Mitochondria and Insulin Resistance

I hadn't paid much attention to this whole mitochondria thing, mostly because it would require some sort of en masse genetic switcharooni for dysfunctional mitochondria to have spurned the epidemic in diobesetes* in this country (and around the world).  

I had just happened across the paper briefly discussed in my last post looking for something else.  It is interesting what a simple PubMed search on the apparent head of the research group:  Dr. John Holloszy turns up.  Lots and lots about mitochondrial biogenesis.  

One such paper is this fairly recent, 2008, review paper by Holloszy.  

Skeletal muscle ‘‘mitochondrial deficiency’’ does not mediate insulin resistance

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