The Quantified Body - 3: Dr. Terry Wahls: Linking Mitochondrial Health to Autoimmune and Chronic Disease

3: Dr. Terry Wahls: Linking Mitochondrial Health to Autoimmune and Chronic Disease

08/28/14 • -1 min

Are your autoimmune and chronic health issues driven by mitochondrial damage? Could nutritional and other simple approaches targeting improved mitochondrial function provide the answer to many of our modern day ailments? When we think about health risk, and reducing it, most of us are thinking about cancer, heart disease and strokes. Autoimmune and other chronic health conditions aren't top of mind, because they don't tend to get the same attention in the media - and have much smaller research budgets currently. But if you look at the numbers you are statistically much more likely to face autoimmune problems in your lifetime ...

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