Recognizing and Correcting Mitochondrial Dysfunction with Thiamine (B1)

Chandler Marrs, MS, MA, Ph.D.

Mitochondrial damage and dysfunction sit at the nexus of a range of disease processes across the lifespan. Evidence suggests that everything from the metabolic disturbances observed with obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes through the neurodegeneration observed in many of the aged, like Alzheimer’s and dementia, involve distressed mitochondria. The origins of mitochondrial distress are multiple. Genetics plays a role, but so too do a myriad of environmental factors, from poor diet to chemical exposures. Mitochondria, it appears, are uniquely susceptible to epigenetic and environmentally induced damage. Many types of physiological …read more