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Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind
Most of the energy we get to spend is furnished by mitochondria, minuscule living structures sitting inside our cells or dispatched back and forth within them to where they are needed. Mitochondria produce energy by burning down what remains of our meal after we have digested it, but at the cost of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5761714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28937858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691617718356 |
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description | Most of the energy we get to spend is furnished by mitochondria, minuscule living structures sitting inside our cells or dispatched back and forth within them to where they are needed. Mitochondria produce energy by burning down what remains of our meal after we have digested it, but at the cost of constantly corroding themselves and us. Here we review how our mitochondria evolved from invading bacteria and have retained a small amount of independence from us; how we inherit them only from our mother; and how they are heavily implicated in learning, memory, cognition, and virtually every mental or neurological affliction. We discuss why counteracting mitochondrial corrosion with antioxidant supplements is often unwise, and why our mitochondria, and therefore we ourselves, benefit instead from exercise, meditation, sleep, sunshine, and particular eating habits. Finally, we describe how malfunctioning mitochondria force rats to become socially subordinate to others, how such disparity can be evened off by a vitamin, and why these findings are relevant to us. |
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spelling | pubmed-57617142018-02-01 Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind Kramer, Peter Bressan, Paola Perspect Psychol Sci Article Most of the energy we get to spend is furnished by mitochondria, minuscule living structures sitting inside our cells or dispatched back and forth within them to where they are needed. Mitochondria produce energy by burning down what remains of our meal after we have digested it, but at the cost of constantly corroding themselves and us. Here we review how our mitochondria evolved from invading bacteria and have retained a small amount of independence from us; how we inherit them only from our mother; and how they are heavily implicated in learning, memory, cognition, and virtually every mental or neurological affliction. We discuss why counteracting mitochondrial corrosion with antioxidant supplements is often unwise, and why our mitochondria, and therefore we ourselves, benefit instead from exercise, meditation, sleep, sunshine, and particular eating habits. Finally, we describe how malfunctioning mitochondria force rats to become socially subordinate to others, how such disparity can be evened off by a vitamin, and why these findings are relevant to us. SAGE Publications 2017-09-22 2018-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5761714/ /pubmed/28937858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691617718356 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Article Kramer, Peter Bressan, Paola Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind |
title | Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind |
title_full | Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind |
title_fullStr | Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind |
title_full_unstemmed | Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind |
title_short | Our (Mother’s) Mitochondria and Our Mind |
title_sort | our (mother’s) mitochondria and our mind |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5761714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28937858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691617718356 |
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