Tag: mitochondria
Metabolic rate may determine personality type and disease risk
Very interesting study that links mitochondrial density/number (and as such, the metabolic rate) with personality types. Namely,…
Restoring mitochondrial function may be sufficient to reverse aging
The findings of the study may not sound very novel to my readers, however please keep in…
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a major cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD)
At a first glance, mitochondrial dysfunction (a “functional” problem) has little in common with the build-up of…
Neuron/brain growth depends on metabolism (OXPHOS)
As many of my readers know, the mainstream medical dogma is that the number of neurons in…
Major depression likely driven by mitochondrial deterioration/dysfunction
This the latest study demonstrating that not only are various chronic diseases and aging essentially the same…
Harvard Psychiatrist: All Mental Disease is Metabolic/Bioenergetic Disease
It is always nice to see mainstream medicine plagiarize from Dr. Peat attempt to right its course…
Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer are bioenergetic diseases; PUFA may be the cause
The bad news for PUFA (in this case linoleic acid) just keep piling on. At this point,…
Impaired OXPHOS by high ketones drives heart failure
Just a few weeks after my post on how excessive fatty acid oxidation (FAO) drives cancer, below…
Disrupting mitochondrial function can cause severe anemia
Most doctors consider anemia mostly an iron-related issue, despite the fact that iron supplementation often fails to…
PUFA damages mitochondria, blocks mitophagy, leads to heart damage
I can’t get access to the full study text, so the comments I have here are based…