Mitochondrial Transplants Heal Cells | Tom Benson Ep 234

About this episode

Mikhaila Peterson interviews Tom Benson about mitochondrial transplantation and its implications for health and disease.

I had Tom Benson, CEO of Mitrix on to discuss mitochondrial transplantation. We covered what mitochondria are, the discovery that your body is constantly delivering fresh mitochondria through your bloodstream (people didn’t know that mitochondria were transferred outside the cell until recently!), why we age, what kills mitochondria (stress, smoking, radiation, chemotherapy and certain antibiotics like fluoroquinolones, psych meds), why COVID destroys mitochondria and what that means for long COVID, the Alzheimer's and Parkinson's brain tissue regeneration research their company has already done in mice, what mitochondrial transplantation actually is and how it has already been used in pediatric heart surgery, what a bioreactor growing mitochondria for personal use might look like, and more. Find Tom at mitrix.bio (http://mitrix.bio/).

People in this episode

Host: Mikhaila Peterson

Guest: Tom Benson

Topics covered

• mitochondrial transplantation
• cell health
• aging
• neurodegenerative diseases
• COVID-19
• pediatric heart surgery

Keywords

• mitochondria
• transplantation
• long COVID
• Alzheimer's
• Parkinson's
• bioreactor
• heart surgery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mitrix, mitrix.bio

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