November 30, 2025

#175 | Misfiring Mitochondria | Hemal Patel PhD

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Hemal H. Patel, PhD

Professor & Vice-Chair for Development and Advancement

Director, UCSD Cardiac/Neuro Protection Laboratories

VA Research Career Scientist, VA San Diego Healthcare Systemss

Chief Scientific Advisor for Versea Discovery

MeScreen -- Why Measure Mitochondria?

Mitochondria live inside your cells and regulate energy, metabolism, and cellular signaling to drive your body’s physiology, endurance, and resilience. The function, dynamics, and efficiency of mitochondria correlate with either health and well-being or poor health and sickness.

Normal aging, diet, exercise, exposure to stressors, and other variables have been proven to impact mitochondrial function (energetics) and dynamics (shape and size).¹⁻³ The maintenance of

mitochondrial function and dynamics are essential to health.⁴ Individuals who have a disease, are sick, or are in poor health will have poorly functioning mitochondria and compromised dynamics. Individuals who eat properly, have good sleep hygiene, train, or exercise demonstrate improved mitochondrial function and dynamics.

The mescreen™ is a mitochondrial efficiency screen that provides an energetic profile of your cells and ultimately of you. Establishing a baseline mescreen™ score and tracking it over time provides you with a tool to assess your mitochondrial function. mescreen™ is also part of an ongoing research project that will allow you to compare your mescreen™ score in the future against other populations that are sick, healthy, elite performance, and other to gauge where your cellular health and mitochondrial function are at.

Episode Resources

MeScreen.com (use "WiseAthletes" for a $100 discount on a mescreen test)

@hemalpatelphd

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Episode 161 | Omega 3 | Bill Harris PhD

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