Why You Start Losing Mitochondria At 21, And What Builds Them Back
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- Exercise builds the machine and food fuels it. Sundeep pictures your mitochondria as a fireplace and your nutrients as the wood, and points out that all the firewood in the house does nothing if the fireplace is not working.
- Most mitochondrial supplements act on the mitochondria you already have. NAD, CoQ10, and injectable peptides can help existing mitochondria function better, but as he explains, they do not create new ones, and that is a different problem with a different answer.
- Why he tells gym-goers to skip the post-workout antioxidant: the reactive oxygen species that training produces are part of the signal to build more mitochondria, and research he points to suggests high-dose vitamin E right after exercise can blunt that benefit
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