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Michael Bartholomew: Fix Your Mitochondria, Fix Almost Everything

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Nov 21, 2025, 14:18

Michael Bartholomew: Fix Your Mitochondria, Fix Almost Everything

Michael Bartholomew, CEO and Founder of Transformational Future, shared on LinkedIn:

”If You Fix Your Mitochondria, You Fix Almost Everything

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about burnout, vitality, and the great cosmic joke of midlife, it’s this:

Your mitochondria don’t care how many green smoothies you’ve had.
They care whether you’re actually taking care of yourself and whether the tiny engines inside your cells have the fuel, space, and sanity to keep you going.

About six months ago, during one of those “I swear I used to have more energy than this” mornings, I stumbled onto a fascinating idea:
What if the reason so many of us feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or mysteriously overstretched isn’t a character flaw, but a cellular traffic jam?

Enter: mitochondria.
Those microscopic powerhouses we learned about in school, back when life was simpler and metabolism was something that “just happened.”

But here’s the plot twist I didn’t expect:
Modern science is quietly revealing that mitochondria don’t just power us, they age us, heal us, break us, and rebuild us.
They decide how fast we recover, how clearly we think, how resilient we feel, and ultimately how well we live.

And it turns out, we can support them in ways that range from the beautifully simple
(think: sleep, nutrition, breath, movement)
to the decidedly futuristic
(think: mitochondrial transplantation, gene therapy, partial cellular reprogramming, yes, really)

Somewhere between a cold plunge and a late-night scientific rabbit hole, I realised something:

We’re not tired because we’re weak.
We’re tired because our mitochondria are begging for a better operating manual.

So that’s what I’ve been building

For months I’ve been piecing together a full-spectrum roadmap, a way of understanding mitochondrial health from the everyday choices we make now, all the way to the biotech breakthroughs that may shape the next 20 years

And on Wednesday, I’m releasing the full guide:
The Four-Tier Mitochondrial Optimization Roadmap
A deep dive spanning the foundations we all need
…to the supplements that actually have evidence
…to the experimental tools only used in clinical settings
…all the way to the frontier technologies that feel like they were smuggled out of a sci-fi novel

It’s practical, hopeful, a little nerdy, occasionally funny, and dare I say it, one of the most important explorations I’ve written

Because when your mitochondria work, you work
When they thrive, you thrive
And when they falter, no amount of willpower can fill the gap

If you’ve ever felt tired, foggy, inflamed, burnt out, strangely older than your years, or simply curious about where longevity science is heading, I’d love for you to join me

Newsletter drops Wednesday.
Bring your curiosity. And your mitochondria.

I share daily insights with 27,000+ professionals and over 400,000 weekly readers on complex topics distilled into simple English, such as gut-health, longevity and mental health. If these topics resonate, I invite you to connect with me and continue the conversation.”

Michael Bartholomew