Chris Masterjohn

@ChrisMasterjohn

Mitochondrial health expert applying peer-reviewed science to develop evidence-based protocols for human health and longevity. Founder of mito.me.

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Joined October 2009

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Chris Masterjohn
@ChrisMasterjohn
Aug 9, 2025
Your cells are aging faster than you think. After age 18, mitochondrial density declines by 1% every year—one of the clearest biological markers of aging. By 70, you’ve lost more than half your cellular energy capacity. Here’s what most people miss: this decline isn’t
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Chris Masterjohn
@ChrisMasterjohn
Aug 31
How to breathe — you’re doing it wrong. First, ignore anyone who tells you that you should always breathe in one particular way. Especially insidious is the camp that says “always breathe through your belly.” This is terrible advice. I think it comes from a fusion of several
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Chris Masterjohn
@ChrisMasterjohn
Aug 30
It is completely immoral that the CDC has *any* proprietary data at all. That RFK couldn’t access it shouldn’t just lead him to fire one person. He should fire anyone who ever had anything to do with this. Trump should immediately order all such proprietary data made public and
War Correspondent
@warDaniel47
Aug 28
🚨 BREAKING: Secretary RFK Jr. reveals that he fired the CDC vaccine chief because for 7 MONTHS Kennedy was BLOCKED from getting vaccine safety data. This person also STONEWALLED money going to Texas to help with measles...he was a full-on TRAITOR, holy crap! "I gave the order,
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Chris Masterjohn
@ChrisMasterjohn
Aug 29
“Now think…” No. Butter literally was foundational to modern nutritional science. Vitamins A and D were discovered through the finding that cod liver oil and butter both cured irreversible blindness. At first it was thought they were one vitamin. The discovery that they
Andrew Scott
@ScottAppliedSci
Aug 28
Butter brings almost nothing to the table nutritionally. It's a delicious luxury that you would be best to minimise. Yet, hordes of people now think it's a valuable source of vitamins and the elixir of good health. What a bizarro world we now live in.
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Butter provides helpful fat-soluble vitamins and essential fatty acids, though it is also high in calories and saturated fat. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC97… healthline.com/nutrition/food… usdairy.com/dairy-nutritio…
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Chris Masterjohn
@ChrisMasterjohn
Aug 28
In the Ecuadorian Andes mountains in the late 1990s, “the people in a potato-growing community asked the Quito government to help them buy simple metal hoes and plows to replace the wooden ones pulled behind their horses. “The government turned to USAID. “The agency sent an
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