We humans are powerful energy
producers and I'm not talking
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about the energy we
produce in the sun from water
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or nuclear fission, I'm talking
about the energy we produce
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inside of us 24/7.
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Today we're going to be talking
about our very own power plants.
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I'm Rise Rafferty your host
and I'll be going through this
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series with you, a journey
that I hope you'll take with me
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all the way to the
end, it's going to be great.
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My goal is that you will be
enlightened with information
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and inspired by practical
insights to help you flourish
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because that's
what you were made for.
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You know I've always
had questions about energy.
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Is it one of those things that
you either got or you don't.
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You hear that people say
they have run out of energy,
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why is that?
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Do we use it all up
and there is no more left?
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I'm talking about the energy
we need to survive and function,
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feel alive and vibrant and
it turns out that energy has
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a source. The food we
eat, the air we breathe,
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it's used to produce energy
down deep inside ourselves.
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If you haven't heard of
them before, you are going to
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be introduced to
your mitochondria today,
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the key player in
energy production.
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If we want to understand
where energy comes from,
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or why we don't have as
much energy as we used to,
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we got to start here.
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You can't have health
and you can't address disease
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unless you have energy to do
that and the only place in the
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body that creates energy that
the other tissues, organelles
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or cells the body
can use is mitochondria.
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So mitochondria are
the generators of the cell.
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Just like counties will pipe
in gasoline in order to generate
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electricity, you have no
electricity without gasoline.
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Likewise in our body you
have no electrical energy,
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no nervous energy, no energy
at all without functioning
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mitochondria. And so in order
to have even minimal health
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you have to have
adequate mitochondrial function
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and production of that currency
of energy in the body called ATP
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but in order to have optimal
health you have to have abundant
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amounts of ATP but
used in the right way.
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In any part of the
body, every cell needs ATP,
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in fact, we produce our
weight in ATP every day.
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Cars use gasoline,
jets use you know jet fuel,
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and our bodies use ATP.
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Well, mitochondria are centrally
generators for the cell.
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I liken it to the car
engine, without a car engine
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you can't drive a car and
the car engine will take gas,
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take fuel and convert it
into energy that can be used by
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the car, so likewise
a mitochondria will take
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food energy like fats and
carbohydrates and will convert
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those directly only into the
only energy that the rest of the
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body can use and that's
ATP so without Mitochondria
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you don't have any ATP and
without any ATP which is the
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currency of energy for
the body you can't be alive.
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You can't heal, you can't
be healthy, so mitochondria
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are critical for the
body to work in the end.
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I want you to see
what we are talking about.
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This is a mitochondria
and we've got a lot of them
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It's because there are up to 10s
of thousands of a single neuron
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that keeps the
sparks flying in your brain.
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Interestingly enough even though
the brain is only about 2%
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of our body weight, it actually
consumes 20 to 25% or our energy
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and as many people
probably know mitochondria are
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the energy powerhouses
for the cell and for the body.
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And so what that means is
that the mitochondria have a
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huge role in making sure that
our brain has sufficient energy
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to do the work
that it needs to do.
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So one example of how
much energy our brain really
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burns is when we look
at elite chess players.
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Back in 1984 during the
world chess championship
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Anatoly Karpov actually
lost 22 pounds over the course
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of several months
because he was thinking so hard
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you could almost see the
smoke coming out of his ears.
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But it's actually estimated
that elite chess players
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can burn 6,000 calories a day
without even moving out of their
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seats, that's how many calories
we can burn, so in that case
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they actually called
off the whole championship
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because they were so concerned
about his health because
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he was losing so much weight
just from thinking so hard.
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And the brain is the organ in
our body that actually utilizes
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the most energy.
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Your brain is who you
are, the very organ of survival
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and what determines in
you are going to survive from
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minute to minute, it expects to
be challenged by the environment
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it assesses the environment
on a constant basis even when
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we're not thinking, even when
we are sleeping it's working.
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In fact, it's not some of
it's best work during sleep.
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So, those 87 billion
neurons and by the way ten times
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glial cells, these supporting
structures we'll talk about
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and all the vasculature, in fact
it's the most vascular organ
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in the body requires energy,
it requires energy constantly
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and it requires clean energy
and if that wasn't enough,
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it's also encased in this closed
in environment by what's called
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blood-brain barrier where
not much can get in and out
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without being surveilled
so it is an incredibly
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overwhelmed organ and we
have to be aware of that.
