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Matt Kelly explains how mitochondrial slowdown starves cells of energy, allowing toxins to build up and cells to fail. When this spreads across tissues like the brain, heart, and reproductive organs, it creates disease.
Matt Kelly explains how mitochondrial slowdown starves cells of energy, allowing toxins to build up and cells to fail. When this spreads across tissues like the brain, heart, and reproductive organs, it creates disease.
If our mitochondria slow down, our whole energy is gonna slow down in our body and we'll feel tired and all that. Very true. But the reason mitochondria are so important to your functioning of your cells and your body is most of your cells have mitochondria. Some cells have a ton of mitochondria— brain, your heart, your reproductive organs, lots and lots of mitochondria. Other, other tissues have many as well. Well, if I take Mitochondria and I get them to move slower and slower and slower, the cell becomes dysfunctional because the cells are made to have a certain amount of energy. Take away their energy, I can start to have a back of toxic material in the cell that I can't get out and export. I have a cell that's dysfunctional cuz it's not operating at a proper speed. And then if I take a collection of cells, I have a tissue type. Take a collection of those, I have an organ. And you can actually have organs that slow down and don't work well. We call that pathology.
