hmm; scientists may be awesome--but they may also be co-opted, and full of it. If you want to protect your mitochondria, may i suggest building healthy cell walls? Which is what Omega 3 and cholesterol are for! Of course, the O3 has been completely stripped from the food supply...and many run around like chickens on the cholesterol part, wondering why they cannot metabolize it properly--but of course it is not framed that way, as "cholesterol metabolization," no...it's "cholesterol is bad, mmmkay..."