Read it earlier this year and I agree. Also, he's all over various podcasts and youtube channels if you'd rather watch.

What I got out of the book was two things:

* Mitochondria are freaking cool.

* The DSM is bollocks and metabolic dysfunction explains all mental illness.

Despite how radical the above sounds, the evidence for it is overwhelming. The book is largely an accessible tour of the evidence. It's well cited without being too academic.

And while Dr. Palmer is a prominent spokesperson for this movement, there are hundreds of other neurologists, psychiatrists and doctors on the same line.

We already have mitoviruses, it stands to reason they they might adapt to infect mitochondria that are being delivered to cells.

How did you get that (and what guarantees on data privacy?)

I’d be very interested

>Doesn't sound like getting them into every cell would be easy

>Viruses would be happy

As a programmer, I sometimes wondered at the value proposition of certain antiviral drugs, especially the ones that interfere with replication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_drug#Reverse_transcr...

Off the top of my head, I would imagine transplanting gives more control over the end result.

It seems like yet another misunderstanding of a series of complex problems by promising a simple one-stop solution. Maybe it'll work for some things, but it's also making claims that something like PTSD can be sorted out via a mitochondria flush, which doesn't make any sense to me.

Do all these things, cultivate meaningful relationships, avoid anxiety and drug abuse and you’ll be well on your way to becoming an optimal version of yourself.

Maybe the first half of the book, the second half sells her company’s services really hard, very much aimed at customizing for each patient and staving off common American health problems. She has some tests not in the standard blood screens she thinks should be in there to give you personalized nutrition advice, she does reference Robert Lustig’s work and research a lot in first half.

I posted the article here, and I had a fairly similar reaction to yours.

I was tempted to remove the "What does this mean for our health?" part of the title, but I thought that such a large edit might be against HN policy / too much editorializing on my part.

In any case, I thought the article was worth posting because it's a nice intro to a area of recent progress in biology that not a lot of folks are aware of.

Not trying to persuade you to try again, but if you ever desire to, electrolyte deficiency (particularly potassium) is a common reason that people experience headaches or cramps when fasting or starting ketogenic diets. Watch out for sugar in commercial electrolyte tablets though!

Low blood sugar and dehydration can lead to all kinds of unpleasant side effects. When I tried to fast for the first time, I was an idiot and didn't supplement with water or electrolytes and I suffered crippling cramps.