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Mitochondria Are More Than Powerhouses–They're the Motherboard of the Cell
When these energy-giving organelles thrive, so do we
“In cellular emergencies, newly arrived mitochondria might kick-start tissue repair, fire up the immune system or rescue distressed cells from death,” journalist Gemma Conroy noted in a Nature news story last April. Along with Caroline Trumpff of Columbia, Anna Marsland and Brett Kaufman of the University of Pittsburgh, and other co-workers, I found that mental stress induced by having to speak in public for five minutes increased the amount of free-floating mtDNA in the blood. Medical ketogenic therapy or “nutritional ketosis,” which involves cutting out all refined sugars, limiting intake of carbohydrates, and making up the calorie difference with more proteins and fats, has been shown to sustainably reverse insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
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