This is a YouTube interview titled "The Future of Cellular Energy" (Ben Greenfield) discussing a novel diagnostic test that directly assesses mitochondrial function. The speakers contrast this 'look under the hood' cellular approach with conventional biomarker/blood tests, arguing the mitochondrial test provides more specific, real-time information about cellular energy compared with indirect blood markers.
Instead, you're going direct to the mitochondria, bypassing all these other things, whatever vitamin D, cholesterol, magnesium, everything else people are testing from a biomarker standpoint and instead looking boots on the streets at exactly what is going on in the mitochondria.
So, correct. The difference with this test is like you're actually opening the hood and looking inside the cell and you can see exactly what's happening at that time in your cells, as opposed to any biomarker testing. That is an indirect marker and it may not be specific and there's so different things that could affect it. But utilizing this test, you can actually see exactly what your mitochondria are doing is looking under the hood as opposed to, you know, just reading some tests from, from blood work markers, where so many different things could affect it and not tell you the true story.
Walk me through what this test actually is. I mean, not only how it's done, but what it actually looks at.
I just want to explain. I think it's important to know the context of how this came about. Right. Because the test is 25 years worth of research to get to this point. And when you look at epigenetic testing and biomarker based testing, this is not that. Right. We are a function test that's looking at real time functionality and efficiency of your cell.
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