HOW NATURE NURTURES THE BODY,

AND TECHNOLOGY TORMENTS IT

BY R. 0. LEE
“RANDY THE MITO MAN”
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THE MITOCHONDRIAC MANIFESTO
R. D. Lee
The Mitochondriac Manifesto: How Nature Nurtures the Body, and
Technology Torments It

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 DISCLAIMER

IF YOU'RE NEW TO THE SCIENCES OF BIOPHYSICS, MITOCHONDRIAL BIOLOGY, AND

CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS, THIS INFORMATION MAY SEEM A BIT ODD TO YOU... LIKE
YOU'VE ENTERED A WEIRD AND WONDROUS NEW REALITY... LIKE EVERYTHING
YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT HOW THE HUMAN BODY WORKS NOW APPEARS
TO BE FILLED WITH OUTDATED INFORMATION, CONTAINS DANGEROUS HALF-
TRUTHS, IS BIASED LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE,
OR IS JUST PLAIN WRONG.

ITS TEACHINGS MAY EVEN CAUSE YOU TO QUESTION ALL THE PRINCIPLES,
PRODUCTS, AND PRACTICES MAINSTREAM MEDICINE PUTS OUT AS IF THEY ARE THE
FINAL WORD ON WHAT'S TRUE OR NOT, AND THAT EVERYONE WHO DARES
QUESTION THEIR AUTHORITY IS DEEMED A QUACK OR A CONSPIRACY THEORIST.
... FAIR WARNING.

IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL

ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT. THE AUTHOR(S) MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS,
AND ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY, CONCERNING THE ACCURACY, SAFETY,
EFFICACY, OR APPROPRIATENESS OF THE PRODUCTS, PROCEDURES, TESTS,
TREATMENTS, SERVICES, OPINIONS, OR OTHER INFORMATION
CONTAINED HEREIN.

CONSULT YOUR HEALTH PROFESSIONAL BEFORE UNDERTAKING A NEW DIET,

TREATMENT, OR LIFESTYLE CHANGE. IF YOU SUFFER A LIFE-THREATENING
EMERGENCY WHILE YOU’RE READING THIS BOOK, RESIST THE URGE TO CONTINUE
READING. PUT THE BOOK DOWN IMMEDIATELY AND
DIAL ort.
 Contents

PREFACE:

INTRODUCTION
Concerned about the future of humanity... yet? xvii

Part 1: Biophysics
No One Knows Wellness and Illness Like a Mitochondriac
Disconnecting from Nature and Plugging into The Matnx

Seasonal Cycles 29

What Runs our Biological Programming? — 37

Mitochondria: Where Health or Sickness Begins 47

Redox Signaling, Inflammation, and Redox Potential 71

Earthing 93

Water’s Most Important Functions 99

Magnetism 111

IO. Blood Flow, Paramagnetism, and DHA 139

Part 2: Energy Mismanagement causes Weight Gain

. Dr. Jack was a Fat Ass that Saw the Light 163

. Leptin 173

. Deuterium 183

. You are What You Eat? 199

. Dr. Jack Kruse’s Protocols 205

Part 3: The Electromagnetic Spectrum

10. How Friendly Frequencies Support our Biology 213

17. How Man-Made Electromagnetic Frequencies Hurt You — 233
Alternating current electricity 236
Blue light 241
Non-native EMFs 250
What stress does to you 256
s” generation wireless (5 G) 269
Telecom companies know the damage their products do 275

18. Non-Native EMF Remediation — 279

Part 4: Biophysics in Action

19. The Real Causes for Some Common Conditions — 291

Cancer 292
Thin hair — 2094
Electro-hypersensitivity 295
Autoimmune diseases 296
Sleep apnea 297
Cataracts 298
Mold toxicity 298
Dental fluorosis 298
Cavities 299
Vitiligo 300
Clogged arteries 301
Bad skin 303
Biochemicals such as testosterone enable you to experience the joyfor life 305

Parting Words — 307

Additional Material

Glossary 309

Index 315

About the Author — 323

Now What? — 324

Recommended Resources — 325

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Paradigm shifts spring from new perspectives

After getting their mind blown once or twice, many readers wonder
where I’m coming from. They want to know if I’m a doctor, a college
professor, or a research scientist because they think: ‘This is incredible
information I’ve never heard before. But a lot of it disagrees with what
I’ve been told. How do I know if it’s true or not?’ Some demand to see
citations or they’re prepared to dismiss all of it.
To these people I say ‘good.’ I want you to question what you’re told.
I want you to be as skeptical of this material as you are of mainstream
medicine. And in the interest of teaching you how to think and act for
yourself, these questions demand an explanation.
The answer is, I didn’t get my information from print material. Rather,
I got it by digesting hundreds of lectures and interviews. I mine masses of
information to find the gems, filter out the filler, and polish the good ideas
into brilliant ones. I don’t just copy and paste what others say, just because
they’re famous or highly-educated. Which is to say I don’t rely on cites
to validate my claims. It’s not meant to be a traditional science document.
Instead, I let the information speak for itself through specificity and detail.
Along the way, the ideas you examine will become your future beliefs, as
I believe time will prove most of these concepts to be self-evident.
To put this material into the proper context, the content does not fit
neatly into any of the mental boxes you might have for science papers in
medical journals, articles in magazine or newspaper, non-fiction books,
blog posts, or pure storytelling. Instead, it’s a hybrid document, written
for two different audiences at-once — health professionals and health
consumers — each with their own interests and expectations.
This is incredibly difficult and time-consuming to pull oft, which is
why there’s no other book like it, and why some people will complain
about what it lacks, instead of what it offers. Crucial to understand,
people new to biophysics don’t have a sense how scattered and .
impenetrable some of the source material is. So they can’t fully appreciate
the extent to which The Manifesto makes mountains of esoteric science
presentable without oversimplifying.
a THE MITOCHONDRIAC MANIFESTO

For example, many of the books, articles, and research are sixty to over
a hundred years old and buried in obscurity. Some papers about light and
radio frequencies are written in Russian, and have never been translated
into English. And then Gerald Pollack’s work on the fourth phase of
water is only ten years old and yet to be embraced by mainstream science.
Furthermore, the most accessible information about magnetism I sourced
from two people, while the best material about mitochondria is coming Mitochondria:
Microscopic
from three. Compare that with how many educators currently teach powerplants of the
about nutrition, fitness programs, and supplements. cell. They convert
Therefore, it’s not fair to compare fields that are 25-50 years old, well- sugar, fat and
protein from food
researched, well-funded, and much narrower in scope to the biosciences into energy that the
of light, water, magnetism, and the mitochondria — which are still in their body can use
infancy as far as converting knowledge into practice are concerned. (ATP).

Collectively, they are a brand-new life science as nebulous as the Manhattan Manhattan Project:
Project. I mean most people have only started to hear about these topics Top Secret US
government project
in the last five years! That’s like a week ago in the annals of science. employing 100,000
For these reasons The Manifesto, as it’s being published, is the one and people to build the
only collection of essays that distill complex concepts into one clear and first atomic bomb,
which ended World
concise introduction to biophysics for newbies. It’s like condensing the War II.
highlights of twelve separate sciences, mined from over a hundred and
fifty years of literature, into one coherent text.
That means conventional thinkers who only respect research that’s
done by a prestigious university or government agency, then published in
a fancy medical journal, then spoon-fed to you by Big Pharma and your
doctor... those people could be waiting 25-50 years for mainstream
medicine to catch up to the fact that the real driver of health or disease is
energy — specifically electromagnetism — not genes or chemistry. That’s
how far The Manifesto is out on the cutting edge — just so you know what
you have in your hands.
Why mix sensationalism and science?
Because modern humans desperately need to learn about biophysics and
the mitochondria to stay healthy in today’s toxic world, yet we're all more
or less starting from scratch. Health professionals need to unlearn the false
narratives programmed into them from their schooling, while health
consumers need to learn the new basics of biology before mass-market
solutions will keep disease away, and their weight in a healthy range.
That means The Manifesto is not a peer-reviewed paper you'll find on
PubMed for medical professionals. Nor is it a health celebrity’s “top ro
list” written as a self-promotional piece. Neither of those are really
what
you need to start learning about how the human body truly works. And
neither of them are the appropriate context to force-fit this material
into.
Instead, The Mitochondriac Manifesto is the best of both worlds. It covers

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the most important topics you need to know about, in just enough detail
to inspire your own research, as well as your own awakening. Read it
multiple times and you'll continue to find new ways to use the
information in your daily life.
In terms of information, The Manifesto is the first ever user guide/repair
manual for the human body — pre-digested into bite-sized chunks for
anyone with a motivation to learn. It’s science that tells a story, and serves
a higher purpose. That being, it shows you the bigger picture overarching
the details. Profound but rare, it teaches you how to think about the
symptoms and scenarios happening in and around you. And it strengthens
your reasoning ability so you have the awareness and resolve to stay faithful
to your own interests and needs under a daily barrage of misinformation
marketing. Armed with that knowledge, you’re not so easy to fool. But
without it, you’re a sitting duck, just waiting to be exploited by a system
that profits handsomely from your chronic disease.
As for presentation style, I do speculate all the time (you have to in
order to be a good dot-connector). And I do illustrate concepts more
colorfully than most (to keep readers focused when attention wants to
wander). But when I do go out on a limb of conjecture, I try to convey
exactly how much confidence I have in what I’m saying so you can
practice exercising your own judgment. Not a lot of thought leaders are
willing to show doubt like this, even when they’re clearly ignorant on a
topic. However, I don’t have a big ego to protect. I don’t mind admitting
when I’m mistaken and continuing to push the envelope.

You need to learn how to think for yourself, tell fact from fiction,
and advocate for yourself
This material is written with the assumption you have some ability to
reason for yourself, or would like to learn. Call it survival training for your
health. I want you to apply a healthy dose of skepticism to everything
you hear from me and everyone else, from now on. Don’t blindly take
anyone’s word without good reason. And even when you do, you should
revisit your own beliefs from time to time, because what was true
yesterday might not be true today. More accurately, truth in the medical
field tends to evolve over time as new information reshapes our thinking.
To illustrate how I handle speculation myself, I write within that I
believe dinosaurs and living things in general were huge in prehistoric
days because the magnetic field was 300 times stronger than it is today.
The science is there to make the case. But of course, I don’t have a
randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study published in a peer-
reviewed paleontology journal to support my conclusions. That should be
obvious. Unfortunately, some people, in their rush to judgment, may try

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xii =| THE MITOCHONDRIAC MANIFESTO

to hold a contention like this up to the scrutiny of a scientific paper, or a

medical claim — when it doesn’t belong there.
In other words, venturing out onto the frontier of human
understanding challenges you to develop a finer sensitivity to nuance and
a greater tolerance for uncertainty. That forces a lot of health consumers
out of their comfort zone in using their own reasoning and judgment,
instead of repeating what they’ve been told. To become your own health
boss, you just need knowledge, agency, and a little practice. That's it.
Fortunately, when you take steps to expand your health literacy, the
world does its best to fulfill your expectations. When you do your own
thinking and decision-making, you naturally achieve better outcomes —
or at least outcomes you can call your own, instead of someone else’s.
Look, everyone wants to believe they’re making good health choices and
taking good care of themselves. But the vast majority are absolutely
fooling themselves by building their wellness/illness on the half-truths of
pop medicine and commercialism.
Are you in the affected bunch? Let’s see: Ask yourself what kind of
picture would your blood work, C-reactive protein test, heavy metal C-reactive
protein test:
level, and passing symptoms say about the state of your health? I bet they
Measurement of
would reveal you’re more stressed, inflamed, toxic, and imbalanced than inflammation.
you’d want to believe. In any case, one thing’s for sure: you'll never see
dysfunction and disease coming when you can’t read the signs.

The antidote to mainstream misinformation

Let me say without a doubt probably 80-90% of this material will
ultimately prove to be somewhere between on the right track to amazingly
accurate in its depiction and prediction. In contrast, orthodox medicine is
struggling with all its might to convince people their propaganda is the
gospel truth, even when they’ve known for decades most of it is
downright deceptive, if not completely fraudulent.
A few flagrant examples are cholesterol causes heart disease, UV light
causes cancer, animal fat is bad for you, man-made vegetable oils are
good for you, germs cause disease, mercury is fine to put in your teeth,
vaccines are safe for children, etc., etc.
That means almost everyone is going through life with bugs in their
mental software. We who grew up ina manipulated medical system are
indoctrinated with flawed foundational beliefs that corrupt our thoughts Mitochondriac:
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and actions. But we're going to change all that in just a few hours of
fan/follower of
reading and reflection. Join the growing community of mitochondriacs mitochondria,
and we'll get you back on-track to living the way Nature wants you to biophysics, and
seasonal cycles of
be: healthy, happy, and free. the body,
 PREFACE | xiii

No, you’re not going to see cites of published literature

For starters, most literature published by medical companies is complete
garbage — bought and paid for by master manipulators to deceive and
control the masses who can’t think for themselves. And the litmus test to
detect bias, or at least pause to question: Who funded the research?
Secondly, I learn from other researchers and educators just like
everyone else. I’ve just taken a different path to arrive at my beliefs than
most. Meaning, I learned very little of my information through print
media such as textbooks and journal articles. Instead, I learn mostly from
lectures and interviews where the language is looser, but the thought
processes are more evident. More to the point, I’m captivated more by
truth, wisdom, and insight than I am personality, popularity, and
supposed authority.
So exactly where did I get my information? Just do an Internet search
for the experts listed below, plus thirty more in their respective fields, and
watch every public presentation that comes up ten to twenty times. Cross
reference what you learn with all the knowledge you accumulate over
ten years and thousands of hours of research, and you'll have a solid start.
That said, probably more than 85% of this material originated in
published literature dating back over a hundred years. I just haven’t read
the papers myself, so I can’t cite them here. But rest assured, they are out
there. The reason you haven’t heard about them from your doctor and
the government is because Western medicine ignores and suppresses
technologies that don’t fit their model for making money.

How do I decide who to listen to?

Call me a rebel, but I don’t care about how much money a person
makes, how many books they’ve sold, or the size of their following. I
don’t blindly trust professional credentials, institutional affiliations, or
industry awards. Instead, an educator has to earn my approval by having
superior knowledge, experience, reasoning ability, and perspective. Being
a good presenter helps. I give bonus points for having a giving spirit, and
subtract them for being too egocentric.
I also listen closely to how a person presents information that’s outside
their area of expertise. Do they ever acknowledge when they’re
uninformed on a subject? Or does their ego get in the way of them ever
showing a shred of doubt, even when they’re as wrong as can be? Those
are the people you’ve got to watch out for.
To say it simply, I don’t pay much attention to health celebrities who
are more about the “show” than they are about the “go.” And, on the
other end, I rarely spend the time to try and understand academics who
can’t clearly communicate their ideas so simple folks can understand what
they’re saying.
xiv. | THE MITOCHONDRIAC MANIFESTO

Finally, even after an educator has my approval, I still treat their inform-
ation with skepticism because everyone has flaws and limits in their logic.
So I run all incoming information through my own filter before deciding
what to believe, what to reject, and what to put in the “undecided” bin.
That means I treat my own powers of discernment as the highest
authority of all. And you should strive to do the same yourself.

Don’t tell me what to think. Give me the info and I'll decide
My validation process: I want to know how things work. I want to hear
specifics. Explain the mechanisms of action to my satisfaction and I'll tend
to believe what you’re saying. To that end, firsthand research and field
experience goes a long way with me. It really gets my attention when
experts in my circle of trust refer to another’s findings. And then, to add
extra credibility, talk about the downsides and limitations of your
technology, because I see red flags when a person implies by omission
that their product or idea is perfect for everyone.
An invitation to deception or self-deceit: | even treat real-world results
with skepticism because mistakes in judgment fester when you assume
input ‘A’ will always lead to outcome ‘C’. The placebo effect and “emer- Emergency healing
gency healing response” (that eventually wanes) are just two examples response: (Informal)
The body’s short-
where assumption can mislead careless observers into misinterpretation. ternfixfor a
In real life, my validation process might go something like the problem that
borrows resources
following example: Dr. Dean Bonlie claims an enhanced one-way
from another area,
magnetic field increases blood circulation. instead of making
more at the source.
1. I trust Dr. Bonlie’s knowledge, experience, and conservative claims
based on his lectures, collateral materials, and direct answers to my
pointed questions.
. He gives solid scientific reasons to support what he’s saying.
. He provides pictures/diagrams demonstrating his results.
. He has 20+ years of anecdotal evidence selling his device(s).
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we A podcast host saw his own blood before and after using Dr. Bonlie’s
TOTES
product. That was enough to convince him to buy one for himself.
6. Two other doctors I trust, and a lot of educators, support his claims.
The weight of all this evidence passes my validity filter. It’s good enough
for me to believe it and write about it, despite what the FDA may ays
to say, or not say, about it. Now ask, ‘what’s your validation process
look like’? And could it use an upgrade?
For comparison, your typical health consumer is prescribed a treatment
from their doctor. That drug or procedure is approved by the FDA, spon-
sored by industry, dispensed by legal drug peddlers (aka pharmacies), and
is promoted by the manufacturer with a multi-million-dollar advertising
campaign. That, sadly, is the extent ofan individual’s evidence that a
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treatment is safe, effective, and a good fit for them. Notice how the
second sequence happens outside the consumer. Their default modus
operandi is to discredit and belittle their own critical thinking ability.
Or, when a do-it-yourselfer is taking a more casual approach, they just
throw supplements and solutions with a good story at a problem, and they
see what sticks. Unfortunately, because no one told them, or they don’t
want to know, they never learn about the true nature of their condition,
or the remedy in question. Both promoter and consumer have no real
plan and no backup strategy. So their results are unpredictable.
Bottom line: “They” teach obedience and operate on authority. I
preach self-sufficiency and independence. Now there is a better way. The
Mitochondriac Manifesto answers a whole lot of questions dumbfounding
Western medicine to this day. I’ve searched far and wide to find the
healing know-how that belongs in our books, our wellness practices, and
in our homes. This is what I’ve found.

My sources
The Mitochondriac Manifesto is based on the work of the following thought
leaders. For your curiosity, I’ve named their area(s) of expertise.
1. Dr. Jack Kruse, all major subjects.
2. Doug Wallace, PhD, mitochondria.
3. Dr. Dean Bonlie, DDS, magnetism.
4. Professor Gerald Pollack, fourth phase of water.
5. Dr. Robert O. Becker, polarity of injury and repair.
6. Viktor Schauberger (Schauberger’s work interpreted by Callum
Coats), energetic properties of water, vortexing, and the
hydrological cycle.
7. Drs. Gary Samuelson and Zach Bush, redox signaling molecules.
8. John N. Ott, light’s biological effects.
9. Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, leptin.
10. Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, effects of dehydration.
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Concerned about the Future of Humanity... Yet? (‘Cause you should be)

For the first time ever, longevity in cities is declining

This seemingly unimportant data point, in fact, represents a major turning
point for humanity, because it means chronic disease has finally overtaken
modern medicine’s ability to keep you alive when you're sick. That is,
both sides are increasing: (1) The ability of chronic disease to destroy
health and life vs. (2) the tools and technologies modern medicine uses to
make you well.
So even though more people are taking steps to prevent disease, and
modern medicine is getting better at fighting disease after it shows up,
chronic disease is still winning. Indeed, modern medicine is getting
smarter and more capable every day. We forget that. But health threats
are just growing faster in scope and severity, so it looks like healthcare is
getting worse.
Guess what? There is a reason. And this exposé explains the epic battle
between wellness and illness in vivid detail... and from a perspective
you’ve never heard before. That being, it helps you see health and
sickness through the lenses that matter most: biophysics, mitochondria,
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bank accounts” slower than ever before, while our environments deplete
us increasingly faster with each new generation of technology.
xviii | THE MITOCHONDRIAC MANIFESTO

Clearly, human health is no longer sustainable. But to date, the

explanations we’re given for these problems are just as inadequate as the
solutions offered. So who can blame those living in a state of denial or
learned helplessness? I have to admit, in some respects, you ‘re better off
not knowing the truth when you can’t do anything about it. No
knowledge + no power to change = no responsibility.
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to do: keep the public ignorant and disempowered, often in fear, yet
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by 2050.
¢ Autism. In 1990, 1 in 10,000 was affected. In 2018, it’s 1 in 37 boys,
and rising fast. By 2025, Dr. Stephanie Seneff (senior research
scientist at MIT) projects 25% of all children born in the U.S. will
eventually be diagnosed on the autism spectrum... 50% of all
children by 2032.
¢ Heart disease. Before 1920, heart disease was very rare. Now it’s
competing with cancer as our leading killer.
¢ Cancer. Recent stats say about half the male population born today
will get cancer in their lifetime. If that stat doesn’ t jar your senses, I
don’t know what will.
¢ Alzheimer’s. Since I began writing this book, Alzheimer’s is now
believed by many to have overtaken both cancer and heart disease as
America’s #1 killer. However, you won’t see its full statistical effect
until after 2030.
Allergies. About 33% of people have allergies, 50% of school children.
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¢ Infertility. Fertility of men in America has dropped by more than

50% in the last 10-15 years. In other words, mankind is racing
toward extinction if something doesn’t change.
¢ Autoimmunity. Some 95% of teenage girls show clinical markers of :
autoimmunity to their own thyroid. Most don’t know it.

Shocking trends
¢ Opiate crisis. In just the last three years (since ~2017), opiate
addiction has become a national crisis, as exemplified by the deaths
of Michael Jackson and Prince.
© Suicide crisis. Similarly, a national suicide crisis has come out of no-
where over just 24-36 months — even before the recent pandemic.
¢ Sports injuries. NBA players are tearing their Achilles tendons,
menisci, and ACLs, seemingly for no reason at all. Players are
breaking leg bones without being hit, or without landing very
awkwardly. The NFL has been forced to enact new concussion
protocols because they’re happening so often.
¢ School shootings. Can’t say school shootings are a new problem.
But it has been reported recently almost all school-aged gunmen
have taken antidepressants at some point.
¢ Skin cancer (melanoma). Skin cancer has taken off in Australia like
you wouldn’t believe.
© Blood clots and strokes on airplanes. | myself have witnessed
strokes in fellow passengers on more than one occasion.
¢ Lifespan. For the first time in American history, lifespan in cities has
declined. Children born after 2000 are expected to die younger than
their parents.

