One may buy all the cosmetics, and medicines available but if your mitochondria (regarded as the powerhouses of the cell) is not functioning the proper way, you will still age quickly, your skin will look dull, your weight will increase, lose hair, feel fatigued and be prone to conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Autism, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, dementia migraine and many more.
Cellular Health
Leading Nutritionist and Dietician in India, Avni Kaul says medicines, cosmetic creams, and every external alternative might be used as a support if you are looking to really prevent or repair your body, you need to begin focusing on cells and cellular health.
Take for example lack of energy since this is something you mostly complain about. You chase coffee, tea, energy drinks, sugar, and carbohydrates to charge yourself up forgetting that your body is capable of producing its own energy. Every single cell is simply like a battery and has the potential to light up a bulb. Thus, produces sufficient energy to get you through a day, be it physical, mental, or digestion. What is the source of your body’s energy? It’s Mitochondria.
It is a component available in each of the trillion cells and this is where this energy is produced. They are popularly known as the powerhouse of the cell as these small cellular units create energy for the entire body. In each of those mitochondria, there are about 18,000 to 20,000 producing lines that consume nutrition and oxygen as raw materials and break it down into a molecule of energy known as ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate).
ATP is the form in which energy is produced in the body and without it, you cannot survive. It is what gives your body to carry out all the tasks straight from digestion to immune system functioning. The lower the number of ATP molecules, the weaker your body is and a weak body falls easily for all the viruses, bacteria and pathogens. Your immune system gets the energy to function and stay strong through ATP as well.
Sadly, most of you do not generate the energy your body is capable of producing due to your faulty lifestyle, unhealthy foods, no exercising, lack of sleep, and uncontrolled stress. Have you ever felt sleepy or lethargic after consuming fast food? Now see, it is due to your body has contains an excess of carbon dioxide in the system.
Carbon dioxide makes you feel sleepy, tired or sluggish. This fatigue is caused by unhealthy eating at a cellular level. To add to it, there is an increase in free radicals and this is closely linked to inflammation, the biggest cause of most diseases initiating from diabetes, and obesity to cancer.
So, it is usually, up to you to control the production of free radicals and inflammation in your body by opting for the right kind of foods. So that the mitochondria do not have to work too rigorously.
What Can Make The Mitochondria In Your Body To Work Properly?
- Vegetables, fruits, Nuts, seeds, legumes, and whole grains, are all foods that cells require to function normally.
- Never deprive your cells of the essential foods just because you want to go on a fad diet. It’s not that easy and there are no shortcuts to attain good health.
- Omega 3 Fatty Acids like (Fish oil, Fish, Canola oil, Flax seed oil, Coconut oil, and Sunflower oil)
- Dietary fibre (Oats, Quinoa, Whole wheat, Brown rice) in proper quantity.
- High-intensity interval and strength training
- Restrict sugar, refined flour (Maida), and all unhealthy food.
- More cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, and Broccoli.
- Quality sleep since those tiny energy units need rest.
- Making lifestyle alterations like adopting healthy eating and doing physical activity
Each of you has a composition of trillions of cells in your body. You were born from single-cell and now your health depends on the individual health of every cell.
Reasons For mitochondrial Dysfunction
- Excessive exposure in sunlight can damage cell DNA.
- Consumption of tobacco and smoking.
- Diabetes (both type 1 and type 2).