Dr. Rhonda Patrick

You can, mitochondrial biogenesis does happen, but you have to stimulate it to happen.

And the way your mitochondria, like what happens with your mitochondria is they essentially are bobbing around inside of your cells and then they fuse with other mitochondria, exchange all their content, mitochondrial DNA, and then fizz back apart.

And that's how they kind of stay youngish.

But like as you age, you keep,

doing that with the same pool of mitochondria, then you're going to get a bunch of old mitochondria mixing old stuff together.

Right.

So why wouldn't you want to like bring up new, healthy, young mitochondria into that pool?

Right.

So in my mind, when I hear mitochondrial biogenesis, I'm like aging.

Like that's the first thing I think of.

So anyways, cold exposure does that.

I do a lot of high-intensity interval Tabatas on a stationary cycle three times a week.

And I do a 10-minute, just 10, because it's efficient and I push my ass.

I push myself really hard.

That's the Tabata.

It's 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, and it's 10 minutes.

You're maxing it.

And then I always have my sauna on preheating up.

I get it to about 189 degrees Fahrenheit.

I hop right in the sauna after my Peloton.