Tired All the Time: How to Regain Your Lost Energy [Paperback]

Ronald L. Hoffman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

Identifies the twelve leading causes of fatigue, from depression to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, outlines a program for nutrient therapy and exercise, and provides comforting patient histories. Reprint.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Hoffman ( Seven Weeks to a Settled Stomach ) is quick to point out that most doctors take a conventional approach to fatigue, attempting to rule out serious diseases that can be detected by blood tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures. Although these means will help patients suffering from serious diseases, they don't serve many who are suffering from fatigue due to less obvious causes. The typical physician's attitude: if it's not physical in origin, it must be psychological. Not so, Hoffman says, citing numerous examples of patients suffering from long-term fatigue owing to allergens, poor diet and other bugbears well known to his New York City-based holistic practice. He devotes a chapter to the chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome and the special problems that this constellation of symptoms causes to those who are ill with it. To overcome fatigue, Hoffman provides mainstream advice such as calls for exercise, diet improvements and stress reduction. But he emphasizes alternative therapies. For PMS, for example, he recommends taking herbs such as black cohosh, chasteberry, licorice, ginseng and others containing natural estrogens. Hoffman, though, does not suggest appropriate doses. Instead, he recommends that we take herbs with low doses and build slowly until they improve our well-being. One might expect such diffuse advice from a friendly health-food store clerk, not from a physician. Better Homes and Gardens and Literary Guild alternates.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Hoffman, an expert on fatigue and medical director of the Hoffman Center for Holistic Medicine in New York City, treats fatigue as a curable condition, using a holistic approach to discover "toxic" elements in the patient's environment, diet, and lifestyle. Feeling that persistent fatigue is normally not due to a major illness, he lists "self-tests" for the reader to determine the source of his/her own problem and offers ways to increase energy and vitality. Different from Paul Donoghue and Mary Siegel's Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired ( LJ 11/15/92) in that he doesn't address emotional coping mechanisms or the specific disease entities that can cause fatigue, Hoffman does offer useful ways for diminishing the effects of unexplained persistent fatigue. This will probably be a popular book in public libraries and health collections.
- Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Gallery (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671868128
• ISBN-13: 978-0671868123
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,448,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent start place to finding good health, August 31, 2011

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Barry Meggs (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tired All the Time: How to Regain Your Lost Energy (Paperback)

I first found Ronald Hoffman MD's book in a secondhand book store many years ago. I was fortunate as, at the time, I was suffering from chronic fatigue and barely scraping through each day at work then collapsing into sleep and waking ready for the next days work. The first page which I opened the book to mentioned a chemical which I came into contact with at work every day. It described it as being one of the 10 worst chemicals for human health. No such warnings were posted at work. I protected myself from that point on and recovered some of my health. Following advice in other chapters I was then able, over a number of years and using the internet as a reference guide to symptoms, to recognise coeliac disease and its associated problems (keeping in mind that doctors who I have consulted assure me that coeliac does not really exist; diet does not affect health, or so I have been told by them). For the first time in my life, at 48 years of age, I am finally experiencing near perfect health. There are other good books out there but, in my opinion, this is the one to start with, not just for chronic fatigue but any health issues. I once (when I was about 19) had a doctor who was determined to prove that I had leukemia, my health was in general so poor (though good enough to get me in the army). It makes me laugh now to think of all the wrong diagnoses which doctors gave me over the years only to have one book, written by a doctor half way around the world, solve almost all of my health problems. Even having resolved my own health problems I still bought a new copy to keep in my collection for posterity and those I care about.

3.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to the topic but dated, August 21, 2011

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Yoda (Hadera, Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tired All the Time: How to Regain Your Lost Energy (Paperback)

This book provides a good introduction to the topic but, unfortunately, suffers from the fact that it is dated. It was published in the mid 1990s and hence contains "state of the art" information that was only that back then. Many significant advances have been made since then in many of the areas the book covers (i.e., sleep apnea, depression, chronic fatigue, etc.). Nevertheless the book still provides a good introduction. It covers what, even today, are considered the main causes of chronic fatigue such as sleep disorders, mental conditions such as depression, allergies and dietary problems. Each of these is covered in separate chapters. In addition, chapters are provided on exercise and sleep but, unfortunately, none is provided on stress.

In short, the book provides a good but dated introduction to its subject.