Why can’t modern research find a cure for chronic fatigue (ME/CFS)?

For the last decade, more and more funding has been allocated to research on many illnesses, such as ME/CFS. Many major research institutes are involved in ME/CFS research such as those at Harvard and Stanford.

As you already know, despite increased research efforts, chronic fatigue and CFS in Western medicine remains a complex condition with no identifiable cause or cure.

The research has been and will continue to be unsuccessful because researchers approach different aspects of CFS in isolation from one another. This reductionist approach looks at genetics, or at chronic fatigue as a possible autoimmune disease, or as something else, without a broader and deeper understanding of how the many parts and systems of the body interact with one another in different ways at different times in different environments. All this research examines CFS from one narrow perspective to the exclusion of other possible perspectives and approaches. They do not see a body or an interconnected system, only body parts on an examination table to be carefully classified, labeled, and then treated in isolation from one another.

Research on chronic fatigue is just one example of ineffective defective approaches that ignore not just how each part and system of the body connects and interacts with all the other parts and systems of the body, but in addition, ignores how persons and their bodies interact with their surroundings and their social environment. For example, it is often easier for healthcare professionals to prescribe a pill or institutionalize someone for anxiety, than it is to deal with the causes of that anxiety, which may be a difficult domestic situation, war trauma, sudden loss of employment, stress, and so on, than it is to deal with the root causes of that anxiety, which is an imbalance in the body’s energy system.

Unlike modern science and contemporary Western medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine usually has a clear explanation of illnesses.

The universe is made of energy and our body is made of this energy for life – the life energy. With the right kinds of life energy in the right place in our body, every illnesses is preventable and curable. Strengthening the body with life energy is the only way to get rid of chronic fatigue (CFS) and other illness symptoms. Only after I realized this could I healed my long list of illnesses including chronic fatigue syndrome.

• Learn the basic concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
• Find the cause of your fatigue and ill health.
• Identify your individual energy needs.
• Cultivate the kinds of energy needed and heal yourself through food, habits, and everyday activities.

Julia “Health” Sun

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