A short YouTube video by Dr. Diane Mueller explaining that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) often has infectious root causes. Dr. Mueller cites literature and clinical experience linking CFS to pathogens including Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), parvovirus, enterovirus, Mycoplasma (a bacterium), Lyme disease, and Q fever, and encourages investigating and treating these underlying causes.
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Hey, everybody. Dr. Diane here, founder of my Lime Doc. In this video, we're going to be talking about chronic fatigue syndrome and some of the really common root causes that are oftentimes missed when it comes to chronic fatigue syndrome. So you have a study up on the screen here. The study I'm showing you is just because I want to make sure that as I'm telling you that there's root causes behind chronic fatigue syndrome, that you understand that I'm getting this out of literature. Right? It is what I see clinically, but it also is what I get out of research. So this one is showing that chronic fatigue syndrome is an association is coming from triggers such as Epstein Barr and cytolomegalovirus, which are the two viruses that cause mono which can be dormant in our system sometimes still causing problems that other viruses such as parvovirus or enterovirus or mycoplasma. Mycoplasma is a bacteria that causes walking pneumonia. A lot of people have walking pneumonia and don't know it. Lyme disease, Q fever and other pathogens that oftentimes for chronic fatigue syndrome. The reason behind it is pathogens. And so many people are told there's no cause and they're told there's no cure because people are not keeping up to date with these types of research studies that are actually showing there are causes, there are reasons why this is happening. Your body does not wake up. And it's just like, I'm tired. I'm never going to stop being tired. Or you can't get through the day for no reason. Right? There's always a reason behind why this is happening. And so here's some of the evidence. And I see this in my clinical practice all the time. When we get to the root causes of these things, it's amazing what goes away. So I hope this has been helpful. I hope I dispelled some myths for you on this. Please subscribe to this if this has been helpful. Please don't keep me a secret and share this information with your friends. Again, I'm Dr. Diane. See you next time.
