Friedberg predicts mitotherapy could become a major new treatment modality for many diseases based on recent research.
“So this opens up the door to this whole new therapeutic modality, a new type of therapy called mitotherapy or mitochondrial therapy that based on the series of papers that we're seeing coming out recently, I believe could end up becoming a really incredible new therapy that may ultimately lead to the treatment for many diseases”
Friedberg speculates mitotherapy could be applied to cerebrospinal fluid to improve brain function through neuronal energy production.
“And so that's tissue where you can, using a microscope, you can actually see the healing happening.”
Friedberg reports researchers applied mitochondria directly to damaged bone and it grew back with improved healing.
“So, this is a group that does bone and tissue repair studies, but they applied the mitochondria directly into the area where there was damage to the bone, and the bone grew back, and it actually improved the healing in an incredible way.”
Friedberg envisions mitotherapy applications for brain function improvement and heart repair after heart attacks.
“But you could see this being applied, for example, to cerebrospinal fluid where you could basically increase the mitochondrial, the energetic mitochondrial production that finds its way into maybe neuronal cells, into neurons in your brain and improves, your brain function, or you could put it into damaged hearts after heart attacks and improve heart function.”
Friedberg explains that putting mitochondria into the body to heal tissue has been a long-sought research goal.
“And the idea that we could put mitochondria into our body or into tissue in our body to heal it or repair it has been something that folks have been trying to do”