UltraWellness Key #6: How to Boost Your Energy By Optimizing Your Mitochondria
Imagine if you could find a way to tune up your metabolism, increase the amount of energy you have, think more clearly, and feel less achy.
Imagine if you could prevent diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia.
Imagine if you could heal fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Imagine if you could get to the root of aging and slow the whole process down.
That’s UltraWellness -- and it doesn’t have to be just wishful thinking.
And it’s all possible, if you give yourself a metabolic makeover.
First, you need to understand metabolism.
It starts with your mitochondria.
In each cell, you have thousands of these little energy factories.
They take the oxygen you breathe and the food you eat and process it to make energy, the fuel for life.
That’s metabolism.
But along the way, many things can go wrong that may impede your metabolism, make it run less efficiently, or practically shut it down.
When your mitochondria aren’t working properly, you suffer all the symptoms of low energy -- fatigue, memory loss, pain, rapid aging, and more.
These little energy factories are easily damaged by things like toxins, infections, allergens, and stress.
But the biggest insult over time is eating too much food -- too many “empty calories.”
When the food is burned or metabolized with oxygen in the mitochondria, waste is produced in the form of free radicals, which create a chain reaction of rusting, or oxidation.
The more free radicals you make, the less energy you produce because you damage the cells’ ability to make energy in the mitochondria.
And the ultimate loss of energy is death.
This is why eating too many calories and not enough nutrients is at the heart of so much illness.
So…
Do you want to achieve optimal health and enjoy a vital, energetic old age?
The key is to protect your mitochondria.
First, you want to prevent damage to these little factories by eating the right foods, avoiding the wrong ones, avoiding toxins, and balancing your hormones.
And then you need to boost and protect your mitochondria.
You can do this with regular exercise, a healthy diet, and the right mix of mitochondria-protective and energy-boosting nutrients.
Give it a try and you’ll see.
Taking care of your mitochondria will allow you to increase your energy, lose weight, and age well.
It is a cornerstone of creating UltraWellness.
To your good health,
Mark Hyman, M.D.

