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“Diet is very important, and sometimes forgotten as the reason why people may feel tired all the time,” says Eric Ascher, D.O., a family medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
Tired all the time: there’s a range of reasons you may feel constantly sleepy, but it’s important to identify the cause and try to counteract it (Getty) It’s that time of year again.
Weyand sees a lot of adolescent patients who thought their exhaustion was due to high-pressure high school—they had no idea they didn’t need to be that tired.
Sleep apnea can occur 10 times as often in uremic patients than in the general population and can affect up to 30-80% of patients on dialysis, though nighttime dialysis can improve this. About 50% of dialysis patients have hypersomnia, as severe kidney disease can cause uremic encephalopathy, increased sleep-inducing cytokines , and impaired ...
In such cases, there is no anticipation of threat or harm present but still the result is fatigue. Characteristic of mental fatigue is difficulty focusing. For a mentally fatigued person, paying attention to something uninteresting is burdensome, even though focusing on something of great interest poses no particular challenge.
[citation needed] People who are sleep deprived in general also do not provide their bodies with sufficient time for an adequate immunological memory to form and, thus, can fail to benefit from vaccination. [85] People who sleep less than six hours a night are more susceptible to infection and are more likely to catch a cold or flu.
“Some people may eat a diet that has actually very little iron to be available for the body to absorb, and that can cause iron deficiency over long periods of time,” says Cunningham.
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