When the feeling of fatigue is not transient, the reasons must be sought both on the strictly physical and on the psychological front. It is discussed in the free Thursday newsstand insert together with Corriere della Sera
We are publishing a preview of part of an article in the new Corriere Salute. You can read the full text on the issue on newsstands free Thursday 22 December or in Pdf on the Digital Edition of Corriere della Sera.
Other than the gas crisis and skyrocketing bills, the real emergency the human energy crisis. Fatigue is the evil of modern times and feeling with dead batteries even before starting the day is not at all uncommon: in the general population, without taking into account those who suffer from chronic diseases or have specific and already well-known reasons for being exhausted, one in five admits that they lack energy to the point of having their usual daily activities compromised. This was recently demonstrated by a survey by the Swiss University of Lausanne which, by analyzing about three thousand people aged 45 and over, traced the identikit of the chronically fatigued: a middle-aged person, more often a woman, with a few extra kilos and an average low socio-economic level, who is not satisfied with their health in general and often also has some medical problems of which fatigue was a first indicator , from insomnia to anemia, from depression to low levels of thyroid hormones. why fatigue is a vague and frequent symptom which can often depend on lack of sleep or obvious reasons such as excessive physical effort or the flu, but which should not be trivialized precisely because it can be an indication of physical and / or psychological disorders to watch out for.
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Asthenia (the medical term for tiredness, ed) which requires further study, first of all the one that appears more or less suddenly in those who have never had difficulty completing the day’s tasks: if what normally didn’t require a lot of effort becomes a chore, it’s good to ask yourself a few questions – he explains Annamaria Colao, president of the Italian Society of Endocrinology -. Fatigue in these cases may depend on organic disorders and among the most common there is hypothyroidism, or the reduction in the synthesis of thyroid hormones: in general, when the “fault” of the thyroid is also present drowsiness. Hypothyroidism, which in many cases has an autoimmune component or depends on antibodies directed against the thyroid, very common and it is estimated to affect 5-6% of the general population, with peaks of over 10% in women after the age of 60 why with menopause the gland works a little worse; in addition to tiredness and drowsiness, weight gain, difficulty concentrating, dry skin, and brittle hair and nails are typical.
You can continue reading the article on Health Courier on newsstands for free on Thursday 22 December or in Pdf on the Digital Edition of Corriere della Sera.
December 21, 2022 (change December 21, 2022 | 10:39)
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