There are those days when nothing works anymore. Where you are “weak as a bottle”, as football coach Giovanni Trapattoni once put it in his famous angry speech. No sleep in the world can do anything against this tiredness, which tends to set in mid-life, but can also affect permanently stressed younger people. The energy level is then mainly bobbing around in the minus range, the mood as well and the libido is in early retirement. It’s not fun at all.
Anyone who asks what it is that makes life so difficult for us is opening Pandora’s box. There are many reasons. One of them can be found in our cells. To put it simply, they can find themselves in a kind of mid-life crisis, have become lethargic and work incorrectly. It’s our own fault. Biohacker Molly Maloof knows how to get our cells, and therefore ourselves, going again.
Maloof researches the so-called power plants of cells, the mitochondria. They take care of the energy supply of the organism. To do this, they produce adenosine triphosphate. This is a “temporary store of energy and a universal energy source that can be used in all tissues,” can be read on the Max Planck Society website. If something goes wrong in this process, it can affect our health. Heart disease, dementia, hair loss, deafness – the list of possible health consequences of mitochondrial dysfunction is long. Energy lows are part of it.
“We are in a collective energy crisis and the fatigue that plagues so many of us is basically the result of mitochondrial dysfunction,” Maloof told The Telegraph. A situation that, in their opinion, we have fueled ourselves. It is simply a matter of “a consequence of our lifestyle”. Accordingly, several behaviors that are detrimental to health intertwine. They are not a surprise: Too much sitting at the desk, too little exercise in general, continuous alcohol consumption and diet in need of improvement. According to Maloof, this mix “destroys the motor of the cells”.
She has made it her mission to find ways to counteract these biological effects. She uses biohacking for this. What sounds extremely invasive at first is basically nothing more than a more conscious handling of the body. Is the blood pressure in the normal range? how good is the sleep How high is the cholesterol level? Such factors and more are monitored, for example with an upgraded smartwatch, changes are analyzed and the appropriate adjustment screws are made if a biomarker is out of balance. Importantly, every body works differently. What works for women may not necessarily work for men. The hormones are also involved.
Source: The Telegraph, Max-Plack-Gesellschaft
