If you are suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, one of the most common reasons is that you simply do not have the right nutrients in your system. You could try to eat more of the foods that contain the nutrients that you need. However, if you have a medical condition that makes it more difficult for you eat certain foods, you might need to use other methods to treat chronic fatigue syndrome. While you could rely on supplements, nutritional therapy is sometimes the only effective treatment.
How Nutritional Therapy Works
Intravenous nutrition therapy bypasses your digestive system by feeding nutrients directly into the bloodstream. The nutrients are administered to the bloodstream through a needle. Because the nutrients bypass the digestive system, they are absorbed more quickly into the bloodstream. However, to carry out IV nutritional therapy correctly, you will want to have the treatment administered by a specialist. The digestive process slows down the rate at which nutrients are absorbed into the body, so these nutrients will need to be added to the bloodstream gradually as well.
Benefits of Nutritional Therapy
If the IV nutritional therapy method is carried out correctly, you will be able to receive the benefits of the administered nutrients much more quickly. Sometimes, the digestive system is not able to properly absorb nutrients into the bloodstream. Therefore, even if you are eating healthy, your body will not be receiving the benefits of your nutritional choices. By instead relying on intravenous nutritional therapy, you will be able to treat the symptoms of chronic fatigue directly.
Alternatives to Nutritional Therapy
Nutritional supplements involve the consumption of nutrients in an unconventional form. For example, rather than getting iron from meat, you might receive iron from a nutritional shake, bar, pill or powder. The advantage of supplemental bars is that you do not have to prepare them. You can simply tear one open and consume it. Also, supplemental bars make you feel fuller.
The best way to receive nutrients is through food because your body is designed specifically to digest food, not to receive nutrients directly or through an artificially created supplement. Therefore, you should see if there is another type of food you can consume to receive the same nutrients. For instance, if you have a difficult time consuming certain vegetables, it might be easier to eat them in a soup form. But if you are simply unable to consume the food you need to obtain the necessary nutrients, you might benefit from intravenous nutritional therapy.
Share27 April 2015
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