A short YouTube video by Dr. Diane Mueller (My LymeDoc) explaining how Babesia infection can contribute to feelings of anger. The speaker attributes anger to Babesia-driven nervous system inflammation (altering neurotransmitter production) and to Babesia parasitism of red blood cells (reducing oxygen delivery to tissues), presented as concise explanatory claims for a lay audience.
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Hey, everybody. In this video, we're going to talk about babesia and anger. I'm Dr. Diane Mueller, founder of My LymeDoc. And Babesia is a big problem. So how does it cause anger? So, in the lyme community, in the chronic infection community, it's often talked about as Babesia causing anger, and it does this through a variety of mechanisms. So one of the things that Babesia will do is Babesia will inflate. Inflame our nervous system. When our nervous system is inflamed, we are not making the signals, such as dopamine and serotonin, oftentimes in the same way. Babesia also is a It's a parasite, and it is known to hijack our red blood cells. Well, when our red blood cells are hijacked, we don't have a tendency to carry oxygen around to our cells as much, because that's our red blood cell function. So if Babesia is living and hijacking.