> apparently high mitochondria counts DO improve lifespan. ("Mitochondria correlation with mortality" was suggested and had results)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Oh god, I just googled it and also antivaxxers think that mitochondria prevent autism, which makes no sense given reality and also Anakin
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
This is nearing Parasite Eve levels of "I don't know what mitochondria do but I want to talk about them extensively".
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Replying to @OwlWithAGuitar @BootlegGirl
Well, fun fact, some people believe mitochondria are responsible for the aging process
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It's one of the big questions of biology -- your genetic line, as a whole, does not age
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If you have a kid those cells come from you but their age "resets" when they leave your body
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Age is something that happens not to your DNA from reproducing too many times but to your cells from being in one body too long
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(Other evidence is stuff like how cultures like HeLa have survived unaltered so long after being removed from Henrietta Lacks' body)
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So the going theory is that it's the inevitable buildup of free radicals in a body over time
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It's a side effect of how mitochondria work, and the more work you make them do the faster it happens
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The "aging rate" seems to be correlated in organisms with the rate at which they consume oxygen which is what mitochondria do
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Bacteria, which have no mitochondria, don't age in that sense at all
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