The ever-expanding list of core processes that mitochondria influence — immune activity, reproduction, metabolism, aging and longevity, and more — strongly suggests how mitochondrial dysfunctions could relate to many different diseases and disorders.

Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind | Quanta MagazineThe biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive.www.quantamagazine.org