normal to feel tired after a long and hectic day or after a bout of physical activity or even mental exertion or stress. In these cases some good rest, relaxation and some healthy food should be enough to bring us back to a feeling of energy and alertness.
However, persistent fatigue, a tiredness and lack of energy that won’t go away or feels out of proportion to the energy expended may indicate the need to supplement your diet with extra nutritional support. Even if your fatigue is due to recovering from a recent illness or from current environmental stress nutritional supplements can help boost your energy and even help restore any dips in your frame of mind. In fact, if the body is low on crucial nutrients this alone can cause a person to feel anxious, exhausted, depressed or grouchy.
Millions of people each year report to their doctors feeling of exhaustion and fatigue. Fortunately there are supplements to take to help with this feeling.
Fatigue ranks among the many diseases and conditions treated by vitamin B12 (cobalamin). This is one of the premier vitamins for maintaining the health of nerve cells and red blood cells. A deficiency in vitamin B12 can cause fatigue, weakness, memory loss, and other problems with the nervous system.
However, it’s also important to not that B vitamins must be taken together. So, when you supplement with vitamin B12 also take a B-Complex as well. It’s worthy of not that even at high doses vitamin B12 is relatively safe and experts have not found a dose that’s dangerous.
Good food sources of B12 include:
Fish
Shellfish
Meats
Poultry
Eggs
Dairy Products
Some Fortified Cereals
As people age it becomes harder for them to absorb vitamin B12. This makes it even more important as one gets older to supplement one’s diet with additional B12 and B-Complex vitamins.
Another important supplement for the treatment or prevention of fatigue is the ever-faithful Vitamin C. This is a powerful antioxidant and plays an important role in helping your body cope with stress. Vitamin C is involved in the production of anti-stress hormones in the body.
The correlations between fatigue and Vitamin C are abundant beginning with the earliest medical writings and still appear in the most recent professional publications
In a famous clinical experiment in which the subject was given all nutrients and vitamins with the exception of Vitamin C it was found the individual, a formerly normally energetic doctor, became severely fatigued and lacking in energy in an extremely short period of time. Once large does of Vitamin were given, the subject noticed an improvement in energy within 24 hours. This is how important vitamin C is to your energy and how quickly it can work.
It is well-known that, with advancing age, there is increasing weariness. Old people get more tired than young folks. It is therefore abundantly clear that the older we are the more we must pay attention to supplementing an already healthy diet with vitamin C pills.
Raw fruits and vegetables are your best source for vitamin C with oranges, lemons, grapefruits, limes and sweet peppers leading the list:
Then there’s Bee Pollen.
Bee Pollen is a orange-yellow substance that come in little granules or pellets. It comes from the pollen nectar on flowers. Technically it is the male seed of flowers and is required for the fertilization of the plant.
Bee Pollen is a fairly well-known energy booster sometimes referred to an one of natures “superfoods”, containing every nutrient needed to sustain life. It contains protein,vitamins, fatty acids, minerals and all 22 amino acids. So it really does make sense that this supplement could enhance one’s energy level.
Try complimenting your vitamin and mineral supplements with a tablespoon of bee pollen each day and you could find yourself with an increase in energy and alertness sustaining you throughout the day.
To understand the importance of magnesium to feelings fatigue and to our overall health all we have to do is look at the problems caused by a deficiency in this important mineral. Symptoms of magnesium deficiency include fatigue, irritability, weakness, heart disturbances, mental confusion, muscle cramps, loss of appetite, insomnia, and a predisposition to stress. This is an important supplement. An underlying magnesium deficiency can result in chronic fatigue and symptoms similar to the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Since magnesium also helps with calcium absorption these minerals should be taken together and are frequently available combined in a water-soluble powder to tablet. I recommend the powder as being easier to digest and assimilate.
Just by using the above supplements you may find yourself able to fight off those feelings of fatigue and have consistent energy throughout the day.