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    User's Guide to Energy-Boosting Supplements: Discover the Best Supplements for Safely Enhancing Your Energy Levels
    User's Guide to Energy-Boosting Supplements: Discover the Best Supplements for Safely Enhancing Your Energy Levels
    User's Guide to Energy-Boosting Supplements: Discover the Best Supplements for Safely Enhancing Your Energy Levels
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    User's Guide to Energy-Boosting Supplements: Discover the Best Supplements for Safely Enhancing Your Energy Levels

    By Ron Hunninghake and Jack Challem

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    Anyone who feels more tired than they should and winds up feeling fuzzy headed from eating so-called energy foods, will likely benefit from the several supplements that boost energy levels, which are discussed in this User's Guide. Coenzyme Q10, alpha-lipoic acid, and carnitine are vitamin-like nutrients, not stimulants. They work by helping the body burn the foods consumed for sustained energy. This User's Guide also offers eating tips to help readers maintain high energy levels and to avoid feeling tired after meals.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateOct 1, 2006
    ISBN9781591206965
    User's Guide to Energy-Boosting Supplements: Discover the Best Supplements for Safely Enhancing Your Energy Levels
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    Ron Hunninghake

    Dr. Ron, as patients at The Clinic fondly refer to Ron Hunninghake, MD, is a native Kansan. He served his medical internship at Wichita’s Wesley Medical Center in 1979 and completed his residency at the Smoky Hill Family Practice Program in Salina, Kansas in 1982. Dr. Ron began his career as a small town doc in Minneapolis, Kansas where he first started teaching clinic-based wellness. Later, he joined nearby Salina Family Physicians and was instrumental in founding WellPlan, a comprehensive lifestyle modification program. Seeking even greater involvement in helping patients learn innovative ways to rebuild and maintain their health, he joined the Riordan Clinic in 1989 as its Medical Director.

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      User's Guide to Energy-Boosting Supplements - Ron Hunninghake

      INTRODUCTION

      I, Ronald Hunninghake, have a confession to make: I’m a doctor, writing a book about energy . . . and I used to suffer terribly from fatigue! I did not have chronic fatigue syndrome, I was not depressed, and I had no serious illnesses, such as diabetes. I enjoyed my work. My wife and family were wonderful. I slept well (though probably not enough). I walked every day and kept my weight down. In spite of all this, I was pooped!

      I could make it through the day all right, but only after a cappuccino jump-start in the morning, a noon nap, and several diet colas in the afternoon. Even then, I would typically experience a brown-out between two and three o’clock each day—my eyes heavy, my facial expression drooping, and my attention drifting into semiconscious drowsiness. It wasn’t unusual for a patient to jolt me back to reality with a sharp Doctor . . . doctor! Are you okay?

      No, I wasn’t okay. Something was wrong that I didn’t see and couldn’t understand. I was so immersed in my fatigue, I made the mistake of assuming everyone felt tired. In a sense, I had adapted to my fatigue. Looking back, I now know that I was very low in energy, and I didn’t know how to correct the situation.

      Though not overweight, I was often hungry, and usually for the wrong things. If there were something sugary that I could get my hands on, I would go for that. I knew I needed more energy and was looking for some way to infuse it into my body. Quick calories gave me a quick burst of energy, like a roller coaster making it to the top of a steep climb. Then, my blood sugar would plummet, and I would often feel things going fuzzy, as though I were going to black out.

      In a very real sense, these were moments when I had run out of gas. Filling the tank over and over again with sugary foods wasn’t working. Indeed, for many of my patients, this approach to fatigue was leading to weight gain in their abdominal area. This central obesity—coupled with a tendency for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and blood lipids, and borderline blood sugar readings—form an ominous medical constellation that over a third of Americans now face: Syndrome X, also known as metabolic syndrome. This syndrome leads directly to the fastest-growing disease in America today: type 2 diabetes. The onset of type 2 diabetes is often heralded by severe fatigue.

      In fact, many medical conditions are associated with fatigue. That’s why people often say they are sick and tired of frustrating life situations. They are definitely tired, and often sick. And why does tiredness often precede diabetes and many other serious illnesses? It’s because the key cellular nutrients needed to run the biochemistry of energy production are depleted.

      Could it be that overeating is an attempt to get these needed nutrients? When the basic understanding of cellular energy production is missing, humans will forage blindly in their attempt to fill in this gap. Obesity (another major cause of fatigue and illness) may be the result of a misdirected attempt to correct cellular malnutrition.

      Feeding the Fire

      The purpose of this book is to introduce you to a basic understanding of bioenergetics. Bio is life. Energetics is energy. Bioenergetics is the study of the energy of life. This is basic biochemistry 101. Unfortunately, biochemistry is usually locked up in textbooks, where sleepy-eyed students study it for the purpose of passing a test. Knowing how energy is created at the cellular level and how to feed those processes helps us pass the most important test: how we live our day-to-day lives.

      Dr. Hugh Riordan, the founder of the center where I have practiced for the past two decades, offered this definition of health: Health is having the reserves to do what you need to do and want to do with energy and enthusiasm. This is a functional definition. Health is a doing thing. One cannot do without energy! (And enthusiasm is energy with an attitude!) The scientist who discovered vitamin C, Albert Szent-Györgyi, referred to energy as the currency of life. Without energy, you have nothing to spend!

      I began this introduction by admitting my helplessness in the face of unrelenting fatigue. That was years ago, when I was energy-ignorant. Through a better understanding of bioenergetics, I was able to overcome my own tiredness and lethargy. I now know that there are ways to revive and enliven the bioenergetic system. I know, because I have helped many chronically tired patients to regain their energy and to become colearners in the process.

      Dr. Riordan coined this term. Colearners are patients who take an active role in the discovery of the actual underlying causes of their illness. Colearners are partners with health professionals. I invite you to become a colearner with my coauthor, Melissa Block, and me. We wrote this book to help you conquer fatigue and enjoy a more energetic life.

      As a colearner, you will better understand how cellular energy—a kind of cellular fire—is created and sustained. Like any fire, if it is fed poorly selected fuel (see Chapter 2), it will become weak. If the kindling is wet (see Chapter 3) it will not ignite properly. If care is not taken to tend to the sparks flying off the blaze (see Chapter 4), damage to the surrounding cellular environment can ensue. By knowing which kinds of wood to use, you can make your fire burn in a slower and more sustained fashion (see Chapter 5) or faster and hotter (see Chapter 6). There are ways to stoke your fire’s reserves as well (see Chapter 7).

      We use the analogy of building a fire very purposefully here. Those of you who camp or own a wood fireplace know that building a fire is both a skill and an art form! Every fire is unique, but predictable. If you take care and make good choices, your fire will rise up into a wondrous thing of beauty, bringing light, warmth, and utility to your experience. If you approach your fire in a haphazard fashion, or are ignorant of what constitutes a healthy fire, you will be disappointed . . . and probably end up with a lot of smoke!

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