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Because every time, every
single time we give it food,
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it either does
good or it does damage.
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Every single meal that
we have has consequences,
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now that doesn't mean
that we have to be so cognizant
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that we have to make it
difficult on ourselves and
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create stress, that
in itself is damaging.
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But we have to be aware
that the food that we eat
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is going to not just give us
energy, it creates byproducts,
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it creates waste, more waste
in the brain than any other
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organ and it has to be
eliminated and that's a problem
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in itself, that's
where sleep comes in.
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So that's why the brain
is so important and what we
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give the brain is so
important from minute to minute.
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It's an incredible system that
requires constant energy making
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it creates the energy in
the body, you give it glucose
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it gives you what's
called ATP which in the energy
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in the body and different
things can actually go into the
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mitochondria like ketones
and all this noise that we've
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been hearing but glucose is
it's preferred energy source
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and when you give it
glucose, it gives you energy
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And if you give it clean energy,
glucose, it give you energy
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but without waste products
but if you don't give it
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clean energy it will
actually create a lot of waste.
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In fact, it can create actually
what is called free radicals
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which will destroy the cell,
the DNA and so you have to be
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aware of that kind of a system
in every single one of our
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87 billion Neurons and
it's kind of daunting but
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it's also kind of empowering
because with a simple choice
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of movement, of eating,
not some kind of bio-hacking.
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Simple clean living and I'm
over simplifying but it's not
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when the numbers, when we speak
about numbers that are just
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overwhelming every single
time that mitochondria can be
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regenerated and given more
energy and longevity or aged
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that's the significance.
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Not only is energy
produced but a lot of damage
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can actually start here because
the cascade of energy production
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can also create free-radicals
and start the damage process.
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So mitochondria is definitely
involved in almost all
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nerve degenerative processes,
we don't know how much
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and to what extent or
what initiates the process
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but it goes without saying
that is probably one of the most
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critical elements in the
pathway of neuro-degeneration.
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You know if our mitochondria
aren't functioning well,
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then we are going to
have a whole host of problems.
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So mitochondria is processing
all of our energy it uses and
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processes our oxygen and so with
this amazing part of our cell
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it really allows us to function
and like I said if we don't
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have that working well,
then we're going to struggle
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in so many different ways.
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So, when mitochondria
make energy they also produce
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byproducts that
can become damaging.
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These byproducts have
a name, free-radicals.
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You can also call them
reactive oxygen species
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but who wants to say that?
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So we're going to call
these free radicals ROS
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and if you haven't met ROS
before let me give you a quick
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surface level heads up, ROS
is a bit of a unstable guy who
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can impulsively fly off
the handle, be uncontrollable,
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and behave erratically
only thinking about himself
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rather than what's
good for the other.
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Now you may think I'm
describing someone you know
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but remember
we're describing ROS.
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ROS can actually wreak a
lot of damage inside the cells
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causing stress and distress
when he shows up unless he's
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kept in check. When kept
under control he actually can
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accomplish some good destroying
disease-causing agents
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like viruses or
taking out damaged cells,
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he's also involved in
detoxification and wound
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healing. What keeps ROS on
the straight and narrow though
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is if there are not too
many of him and if he has a
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good woman by his side to keep
him simmered down and balanced.
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That woman's name is
antioxidant, when ROS and
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antioxidant connect all is well.
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Next, you'll be hearing
from Dr Annabelle Facemire
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she's a cardiologist
who's going to be talking about
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how poor mitochondrial function
can result in heart disease.
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hardening of the arteries,
hypertension and heart failure,
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true to who she is,
Dr. Facemire packs a lot
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in a small package and
she's going to be telling us
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more about ROS.
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So, there is a growing evidence
on our traditional risk factors
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and so I just mention a few.
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You know smoking,
high cholesterol, diabetes,
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sedentary lifestyle, obesity,
those traditional risk factors
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we thought okay that was just
kind of the big micro picture
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okay, this is the cause.
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But all of this caused something
called oxidative stress
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at the level of the mitochondria
and that contributes to
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atherosclerosis, so during
this reaction that occurs in the
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mitochondria there is a balance,
the mitochondria is the...
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we call it the powerhouse
and it causes ATP energy.
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But right now it just
involves so many other functions
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but just to go to the first
one which was produce energy
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in ATP, so you produce
energy in ATP and then you have
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a reactive molecule a reaction
oxygen species so you produce
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ATP and that's kind of the
leftover is reactive oxygen
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species and then the
mitochondria have some
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antioxidants that balance
that reactive oxygen species
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and make things really neutral.
