Anyone can be a sufferer of CMD. It occurs in all age groups and in varying degrees of severity.  Due to the fact that this problem often goes misdiagnosed, it is difficult to account for everyone who suffers from this disorder.

CMD is a chronic disease which can sometimes be very degenerative.  Many different lifestyle factors, such as stress, can combine to aggravate CMD.  Other aggravating factors include fatigue, chemical imbalance and even certain foods and drinks.  Being affected by only one of these is not as bad as being affected by a combination of more than one.

Overall, there are two basic causes for CMD, biochemical/structural and stress.  Stress comes in the form of biochemical stress, nutritional stress, emotional stress, sleep deprivation and strain on the immune system.