Before my wife passed away from muscular dystrophy, she was diagnosed with several mitochondrial diseases similar to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia.
So I have now just looked up the hand sanitizer ingredient that the FDA has recently banned (triclosan). It is a chlorinated biocide designed to target bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis.
Because of my concern that Roundup (originally described as a bacterial antibiotic) is also damaging mitochondria, I decided to look for information on the effect of triclosan on mitochondria. Remember that our mitochondria and bacteria are incredibly similar evolutionarily.
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While the study treated fibromyalgia as mitochondrial myopathy, both ME and fibromyalgia have long since been thought of as having significant mitochondrial dysfunction,
Well as it turns out there _is_ evidence that triclosan damages mitochondrial systems. And in several cases avoidance of hand sanitizers has greatly benefited patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Another quote from the article:
Glutathione is the main substance which clears ROS. Glutathione synthesis is highly impaired when mitochondria are dysfunctional:
My PhD work was with reactive oxygen species (ROS) and DNA damage. But I was working with bacteria and at that time didn’t make the correlation with our mitochondria. Oh my!