10 CRITICAL POINTS ABOUT MATERNAL MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION AND YOUR MCAS — section

Why this matters : With regular genes, you have backup&#8212;one copy from mom, one from dad. If one is broken, the other compensates. But with mitochondrial DNA, you have NO backup. If your mother&#8217;s mitochondria have a genetic error, you inherited that error in every mitochondrion in your body.