Your Mitochondria Make Your Energy. Here’s What Happens When They Can’t.

On a cellular level, there are several things that happen when we lose our energy.

Imagine the cell, and a shipping system that runs on water. That water is our blood and our fluids. For the ship to get there, those fluids have to flow at a certain rate, and they can’t be full of debris and muck that would slow the ship down on its way to deliver nutrients to the cell. So to start, we need a body free of the toxins it can’t get rid of on its own, and we need to support the body in that way.

Then we get to the mitochondria itself. There are a couple of different ways we get the ingredients, so to speak, inside. We have sugars and we have fats that need to get in. Let’s think of those as the semi trucks that deliver the ingredients. Many times, those trucks aren’t readily available in our bodies, because our diets don’t provide them. If we can supplement and get those ingredients into the cell, then the mitochondrial factory, the part that makes the actual energy, can go to work.

The amazing thing about the mitochondria is that, like any factory, it requires workers. Once we get the ingredients in, and we have enough CoQ10 (the workers) along with the fats and the sugars, we can start to produce energy.

And here’s the key. Fatty acids produce 1300% more energy than sugars. When we’re in an aerobic state, which is simple work like cleaning the house, working at a computer, or whatever we do at work where we’re not out of breath, the key ingredient needed to produce energy is fatty acids. Most of our lifestyle is spent in that aerobic state, where we’re not out of breath and our heart rate isn’t elevated, so the body is designed to provide energy that way.

When we’re working out, or doing something in the yard where the heart rate goes up, sugars become more important, because they’re easier to break down and turn into energy.