Catharine Arnston

In your body, these things called mitochondria are not just the lights.

They're also the electricity.

They're the source of electricity.

And they generate all of your cellular energy.

And when I say cellular energy, it's not energy for running to the store or doing a great workout.

It's

your neurotransmitters, your lymphatic system, your heartbeat, your lungs, your digestive system, your metabolics, everything requires cellular energy.

Now, if you have less cellular energy, it doesn't take a lot, you know, Einstein to figure out we have less cellular energy, nothing's going to work very well.

And the trouble is, as you get older, these little mitochondria that are inside your cells, they get damaged easier and they die.

So it's like having your lights go out.

And when your lights go out, you obviously have less energy.

So this contributes to brain fog, to contribute to weight gain, to heart disease, because these little mitochondria, they're gone.

It happens, it's documented in science that after 40, you have fewer and fewer mitochondria.

And the ones that are there are damaged.

It's called mitochondria dysfunction.

So when you have lots of mitochondria, and I tell people I never eat alone, I always eat with my mitochondria, because they're affected by the food that you give them and the nutrients that they get from you.

And there's a number of things that happen in the mitochondria.

They have their own DNA, by the way.

Most people don't know this, because we have our regular DNA, there's 22,000 of those, and they last a lifetime.

Your mitochondria DNA lasts an average of 10 days.