So that oxygen species does not
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damage your epithelium so
all that is balanced but when we
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have triggers like we mentioned
before, the factors of obesity
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and sedentary lifestyle
and cortisol and high glucose
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you know, high sugar and high
cholesterol all that imbalance
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the reactive oxygen
species cannot get rid of it
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because the antioxidants are the
cells are trying to balance the
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other ones so this reactive
oxygen species are starting to
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build-up and that really
causes the oxidation and damage
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and the term is that
that cell actually is going to
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early death, we call it
Aptosis which is a cell problem
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death but it occurs early
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And when something is
dead in our body there is some
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macrophages are ready
to attack and said okay,
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you're not supposed to be here,
I'm going to eat you up and then
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break you down. And so
that reaction, that inflammation
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is part of the plaque formation.
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We know that one-third of every
myocardial cell, it has these
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mitochondrial DNA and
there are mutations that occur
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in the DNA, in the mitochondrial
DNA is responsible for the
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oxidative stress this function
of the mitochondria deficient
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of energy production and as
a result cell dysfunction and
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death and so heart
failure has been associated.
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When the heart becomes
weak, has associated with this
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oxidative stress and
mitochondrial dysfunction.
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Okay, so remember ROS
causes stress, oxidative stress,
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when he does not have
antioxidant by his side
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if the damage becomes
too much, we got problems
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plaque builds up in
the arteries, we experience
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blood vessel blockages,
hypertension and that's just
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looking what happens is
a cardiovascular system.
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The mitochondria perform several
different roles in our health
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of course, everybody
knows about how mitochondria
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are the powerhouses of the
cell and ATP is produced and
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that's a big one. But it
also plays a role in calcium,
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homeostasis, it regulates
stem cells, it regulates
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whether cells live or
die and of course that...
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if we can't whether cells live
or die then we're more prone to
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cancer, you know, but
mitochondria play a huge role
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with ATP right, with energy
and when we don't have that
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energy, things
start going downhill.
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You know we all
learned in high-school that the
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mitochondria supplies the
cell with the energy currency
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so the mitochondria as we've
learned produces this molecule
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called ATP and ATP is
then serves as an energy source
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throughout the cell for it
funds, let's say FUNDS, funds
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physiology that needs to
take place in other parts
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of the cell comes
from the mitochondria.
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It turns out that mitochondria
is involved in quite a number
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of things besides
just turning out energy.
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Evidently the mitochondria
as I understand it anyway
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is so important to supporting
the function of whatever that
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specialized cell is supposed
to do and all of our cells are
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specialized, they all do
something that other cells
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can't do. They're all dependent
on the functioning mitochondria,
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you might ask what
happens during the day
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when we are not asleep and our
melatonin levels in our blood
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are very low, our pineal
gland isn't making melatonin.
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It turns out the mitochondria
themselves can produce melatonin
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for their own use and
that happens during the day
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and do you know
what the stimulus is?
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No. It's sunlight.
It's not ultraviolet,
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turns out its infrared
light from sunlight gets through
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our clothing penetrates
our clothing and our skin and
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gets into our system in a way
that ultraviolet light doesn't.
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And apparently, it's
infrared light that stimulates
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mitochondria to make melatonin
within them that helps them
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to clear out the dangerous
reactive oxidant species.
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That is fantastic, so basically
melatonin is behaving as a
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antioxidant, an
internal antioxidant.
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Evidentially, who knew it,
melatonin turns out to be a
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powerful antioxidant. Ummu.
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Neutralizing all those
free radicals that could
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potentially do damage.
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Yeah, In the endocrine
system some of the most famous
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hormones, that is hormones
that everyone knows about
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are produced in glands in
which it's the mitochondria
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of the cells of those glands
that are actually producing
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those hormones so the
steroid hormones are produced
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within the mitochondria of
the cells that produce them.
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So those are the hormones like
cortisol, and maybe we've heard
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of aldosterone, but
testosterone, and estrogen,
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actually, Vitamin D is a steroid
hormone, it is produced within
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mitochondria. So
the mitochondria are um,
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what's the word I want?
indispensable for the production
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of these hormones. So we
have to support our mitochondria
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if we expect to have functioning
healthy adrenal glands
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or gonads, ovaries,
or testes and placenta.
