Quick Answer: Yes, mold exposure causes chronic fatigue through CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome). Mycotoxins suppress VEGF, impairing oxygen delivery to mitochondria and producing cellular-level exhaustion that sleep does not fix. About 25% of people carry HLA-DR gene variants that prevent normal mycotoxin clearance, making their fatigue persist long after leaving the moldy environment. Standard bloodwork will appear normal.
Mold exposure causes chronic fatigue through CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome), a condition where mycotoxins suppress VEGF and impair cellular oxygen delivery, producing exhaustion that sleep cannot fix.
About 25% of people carry HLA-DR gene variants that prevent normal mycotoxin clearance; for them, fatigue persists and worsens even after leaving the moldy environment.
Standard bloodwork (CBC, metabolic panel, thyroid) will appear normal in mold illness. A normal lab result does not rule out CIRS.
Mold and Lyme disease frequently co-occur and amplify each other; treating one while missing the other produces minimal improvement.
Proper diagnosis requires HLA-DR genetic testing, urine mycotoxin panels, ERMI environmental testing, and CIRS-specific markers (TGF-beta 1, C4a, MSH, VEGF), not routine labs.
Recovery timelines vary by genetic susceptibility: 25% of patients need active treatment with binders and the Shoemaker Protocol; moving out of the moldy building alone is not sufficient.
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Yes, mold exposure can cause chronic, debilitating fatigue. Not the ordinary tiredness that a good night’s sleep fixes. The kind that makes getting out of bed feel like a full-body effort, that persists for months or years, and that no amount of rest, supplements, or willpower touches.
If you’ve been told your exhaustion is stress, depression, getting older, or something that doesn’t show up on labs, and you haven’t been evaluated for mold illness, this article is for you.
In my practice, I see patients who have been to 20 or more specialists before anyone considered mold. They’ve been handed antidepressants, referred to sleep studies, told their bloodwork is “normal.” Their fatigue is real. The problem is that standard medicine simply isn’t looking for what’s actually driving it.
Here’s what mold does to the body, who is most vulnerable, and what a real workup looks like.
Mold causes chronic fatigue through a specific biological mechanism, not simply because it’s unpleasant to be around. When a susceptible person inhales or ingests mycotoxins (the toxic compounds produced by mold species like Stachybotrys, Aspergillus, and Penicillium), those toxins trigger an immune response that, in certain people, does not shut off the way it should.
This chronic immune activation suppresses VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), a protein your body needs to deliver oxygen to cells and tissues. When VEGF drops, oxygen delivery to your mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles in every cell, becomes impaired. The result is a form of cellular energy failure. Your body is running low on fuel at the source, not because you’re sedentary or sleeping poorly, but because your cells cannot efficiently access the oxygen they need (PMID 17010568).
This condition, Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, or CIRS, affects approximately 25% of the population who carry specific HLA-DR gene variants (PMID 24946038). For these people, the immune system cannot clear mycotoxins normally. Instead, mycotoxins get recirculated through the body repeatedly, sustaining a state of chronic inflammation that can persist for years, even after the person leaves the water-damaged building.
For the other 75%, mold exposure still causes fatigue. But it typically resolves more readily once the exposure is removed. The 25% with genetic susceptibility need a different protocol entirely.
HLA-DR is a gene that governs how your immune system recognizes and tags foreign substances for removal. Certain HLA-DR variants impair the immune system’s ability to identify and clear mycotoxins. Instead of tagging the toxin for elimination, the immune system mounts an inflammatory response, and then keeps mounting it, over and over, because it never successfully removes the trigger.
This is not a weakness or a defect. It is a genetic variation, one that likely provided survival advantages in other contexts. But in a modern world full of water-damaged buildings, HVAC systems circulating mold spores, and homes with hidden moisture intrusion, it creates a liability.
What this means practically:
If you have the susceptible HLA-DR variant, removing yourself from the moldy environment is necessary but not sufficient for recovery. You will need active treatment to clear mycotoxins and calm the inflammatory cascade.
If you do not have the susceptible variant, you may still feel fatigued and unwell from mold exposure: but your recovery pathway after removing the exposure is typically faster and less complicated.
