At the London Centre for Functional Medicine, our treatment protocols vary with each patient based on the core imbalances that are interfering with the body’s ability to function correctly. A typical approach to treating chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) can include identifying and addressing underlying factors in your lifestyle that can be contributing to the condition e.g. stress, poor sleep hygiene, and sedentary lifestyle.

One of the first places we start to investigate is the gut. Even if there are no gut symptoms, a person may be harbouring a chronic yeast, bacteria, virus or parasite infection that can be detected using PCR testing. Dysbiosis (more bad bacteria than good bacteria) can also be a contributory factor. Typically, depending on what we find, we will look to remove any pathogens, replace the nutrients and enzymes, repair the gut lining and repopulate the microbiome. Undiagnosed oral and chronic viral infections can also be a major factor that we look to investigate with reactivated viral infections a major consideration. Hormone health impacts everything that happens in your body. To overcome fatigue and achieve true health, you need your hormones appropriately balanced. We will look to test your hormone levels and if we discover any abnormalities we can readdress the balance through various protocols which have nutrition and lifestyle at their core.​

If you have fatigue, some forms of exercise have shown to be helpful but exercise can also make things worse. The way to fix your fatigue therefore often involves a range of targeted physical, biochemical, nutritional, and psychological treatments.