Feeling constantly tired, weary and hungry can hinder your capacity to carry out everyday tasks as well as affect being efficient at home or at your job. Both conditions may be brief and fleeting, which is quite normal, or chronic, lasting for several weeks, needing medical advice.
Reasons For Being Tired And Hungry All The Time
- An inadequate diet: Mal-nourishment or consuming an unbalanced, deficient diet makes you hungry and exhausted.Not getting sufficient calories per day or a consuming diet that isn’t providing you with essential nutrients or if you frequently go on fad diet and low carbohydrate diet; it could set off malnutrition. The recommended number of calories per day for women is 1,200; and for men, it is 1,500.
- Lack of sleep: Not sleeping enough causes weariness and exhaustion. You may be having primary insomnia which is affecting your sleep pattern, or if you consume too much of caffeine and / or alcohol or may be having an underlying problem, such as a heart or lung disorder – all this causes insufficient sleep.Insufficient sleep causes the body to release large amounts of the hormone ghrelin, and too little of the hormone leptin. These affect your appetite and make you tired all the time. Sleep apnea is another significant cause; interrupted breathing during sleep, causes a disturbance in the sleep cycle, making you feel fatigued all the time. If you do not get a minimum of 7 hours of sleep every night you will be tired and exhausted.
- Exercise: Clinical trials and research show that too much exercise can suppress hunger. Rigorous exercise decreases ghrelin levels and increases peptide YY, which is an appetite suppressant. Aerobic exercises are more effective in suppressing appetite.
- Diabetes mellitus: In type 1 diabetes mellitus, the body fails to synthesize insulin, required to get glucose into cells to be used as energy. In type 2 diabetes mellitus, the body fails to synthesize adequate amounts of insulin or cannot efficiently use the insulin. Hunger and fatigue are symptoms of both forms of diabetes.
- Anemia: Anemia makes you feel tired because there is a reduction in the number of red blood cells in the blood. It could be due to deficiency of iron, vitamin B12 or impaired RBC synthesis. Hemoglobin carries oxygen to the various parts of the body from the lungs. A deficiency results in the body not getting adequate oxygen, making you feel weary all the time.
- Excess sugar and caffeine: An excessive intake of foods loaded with sugar, – cookies, cakes and ice-creams makes you feel tired. When you consume sugary foods, the blood sugar level gets elevated. In order to make the sugar levels stable, the pancreas will release more insulin. When insulin gets released in to the blood, tryptophan moves in to the brain, and gets converted in to serotonin. A surfeit of serotonin in the brain makes you feel tired and exhausted. Likewise drinking too much of caffeinated beverages make one feel tired.
- Hormonal imbalances: In women, hormonal imbalances, particularly during menses and menopause cause tiredness and hunger.
- Stress: Stress, anxiety, and mental turmoil can make you feel weary, bad-tempered, and tired all the time.