Testing for HLA-DR is a blood test, available through commercial labs, and is one of the first things I order when I suspect mold illness in a patient.
Many of my patients had never heard of HLA-DR before coming to me. They’d been carrying this genetic susceptibility their whole lives, and no one had ever looked for it.
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Patients describe mold fatigue in ways that are strikingly consistent. Not “I’m a little tired.” More like: “I feel like the life has been drained out of me.” One of my patients described it as “like someone unplugged me.”
The fatigue is deep. It doesn’t respond to sleep. Many patients sleep 10 or 12 hours and wake up exhausted. This is a clinical red flag, when rest doesn’t restore energy, something is disrupting energy production at the cellular level.
Mold-related fatigue rarely travels alone. It typically comes with a cluster of symptoms that, taken together, point toward CIRS or mycotoxin illness:
Brain fog : difficulty concentrating, word-finding struggles, short-term memory lapses. Patients often say it feels like “thinking through wet cement.”
Post-exertional malaise : moderate activity (a short walk, a grocery run) triggers a significant crash lasting hours to days. This is not ordinary tiredness after exertion.
Light and sound sensitivity : heightened sensitivity to sensory input is common and underappreciated in mold illness.
Joint and muscle pain that moves around the body without a clear structural cause.
Worsening in specific environments : noticeably worse at home or work, noticeably better on vacation or in a different building. This pattern is one of the most telling signs.
Sinus congestion and headaches that don’t resolve with standard treatment.
Sleep disruption : difficulty staying asleep, non-restorative sleep, waking unrefreshed.
Mood symptoms : anxiety, irritability, and depression that don’t respond well to standard psychiatric approaches.
If you see yourself in this list, especially the pattern of location-dependent symptoms, that matters clinically. Learn more about the full picture at our mold illness natural treatment page.
These three presentations are frequently confused, and the treatment protocols are fundamentally different. Here’s how they compare:
Mechanism.
• Mold Allergy Fatigue – IgE-mediated histamine response; immune reacts to mold spores as allergen.
• CIRS (Mold Illness) Fatigue – Mycotoxin-driven chronic immune dysregulation; VEGF suppression; mitochondrial dysfunction.
• Lyme-Mold Co-Infection Fatigue – Additive inflammatory burden from both mycotoxins and Lyme/co-infection pathogens; shared immune dysregulation pathways
Fatigue Type.
• Mold Allergy Fatigue – Mild-to-moderate; linked to allergy symptoms (sneezing, congestion); typically seasonal or exposure-dependent.
• CIRS (Mold Illness) Fatigue – Severe, cellular-level exhaustion; post-exertional crashes; unresponsive to sleep or rest.
• Lyme-Mold Co-Infection Fatigue: Most severe; profound and persistent; often combined with neurological symptoms, joint pain, and cognitive impairment
Resolves When Mold Removed?
• Mold Allergy Fatigue – Yes, typically improves within days to weeks.
• CIRS (Mold Illness) Fatigue – No, mycotoxins recirculate; active treatment required.
• Lyme-Mold Co-Infection Fatigue – No, both Lyme and mold must be co-treated; removing mold alone provides minimal relief
Testing Needed.
• Mold Allergy Fatigue – Allergy panel (IgE); environmental mold count.
• CIRS (Mold Illness) Fatigue- HLA-DR; urine mycotoxin panel; ERMI; VEGF; TGF-beta 1; C4a; MSH; VCS test.
• Lyme-Mold Co-Infection Fatigue- All CIRS labs + comprehensive Lyme panel (Western Blot + PCR + IGeneX); co-infection panel (Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia)
This distinction matters enormously for treatment. If you have CIRS or the Lyme-mold combination and you’re only treating mold allergy symptoms, you’ll get minimal results, and you may stay sick for years.
This is the section that most articles on mold and fatigue never write. And it’s the one that matters most for a significant portion of people who are exhausted and cannot figure out why.
Lyme disease and mold illness frequently co-occur. This is not coincidence. Both conditions drive chronic immune dysregulation. Both impair the detoxification pathways the body needs to clear toxins and pathogens. When a person has both, they are not dealing with two separate problems that simply add together, the conditions amplify each other.
