...liver cells. Properly functioning mitochondria are critical to human health and survival. Unfortunately, mitochondria are exquisitely sensitive to their environs and can
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Silent Death – Serotonin Syndrome
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...sensitives pay is 1) inability to absorb nutrients even from pills; 2) lack of proper gut flora for absorption of nutrients in
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...seen systemically. The high oxidative stress load caused by the overload of Ca2+ eventually stimulates mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) opening and
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...how could damaged mitochondria, even functionally inefficient mitochondria, not affect gene expression in the cell’s nucleus? Though we tend to think of
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...dietary nutrients that feed the mitochondria. Indeed, from an evolutionary perspective, mitochondria evolved from microbiota and formed the symbiotic relationship that regulate
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It’s Just ATP
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...used, we need ATP. For ATP, we need functional mitochondria. For functional mitochondria, we need macro- and micronutrients. Food provides the substrates
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...of genes that preside over the functions of our mitochondria. These are the organelles within each of our cells that produce the
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...mitochondria require sufficient vitamins and minerals, 22 of them, in fact. Western diets, while high in calories, are woefully low in these
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