This is a segment of an August 2011 FMU YouTube interview (featuring Garth Nicolson, PhD) where Nicolson emphasizes the role of nutrition—specifically supplying correct molecular precursors (e.g., lipids)—for ongoing cellular repair. He explains that without proper precursors membranes lose fluidity and become leakier, reducing cellular functionality and contributing to disease-accelerated damage.
Absolutely. Nutrition is really important in this because we have to provide our body and our cells with the correct constituents in order to replace the damage that occurs on a daily basis and damage that's accelerated during disease processes. And so if we don't have the correct precursors, for example, for our lipids and for the other structures of our cells, then we can't keep up with the damage that occurs, and eventually it throws our cells out of sync. And so with the membranes, we have to repair this damage, because if we don't, the membranes can become less fluid, they can become more leaky, and other things can happen. There's less function, functionality of the membranes. And so we can see that with this type of damage, then our cells can no longer function as they should.
