Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Dr. Lee

know who is a naturopathic physician and has wrote an incredible book on one of my favorite topics,

mitochondria, and I don't think you're gonna find

a better book out there to help you understand

the importance of these vital sub-cellular structures that are vital, vital to your health.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Thank you.

Pleasure's won't mind.

So I'm particularly curious as to why you wrote the book, you know, but let me proceed that question by comedy again that I've I read their first book prior to my writing,

Fat for Fuel, and it was really instrumental

in helping me understand some of the components

as I was putting together my theories in Fat for Fuel and I greatly appreciated it but your new book is even better goes into far more detail so you've been passionate about this for a long time and it's not something that most clinicians would gravitate towards and it appears

from reading your book that this is a guess but you can expand that one of the motivations for this was anti-aging because it's very obvious that

mitochondria if you optimization of mitochondria are really the central key to extending longevity at least with current technology.

So is was that the motivation for the book or well, you know what I've always been interested in anti-aging and longevity, but that interestingly is not was not the motivation behind the book.

And I'll give you the history. This was a number of years ago. I was consulting for a company, a nutritional supplement company,

who did a fair business in Coenzine Q10 or co Q10. And this particular brand had a co-cutin that was particularly well absorbed and it was actually used by hospitals and medical clinics across the country.

And this was kind of interesting to begin with because

commercial medical doctors typically don't gravitate towards

nutritional supplements as a therapy, but in this particular case, they did because

they saw the benefits. And so within the medical community, this particular brand had a fairly good

reputation and this was at about the time where there was a lot of research coming out with respect to age-related female infertility

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