The second way you can define inflation is the rate at which money loses its value. If you think about it, prices going up and the value of one dollar going down are really the same thing.
1 There is no reliable and consistent means of diagnosis. 2  Diagnosis can be made by one of the few physicians who specialize in mitochondrial disease. 3  Diagnosis can be made by blood DNA testing and/or muscle biopsy but neither of these tests is completely reliable.
The mitochondrial diseases are genetic disorders carried in mitochondrial DNA, or nuclear DNA coding for mitochondrial components. Slight problems with any one of the numerous enzymes used by the mitochondria can be devastating to the cell, and in turn, to the organism.