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by analog31 401 days ago
How did you measure your mitochondrial health, short of extracting fresh breast muscle cells and putting them in a manometer?
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Personally I inherited a mitochondria disease (LHON), so I'll be able to tell if mine becomes bad because I'll go blind.

Can't recommend you do this though.

I do group fitness classes, like CrossFit, body combat, spin class. When you have a room full of people all doing the same thing you can quickly tell which things you are above or below average at. Not very scientific perhaps but this is my current strategy.

For me I am below average at endurance, so that is where I assume the mitochondria come in.

That's the clever bit - you extract them from pigeons instead!