257. The Mitochondria Problem Behind Aging Skin + How to Recharge Your Skin and Look Younger

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Every fibroblast inside your dermis right now is asking 200 to 2,000 mitochondria to power its work in real time, and those mitochondria are descendants of a free-living bacterium swallowed by a larger cell 2 billion years ago. As you age, those mitochondria run slower and your cells build fewer of them to replace the ones that fail. In this solo episode, Young Goose co-founder Amitay Eshel breaks down the two sides of mitochondrial decline that drive skin aging and explains why the science-led skincare category has spent the last decades addressing only one of them. The first side of skin aging is where most skincare brands have built their products around. The other side is the one almost…