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The total surface area of mitochondria in your cells is equivalent to about 14,000 meters^2 or 4 football fields…🤯

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No wonder it’s called the power house of the cell

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When I learned this, I was like holy shit, this alien-like thing has just been living in some symbiotic relationship within our species for millions of years

Totally a wild fact, agreed! They even have their own genome separate from ours for the exact same reason that Wall Street traders want their servers as close to the trading floor as possible

the craziest thing I ever learned about mitochondria is that they were simply bacteria once 🫢

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Okay now this looks like an interesting read. Any idea where I can download it??

Devin where did you get these figures lmao

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quantum tunneling is wild

its crazy how something so fundamental, yet invisible to us, is powering the energy needs of our cells

it really makes you wonder how many other quantum level phenomena are playing out inside us that we barely understand

but do you think we’ll ever fully grasp all of the complex processes happening at the cellular level?

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that the power comes from proton gradients perpetuated by harnessing the the electrons ability to quantum tunnel its way across the interior of the cell

truly mindblowing woah 🤯 

its crazy to think that so much power is packed into such a small space

devin have you ever wondered what other hidden capacities our cells are holding?

Let’s say your house is 2000 square feet on the outside. If I go inside and sum up the surface area of all the things inside it, it will be a number greater than 2000 square feet. Another example would be water filtration, the surface area required to capture all the contaminants mechanically is much greater than the exterior dimensions of the filtration housing, so too with your internal energy system

Internal surface area is much larger than external surface area in a lot of things, we just don’t often need to consider it so intimately

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Ohhh smart!

I’ve never seen things in this pov.
The house illustration is just the perfect one tbh, I need to start seeing things from this point of view

Internal surface area is much larger than external surface area in a lot of things, we just don’t often need to consider it so intimately 

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But I’m not as big as a foot ball field how do the mitochondria in my equivalent to 2 or 4 football field

this is an interesting fact
where did you come across this

All of your cells, literally a quadrillion mitochondria and their internal proton factory surface area

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I never get how they get these huge numbers for something so small

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oh yeah i get that, what i was trying to ask which i phrased poorly was do you know the total surface area of all of one’s cells spread out or what its  equivalent to ?

That’s accounting for the cell at the size they are. The total convoluted surface area packed into all of your cells is equivalent to that much surface area

how big would my cells be in this scenario?

Whattt?? Who counts them😅

How are these numbers documented