mitochondrial-dysfunction
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Cardiometabolic Health
A functional medicine perspective on cardiometabolic health emphasizes identifying and addressing root causes — including chronic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic inflexibility, nutritional deficiencies, and environmental/lifestyle stressors — rather than treating individual risk factors in isolation. Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Metabolic Inflexibility Mitochondria continuously adapt through fusion and fission; when this balance is disrupted, excessive…