Peter Attia· MD
having a high metabolic rate can be a liability because associated with the generation of ATP you have some what we call production of reactive oxygen species in other words the efficiency of the transfer of oxygen into ATP is not perfect and sometime you have some uh reactive oxygen species being generated by the mitochondria and these mitochondri these re reactive oxygen species can damage not only your DNA but your protein your lipids and so on and this is one of the Theory of Aging it is too many reactive oxygen species and therefore a higher degree of of oxidative stress