“Our history is always with us. Across organisms
offspring receive a maternal inheritance, DNA:
strands of instructions, twisted together
and reaching into the future”
-from “Mitochondrial Gift, by Julián Jamaica Soto
What are the genetic gifts you carry from your ancestors?
When the symbiotic relationship between mitochondria and our body cells works well we can experience the potential wonders that life has to offer. When the mitochondria are defective, as mine are, we can experience a multitude of body functions weakening and wasting away during a long, living death.