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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Energy, Hormones, and Health: A Deep Dive into Mitochondrial Function

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, 810564, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8581 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode with Dr. Molly Maloof, you’ll hear us take a deep dive into: 1. Dr. Maloof’s book “The Spark Factor” 2. The basics of mitochondria and how they help your body 3. The necessity of active living 4. How Mitochondria can help during Perimenopause 5. Why we all need a healthier relationship with food If you’ve ever had questions about Mitochondria, you’re in the right place! Join Dr. Carrie Jones and Dr. Molly Maloof for an exciting conversation about Mitochondria and its wide-reaching impact on our mental state and the health of our bodies. Dr. Maloof talks us through her insights of how lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, can have an effect on our Mitochondria - and how those effects can then, in turn, affect us. The conversation also covers the Mitochondrial impact on perimenopause and fitness as female bodies get older, and how blood sugar levels also play a part. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

0:02.6

If you struggle with energy, if you struggle with not being able to go a few hours without eating,

0:06.7

if you have no ability to fast, if you have really bad weight loss resistance,

0:11.7

if you find yourself constantly on the glycemic roller coaster,

0:14.8

if you just find yourself super softened after lunch, these are all signals that your body

0:20.0

doesn't have proper energy flow.

0:21.6

And if you have problems with mental illness. Hello, hello. I'm your host for today, Dr.

0:26.2

Carrie Jones, and I am so excited to have Dr. Molly Maloof on. Dr. Maloof is quite the woman.

0:33.4

She is a doctor. She's an educator. She's a speaker. She is the founder of Adamo Bioscience.

0:39.4

She has also been an advisor to several tech startup, biohacker companies, longevity companies,

0:45.7

and she is the best-selling author to the Spark Factor. I love this book. When I got it in the mail,

0:51.7

I read it start to finish. I took a bunch of notes. The reason is I am obsessed with mitochondria and the health of your mitochondria. Now you may not realize what the mitochondria does, or maybe you haven't thought about it since grade school or middle school, when we were told that they were our batteries, our powerhouses, our power cells. Did you know that you make hormones like estrogen and progesterone and testosterone?

1:12.6

In your mitochondria, it's actually the first step.

1:15.6

It's the first and last step for your cortisol production.

1:18.6

So if you're struggling with your hormones, if you're struggling with your energy,

1:21.6

if you're feeling really low battery, and you don't know quite how to put that in words,

1:26.6

or what to do?

1:29.3

Dr. Molly walks us through the whole thing.

1:31.8

She walks us through how to make more batteries, more mitochondria.

1:35.9

She walks us through what's hurting our mitochondria.

1:39.8

She walks us through inflammation in the mitochondria, stress in the mitochondria, our gut in the

1:44.8

mitochondria, and then what we can do, most importantly. So listen up, because you're going to

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