Andrew Huberman· PhD
And the the reason why through evolution uh unique parental inheritance you get your mitochondria from a single parent uh has developed most people think is because there needs to be a really close metabolic energetic match between the mom and the baby right like the baby comes out and then if the mom has like a certain type of metabolism and we're all different I hope we talk about like how different we are energetically metabolically uh so we're all very different if the baby that was born was like so metabolically different than the mom, there's a chance that there would be a mismatch, right? And then the mom wouldn't be able to support through breastfeeding. Historically, that's how babies survived. Uh, and that would be a catastrophe. So, you know, it's probably a good uh system to have baby metabolism match pretty closely because they have the same mitochondria as the mom to mom metabolism. Uh, so that's I think a loose hypothesis, but it makes a lot of sense.