The Future of Medicine Is Energy: Dr. Martin Picard Explains

Energy has been the missing dimension of medicine. If your mitochondria stopped working, you're dead in seconds. Dr. Martin Picard is a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University and he directs the mitochondrial psychobiology group, how their psychology affects your biology, where he explores how our minds and our mitochondria connect. As the chair of energy and health at Columbia Aging Center, he leads NIH-funded studies, linking stress, energy, and healing, and works with scientists around the world to transform our understanding of health.

What are the mitochondria and how we should be thinking about them from the perspective of how they're integral to our entire communication network and our energy network that runs our body? The potential energy inside your body, it's equivalent to a lightning bolt. And somehow we don't combust and we don't burst into flames. If you mess up with the energy like just a little bit, you can actually alter the human experience. So it can alter your state of mind.

And you're saying we shouldn't be focusing so much disease. We should be focusing on what creating health. And you look at which diseases are there evidence for that mitochondria are impaired in some way. And turns out every disease, the reason stress is bad for us, the reason stress makes us tired and ends up damaging our organs and ends up aging us faster is because it steals energy from the things that keep us healthy.

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