Is Alzheimer’s Really a Disease of the Mitochondria? | Dr. Russell Swerdlow

Podcast: Degrees of Health · Benjamin Hopkins

Opublikowano: 2026-08-18

What if one of the biggest clues to Alzheimer’s disease lies inside our mitochondria? In this episode of Degrees of Health, Ben Hopkins is joined by Dr. Russell Swerdlow to explore the mitochondrial cascade hypothesis of Alzheimer’s — and why mitochondrial dysfunction could be playing a much bigger role in the disease than we once thought. Russell talks through the research that led him to this hypothesis, including his early cybrid experiments, which found that mitochondrial DNA from Alzheimer’s patients could transfer reduced cytochrome oxidase activity into cell models. From there, the rese...