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Batteries == Mitochondira So I wondered how one could increase the number of mitochondria and quickly found this nice piece from 2017 about promoting mitochond

Batteries == Mitochondira So I wondered how one could increase the number of mitochondria and quickly found this nice piece from 2017 about promoting mitochondrial fission in mid-life (ok in fruit flys): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00525-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00525-4 I'm pretty sure maintaining mitochondrial health will help a lot of health problems. They seem to come up every little while in regard to many different pathologies.

anigbrowl 2y ago
Completely spitballing here, but if bone marrow cells help charge up mitochondria (as this new study suggests), then strong healthy bones are a good defense against cancer. Resistance training (weightlifting being the most common variety) is well known to improve bone health so maybe this is another reason to practice it.
- amelius 2y ago
  Maybe the reason elephants don't get more cancer despite their comparatively large cell count.
  - privacyking 2y ago
    They don't get cancer because they have a metric f ton of tumour suppressor genes copies, and we have relatively few and so it's easier for all of ours to get knocked off to form a cancer
M95D 2y ago
Or maybe you want to create Parasite Eve? :-)
rKarpinski 2y ago
> So I wondered how one could increase the number of mitochondria Lots of Zone-2 training. Inigo San-Milan & George Brooks are the two researchers to look at this for in humans.
- ceedan 2y ago
  Their research seems to be in relation to muscle and fat - not the immune system and cancer. I wouldn't expect zone 2 training to improve "T cell exhaustion" where mitochondria are stolen from T-cells by cancer cells. > Previous studies have shown that cancer cells can use nanotubes like “tiny tentacles” to slurp up mitochondria from immune cells.
aidenn0 2y ago
Yeah, batteries was a funny metaphor given that everybody from my generation learned that Mitochondria are the "powerhouse of the cell" in Junior High.
- andrewflnr 2y ago
  From the headline, I was almost sure it was going to be about giving T-cells ATP, which is much more commonly (and appropriately) analogized to biological batteries.

anigbrowl 2y ago

Completely spitballing here, but if bone marrow cells help charge up mitochondria (as this new study suggests), then strong healthy bones are a good defense against cancer. Resistance training (weightlifting being the most common variety) is well known to improve bone health so maybe this is another reason to practice it.

amelius 2y ago
Maybe the reason elephants don't get more cancer despite their comparatively large cell count.
- privacyking 2y ago
  They don't get cancer because they have a metric f ton of tumour suppressor genes copies, and we have relatively few and so it's easier for all of ours to get knocked off to form a cancer

M95D 2y ago

Or maybe you want to create Parasite Eve? :-)

rKarpinski 2y ago

> So I wondered how one could increase the number of mitochondria Lots of Zone-2 training. Inigo San-Milan & George Brooks are the two researchers to look at this for in humans.

ceedan 2y ago
Their research seems to be in relation to muscle and fat - not the immune system and cancer. I wouldn't expect zone 2 training to improve "T cell exhaustion" where mitochondria are stolen from T-cells by cancer cells. > Previous studies have shown that cancer cells can use nanotubes like “tiny tentacles” to slurp up mitochondria from immune cells.

aidenn0 2y ago

Yeah, batteries was a funny metaphor given that everybody from my generation learned that Mitochondria are the "powerhouse of the cell" in Junior High.

andrewflnr 2y ago
From the headline, I was almost sure it was going to be about giving T-cells ATP, which is much more commonly (and appropriately) analogized to biological batteries.