518: The Surprising Reason You’re Tired – And How to Fix It at the Cellular Level | Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve been feeling tired, foggy, or worn down for no obvious reason, Stanford mitochondrial researcher Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen—author of The Life Machines: How Taking Care of Your Mitochondria Can Transform Your Health—reveals why your cells may be losing energy long before your labs show it—and what emerging science is doing about it.
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| 0:00.0 | What up everybody? It's episode 518 of the genius life. Let's go. |
| 0:06.0 | What up here? What up here? The genius Life. |
| 0:24.3 | What up everybody? |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome back to The Genius Life. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host, Max Lugavir. |
| 0:32.7 | If you've been feeling tired for no obvious reason, mentally foggy, slower to recover from your workouts, or like your engine doesn't quite have the same horsepower that it used to. This |
| 0:38.2 | episode might explain why. Today I'm joined by Dr. Darya Mokly Rosen, a Stanford researcher who |
| 0:44.7 | spent decades studying mitochondria. And what she's uncovered is not what most of us were taught |
| 0:50.0 | in high school. It turns out that these things aren't just powerhouses. They're constantly moving, |
| 0:55.4 | merging, splitting, and even deciding which cells live or die. And when their internal quality |
| 1:01.3 | control system breaks down, well, that's when aging accelerates, resilience, craters, and chronic |
| 1:06.1 | disease catches up, often long before symptoms start to show up on a blood test. |
| 1:10.5 | We get into why some people |
| 1:11.8 | burn out, even when they're doing everything, quote unquote, right, why certain workouts have the |
| 1:17.0 | potential to backfire if you're not ready for them, how cancers literally hijack and steal mitochondria |
| 1:22.7 | from other cells, and whether mitochondrial transplantation might become the next big medical breakthrough. |
| 1:29.3 | She also reveals why you only inherit mitochondria from your mother and how that can silently |
| 1:33.3 | tilt your odds towards health or disease. This is one of those conversations that permanently |
| 1:37.9 | changes the way you think about energy, longevity, and what feeling young actually means |
| 1:42.7 | at the cellular level. Listen all the way through. |
| 1:45.7 | You won't want to miss a beat. And as always, don't forget to share this episode with friends and |
| 1:49.1 | loved ones who you think may benefit from it. Before we dive in, I just want to give a shout out to |
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