Mitochondria: Powering the Electricity of Life

‘‘To recognize our energetic nature, to truly understand it, could mark the beginning of a profound shift in how we approach health and disease’

Does this new year feel different to you? I have the sense a lot of us are approaching it with very few of the usual resolutions. It feels right.

As an advocate for metabolic psychiatry, I’m often confronted with the ways our culture – for a wide variety of reasons – conveys the message that ‘getting healthy’ requires sacrifices that are impossible to maintain because they rob us of pleasure, satisfaction, and joy. Why would anyone resolve to do that?

Dr. Martin Picard, Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, offers a compelling alternative – one grounded in the science of energy, which, in our bodies, means the science of mitochondria and how ‘they transform the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat into the electricity of life’.

It’s a message of hope. One in which the spark of vitality lies not in deprivation, but abundance.

Please watch and share Dr. Picard’s speech from the Metabolic Revolution Rally, and browse our library for resources to support you in having the most electric year yet!