The Role of Mitochondria in Energy Production

The mitochondria is an organelle inside, inside ourselves. We took it several million years ago into our cell and started to use it for energy production through a process called endosymbiosis. It's commonly thought of as like the power plant of the cell because it's producing energy, but really it's also an environmental sensor. And they are quantum leaping from entering in from either one or two, the first or second side of grommet working their way through to oxygen. But as the electrons are passing through the electron transport chain, inevitably some will escape. This is kind of in line with the second law of thermodynamics, where we lose energy to our environment. So inflammation

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