Here is what happens at the clinical level when Lyme and mold overlap:
Shared detox pathway impairment. Both mycotoxins and Lyme-associated toxins are processed through the liver and eliminated via bile. When both loads are present simultaneously, the liver becomes overwhelmed. Toxins recirculate rather than clear.
Immune system misdirection. Lyme disease suppresses the immune system in ways that make the body less capable of responding to other infections and toxins: including mycotoxins. The HLA-DR dysfunction seen in CIRS may be worsened by the immune evasion strategies of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Mitochondrial depletion from both directions. Both conditions impair mitochondrial energy production. The result is fatigue that is orders of magnitude more severe than either condition alone.
Neurological overlap. Both Lyme and mold illness cause neuroinflammation. Patients with both report particularly severe cognitive symptoms: brain fog, memory loss, difficulty processing information that can be misdiagnosed as early dementia or psychiatric illness. See our detailed breakdown of neurological symptoms of mold exposure for the full picture.
In my practice, when a patient presents with profound fatigue and has a history of tick exposure or time spent in the northeastern or upper midwestern United States, I test for both. Missing one and treating only the other typically produces minimal improvement. For more on Lyme-specific treatment approaches, see our Lyme disease treatment page and our guide on finding a Lyme literate doctor near you.
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There is a third condition that sits at this intersection and is almost entirely absent from the standard conversation about mold and fatigue: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, or MCAS.
Mast cells are immune cells that release histamine and other inflammatory mediators in response to triggers. In MCAS, these cells overfire, reacting to things they shouldn’t and releasing a flood of inflammatory compounds. Mold exposure and Lyme disease are recognized as potential MCAS triggers in clinical literature (PMID 21418662).
When a patient has mold illness AND MCAS, the fatigue burden is compounded further by histamine-driven inflammation. These patients also often react to foods, medications, and environmental exposures in unpredictable ways. Treatment protocols for CIRS can actually worsen symptoms in MCAS patients if the mast cell piece isn’t addressed first.
This triple overlap, mold illness, Lyme, and MCAS, is something I see regularly in my practice. If you have fatigue combined with multiple chemical sensitivities, food reactions, and a history of tick exposure or water-damaged building exposure, this combination deserves consideration. You can learn more about how CIRS and mold illness are diagnosed at our What Is CIRS page.
Standard labs will not catch this. A normal CBC, comprehensive metabolic panel, and thyroid panel do not rule out mold illness. This is one reason patients go years without answers, their doctors are looking at tests that were never designed to detect CIRS. We cover the full picture of appropriate testing in our blood test for mold illness guide.
Here is what a proper workup includes.
ERMI (Environmental Relative Moldiness Index): A dust sample collected from your home and analyzed for mold DNA by species. ERMI is more sensitive than air sampling because it captures historical mold accumulation, not just what’s currently airborne. An ERMI score above 2 is associated with increased health risk.
HERTSMI-2: A shorter, more targeted version of the ERMI that scores the 5 mold species most associated with CIRS. A score above 11 is considered unsafe for susceptible individuals. We have an HERTSMI calculator on our site if you already have your results and want to interpret them.
Note: visual inspection alone is not sufficient. Mold lives inside walls, under flooring, and in HVAC systems where it cannot be seen. A clean-looking home can have ERMI scores that are dangerous for susceptible patients.
These markers, developed as part of the Shoemaker Protocol , form the standard diagnostic panel for CIRS:
Urine mycotoxin panel (Great Plains Laboratory or Vibrant America): detects specific mycotoxins being excreted or retained in the body
TGF-beta 1 : a cytokine elevated in CIRS; also elevated in Lyme and autoimmune conditions
C4a complement : an inflammatory marker consistently elevated in mold illness (PMID 17010568).
MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone) : typically low in CIRS; MSH regulates inflammatory tone and sleep
VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) : suppressed in CIRS; low VEGF is the mechanism behind the oxygen-delivery failure driving fatigue
MMP-9 : a matrix metalloproteinase elevated in active CIRS
VCS (Visual Contrast Sensitivity) test : a simple vision test that serves as a neurological screening tool; impairment correlates with biotoxin illness
HLA-DR typing identifies whether you carry susceptibility variants. This is a single blood draw through commercial labs. Knowing your HLA-DR type shapes the entire treatment approach, how aggressively to push binders, whether VIP (vasoactive intestinal peptide) is appropriate, and what your realistic recovery timeline looks like.