The good news

The mitochondriac’s mantra says the forces of biophysics that make
disease and dysfunctions show up in your life also work in reverse: It
undoes them. So however debilitating and irreparable these conditions
appear to be, the physics of the mitochondria, and the rhythms of the
body, have answers where mainstream medicine offers only lame excuses
that keep you ill-informed and dependent. Buckle up. We're going on a
whirlwind journey of discovery to the far reaches of human
understanding in the physics of life. It will change the way you look at
wellness and illness forever. Take its teachings to heart, and the wisdom
of Nature will serve you and your family well for the rest of your life.
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Biophysics
(The physics that controls biology)
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NO ONE KNOWS WELLNESS AND ILLNESS LIKE A
MITOCHONDRIAC
(Mitochondriac: A fan/follower of mitochondria, biophysics and seasonal cycles of the body)

Biophysics is more important to human health than

diet, exercise, genes, toxins, the microbiome, and leaky gut
Why is that? Because of one stupidly simple principle that holds people
back from reversing their chronic disease: You can’t get fully well when
you stay in the environment that made you sick. This is the
mitochondriac’s Golden Rule of Modern Wellness.
You’d think this concept would be so firmly embedded in our collective
consciousness by now we'd all be applying it in our daily lives as if our
well-being depended on it. But no. Quite the opposite: almost everyone
ignores it like The Law of Cause-and-Effect doesn’t apply to them.
For those living in the civilized world today, The Golden Rule says
wellness or illness are built upon the forces of physics that control
mitochondria and our biorhythms. They are light, water, and
magnetism... not on secondary influences like food and gut health, which
most natural healers believe build the body and mind.
To put it more potently, biophysics is the boss that’s in-charge all of
your biology, while all other factors are its underlings. They are
administrative assistants that take orders from biophysics.
Now, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with worshipping your
favorite diet like a religion, exercising as if you’re training for a triathlon,
or downing mouthfuls of primal supplements each morning, if that’s what
turns you on. But if you try to get fully well by adding foods,
supplements, or practices to your daily routine, while the real source of
your problems is actively contaminating your health, you’re deluding
yourself with hype and half-measures.
Sure, most of the diet and lifestyle choices in vogue today will give
you a little to a lot of improvement. But does your daily regimen take
you all the way to 100% in body and mind? Is it sustainable for your
budget and lifestyle? And how long will the results last when our
electromagnetic environments are getting worse by the weck, and the
body builds a tolerance to interventions based on emergency response?
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These are important questions to ask yourself — especially when you

measure success by more than just six-pack abs and Facebook followers
(consider blood work, inflammation, heavy metal burden, and in-home
nnEMF testing, for instance).

Where the healing arts lost their way

Many moons ago, modern medicine thought it had just about figured out
human health because it was successful at improving many people’s
symptoms, some of the time. Those were the good ole days of the 1970s,
8os, and even into the gos.
But after people realized pharmaceuticals and personalized medicine,
etc. weren’t half the solutions they were cracked up to be, the alternative
healing community turned its attention toward more natural healing
methods like rebalancing intestinal bacteria, elimination diets, detoxing
heavy metals, and exercise. These are the roots of human health. Getting
a good handle on these aspects of our biology will keep the doctor away,
right? Well, not exactly.
Natural approaches like these definitely give us gains in fixing our
broken bodies and minds. However, as man’s technology marches
forward — particularly wireless technology — we’re beginning to realize
there’s another dimension to our physical well-being we intuitively sense,
but Westerners deny intellectually because medical science dismisses its
importance — saying it’s all in our heads.

We've been taught biochemistry controls our biology

Medical doctors and natural healers have long thought chemicals in the
body drive most aspects of our health and longevity, while an imbalance of
those chemicals (e.g., macronutrients, micronutrients, hormones, and
neurotransmitters) brings about dysfunction and disease.
But, as it turns out, biochemistry is secondary to the photoelectricity
that gives life to plants and animals. Our biochemistry takes its orders
from the light and electromagnetic environment around us and inside us.
More than you'd expect, that means visible and invisible light
frequencies, water, and magnetism control our biology.
Everything that happens inside us on a biochemical level is preceded
by an electromagnetic input, and our biological programming. So our
signaling molecules, metabolism, cognitive function, sleep, and anti-aging
efforts — they’re all subordinate to light, water, magnetism, and electro-
magnetic frequencies — both good and bad. Biochemicals are virtual
passengers along for the ride; whereas photoelectricity is the real driver —
meaning electrons, protons, and photons.
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ATP: Adenosine The ultimate example is found in how ATP is made. Crucial to
triphosphate is an
prosperity of the cell cycle, energy production in mitochondria is an “electron
energy storage
molecule made in transport chain” — not a protein transport chain, or a carbohydrate transport
mitochondria that chain, or a fat transport. So we've heard it. But only when it’s pointed
drives dozens of
cellular processes
out to us do we realize biochemicals that run the body are driven by
crucial to running electrons, protons, and photons — not directly by macronutrients like
the body. proteins, fats and carbs — as food czars tell us.
Look past the dogma, and it’s easy to see a corrupted environment is
what really drives dysfunction, disease, and an early demise. The
machinations of declining health are merely the observable effects of
physics acting on our physiology. When they’re relieved, disease
processes are symptoms that can make some problems go away, some of
the time. However, they are not the actual source. That’s why symptom
suppression hardly ever fixes underlying problems.
For decades now, it’s been “our bad.” We’ve mistaken symptoms for
source and wondered what went wrong in the process... what we seem
to have missed. Stick around, and you'll see why biophysics is more rudi-
mentary to life than any diet, practice, program, or other life science.

We’ve been told genes control our health, wealth and success in life
For thousands of years, the “haves” of the world (the rich, the royal, and
the privileged elite) have believed they’re genetically superior to the
“have-nots” (the poor, simple-minded, and sickly masses). “They”
programmed the lower class with that narrative in order to support (i.e.,
rationalize) the differences in health, wealth, and access to the better
things in life.
And before we understood how our environment influences genetic
expression, they had us commoners convinced that genes predetermine
who is going to enjoy good health throughout their life vs. which families
are going to be mentally and physically handicapped as a consequence of
their “bad blood.” Mental and physical fortitude would then enable
success in other areas of life. Good genes = good health, and a good life,
they posited.
And, up until recently, We The People bought their story hook, line,
and sinker. Lacking alternative explanations, we didn’t question their
storyline that genes and evolutionary advantage plays a bigger role in a
person’s success than environment, and how well your biology handles it.
It’s only within the last few decades every socio-economic class has
Epigenetics:
been hit hard enough by chronic illness and cognitive impairment to
Environmental make us question the genes cause disease hypothesis. It’s become obvious to
factors control the educated observers that’s not the case. Instead, our environment controls
our biology much more than genes do. Through epigenetics, our
way our genes turn
into physical traits
and behaviors. environment controls the switches and programming that run our
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biochemistry, our gene expression, and the foundations upon which our
success or failure in life are built.
You'll see in the pages to come just how important the physical forces
affecting our mitochondria and circadian rhythms are at every level of our Circadian rhythm:
Biorhythm lasting
existence from the physical, to the intellectual, to our success in life. about 24 hours,
such as daily cycles
The deficiency-additive paradigm ofsleep and waking.
Unfortunately for us, drug companies, conventional doctors, and
progressive healers alike have conditioned us to think from a “deficiency-
additive” perspective when it comes to our health... that we lack
something the body needs. So now you have to take something, and/or
do something to get well. When really the best place to start resolving
health problems is to remove obstacles that prevent the body from doing
what it’s designed to do all on its own: heal and rebalance itself.
It’s becoming ever-more apparent: you have to remove barriers if you
ever want to get to immaculate health and longevity. Kind of like fixing
your brakes that are sticking before you think about adding more
horsepower to your car, or even getting a tune-up. Then you want to
reconnect with the original, and still best, healing and wellness support
system we call Nature.

We were lost, but now we’re found(ed)

Supporting actors and cosmetic enhancements to good health, such as
diet and exercise, occupy our attention and receive most of our efforts
because, with them, it’s easier to see both cause and eftect. But how
many of us ever give a second thought to the foundation that supports it
all? Average Joes don’t normally aspire to improve the foundation of a
building, or of ahuman body, until its structure begins to fail. Only then
do we make restoration a priority.
And that’s what you’re going to learn about in this ideological reset:
The forces of physics in the body that we never noticed, or cared the
least bit about when we’re well, but can lead to complete collapse of our
health when injury to cells outstrips repair. Jump down the rabbit hole
with us mitochondriacs and you'll discover answers and solutions to the
greatest health problems that have stumped the world’s foremost healers
for generation after frustrated generation:
Why it’s so hard to lose weight and keep it off.
Why so many people feel tired all the time.
Why kids can’t pay attention and focus anymore.
Why % of all women take anti-depressants or anti-anxiety drugs.
Why so many people have insulin resistance and diabetes.
Why so many couples struggle with infertility today.
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Learn how the improvement of your internal energy production can help
you escape the common, complex diseases we all know by name, but
don’t have a clue what causes them. This is the very cutting edge of
human health and healing in the modern world, because it reveals crucial
secrets your doctor, public health agencies, and media don’t know a thing
about, and wouldn’t tell you if they did.
Introducing a brand-new life science that’s more fundamental, and
more influential, to human biology than those symptoms and situations
we never sought to unpack. It’s mitophysics: the physics of the
mitochondria and circadian rhythms.

The bioscience that completes human biology: Mitophysics

Mitophysics is my term for the forces of physics that control our
Infradian rhythm: mitochondria and circadian/infradian biorhythms (daily and seasonal
Biorhythmi lasting
longer than 24
cycles, respectively). It is an umbrella term to describe the amalgamation
hours, Herein, of biophysics, quantum biology, mitochondrial biology, chronobiology,
infradian generally and other sciences important to mitochondriacs.
refers to an annual
cycle. For example,
Mitophysics is a giant, but previously invisible, piece to the wellness
humaris tend to puzzle whose omission has secretly undermined our best efforts to get
gain weight in late well over the past three plus decades. We’ve accidentally left Nature’s
fall through winter,
and sleep less in ways out of the healing equation because medical science has done a
summer, while incredible job of underestimating the myriad ways Nature supports our
animals breed, well-being.
hibernate, molt,
and grow fur or lose More specific to creating wellness or illness than the broader terms of
fur seasonally. biophysics and quantum biology, mitophysics explains how friendly
Ultradian rhythm:
electromagnetic frequencies, pure water, and the earth’s magnetic field
Biorhythm lasting give us life, energy, and resistance to disease. Or, conversely, mitophysics
less than 24 hours. explains how foreign frequencies, adulterated water, and non-uniform
For instance, sleep
cycles last about
magnetic fields deplete us of energy and healing capacity on the way to
90-120 minutes. causing disease and dysfunction.
Here are a few ways mitophysics influences the life around and inside us:
Quantum biology:
How light photons ¢ Photosynthesis. Plants harvest the sun’s photonic energy and turn it
and electrons
influence biology.
into sugar and oxygen that feed the entire food chain.
¢ Electron transport chain. Mitochondria harvest electrons, protons,
Chronobiology:
Time-based
and photons from food to power our biology.
biological cycles ¢ UV and IR light heal you. UV and IR control healing and
(e.g., circadian,
regeneration programs via receptors in the eye, skin, gut and fat.
infradian, and
ultradian rhythms). ¢ Blue light wakes you up. Blue light turns on hormone production
and the stress response, thereby regulating alertness and stress level.
¢ The fourth phase of water. Water becomes a battery by rearranging
itself into groups of positive H’s and negative O’s, thereby creating
electrical differential that cells use to do work.
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e Paramagnetism moves materials. The body uses magnetism to Paramagnetism:

Substance that ts
transport blood, hormones, oxygen, and DHA — and to re-condense weakly attracted to
proteins so they can regroup after a day’s work. magnetic fields
because of its
¢ Biology synchs to the seasons. Our infradian rhythms synch to the unpaired
seasons through exposure to light, temperature, and food. electron(s).

On the other hand, mitophysics becomes a human drama when Nature’s Docosahexaenoic
processes get corrupted by man’s short-sighted technologies, his reckless acid (DHA) is a
very special fat
profiteering, and his need to dominate and control Nature. that can convert
The mitophysical challenges we face in our world today include: sunlight into DC
electricity, and
¢ Mitochondria insufficiency. Weak, inefficient mitochondria make back again.
you consume more food (and potentially retain more calories) in order
to make enough energy to run the body.
¢ Leptin resistance. The recently discovered hormone called leptin
regulates the body’s energy production and expenditure programs —
including adrenal function, immune function, insulin signaling,
fertility, and even our emotions. Can’t lose weight and keep it off?
Lack of leptin sensitivity (i.e., receptors/reception not working) has
probably been sabotaging your efforts without you ever suspecting.
¢ Deuterium. Fruits and vegetables eaten out-of-season (for where Deuterium: A
you live) can gum up your mitochondria, make you gain weight, hydrogen atom
with an extra
and contribute to disease and premature aging. Produce collects and neutron in tts
gives deuterium to its consumers. nucleus. Nature
uses deutertum’s
¢ Artificial blue light. Inappropriate light exposure dysregulates different structure
biorhythms and depletes your neurotransmitters. Blue, in particular, and properties to
causes hormone and neurotransmitter problems, sleep disturbances, control biological
programs such as
and adrenal issues. energy production,
¢ Grounding/earthing. Chronic disconnection from the earth food seasonality,
deprives you of energy and healing capacity. and aging.

¢ Non-native EMF pollution. You may be surprised how much non-

native electromagnetic frequencies upset human health.
You can think of mitophysics as the soil that feeds and protects the roots
of your health. Or, when you’re exposed to the forces of physics in
corrupted forms, they become a never-ending source of contamination
people try desperately to offset with better food and more supplements.
To our decided disadvantage, we’re doing so many things wrong to
mess up the environment of our mitochondria, that we’re no longer
stunned to see young children with insulin resistance (formerly called
“adult-onset diabetes”); teenagers being diagnosed with arthritis,
osteoporosis, or cancer; 95% of young women showing autoimmunity to
their own thyroid; or 1 in 35 children having autism. We’ve heard the
stories so frequently that nothing fazes us anymore.
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Your body isn’t defective. The real problem is your environment

Whether it’s learned or assumed, we automatically look inward when
something goes wrong with our health, because we believe the defect is
inside us. To back up that belief, we scrutinize test results like blood
work and MRIs for more evidence our body is betraying us. Any health
malfunction we’re experiencing must mean our body is broken in some
way, right?
Of course, reasoning like this makes perfect sense if you think like a
typical health consumer. However, in most cases, it’s just not true. Your
body is not malfunctioning. What’s more, it’s harmful to think that way
because a lot of mistakes are made when you experience symptoms and
assume they’re the source — rather than seeing them for what they really
are: distress signals the body sends to your senses, in code, asking for help.
For instance, all we can think about when suffering in some way is the
headache, the poor digestion, the chest pain, the weight, the foggy
thinking, or the uncontrolled behavior. But where is it all coming from?
That’s what should concern us. What is our body really trying to tell us?
Just as important, in most chronic disease conditions, the body is
behaving exactly the way it’s designed to... or at least it’s doing its best in
a difficult situation, using the resources it has available. We tend to forget
the body has its own built-in compensation mechanisms and emergency
procedures that it’s running all the time — even though we can’t think of
anything besides either healthy or not healthy in the moment.
Again, the physical symptoms we use to diagnose disease are merely
downstream consequences of our light, water, and electromagnetic
environments acting upon our mitochondria and circadian rhythms. So
look around you for the source of your health problems first, before you
look inside, because it’s your environment that’s defective, not you.
The body rarely does anything by accident. So, in most cases, what you
perceive to be your body malfunctioning is just its way of coping with a
flawed environment.
As we'll discuss later, most of these influences lead into the story of
mitochondria, because 80-95% of diseases revolve around mitochondria,
while only 5-20% are primarily genetic. Specifically, an accumulation of
defects in our mitochondria create some 90% of diseases, not DNA
changes. That’s because mitochondria are profoundly more responsive to
the environment than human DNA.
In fact, Dr. Doug Wallace, the world’s leading mitochondria
researcher, has shown that the vast majority of disease occurs without any
changes to the human genome at all. That means for decades now, and
tens of billions spent, modern medicine has been studying the wrong
genome in an effort to explain disease and treat it.
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So instead of finding the cure to cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes in

human genetic defects, we now know for certain that chronic disease has
- very little to do with the human nuclear genome. Instead, the answer to
9s out ofa 100 health questions is mitochondria and their genome.
So remember: When you get sick, don’t look within for the source of
what ails you. Instead, examine what’s wrong with your light, water, and
magnetic environment that’s upsetting your biology. Those corrupted
foundations of life are what’s causing the diseases of modern civilization.
Note to self: You can’t get well when you continue to be affected by the
things that caused you to get sick.

Every single thing in the universe is made when sunlight slows down
You can start to see how physics creates our material world by observing
this simple fact: When light slows down, things with mass show up.
Our bodies use this miracle of Nature to make all sorts of biochemicals
we can’t live without. For instance, when light hits an aromatic amino Aromatic amino
acide in the eye, it; slows down and makes dopamine.
; .
Dopamine controls =acid: A buildi
block
it
of
higher brain functions, muscles, and our behavioral reward system. neurotransmitters:
When light hits another aromatic amino acid, that amino acid absorbs
UV photons and makes melatonin. Melatonin regulates sleep and mito-
chondrial recycling. Same thing with a neurotransmitter that makes you
feel good, called serotonin. Serotonin is made when light hits the eye and
the gut lining (digestion releases light from food). Melanin as well. Melanin
is the pigment that turns skin brown under UV light. It’s made when one
aromatic amino acid turns into another, which turns into another.
Sunlight also makes a composite chemical in the brain’s hypothalamus
called POMC (proopiomelanocortin). POMC gets separated into several
chemicals, including an opioid called
beta-endorphin, which makes you feel
good in the sun, as well as ACTH, rT rt
which is a precursor to cortisol (a stress {-__J ii :
chemical). Interestingly enough, beta-
endorphin is the only opioid that ) MEETS ty rT
doesn’t increase cravings and .
dependency on other opioids. So it’s CLIP | |y-lipotropin} |B-endorphin
the only opioid that’s safe and non-
addictive to get loaded on.
ie
So, as it turns out, the eye is ladened
B-MSH
with amino acids like tryptophan, tyrosine, phenylalanine, and histidine.
They capture sunlight to make neurotransmitters. But the most
interesting thing about the energy-to-matter conversion is light controls
the pathway — directly, as just described, or indirectly by food electrons
that were programmed with light in photosynthesis.
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Converting light frequencies into material matter — that transformation

— 1s happening in biology all the time. But it all begins as light. Things
with mass are made when high-energy light slows down and condenses
into lower-energy matter. Then you can touch it, or measure it, as light
in its solid state.

Which is more influential: biochemistry or biophysics?

“If Iheld a dead rat in one hand, and a live rat in the other, I would tell
you each of the rats contain exactly the same biochemicals. What’s the
difference between both of the rats? The amount of energy contained. So
if biochemistry really mattered... why is one alive and one dead?
Turns out, the issue is all tied to energy. And what is energy on this
planet? The entire food web... the entire energy creation on this planet
Dr. Jack Kruse: [comes from the sun].”» — Dr. Jack Kruse.
Neurosurgeon by
training, now the
The days of one-size-fits-all treatments are over. It’s quickly
world’s leading
mitochondriac becoming an “n=1” world
educator. Medical companies and health organizations have long used randomized,
‘n’ is shorthandfor
double-blind, placebo-controlled trials as the gold standard for showing
the number of that the drugs and devices they create are safe and effective. The problem
people in a study. is, they presume statistical relevance in a select group (typically designed
So instead of a test
group representing to exclude undesirable subjects, similar to jury selection) translates well
the general into safe and effective treatment for all.
population, n=1, They treat all health consumers in a population as if they’re the same.
in this context,
means you are your But that’s flawed thinking, and people are beginning to wake up to that
own test subject. fact. Rapidly being disproven, the presumption of homogeneity
Mitochondriacs use
contradicts everything we now know about epigenetics and quantum
the term “n=1”
informally to mean biology. For this very reason mitochondriacs have a right and a duty to
your response to a question traditional safety and efficacy testing. The evidence is piling up:
given diet,
supplement, drug,
an individual’s personal environment, and their biologic response, is as
practice, or varied as human personality.
treatment is unique Nowhere is this individuality better exemplified then in biophysics.
fo you.
Biochemistry, which is a downstream effect of biophysics, is diverse
enough across populations. But when you add exposures of light and
electromagnetism to the equation, you can see why the reliability and
predictability of Western medicine has been growing more erratic over
the last 20-30 years — particularly since glyphosate (weed killer) and
wireless communication are now found everywhere.
Take light exposure as an example: If you conduct a study near the
equator, or even in the summer, human biology will act differently than a
study done farther North, or during the winter, under more artificial
light. You'll get different results based on the sun exposure each
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individual gets, because sunlight on the eyes and skin control healing and
regeneration programs, hormones levels, and mitochondrial output.
The same variability applies to the amount of fatty acid DHA in the
diet, the non-native EMFs a person receives, the amount of deuterium in
their water, as well as the individual’s magnetic environment (like living
near the Gulf of Mexico). It all makes a difference in your test results. It
all matters. However, no clinical trial done in the Western world ever
controls for light, water, magnetism, DHA, or heteroplasmy rate in the Heteroplasmy rate:
Percentage of
design of their studies — not to mention many more factors that could damaged (stretched
challenge how applicable these standardized tests are with real people, in out) mitochondria
the real world. vs. healthy and
productive. So high
Researchers don’t take these influences into account. Thus, their results heteroplasmy is
may not correlate well with an uncomfortably high percentage of bad; low is good.
individuals receiving the treatments coming out of these trials. So the
ugly truth is, drug companies are looking to achieve just one thing in
their clinical trials: any statistical improvement, however small, with
tolerable side effects and loss of life.
It’s getting harder and harder to rely on any type of clinical evidence
that a treatment will work from one person to the next, because our
environments have changed so dramatically from that of just a few
decades ago. There are just too many factors at play that are never taken
into account at any stage of a drug’s development — the most influential
of which are mitophysical in origin.
Real-world example I: Studies looking at the effects of diet on human
health have traditionally been done in places like hospitals, under artificial
blue light. That removes a powerful positive influence on our physiology,
which is sunlight. And it introduces potent negative variables such as
artificial light and non-native EMFs, that can adversely affect each person
to a different degree, depending on the strength of their mitochondria
and the mitophysical environment they come from.
Conversely, all the dietary studies done by Dr. Weston A. Price on Dr. Weston A.
indigenous populations in the 1930s were all conducted outdoors, under a Price: Dentist and
researcher that
great deal of real sun exposure and locally-grown food. That gave his
travelled the world
studies as much, if not more, scientific validity than modern clinical trials, in the 1930s to
because an incredibly potent constellation of variables, such as native and study how diet
affected the health
non-native EMFs, were excluded from the equation.
of indigenous
Example 2: Dr. Jack Kruse once told a promoter of water purifiers if populations,
they did their trial outside of Japan, they wouldn’t show as much benefit.
The reason is, the Japanese people eat more seafood than just about any
other, That means their DHA levels are higher, hence they’re able to
convert more of the sun’s energy into DC electricity.
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MEDICAL RESEARCH

Bottom line: The healthcare

industry has to get used to the idea
that the reliability of group studies is
becoming more and more random
over time. And the opposite paradigm
is taking over. Each person must be
treated as if their biology is unique to
them, as well as constantly changing,
because both are true.
A new paradigm we'll call “n=1” is
taking over, which means there is no
such thing as a one-size-fits-all drug,
supplement, diet, or test anymore. Those days are coming to an end.
Instead, the response of each individual to any wellness effort is unique to
them and their mitochondrial efficiency.
So you need to stop assuming the medical industry’s results on groups
of people, in a clinical setting, are automatically relevant to you on an
individual basis. You need to stop thinking the drug companies and your
doctors know more about how your body is going to respond to a treat-
ment than it does. Instead, you need to learn a little, be your own test group
of one, and you need to look out for you. That’s the new paradigm of n=1.

