Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and The Coconut Diet™

I had this chronic fatigue problem for the last 2 years or so. I tried taking a lot of medication, but nothing really helped! Finally I started taking 3 tbsp Coconut oil a day and praise God I felt my energy level renewed & refreshed within a week! Now it's more than a month and I don't feel tired and run down anymore, as I take 3 tbsp of Coconut oil a day, and no other medication of any sort. I thank God for this wonder working oil. Now I tell everyone I meet about the positive effects of Coconut oil to our body and ask them to visit this site! ...I'm sure Coconut oil will help you too! God Bless you, Juliyana (Coconut Diet Forums)

I CAN  say that coconut oil really truly helps with my pain with my fibromyalgia and thyroid  problems and gives me more energy. I feel so much better!! Amy (Coconut Diet Forums)

There are a number of alternative doctors who believe chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia are really a thyroid disorder. I tend to think there is something to this since I have hypothyroidism and there was a time when my thyroid replacement was too low and I developed many of the classic symptoms of fibromyalgia. When this happened I refused to accept this lame excuse for an explanation, and did some research. I came upon some articles by Dr. Lowe in Colorado, which made me decide to start raising my thyroid medication. Amazingly, within a month my symptoms really improved and I no longer think CFS and fibromyalgia are real diseases but the manifestations of thyroid disease or some type of metabolic problem tied to thyroid function. I don't have these symptoms anymore. Fibromyalgia and CFS were not heard of much until the development of the TSH test and the overall use of Synthroid or other T4 only treatment. Prior to that people with these symptoms were treated with Armour thyroid and the dose was adjusted up until symptoms were relieved.

Since the TSH test was implemented for detecting thyroid disease and for adjusting the dose, thyroid replacement doses have dropped to 1/3 of what they were for about 73 years prior to that. I suspect that this is why thyroid treatment has not been very effective for CFS and fibromyalgia patients. The doses are too low to affect any improvement and may result in suppression of the pituitary leading to the person becoming even more hypothyroid as their own thyroids are not stimulated by the pituitary to keep up their own production to complement the additional replacement. Typical thyroid doses prior to the 1970s were between 3 and 9 grains of Armour a day. Today, they range between 1 and 2 grains.

Performing the Barnes basal body temperature test or keeping a record of your daily temperatures (taken 3 times a day every 3 hours starting in the morning) will tell you whether your metabolic rate is too low. There are other causes of low metabolic rate, but by far thyroid is the most common. Also, if you have high cholesterol, that is another very strong indication of low thyroid function. We are awash today in thyroid inhibitors - one of which is trans-fatty acids.

Leaky gut can definitely play a role in fatigue and many disorders. Research on celiacs (people with wheat allergy) has shown that they have a high rate of development of thyroid disease. People with leaky gut are at greatly increased risk of developing auto-immune disorders such as thyroid disease, Lupus, and arthritis. People who are hypothyroid get leaky gut because they cannot rebuild the intestinal tract lining at a fast enough rate to keep it's integrity.

Hypothyroid people and those with adrenal hypofunction can develop many allergies. It is the adrenals that play a major role in immune response and regulation of immune function, keeping it in a narrow range where it kills the bad things but doesn't attack the host. In hypothyroidism, adrenal function is greatly reduced or they may overproduce trying to replace the lacking thyroid function and increase available T3. So, multiple allergy development is a classic symptom of hypothyroidism. This is what happened to me before my diagnosis. Since beginning treatment a year and 9 months ago, I have lost all but two allergies, wheat being the main one that I will probably never loose.

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