Mitochondria work as our cellular batteries, delivering all the energy our cells need.

When we are young and healthy our mitochondria are working at 100%. We are growing, we bounce back from illness and injury quickly, we sleep well and—for the most part—we are free from serious disease.

As we get older our mitochondria naturally start to decline in function. They are thought to decline at around 10% per decade from our thirties and beyond.

We don’t notice it immediately, but we start to have less energy, we don’t recover from illness or injury as quickly, and our immune systems decline, increasing the risk of serious health issues.

We start to look older as our skin cells no longer have the energy to produce as much collagen and elastin. Less visible changes happen inside us as well. We may start to notice small things like mental fogginess or heart health problems, for example, as our brain and circulatory system lose energy. Over time we experience a slow breakdown of our cellular machinery. This starts to impact on how well our cells function and on our overall energy!