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Our guest today is Martin Picard, an associate professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University.

He's here to tell us all about our mitochondria, what they do for us, and how they can even talk to each other.

If you like to watch your pods instead of just listening, you can check out a video version of my conversation with Martin over on our YouTube page.

Plus, you'll get to see some of the aligning mitochondria we're about to talk about in action.

Martin, would you tell us a little bit about who you are and where you work?

Sure. I work at Columbia University. I'm a professor there, and I lead a team of mitochondrial psychobiologists.

So we try to understand the mind mitochondria connection, how energy and those little living creatures that populate ourselves, how they actually feed our lives and allow us to be and to

think and to feel and to experience life.

Well, before we get into the details, you know, most people know mitochondria is the powerhouse

of the cell, which, fun fact, Scientific American actually coined in the 1950s.

But what are mitochondria to start us off with a really basic question?

Yes, 1957 is the powerhouse of the cell.

There was momentous.

That shaped generations of scientists. And now the powerhouse of the cell. There was momentous. That shaped generations of scientists.

And now the powerhouse analogy is expired.

So it's time for a new perspective.

Really, mitochondria or small living organelles, like little organs of the cell.

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