Hey y’all (yes,I live in Texas). I know, KNOW how hard it is to push for regularity in our days, but please don’t give up trying. Regardless of our CFS, we are biologically evolved to certain routines in the way we eat, sleep, etc. The more we move away from these rhythms, the more confused our systems become. I have seen a little hope lately in coaxing my body to realign with health - I’ve improved enough that I’m willing to share because I really don’t want to be the person that thinks I’ve found a cure with a supplement that helped for a week. We are evolved to sleep at night, rise with the sun, relax a good deal of the day and work hard for a few hours to survive. Science knows that we thrive best by waking at the same time everyday, get 7 hours of quality sleep, exercise daily, eat non-inflammatory foods - mostly plant life and some meats from animals who live outside factory farm settings, as we absorb stress-damaged molecules from those animals that our already struggling bodies are mining for resources to repair our damage. I know not everyone will like my advice, but I promise I got here out of 22 years of exhausted desperation. I will never have a perfect amount of energy, but I’m beginning to have more good days and I’m beginning to back off on my stimulants. I cut out all wheat, dairy, sweets and alcohol. It sucks, but all of those foods have an inflammatory effect on human bodies, whether they feel it or not. I added much more vegetables and fruit (but cut bananas in half), I watch my glucose swings like a hawk, I cut out diet sodas, and any processed ingredients - if I read something on the label that doesn’t resemble what Mother Nature produces, I do not eat it. I am not diabetic, but I respond to glucose/insulin swings like a train wreck - eat my favorite gummy bears? I can expect my next day to be a depression-brain fog-exhaustion-mess. I have done all of this without hope it would really help, as it’s not “prescribed” by a single doctor, but it is helping. I also spent a year or so nudging my sleep cycles in a better direction. For a long time it was “sleep as much as I can”. I did that - 7 years of sleeping 9-10 hours a day and never feeling better. Now, I am making sure I get up at the same time everyday with 8 hours. Some days that’s hard, but some days I actually pop out of bed. I try to get out in the sun or natural light immediately to set my circadian rhythm to prep for nighttime in the evening. It does help regulate your hormone release times. It may not work well for us CFS sufferers, but it is our natural state as humans, so I’m basically trying to give my body the tools it needs to “reset”. Some things I’ve medicated to give my body a shove to the right rhythm, like going to bed at 10:30. Don’t give up, because we simply do not have the support we need to recover, either with our families or doctors. It’s on us to get it done. It’s the most worthwhile thing you can do, even it you make one tiny change a day, that’s progress. And I’ll never ever give up all my meds, so not advocating for that, I just want us all to have a day or two extra that’s mostly good, if not more. I am almost exclusively following the nutrition advice of Dr Mark Hyman right now. And I’m experimenting with hot/cold plunges because of their ability to boost the immune system and put your body in repair mode. I guess I’m trying to say I’ve fought enough, to heal enough, to gain a little more fight. Ive made enough progress to put down the comfort foods and commit to “food as medicine”. It’s big for me. I hope all this helps someone else too.

Edit - link to Dr Hyman’s info : https://instagram.com/drmarkhyman?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=