Do two things first...read "your body's many cries for water.." about rampant dehyrdation. Then do a google search under "high insulin levels"...almost any ailment you can think of is related..and it is quite easy for most people to reverse (first drop all trans fats and refined and processed carbs..)...besides preceeding type 2 diabetes, it is correlated (and major predictor of) some types of heart ailments. Read Syndrome X by Dr. Gerald Raven..former chair of endocrinology at Stanford...many of these ailments are really one ailment..related by high insulin and blood sugar levels...also Schwartzbein Principal by another endocrinologist...the writing is on the wall....we are about to see health problems collapse in the "developed" world...and the huge amount of medication people have been taking will be drastically cut...good news for everyone but a few pharmaceutical corporations...also there are many labs where you can get your saliva hormonal levels checked...very important for chronic fatigue especially...mg