Catharine Arnston
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This is when brain fog, this is when heart disease, cancer, diabetes, we're all fine when we're young. And then at 40, it's like the hammer came down. And I believe it's because we are no longer getting the benefits of the superoxidismutase. To help you understand what exactly this stuff does, think of superoxidismutase like a big golf umbrella, right?
If you've ever been out on the golf course or just shopping and you've got one of those big golf umbrellas, if it pours rain, you open up your big umbrella, the rain doesn't stop, but you aren't getting wet because you've got this huge umbrella. That's what superoxidismutase does for your mitochondria. The free radicals are always going to be a byproduct of ATP.
But if you have superoxide dismutase, it's protecting your DNA from the rain of free radicals. However, by the time you're 30, that umbrella is now about the size of a totes umbrella. It's sort of like a city umbrella. So you're dodging the raindrops. By the time you're 40, that golf umbrella is now the size of a cocktail umbrella. No longer viable. This is when your DNA gets...
fried with free radicals. Remember, the free radicals never stop because they're a natural byproduct of ATP. But you previously had this protection that did not cause the damage to occur. So after the age of 40, you do not have... And why 40? And why does it slow down after 30? Well, other things slow down too. Hormones, melatonin. There's lots of things your body stops making by the time of 40.
And the reason is we've been on earth for 2 million years. And biologically, we used to always die at 30. This ability of us to live to 60 and 70 and 80 and 90 is only in the last 150 years. It's a lifestyle change. But our biology has not caught up with our lifestyle. So our body slows down, thinks it's, you know, retirement time. It just slows down just about everything.
Women, estrogen, people don't know this, but estrogen is actually an antioxidant. women, when your estrogen level drops, when you go through perimenopause and menopause, you are losing the protective capability of the estrogen to protect your mitochondria. This is why you get brain fog. This is why you get fatigue. It's because the estrogen drop is causing
the mitochondria to be no longer protected from that antioxidant benefit. The double-edged sword is your mitochondria is also a precursor to creating estrogen. So as the mitochondria get damaged, it's not making as much estrogen. The estrogen drops, which means there's less protection. So you see what happens.
So this is why women in particular, absolutely after 40, must be taking spirulina so we can get back the superoxide dismutase, get your all that free radical damage and turn the lights back on. You literally feel like the lights come back on. And the first place you feel it is in your brain because your brain has the most mitochondria. So that's sort of what's going on and why it's happening.
But I'm going to give you even more science because it's so important to me that you understand this. Because once you understand, it's like cooking. It's a recipe. Or if you're an athlete, you know what you need to do. You have to do legs one day and arms the next day. There's always a routine to follow to achieve your goal.
So I want to go a little bit further so you have even clearer understanding of what's really going on. So back to the mitochondria and that inner membrane, okay? So this ATP production stuff actually occurs on that inner membrane itself. And see how it's all convoluted? And evolutionarily, it was so clever because when it's convoluted, you have more surface. Same with your brain.
It's all wrinkles. It's because that gives you more surface. Even in your DNA, there's what's called folded proteins. So there's more surface. So you have this folded surface on the inside. And that surface in the inner membrane is where the actual ATP is produced. So I'm going to show you how it actually happens. So here's the surface, okay, the inner membrane of the mitochondria.
And there's these four little molecules embedded in the surface, okay? And there's a couple of helper molecules. One you've probably heard of called CoQ10. And the other one is cytochrome C, which you've probably never heard of. Think of these molecules embedded in your mitochondria, inner membrane, kind of like runners in a relay race. You've all seen a relay race. You have a runner with a baton.
One runner runs a certain distance, passes the baton to the next runner, who then runs a certain distance, passes it to the next one, and then they hopefully win the race. Well, instead of runners, you have these molecules. And instead of a baton, you have electrons, okay? The goal is ATP production instead of crossing the finish line.
So the closer these molecules are to one another, the easier it is for them to pass the electrons. Perfect. That means you get efficiency and more electrons, more ATP being produced. And I'll talk to you in a minute about these helper molecules.
However, as your mitochondria get damaged from all these free radicals that are occurring, what happens is in that inner membrane where the molecules are normally tightly beside one another so they can pass the baton, which is basically the electrons from one another, what happens is the mitochondria expand. Ultimately, they expand so big that they explode, which is a process called necrosis.
Anyways, as the mitochondria gets damaged, they expand. Two things happen from that expansion. Now, look how far away some of those molecules are from one another. This means they can't effectively pass the electrons to one another to create that ATP.
So the first thing that happens when you get mitochondria damage, decreased ATP, decreased cellular energy, which leads to fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, metabolic health issues. That's number one. You get less ATP production. Number two, when the electrons aren't being passed effectively from one molecule to the next, They don't disappear.
They leak out into the rest of the mitochondria and become free radicals. This is that downward spiral that you get into. The more damage you have, the more damage you get. The more damage you have, the more damage you get. It never ends. I want to show you what this actually looks like. Here's a picture of a real mitochondria, healthy mitochondria on one side.
Here's a damaged mitochondria on the other side.
That's where all that... leakage has occurred and caused damage. This thing is going to get bigger and bigger and explode because when your mitochondria either expand and multiply through a fission or fusion, and there's a healthy way to do it and an unhealthy way. The unhealthy is called necrosis, where they basically explode because they got so big.
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