EFR 682: The Brain Energy Theory - The Root Cause of Mental Illness, the Connection Between Physical and Mental Health, and How We Can Actually Get Better with Dr. Chris Palmer
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
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The Importance of Energy From Metabolism
Death is the absence of metabolism. That is what death is. Suffocation is a mitochondrial problem. Energy from metabolism is a requirement for life. If you get suffocated, you die very quickly because oxygen is required by mitochondria. It's not because of the mitochondria and only mitochondria. No, but nothing else in the body uses oxygen. And it's just common sense. You leave a kid in a hot car. Yes, they die. Why are they dying? They're not dying because they had unhealthy mitochondria prior to that event. They're dying because the environment became hostile to their mitochondria. Their environment become hostile to metabolism. But so like obvious, yes.
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