Brad Currier, PhD: Your Mitochondria Are Dying: How to Trigger "Cellular Recycling"

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of mitochondria in cellular function and introduces Urolithin A as a breakthrough molecule for cellular recycling.

Is your body running on broken engines? We often obsess over what we eat, but we rarely think about how our cells process that fuel. If your mitochondria (the engines of your cells) are dysfunctional, it doesn't matter how perfect your diet is—you will feel tired, you will recover slowly, and you will age faster. In this episode, we sit down with Brad Currier, a PhD in muscle physiology and scientist at Timeline, to discuss Urolithin A—the breakthrough molecule that acts as a "recycling progr...

People in this episode

Host: Andrés Preschel

Guest: Brad Currier

Topics covered

• mitochondria
• cellular recycling
• muscle physiology
• health
• nutrition

Keywords

• mitochondria
• cellular recycling
• Urolithin A
• muscle physiology
• nutrition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Timeline

Products: Urolithin A

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