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  • Supporting Mitochondrial Health: Urolithin A and Light Therapy

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    Karline Jensen
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    Two very different interventions — a gut-microbiome-derived postbiotic and a light-based therapy — offer an interesting look at how mitochondrial function can be supported through different mechanisms: clearing out damaged mitochondria on one hand, and directly powering the electron transport chain on the other. Urolithin A  Singh et al. (2022) ran a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled…

  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction

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    Karline Jensen
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    A Role in Schizophrenia Schizophrenia research has pointed toward mitochondrial dysfunction as a mechanism that could help explain some of the disorder’s underlying biology.   Bartal et al. (2023) ran a systematic meta-analysis looking at genes responsible for building mitochondrial ribosomes — the Mitochondrial Ribosomal Proteins Large and Small (MRPL/MRPS) gene families — in people with…