Short YouTube video by Dr. Diane Mueller (uploaded Feb 27, 2023) explaining how infections that hijack red blood cells—specifically Babesia—and Lyme disease (Borrelia) can reduce tissue oxygenation, trigger stress responses (adrenaline, cortisol), lower tolerance thresholds, and commonly produce anger/rage symptoms (often called “Lyme rage”).
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Hijacking these red blood cells, all of a sudden, one of the things that that happens is our tissues do not get oxygenated. Well, guess what? This is a huge stress on the body. When the body is stressed, what happens? We secrete adrenaline, we secrete cortisol, and our threshold of tolerance in the world becomes a lot lower because of the heightened level of our stress hormones. Right. So if our we're already, say, with Babesia, we can oftentimes our stress hormones can already be, like, at a really high level, and then all of a sudden, a little bit more stress, and we can just turn into this level of anger and lashing out. So super, super common. It's honestly also really common with Lyme disease. So with Lyme disease and the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, known as Borrelia, we can see a lot of rage. A lot of people will talk about Lyme rage.