Cellular Respiration

ENERGY

Mitochondria are small organelle in each of your cell which makes energy for you. Without proper function and electrolyte support, mitochondria will not function adequately and you will experience tiredness, low energy, short of breath. Simply saying, we need to look after our mitochondria.

The way we can support our energy production.

  • Heat and cold therapy: sauna practise followed by cold plunge, cold showers or plunges on its own.

  • Light therapy application: red light and near-infrared light (NIR)

  • Electrolytes, micro, macro minerals: mitochondria need electrolytes and micro and macro minerals to function properly.

  • Time restricted eating: according to research done by prof. Satchin Panda; the most metabolically advanced food intake is within 10hrs. it provides enough time to eat well balanced nutritional meals and enough time for our body to take a rest from food. The best time to do that is within human’s active hours (day time). Satchin also found in his research, that min 1 hr after waking and 2-3 hrs before sleep is the time we should start and finish our meals.

Mitochondria

 

Mitochondria are little ancient bacteria, which are engulfed inside each of our cells (beside red blood cell) they are having its of DNA (mtDNA).

 

Mitochondrial DNA contains 37 genes, all of which are essential for normal mitochondrial function. 13 of these genes provide instructions for making enzymes involved in oxidative phosphorylation. Oxidative phosphorylation is a process that uses oxygen and simple sugars to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell's main energy source. The remaining genes provide instructions for making molecules called transfer RNA (tRNA, 22 genes) and ribosomal RNA (rRNA, 2 genes) which are chemical cousins of DNA. These types of RNA help assemble protein building blocks (amino acids) into functioning proteins.

 

One cell has many mitochondria, thus many mitochondrial genomes but only one nuclear genome.

 

The mitochondrial mode of inheritance is strictly maternal, whereas nuclear genomes are inherited equally from both parents. Therefore, mitochondria-associated disease mutations are also always inherited maternally. [1]

 

Mitochondrial decline is now to be known cause of aging. There is strong evidence that mitophagy is important process to support health and prevent low grade inflammation, which is behind most of diseases and life span decline.

 

Mitophagy is practically the same as autophagy process, but related to mitochondria.

Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that maintain their morphology via continuous fission and fusion, also known as mitochondrial dynamics.

 

 1. mtDNA and Mitochondrial Diseases. Heidi Chial, Ph.D. & Joanna Craig, Ph.D.  2008 Nature Education.