You can’t treat your health like a hobby anymore

In the old days before 4G and Wi-Fi became widespread, you could
spend your idle time learning how to fight the disease of the day. You’d
read “top to articles,” listen to health podcasts, and scour online forums
to find the magic solution to relieve your nagging symptoms.
Then you'd try the diet, supplements, or practices the guru recom-
mended, based on how much you liked them and their story. You'd try
it for a while — until you got tired of doing it, it stopped working, or
somebody new came along, with a seductive story and something new to
sell you. And, like a revolving door, you’d shift your time, your
discretionary income, and your hope onto that next greatest thing.
Let’s face it: in the old days, we had the time and the healing capacity
to spare, so we could afford to take a casual approach to getting healthy
and staying healthy. And that was fine for most people’s lifestyle, biology,
and bank account. Unfortunately, those days are gone. Now everyone
must take their health seriously, or you’re going to get sick. It is that
simple, because taking your health for granted now has consequences.
It may not be common knowledge just yet how symptoms tie back to
their source. But trust mitochondriacs when we say to you unfriendly
biophysical forces explain the source of disorder better than any health
science to-date. At the same time, putting the friendly forces of physics
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back in your life is the best medicine to cure disease and dysfunction
today... which is exactly what becoming a mitochondriac will teach you.
Mitochondriacs won’t win any popularity contests in mainstream
medicine by pointing out new realities like these. But the new path to
exemplary health in a sG world requires thought and reason over “shiny
object” syndrome and “seat-of-your-pants” decision-making. That means
you have to be more methodical about which recommendations you try
out and adopt long-term, and which ones you drop. That will take some
proactivity. It will take more weighing of costs vs. benefits. It will take
more effort than you’re probably used to.
As the world’s leading mitochondriac Dr. Jack Kruse likes to say, you
have to have skin in the game to be a mitochondriac, because we’re going
to lose a lot of people over the next few decades. Getting healthy and
staying healthy isn’t mere entertainment like it used to be. It’s a direction
and a journey, not a single product, practice, or event in time. So don’t
count on it being quick, easy, and convenient to succeed while the health
of those around you is sinking to new lows.
From this generation of technology forward, it’s survival of the best-
educated, most proactive, and fully committed. You need to be all-in to
stay healthy for good.
Mainstream medical treatments are flawed at best
Imagine yourself in this scenario: You get sick and your doctor presents
treatment options to you. They offer two, maybe three, options to
choose from. Sometimes the treatments help, sometimes they don’t. But
in most cases, you learn to live with irritating side effects and
inconveniences, because if there were better treatments out there, your
doctor would tell you about them, right?
We want to believe our medical providers make our outcomes their top
priority, are constantly on the lookout for better treatments, and gladly
sharing this information with their patients and colleagues. But that’s a
paradigm of belief that’s been falling apart at the seams in recent decades.
With increasing regularity, this happens instead: After the treatments
frustrate you with intolerable side effects, they lose their effectiveness, or
the treatments fail altogether, your practitioner
shrugs their shoulders,
tells you they have nothing left in their arsenal for you to try
wishes you the best, and
sends you on your way.
With the decline of human health accelerating, traditional medicine is
running out of answers. You could even say modern medicine is
beginning to look impotent, if not totally incompetent, at dealing with
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chronic, degenerative disease. Cracks are beginning to show in the fields

of alternative medicine and nutritional therapy as well.
But on the bright side, that’s how people come to realize orthodox
medicine is not all it’s cracked up to be. As the limitations of medicine
become obvious to everyone, people learn to help themselves and not
rely on Big Pharma, or any other health dictators, to stay well. On the
other hand...

Biophysics and mitochondrial biology are multi-layered

Mitophysics has so many layers to it, you won’t run out of options to
improve your wellness any time soon. There’s always another level you
can take your efforts to... so many more principles, practices, and products
you can add to your routine to get your health where you want it to be.
However, if you’re coming to The Manifesto as a conventional thinker,
it can be a sobering to realize almost everything you ever learned about
health and disease is more fiction than fact (if not downright fraud), and
that the people you trusted to teach you your foundational beliefs have
been lying to you out of ignorance, or even purposely. It can be hard to
wrap your head around the fact that the Establishment has been able to
almost completely exclude this information from medical canon for over a
hundred years.
But I assure you, biophysics is indeed a big deal to medical science, as
well as the future of the human race. Mitochondrial biology is crucial to
our continued existence. Prepare to be shocked and amazed by what
you’ve always needed to know, but were never taught. Get ready to start
your bad information detox.

Be your own health boss. Become a mitochondriac

The mitochondriac learns which forces of physics her mitochondria like
or don’t like, because mitochondria are the microscopic engines of our
wellness or illness. The mitochondriac understands how circadian and
infradian rhythms control the body’s exertion, recovery, and seasonality
programs, because they run our biochemistry cycles. She then incorporates
those tips and strategies into her daily routine to fortify her immunity and
longevity against the diseases of civilization — let’s call them ““mitohacks.”
Supporting that call for independence and self-reliance, the mitochon-
driac does not outsource her wellness to anyone. She doesn’t let any drug
company, three letter agency, or clinician dictate what’s right for her well-
being. Rather, she decides what's best for her and her family.
Through experience and intuition, the mitochondriac knows she can’t
blindly trust what anyone says no matter how educated, experienced or
well-credentialed that source appears to be because each individual's mito-
physical environment is unique to them. That makes each person’s biology
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respond differently to a given program, practice, or treatment. With that

understanding, it’s easy to see why there’s more information and advice
available than ever before, yet no one seems to agree on anything.
But this hasn’t always been the case. Before electrification, our
mitophysical environments were simpler, and more uniform, across
population groups, which reduced variation in outcomes. But now,
everyone is responding differently to a given healing effort because our
mitophysical foundations are more corrupted across the board, and more
varied. Hence all the debate about which foods and supplements are good
for you, and which ones aren’t.
The new reality: it’s become an n=1 world. And here’s your first
prescription for prosperity: Don’t take the medical industry’s literature,
marketing materials, and advice at face value any more than you would
that of a used car salesman. Use discernment and don’t give your trust
away for free. Make your educators and advisors earn it. They work for
you, after all.
Stop assuming others know what’s best for your physiology, because
no one does. At the same time, start paying close attention to the clues
your body is giving you, because it’s always trying to tell you what it
likes, what it doesn’t like, and what it needs. Learn the meaning ofits
clues and you can take full control of your health and well-being. That’s
the functional knowledge of the mitochondriac... forged from a modern
survivor mentality every one of us is going to need in the wireless era
ahead. That’s what being a mitochondriac is all about.

=9 —
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DISCONNECTING FROM NATURE & PLUGGING
INTO THE MATRIX

Our biology is designed to be connected to Nature... not technology

We're meant to live in communion with our environment. Meaning (1)
eyes and skin exposed to sunlight at the right time of day; (2) in direct
bodily contact with the ground; (3) drinking water from natural sources;
and (4) eating food that grows locally. These are the physical forces of
Nature that give us energy to power our body’s processes, and synch our
biology to daily and seasonal cycles.
On the flip side, we suffer in countless ways when we snub Mother
Nature and spend our time under the influence of foreign frequencies
and modern conveniences. As we’re just now beginning to appreciate,
the human race (and planet Earth) pays dearly when we choose to detach
from Nature, and instead plug our bodies and brains into our
Archaea: Microbes
that are similar to
manufactured technologies. Here are a few seminal moments in that
bacteria, but progression of disconnection from Nature, the shift to man-made
different enough to technology, and why these changes affect our biology so profoundly:
be considered
another life form.
Long ago, plants borrowed a bacterium to power their biology
For 3.8 billion years, two types of organism
had the planet all to themselves: bacteria and
archaea. Life was simple back then, literally
because everything alive at the time was
single-celled. But then, life on earth
exploded out of nowhere due to a biological
collaboration of historic consequence.
About 650 million years ago, early plants
partnered with a bacterium to get the power
they needed to run their biology.
Prehistoric plant life made a deal — we'll
give you (bacterium) a place to stay inside
us. In return, you’ll have to modify your
genome (DNA) in order to transform the
sun’s photonic energy into a chemical energy
(sugar) that we plants can live on.
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The deal worked out and the bacteria, now evolved into.
“chloroplasts,” power plant biology using the multi-step process of Chloroplast:
Primitive symbiotic
photosynthesis. Photosynthesis feeds the entire food web on a life form inside
foundational level — all powered by light, along with CO2 and water. Or plants that uses
to say it more simply, life begins as light via the photosynthetic process. chlorophyll to |
convert sunlight into
As a by-product of the collaboration, plants also released oxygen and put energy. Thought to
DHA in the seas. You see around that time, our sun reached its middle age, have evolved from
which meant increased photonic power. Stronger UV rays hitting ozone
early bacteria,
chloroplasts perform
(O;) in the upper atmosphere broke up more of that Os into breathable O, photosynthests,
(oxygen). So those two things paved the way for animal species to proli-
ferate: the increase of oxygen in the atmosphere from less than 15% to
then 21%, and the availability of DHA to convert sunlight into electricity.
Oxygen gave the animal kingdom abundant energy potential by
enabling more affluent metabolic pathways like oxidative phosphorylation Oxidative
phosphorylation —
and the TCA cycle — in contrast to pathways like glycolysis, which are
aka the electron
anemic by comparison. Plus, DHA helped multi-celled organisms harvest transport chain
photonic energy directly from the sun, so they can be in touch with (ETC): The main
process by which
sunlight and earth intermittently. In other words, they were mobile. ATP (energy) is
But before that could occur, this had to happen: made in
mitochondria.
A similar partnership was made millions of years later
The TCA cycle: A
About $0 million years after the first partnership began, single-celled organ- preparatory process
isms called archaea made a similar deal with a species of bacterium, Archaea that makes
said to these bacteria, ‘let’s team up so each of us can specialize and benefit precursors
for the
ETC, as well as
from each other’s area of expertise.’ We (archaea) will give you (bacteria) producing a small
a place to stay inside our cells and all the food you can eat. And in return, amount of ATP on
you must modify your genome (DNA) to get really good at converting its Own.

food that we can’t metabolize into an energy source that we can.

Over millions of years, those bacteria simplified their DNA to 37 genes
in order to specialize at converting fuel stores from the food chain —
namely sugar, carbs, and proteins — into energy storage molecules that
complex creatures can thrive on, which is ATP. Through this partnership,
those archaea evolved into complex, multi-celled organisms that science
now calls “eukaryotes.” And those bacteria became mitochondria. Eukaryotes:; Multi-
Having been liberated from the chore of managing thousands of genes, celled organisms, in
contrast to bacteria,
mitochondria were then free to focus on making energy for the cells of which are single-
the entire animal kingdom in the form of ATP. Meanwhile, the partner- celled.

ship liberated those descendants of archaea, now eukaryotes, from the job
of making energy so they could focus on increasing their complexity.
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They added genes to their DNA to manufacture a wider variety of

proteins. That allowed them to build more elaborate anatomy, along with
the organs and biochemicals to run it. So archaea became eukaryotic cells. °
And their DNA became the “nuclear genome.” The ultimate eukaryote
turned out to be man. The human species has more than 20,000 genes.
Equally important in the deal, the many mitochondria that take up
residence inside a eukaryotic cell can use its DNA. You see bacteria, by
their very nature, like to exchange genetic information with other cells
(called “lateral gene transfer”). And there’s tremendous genetic and
evolutionary advantage to transferring genes from many mitochondria
into one cell’s nucleus.
So that’s what they did. Mitochondria transferred all the genes they
could into the nuclei of these early archaea. That way, one set of genes in
each host eukaryotic cell can serve its hundreds, or thousands, of resident
mitochondria, instead of each mitochondrion expending its own energy
to support redundant genetic information. To say it more simply, there’s a
thousand-fold energy savings having each of your cells carry genes that
each mitochondrion can use to build its structure.
That’s how multi-celled organisms became more elaborate over time:
mitochondria specialize in making energy, while eukaryotic cells focus on
fancier things like building
¢ a brain that can figure things out;
© muscles, nerves, and a skeleton (or exoskeleton) that can move us about;
e and systems that adapt to dynamic environments.
But mitochondria did something revolutionary in this whole partnership
we shouldn’t overlook: They brought the sea into the cell. The animal
kingdom may have left the watery confines ofits ancient ancestors. But
water is still vital to life in so many ways. So to cross that chasm,
mitochondria basically do the photosynthetic process in reverse by
turning food and oxygen into CO2 and water. That way, animals don’t
have to live in the sea if they don’t want to. Instead, they can bring the
sea with them wherever they go, as water inside and around cells. Pretty
neat, huh?
Through these two revolutionary partnerships of energy and anatomy,
called “endosymbiosis,” countless species of plants and animals sprung up
anywhere and everywhere life could possibly exist on earth. The
Cambrian Explosion was born, thanks to endosymbiosis.
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The first circadian mismatch in human

history occurred when man started to
wear clothing
Conquering the cold with clothing made far
more of the earth’s surface habitable by
allowing people to live outside the warmth
of the tropics. In fact, it was such an
important development in human history
one could even argue clothing advanced
civilization faster than fire did. However,
the unintended consequence we’ve always
overlooked is clothing blocks light from
hitting our skin.
Sensed on a visceral level but never
taught to us in school, our skin is literally
a solar panel that collects light in order to
make DC electricity. It’s DC electricity
from this source, and others, that power
most cellular activities that run and repair
the human body. So covering our solar panels virtually our entire lives
cuts back on the power we’re able to harvest from the sun. Fortunately,
Nature gave us several backup methods to get energy from our
environment when we lack sun exposure. Stay tuned for more on that.
The second circadian mismatch in our
history is that we learned how to harness
fire. The “invention” of fire helped early
man cook his food and live in any climate.
Later, we used it to scare off wild animals
and make tools. But the unintended
consequence of heating with fire is that it
circumvents the need for the body to
generate its own heat from within. This
weakens mitochondna over time by
preventing them from exercising their
thermal “plasticity,” as well as shrinking
their proteins to keep them in-tune.

Then, in the late 1800s, man invented

alternating current electricity, which
led to machinery and mass production SS
From that point forward, every sort of
disconnection from Nature that industrialists could make money off of
was brought to market — from artificial light, to artificial heat, to rubber-
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soled shoes, to UV-blocking glass, glasses, and sunscreen, to fruit shipped

in from all over the world in winter.
So now, for just about every limitation or inconvenience we might
face in our lives, industry has invented a solution that makes money for
someone, or serves some hidden agenda. With fewer basic living needs
left unsolved (i.e., new things to sell), we’ve reached an inflection point
in our history. Today, wireless technology, including smart devices and
5G phones, have become High Tech’s one big meta-opportunity for
long-term growth. But while industry profits, human health is collapsing.
It’s getting harder and harder to argue with the facts: Human health is
being sacrificed for the sake of convenience, consumerism, progress, and
profits. Our technology is literally killing us. And we have unbridled
capitalism, hidden agendas, and our own frailties to blame. Indeed, our
disconnection from Nature is nearly complete. And our transition to
living in the Matrix full-time has begun in earnest.
So what will it mean for our health, and the future of mankind? Well,
we'll just have to wait and see how far these, and other commentator’s,
warnings carry in waking us up from our blue light, EMF-induced state
of dependency and zombification. We shall see.

How light creates life

We learned in biology class that
carnivores
the food chain begins with
photosynthesis in plants.
Photosynthesis takes the sun’s
photonic energy, combines it
with carbon dioxide and water,
and converts them into
chemical energy in the form of
a
sugar. These sugars feed
ct2
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organisms up and down the
2-
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food chain — from soil microbes
below the plant, to the plants
themselves, to the animals that
feed on those plants, and so on.
Most important to
appreciate, photosynthesis turns
an intangible energy — light —
into chemical energy — sugar. That’s right; photosynthesis turns light into
tangible matter — the happy by-product for animals being oxygen. And
the big “a-ha” for inquisitive minds is, when you eat food, you’re
eating condensed sunlight and you didn’t even know it!
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PLANT PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Sunlight

But the lesson public schools don’t teach us

Carbon
till later is that our mitochondria do the same dioxide

process in reverse: They take food (sugar and

fats) and oxygen, and turn them back into
COs and water. The happy by-products are
ATP and light (much in the form of infrared
heat). Also neat to know, food electrons carry
energy and information from the sun, which
are released as those electrons hop along the
electron transport chain.
So you see, Nature wastes nothing. Plants and animals form opposite
ends of an interdependent, coupled system, where one organism’s trash
(waste) is the other one’s treasure (sustenance).

The Photoelectric effect

In 1922, Albert Einstein won his only
Nobel Prize for his work in
describing the Photoelectric effect.
The Photoelectric effect explains how
light makes certain materials emit
é ; Image of Albert
electrons. By inference, this tells us Einstein by Oren
that light (photons) can only interact —_Jack Turner. Public
with one subatomic particle — iometieers
electrons — and not with protons,
neutrons, or any other particles.
It’s a foundational phenomenon of
physics that comes into play whenever
and wherever light needs to be
captured, transported, and used. And
it’s another reason electrons are so
important to health and healing: they capture and deliver light.
On a subatomic level, the Photoelectric effect tells us that when light
hits an electron, it makes it spin in certain ways, based on the frequencies
oflight absorbed (e.g., visible, IR, and UV), and their intensity. Electrons
retain that spin until mitochondria reverse the process by turning food
into ATP. Through cellular respiration, mitochondria convert those spin
states back into forms oflight that our cells can use. What’s more, those
spin states give our mitochondria information about the environment that
food was grown in, which the body uses to control metabolism and
infradian rhythms.
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Respiratory In other words, light programs the electrons in a plant’s tissue cells with
protein: spin. In living systems, mitochondria later decipher and convert those
Workstations in spin states back into a variety of frequencies of light, but mostly IR and
mitochondria that
make ATP using UV. For what purpose? The “reconstituted” light energizes respiratory
electrons and proteins. And it builds exclusion zone water — or “e-zone”’ as I call it —
protons.
which cells use to power their processes.
Exclusion zone By extension, the Photoelectric effect also explains why many plants
tater, or e-zone: struggle to live outside their native light environment, while most animals
The 4" phase of
water, between a
can live anywhere that temperature and food permit. The difference lies in
liquid and a solid. the number of electrons carried in the core of their most basic compounds.
Full explanation Chlorophyll, which fuels photosynthesis in plants, looks almost the
in chapter 8.
same as the hemoglobin that transports oxygen in animals. The biggest
12 Magnesium Mg difference is that the chlorophyll
molecule has a magnesium atom at
its core, while hemoglobin is built
around an iron atom. Magnesium,
being lighter, has 12 electrons that
can absorb light, while iron, being
heavier, has 26. (See the molecular
-
Atomic mass 24.305 structures of chlorophyll and hemo- Atomic mass;-55.845
globin on page 221.)
Electron configuration: 2, 8,2 Electron configuration: 2, 8,14,2

Fewer electrons mean the chlorophyll in plants can absorb and use a
narrower band of frequencies — mostly blue and red — to power
photosynthesis. That makes plants less tolerant, and less adaptable, to
altered light conditions than higher life forms utilizing hemoglobin.
Meaning, too much light and the plant fries; too little and it can’t make
enough food to feed itself.
In the animal kingdom, the iron in hemoglobin has more than twice as
many electrons as magnesium. That gives it the ability to absorb and use a
much broader spectrum oflight, including IR, UV, and everything in
between. Hence, animals are much more tolerant of less-than-ideal light
exposure, and still get by okay. It’s because they have more electron den-
sity in their hemoglobin to harvest a wider variety of light, and more of it.
To put it plainly, animals have bigger and better storage tanks for light.
Which is to say, the more electrons you have, the better equipped you
are to assimilate light, and the healthier you can be.

