Wellness Wednesday

Another reason; Heart failure and kidney disease.

Your heart and kidneys work as a team to deliver oxygen and nutrients to every cell in your body.

The heart pumps oxygen rich blood, while the kidneys filter waste, balance fluids, regulate minerals, and produce hormones that help maintain healthy blood pressure and red blood cell production.

When either organ begins to fail, your body’s ability to produce and use energy declines. As a result, even simple activities like climbing stairs, walking short distances, or a slight workout can leave you feeling tired and exhausted.

In heart failure, the heart cannot pump blood effectively enough to meet the body’s demands.

This means less oxygen and fewer nutrients reach your muscles, brain, and other organs.

Your muscles switch to less efficient energy production, causing weakness and fatigue.

Fluid may also build up in the lungs, making breathing difficult and reducing oxygen levels even further.

That’s why people with heart failure often feel tired all the time, become breathless with minimal activity, and may notice swollen feet, ankles, or difficulty lying flat because of shortness of breath.

By the time you receive these symptoms, you are in a danger zone.

In chronic kidney disease, the kidneys lose their ability to remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood.

Waste products accumulate and can make you feel weak, nauseated, mentally foggy, and constantly fatigued.

Diseased kidneys also produce less erythropoietin, the hormone that signals the bone marrow to make red blood cells.

Fewer red blood cells mean less oxygen is carried throughout the body, leading to anaemia; a major cause of persistent tiredness in kidney disease.

If you’ve been feeling exhausted for weeks or months, especially if you also have high blood pressure and diabetes, it’s important to have both your heart and kidney function evaluated rather than assuming it’s simply due to stress or ageing.

These organs take time before they fail. They even try to protect themselves and you before they show you symptoms.

Go for regular check up.