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#169 Optimizing Mitochondrial Health and Sunlight Exposure with Matt Maruca

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The Energy Cost of Mitochondria

Nick Lane and his team have shown that the last universal common ancestor had these key factors was used proton gradients to generate energy. And so all life is living just on the simple concept of having more protons on one side of a membrane,. less on the other side, and then allowing them to flow through this ATP synthase causing it to spin  and generating ATP. That's what allowed all complex life which isn't just as humans but all multicellular Life depends on mitochondria for its complexity.

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