Chris Masterjohn

I, you know, I take what he said.

I think there's a lot of value to it, but I say like, why is thyroid communicating the state of abundance?

It's because your mitochondria are doing a great job converting your food to ATP.

Now you don't have to have a mitochondrial dysfunction to have low thyroid hormone because you're not in a state of abundance.

You can just not eat any food.

So, you know, if you look at the metabolic consequences of starvation, you just don't eat any food.

Your thyroid hormone go in the gutter.

Um,

So there are people out there who just aren't eating enough.

That is a thing.

But it's also just natural in the process of aging that we're all getting progressively dysfunctional mitochondria and that we can intervene at any point to have at least 75% of control over that.

And so we want to step up the game and work.

So if there's two things that people take away from this from me today, I would want it to be always think about your mitochondria first.

And when you're thinking about them, always go with a food first, pharma last approach.

So naturally create a state of abundance in the best way that you can, and then move on to other things after you've done that.

That way, if you're going to intervene with testosterone replacement or thyroid hormone or statins or whatever, I mean, statins are mitochondrial toxins.

They're kind of counterproductive from a mitochondrial energy production standpoint.

And on that note, the debates of statin-associated myopathy, the rates of them are debated.

The rates at which statins cause diabetes is debated, but it's there.

And it's because statins actually inhibit your CoQ10 synthesis, but they also inhibit other things in the mitochondrial energy production engines that you can't take a supplement for.