Your mighty mitochondria protect you from disease, but when the mitochondria are damaged you are at risk for every modern chronic disease.
What are mitochondria? Mitochondria are small organelles or cellular powerhouses that create energy in the body. The mitochondria produce energy for your cells called ATP or adenosine triphosphate. Mitochondria regulate cellular activities through cellular signaling, cellular differentiation and programmed cell death. We see abnormal cell cycles in cancer.
Mitochondrial disorders include: cancer, autism, heart failure, bipolar depression, osteoarthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Energy production starts when you eat food. Food is broken down into glucose and pyruvate and eventually acetyl-CoA outside the mitochondria. Acetyl-CoA is converted into NADH inside the mitochondria in the presence of oxygen. The process is called cellular respiration and if oxygen is depleted then anaerobic (without oxygen) fermentation takes place with a loss of 13 times the yield of ATP.
The fastest and most effective way to increase oxygen into your cells is I.V. ozone therapy.