Ideal health depends on our ability to use light

Light is the alpha and the omega of terrestrial biology.
1. Light slows down and forms all matter in the universe via Einstein’s
equation E=MC’.
2. Light combines with CO? and water to lay the foundation for the
entire food chain via photosynthesis.
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But as influential as those foundational phenomena are, you can’t fully

appreciate light’s importance to multi-celled organisms until you
understand what light does after it enters your body. You see, a healthy
body is good at capturing light, storing it, transforming it, using it, and
reabsorbing it — including these processes:
© Photoreceptors in the eye, skin, gut, and lung capture light
information. These “opsins,” as the light-sensitive biochemicals are
called, are sensor/switches that activate our internal pharmacy to
make the hormones and neurotransmitters that control our
metabolism, sleep/wake cycles, and regeneration.
® Cells in our body store light energy when water in and around them
is exposed to (mostly) IR and visible light. That is, light turns regular
water into charge-separated e-zone.
¢ DHA converts light into DC electricity (and back).
¢ Respiratory proteins on the inner mitochondrial membrane take light
of one frequency and convert it into another. For instance, mitochon-
dria take light borne on electrons, and release it as infrared to heat and
shrink water around respiratory proteins, increasing their efficiency.

In contrast, bacteria (and archaea) have a completely different

relationship to light than we do
They’re not designed to harvest light like us. Having developed along a
different evolutionary tract, single-celled organisms (prokaryotes) don’t
have any DHA in their cell membranes. That means they can’t turn the
sun’s energy into DC electricity. They can’t store light as fat. And they
don’t have respiratory complexes to transform one wavelength of
photonic energy into another so it can be used for other purposes.
All of which means bacteria can’t build complexity. And they have to
stay single (mono-celled) their entire lives. In fact, bacteria and light don’t
always get along. Light in the UV range can actually kill them. To their
detriment, they release almost all the light they absorb not long after
collecting it (i.e., they can’t store it).

A leakage of light causes disease

In the animal kingdom, organs and whole organisms
become dysfunctional when they’re not good at
retaining light. This happens when they lose too
much light to their environment, when they should
be holding on to it and using it to do cellular work.
Key concept: When a cell is stressed, it emits
minute amounts of extremely low frequency UV aiid
light (ELF UV) that some people call “biophotons.” The more stress a
cell is under, the more ELF UV light it releases — whether that stress is
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from physical injury, toxin damage, nutritional deficiency, infection,

environmental extremes, emotional duress/crying, orgasm, or exertion.
However, this type of emission isn’t inherently unusual or harmful. Instead,
abnormally rapid loss, and/or slow replenishment, is what creates problems.
In other words, every life form on the planet (onions, grasses, monkeys,
bacteria — you name it) releases a certain amount of biophotons. The more
light an organism can retain and use, the more complexity it can build, and
the more vitality it has. So a hallmark of good health is the efficiency
with which your body is able to harvest light from the environment,
convert it into different frequencies of light, and store it for future use.
In simplest terms, light is the currency of life. To illustrate this in action,
when the sun makes a photon, that photon is retained for 100,000 to a
million years before it’s emitted in a ray of light. The physical forces that
contain that photon are strong electric and magnetic fields. Interestingly,
the same thing happens in us. Strong electric and magnetic fields around
our mitochondria help us retain our photons so we can put them to good
use. Conversely, illness and obesity are unhappy consequences of a loss of
light due to weak electric and magnetic fields made in mitochondria.
One way we lose light: The double helix of DNA needs to unwind to
let cellular machinery read the instructional code to make proteins. The
strength with which photons are held in place when your DNA unravels
determines how many of them escape in this process. Whatever the
reason may be for these weak electric and magnetic fields — whether
that’s worn-out mitochondria, chronic hypoxia, or lack of DHA — light
can’t be held in place. So it escapes as extremely low frequency UV, IR
(heat), and other forms of light.
The informational aspect of light also gets mismanaged when light is
squandered, which means the body isn’t able to read the information
contained in electrons about seasonality. This messes up the way the body
metabolizes food, which can make vegetables and fruits raised in strong
sunlight fattening and damaging to mitochondria when eaten under weak
sunlight. (More on food and seasonal eating in chapter 14.)
So when, where, and how will an individual be affected by a leakage of
light? It all depends on which mitochondria are weakest, as that will be
the area of the body you'll find the lowest electric and magnetic fields. For
instance, people with anorexia leak light from the brain, while obese people
lose light predominately from the body — especially the liver and pancreas.
In time, Dr. Jack Kruse believes research will prove each disease has its
own distinct “light loss signature.” But whatever science ultimately finds,
the rule is simple: The more light you release, the sicker you are; the
more light you retain, the healthier you are. That’s how loss of light
connects to disease.
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Electrons are the currentcy of life (get it?)

Redox is short_for
All things life-and health-related revolve around harvesting, utilizing, and “REDuction-
retaining electrons. Our biology runs on electrons because electrons
. ce
“turn idation.” Redox
the gears” of ATP production; they hold electrical charge that drives our reactions involve

biochemistry; and they power regeneration efforts as redox potential. We

oxidation and
reduction.
depend on electrons to live and thrive on, because electrons supply
energy, healing, and fluency of cellular communication. Redox potential:
Pools ofelectrons
On the other hand, electron deficiency produces positive charge, and their net-
which presents itself as acidity, inflammation, low voltage, dehydration, negative charge
and weak regeneration of cells and mitochondria. Of course, this (and, in some cases,
pools of positively-
accelerates aging. To say it more simply, electrons support life, while a charged protons) that
lack thereof creates weakness, disorder, aging, and premature death. the body uses to
We get electrons from four sources: (1) grounding; (2) sun exposure; move materials and
perforni chemical
(3) food; and (4) burning stored fat. Water quality/quantity, and how reactions (think
tightly your mitochondrial proteins are coupled, then increase or decrease battery power).
energy yield from those electrons.
Herein, “redox”
usually means the
Plants are like batteries that are always plugged in latter, because redox
Plants are designed to be connected to the earth 24/7 their entire lives. potential describes
That allows their roots to gather electrons from the soil, and their foliage the ability of charged
particles to
to harvest photons from the sun. Those two things — grounding and accomplish redox
sunlight — combine to make plants like batteries that are always plugged reactions,
in. That’s why plants don’t need to eat food, or store fat, in the same way
that we do. Mammalian battery:
Informal, general
Instead, they harvest whatever energy they can from the sun, soil and
term describing stores
air through the Photoelectric effect. Their chloroplasts, which are like ofelectric charge and
mitochondria for plants, then convert the light, water, and CO> they photonic energy that
cells can use to do
collect into sugar via photosynthesis. They store relatively little of that work, (1) Ezone ts
food (sugar) for leaner times because, being connected to a source of the biggest cache. (2)
sustenance full-time, they expect their next meal to be served each time A'TP holds electrical
energy in its
the sun comes up in the morning. On the other hand... chemical bonds. (3)
Cell membranes
Humans are designed to be unplugged and mobile hold electrical charge.
Our biology is designed to collect energy from more sources, to get it (4) Muscle
movement releases
sporadically, and store it for later use as fat and muscle mass.
electrons — as
1. We can harvest energy second-hand by eating plants. plezoelectricity
mostly from bones,
2. We can get it third-hand by eating the animals that ate those plants. ligaments, cartilage
3. We also convert our own stored fat back into usable energy. and tendons — into
4. We can gather electrons directly from grounding and sun exposure. the acupuncture
meridians. (5)
5. And our mammalian battery gets charged up by exposure to native DNA ts its own
light frequencies. battery, powered by
a spiraling
Point being, macronutrients such as fat, carbs and protein are basically coalescence of cosmic
energy, often called
storage containers for the sun’s energy until we eat them and our
“scalar energy.”
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mitochondria release those energy resources as electrons, protons, and

light. This is why plants need to be plugged into Nature their entire lives
to get their energy needs met (chloroplast-and chlorophyll-based
metabolism), whereas animals can charge up their batteries whenever and
wherever they can from the food they eat.
We've basically got energy storage tanks in the form of fat and muscle
mass, conversion machinery in the form of mitochondria, and processes
like ketosis (fat-burning) that let us move around and survive the feast
and famine of daily and seasonal cycles.

The more electrons you get from Nature, the less you need from food
When you get your daily dose of electrons from the environment, you
don’t need to eat as much, you don’t get hungry as much, and it’s easier
to lose weight. And the less food you eat, the lower the calorie, sugar and
insulin burden on your metabolic pathways.
So doing things to improve your use of electrons — such as hydrating
better, grounding, getting more sun, and biohacks that increase
mitochondrial efficiency (e.g., cold thermogenesis) — all of these things
reduce your need for electrons from food. And that plays a big role in
weight management, and metabolic disorders such as diabetes, because
you aren’t eating as much. We’ll talk more about losing weight without
dieting and exercise in the weight-loss section, Part 2.

Modern living steals electrons

Living in the world of today steals electrons from us, putting us in a state
of electron deficiency that decreases our health and healing capacity. Not
only are we getting fewer electrons coming in from traditional sources,
but our lifestyles and technologies use up our supply of electrons faster
than ever before.
Indeed, every facet of our lives in which we replace Nature with tech-
nology, we dig our powers of renewal a deeper hole to climb out of—
challenging our ability to recover ever more. Just as bad, most people don’t
even realize the stress that electron deprivation subjects their body to.
So while the entire wellness industry talks about diets, supplements,
and fitness regimes, the most fundamental building block of optimal health
— electrons and voltage — seldom receive any attention. Here’s a quick
overview of how electron deficiency drains the health out of you and me.
Disconnection from Nature
We’re doing pretty much everything possible to divorce ourselves from
Nature: not getting direct sun exposure, not directly touching earth, not
drinking pure water, and not eating seasonal, whole foods. These are the
traditional sources of electrons that used to fill our tanks with energy to
support cells, brain function, and resistance to disease.
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Inflammation and oxidation

Modern living is brimming with foods, toxins, and lifestyle choices that
increase inflammation and oxidative stress. At the center of it all, electron
deficiency keeps inflammation and oxidative stress going after their
usefulness has run out.
Persistent inflammation and oxidative damage consume more electrons
— electrons that, under more healthful circumstances, could be used to
keep you looking younger and feeling better. Instead, those electrons are
being used to fight imbalances and emergencies.

Technology and our environment

Just about every modern technology and societal exposure we encounter
steals electrons from you because of the way they eject electrons from
their sphere of influence, and/or reduce mitochondrial efficiency. From
artificial blue light, 4G and 5G, to Wi-Fi, fluoridated water, and
processed foods... most inventions for communication or convenience
interfere with the way our bodies collect and use electrons.
EMFs. The non-native electromagnetic radiation emitted by our
communication devices jostle electrons loose from tissues chronically.
Meaning, small amounts per device, times copious devices, equals
significant sub-ionizing electron loss. Non-native EMFs also oscillate
mitochondria at frequencies that directly impair fat-burning and ATP
production — basically wasting a portion of our electron supply that
should be going into, and out of, energy production.
Water. Fluoridated and chlorinated water is surprisingly bad for you
because it reduces water’s ability to separate its positive ‘H’s’ from its H20 often splits
negative ‘OH’ groups. Both limit the amount of light energy that water info one oxygen-
hydrogen group
can store for future use (as e-zone water). This spreads the body’s supply and one loner
of electrons thin. hydrogen atom.
Processed food. Most packaged, high-carb food becomes more acidic
in manufacturing, because electrons are lost in processing. That makes it
relatively more proton-rich, positively-charged, and acidic. ... Which is a
major reason why processed foods are less healthy for you: they have
fewer electrons. And it’s why whole foods from Nature are more
wholesome: they contain more electrons.
Moving air steals electrons from you. Ever notice how fatigued you
get after sleeping under a fan or air conditioner for many hours: or riding
long distances on a motorcycle, bicycle, or convertible with skin exposed?
One reason these activities can be so tiring when done for several hours is
that they steal electrons from you. Other factors offset this effect (like
sunlight), but fatigue of this kind is caused by more than just wind buffeting.
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To sum up the electron-deficiency dilemma, technology and modern

conveniences restrict our supply of electrons coming in, and they use up
our supply of electrons faster than in previous generations. Our health
and healing capacity declines as a result.

Darwin did not say that life evolves as a result of

random mutation and natural selection
Evolutionary biologists like to use the work of Charles Darwin (which
was not even his own) to explain how life evolves over time. They claim
his writings say a series of incremental, adaptive changes over a number of
generations add up to a gradual changing of species, which we call
evolution. They say Darwin proclaimed evolution happens as a result of
random mutation and natural selection — the best genes win, basically.
But that’s not what Darwin’s work really said — at least not in the first
six editions. Truth be told, the notion of survival of the fittest is actually a
misrepresentation of what Darwin originally wrote in The Origin of Species
when it was first published in 1859.
What he actually said (up until it was changed in about 1871) was that
conditions of existence are far more important than natural selection. In other
words, life purposely changes its genetic expression to suit the
environment it finds itself in. It does not change by random accident and
then survive to reproduce, or not.
Meaning, the ability to adapt to your surroundings is no accident. It’s
built into the biology of all species through adaptability programming
hardwired into our DNA and expressed through epigenetics. Through
epigenetics, Nature gave every species some degree of flexibility in how
its genes are expressed into physical traits and behavioral characteristics.
So Darwin, unaware of epigenetics, mitochondria, and biophysics in
his day, was actually telling us that genes or accidental DNA alterations
don’t initiate change, which the environment then judges to be successful
or unsuccessful. Instead, when your environment changes, life alters its
characteristics as much as it can based on how much adaptability it has built
into its genome — man being the most adaptable of all higher life forms.
As he suspected, and we now know, the environment is what changes
our mitochondria for better or worse — particularly temperature and
electromagnetism. And that state of our mitochondria is what produces
wellness or disease in a person through epigenetics, not your own genes.
Mom’s mitochondria then get passed on to her children in that state of
vitality or fragility.
That’s how characteristics appear to evolve in an individual, and over
generations. More than anything else, mitophysical exposures drive bio-
logical changes and adaptations, including metabolism, food compatibility,
body shape and composition, skin color, constitution, and longevity.
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In simple terms, environmental forces affecting our mitochondria and

circadian biology change our gene expression to suit the world around us.
And it’s our mitophysical environment, more than anything, that makes us
adapt, not genetic accidents that survive or fail the reproduction process.

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How come wild animals don’t get cold when it’s freezing out?
It’s not just that their fur or feathers insulate them from the cold like a
jacket. Simply retaining more heat would not be enough to keep them
warm when it gets chilly out — resting especially. The forgotten factor in
surviving winter in the wild is that animals have built in mechanisms to
generate more body heat, combined with retaining more of that heat with
fur, feathers or fat.
You see, mammals have built in seasonal programming that cranks up
heat production from their mitochondria to keep their body temperature
livable in the freezing cold. We'll call this relatively new science of
seasonal biology “infradian rhythms,” referring to longer than a 24-hour
period. The infradian system in the brain basically tells mitochondria to
Brown fat: A consume brown fat, food, and other light/energy stores, to turn more of
specialized type of their energy into heat.
fat whose dense
mitochondria Even less widely known, it’s not just cold temperature that activates
populations burn winter programming in mammals, as you’d expect. Dwindling ultraviolet
it to make heat frequencies in late fall sunlight also tell photoreceptors in the eye, skin,
when you get cold.
and gut to turn on this winter programming. These sensor/controllers
then tell the infradian system to grow a thicker coat of fur in anticipation
of cold weather, as one element of this winter programming.
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Still another force of physics that helps animals stay warm in winter is
grounding. The simple act of being in direct contact with the earth gives
animals an endless supply of electrons. And as we discuss in more detail
later, being alive (1), and well (2), and warm (3) has a lot to do with how
many electrons you have.
To illustrate, when chickens and other livestock are raised in
ungrounded pens, they’re far more sensitive to the cold than their wild
counterparts. Supplemental heat may then become necessary to keep
them from freezing to death — often with heat lamps that, not so
coincidentally, radiate IR light.
Conversely in Nature, those same animals get electrons from
constantly touching earth. More electrons means better circulation,
because grounding thins the blood by keeping cells from sticking
together. This helps animals stay warmer without the need for added
heat. More electrons also result in better light assimilation, because
electrons bear light energy for living systems.
These are some of the unrecognized reasons wild animals can tolerate
freezing temperatures that we can’t... Or can we?

Modern man has never faced a winter

To this day, we still have adaptive programming built into our biology
that helps us survive cold weather. But we as modern humans — living a
climate-controlled existence — have invented ways to avoid being cold at
all costs. We can’t stand the cold, so we live in our comfort zone
between 65° and 80°F.
But comfort and convenience comes at a price, because our
mitochondrial fortitude atrophies when we never allow our bodies to feel
real coldness. In effect, many people have lost the seasonal temperature
variability that beneficially stresses mitochondria into making heat the
way they’re supposed to. That turns our mitochondria into weaklings that
have scarcely had to lift a finger to help us survive.
To try out this thermal plasticity on myself, I went out multiple times
per day over a winter, purposely under-dressed for the high 30s to low
50s. And you know what? I was uncomfortably cold at first. It was
definitely a shock to the system to start with. But something purposeful
happens when you exercise your thermal regulatory muscles: Your
mitochondria kick in, and each time you go out in the cold, they respond
quicker and more vigorously by releasing more IR light. So you just
don’t get cold as easily.
But the real benefit beyond not feeling cold is that your mitochondria
stay younger and more fit over time because heat shrinks the water
surrounding the respiratory proteins, making them more efficient. On the
flip side, if you never use your mitochondria’s ability to make heat,
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respiratory proteins in your mitochondria get stretched out and stay

stretched out, you lose energy production efficiency, you age faster, and
disease sets in sooner.
For these reasons, athletes like Michael Phelps have learned to swim in
50°F water to strengthen the productivity of their mitochondria.
Similarly, football trainers going way back have soaked their players in ice
water to reduce inflammation after workouts. But what Phelps and the
trainers may not realize is that the cold tunes up your mitochondria.
To summarize, many adults in the modern world can’t stand the cold
because they never use their body’s built-in thermal regulatory flexibility,
whereas many children can play quite comfortably in cold weather
because they still have the natural temperature variability humans are
born with. In fact, humans can even tolerate soaking in ice water for a
Wim Hof really long time, given special training, as Wim Hof has demonstrated.
(Nicknamed “The
Iceman”):
He set a world record by staying submerged in an ice bath neck-deep for
Developer of ‘The nearly two hours.
Wim Hof Method Simply put, energy-making efficiency drops across the board
ofcontrolling the
autonomic nervous
(chronically) when mitochondria expand. So you can either use the heat
system to heal. production capability your mitochondria were born with, or you lose
mitochondrial fitness over time. That’s the unfortunate sacrifice you
make if you never leave the comfort of your climate-controlled bubble.
Think of it this way: Many of us have heard the body stops making a
hormone or biochemical when you take it as a supplement. Well, the
cold is no different. Our bodies are meant to generate heat from within.
It’s built into our biology, just like animals living in the wild. But our
mitochondria have gotten lazy in modern society, because we’re letting
clothing and technology do the work that our mitochondria used to do.

You pay a biologic toll eating foods out of season

Humans are the only organism on the planet that can radically change the
world around them to suit their every fancy. Probably the second most
important change we make today (after shelter) is with our food.
Westerners import fruits, vegetables, and high-carb foods from distant
lands so we can eat them in our fall and winter. But just because we can
eat fruits and vegetables in winter doesn’t mean we should.
Nature had a plan when it designed our metabolism around light cycles
of the seasons. In a word, it’s energy balance. When the body has too
much energy coming in or going out both create problems. So our
biological programming has elaborate mechanisms to match energy intake
with energy expenditure, as a coupled system.
In practical terms, that means you can safely eat fruits, vegetables, and
carbs in the summer when the sun emits a lot of ultraviolet. However,
when you eat those same foods in winter, they detune your mitochondria
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and promote weight gain. The difference is, when you eat sweet fruits
and starchy vegetables in the summer, the biologic consequences of eating
those carbs are offset by strong UV light that minimizes fat storage, and
charges up the water in your body.
That’s because summer programming is designed to maximize instant
energy, while minimizing fat, at a time when you're likely to be more
active and there’s more food around. On the other hand, winter
biorhythms do the opposite: They make less ATP, more heat, and more
fat when you’re designed to be in survival mode and less active. So
you're actually losing mitochondrial efficiency, and retaining more
calories, when you eat sweet and starchy foods in winter. Most of us then
erode mitochondrial function even further by chronically avoiding cold
exposure, which adds insult to injury.
To observe this mistake of modern living against the wisdom of
Nature, have you ever noticed your craving for fruit goes down when it
gets cold out (except for those sweet tooths among us), while your
craving for fatty food increases? That’s Nature’s way of telling you you’re
not supposed to be eating fruit at that time of year. The energy density of
fat is better for generating body heat and maintaining mitochondria.
On the flip side, have you ever noticed your craving for fruit increases
for no apparent reason when it gets hot out? That’s because your body
knows the photonic energy contained in fruit is now matched to your
local light environment — which means mostly the latitude you live in,
partly the altitude, as well as cloud cover and temperature. At the same
time, you’re not in the mood for fatty foods as often in summer, because
they contain more energy than you need.
The seasonal switch that’s supposed to activate winter programming in
us is lower levels of UV light hitting our eyes and skin — as it does when
daylight diminishes after summer. Weak UV makes us gain weight with
the very same programming that fattens bears and furry critters in late fall
so they can prepare for winter scarcity. Unfortunately, modern living
creates an infradian conflict when photoreceptors in the gut receive
summertime food signals from imported foods, at a time when the eyes
and skin get a low-UV winter signal from your environment.
Modern consumers assume incorrectly that because a fruit or carb is
available in the grocery store that they can eat it and its nutrients will
benefit them the same year-round. Not true. Eating a banana, pineapple
or even sweet potato in winter represents a photoelectric mismatch that
metabolizes those carbohydrates using the wrong seasonal programming.
That’s mostly what causes slower metabolism and weight gain in winter,
faster metabolism and easier weight loss in spring and summer. Quantum
biology trumps conventional nutrition belief.
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Adding fuel to that fire, processed foods made from carbs — for example,
sugar from sugar beets and wheat flour — amplify this effect, because the
whole food ingredient is refined and concentrated in manufacturing. At
the same time, complimentary elements that help you assimilate nutrients
properly are removed, such as fiber and moisture content.

