Why Are You Exhausted But Can’t Sleep? Is It a Mitochondrial Energy Paradox?

When mitochondria cannot produce enough adenosine triphosphate, every cell in your body registers an energy deficit - yet the molecular stress that deficit generates actively prevents restorative sleep. Stressd mitochondria release ROS and trigger stress-response proteins like WASF3, which block oxidative phosphorylation and change cells toward inefficient glycolysis. The result is a…