10/31/2025
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During many infections, the body shuts down energy production to starve the bug. But this can also trip a key almond-sized circuit breaker in the brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus uses more energy for its size than any other organ or gland. So, it’s the first to go offline when its energy supply drops.
Understanding this helps explain why your whole body has gone haywire. The hypothalamus – the key circuit breaker – controls:
• Sleep. That's why more than 60% of people with long COVID report trouble sleeping.
• Hormones. Your entire hormonal system – including your thyroid, adrenals, reproductive hormones, and other glands – is affected.
• Your autonomic system. The autonomic nervous system acts as “Mission Control” for your nervous system, controlling blood pressure, pulse rate, body temperature, and digestion. Meanwhile, it interacts with your adrenals and sends you into adrenaline overproduction, which often leaves you anxious and exhausted.
In addition to shutting down critical systems, low energy production from persistent viral particles:
• leaves you feeling exhausted.
• causes your muscles to get locked in a shortened position. Surprisingly, it takes more energy for a muscle to relax than to contract. This is why your muscles feel so tight after a heavy workout. Chronic muscle tightening can leave you hurting. It can also, over time, trigger a pain cascade that causes nerve pain and worsen cognitive symptoms like brain fog.
• activates your immune system. In long COVID, your immune system thinks it’s still fighting the COVID infection and has trouble going off high alert.
• triggers excessive inflammation and chronic low-grade blood clotting.
Our book, "You Can Heal From Long COVID: A Clinically Proven Program to Regain Your Health!" offers a practical guide to help you overcome Long COVID and its debilitating symptoms.
In this book, we’ll cover how to address all these issues to help you make an optimal recovery.
Learn more:https://vitality101.com/longcovid