Mitochondrial Transplants Heal Cells | Tom Benson Ep 234
In a Nutshell
Mitochondrial dysfunction drives aging and many chronic diseases by depleting cellular energy production 50-60% by age 90, as mitochondria are damaged by stress, toxins, and time. Mitochondrial transplantation—injecting fresh, healthy mitochondria from donors or bioreactors—can restore energy, regenerate tissue, and treat conditions like heart damage, stroke, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's by delivering far higher doses than stem cells. The approach is moving into early human safety trials and clinics, with potential for emergency use, personal mitochondrial banking, and large-scale hospital deployment within years.
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Stress burns mitochondria out rapidly. High stress jobs take years off your life. We already know these things. It's just now we know why.
We live to be 90 because our body is constantly supplementing the mitochondria through the bloodstream. Without that, we'd only live 20-25 years.
Mitochondria as a part of the healthcare system is just non-existent. It is believed to be a coming revolution in medicine. There are no doctors anywhere who know about this. Doctors say they had no idea. This is not in the textbooks. This is really that new.
Tom Benson is CEO and co-founder of Mitrix. He has been starting tech companies for a long time. He used to have software companies and then went back into physics. He worked at Stanford Linear Accelerator studying mitochondria and other molecular components and biologics.
About six or seven years ago, he came across the concept of mitochondrial transplantation while reading. It sounded crazy at first. He realized it was real breakthrough research and decided to start Mitrix to commercialize and develop it.
There is some research that magnetic and radio waves do have an impact on metabolism and on the body, but it is not fully known. Mitochondria are extremely delicate.
Mitochondria are tiny organelles that float around inside cells. They are where all the energy is generated in the cell. A mitochondria is about the size of a bacteria. A typical cell has a couple hundred of them. They have little molecular spinning turbines that generate energy by burning glucose and oxygen or fat and oxygen.
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