#175 | Misfiring Mitochondria | Hemal Patel PhD

Professional Supplements for Wise Athletes (click to see the "always on" discount) Hemal H. Patel, PhD Professor & Vice-Chair for Development and Advancement Director, UCSD Cardiac/Neuro Protection Laboratories  VA Research Career Scientist, VA San Diego Healthcare Systemss Chief Scientific Advisor for Versea Discovery MeScreen -- Why Measure Mitochondria? Mitochondria live inside your cells and regulate energy, metabolism, and cellular signaling to drive your body’s physiology, endurance, and resilience. The function, dynamics, and efficiency of mitochondria correlate with either health and well-being or poor health and sickness. Normal aging, diet, exercise, exposure to stressors, and other variables have been proven to impact mitochondrial function (energetics) and dynamics (shape and size).¹⁻³ The maintenance of mitochondrial function and dynamics are essential to health.⁴ Individuals who have a disease, are sick, or are in poor health will have poorly functioning mitochondria and compromised dynamics. Individuals who eat properly, have good sleep hygiene, train, or exercise demonstrate improved mitochondrial function and dynamics. The mescreen™ is a mitochondrial efficiency screen that provides an energetic profile of your cells and ultimately of you. Establishing a baseline mescreen™ score and tracking it over time provides you with a tool to assess your mitochondrial function. mescreen™ is also part of an ongoing research project that will allow you to compare your mescreen™ score in the future against other populations that are sick, healthy, elite performance, and other to gauge where your cellular health and mitochondrial function are at. Episode Resources MeScreen.com (use "WiseAthletes" for a $100 discount on a mescreen test) @hemalpatelphd Related episodes & links: Episode 168 | Mito Boosters | Healthspan Episode 161 | Omega 3 | Bill Harris PhD Episode 154 | Adaptive Range Expansion for Peak Performance | Mike T Nelson PhD Episode 144 | Muscle for Athletic Performance | Mark Tarnopolsky MD PhD Help the show: 3 ways to support our show:  Leave a review (or share this episode) Check out our Fullscript site to save big on high quality supplements. Thank you! Email us your questions at [email protected].