September/October 2023 Alchemical Voice
A great read, once again! Within this publication, you have information on the Mabon pagan times by Sue Penney with crystals recommended for now. Our great author John Sjovik writes about 'Choosing and Choices', and 'Shamanism - a personal reflection'. Nasreen Pritchard asks if we have lost the plot!? Hear the sounds of Jane Cuva - Ancient Vibrations. Julie de Vere Hunt continues with The Osirion, Abydos. Carol Coggan talks about being at one with the Universe. Chronic fatigue, Mitochondria Part 2 by Martin Lewis. Stacey-Ann Postma writes about The Disillusionment of Indigo Children. Claire continues her journey on the different doshas, this edition covers Pitta. Find out Where the Plants Whisper from Hannah Gauss. Roy Shadrake wins the front cover and writes about his photography.
A great read, once again! Within this publication, you have information on the Mabon pagan times by Sue Penney with crystals recommended for now. Our great author John Sjovik writes about 'Choosing and Choices', and 'Shamanism - a personal reflection'. Nasreen Pritchard asks if we have lost the plot!? Hear the sounds of Jane Cuva - Ancient Vibrations. Julie de Vere Hunt continues with The Osirion, Abydos. Carol Coggan talks about being at one with the Universe. Chronic fatigue, Mitochondria Part 2 by Martin Lewis. Stacey-Ann Postma writes about The Disillusionment of Indigo Children. Claire continues her journey on the different doshas, this edition covers Pitta. Find out Where the Plants Whisper from Hannah Gauss. Roy Shadrake wins the front cover and writes about his photography.
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MITOCHONDRIA<br />
PART 2<br />
Martin Lewis<br />
<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M - Issue 22<br />
MITOCHONDRIA - THE ESSENCE OF<br />
CHRONIC FATIGUE<br />
What are our mitochondria? Well, if you have read<br />
<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> Issue 17, you might recall that in<br />
that article they were described as the ‘powerhouse of<br />
the cell’. Fatigue is fundamentally an imbalance<br />
between energy supply and energy demand. If you<br />
have chronically low energy levels, then your cells are<br />
not getting the energy supply they need. If the<br />
demands on your energy are too high this creates an<br />
energy deficit, which results in the symptom of<br />
fatigue.<br />
While there are many contributing factors to this<br />
energy deficit, the single most important thing to<br />
understand is that, in physical terms, the fatigue issue<br />
centres around your mitochondria.<br />
Within almost every cell of our body, we have<br />
between 500 to 2,000 mitochondria whose job is to<br />
literally make the energy your cells need to work. The<br />
more mitochondria we have, the more energy can be<br />
produced. As we age more mitochondria are lost than<br />
are replaced, hence the older we are the less energy<br />
we have. Also, when we get stressed our mitochondria<br />
need more nutrients to produce the energy that we<br />
need.<br />
Mitochondria take the oxygen we breathe and the<br />
food we eat (primarily carbs and fats) to create<br />
adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the fuel used to power<br />
all cellular and metabolic processes. Without oxygen<br />
and nutrients you will fade VERY fast ….. and without<br />
mitochondria, your cells will not have the ability to<br />
create the energy they need to function, meaning no<br />
process in the body can happen the way it was<br />
designed.<br />
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