The food chain is founded on photosynthesis

At its source, food seasonality is based on how a plant’s particular type of
chlorophyll captures the light spectrum of its growing environment, and
encodes that energy and information onto the electrons of the plant’s
sugars and fiber. For example, chlorophyll-A likes strong UV environments
like you would find at the equator, and doesn’t mind long hours of
exposure. Chlorophyll-A is good at harvesting intense light. So that’s
what tropical fruits are predominately made of.
On the other hand, plants grown at higher latitudes, under weaker
sunlight, need help to gather their daily dose of sun. So they have an
additional accessory pigment, called chlorophyll-B, that helps them absorb
more high-frequency blue light to make up for the weaker spectrum they
live in. In this way, different mixtures of chlorophyll change which
biological programs are turned on when food is broken down and their
electrons hit photoreceptors in the gut.
To sum up the seasonality of food, the information encoded onto a
plant’s electrons needs to match the photoelectric environment in which
that plant is eaten, or else the mismatch triggers undesirable programming
in us. It decouples sensor/controllers in the eye and skin from sensors in
the gut, causing chaos. That’s one of the main reasons so many people
today struggle with seasonal weight fluctuations (alongside other
programs and processes promoting weight gain).
As a result, it is possible to violate these rules and still lose weight in
the winter using conventions like eating less and exercising more. But
you're paddling upstream when you do that, because you're fighting
built-in ancestral programming that’s designed to do the opposite of what
you want. Look back at everything you’ve witnessed and perhaps
experienced, and you'll notice this phenomenon acting against you.
The take-home message: Carbs are not uniformly bad for all people, all
the time, as paleo, Atkins, and keto fans would have you believe. Rather,
it’s a mismatched light environment that makes them appear bad, because
infradian sensors in your eye, skin, and gut are confused about the
difference in photonic energy between your eye and your food. Your
infradian biology then mistakenly prepares you for winter by converting
more of those calories into fat, instead of ATP, as well as stretching out
your respiratory proteins (restricting ATP production from congestion in
transport chains).
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But, interestingly enough, if you were to change your light environ-

ment — for example, by going to Hawaii — in very short order, you could
eat that pineapple or papaya and it wouldn’t cause you problems, because
it is matched to the light exposure you’re getting when you eat it.
In this way, people are like plants: Wellness increases when you get your
light intake right; it suffers or fails when there’s a mismatch. Taken to the
extreme, you would never expect a coconut tree to grow in Siberia, or a
cold weather pine tree to grow in the tropics. Likewise, you're stressing
your body’s adaptive mechanisms by eating foods from a different light
environment.
These are all aspects of infradian biology that many nutrition educators
call “seasonal eating.” Fortunately for us, it all makes intuitive sense, it’s
simple to follow, and it gives you big benefits. Just learn how Nature
synchs your biology to the seasons. Do what you’d do naturally if you
were living in the wild. And you can stop fighting invisible forces that
sabotage your best efforts to lose weight.
That, right there, delivers a body-blow to the once-indisputable
paradigm of eat less and exercise more. However, there’s another layer of
metabolic programming operating underneath our seasonal biology that
we can’t do anything about. Our “haplotype” is racially-inherited
ancestral programming that influences how we metabolize our food like a
baseline, or a source code.

Ancestral groups are programmed to eat according to the light,

temperature, and altitude of their environment
People are programmed to eat according to where their ancestors came
from. Food compatibility is determined by how tightly or loosely-
coupled your mitochondria are from birth — called your “haplotype”
individually, or your “haplogroup” collectively.
Population groups that grew up near the equator are programmed
from a mitochondrial haplotype perspective to make more ATP from the
food they eat, and produce less free heat. Living under strong sunlight
(historically), they don’t need extra heat. Instead, they’re designed to
make lots of energy to run away from predators that want to eat them,
and vice-versa.
On the other hand, for Alaskan Eskimos and Scandinavians, the biggest
threat to their survival was the cold. So they have mitochondrial
programming that innately makes more heat, and less ATP, than
equatorial haplotypes. This “loose coupling” of electron transport
efficiency is the basic predisposition upon which the preceding story of
seasonal eating acts.
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As a result, people from Northern climates do not tolerate high

photonic energy foods as well as people from the tropics because
Northerner’s mitochondria are built for the high flow, higher ATP yield
of fat, more than the low flow, low ATP yield of carbs.
In other words, Northerners tend to yield less energy out of foods
grown in strong sunlight, no matter where the individual currently lives,
or their heteroplasmy rate (more about heteroplasmy in Chapter s:
Mitochondria). Thus, they can eat more and not gain as much weight,
because nutrients are extracted or made in the gut first (e.g., vitamins,
minerals, fiber, moisture, and antioxidants), before calories from food
constituents make ATP or heat at the cell/mitochondria level.
To put it plainly, Northerners have a larger percentage of their calorie
intake going into heat production, so they have a built-in advantage
when it comes to weight management. But it also means they’re more
susceptible to metabolic problems like diabetes when they eat
summertime foods... as well as more free radicals, more inflammation,
See pg. 24 and lower redox than a high fat diet. That’s because carbs are dirtier and
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less energy-dense as a fuel source, compared to fats and proteins. Which
definition of
“redox.” means Northerners overdose on carbs more easily.
At the other end of the spectrum, equatorial haplotypes don’t handle
high-fat diets as well because they can’t uncouple their mitochondria as
easily. Too much fat overloads their mitochondria’s circuitry with a
stronger electron and proton flow than their electron transport chains
were designed to handle. Energy excesses like this can flood their systems
with free radicals, which can make them sick because their mitochondria
are better equipped to handle lower octane carbs.
This also explains why elite runners from countries close to the
equator, like Kenya, arrive an extra week early to marathons held in the
cold. Their mitochondria are used to being tightly-coupled. So when
their respiratory proteins try to decouple themselves in cold weather and
lower UV light, their free radical production skyrockets, which cause
even the fittest athletes in the world to get sick for a few days, until they
acclimate to the cold. In other words, their systems take a few days to
adjust to the photoenergetic mismatch between their innate biology, and
that of their new environment.
If you missed it, this also explains why African-Americans have a
harder time maintaining a healthy weight than other races, as well as
being more susceptible to cardiovascular disease and other conditions.
¢ The standard American diet contains more fat than their haplotype is
built for.
¢ They don’t get the sun exposure they’re meant to.
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® Many under-exercise in relation to their infradian programming

(i.e., lots of daily activity), resulting in surplus energy production,
which gets stored as fat.
e And inflammation is habitually higher because their electron
transport chains spend far more time in “adaptive mode” than they
do operating at their most efficient settings.
They’re basically living a mismatched lifestyle, in mitophysical terms,
compared to their ancestral programming. This predisposes equatorial
haplotypes to easier weight gain and more chronic inflammation, given
less sunlight, less physical activity, and an altered diet. So the darker your
complexion, the more attention you need to pay to seasonal eating,
mitochondrial fitness, leptin sensitivity, and redox potential.
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The eye is much more than a camera

We all know the eye is a camera through which we see the world around
us. But it has another job that’s at least as important, if not more.
The eye’s function we were never told about is it senses which
individual frequencies of light are in the mixture of full-spectrum sunlight
we see, and it uses that information to regulate almost every biological
program and process inside us — including energy production, stress level,
sleep cycles, digestion, and repair processes.
That’s right; the eye is designed to:
1. decipher exactly how much of each wavelength of the
electromagnetic spectrum is present in sunlight — including invisible
frequencies ultraviolet and infrared;
2. tell the brain what time of day it is, based on the presence or
absence of colors in sunlight;
3. regulate daily and seasonal cycles, growth, metabolism, and
regeneration accordingly.
And, fundamentally important to mitochondriacs, the eye controls these
biological programs photo-electrically. That means photoreceptors (light-
sensitive biochemicals) in the eye collect light and turn that mixture of
Suprachiasmatic frequencies into electrical signals that the brain understands to be a certain
nucleus (SCN): time of day, at a certain time of year.
One of the brain’s
primary control For instance, one blend of light frequencies, after it’s deciphered, tells
centers that run the “suprachiasmatic nucleus” (SCN) in the brain it’s high noon in the
daily and seasonal middle of summer. Biological programming built into the brain then
cycles (circadian
and infradian, makes the necessary adjustments to sleep/wake cycles, weight loss/weight
respectively), based gain, detoxification, and more. So, peculiar as it may seem, the
on the information
it receives about
programming that runs daily and seasonal cycles all starts in the eye and
your environment, gets converted into electrical impulses that run the body.
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In fact, if you think about it, the process of converting light into an
electrical impulse is similar to the way a condenser microphone converts
sound waves from a singer’s voice into an electrical signal using a
diaphragm. Loudspeakers then reverse the process. They convert
electrical impulses back into sound.

How the brain loses control of organs and systems (often

misdiagnosed as hormone imbalances)
Circadian and infradian rhythms (daily and seasonal cycles, respectively)
in the body are controlled by a tiny region of the brain where the optic
nerves cross and lead into the brain. About the size of a pea, this
suprachiasmatic nucleus (pictured on pg. 179), as it’s called, is one of the
brain’s primary control centers of daily and seasonal cycles.
Most impressive of its duties, the SCN helps control every metabolic
and growth program in the body — including (1) the speed of your
metabolism via the leptin receptor (Chapter 5: Leptin); (2) sleep and
recycling of mitochondria through melatonin; and (3) fertility through
testosterone and estrogen. Unfortunately, the SCN is not working so well
in people today, and all sorts of unexplained disorders show up as a result.
What makes the SCN malfunction? There’s a time-keeping
mechanism in the SCN that coordinates signaling throughout the body —
quantum signaling. You can think of it as a master clock in your brain for
your biorhythms, or a timer/regulator for tissue-to-tissue
communications. Below that — in location and pecking order — every gene
in every mammal has a circadian clock gene in front of it through which
the SCN controls gene expression and biologic activity of cells and organs.
Most important for circadian signaling, the master clock above in the
SCN has to run several milliseconds ahead of the clocks that run the
genes down below, or else the message to increase or decrease activity of
peripheral organs and tissues arrives late. This imperfect timing confuses
organs and tissues, and makes them operate at reduced functionality at
best, or perhaps not at all (think “safe mode” in computers). |
Dr. jack draws this analogy to help mitochondriacs grasp the concept |
GPS satellites 22,000 miles above the earth need their atomic clocks to
run 38 milliseconds faster than geo-location devices at ground level, or
else the GPS app in your smartphone will be off by ro-100 kilometers by
the time the signal reaches you.
That’s because gravity bends light through a principle in physics called
“gravitational lensing” — satellite signals included. In other words, gravity
creates an extra 38 milliseconds of lag, so engineers advance the broadcast
signal’s timing to stay perfectly synchronized, not its trajectory (as you
would try to hit a moving target with an arrow)
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If you didn’t advance the timing of the master clock above, devices on
the ground would get confused by the lag time — much like a concert
musician would in receiving directions from their conductor after a delay.
Therefore, your master clock has to operate with a little lead time in
order for the signal to arrive in time to be executed on schedule.
That’s important to the physics of life because cells and mitochondria
are releasing light all the time, converting it, recapturing it, and storing it.
Any asynchronous delivery in that process — any leakage of light — is
energy wasted and communications lost. Point being, biophysical
communications in the body happen at the speed of light (new
paradigm), not chemicals (old paradigm). And electricity is no exception.
Electricity is simply light oscillating at a slower frequency, but still
travelling near the speed of light.
In summary, when the clock genes in your peripheral organs fall behind
the master clock in your SCN, the communication and operation of cells
in your liver, pancreas, gut, and feet, etc. become uncoupled from each
other and lose their coherence. When they fall out of synch, regulatory
glands then can’t talk to cells underneath like they need to, and tissues
misbehave. Organs disobey important instructions, creating inflammation,
which turns into dysfunction and then disease.

How is this disconnection happening?

The #I reason timing errors happen is because of a weaker
electric and magnetic field in your brain’s SCN than in your body.
Lower electrical charge in the SCN slows down your brain’s master clock
so it falls behind that of distal organs. It’s that simple.
Nature’s solution is DHA. As we'll talk about later, DHA is a very
special fat that converts sunlight into DC electricity (and back). More
electricity makes your SCN run faster than peripheral cell clocks down
below. And as long as the suprachiasmatic nucleus has enough DHA and
“juice” to run ahead of peripheral clock genes, orders get received on
time and obeyed.
Unfortunately, blue light destroys DHA in the eye. That muddies the
connection between the SCN and peripheral clocks that rely on the SCN
for instructions. The liver then has trouble controlling blood-sugar levels,
as one example, which makes the individual susceptible to diabetes and
metabolic dysfunction.
A second type of timing error is caused by exposing your internal
organs to nnEMBs. For instance, using a tablet computer on your lap
vibrates cells in your lower abdomen at billions of oscillations per second.
That speeds up clock genes in your reproductive organs faster than your
SCN, which make it appear as if you’ve got hormone imbalances, when
the real problem is signaling errors that make organs malfunction.
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This is one of the leading causes of infertility and sexual dysfunction in

women and men today. To get your organs back in synch, try this
mitohack: Soak your bottom half in cold water, and let the sun shine on
your top half. This slows the clock genes in your reproductive organs,
while speeding up your SCN, leptin system, and pituitary.
A third timing error happens due to elevation. Every foot you
ascend above ground level slows your SCN a little bit. The smallest effect
would be on a mountain top, because you still have positive influences
like grounding and the Schumann resonance to offset the slow-down. Schumann
Resonance: Earth’s
However, those who live in tall buildings are indeed mildly affected. natural resonant
Air travel is even worse. It’s more disturbing to our brain clock than frequency, which is
being in a skyscraper. Fortunately, exposure time for passengers is usually slow and gentle at
7.83 cycles per sec.
limited to just a few hours, whereas pilots and flight attendants aren’t so
lucky. They’re exposed to timing errors both acutely and chronically.
And, let’s not forget, being irradiated by microwaves in a giant metal
tube for hours on-end can really hit those with heightened sensitivity
hard. After being exposed to these influences in-flight, the majority of
people feel a little fatigued, but they get over it quickly. Others get wiped
out, even within the same time zone. While an unfortunate few possessing
a low biophysical safety margin can suffer pulmonary embolisms, strokes,
or heart attacks from the dreadful electromagnetics aboard.
Finally, the most disruptive timing hazard of them all is space
flight. (Whew, most of us don’t have to worry about this one.) Long
stays in high earth orbit decimate circadian timing because, up there,
you're disconnected from pretty much every mechanism that keeps your
biology tightly-regulated — including light cycles, magnetism, grounding,
gravity, good water, and the Schumann resonance.

How tissues and organs talk to each other

In their world, biochemists would say regulatory glands in the brain
control organs primarily through biochemicals such as hormones and
neurotransmitters. For example, they say: (1) the adrenals control your
stress level through cortisol and adrenaline; (2) the pituitary controls cell
growth with human growth hormone; and (3) the thyroid controls
metabolism through thyroid hormones T3 and Ty. All true. But the link
between endocrine glands in the head and organs throughout the body
doesn’t start there. Nor is it the main way they stay connected.
Hormones are merely the chemical messengers we observe between
glands and organs. They’re biochemicals released into the blood as a
result of coherent communications around the body. Most important,
hormones are simple one-way activators, not two-way connections
offering fast and accurate feedback. That job goes to “entangled particles”
—a well-established physics phenomenon going way back.
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Regulator glands talk to organs around the body through free radicals
and their once-connected electrons. Together, science calls them
entangled particles. After an electron is removed from an O» molecule to
form a free radical, the electron and resulting free radical maintain a bond
between them through a phenomenon in physics that Einstein and others
called “spooky action at a distance.”
Like twins that can each sense what’s happening to the other, spooky
action at a distance says a particle (in this case an electron) that was once
part of a whole atom or molecule will continue to react as if they’re still
connected, So when you stimulate one of them, the other will react as if
it experienced that stimulation itself, no matter how far apart they are in
space and time. They’re forever yoked on a quantum level.
A superoxide free radical may go to the liver, for example, while its
now-liberated electron may travel to the brain. All the while, they know
what their former particle-mate is experiencing through quantum
entanglement of particles.
This is how regulatory glands in the brain collect information about
the state of organs throughout the body. It’s an important way Nature
keeps bodily systems on the same page, singing the same tune. Therefore,
the more entangled particles you have in your body, the better that organ
systems communicate, and the more coherently they operate.
On the other hand, when the body can’t make free radicals due to
weak electric and magnetic fields, a lack of electron flow, or a shortage of
transition metals such as iron, copper, and manganese, then spooky action
at a distance also breaks down. That breaks the bond between endocrine
glands and the organs they’re supposed to regulate. We call that chaos,
which presents as inflammation, hormone imbalances, malfunctions of
unknown origin, and disease.
1. Take obesity, for example: Obese individuals have lost coherence in
their body, but their brain still works fine. Meaning, the circadian
clock in their suprachiasmatic nucleus is decoupled from the clock
in their liver and pancreas. That impairs metabolism and a whole lot
more, putting you at-risk for obesity and diabetes.
2. The opposite is true in the case of Alzheimer’s. The dysfunction is
happening from the neck up. The SCN gets disconnected from the
rest of the brain, but their body organs remain well-connected. So
brain function deteriorates, while weight remains stable.
3. Fertility. When clocks in the leptin receptor and pituitary system
get unyoked from the ovaries or testes, you can become infertile,
lose libido, or become impotent. In case you hadn’t noticed,
disconnection problems like this are sweeping the population like a
plague to end all man, with nothing but silence coming from the
Establishment to explain why it’s happening.
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In basic terms, when your biology is uncoupled due to a lack offree

radicals in the body, organ systems can’t talk to each other. That’s what
quantum entanglement does for you in biologic systems. It’s the secret
signaling mechanism that keeps organ systems perfectly synchronized
which, unfortunately, is failing or broken in most people today. And that
contributes mightily to diseases of modern civilization for which modern
medicine has more questions than answers.

How brain cells wake you up, and put you to sleep
; At 4am (or a couple of hours before
Cortisol waking), your circadian system starts
3005 releasing cortisol in the brain and body.
Cortisol unwinds the triple helix of collagen,
which releases water. This water expands the
brain’s neurons, glial cells, and intracellular
space (in the cell). This wakes you up.
To reverse the process, photons in morning sunlight start re-zipping
collagen, which recaptures the water and re-condenses brain cells. This
contraction process continues throughout the day until the sun goes down.
When the sun goes down (less blue light, more red light), melatonin
starts to be released. Melatonin acts as a major magnetic force in your
mitochondria to re-condense brain cells and transport biochemicals to
replenish stores that were used up during the day.
Melatonin level continues to rise into the evening, and exerts its
calming influence to counteract cortisol’s stimulating effect. This makes
you fall asleep at night. The body then uses the condensed state of brain
cells, along with the regenerative effects of melatonin, to recover and
regenerate while you sleep. Then next morning, light activates the switch
that turns off melatonin production so the whole sleep/wake process can
start Over again.
This is the rhythmic, pulsating nature of what circadian biology is all
about: It’s unfolding by day, and contraction at night. Uptime followed
by downtime. It’s but one aspect of the circadian breath of life.

Mitochondria and cell membranes are environmental sensors

that fine-tune energy production and consumption,
daily/season cycles, and cell function
Mitochondria pay close attention to pretty much every biophysical force
around you in order to regulate your energy level, cell function, and
seasonal changes that run your circadian rhythms. Based on energy and
information exposures, mitochondria regulate the production of chemical
energy (as ATP), free radicals (for restoration), body heat (as infrared),
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metabolic water (to store energy), magnetism (to move materials), and
redox potential (for healing).
Crucial to every last thing the body does, mitochondria oversee the
collection of energy, storage of energy, when and how energy stores are
spent, and the efficiency of energy production (conversion, really).
Mitochondria are in the middle of all things energy in the body. As we'll
discuss in more detail in the next chapter, the electron transport chain is
Grand Central Station for unpacking and analyzing all the energy and
information they get from electrons and your environment.

Mitochondria are responsive to many stimuli in energy production

¢ Electron density. Fats produce a stronger electron flow than
proteins and carbs do. Whole foods tend to have more electrons
than protons; they’re more alkaline, while processed foods have
fewer electrons and are more acidic. Mitochondria adjust efficiency
of their electron transport chains accordingly.
¢ Oxygen level. Mitochondria are acutely aware of oxygen levels —
whether at rest, while exercising, from poor circulation, or at altitude.
¢ Water quality. Deuterium gums up the ATPase. Conversely, low
deuterium water helps you store more energy.
e Temperature. Cold temperature turns your furnace on by burning
brown fat and releasing IR light.
© Red light. Infrared light absorbed through the skin, and that released
from mitochondria, makes the ATPase spin faster.
* Magnetic flux. Magnetism increases energy production from
mitochondria.
The main way that mitochondria measure their efficiency of energy
production is by examining free radical emissions from their electron
transport chains (ETC). It’s this free radical signal that tells mitochondria
how efficiently they’re burning (oxidizing) input materials to make ATP.
The main mechanisms by which mitochondria then optimize ATP
production is by adjusting the input rates of materials such as oxygen, in
addition to respiratory protein “stretch” (casually referred to as heteroplasmy
Cytochromes: The rate), so input materials, reactants, and oxygen combine to burn best.
electron transport
chain (that makes Prompted by the free radical signal, our epigenetic software then
ATP) ts comprised dynamically alters the gene expression hardware (mitochondrial DNA and
of 5 cytochrome
complexes, aka
nuclear DNA) in order to regulate heteroplasmy rate of cytochrome
respiratory proteins. In other words, heteroplasmy rate and energy efficiency change
proteins, or just in real time by free radicals turning genes up or down.
‘cytochromes’ for
short. Diagram on
Unfortunately, exposure to blue light and nnEMFs scramble the free
pg. 36. radical signal beyond normal operating limits. Hence, mis-tuned
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mitochondrial engines suffer decreased energy production and increased

free radical formation — both of which lead to cell and mitochondrial
damage, which develop into dysfunction and disease.

