Catharine Arnston
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The problem is, as you get older, your mitochondria die, so you have fewer of them, and the ones that are still there get damaged, so they don't work as well. And you don't have the maintenance people to call up and just replace your lights. So as you get older, and we'll talk about particularly there's a marker at the age 40 on when the wheels start to come off.
And this is exactly when chronic disease kicks in, brain fog, weight gain. fatigue, especially for women. And for athletes, you know, this is when you start struggling with your workouts and not recovering as fast. It's because your mitochondria have decreased in quantity and in quality.
And we're going to talk about why and what's in the algae, particularly the spirulina, that can reverse that for you. So, and even if you're not at 40, if you're 30 or 20, you want to protect your mitochondria to preserve what you have.
Because as I mentioned earlier, so much of this damage, which is inflammation, it's all occurring in the mitochondria, is silent. It's going on even though you're not conscious of it. And the symptoms often don't show up for like 10 years. So we want you to preserve what you have or correct and regain what you lost.
And you can do that with this particular antioxidant I'm going to talk about called superoxide dismutase that is in the highest concentration in spirulina in the world, but only if it's raw because superoxide dismutase is also an enzyme. And if you expose it to high heat, like all the other algae companies do, you deactivate it.
So, spirulina is like the electricity, and it's not just the electricity, it's also the light bulbs. And so, as you get older, your lights go out, right? Literally, the lights in your head, the lights in your body, there's just fewer of them. It's darker and darker, and you have less and less energy, and you think that that's life. No, it's not.
It is if you don't know how to prevent or correct it. But there is no reason why you can't live long and not deteriorate. But you need to know the rules of the road. So I'm here to help you with that. So I'm going to give you a bit of a science lesson.
So now that you know what mitochondria are and to explain exactly what's going on so that you can enjoy your spirulina and know that it's going to work for you. Here's a picture of a cell. And in your cell, there's a whole bunch of stuff. That's the nucleus. But you also have these little peanut-shaped things, which are your mitochondria. Now, remember, there's
2 million of these peanut-shaped things per cell in your brain and your eyes. Women's eggs, by the way, have 800,000. Heart has 8,000, and then muscles are 5,000 per cell. Your regular skin or fat cell has only about 1,000. The highest concentration of mitochondria are where the highest energy needs are. It takes a lot of energy to think. It takes a lot of energy to make a baby.
it takes a lot of energy for your heart to pump. So that's why there's so many mitochondria in those particular organs and then also for your muscles. We've got the cell. We've got all these little mitochondria inside the cell. Now, inside the mitochondria, and I'm going to give you another picture. It's with a bigger shot of the mitochondria. You see a bunch of other things.
So inside the mitochondria, this is where that cellular energy called ATP is being produced. Now, but here's the thing that most people would never know. Your mitochondria have their own DNA. You know that nucleus I showed you before in the cell? That is where your other DNA, and there's like 22,000 of those. But your mitochondria have their own DNA, and there's only 37 of them.
But the mitochondria DNA control all of your other DNA. They control all the communication that goes on in your body. They're like the air controllers at an airport. There's not many of them, but they control everything, right? So the problem is your mitochondria DNA are located right where the ATP is. And you think, well, what's the problem with that?
Well, what you don't know yet is that a byproduct of ATP production are free radicals. We know what free radicals are, right? They're a molecule with an unpaired electron. And so nature strives for harmony and simplicity. So that free radical will go and steal an electron from another molecule to balance itself out. Now it's unbalanced and it causes tissue damage in the process.
So it steals from another one and steals another. So that's how you get damage and inflammation. But there's these things called antioxidants that have extra electrons. to give away, sort of like the kid at school who brought extra lunches for all their friends and to give them away, okay? So we all know about antioxidants.
We've heard about them for years, and blueberries are high in them, and vitamin C is an antioxidant, vitamin E is an antioxidant, but here's the problem. Your mitochondria are your only cell in your body with two membranes. There's the regular membrane on the outside that you have, the fat one I mentioned earlier, and your fat membrane is called lipid membrane. Antioxidants can get in and out.
There's little things called channels called porins that allow them in and out, but there's no channels on that inside membrane. So all of your regular antioxidants can't get in there. Any athletes who have studied or read any studies about whether antioxidants improve athletic performance or longevity, the answer is no.
And the reason is they've been studying the wrong antioxidants because vitamin C and vitamin E cannot get in that. This is like the intensive unit at a hospital. Lockdown. No. your average antioxidant cannot get in there. There are a few that can, and the most powerful one is called superoxide dismutase. And why is it so important?
Well, these free radicals that are damaging, the most damaging free radical is called superoxide, and it's created in the mitochondria. And what makes it so damaging? Well, remember I said free radicals usually have one unpaired electron? superoxide has three unpaired electrons. So it is three times as damaging.
And so this antioxidant called superoxide dismutase neutralizes that free radical and turns it into harmless water and oxygen. It's sort of like having the firemen in there. They basically hose them down so it can't damage the DNA of the mitochondria, which means the mitochondria don't get damaged, which means that they can generate more energy and they can thrive.
Now, the good news is your body makes this stuff called superoxidismutase from the moment you're born. Great, right? This is why you can recover quickly from sports or illness or anything. One of the reasons, there's many other reasons, but nonetheless. But then when you hit the age 30, and certainly by the time you get to 40, your body stops making it. This is exactly when disease kicks in.
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