What Is Mitochondrial Disorders And Different Mitochondrial Disorders Treatment Methods?

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factory." Nearly every cell in the body contains thousands of mitochondria. They have to turn chemicals from the foods we ingest into energy by processing oxygen. As a result, mitochondria create 90% of the energy required for our bodies to function.

Mitochondrial Disorders are long-term (chronic), hereditary, and often inherited conditions in which mitochondria fail to provide enough energy for the body to function normally. (An inherited condition is passed down from parents to children.) Mitochondrial illnesses can be present from birth or develop at any age. Although there are no Mitochondrial Disorders Treatment, medication can help alleviate symptoms and delay the progression of the disease. Mitochondrial illnesses can impact cells in the brain, nerves, muscles, kidneys, heart, liver, eyes, ears, and pancreas, among other organs. A hereditary mitochondrial illness affects one out of every 5,000 people. In the United States, between 1,000 and 4,000 children are born each year with a mitochondrial disorder. Mitochondrial Disorders are frequently misdiagnosed as other, more common diseases due to the number of symptoms and organ systems involved.

Mitochondrial Disorders Treatment varies from patient to patient and is determined by the kind and severity of mitochondrial disease detected. However, there is no way to forecast a patient's response to treatment or how the condition would impact them over time. Even if they have the same ailment, no two people will respond to the same treatment in the same way. Mitochondrial Disorders Treatment is still in its early stages. Mitochondrial Disorders Treatment relies on maintaining optimal health, employing preventative strategies to limit symptom worsening during times of physiologic stress (such as infection, dehydration, or surgery), and avoiding mitochondrial toxins, in addition to symptom-based therapy. Some data support the use of antioxidant supplements to help reduce the number of reactive oxygen species produced in this condition. 

Scientific evidence is mounting in favor of vitamin- and cofactor-based Mitochondrial Disorders Treatment. These pharmaceutical supplements are designed to stimulate key enzymatic events, minimize the potential consequences of excess free radicals, and scavenge toxic acyl-coenzyme A (acyl CoA) molecules, which build up in mitochondrial illness. Although these methods are more extensively contested, some supplements may function as alternative energy fuels or biochemical bypass bottlenecks within the respiratory chain. Exercise has also been proven to lessen the burden of unhealthy mitochondria and raise the percentage of healthy, non-mutated mitochondrial DNA in people with mitochondrial disease.