Endosymbiosis
Subject in Life Sciences
Endosymbiosis has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Huberman Lab. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Martin PicardProfessor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University who leads the mitochondrial psychobiology lab
Picard argues that the advent of mitochondria through endosymbiosis transformed selfish bacterial behavior into social, collective cellular behavior.
“that behavior was transformed into a more social a more kind of communal collective behavior And there's very good evidence. The advent of mitochondria is what made this possible”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 25:01
Jared RutterAmerican biochemist, professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator specializing in mitochondria and metabolism
Rutter argues that the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria is the only model scientists have good reason to believe and that complex life could not have arisen without it.
“I think that's the only model that I think any of us as scientists have any good reason to believe”
Huberman Lab: How Mitochondria Control Your Metabolism | Dr. Jared Rutter (Sep 7, 2026) · Listen from 10:32
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena PodcastMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 12, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
A re-aired Phenomena episode in which Ivy Ross, Martin Picard, Richard Hammerschlag, Neil Theise, Meredith Sprengel and Jonathan Cohen ask what energy is in healing.
How Mitochondria Control Your Metabolism | Dr. Jared RutterHuberman Lab · Sep 7, 2026 · 2 h 4 min
Biochemist Jared Rutter explains to Andrew Huberman how mitochondria allocate cellular resources between energy and growth, shaping aging, heart failure, and cancer.