Mitochondrial medicine. The foremost expert on the mitochondria, Dr Doug Wallace (the one who discovered we inherit our mitochondrial DNA from only the maternal line), has stated that 85%-90%, or more, of chronic disease pathologies are due to defects in mitochondrial DNA and mitochondrial function, NOTHING to do with the nuclear DNA. This includes cancers. This means the most common and troubling disease states are the result of defects in an organism's energy flows, which is controlled mainly by certain environmental inputs.
Nuclear DNA has a bigger role in anatomy and structure, mitochondrial DNA is what's responsive to environmental conditions and regulating energy flow/production accordingly. Yet >90% of NIH funding goes to nuclear DNA research on disease reversal, which is why most everything is a big fail or at best results in drug-mediated symptom management. See the 50 year "War on Cancer" for one example.
And this is a deeper dive than many may think. Before dumping on allopathic medicine, functional medicine also needs to be taken to task since they fall into the same trap of "Take this for that" with manufactured supplements and other exogenous treatments. The mitochondrial doctor of the future when treating a patient will first get a chart on the patient based on their environmental conditions, and look first at what environments they put their body in, before addressing what they put into their body.
Mitochondrial medicine. The foremost expert on the mitochondria, Dr Doug Wallace (the one who discovered we inherit our mitochondrial DNA from only the maternal line), has stated that 85%-90%, or more, of chronic disease pathologies are due to defects in mitochondrial DNA and mitochondrial function, NOTHING to do with the nuclear DNA. This includes cancers. This means the most common and troubling disease states are the result of defects in an organism's energy flows, which is controlled mainly by certain environmental inputs.
Nuclear DNA has a bigger role in anatomy and structure, mitochondrial DNA is what's responsive to environmental conditions and regulating energy flow/production accordingly. Yet >90% of NIH funding goes to nuclear DNA research on disease reversal, which is why most everything is a big fail or at best results in drug-mediated symptom management. See the 50 year "War on Cancer" for one example.