I am a 34 yr old woman who was disabled for 4 yrs and 2 yrs being in a wheelchair. I am now trying to get back to exercising and getting all my strength back to where I use to be. I have found that when i do exercise even it's a walk around the neighborhood with my dog I am very tired the rest of the day. I do eat good healthy foods but not sure if I'm needing more of some kind of food or what? I am working really hard to get into shape again and could use some help as to why I am so weak and tired.

I can understand your being weak and fatigued after being wheelchair bound for so long. I admire you for wanting to exercise and regain your strength. Are you taking any vitamins? I think a good multi vitamin/mineral (overall), and a B-50 complex (nerves) along with omega 3 fish oil (joints)and magnesium citrate (muscles) will benefit.

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I applaud you for doing your best to try and eat healthy and get active after 4 years. Maybe you could try eating healthy foods that provide you with energy such as healthy fats, protein and carbs. It's probabll a good idea to ask your doctor why you are feeling this way as well.

I don't think anyone can recover from disability without first getting vitamin D 25(OH)D levels optimum. If we want to get the best power and performance from our muscles we have to ensure a natural vitamin D level around 50ng/ml 125nmol/l.
It's not expensive to use 5000iu/daily Vitamin D3 and you can now get postal blood tests quite reasonably priced to ensure you stay at the optimum level.

Vitamin d works best in the context of a low inflammatory diet so the suggestion to use Bcomplex, omega 3 and magnesium is absolutely right. Our body is set to produce the anti-inflammatory antioxidant antibiotic antinociceptive vitamin d from dawn to dusk over the whole surface of the skin given UVB exposure and from dusk to dawn the anti-inflammatory antioxidant antibiotic antinociceptive MELATONIN given sufficient darkness at night and bright light exposure during the day.

The reason we suffer so much inflammation, oxidation , infection and pain is because we don't enable our body with the natural levels of vitamin d and melatonin we require.

Eliminating modern wheat/corn and refined sugars/sweeteners as well as industrially processed vegetable omega 6 oils reduces the inflammation/pain we suffer and enables easier weight loss.

Low vitamin D, frailty correlate OSU research group examines vitamin D levels, frailty, finds those with low levels at risk

Thank you very much for your comments and I will try and add the B complex to my daily vitamins. I am already taking the others so maybe I'm just not getting enough of them but I'll increase them and see what happen!

You need what we all need, 16 vitamins, 60 minerals, 12 amino acids, and 3 essential fatty acids, in optimal amounts.

Since all 60 minerals work together, and vitamins won't work without mineral co-factors, it is crutial that you get them all, and buying a cheap multi-vitamin from Walmart isn't going to help you. These vitamins are synthetic, and the minerals are metallic, which makes them very difficult to absorb.

I would suggest "the mighty 90" in colloidal form, the best form for the body to absorb, at a 98% rate.

If you want to give your body a chance to heal and repair itself, you must give it the raw materials that it needs. Do some research on the mighty 90 and Joel Wallach, the doctor responsible for reversing just about every condition there is.

Youtube has several videos about him.


Good luck on your road to health..


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