Mitochondria help harvest the sun’s energy from excited electrons

In plant photosynthesis, photons from the sun hit electrons in chlorophyll.
If the photon has enough energy — meaning a certain frequency of light —
the electron will absorb that photon and jump to a higher energy level
around the nucleus, called an “orbital.” The pathway of orbitals, and Orbital: Path in
which an electron
their energy level, are incremental (stepped), with nothing in-between. might be found
The photon then becomes pure energy in the form of the electron’s orbiting around its
higher orbital energy state, corresponding to the frequency of light rucleus — not
necessarily a linear
absorbed. The more energy a light photon has, the higher and more path, but a path of
powerful the resulting electron orbital. However, if the photon has too probability.
much energy, the electron overshoots the atom’s highest orbital,
escaping its orbit (and atom) entirely. Science calls the escape of electrons
from an atom “ionization” (radioactivity is the most potent ionizer).
On the other hand, if the photon does not have enough energy for
the electron to reach a higher orbital — meaning the wrong light spectra
— nothing changes. The electron ignores the photon and stays in its
present orbital. These phenomena explain the absorption spectrum of
elements, as well as their emission spectrum.
Plant electrons maintain this excited state until an ETC (in any Watch YouTube
consumer) recaptures the light in increments. Picture this: As an electron videos entitled
“Physical Science
jumps from spot to spot along the respiratory chain, the energy 7.3h - Atoms
previously captured in photosynthesis is released. Respiratory complexes Absorb and Emit
collect this light energy on light-sensitive proteins, called chromophores Light” and
“Electron
or porphyrins, and use it for whatever the body needs at the time. excitation, emission
This is how mitochondria harvest photonic energy from food. And and absorption
spectra” to see how
this is the code that tells mitochondria the conditions in which that plant
mutochondria
was grown. They then use this information to tell your infradian system harvest light.
which seasonal programming to run. In this way, food is a ferry for light.
Food electrons haul light energy around in their orbital state, until
mitochondria transform it back into light proper. At that point,
respiratory complexes will often transform higher frequencies, like UV,
into a type of light that mitochondria need at that moment, such as IR.
Add it all up and we can see why biology’s special skill in the universe
is that it’s learned how to take excited electrons and capture the sun’s
photonic energy as the electron falls back to its ground state (lower
energy orbital). Fundamental to our connection with light, this is how
biology harvests both energy and information from food electrons.
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Membranes are electromagnetic antenna

Cells and mitochondria also collect data about your environment from
the way vibrational frequencies around you make their surfaces oscillate.
Specifically, proteins in cell membranes oscillate when they’re exposed to
electric and magnetic fields, light, food constituents, water, supplements/
drugs, and even person-to-person “vibes” (via biophotons). In other
words, cell membranes are electromagnetic antennae that continuously
sample the vibrational frequencies of everything around you.
For example:
Voltage-gated * Voltage-gated calcium channels. Voltage-gated calcium channels
calcium channels:
(VGCCs) on the cell membrane detect the tiniest electrical currents.
Extremely sensitive,
electrically-powered Cells then pass information like this back-and-forth to mitochondria
valves that let inside them, so together they can make the necessary adjustments to
calcium into the cell.
metabolism, seasonal cycles, and cell operations.
* Oscillation of inner mitochondrial membrane. Respiratory
complexes normally oscillate at 100 Hz. Many countries have
electric power grids that operate at 50 Hz, which is the second
harmonic of 100 Hz. That’s a problem for fat and protein burning.
Our tech devices then complicate mitochondria and cell function
further with their alien frequencies.
A good way to describe this partnership is that membranes are frontline
sensors for your internal biology-management computer. Cell nuclei,
mitochondria, and the brain then respond according to intrinsic
programming developed over eons. The take-home message for
mitochondriacs: Membrane oscillations, plus the orbital state of electrons
and protons, are the code that biology uses to decipher what’s going on
in your environment, so it can take the appropriate steps to run your
Chronobtology: circadian systems. That’s chronobiology for you.
Time-based Unfortunately for modern humans, when the daily and seasonal
biological cycles
(e.g., circadian,
programming with which we came into the world is not well-suited to
infradian, and our current biophysical exposures (meaning, our built-in programming
ultradian rhythms),
conflicts with our present-day situation) — that spells trouble for our
physiology on every level — big trouble, from metabolism and hormones
to stress, sleep, cognition and restoration. Basically, when our world
changes, but our programming stays the same, it’s a disaster for our
biology on all of those levels and many more.
In summary, mitochondria and cells receive inputs and information
about your environment in the form of frequencies, food, toxins, and
even the emotional state of those around you. The worst forces we have
to contend with on a daily basis are blue light, microwave EMFs, foods
eaten out-of-season, high-deuterium food and water, and stress.
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To the best of their ability, mitochondria and cells respond to those

stimuli by increasing or decreasing ETC efficiency, among countless
other adjustments. But, most important, when your respiratory proteins
get stretched out, and stay stretched out, past your fitness level and age,
that’s how/when you lose energy, vitality, and lifespan.
And that’s what the next chapter lays out for the biology geeks among
us. It’s a mini-masterclass on how mitochondria make energy for the
body, what causes them to break down, and what happens when they’re
unable to meet all of the body’s energy needs. Prepare to get down into
the weeds of the what and the why, because this is the very inception
point of health or sickness. Pick up as much as you can from your present
level of knowledge, and don’t worry about leaving some understandings
still on the page and not in your brain.

ON ee
 MITOCHONDRIA: WHERE HEALTH OR SICKNESS
BEGINS

Chicxulub Crater

Excess mitochondrial capacity

enabled two types of creature
to survive The Great Extinction
Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid
over six miles wide hit shallow water
off the coast of present-day Mexico’s
Yucatan Peninsula. According to
geologists, the Chicxulub asteroid, as
it’s called today, threw so much debris
into the atmosphere that it blotted out
the sun and depressed photosynthesis
in plants for 10 to 100 years.
The tsunami and superheated
Public domain ejector cloud were so cataclysmic to the earth’s ecosystems that they’re
work. Author: thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. Bad for the dinosaurs, but good
NASA/JPL- o : J 4 ; :
Caltech, modified for us, it was the extinction-level event that’s believed to have launched
by David Fuchs. the age of mammals, So what made it through that seminal event?
Two classes of creature had something special that allowed them to
make it through The Great Extinction: Flying dinosaurs and mammals that
hibernate both had excess mitochondrial capacity that helped them get by
with less. They basically had bigger mitochondrial “gas tanks” designed
for flight and hibernation. So they could “fill up” less often and scrape by
while they adapted to the new conditions. It’s thought the flying dinosaurs
evolved into birds, while ancient mammals evolved into early man.
Whether that story is true or not, the biology of modern man still has
links to distant ancestors in the form of reflexive survival behaviors —
switches encoded deep within our reptilian nervous systems that activate
survival programming. One such behavior is called the “mammalian dive
reflex,” in which babies born from a placenta hold their breath and swim
to the surface after. being born into water.
Another trait we have in common with our ancient ancestors is that
we've taken hibernation programming used by some bear species and have
essentially shrunk months into hours when we sleep. In sleep, we're
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supposed to go through cycles of ketosis and renewal. But when we don’t

sleep well our bodies can’t get into a parasympathetic resting state deeply
enough to recover from the day’s exertion. That shorts us on cell repair, Image used under
Creative
rebalancing of biochemicals such as dopamine and serotonin, Commons 4.0
detoxification and, important for this discussion, restoration of license. Author:
mitochondria to keep them fresh. OpenStax.

Intermembrane space

Inner membrane

Outer membrane

What are mitochondria?

Mitochondria are double-membraned organelles (a cell’s organs), often
described as being the power plants of the cell. Mitochondria are essential
to the life of every multi-celled animal because they make a biochemical
the body uses to meet its energy demands: ATP. Through ATP
production, mitochondria also produce signaling molecules that allow Deuterium: A
cells, mitochondria, and the immune system to talk to each other. We hydrogen atom
with an extra
call these signaling molecules free radicals, reactive oxygen species (ROS),
neutron. Nature
oxygen radicals, or redox molecules... all the same thing. In addition, uses deuterium’s
mitochondria make deuterium depleted “metabolic” water. different shape to
control biological
About 200 to 5,000 of these mitochondria live inside each of our cells programs such as
— most cell types anyway — equaling 30% of a person’s dry weight. They energy production,
take care of the cell in so many ways (or not). However, they are their food seasonality,
and aging.
own life form (organelles, actually) and possess their own DNA. So they
ride along inside each cell. Yet they live, reproduce, and die separately Reactive oxygen
from their host’s cells. Well, what a peculiar pairing of independent species (ROS, aka
free radicals,
entities. Why, do you suppose, did they end up joining forces? oxygen radicals or
Of epoch consequence, mitochondria and multi-celled organisms made redox molecules)
a deal to work together millions of years ago in what would become the metabolism makes
dozens of different
most successful partnership in the history of life on earth. Mitochondria ROS tolecules
agreed to take up residence inside the cells of eukaryotes and get fed on a characterized by
regular basis by the organism. In exchange, they make ATP to power oxygen atoms with
orle or more
many of our cells’ activities (1), They also make the best kindof water for unpaired electrons,
 MITOCHONDRIA: WHERE HEALTH OR SICKNESS BEGINS | 49

our biology, which is deuterium-depleted water (2). They generate

magnetism (3). They produce redox potential (4). And they’re
environmental sensors, as explained in the previous chapter (5). These
are mitochondria’s 5 most important functions.
Basically, the more mitochondria you have, and the healthier they are,
the more energy you can produce, and the better your cells operate in
many ways. Conversely, depressed mitochondria equate to chronic low
energy, poor cell-cell communication, reduced cell repair, and accelerated
aging. Unfortunately, mitochondria populations weaken (1) as you age;
(2) when toxins and disease mutate their DNA; (3) when you lack sleep
and exercise; (4) when their communication network breaks down; and
(s) when the both of you are malnourished, among other reasons.

But ATP isn’t what we think it is

Mainstream biologists say mitochon-
dria make the only form of energy
our cells can actually use — a storage
molecule for electro-chemical
energy called adenosine triphosphate,
or ATP. But, as it turns out, that is
only partly true. ATP is indeed
essential to the operation and
CighgOp3P 5 maintenance of the human body, just
not for the reasons we think.
Conventional wisdom says ATP is used to activate ion channels like
VGCCs, drive chemical reactions, help transmit nerve signals, control
DNA synthesis, and even organize the expiration of cells. All true.
However, the best minds now know ATP’s primary role in biology is it
unfolds proteins to expose their binding sites to water. Proteins then
function correctly when they’re properly shaped, which is hydrated. At
the same time, water in a special form provides power to the cell with net
negative electrical charge. The more water that surrounds proteins in
cells, the bigger the battery that cells have to power their processes.
That battery is a particular form of water — now called an “exclusion
zone,” or what I call “e-zone” when referring to the substance, or
“e-zone layer” when describing its formation. E-zone is basically water
that’s chemically restructured into a honeycomb shape so some of its
positively-charged hydrogens are separated from its negatively-charged
oxygens (e-zone explained in Chapter 8: Water). This charge-differential
is what gives cells the DC electricity they need to run their operations,
As part of this process, ATP helps e-zone form around proteins by
relinquishing one ofits phosphate groups (left arm of the ATP molecule
above) to release electron energy contained in its bonds. The adenosine
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triphosphate molecule (charged-up) becomes adenosine diphosphate

(discharged). And those electrons supplied to their respective process are
voltage that make enzymes and proteins change their structural posture,
thereby enabling the protein to do the things it’s designed to do.
Now you know why mitochondriacs think of ATP, collectively, as
one of the body’s main mammalian batteries: ATP is portable electricity
that switches proteins into a different ““conformational” Conformational: An
object’s shape or
configuration. This shape shift is the mechanical action by which Structure.
many proteins accomplish their work — pumping, for example.
In the use case described above, ATP helps proteins harvest and store
energy from the environment by opening their structure to charge-
separated water. Therefore, ATP is important, but for more reasons, and
different reasons, than the prevailing orthodoxy. This is a hard concept to
swallow for almost every researcher and educator alive today who learned
in school that ATP is a fuel — no more and no less.
But how can we be so sure, despite 50+ years of believing that ATP is
the biofuel of the body? For starters, in 1950 Dr. Gilbert Ling showed
that, if ATP really powered all 100,000 biological operations that take
place in a cell, it would break the second law of thermodynamics s0-fold.
His study was repeated in 2007 by other researchers who concluded that
number is closer to 3,000-fold.
In other words, there’s no way on earth that mitochondria can make Dr. Peter Mitchell:
enough ATP to accomplish all the things that popular science thinks it Scientist famous for
discovering how
does. As a result, some of Dr. Peter Mitchell’s conclusions about ATP mitochondria make
have to be wrong — brilliant as they were and still are — despite the fact energy (ATP):
electrons jump along |
that he won a Nobel Prize in 1978 for his work in describing this the ETC, pumping
“chemiosmosis” process (aka oxidative phosphorylation) that makes ATP. protons as they go,
The numbers just don’t add up. Problem is, no one was listening to Ling, finally thefifth
cytochrome adds a
and the misconception about ATP persists to this day. phosphate group to
So is there any validity to the idea that ATP powers almost the entire adenosine
body? Could so many scientists and researchers have been so off-base for diphosphate (ADP)
to form adenosine
so long about such a core principle of biology? Well, it’s debatable. I triphosphate (ATP). |
believe time will show ATP to be an essential enabler in the processes by
which proteins operate. To see how
mitochondria make
Researchers observed ATP performing mechanical and chemical ATP through their
operations around the body and could not see that which they were not ETCs, watch the
looking for: ATP’s electrical energy making proteins bend in such ways YouTube video
entitled “Electron
that they function correctly. This is arguably ATP’s most important Transport Chain
function — not simply releasing electrical energy when its chemical bond (Oxidative
is broken. Honest mistake, because ATP does carry electrical energy. But Phosphorylation)”:
https://youtu.be/Ls |
important distinctions to make, nonetheless. RQs_EmxJA.
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A 155-pound person needs to make 170 pounds of ATP per day

That’s at rest. When you exercise, you need to make closer to 185
pounds of ATP per day. Think about that for a moment. You actually
need to make more ATP each day than you weigh! But here’s the crazy
part: Food is only supposed to provide % of the electrons to make that
ATP, while % of those electrons are meant to come from sunlight,
e-zone, and grounding.
Unfortunately, most of us don’t get anywhere near that volume of elec-
trons from traditional sources living the way we do. And that, believe it or
not, is a primary cause of energy shortages that turn into modern diseases
— mostly due to lack of sun, pure water, and direct earth contact.

Carbon
Dioxide

Glycolysts ts Overview of cellular energy production

diagramined on pg.
Cellular respiration. The body employs three major, multi-step
54.
processes to make energy, in addition to several intermediate sideline
The Krebs cycle processes. The whole process of energy production, called cellular
them
respiration, takes chemical fuels such as glucose and fat, combines
(aka citric acid cycle,
TCA cycle) is
them to make ATP, metaboli c water, and carbon
covered on pg. 55. with oxygen, and burns
dioxide. Meshing like the gears of a watch, the major metabolic pathways
the
involved in making energy include glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and
The pyruvate
pathway is
explained on pg. electron transport chain. The pyruvate pathway is one of the main gears
Lee in the middle that connects glycolysis to the Krebs cycle (aka TCA cycle,
52. | THE MITOCHONDRIAC MANIFESTO

citric acid cycle). And beta-oxidation (aka fatty acid oxidation) is one of Beta-oxidation
the sideline processes that breaks carbon groups off of long chain fats to Beh pee te
make acetyl-CoA to feed the Krebs cycle. fats are broken
Warning: This section is advanced. It’s intended to help health down to move
professionals and biologists understand how energy is made in the body, pet speci.
and where breakdowns occur. Health consumers reading for their own
education can safely skip the next five pages and not miss anything
you need to know. Indeed, cellular respiration is so ridiculously
complex, yet powerful and highly efficient, you’d think Germans had
(over)engineered the entire process like a fancy luxury car.

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make pyruvate to feed the Krebs cycle, and a small amount of ATP.
RegisFrey
Glucose goes into the cycle. ATP are invested as fuel to power the first
three stages of glycolysis. And, through some seven-odd stages, sugar-
based biomolecules are converted from one into another, to arrive at
pyruvate, which is a precursor for the Krebs cycle. And the investment of
two units of ATP through this glycolytic process yields four units of ATP
at the end, for a net gain of two. In short, glycolysis is a weak way to
make energy. But the process almost never malfunctions.
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Pyruvate pathway. Pyruvate’s most important function is that it gets

converted into acetyl-CoA — the chief reactant that drives the ensuing
TCA cycle. That is, acetyl-CoA is the chemical compound that, like
pedaling a bicycle, propels the 8-plus enzymatic steps of the Krebs cycle
forward... over and over again. The interesting thing about this step is
that lactic acid, which is part of the pyruvate pathway, gets made as a by-
product of ATP production in conditions of over-exertion, hypoxia/
ischemia (lack of blood flow), infection, and heart failure. In relatable
terms, that means lactic acid is the chemical that makes muscles sore
when you exercise too hard.

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organism from the animal kingdom. Mitochondria have two cell numerals I-V, which
membranes to contain a pool of protons between them (called the denote the respiratory
protein complexes, or
intermembrane space). The electron transport chain (ETC) is a set of
“cytochromes.”
protein structures that sit on the inner membrane.
The ETC uses a flow of electrons from food and other sources (via
chemical storage molecules NADH and FADH») to pump hydrogen
protons from the interior of the mitochondrial “matrix” into the
intermembrane space (between the mitochondria’s inner and outer walls,
aka its “phospholipid bilayer”). The high concentration of protons in the
intermembrane space (relative to the matrix) offers an electrical
“oradient,” or voltage differential, that drives the rotating head of the
ATP synthase, like water turning a hydroelectric turbine. ATP synthase (aka
ATPase); The fifth
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cytochrome
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doesn’t transport electrons. But it’s often included in the ETC for the electron transport
sake of simplicity. chain.
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Here are a few noteworth details about the ETC, included for their
special significance in energy efficiency and mitophysics in general.
e Electrons from carbs tend to make the molecule NADH. NADH
deposits its electrons into Complex I. While fat electrons tend to
make FADHb, which deposit its electrons into Complex II. For
those interested in seasonal eating, this means if you eat carbs when
your respiratory complexes are uncoupled (e.g., when you generate
heat in the winter), then more free radicals will pour out of
Complex I and damage the mitochondrion’s DNA, which is nearby.
Conversely, eating carbs in summer, when your respiratory proteins
are more condensed, makes just the nght amount of free radicals to
induce mitophagy (mitochondria recycling) in a controlled manner.
¢ Once inside, electrons navigate the respiratory complexes through a
series of stations, called “redox centers.” As electrons jump from one
redox center to the next, they release photons of different color
frequencies. These photons represent both energy and information,
which was encoded into them by sunlight in photosynthesis,
resulting in a certain orbital state of electrons. Respiratory complexes
then capture this photonic energy and information as an electron
falls from an excited spin state (higher orbital) to its ground state
(lower orbital). Complexes I, II, and IV use electrons’ electrical
energy to pump protons. And they collect the photonic information
about the plant’s growing environment to control your seasonal
biorhythms — most important of which is how many UV photons
the ETC harvests from food electrons.
¢ When Complexes I and II are done extracting energy and
information from electrons, the molecule CoQto loads them up and
transports them to Complex III. CoQ1o effectively does double duty
moving electrons, which is why taking a CoQ1o supplement is
known to enhance energy production (particularly in the heart), and
why it’s a good antioxidant (i.e., electron donor).
e Electrons from Complex III are transported to Complex IV via
cytochrome C.
¢ Complex IV makes water. This is where most metabolic water
comes from. It’s the best kind of water to build e-zone, and harvest
light energy, because it’s naturally low in deuterium.
¢ Oxygen molecules receive almost all the electrons coming out of the
ETC, which ends at Complex IV. Without oxygen to carry
electrons away from the ETC, the ETC gets backed up, ATP
production drops, and free radicals have a feeding frenzy on your
mitochondria’s DNA.
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¢ Lastly, Complex V, the ATP synthase (aka ATPase), uses the mass of
protons between the two membranes to spin its rotating head. Its
machinery adds a phosphate group to adenosine diphosphate (ADP)
to become adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. The electro-chemical
energy in this third bond is one of the body’s main power
sources to move materials and drive chemical reactions. So
ADP, collectively, is like a discharged battery, while ATP is a
battery that’s fully charged, though not confined to one area.
Let’s recap cellular respiration. Glycolysis and pyruvate metabolism make
input materials for subsequent processes, and tiny amounts of ATP. The
TCA cycle further contributes to energy production processes by making
NADH and FADE. But the big payoff of ATP happens in the ETC.
Oxidative phosphorylation (ox/phos) uses protons and electrons from
NADH and FADH; to make two to three times as much ATP as all the
earlier steps combined. Combine that with fatty acid oxidation (it’s
complicated), which feeds acetyl-CoA into the TCA cycle, and that’s
how mitochondria make 140+ molecules of ATP from ox/phos of fat,
compared to 30-something from carbs.
Amusing but useless factoid: We’ve examined a single electron
transport chain and its respiratory complexes in isolation. But in reality,
each mitochondrion’s entire inner membrane surface is densely-packed
with about 3,000 complete ETCs. So if we add up all the cells in a
human body (~37 trillion), times the number of mitochondrion in each
cell (200-5,000), times the number of ETCs each mitochondrion has, that
means you have about 111 quintillion electron transport chains in your
entire body (37,000,000,000,000 x 1000 x 3,000 = IIT quintillion)!
That’s what makes your inner mitochondrial membranes unimaginably
powerful at making ATP, electric fields, and magnetic fields. In fact,
despite their tiny individual size, you can even measure mitochondria’s
combined electric and magnetic fields several feet from the organs that
have the highest densities: the heart and the brain. We know these tests as
EKGs and EEGs.