For patients with suspected Lyme overlap, I also run a comprehensive tick-borne illness panel, not just a standard Western Blot, which misses a significant number of cases. We use specialty labs like IGeneX for more complete tick-borne testing, including Bartonella and other co-infections.
This is not a diagnostic tool, it’s a way to organize what you’re experiencing before bringing it to a clinician. If you check six or more of these, mold illness deserves serious clinical consideration.
☐ Fatigue that is not relieved by sleep or rest
☐ Symptoms that are noticeably worse in specific buildings (home, work, school) and better elsewhere
☐ Brain fog: difficulty concentrating, word retrieval problems, short-term memory lapses
☐ Post-exertional malaise: crashes after physical or cognitive exertion that previously caused no problem
☐ Joint or muscle pain that moves around the body
☐ Heightened sensitivity to light, sound, or smells
☐ Persistent sinus congestion or headaches not responsive to standard treatment
☐ Sleep that feels non-restorative regardless of duration
☐ Mood changes: anxiety, irritability, or depression that did not respond to standard psychiatric treatment
☐ History of living or working in a water-damaged building
☐ Symptoms that worsen in humid weather or after rain
☐ “Normal” bloodwork despite feeling severely unwell
☐ Unexplained weight gain or inability to lose weight
☐ History of tick exposure or diagnosis of Lyme disease or co-infections
The generic answer you’ll find on most websites is: remove the exposure, use binders, follow the Shoemaker Protocol. That’s not wrong. But it’s incomplete, and applied incorrectly, it can make patients worse, especially those with Lyme or MCAS involvement.
Here is how we approach it in practice.
Nothing else works until the ongoing exposure is addressed. This sounds obvious. It is harder in practice than in theory, people live and work in moldy buildings, can’t always move immediately, and face significant disruption. But no amount of binders or supplements will overcome continuous re-exposure.
Use ERMI and HERTSMI-2 testing to quantify the building burden. If remediation is needed, follow protocols from the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC). Professional remediation, not cosmetic cleanup, is required for structural mold.
This is where many protocols go wrong. Starting aggressive binders before the liver, kidneys, and lymphatics are draining properly can trigger severe detox reactions. In patients with Lyme co-infections or MCAS, pushing too hard too fast creates herxheimer-like reactions that are genuinely debilitating.
In our practice, we build the body first: mitochondrial support, adrenal support, gut lining repair, and lymphatic drainage before we begin pulling mycotoxins in earnest. This is Phase 1 of our 4-phase clinical method, and skipping it is why many patients relapse or crash during treatment elsewhere.
Binders are compounds that bind mycotoxins in the gut and carry them out through stool, interrupting the enterohepatic recirculation cycle. The Shoemaker Protocol uses cholestyramine (a prescription bile acid sequestrant) as the primary binder. Other options include welchol, activated charcoal, and bentonite clay for patients who cannot tolerate cholestyramine.
Binder selection depends on which mycotoxins are present (the urine panel tells us this), HLA-DR type, and whether gut dysbiosis or MCAS require accommodation. This is not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
CIRS depletes MSH, VIP, VEGF, and a number of hormones and neurotransmitters. After mycotoxin clearance is documented on follow-up urine testing, the Shoemaker Protocol includes VIP nasal spray to restore neuroregulation and correct the downstream hormonal disruption. Mitochondrial support, CoQ10, B vitamins, magnesium, NAD+, is ongoing throughout.
For patients with concurrent Lyme disease, targeted antimicrobial therapy (herbal or prescription) begins only after the body is stabilized, typically in Phase 4 of our protocol. Starting too early, before the body has the reserves to manage die-off, prolongs the illness rather than shortening it.
For the full picture of how CIRS presents and is diagnosed, see our What Is CIRS page.
