Is Your Heart Failing… or Just Running Out of Energy?
Most heart conversations start and end with plumbing: clogged arteries, cholesterol, blood pressure. This one doesn’t.
In this Energy Code Deep Dive, we go straight to the true engine of the heart: mitochondria. Why do heart cells devote nearly a third of their space to these “power plants”? Because your heart never stops, and energy is the real limiting factor. When mitochondria lose their ability to fuse, split, and recycle damage, the heart’s power grid becomes clogged with broken “zombie engines.” Then the real plot twist hits: damaged mitochondria leak DNA that looks bacterial…
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