90% of Your Oxygen Can't Be Wrong: Better Mitochondrial Function Equals Better Performance.
Most athletes know about haemoglobin and myoglobin, the protein molecules that are central to the oxygen transport system. They play a role in supplying oxygen to the various systems in our body. But did you know that over 90% of the oxygen utilized by our bodies is taken up by our mitochondria. Yes over 90%.
Oxygen hitches a ride on haemoglobin in our blood. This helps it propagate throughout the body into our organs, tissues, capillaries and into each and every cell. There may be 100's to 1000's of mitochondria in each cell and this is the drop off point for the oxygen where it diffuses into the mitochondria.
Think about this, next time you are deep into your workout, when you are sweating and huffing as you recover between sets. The air in every breath you take is going to go to your mitochondria. In fact try it right now. Visualize the breath going in, a haemoglobin train car picking it up, then shuttling it to the cells and unloading onto thousands, and millions of mitochondria.
Improving your mitochondrial function may just be the most significant new addition to your overall performance improvement programming. Why? Better functioning mitochondria equals better oxygen uptake which, equals better athletic performance.
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