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Patients almost always ask what they should eat. Diet does not cure mold illness, and I want to be direct about that. But the right nutritional foundation makes detoxification work better and reduces the inflammatory load your body is already fighting. The wrong diet quietly feeds it.
A few principles I use with mold patients:
Lower the dietary mold and mycotoxin load. Certain foods carry their own mycotoxin burden, including peanuts, corn, dried fruit, aged cheeses, and stored grains. Coffee can also be a source depending on how it is processed. For patients with a heavy body burden, reducing these inputs while we clear the existing load is a sensible step.
Support glutathione, the body’s master detox antioxidant. Mycotoxins deplete glutathione, and glutathione is what the liver relies on to neutralize them. Sulfur-rich foods (cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, plus garlic and onions) supply the raw material. In practice I often pair dietary support with supplemental glutathione or its precursor NAC.
Eat for stable blood sugar. Mold-related fatigue is already a state of impaired cellular energy. Blood sugar swings from refined carbohydrates make it worse and amplify the crashes. Protein, healthy fats, and fiber at each meal steady the curve.
Reduce histamine inputs when MCAS is in the picture. For patients with the mold-MCAS overlap I described earlier, a temporary lower-histamine approach (limiting fermented foods, leftovers, aged proteins) can meaningfully reduce reactivity while we stabilize the mast cells.
Hydrate to support elimination. Binders move mycotoxins out through the stool, and adequate water plus fiber keeps that pathway open. Constipation during binder therapy means toxins sit and reabsorb.
I do not put patients on extreme restriction. A diet so strict it cannot be sustained creates more stress, and stress is its own driver of inflammation. The goal is an anti-inflammatory, blood-sugar-stable, lower-mycotoxin pattern that supports the clinical protocol rather than replacing it.
Recovery does not hold if you return to the environment that made you sick, or move into a new one with the same problem. For susceptible patients, prevention is part of treatment, not an afterthought.
The practical measures I walk patients through:
Keep indoor humidity below 50%. Mold needs moisture to grow. A simple hygrometer tells you where you stand, and a dehumidifier in basements and bathrooms keeps you under the threshold. Below 50% relative humidity, most mold cannot establish.
Address water intrusion within 24 to 48 hours. Mold colonies establish quickly on damp materials. Any leak, flood, or condensation event needs to be dried fully and fast, not just wiped down.
Filter the air. A HEPA air purifier in the rooms where you spend the most time reduces airborne spore and particulate load. This does not fix a structural problem, but it lowers daily exposure while you address the source.
Maintain the HVAC system. Ductwork and HVAC systems circulate spores through the whole house. Regular filter changes and inspection of the system matter, because a clean-looking home with a contaminated air handler is still a sick building.
Retest before you trust a space. After remediation, or before moving into a new home, I have susceptible patients run an ERMI or HERTSMI-2 rather than relying on a visual walkthrough. Re-exposure resets the entire inflammatory process, so verifying the environment is worth the cost of a test.
For structural mold, cosmetic cleanup is not enough. Professional remediation following IICRC standards is required, and I help patients interpret testing so they know whether a space is genuinely safe to occupy.
One of the real barriers to mold illness treatment is access. Most CIRS-literate practitioners are in a handful of major metropolitan areas. If you live elsewhere, getting a proper evaluation has historically meant traveling, or going without.
My practice serves patients across Colorado, Wyoming, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin via telehealth. This means:
You can order environmental testing (ERMI) for your home independently: I can help you interpret results during a consultation
Lab testing (HLA-DR, mycotoxin urine panel, CIRS markers) can be ordered and drawn locally through a national lab network
Your full evaluation and treatment protocol can be managed remotely
You do not need an in-person visit to begin the diagnostic process
An initial consultation ($300) covers a complete intake, review of any existing labs, and a clinical impression of where to begin. Many of my patients arrive with years of records from other providers, we review all of it. Most people leave that first appointment with more clarity about what’s happening in their body than they’ve had in years.
