Bioenergetics
Published August 2025
Metabolism is about all the chemical processes – including Salugenesis – that happen inside living organisms and every chemical process involves the making and breaking of chemical bonds in molecules.
Simply put, Bioenergetics is about how energy flows as bonds are made and bonds are broken – how energy in food is converted into energy that fuels processes in cells, how energy is used to convert food into molecules that are the building blocks of proteins, lipids, nucleic acids and carbohydrates, and how energy is used to eliminate waste products.
Key to this flow of energy, is adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the molecule that is the “currency of energy” used to fuel health and well-being.
And all the action happens in the Mitochondria.
Mitochondria
Mitochondria are organelles inside cells that are key to maintaining a functioning cell and keeping it alive. One of their critical jobs is to generate ATP, the energy carrying molecule found in the cells of all living things.
Mitochondria store energy obtained from food metabolism, and provide it to fuel cellular processes from maintaining optimal cellular function to responding to cellular stress or insult that can lead to acute, sub-chronic or chronic pathologies. They provide the cell and the body the needed resources to address these insults and promote healing – also called Salugenesis.
Cells that need more energy, like those in the heart and brain have more mitochondria per cell while others like skin cells have fewer.
Except for red blood cells, every cell in your body can contain thousands of mitochondria that also participate in regulating other systems (for more details, see our blog).
Mitochondria play an important role in
- Promoting strength and endurance in heart and skeletal muscles
- Promoting optimal blood flow
- Maintaining a healthy metabolic profile
- Improving kidney function
- Addressing both internal and external insults that affect the health and function of a cell
- Supporting a healthy inflammatory response