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Dr Sara Pugh's avatar

Great post and very accessible to lay people as well as the scientists and medics.

Christo B Vermeulen's avatar

This “Mitochondria are Multifaceted, Multifunctional, and Malleable” changes everything and opens up unlimited opportunities. Good work!

Your Nextdoor PCP's avatar

Congratulations on the launch! This digest is a great “table of contents” for what feels like the core mission: making energy legible across levels, from lived experience to mitochondrial biology, without flattening either side. I especially appreciate the community-building intent here; this is exactly the kind of space where we can be precise about mechanisms (redox signaling, stress adaptation, mitonuclear communication, dynamics/quality control) and honest about what patients actually mean when they say “I’m depleted.”

As a physician-scientist, I’m excited for a forum that treats “energy” as a systems property (biological, behavioral, and relational) and then insists on clearer language and better measurements so we can move from metaphor → testable hypotheses → actionable interventions.

Looking forward to learning alongside this community!

Martin Picard's avatar

Welcome, and thank you!

Marvin H Berman, PhD's avatar

Important reconsideration of the role(s) mitochondria play in bioenergetics. Glad to see the long overdue effort you are making to undo Cartesian dualism in

renaming your lab.

Martin Picard's avatar

Thank you. All work in progress.

Marvin H Berman, PhD's avatar

Indeed. I'm working my way, in somewhat the opposite direction you took, from Neo-Reichian psychodynamic psychotherapy (Bioenergetic Analysis) to neurofeedback, photobiomodulation, and now mitochondrial bioenergetics.