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Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?

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138 points pmags | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source
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ajb ◴[09 Apr 25 06:58 UTC] No.43629532[source]▶
Fascinating. I wonder if there will soon be a way to culture your mitochondria externally in order to give you extra, maybe it could help with diseases like chronic fatigue.
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perrygeo ◴[09 Apr 25 21:01 UTC] No.43637949[source]▶
Mitochondria doping! People are already thinking how to use it for sports performance. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/14/new-doping-trick...

Beyond athletic performance and chronic fatigue, some neurologists and psychiatrists have recently suggested that every mental disorder (literally, the entire DSM) has a single underlying cause: mitochondrial dysfunction. If that's true, mitochondria transplants could solve the mental health crisis.

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1. foxyv ◴[10 Apr 25 18:40 UTC] No.43646895[source]▶
All I can think of right now is mental illness being caused by mitochondrial dysfunction and Parasite Eve. With the way the 21st century has been going to far, spontaneous human combustion would just seem like par for the course.