The Native Americans described the seventh generation principle. Seven generations previous actually impact the present moment.

If we had seven generations that were living in extreme bouts of stress, it impacts us.

Poor quality food, pollutants in our environment, they'll ultimately converge on mitochondria and have an impact on its ability to produce energy.

If there is a baby that's being created in utero in the mother and she herself is dealing with

extremely high levels of stress, the child could actually be wired at birth for hypervigilance.

When we have this accumulation of debris in our cells, they don't work as well.

They start releasing toxins that impact cells around them. Napoleon Hill said that when we keep the sewer systems dirty,

and when the sewer systems aren't able to purify,

it can actually start to compound in the mind.

The mind can become very weak.

It essentially atrophies the decision-making faculty in the mind.

Nature, that's the starting point. We didn't have any control over the hand we were dealt, but we

can do a tremendous amount within our lives to build off that starting point.

When it comes to mitochondria, my, yours, and everybody's is inherited only from our biological mother.

I find that fascinating. Can you explain that on a scientific level, but also on a personal level,

that we only inherit our mitochondria from our biological mother.

Yeah, it's fascinating. So our mitochondria are derived from our maternal parent. And what's really

neat about mitochondria is that for almost everything in our body, the DNA that makes the proteins

that actually do the activities in our cell is stored in the nucleus. So maybe that's

a term people have remembered, but the nucleus is really the center housing in our cells that has

that, you know, manuscript of life. It tells us how to make everything in our body. Mitochondria are unique

in that there's mitochondrial DNA, and actually most of, that's outside of the nucleus within the mitochondria.

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