Why Recovery, Not Stress, May Be the Missing Biology of Resilience
Stress is inevitable, but recovery is conditional. This Behind the Paper piece explains how bioenergetic limits, mitochondrial throughput, and unresolved recovery may shape resilience, aging, and chronic disease.
Why We Wrote About Chronic Stress, Mitochondria, and Bioenergetic Debt
Aging research has long acknowledged that chronic stress, mitochondria, and telomeres are tightly linked, yet it remains unclear why these systems fail together in humans—and why this failure begins so early, before overt disease or irreversible damage. This question motivated our review.
Aging as the Wound That Fails to Heal — A Bioenergetic Continuum of Resolution Failure
Aging often looks less like wear and tear and more like a wound that cannot finish healing. This Perspective explores how chronic stress, metabolic misallocation, and mitochondrial congestion create a bioenergetic bottleneck that prevents full recovery and drives aging.
Bringing Exposure-Related Malnutrition (ERM) to the Scientific Stage
Patients can appear well-nourished yet show fatigue, slow recovery, and early decline. Our work defines Exposure-Related Malnutrition (ERM) — a hidden, reversible state where chronic stress and exposures divert nutrients from repair to survival, accelerating biological aging.