Mitochondria Are Not Just Mindless Energy Generators

A, alex alluded to this at the beginning of the podcast. We were kind of taught about mitochondria, as you said, karl a, that in college and high school biology classes, that they'rethe power house of the cell. Well, it turns out that even though we've known about mitocondria for over a hundred years, it's only really in the last ten that we've understood them well or started to understand them well. And specifically, now we understand that they actually have a second roll beyond their role in energy production that is just as important as their roll as enerergy generators,. That is as cell defenders. They are like the canaries in

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