Depression Starts In Your Mitochondria
Mastering Nutrition
You could be one metabolic bottleneck away from feeling amazing. Mitome is the first at-home test that measures your cellular energy directly and gives you a personalized roadmap to optimize energy, slow aging, and protect against disease. Find it at mito.me This is not medical advice and is for educational purposes only. Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the .
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Aging is best explained by declining mitochondrial function over time.
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Aging is best explained by declining mitochondrial function over time. This answers its own “why.” Mitochondria produce the energy needed for repair so if any of it gets lost it sets up a vicious cycle. And some *always* gets lost. But how much is under your control. From Joe Rogan Experience JRE 2420. It’s a vicious cycle initiated by the second law of thermodynamics which requires a constant input of energy to prevent the collapse of order. Hence, there will always be slippage, but how much slippage depends on...
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The Medical Myth That Nutritional Deficiencies Are A Thing of the Past
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This is a clip from Joe Rogan Experience JRE 2420. Watch the full interview here: Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the .
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Why Doctors Think They Can Ignore the Studies Suggesting Seed Oils Cause Heart Disease
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This is a clip from Joe Rogan Experience JRE 2420. Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBn54YNnKD0
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The Problem With Seed Oils and Why They Are So Controversial
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This is a clip from Joe Rogan Experience Episode 2420. You can watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBn54YNnKD0
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Mitochondria: Why They Control Everything in Human Health
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Mitochondria govern everything. Watch this with the slides here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mED1_L3wZbc Mitochondria convert your food to usable energy in the form of ATP, which is used to produce, maintain, repair, distribute, and organize everything in your body. Abundant health right now, and preserving your health throughout the lifespan toward your longevity, all depends on your mitochondria. In fact the best explanation for aging is that its a vicious cycle of declining mitochondrial function. We should always be thinking of mitochondria first. SSRIs, acne treatments, and statins...
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SSRI Withdrawal Is Mitochondrial Dysfunction
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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, Founder and Scientific Director of mito.me, explains why SSRI withdrawal is mitochondrial dysfunction and what to do about it. This is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. 29 million Americans and about 5-10% of the world's population are on SSRIs, which have become the first-line treatment of depression. These can cause sexual dysfunction and emotional blunting in up to half of people, an unclear incidence of sleep disruption, and a rare risk of suicidality, self-harm, and new-onset psychosis. On the other hand, 20-50% of people who go off experience SSRI...
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How Lactate Alkalinizes Your Muscles
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For a long time, most people believed that when we exercise, our muscles make lactic acid, this acidifies the muscles, and the acidity contributes to contractile failure, fatigue, and delayed-onset muscle soreness. Some people still believe this. You may have heard the argument against it from well-known figures like Andy Galpin, or, if you’re deep into the science, you may have read the work of George Brooks. In this lesson, we are going to cover the biochemistry of lactate production. We will see that we never make lactic acid, ever. We make lactate. Making lactate is fundamentally...
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D-Lactate: Groundbreaking Research No One Is Talking About
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D-lactate is commonly stated to be exclusively a microbial metabolite. This is found in assumptions within the medical literature for decades even when it was long-known to be false. While D-lactate is indeed made by bacteria, D-lactate is also inarguably and irrefutably produced by human enzymes. In this podcast, moreover, I will argue the following: Microbial contribution to D-lactate in humans under normal circumstances is negligible. I coin the term “the D-lactate shuttle” to describe a role for D-lactate that should eventually make its way into biochemistry textbooks...
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Handling Creatine Side Effects
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In this podcast we cover elevated creatinine, insomnia, cramps constipation, water retention, hair loss, irritation and anger, lightheadedness during lifting, bloating, aggravation of restless leg syndrome, irritation of asthma, bloody noses, anxiety, headaches, heart palpitations, twitching, and fast or slow heartbeat. The full podcast and article can be found here: Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the .
info_outlineFor a long time, most people believed that when we exercise, our muscles make lactic acid, this acidifies the muscles, and the acidity contributes to contractile failure, fatigue, and delayed-onset muscle soreness. Some people still believe this.
You may have heard the argument against it from well-known figures like Andy Galpin, or, if you’re deep into the science, you may have read the work of George Brooks.
In this lesson, we are going to cover the biochemistry of lactate production. We will see that we never make lactic acid, ever. We make lactate. Making lactate is fundamentally alkalinizing.
We will take a look at the presentation of glycolysis in the Berg and Lehninger biochemistry textbooks to see that, on the one hand, they give us everything we need to know to understand that the human body never makes lactic acid, but, on the other hand, they really do not equip us well to understand where acidity does comes from during exercise. This is because they do not consider acid-base balance important enough to completely present the proton balances of the chemical reactions.
Finally, we will cover what does cause muscular fatigue, take a look at the research on lactate supplements, and come to some conclusions about the best way to manage acidity during exercise to maximize performance.
This is part of a larger course on the biochemistry of how we derive energy from food and use it to fuel our wellness, performance, and longevity. Take the full course here:
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2:52 How textbooks present glycolysis
3:36 What is acidity?
4:32 The acidfying and alkalinizing phases of glycolysis
7:09 Glycolysis: A brief review
10:08 The Principles
29:33 The Reactions -- and Where the Textbooks Go Wrong
38:59 Human beings do not make lactic acid
42:13 Lactate transport is even more alkalinizing to muscle
47:44 Robert Robergs Fights an Uphill Battle in Clarifying the Sources of Acidity and the Alkalinizing Effect of Lactate
1:01:08 What causes fatigue?
1:05:15 Does CO2 contribute to acidity?
1:13:45 Where is Glycolysis Getting Backed Up?
1:23:10 Conclusiuons: What's realy going on with exercise-induced acidosis.
1:26:34 Lactate supplements
1:30:53 How to use this information in training for optimal performance.
Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondrial test Mitome.