Andrew Huberman· PhD
in the mitochondria the way it works is that you burn fuels you burn carbohydrates proteins and fats and as a result of that you make these very reduced agents nadh fadh2 they go to the electron transport chain and as just as the Colorado River as it goes down through various different dams and then dumps out into the Gulf of California the same thing happens with these very highly charged and electronegative electrons they as they start to fall down and get trans erred from one uh enzyme to another they cause the out out production or the out transfer of protons into the in membrane space the problem is though is when you finally get done with these electrons there's nothing else to accept them and the only thing that can actually do that is something so Electro negative that it would actually take these electrons and that's oxygen and that's the reason why we breathe oxygen it's it's because we need an electron acceptor for these spent electrons