Oxygen accepts the electrons exiting the electron transport chain

Everyone knows you need more oxygen when you exert yourself, And
everyone knows that oxygen, in general, is good for your health. But
how many people know why oxygen is good for you, exactly? And how
many people know what happens when you're deprived of oxygen?
Your respiratory rate increases when you exert yourself because
mitochondria need more oxygen to receive the electrons coming out of
mitochondrial metabolism. That is, electrons from food and fat-burning
need to be carried away from the “tailpipe” of the electron transport
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chain or else the ETC gets clogged, masses of reactive oxygen species
(ROS) get made, and mitochondria can’t make as much energy (ATP).
In other words, oxygen flow at the end of the electron transport chain needs
to match electron flow going into it and through it, or else you get a
bottleneck in the manufacture of ATP, and the system starts making
excessive amounts of mischievous molecules called free radicals. That’s
why we breathe harder when we exercise or exert ourselves: Oz is the
taxicab that accepts those electrons into its molecule, and carries them
away safely, without creating harmful by-products or imbalances.

Free radicals are made by shortages or surpluses at any point in the

electron transport chain
Reactive oxygen species (aka free radicals or oxygen radicals) are like
smoke from a fire. They are the result of too much of one input, and not
enough of another, anywhere in the ETC’s oxidation combustion
process. These imbalances produce “hiccups,” or small imperfections, in
the oxidation and reduction of molecules, which become molecules with
one or more unpaired electrons. However, it’s normal and healthy for the
ETC to make a small amount of free radicals as they go about their
business, because these signaling molecules control how the nucleus and
mitochondria fine-tune metabolism and regeneration.
To give you some idea how prevalent free radicals are, 2-5% of
electrons tunneled through the ETC become free radicals. And the
oxidative phosphorylation process will normally turn about 0.4-4% of
oxygen consumed into superoxide free radicals. If you’re on the low end,
that means your mitochondria rock in terms of efficiency. On the high
side, that means your mitochondria are struggling to make ATP, and free
radical damage has likely turned from acute and helpful to chronic and
toxic (aka disease, dysfunction, and aging).
Current research indicates the majority of free radicals are made at
Complexes I and III. Complex I seems to make more ROS when the
ETC receives more input materials than it can handle. While further
down the chain, it looks like Complex III makes more free radicals when
ATP is not being used up fast enough, so not enough of ATP’s
breakdown product ADP is available to feed back into the ATPase to
remake ATP.
In real life, that means eating high-energy fats in a hypoxic state
(lacking oxygen) produces lots of electron flow through the ETC, but
not enough oxygen to carry those electrons away. Like a fire with too
much fuel and not enough air, this creates incomplete combustion
products at various stages of the ETC, which we call reactive oxygen
species. On the other hand, eating carbs in a hypoxic state is a better
match because carbs produce a smaller stream of electrons. Thus, the
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“fuel-to-air” mixture of combustion is balanced so you make a healthier

amount of both ATP and oxygen radicals.
Another too-common situation of special significance is eating foods
out of season. You see, metabolism pathways such as oxidative
phosphorylation, the TCA cycle, urea cycle, and glycolysis are precise
and particular in their tuning. So when you eat foods that contain more
photonic energy than your circadian programming is expecting — because
light on the eye and skin is different than the light released by your food
— that mismatch ruins the ETC’s pre-set programming. The program
that’s running is mis-calibrated for the fuel/food you're taking in,
basically. “Rough running” combustion then creates excess free radicals,
more positive charge/acidity, more inflammation, and a lower redox state.
In case the point slipped by you, this is the single biggest reason eating
fruits, vegetables, and carbs out of season is worse for you than you might
have imagined. It’s because you suffer extra free radical damage, more
mitochondrial degradation, inflammation goes up, and you lose healing
capacity because your redox potential drops.
A perfect example you may not have considered is refined vegetable
oils. One reason omega-6 vegetable oils from soy, corn, and canola are
inflammatory is because their electrons contain the energy signature of
the strong sunlight they’re grown in. Meanwhile, our metabolism wants
to run a different program when our eyes, skin, and gut are getting the
message that it’s fall or winter. This means man-made vegetables oils
present a concentrated circadian mismatch to our metabolism, thus raising
ROS, positive charge, and inflammation. Your sources ever tell you that?

What happens when mitochondria lose their mojo?

When mitochondria are inefficient at producing energy, you tend to gain
weight or lose weight. You can’t regenerate cells as well. And, most
important for this discussion, the diseases of aging accelerate in whatever
organ or system has the weakest mitochondria from bad genes and toxic
exposures.
In fact, the vast majority of disease and aging is a function of
mitochondria’s potency and population density. So when your
mitochondria fail to produce energy efficiently, first organs and systems
go into power-conservation mode (which you usually don’t notice).
Then they malfunction. Then they shut down. And then you're in real
trouble. We call that disease and death.
This decline in mitochondrial productivity through genetic
inheritance, toxic environment, and/or age shortens the time your body
is able to maintain energy, health, and youthfulness. Historically, the
process of going from a low heteroplasmy rate (strong mitochondria) to a
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high heteroplasmy rate (weak mitochondria) took 5-8 decades to

deteriorate to the point of incompetence.
But, now, we’re seeing more and more cases of mitochondrial
insufficiency developing over the first few decades of life, as it does in
childhood cancers. In extreme cases, we even see mitochondrial collapse
happening in the womb before birth, as with some birth defects. But
whatever age it happens at, this process of mitochondrial degradation is
equivalent to having the life sucked out of you and decay setting in.
One coping mechanism employed by the mitochondria is this: Cells
that can’t make enough ATP revert to a much less efficient fallback
mechanism of fermentation (aka glycolysis), which is sugar-based energy
production. Energy-starved cells basically resort to consuming sugar to try
to sustain themselves. And that manifests as sugar and carb cravings,
which contributes to gluten sensitivity and candida overgrowth.

“Mitochondrial coupling” controls efficiency of ATP production

Mitochondrial coupling efficiency explains why some people are born
with a “fast metabolism” and have no trouble maintaining their weight,
while others have a “slow metabolism” and tend to gain weight easily. A
fair amount of it (its basis) is rooted in where your ancestors came from —
specifically the women in your family tree, because mitochondrial DNA
is passed exclusively through mom’s side.
Before modern times, people born closer to the equator didn’t need to
generate as much heat internally to maintain their body temperature.
They also led more active, outdoor lifestyle in lots of sun. So their
mitochondria made more ATP, and less heat/waste. This type of
mitochondria is described as being “tightly coupled,” referring to the
spacing of respiratory proteins in their mitochondria, which enables
efficiency. Tightly coupled mitochondria expend a lower percentage of
calorie consumption out of their ETC as heat.
On the other hand, people who lived in colder Northern climates
gained a survival advantage when their mitochondrial DNA mutated to
make more heat and less ATP. Their mitochondria leaked more protons
out of the ETC to make heat. Those happy accidents survived to be
passed on. We say their mitochondria are “loosely coupled,” which
means less ATP and more heat. These people have an advantage in losing
weight, and keeping it off, because a higher percentage of their calorie
consumption exits the ETC as heat, rather than ATP.
Now, at face value, you’d expect this respiratory complex
heteroplasmy to weaken mitochondria. But, to offset this effect, the
release of IR heat condenses the water around the respiratory proteins,
which helps maintain their efficiency so mitochondria don’t go lame.
Also important to note, nutrient extraction (e.g., minerals, antioxidants,
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probiotics, moisture content, fiber) happens at the gut level, prior to ATP
production. That’s why loosely coupled people don’t necessarily just eat
more to make up for the drop in ATP. In reality, most of them probably
feel compelled to change what they eat, more than they change how much,
because their mitochondria do operate better on fats and protein than carbs.
Again, the difference in coupling efficiency is defined by how
expanded or condensed the respiratory complexes are. The closer the
respiratory proteins of the mitochondria are to each other, the easier it is
for electrons to jump from one spot to the next (redox centers) along the
electron transport chain. Conversely, when respiratory proteins are more
spread out, electrons can’t move as easily, more heat escapes from the
system, and ATP production drops. However, as we all know, body heat
from metabolism goes up when you exercise, regardless of where your
coupling efficiency started out, or its present state.

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One mechanism that mitochondria use to fine-tune their coupling

efficiency is through use of a protein called “uncoupling protein 2.” In the
same way that a carburetor adjusts an engine’s fuel-to-air mixture,
uncoupling protein 2 controls how much deuterium is allowed into Krebs
Bicycle (not to be confused with the Krebs cycle, which is part of Krebs
Bicycle). You see, deuterium stymies the enzymatic steps of metabolism.
So, by controlling efficiency of steps in the citric acid cycle and urea
cycles, efficiency of metabolism is increased or decreased. That’s how
metabolic programuning is designed to work anyway. As we'll discuss
further in chapter 13, excessive amounts of deuterium foul up energy
production in cells and mitochondria.
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Interestingly enough, coupling efficiency can be traced back along

your maternal lineage many tens of thousands of years to the migration
Dr. Doug patterns of your ancient ancestors. In fact, Dr. Doug Wallace has traced
Wallace: The mitochondrial lineages back a quarter million years to today’s central
world’s leading
mitochondria Africa — now called the “L-Zero” haplotype.
researcher. He
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We call the mitochondrial genes of your ethnic lineage your
mitochondria, mitochondrial “haplotype” or “haplogroup” (think ancestral). Your
including how they haplotype controls how tightly or loosely coupled your mitochondria are
are generationally
inherited, and how
made to be straight “from the factory” — meaning, how spread apart your
local food and five respiratory complexes are at birth. Coupling efficiency then morphs
climate controls slowly over time on a daily and seasonal basis in response to temperature,
metabolism,
epigenetic food, solar yield, disease/infection, altitude (O2 level), and toxins.
expression, and Your haplotype comes from what area of the planet the women in
aging (through free your family tree came from, This tells you something about mitochon-
radicals).
drial DNA mutations that occurred in an area. When environmental
adaptations proved to be useful, the changes were passed on to future
generations. When the changes made your life worse, the mutations
eventually were corrected by their genetic machinery, or the person
didn’t make it, thereby removing those genes from the gene pool.
Ideally, the distance from the first cytochrome to the fifth should be
about 36-40 angstroms (super-small distance). That’s where mitochondria
operate most efficiently. But environmental exposures cause the respiratory
proteins to expand or contract, altering both efficiency and potential side
effects. Unfriendly forces working against you stretch the respiratory
proteins out so they might be 60 angstroms apart in an extremely obese
person with run-down mitochondria. On the other hand, when favorable
exposures work to your advantage, respiratory proteins contract closer to
the 35-40 angstrom ideal, and ATP production improves.
The takeaway lesson: It’s inaccurate to think of either loosely coupled
or tightly coupled mitochondria as being bad or unhealthy. The right
way to think about it is how closely — or poorly — matched your coupling
efficiency is to your environment, your biology, and your age. That is, when
you go from where you started, and you lose gobs of coupling efficiency
inordinately fast from smoking crack, or even a highly mismatched diet,
that’s how resulting ATP shortages become dysfunction and disease.
In other words, it’s how much looser your coupling efficiency is from
where it should be. That spells trouble, because that’s what causes organs
to malfunction and your health to decline. On the flip side, when you
optimize your coupling efficiency to its theoretical maximum, perhaps
even exceed it, you'll live forever and never get sick ;-)
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Visualize energy inefficiency in stars

When a star passes its prime, it becomes energy-inefficient. No longer
able to burn as hot due to weaker combustion, it expands into a red giant
and loses thermodynamic efficiency. At that point in the star’s life cycle,
its energy consumption and production become wasteful, and so the star
literally gets bloated. Later, as it runs out of fuel toward the end ofits life,
it shrivels up and dies.
Well, the laws of thermodynamics are the same at the microscopic
level as they are at the galactic level. So the same thing happens in
humans when their mitochondria become inefficient at making and using
energy: they tend to get fat. Excess weight in people is a strong indicator
that their mitochondria consume too much fuel per unit of energy made
— in this case, calories per ATP. Basically, their mitochondria are
decoupled and damaged, so the body expands. The same thing happens
with the heart. When the heart weakens, it expands to try and
compensate. We call that congestive heart failure.
To sum it up, stars, proteins and hearts are more thermodynamically
efficient when they’re compact vs. when they’re bloated. So to get that
sleeker physique, focus on fine-tuning your engines.

Bad genes don’t cause disease... human genes, that is

In his over 40 years of ground-breaking research, Dr. Doug Wallace
discovered that modern disease conditions such as obesity, heart disease,
and neuro-degeneration occur with no genomic changes. That means
maternally-inherited and accumulated defects to mitochondrial DNA
contribute more to disease than your own human genes do. He’s even
been able to correlate mitochondrial mutations of various haplogroups
with the prevalence of major diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and
autism. Simply put, disease is caused mostly by feeble mitochondria, and
the epigenetic changes they exert upon our gene expression.
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Cancer research is focused on the wrong genome

“We need to be looking in the mitochondria, not the human genome,
because when we study cancer, we're looking at genes that have already
misbehaved. So to really, truly understand cancer we need to know what
happened to those mitochondria before the cancer came. That’s where
we get into the heteroplasmy rate. That’s where we get into the distance
between respiratory proteins.” — Dr. Jack Kruse.

Aging and illness are functions of

“percent heteroplasmy rate”
When mitochondriacs talk about heteroplasmy, loosely speaking, they’re
referring to how much the respiratory proteins (aka “complexes”) are
stretched out in your mitochondria — or condensed, as the case may be.
Generally speaking, it’s the global amount of degradation your
mitochondria have accumulated to their DNA, and thus their output.
The reason is, respiratory Complex I sits next to a mitochondrion’s
DNA. So high heteroplasmy there besieges a mitochondrion’s DNA with
free radicals, which is how mutations occur.
Technically, percent heteroplasmy rate is defined by the percentage of
healthy mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the genome vs. mutated. In
other words, heteroplasmy is the mixture of normal vs. altered DNA.
But, interestingly enough, mitochondrial DNA only makes thirteen of
the protein ‘subunits’ that form the respiratory complexes, while nuclear
DNA makes the other sixty-one.
Acting something like the wiring diagram for a power plant, the
respiratory complexes determine ETC efficiency. The greater the
uniformity of the construction, the better your mitochondria
function. The more disparate their DNA, the more dysfunctional
their productivity will be. That’s because if any respiratory complex
were to tunnel electrons at a different speed than the rest, due to
mismatched mtDNA, you'd get an electrical short in the system.
Electrons will leak out of the electron transport chain where the
mismatch occurs and produce loads of reactive oxygen species.
However, not all mutations are bad. Some alterations end up helping
the recipient adapt to their environment, while others disadvantage the
individual in their ability to thrive locally. Thus, those alterations are less
likely to be passed on. Dr. Wallace sums up the advantages acquired over
time as “ancient adaptive polymorphisms,” and the disadvantages as
“recent deleterious mutations.” A practical example: Moving from the
tropics to the Arctic Circle can make a once well-adapted haplotype
(what you might call “mito-type”) person suddenly become poorly-
adapted to their climate, and vice-versa.
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The starting point for your heteroplasmy rate comes from how much
defective mitochondria you inherited from your mother. Mitochondrial
biologists put these defects in the category of “‘maternally-inherited
mutations.” From that bioenergetic baseline, your percent heteroplasmy
rate typically rises as a result of mutations that alter protein synthesis. You
can put these changes in the category of mutations due to environmental
exposures and disease.
Then, your heteroplasmy rate naturally increases as you age from
mutations in both the mitochondrial genome and the nuclear genome.
These increases in mitochondrial diversity fit in the category of “‘somatic
mutations” (meaning after birth). Problem is, mitochondrial DNA has
10-100 times greater propensity to mutate than our own DNA. And
these naturally-occurring mutations often get unequally distributed when
the host cell divides and mitochondrial populations have to split up. So
Nature installed powerful mechanisms to prevent differences in mito-
chondrial DNA from happening at birth, and increasing over time.
On a generational scale, you inherit as low a heteroplasmy rate as
possible by having mitochondrial DNA inherited only from the maternal
side, not from dad. Nature could not mix mitochondrial DNA from both
parents, because doing so would potentially create respiratory proteins
with different electron tunneling speeds. That would start you offin life
loaded with free radicals and a high heteroplasmy rate. After that,
heteroplasmy rate is kept in check on a day-to-day basis, and over a
lifetime, by autophagy, apoptosis, heat shrinking the respiratory proteins,
and heat shock proteins (explained on next page).

Autophagy: How the body recycles mitochondria, which keeps

them cranking
Autophagy is the controlled breakdown of cells so their contents can be
recycled and reused — called “mitophagy” in the case of mitochondria. It’s
one of the primary processes that keep your mitochondria young and your
internal energy production high. Autophagy requires good sleep, inter-
mittent fasting/ketosis, and regular exercise in order to maximize oxygen
level, electron flow, magnetic field, and the controlled production of free
radicals. In order to make new mitochondria, you first need free radicals
to break down the old, worn out mitochondria to make room for replace-
ments. This is the job of the oxygen-based free radical called superoxide.
Free radicals are made when a stream of electrons from the electron
transport chain energizes electrons in metals such as iron, copper, and
manganese in the mouth of the cytochrome complexes. It’s these
transition metals, and their excited electrons, that hold oxygen to the
inner mitochondrial membrane by electrostatic cling and strip it of an
electron, thereby making a free radical.
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Unfortunately, if you have a reduced electric and magnetic field, due

to low electron flow through the electron transport chain (stretched out
respiratory proteins would be one reason), you can’t hold oxygen in place
and remove an electron. When that happens, autophagy suffers because
you can’t make free radicals that pave the way for new mitochondria to
replace old.
To sum it up, when you’re low on oxygen, DHA, voltage, water, or
solar yield, you can’t make free radicals when you’re supposed to. Speci-
fically, if those things are substantially lacking, you can’t make superoxide.
And when you don’t have superoxide to break down old mitochondria
and signal for new ones to be made, you can’t make new mitochondria.
That forces your body to operate on years-old mitochondria that
should have been retired long ago. When that happens, your worn-out
mitochondria can’t produce enough energy to regenerate tissues and
organs. Hormonal signaling can suffer. And lots of bad things happen
health-wise. Unfortunately for current and future generations, a lot of
people with type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s suffer from this
poor mitochondrial recycling. Measure their superoxide level, and you'll
find it’s absent.
Some famous food gurus are stuck in this dilemma too. Because fats
and proteins make more ATP than carbs do, they assume the longer
they’re in ketosis, the better. But little do they know, being ketotic all
the time is like rowing a boat with one oar: You are indeed moving, so at
first it seems like you’re making progress. Unfortunately, avoiding carbs
entirely means you don’t make any superoxide free radicals. Hence, you
don’t trigger autophagy to freshen up your mitochondria. So mid-to-long
term, you and your mitochondria are just rowing around in circles...
Another half-truth becomes a full lie.

Apoptosis
In a related process, when it’s time to cull the herd, ATP actually helps
mitochondria self-destruct in a controlled manner. Programmed cell
suicide is called “apoptosis.” It’s the process of self-sacrifice when a cell is
damaged beyond repair. Unfortunately, when you don’t have enough
ATP, apoptosis falters. When apoptosis malfunctions, mitochondria stick
around past their expiration date and limit the energy you have available.
Point being, even the proper expiration of mitochondria requires energy.
Heat Shock Protein 70
Mainly affecting people of Northern descent, cold stress (or heat stress)
releases something called “Heat Shock Protein 70” (HSP 70) in the cell.
HSP 70 stabilizes the size and shape of proteins in mitochondria, so the
respiratory complexes stay the same and don’t get too stretched out over
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time. It’s one of Nature’s ways of keeping a Northerner’s mitochondria

efficient by limiting the degree to which their mitochondria uncouple
themselves, which is their natural inclination.
This then minimizes heteroplasmy, ATP loss, and excessive free radical
production. In other words, if you never let yourself get cold (or
particularly hot) — as a Northerner would in the wild — you lose the
benefit of this protective programming. Your mitochondria are then free
to swell, divorced from Nature’s normal system of checks and balances.
Sound like any modern humans might be stressing out their mitochondria
with this very situation today?
Let’s review: You can slow down the rise in heteroplasmy rate, and
even reverse it to some extent. But time ultimately makes weaklings of all
our mitochondria. Barring an effort to reverse accumulated damage, your
percent heteroplasmy rate rises as you’re exposed to toxins, diseases,
environmental factors (e.g., excessive carbs), and never getting cold, as
well as the passage of time. In fact, heteroplasmy and aging are virtually
one and the same because, oddly enough, heteroplasmy causes biologic
aging, and chronological aging causes heteroplasmy. (Whoa, that’s deep.)

But why does heteroplasmy affect one organ and not another?
Each organ has different energy needs. So a loss of mitochondrial
efficiency in a high-energy consumer disproportionately affects it more
than other organs. The brain, for example, has the highest energy
demand, with low reserves. It’s 2% of the body weight, but uses 14% of
the blood flow and 20% of the oxygen. So a 10% decrease in systemic
energy has huge effects on the brain, without affecting your toes. The
heart, muscles, kidneys, hormonal system, and liver also have high energy
needs, But they also have greater reserves to cope with deficits.
To sum up the importance of heteroplasmy rate, when mitochon-
drial energy production drops below minimum threshold levels,
organs fail and disease shows up. So, like a flashlight with a low
battery, first you get a brownout, then your light doesn’t shine at all.
Indeed, cutting-edge thinkers believe heteroplasmy rate will soon
become one of the most accurate measurements of just how much time
you have left before disease shows up. To illustrate, let’s just make up
some numbers and say diabetes shows up when your heteroplasmy rate
crosses 45%; cancer and Alzheimer’s show up when your heteroplasmy
rate hits 65%. You can think of this as your “aging clock.”
Until those numbers are worked out, percent heteroplasmy rate repre-
sents the concept of how productive your mitochondria are at producing
ATP, electrical charge, magnetic field, and water. These fundamental _
mitophysical forces power our biology when plentiful and pure. So their
absence invites sickness when the body is forced to make compromises.
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And this is why most super-centenarians have a brain that works well,
but you never see huge bodybuilders at 100+ years old. It’s because
maintaining enormous muscle mass is a big mitochondrial expense the
body can’t afford in old age. At some point, there isn’t enough energy to
pay for luxuries like that. So the people you see that make it to the
century mark have got strong mitochondria in all the right places.

Is there a test to measure heteroplasmy rate?

