MITOCHONDRIAL CUISINE · A FOUNDING TREATISE

Food is information the body's energy machinery reads.

Read the Treatise Explore the five foundations →

A cuisine can be composed — in its sourcing, its chemistry, its fire, and its timing — as a set of calibrated signals to that machinery. It never claims to treat, cure, or prevent disease.

Mitochondrial Cuisine — A Founding Treatise, cover

FOUNDING EDITION · 2026

The Theory, Principles & Practice of Cooking for Cellular Energy

A thesis, five empirical foundations, six commitments, a set of executable design principles, a compound-to-pathway grammar, and a falsifiable research agenda — held together by a refusal to claim more than the evidence allows. Written by Luke Wu & Reanne Wu, founders and originators of the discipline.

Begin reading

THE EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS

Five load-bearing findings from the peer-reviewed literature

The science is theirs; the culinary consequence is the founder's. The seam is always marked.

I

Signaling, not merely power

Mitochondria are signaling organelles, not merely energy plants.

II

Food-based interventions shift metabolic markers and biological age

Food-based interventions produce measurable biological change, not merely subjective well-being.

III

Compounds engage defined pathways through hormetic and xenohormetic mechanisms

Specific, cookable food compounds engage specific, named molecular machinery.

IV

Quality control: build and clear

Cellular-energy health is set by the quality of the mitochondrial pool a cell maintains — not merely by how many it builds.

V

Substrate is signal

A mitochondrion responds not only to the compounds around it, but to which fuel it is asked to burn — and that metabolic state is itself information.

FULL DETAIL

Read all five

THE CANONICAL HOME

Explore the discipline

The Treatise

The full founding text — twelve sections, preface to conclusion.

Five Foundations

The peer-reviewed findings the discipline stands on.

Principles & Commitments

Six commitments, thirteen executable design principles.

The Working Grammar

Compound to pathway to plate, honestly graded.

The Science Library

Every claim cited to its authors — the verified library.

Research Agenda

Falsifiable hypotheses; an open invitation to the lab.

THE ECOSYSTEM

One house, under Crucian Farms

Mitochondrial Cuisine is the theory, and it is the property of Crucian Farms — its parent company, owned by Luke Wu & Reanne Wu. It does not stand alone: it is sourced by the farm, expressed in a kitchen, and carried even to the bowls of the dogs raised under the same roof.