Dr. Chris Palmer
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3 Jul
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What does powerhouse mean?
It means that
they are taking your food and oxygen and turning it into ATP, and that's the energy currency of the cell.
That's the powerhouse function.
They're taking food and oxygen and converting it or transforming it into energy.
And there's no doubt mitochondria do that.
And that is critical to living organisms.
It's critical to human health.
But cutting edge research over the last 25 years has actually completely shattered that simplistic definition.
Mitochondria are so much more than that.
They play countless roles in the function of cells.
And so related to mental health, some of the things that they do that are gonna start to connect the dots, connect these biopsychosocial dots for us,
is that mitochondria actually play a role in neurotransmitter synthesis and release and regulation.
And so if you buy into the argument, oh, like schizophrenia is due to an imbalance of dopamine or something,
it still begs the question, well, what causes that imbalance in the first place?
And increasingly, the science, the neuroscience is pointing at mitochondrial dysfunction or dysregulation as the cause of neurotransmitter imbalances.
But mitochondria do so much more than that.
They play a role in epigenetics, which is the expression of genes from the cell nucleus.
They play a role in inflammation, turning it both on and off, and yet inflammation affects their function.
They play a role in how hungry we are and how much energy we have.
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