These days, it seems like more and more people are suffering from an overwhelming sense of fatigue. If you find yourself with low energy with no obvious cause, you may need to give your mitochondria some TLC.
Mitochondria are the little batteries inside each of our cells that provide almost all of our energy needs. When mitochondria become damaged due to natural aging, chronic illness, infection, chemical contamination, and other events, they no longer provide enough energy to our cells to maintain various functions. This can result in increases in fatigue, pain, and many other symptoms that are linked to cellular energy. During disease and as we age, there is an increase in damage to our cells—especially our mitochondria—from highly reactive molecules called free radicals that are derived from mitochondria themselves and from other sources. These free radicals cause ‘oxidative stress’ and react with and damage our mitochondrial membranes as well as other cellular membranes, and can even modify our genetic code (DNA).
The phospholipids in our cell membranes are among the most sensitive molecules in our cells to free radicals. These phospholipids naturally form a bilayer structure that is the matrix of all the membranes in each cell and every cell in our bodies. The damaged membrane phospholipids, especially those in our mitochondrial inner membranes, must be replaced continually to maintain the fluidity, structural integrity and activities of cellular membranes as well as maintaining their trans-membrane electrical/chemical gradients necessary for production of high-energy molecules like ATP.
At Nutritional Therapeutics, we have been working on repairing mitochondria and returning their function back to normal using all-natural food supplements. What we have found is that one of the most common causes for mitochondrial dysfunction and resulting fatigue is damage to their membrane lipids and resultant leaky membranes that cannot maintain proper electrical/chemical gradients inside mitochondria. We have also found that natural membrane lipid supplements like NTFactor Lipids® can replace the damaged mitochondrial lipids and restore mitochondrial membranes and mitochondrial function. This results in increased production of the powerhouse molecule ATP, which drives almost all cellular activities and has many benefits, the most obvious of which is increased energy.
So, if you’re suffering from fatigue, you might want to try Membrane Lipid Replacement with NTFactor Lipids®. This all-natural supplement repairs damage to the energy-producing structures or mitochondria inside all of our cells and can significantly reduce fatigue and increase vitality and stamina.
Prof. Emeritus Garth Nicolson, PhD, MD (H)
The Institute for Molecular Medicine
Huntington Beach, California
References
Nicolson GL. Membrane Lipid Replacement—a functional approach to repairing cellular membranes, reducing symptoms, and restoring function. Functional Food Science 2022; 2(8): 198-204.
https://doi.org/10.31989/ffs.v2i8.990
Nicolson GL, Ferreira de Mattos G, Settineri R, Breeding PC. Membrane Lipid Replacement and its role in restoring mitochondrial membrane function and reducing symptoms in aging and age-related clinical conditions. Nature Cell Science 2024; 2(4): 238-256.
https://doi.org/10.61474/ncs.2024.00038