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You know what's
really interesting about the
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mitochondria is that
they are not only involved
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in producing energy but
they are also involved even in
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synthesizing in producing the
hormones, cortisol for example.
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So stress hormones, all
the steroid hormones even our
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sex hormones like
testosterone, and estrogen,
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and that sort of thing
are actually produced by
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the mitochondria.
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On top of that melatonin is even
produced by the mitochondria
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as well, and so all of these
things that the mitochondria do
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are actually very
important to mental health.
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Dr. Shirazi mentioned that
the brain produces more waste
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than any other organ and
when is that waste eliminated?
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When we sleep. Remember
that? While we're sleeping
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the mitochondria in the brain
produce melatonin and melatonin
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informs us that it's bedtime.
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But it also happens to
be a powerful antioxidant
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for calming ROS down, preventing
him from doing damage.
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It's a strong woman to stand
by ROS' side which can keep
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the mitochondria healthy and
as a result, protect the brain.
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And so some of the
things we know are beneficial to
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mitochondria are kind of
the usual things that support
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good health so, we know quite
a lot now about how exercise,
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directly stimulates
mitochondrial function
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stresses them actually,
causes them to increase their
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own stress level by the
production of what are called
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reactive oxygen species forces
the cells to sharpen up their
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mitochondria and produce more
mitochondria for the production
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of more energy and that's
a direct effect of exercise
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of our muscles evidently,
good sleep apparently supports
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mitochondria in some really
interesting ways that I've just
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recently learned about.
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We've all heard of melatonin
and how melatonin comes from
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our pineal gland when the sun
goes down and the sky darkens
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and we're designed to go
to sleep after the darkening
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and our environment, the
pineal gland secretes melatonin
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which has the sort of go
to sleep effect on all of our
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systems, all of ourselves.
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One thing that melatonin also
does evidently is affect the
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mitochondria in such a
way that it helps them to
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clean up the waste and
the reactive oxygen species
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that they have built up
during that day's activity
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so this is one way in
which good sleep at night is
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vitally important for
your daytime function.
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We know that our glands, our
mitochondria in our glands will
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function better if
we slept well at night.
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And evidently, melatonin has
an important function in that.
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What causes aging is lack
of hormones or lack of energy
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okay, it's not
chronological it's not age.
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If you get the hormones
back up where they used to be,
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doesn't have to be at
reproductive levels but
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back up where they should be
and that includes things like
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thyroid, that includes the
sex hormones, that includes the
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adrenal glands,
all those things.
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For a lot of people,
they are under such stress
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that they start aging
prematurely because they can't
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handle the stress and especially
as a person gets older
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they come in and talk
about energy problems.
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And what I hear very classically
is but what do you expect
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for my age, and I always
tell them, age has nothing to do
00:21:06.86\00:21:11.10
with this, and this is not
acceptable to be saying it's
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okay because of my age.
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All of us should be feeling
good, all of us should have
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the energy we need and so
we look at an energy factor
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to figure what else is going on?
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Are we dealing with
the fact that they're not
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eating properly? Is it
that they are not sleeping well?
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That goes back to those factors
again and so it's important
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to get at the bottom
of what the problem is.
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I can make a diagnosis
but that doesn't necessarily
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tell me why they
have the problem going on.
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And frequently in medicine,
I was trained that's you know,
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what we are doing, we are
trying to make a diagnosis.
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And the reason for that
is so that we know what drug,
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well you don't know
but you look for a cause.
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And so, you have to do
deeper on some of these issues
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otherwise, you're
missing things completely.
00:22:07.42\00:22:09.42
Well, like any doctor when
a patient comes in who's new
00:22:09.46\00:22:12.46
and you ask
them, why are you here?
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And they usually tell you a
series of what brings them in.
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What I try to do is I go
over five different things that
00:22:19.57\00:22:24.77
they may not bring up, I want
to know how is their energy,
00:22:24.81\00:22:27.28
do they sleep, how's their
mood, do they have any problems
00:22:27.31\00:22:35.18
with pain so those
things are important okay,
00:22:35.22\00:22:38.99
so you're going a
little bit beyond to figure out
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what you're looking for is, is
there something else causing it?
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Is it a simple problem or are
we dealing with something deeper
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that's the question.
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If we expect to have
healthy glands, we have to care
00:22:51.10\00:22:53.44
about them and that includes
caring about our mitochondria.
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You know if our mitochondria
aren't functioning well,
00:22:56.10\00:22:58.97
then we're going to have
a whole host of problems.
