Mitochondria are the little batteries inside each of your cells that provide almost all of your energy needs. But that’s not all they do! They also aid in flushing out harmful substances, especially harmful chemicals and toxins that can accumulate inside your cells and tissues. As such, it’s important to keep them in good working order. This removal of harmful chemicals and toxins requires energy in the form of ATP to move these materials into new compartments for export out of cells. If your mitochondria are not working at maximum capacity, the ability to remove harmful substances from your cells may be impaired.
At Nutritional Therapeutics, we’ve been working on repairing mitochondria and returning their function back to normal. One of those functions is providing the energy required to naturally decontaminate our cells and tissues. We are being continuously exposed to various chemicals in our foods and our environment, from smoke to fuels to food additives, and this can damage our mitochondria. We are also increasingly exposed to natural neurotoxins from various sources. Neurotoxins are the biotoxins released from mold, bacteria and other biosources that are often extremely damaging to our cells and tissues. Nutritional Therapeutics has an important new program in safely reducing chemical and neurotoxin contaminants from our cells and tissues. As a part of this program, we have worked with chemical- and neurotoxin-contaminated patients who have multiple symptoms and problems, including damage to their cellular membranes and reduced abilities of their mitochondria to produce ATP.
In our research, we’ve found that one of the most common causes for mitochondrial dysfunction is damage to membrane lipids. The result is leaky membranes that cannot maintain proper electrical/chemical gradients inside mitochondria, especially the inner mitochondrial membrane. We use the natural approach of Membrane Lipid Replacement to remove and replace the damaged membrane lipids that are essential for maintaining mitochondria inner membranes and thus mitochondrial membrane function. Natural, safe lipid supplements like NTFactor® Lipids can replace the damaged mitochondrial lipids and restore mitochondrialmembranes and their function.
As I have been discussing, the high-energy molecules like ATP produced by fully functional mitochondria are essential in the removal of contaminating chemicals and toxins from your cells. But that is not all that NTFactor® Lipids does; it also acts by first surrounding the contaminating neurotoxic chemicals and forming little lipid globules and micelles that can be removed from cells without leaking the chemicals out and causing more damage
Although the process of partitioning and removal of chemicals and biotoxins is slow, we have found that it is exceptionally safe. If chemicals or toxins are removed too rapidly, adverse symptoms and sickness can occur. Along with this slow detoxification process, the daily use of NTFactor® Lipids also helps provide the mitochondrial energy necessary for fighting fatigue and other problems associated with loss of mitochondrial energy.
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
Nicolson GL, Breeding PC. Membrane Lipid Replacement with glycerophospholipids slowly reduces self-reported symptom severities in chemically exposed Gulf War veterans. International Journal of Translational Medicine 2022; 2(2): 164-173.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijtm2020014