Mold exposure can cause fatigue that closely resembles, and in some cases is clinically indistinguishable from, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The mechanism involves mycotoxin-driven immune dysregulation that suppresses VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), reducing oxygen delivery to mitochondria and producing profound, unrelenting exhaustion. In roughly 25% of the population with HLA-DR gene variants, this response becomes chronic and self-perpetuating even after leaving the moldy environment (PMID 24946038). Whether this meets the strict diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS or is a separate condition (CIRS) is a clinical distinction that changes treatment, which is why proper testing matters.
The most telling sign is location-dependent symptoms: fatigue that improves noticeably when you’re away from a specific building and worsens when you return. Other signals include fatigue combined with brain fog and unusual sensory sensitivity, symptoms that worsen in humid conditions or after rain, and exhaustion that doesn’t respond to sleep. Proper diagnosis requires HLA-DR genetic testing, mycotoxin urine panels, and environmental testing such as an ERMI of your home, not standard bloodwork, which will typically appear normal in mold illness.
Patients consistently describe it as a deep, cellular exhaustion, not ordinary tiredness. Common descriptions from my practice: “like someone unplugged me,” “like I’m wearing a lead suit,” “thinking through wet cement.” Unlike normal fatigue, it is not relieved by sleep. It often comes with post-exertional crashes, where modest activity like a short walk or a grocery run triggers a significant worsening of symptoms lasting hours to days. Joint pain that moves around, word-finding difficulty, and mood instability (especially anxiety) are frequent companions.
This depends almost entirely on genetic susceptibility. People without HLA-DR susceptibility variants often improve within weeks to a few months after removing the exposure. For those with CIRS, the 25% who cannot clear mycotoxins normally, recovery typically takes 6 months to 2 years with proper treatment. When Lyme disease, co-infections, or MCAS are also present, recovery timelines extend further and require co-treatment of all conditions simultaneously. Without treatment, CIRS-related fatigue does not resolve on its own, even after leaving the moldy environment.
Yes. This is one of the most important things I tell patients. Mold and mycotoxins are frequently present in locations you cannot see, inside walls, under flooring, in HVAC systems and ductwork, in attics and crawl spaces, and behind tile in bathrooms. A home can look completely clean and have ERMI scores that are dangerous for susceptible individuals. Water intrusion events, a past leak, flooding, or even persistent condensation, leave mold behind long after the visible moisture is gone. ERMI dust testing is significantly more reliable than visual inspection.
Mold allergy produces immune-mediated fatigue through histamine and IgE response, similar in mechanism to hay fever fatigue. It typically improves with antihistamines, resolves when you remove the exposure, and doesn’t cause the severe post-exertional crashes of CIRS. CIRS fatigue is driven by a chronic inflammatory response triggered by mycotoxins in genetically susceptible people. It does not resolve simply by leaving the building, does not respond to antihistamines, and requires a structured detoxification and immune-modulation protocol. The testing panels for each are also different, standard allergy panels miss CIRS entirely.
A complete workup includes: HLA-DR genetic typing (susceptibility), urine mycotoxin panel (Great Plains or Vibrant America), ERMI or HERTSMI-2 home environmental testing, TGF-beta 1 and MMP-9 (inflammatory markers), C4a complement, MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone), VEGF, and a Visual Contrast Sensitivity (VCS) test. If Lyme disease or co-infections are suspected, add a comprehensive tick-borne illness panel through IGeneX or a comparable specialty lab. Standard CBC and metabolic panels will typically appear normal in mold illness, their normalcy does not rule out CIRS.
It depends on your HLA-DR status. People without susceptibility variants often improve after removing the exposure, though mycotoxin clearance still takes weeks to months even with support. For those with CIRS, moving out is necessary but not sufficient. Mycotoxins have been deposited in body tissues and continue to be recirculated; they must be actively cleared with targeted binders under clinical supervision. Without treatment, most CIRS patients do not recover from relocation alone, and may remain symptomatic for years. Moving to a new home also requires verifying the new environment is mold-safe, since re-exposure resets the process.
If this article describes what you’ve been experiencing, the exhaustion, the brain fog, the normal labs, the years of dead ends, a comprehensive evaluation is the next step.
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Written by Dr. Diane Mueller, ND, LAc, DAOM. Licensed Acupuncturist. Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine: MyLymeDoc.com, Telehealth across CO, WY, NJ, PA, TX, WI
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