Dr. Diane Mueller explains how Lyme disease causes chronic fatigue through cortisol dysregulation and mitochondrial damage. Cortisol spikes then crashes, leaving you wired but exhausted. Damaged mitochondria can't produce enough cellular energy, though supplements offer temporary relief if the infection remains untreated.
Everybody. Dr. Diane, your chronic illness expert here, talking about, can Lyme disease cause chronic fatigue syndrome? And the answer is yes. Lyme disease has the ability to cause a lot of different things to happen. But one of the things we often see is cortisol, which is one of our stress hormones, but also our energy hormone. One of the things that frequently happens with Lyme disease is initially cortisol levels go up, and that's because cortisol is our stress hormone. There's a stress on our body, and then we can see, oftentimes cortisol levels fall really low. And when that happens, we get a subsequent increase in the hormone adrenaline. In many situations, adrenaline is there to also give us energy, but it's this wired, anxious type of energy. So it's very common for people with Lyme to have low cortisol and high adrenaline, leading to this exhausted feeling, but also wired, but can't sleep, exhausted and still having insomnia because your body is pumping full of this adrenaline, the survival chemical to help you actually survive and figure out what's going on behind the Lyme disease. We see many other reasons why Lyme can actually cause chronic fatigue. Another reason is that Lyme has a tendency to actually injure the mitochondria. A lot of people know about the mitochondria as the powerhouse of the cell. But essentially what that means is the mitochondria is the part of the cell that is involved in the last, final step, that is taking food that we eat and turning it into usable energy by the body. And if this part of the cell is not working, your body cannot produce energy from the food you eat. That leads to fatigue. So a lot of people will read about mitochondrial dysfunction when they think about chronic fatigue online. And they'll try things, or maybe add some CoQ10, they'll add some carnitine, they'll add some alpha lipoic acid. These nutri, this food for the mitochondria. Most of the time when there's Lyme disease, what happens and you add those nutrients is they work temporarily, but then you crash again. And the reason for that is because you're not getting to the root. And if you still have something like Lyme disease, like something else that is impacting those mitochondria, and you just give these supplements to actually help the mitochondria work better. But the mitochondria are still under attack. It doesn't work in a permanent way. So you gotta get to the root. You gotta figure out the why. So please do subscribe to continue to learn in information like this. Please do join me at my next masterclass. So many times this type of information brings up all these questions. Well, guess what? I educate people and I love to do education. And you can get more information like this. You can show up and ask me your questions and get more understanding about what we're talking about here today by showing up for my next masterclass. At this point in the time, I'm offering these for free. I don't know if I will always do that, but I'm definitely doing that at the time of making this video. So please do sign up for that today. You'll see that below. All right, everybody, see you in another video.
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