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So mitochondria are
processing all of our energy
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it uses and processes
our oxygen, and so with this
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amazing part of our cells,
it really allows us to function
00:23:09.38\00:23:14.79
and like I said if we
don't have that working well,
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then we're going to struggle
in so many different ways.
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Yeah, a couple of the different
ways that we can struggle
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is with pain and fatigue.
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You know a lot of people are
walking around fatigued, right?
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And so one of the first things
you have to think about is
00:23:29.57\00:23:32.54
what's happening to the
mitochondria because they're
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the powerhouse of our
body. So this fatigue is really
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one of the first things you
go after is the mitochondria.
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I mean that's one of
the first things I think of
00:23:41.85\00:23:43.25
when I think of fatigue is
what's with the mitochondria,
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why are they being
dysfunctional? and what can we
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do to sort of unravel what those
issues are and start addressing
00:23:48.66\00:23:52.19
them and so often medicine
will want to say lets medicate
00:23:52.23\00:23:58.23
right and so that's
one way to look at it.
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The other way to look at it
is to figure out what's causing
00:24:02.67\00:24:05.37
what's causing the fatigue,
how could the mitochondria or
00:24:05.67\00:24:08.24
other factors be playing a role?
00:24:08.28\00:24:09.61
You know Rise, chronic
pain is extremely prevalent
00:24:09.64\00:24:14.45
in fact the National Health
Interview Survey that came
00:24:14.48\00:24:18.59
in 2019 by the CDC showed that
over 50 million adults suffer
00:24:18.62\00:24:25.33
with chronic pain. The
financial cost of chronic pain
00:24:25.36\00:24:29.66
is incredible also, in
fact, the cost of chronic pain
00:24:29.70\00:24:32.73
in America is equal
to or greater than that
00:24:32.77\00:24:37.31
of cardiovascular,
diabetes, and a cancer combined
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it's absolutely incredible.
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Thank you so much for joining
us today, I know that we started
00:24:43.88\00:24:49.82
this series by taking a deep
dive into the topic of energy,
00:24:49.85\00:24:53.96
it's a heavy topic and
I promise there's no test
00:24:53.99\00:24:57.06
or quizzes, it's purely
for the joy and the blessing of
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learning. When you think of
getting more energy, what comes
00:25:00.80\00:25:04.60
to your mind? Maybe coffee,
energy drinks, protein bar, they
00:25:04.63\00:25:09.14
can provide some umpf, but
I know that it's not the real
00:25:09.17\00:25:12.94
thing. When we look deeper
past stimulants and buzzes
00:25:12.97\00:25:16.51
and look deep inside of
ourselves, past the skin,
00:25:16.54\00:25:19.61
the organs, the tissues,
into the cells themselves
00:25:19.65\00:25:22.65
we find intricate
machinery like the mitochondria.
00:25:22.68\00:25:26.65
We see ourselves in the new
light as being these incredible
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yes, even
powerful energy producers.
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Today you met some of the
doctors who will be with us
00:25:34.40\00:25:38.10
through the rest of the
series sharing on a wide variety
00:25:38.13\00:25:41.10
of topics from the lens
of their professionaltese
00:25:41.14\00:25:44.57
We have Neurologists, we have
cardiologists, pain specialists
00:25:44.61\00:25:49.71
and endocrinologists, and
ear, nose, and throat doctors,
00:25:49.74\00:25:53.65
psychiatrists, researchers,
and a physical therapist,
00:25:53.68\00:25:57.22
I really value the topics
we're going to be addressing
00:25:57.25\00:26:00.52
as they are all at
the root of our health.
00:26:00.56\00:26:03.63
I hope you'll stay with me and
cover subjects like Gut Health.
00:26:03.66\00:26:07.36
Inflammation, and how
various lifestyle information
00:26:07.40\00:26:10.03
factors impact our physiology
on so many different levels
00:26:10.07\00:26:14.17
I'll be here with you hopefully
making things a bit easier to
00:26:14.20\00:26:18.24
understand like my ROS
Analogy. I hope that worked.
00:26:18.27\00:26:21.84
Knowing more about our-
selves, how our mitochondria
00:26:21.88\00:26:25.25
plays such a pivotal
role in health or disease
00:26:25.28\00:26:28.38
it's going to help us
take better care of the most
00:26:28.42\00:26:32.49
amazing thing on the
planet and that's you.
00:26:32.52\00:26:36.29
You were made for health.
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