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From Exhausted to Energized: Restoring Cellular Vitality
Published 9 months, 4 weeks ago
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- A body without cellular energy is like a car without fuel. Providing your body with the right nutrition, exercise, sleep and sunlight exposure is essential to maintaining and replenishing these vital energy reserves
- Exercise, particularly interval training and resistance exercises, stimulates mitochondrial biogenesis and enhances your body's capacity to generate energy and improve metabolic health
- Quality sleep enables cellular repair. This allows your mitochondria to restore and regenerate through processes like mitophagy and aligns your body's circadian rhythms
- Sunlight exposure directly fuels mitochondria by converting red and near-infrared light into electrons. This supports ATP production and synchronizes your body's internal energy systems
- To safely benefit from sun exposure, eliminate vegetable oils from your diet first. They contain linoleic acid that accumulates in your skin and increases your risk of UV-induced oxidative stress and sunburn