Mitochondrial Transplants Heal Cells | Tom Benson Ep 234
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Mikhaila Peterson
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
I had Tom Benson, CEO of Mitrix on to discuss mitochondrial transplantation. We covered what mitochondria are, the discovery that your body is constantly delivering fresh mitochondria through your bloodstream (people didn’t know that mitochondria were transferred outside the cell until recently!), why we age, what kills mitochondria (stress, smoking, radiation, chemotherapy and certain antibiotics like fluoroquinolones, psych meds), why COVID destroys mitochondria and what that means for long COVID, the Alzheimer's and Parkinson's brain tissue regeneration research their company has already done in mice, what mitochondrial transplantation actually is and how it has already been used in pediatric heart surgery, what a bioreactor growing mitochondria for personal use might look like, and more.
Find Tom at mitrix.bio (http://mitrix.bio/).
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| 0:00.0 | Stress burns mitochondria out rapidly. So high stress jobs, you're taking years off your life. |
| 0:05.4 | We already know these things. It's just now we know why. Tom Benson, welcome to my podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | Nice to be here. We live to be 90 because our body is constantly supplementing the mitochondria |
| 0:15.3 | through the bloodstream. Without that, we'd only, maybe we'd only live 20, 25 years. Let me talk about |
| 0:20.0 | mitochondrial transplantation. |
| 0:21.8 | People say, this sounds like Star Trek. |
| 0:23.7 | It does. |
| 0:24.7 | If someone experiences mitochondrial dysfunction, |
| 0:27.3 | what can that look like? |
| 0:29.0 | Smoke kills mitochondria by the billions. |
| 0:33.0 | We really need something to help us get over the hump, |
| 0:35.8 | but we're just gonna, this is gonna going to sink our health care system eventually. |
| 0:38.9 | Mitochondria as a part of the health care system is just non-existent. |
| 0:42.7 | I believe it is a coming revolution in medicine. |
| 0:45.7 | There's no doctors anywhere, and I talk to doctors every day, and they're like, we had no idea. |
| 0:50.8 | This is not in the textbooks. |
| 0:52.3 | This is really that new. |
| 1:04.5 | Tom Benson, welcome to my podcast. Thank you. Nice to be here. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, I'm really excited for this. I came across you because one of the doctors I follow on X had reposted some news about your company, Mytricks, and I read the website and I've been doing some research into mitochondrial |
| 1:20.1 | dysfunction and I was like, this is wild. And I couldn't believe that I hadn't heard of it, |
| 1:26.7 | but I suppose it's pretty cutting edge. |
| 1:29.1 | And I reached out to you and you agreed to come on, which is amazing. |
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