Paul Saladino· MD
so the protons are supposed to get pumped from the inner part of the mitochondria to the inner membrane space and then go down the the pump back into the inner side of the mitochondria and they leak across the membrane right so they're leaking across the membrane this is not what you want and that is essentially showing that when you have polyan cetr fats in the membranes are they just creating holes they're leaking so if you're if you're trying to create a battery effect and you're trying to create a proton gradient to make ATP and that that those protons are leaking back you've just destroyed what you're trying to create