Dr. Chris Palmer
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first heard Feb 2025
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It either gets turned into our actual body, different cells or cell parts, or it gets turned into energy that gets burned for fuel to keep us alive.
And then metabolism also involves kind of the waste management process of that.
Because when managing the waste products becomes dysregulated, that can back up metabolism, so to speak.
And you can have a metabolic problem because you can't get rid of certain things.
So it's that.
In a way, metabolism is fundamental to the definition of living organisms.
So for example, viruses cannot do metabolism on their own.
And so most biological authorities will say viruses are not living organisms because they have to take over the metabolism machinery of a living organism.
And so in that way, metabolism is huge, massive, and it impacts essentially every aspect of human health.
When I describe metabolism as this overarching thing, fundamental to living organisms, and it's ridiculously complicated.
There are thousands of different hormones and molecules and everything circulating around that contribute to metabolism.
When people ask, well, what controls metabolism in the human body?
It's actually not...
what most people would say.
Like a lot of people might say the brain controls metabolism.
And it's like, well, yeah, the brain plays a role in it, but it doesn't actually control metabolism in every cell and organ and tissue and stuff.
And so the real answer, based on 2026 science, the real answer or the most likely answer is that
mitochondria are actually regulating and controlling metabolism throughout the body.
And although they are in specific cells, like they, so as you said, they are the powerhouse of the cell.
And what does that mean for those of you who want the refresher from your seventh grade biology class?
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