I feel drained all the time. advice/tips please?

I'm 26 years old.


I've quit the smokes and the weed (and dabbling in speed%26amp;coke) a dozen times in the last 3 years. About a month after quitting I've experienced a huge peak in energy levels. I've quit for the final time in the new year but feel as sluggish as I did when I was up to no good.





My diet is perfect. I eat a wide and varied amount of the best and most nutritious foods. Organic and locally sourced as far as is practical. I drink rarely. I exercise from time to time but not as much as I used to because of the low energy levels and corresponding lack of motivation.


I'm very tall, slim and lean.





I work about 70 hours per week, but my work is not physically demanding at all. It is not even that mentally demanding most of the time. I often work through the night so I get little sun, if any in the week, seeing as the days are very short here and outside of summer there is almost always complete cloud cover. (I have just started taking a Vitamin D supplement)





I have a history of thyroid problems in my family. My sister has an overactive gland, my mother an under. The men in my family have a history of heart, kidney and liver disease but this is mostly alcohol related.


I developed ecxema at 21 and it has stayed on my elbows and flares up occasionally in patches elsewhere.





I will soon go to a doctor for a full medical before you suggest it, but what I'm looking for is some cheap advice before hand like... oh I don't know,


eat a high GI diet,





take a certain type of suppplement (I'm not crazy about these and would like my diet to be as natural as is possible)





do a certain type of exercise





read a certain book





train my mind in some manner





take up meditation


or yoga





Or tell me briefly how the above affected your energy levels.





Any help would be appreciated folks as this is beginning to depress me and I was a fairly happy-go-lucky guy all my life. Am I just getting old???!?





taI feel drained all the time. advice/tips please?
You need to take iron pills. Eat a bowl of bran flakes or Raisin Bran


everyday with a banana on it. Use fat free milk. You need to relax more. Your exhausted is the word.I feel drained all the time. advice/tips please?
You work 70 hours per week. That will exhaust anyone regardless of whether it is physical or not, especially if it is boring.
I am also 26 nd went through a similar thing. I was tired ALL the time. I could sleep 8 hours at night, come home from work and take a nap. I ate a moderately healthy diet and exercised at least 4 days a week. I went to the doctor. Nothing! Drink water is what he told me. I started drinking nearly a gallon of water a day. Didn't make a difference. I happened to luck on a diet, lifestyle change. I went raw. Meaning I eat 95% living or raw foods. Hear the analogy I use now. If you take a raw almond and a roasted almond and bury them in the ground, water them and wait. The raw almond has all the life in in and the enzymes have not been harmed, it will soak in the water and grow into a sprout. The roasted one will soon rot in the ground and disintegrate into nothing. After I started giving my body the most natural raw foods I could find, my energy levels sky rocketed. I am in the healthiest physical, mental, emotional state I have ever been. I feel great. I know this is only what has worked for me and I don't want to push my lifestyle on anyone. But you asked. I hope you find what you are looking for.