The field of mitochondrial biology does not yet have a go-to test to
directly measure heteroplasmy rate. But you can look at a test done by
SpectraCell Laboratories that measures ROS, and correlate it with another
one that measures TCA metabolites, to extrapolate what your
heteroplasmy rate is indirectly.
Ideally, when your heteroplasmy rate is low, you tend to burn more fat
than glucose. And you make a manageable amount of free radicals from
the ETC. But when your heteroplasmy rate rises, your metabolism shifts
away from fat-burning, toward glucose. That makes ROS and metabolites
from the Krebs cycle shoot through the roof because they aren’t being
processed. In other words, when you see more free radicals and Krebs
cycle metabolites, you know metabolism has shifted to glycolysis and
Warburg (abnormal and weak), which tells you indirectly how
heteroplastic your mitochondria are.

Mitochondria convert one wavelength of light into another

Far more than just power plants, mitochondria have the fascinating
quantum ability to turn one type of light/energy into another. They use
this special skill to do for us what the sun does for plants: produce light to
do cellular work. In doing so, each mitochondrion acts like a mini-sun
inside the cell.
For instance, the Q Cycle in the ETC (which transfers electrons from
Complexes I and II to Complex III) takes the vibrational frequencies of
light contained on electrons, it cuts up the shorter frequencies of purple
and blue — slicing up their sine waves like a stick of pepperoni — spaces
the slices out, and puts them back together to make longer wavelengths
of red for use by Complexes III, IV and V. Recall that red light energizes
the water around proteins, and the ATPase directly.
Unfortunately, when the respiratory proteins get too stretched out due
to (1) blue light exposure, (2) nnEMFs, and (3) other mitochondrial
toxins, then electrons traversing the ETC are spaced too far apart for the
slices of light to fit back together properly. Unable to fabricate red from
the purple and blue slices, light then leaks out of ETC, and ATP
production drops. This is how a lot of energy is lost in the system, and a
contributing factor in many/most diseases of civilization.
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The most mischievous mitochondrial toxins

© Non-native EMFs. Notably, blue light and microwave EMFs.
© Statins. Cholesterol-lowering drugs inhibit CoQro production. This
blocks respiratory complexes I and II from passing electrons to
Complex III on the electron transport chain.
¢ Antibiotics. Mitochondria are believed to have evolved from
bacteria. So anything that kills bacteria also poisons mitochondna.
¢ Smoking. Breathing toxic gasses like carbon monoxide, can’t be
good for your ATP and free radical load.
Anti-inflammatories and pain killers. Including aspirin and Tylenol.
Antianxiety. Including Valium and Xanax.
Antidepressants. Including Prozac.
Antipsychotics.
e Artificial colors. For example, one artificial blue color used in some
candy and shaving gel inhibits oxidative phosphorylation.

We're doing everything possible to screw up our mitochondria

Unfortunately for our health and that of future generations, we’re doing
everything humanly possible to screw up our mitochondria:
© non-stop stress response of Wi-Fi and cell phone signals;
© circadian mismatches of artificial light and avoiding temperature
changes of the seasons;
¢ gumming up energy production with processed foods, high carb
diets, deuterium-bomb fruits, and fluoride in our water supply;
@ and lack of real sun exposure and direct earth contact.
It’s clear: Modern living assaults our bodies like a mitochondriac’s
nightmare. That’s the real reason disease rates are going from terrible to
tragic. Crippled mitochondria simply can’t make enough energy to keep
us well anymore. Without an ample supply of (1) ATP, (2) intracellular
water, and (3) DC electricity to power our processes, cells can’t repair
and replace themselves, we detox slowly, disease and dysfunction hits you
harder and more frequently, and we age faster. That’s why the nexus of
wellness or illness is the health of your mitochondria,

Rejuvenating your mitochondria

Pretty much this entire manifesto is dedicated to reviving your
mitochondria, so we'll just point out the main pillars of mitochondrial
restoration here.
¢ Get more full-spectrum sun. IR and UV light make more ATP,
and they activate regeneration programs.
¢ Reduce your stress level.
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Make more melatonin. UV light — particularly in the eye — makes

tryptophan, which makes melatonin, which controls mitochondrial
DNA. mtDNA controls mitophagy and apoptosis, which keep
mitochondria in shape by limiting heteroplasmy rate.
Avoid nnEMFs. Cut your exposure to non-native EMFs —
especially blue light, wireless microwaves, bipolar magnetic fields,
and dirty electricity. Blue light in particular destroys melatonin via
dissociated melanopsin-vitamin A.
Drink good water. Make sure the water you drink is not
fluoridated or chlorinated, and is low in deuterium.
Avoid deuterium in food. Eat fruits and vegetables in season —
preferably grown inland. Avoid processed foods, refined carbs, and
refined vegetable oils.
Get some cold exposure. Let yourself get cold, whether by under-
dressing for the weather, or by doing cold thermogenesis therapy.
Avoid mitochondrial toxins such as cholesterol-lowering statins,
antibiotics, and cigarette smoke.
Take supplements. D-ribose and CoQ1o supplements can help
mitochondria make more ATP.

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trillion microbiota, live together as one organism?
The answer is communication lets trillions of
microscopic cells — such as your cells and your gut
microbiota — live together as one macroscopic
organism — as they do in you, or an animal, or a
plant. It’s really quite remarkable, because without
exquisite communication and control systems
keeping all the members of the choir on the same
page, singing the same tune, it would be utter chaos
on so many levels.
Just think what would happen if each cell selfishly did whatever it
wanted, whenever it wanted. Imagine cells calling for help and their calls
going unanswered. That’s the difference communication makes in
ensuring the body’s needs are being met at all levels.
In the same way that many channels of communication are needed to
effectively run households, businesses, armies, and countries — many
channels of communication are needed to orchestrate the body’s essential
functions. Clear lines of communication are needed to protect and care
for its citizens, repair damaged facilities, allocate resources appropriately,
and manage activities benefitting the group. Without coordination and
cooperation at many levels, complex organizational structures would not
be possible.
More than anything, that basically means having a variety of ways one
member of a group can get a message to another — be they peers, or
managers higher up the chain of command. It’s communication — or
signaling, in the case of biology — that turns many individuals into one
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To name three forms of communication you’ve heard about,

but probably haven’t thought about quite like this...
1. Neurotransmitters conduct signals along nerve pathways using
electro-chemical signaling molecules such as dopamine and serotonin.
2. Hormones regulate the activity of organs at a distance via messenger
molecules sent through the bloodstream.
3. DNA transmits the organism’s genetic blueprint into the
construction of proteins, cells, and organism.

Redox signaling
Just as important to our physiology, there’s one communica-
tion system your Average Joe knows nothing about. It’s so new to
science that most people have never heard of it, despite the fact it’s
essential to all life on earth. That system is the network by which
communication happens at a cellular level, called “redox signaling.”
Made by mitochondria during cellular respiration, “oxygen redox
molecules” (aka free radicals, reactive oxygen species, or oxygen radicals)
make up an essential communication medium through which the body’s
cells and mitochondria talk to each other.

The body uses redox signaling to

¢ protect against damage from foreign invaders and toxins
© detect damage after it happens, and tell the immune system the
extent of the damage
repair cells when the damage is reversible
replace cells when the damage is beyond repair
adjust efficiency of energy production and metabolism
adapt to seasonal changes.
Redox signaling is a huge deal because it’s through this communication
network that biologic systems read conditions inside and outside ofcells,
and do what they need to do. Conversely, when communication breaks
down, bodily systems can’t respond to threats when, where, and how
they should. Threats include foreign frequency stress, food mismatches,
oxygen deprivation, toxin damage, infection, malnutrition, DNA
mutations, and water contaminated with deuterium or fluoride.
This new science of redox signaling is a major advancement in our
understanding of how dysfunction and disease materializes. And the
discoveries of just the last 10-15 years represent a giant leap forward in
reversing them.
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Redox reaction with electron transfer

Oxidant is reduced
(reduction - atom receives an electron)

Oxidation and reduction

02> overview
a Over the last 20-30 years, you
- may have heard wellness coaches
and marketers talk about how free
radicals and antioxidants greatly
influence health and longevity.
They are the yin and yang of the
“oxidation-reduction” cycle in
the rapidly emerging field of
oxidative medicine. Unfortunately,
what started out as a misleading
half-truth has blossomed into a
Reductant is oxidized
(oxidation - atom loses an electron)
flawed belief system that few
think to question today.
Oxidation-reduction: Simply put, oxidation and reduction describe
the exchange of electrons.
Electrical charge: Electrons are negatively charged. So removing
electrons through oxidation increases positive charge and acidity, while
adding electrons through reduction does the opposite — it increases
negative charge and alkalinity. This is important because most pathogens,
toxins, and free radicals are in their comfort zone when positively charged
and acidic, while antioxidant activity fights those threats by donating
electrons, thereby increasing a tissue’s negative charge and alkalinity.
Electrical charge is synonymous with redox potential, which we’ll talk
about more at the end of this chapter.
Oxidation is the “stealing” of electrons from a molecule — or an
increase in the state of oxidation. So molecules with the propensity to
oxidize substances are called “oxidants.” To illustrate, when oxygen takes
electrons slowly from iron, that’s a form of oxidation we call rust. When
a flammable material burns or explodes — again, with oxygen — that’s
oxidation happening rapidly right before our eyes.
Oxidants, aka reactive oxygen species: In biological systems,
oxidation destabilizes the matter inside cells by stealing their electrons,
which makes them blow apart in a hurry unless they find an electron to
pair up with to zero out their charge. Employed for their ability to
obliterate, oxidants are used by our immune systems as the ultimate
antimicrobial, detoxifying agent.
Most oxidants, as the name suggests, are predominantly oxygen-based
molecules, so they’re called reactive oxygen species or oxygen radicals.
Some of the best-known oxidants in the functional medicine field are
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Cell Attacked by
Free Radicals

oxygen, chlorine dioxide, ozone, and

hydrogen peroxide. Nitrogen and sulfur
also form their own less-diverse reactive
species, such as nitric oxide.
Free radicals: When a molecule with Normal Cell
a balanced pair of electrons gains or loses
one of those electrons due to oxidation
or reduction, the resulting molecule can
become a free radical because of its extra,
unpaired electron, which is highly
reactive and potentially damaging to cells. Cell with
Its destructive effect on cells is why the Oxidative Stress
public was taught to fear free radicals in
the 1980s-2010s, and why we were instructed to get plenty of antioxidants
to combat free radical damage. Most reactive oxygen species made by
mitochondria are free radicals.
Reduction is the opposite of oxidation. It’s the giving of electrons, or
a decrease in the state of oxidation (hence the term “reduction”’).
Reductants: Molecules that give up their extra electron in chemical
reactions are called “reductants” (even though that sounds backwards), or
reduced species (RS).
Antioxidants (stricter definition) are tiny molecular catalysts that make
oxidants give their extra electron(s) to reductants, thereby neutralizing them
both of electrical charge and biological reactivity. The body’s naturally-
produced antioxidants such as glutathione can perform tens of millions of
these reactions per minute. Reactive oxygen species and reductants then
turn back into salt water (from which they came). More loosely defined,
antioxidants are any substance that reduces free radical damage.
Redox: Not too long ago, redox scientists realized that saying the words
oxidation, reduction, and reactive oxygen species out loud made them sound
like nerdy chemists who use big words to confuse or impress people. So
they came up with a cooler sounding umbrella term to describe the
players and processes. The field swapped and shortened oxidation-
reduction to “redox,” which is short for REDuction-OXidation. And it
seems to have a ring that’s right for the mainstream. However, when
mitochondriacs say redox, they’re usually referring to just electrons or
protons, and their electrical charge, not redox signaling molecules.
Redox signaling molecules: Reactive oxygen species/free radicals
(ROS), and reductants/reduced species (RS), are collectively called
“redox signaling molecules” or just redox molecules. In particular, mito-
chondria’s oxygen redox molecules are by-products of metabolism that form
a major communication network between mitochondria and human cells.
Their signature trait is they have one or more unpaired electrons.
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Similarly, bacteria make “carbon redox molecules” as by-products of

their metabolism, which they use to communicate between themselves
and cells of the gut lining. Carbon redox molecules are the
communication medium of the microbiome.
Redox potential, redox power, or simply ‘“‘redox” (less formal).
Not to be confused with redox signaling molecules, redox potential is a
more general term referring to how many electrons, and their negative
charge, are available to do work in the body. In most cases, redox
potential describes the condition of having more electrons available than
protons, resulting in a net negative charge, which can drive chemical
reactions, reduce acidity and inflammation, and move materials. Basically,
redox potential describes oxidation-reduction capacity.
Oxidative stress: Oxidative stress is the amount and duration in which
oxidants outnumber reductants. Oxidative stress can be damaging when
you don’t have enough antioxidants and reductants available to neutralize
oxidation — particularly, in chronic, uncontrolled circumstances. On the
other hand, oxidative stress can be beneficial when used therapeutically.

Why oxidation and reduction matter

Oxidation and reduction are fundamental to life as we know it, because
biochemical reactions revolve around the exchange of electrons. Redox
reactions do the business of energy production, healing, immunity,
detoxification, hormonal response, youth, and support of the
microbiome... when they’re working properly. And they cause a lack of
cell repair, a long list of chronic, degenerative problems, and accelerated
aging when they’re not.
So redox reactions are more than important to all life on the planet;
they’re essential. Life would cease to exist very quickly without oxidation
and reduction. Oxidation and reduction, or redox signaling (they’re the
same system), is one of the biggest, most important stories for medical
science to study today, and you to learn about, in our ongoing effort to
get healthy and stay healthy.

We used to think free radicals were harmful by-products of exercise

Until just a few years ago, wellness experts believed free radical oxidation
harmed cells and accelerated the aging process... and that was all there
was to it. Researchers and educators basically thought aerobic exercise and
inefficient energy production make reactive oxygen species by accident.
Because free radicals are good at destroying things, they believed the
resulting oxidation is responsible for randomly injuring cells and making
us age before our time. Therefore, we needed to protect ourselves against
this sort of cell damage by eating foods high in antioxidants or take them
as a supplement.
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But science has since come to its senses as research has revealed that we
shouldn’t think of reactive oxygen species as harmful by-products of
metabolism that you need to eliminate, else they harm cells and cause
premature aging. Instead, they’re made for a very good reason — many
beneficial reasons, actually.
Researchers have come to realize that the body uses oxidants in a
controlled manner to selectively repair or replace injured cells, depending
on the extent of damage. Even more pertinent to the discussion, redox
molecules are created to communicate what’s happening inside the cell.
So redox molecules are both the communication network of the
mitochondria, and the disinfectant that wipes out unwanted material
to make way for healthy, new cells. But, up until just 15—20 years ago,
scientists didn’t realize that a healthy system purposely makes an equal
amount of destructive oxidants and restorative reductants to maintain
balance. In other words, good health is a balanced redox system.
In fact, large amounts of both reactive oxygen species and reduced
species are made when you exercise. So, oddly enough, taking a redox
molecule supplement does many of the same things that exercise does,
whereas ingesting antioxidants right before you exercise blocks some of
its benefit because you neutralize some of the cleansing and restoration.

We used to think antioxidants only came from food

We now know our own cells make large quantities of antioxidants that
are far superior in reach and capacity to those supplied by foods. In fact,
most antioxidants that come from foods can’t get inside cells, so they
don’t do what scientists thought they did (vitamin C is an exception).
That said, antioxidants like vitamin A and E do offer some benefit
quenching free radicals in the blood and extra-cellular matrix — colorful Extra-cellular matrix:
vegetables being their richest source. However, that’s only half the story. Supportive structures
and biochemicals
As a compensation mechanism, raw vegetables increase alkalinity in the outside of cells (e.g.,
body through their calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, and iron. collagen, enzymes,
The compounds formed from these minerals become a reserve of glycoproteins, and
minerals.
alkalinity, or buffer, that the body uses to raise pH level when the blood
becomes too acidic (low pH). It’s a standby method to adjust pH level
that overlaps in purpose with a vegetable’s antioxidant effect.
That is, redox reactions and pH regulation both work to achieve
electron balance. Together, they are big reasons why raw, naturally-
grown vegetables can be good for you. Unfortunately, food companies
tend to exaggerate the benefits of antioxidants taken in isolation — similar
to how drugs try to mimic a medicinal herb’s active compounds, and the
way some vitamin supplements are promoted. Whichever way it’s
presented, redemption in a pill or a potion sells with a good story behind it.
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In any case, antioxidants from food can be good for you when used
intelligently. They’re just not as all-powerful as those the body makes
internally. To give you some perspective, dietary sources contribute about
4% of the body’s total supply of antioxidants, while internally-produced
glutathione, by itself, represents about 85%, and is much stronger.

Our new understanding of oxidation

and reduction
We now know oxidation and reduction is a
carefully orchestrated, essential process the body
uses to rectify injury and degradation, so repair
processes have a pristine environment in which
Public domain —to rebuild. Without oxidation and reduction healing you, you’d have
“eesti mere hours to live — mere minutes without redox happening in the
~ electron transport chain.
Oxidation and reduction are fundamental to human life because the
body uses oxidation to destroy everything it deems undesirable — including
microbial pathogens, toxins, heavy metals, dead cells, and unrepairable
cells. However, oxidants are like wild beasts in that they’re useful when
kept under control, a destructive nuisance when they get out of control.
Normally, when phase one of inflammation is done blowing its target
to bits with oxidants, phase two brings in antioxidants to clean up the mess,
and restore the peace. Antioxidants bring oxidation products that weren’t
needed/weren’t used together with reductants, and make them exchange
electrons. This neutralizes the oxidant of its destructive capacity, and turns
both of them back into harmless salt water. The body’s own antioxidants
such as glutathione can do this tens-of-millions of times per minute.

Exercise benefits the body by enhancing

oxidation, reduction and redox signaling
Exercise is oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is like
exercise. At the same time, the ability to sustain
exercise is determined by mitochondrial production
capacity, antioxidant capacity, and a balance
between oxidation and reduction.
Most important of all its functions, exercise is
controlled oxidation. Meaning, exercise produces a
cleansing and renewal effect at a cell level. That's
why it’s good for you, and how it benefits the body.
It leads to very important mechanisms of cell
regeneration, aerobic capacity, and speed of recovery. You see, exercise
makes mitochondria burn fatty acids or sugar along with oxygen to
power cells. Through this process, energy production in the
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mitochondria makes large amounts of reactive oxygen species (aka free

radicals) that act as both universal cleansing agents (that need to be
neutralized) and immune-system messengers.
Exercise, oxygenation, and the resulting capacity for oxidation and
reduction also help improve electrical charge and pH balance. Electrical
potential improves cell wall permeability, hydration, nutrient exchange,
and detoxification. In conjuction, breathing from exercise balances pH
because O> alkalizes, while CO> acidifies. These are several key factors
that promote either a high state of health and healing when they’re
present, or disease conditions that favor pathogens and breakdown of cells
when they’re absent.
The point is, exercise, oxygenation, and oxidative activity are precious
to your wellness. But the other half of the story is that it takes time to
build up a capacity for exercise, which is largely dependent on
antioxidant capacity and completion of the redox cycle. Otherwise, you
experience extended recovery time and overuse injuries pushing yourself
too hard when you’re out of shape.
Through redox molecules (reactive oxygen species and reducing
species), exercise dramatically increases protection of cells, healing of
cells, balance, and a laundry list of good things. When well-controlled,
oxidative reactions represent most of the body’s mechanisms of healing
and anti-aging. Conversely, when those systems are overwhelmed or fail
altogether, like ROS not being neutralized properly, then oxidative
damage becomes the mechanism of imbalances, exposure to genetic
weaknesses, breakdowns, and rapid aging.
To sum it up, exercise is oxidation. Exercise is cleansing and
rejuvenation on a cellular level. But exercise needs to be matched up
with an equal amount ofaerobic fitness, which is determined by your
mitochondrial strength, your body’s capacity to neutralize free radicals,
and balance between oxidation and reduction. You need all that to
sustain aerobic exercise. Otherwise, you get too much breakdown, and
not enough repair. So basically, aerobic capacity is brought about by a
redox signaling system that performs well under load.

Cells communicate and heal with redox molecules

Like a vast military operation with lots of moving parts, mitochondria
need excellent communication to perform efficiently and effectively
under all conditions. Redox molecules are the master communication
network enabling cells to talk to each other and “command central,”
thereby allowing immune cell armies to do their jobs.
Through redox signaling, the body is able to:
@ detect when cells are under stress
¢ tell DNA to activate coping mechanisms
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call in the immune system to fight off threats

e repair mildly damaged cells
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hit the self-destruct button on badly damaged cells
¢ regulate hormonal response
¢ fine-tune mitochondrial metabolism
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and turn off coping mechanisms after a threat subsides.
To illustrate how redox molecules work, when cells become damaged for
any reason — be it toxicity, infection, physical injury, lack of oxygen, or
even malnutrition — they enter a state of oxidative stress, which means
more ROS are supplied to the area than there are reducing agents to
neutralize them.
High amounts of reactive oxygen species are the “S.O.S. distress signal”
that tell cells and systems there’s a problem that needs to be fixed, where
it’s coming from, and how dire the situation is. Like smoke coming from
a burning building, the more oxidant molecules the immune system finds
leaking out of cells (because they were never neutralized by antioxidants
and reductants), the more emphatic the distress signal is deemed to be.
After the situation has been resolved, the lack of free-floating redox
molecules inside and outside cells prompts the nucleus and the immune
system to turn off those coping mechanisms and go back to business as
usual (i.e., homeostatic balance).
So it’s through mitochondrial redox signaling that the nucleus “reads”
the condition of oxidative stress occurring in the cell and can activate a
variety of genetically-controlled coping mechanisms to deal with the
threat and restore balance to the system.
Of course, most of the time a cell reads its status report and realizes it’s
fine and doesn’t need repair. Still other times, cells take a look around
them and realize they’re different from that of the host organism. They
realize they’re a cancer cell and need to be sacrificed to protect the health
of the whole.
But the thing is, without the proper vocabulary with which to
communicate, cells don’t even realize what a healthy cell is supposed to
look like, versus what a cancer cell looks like. They don’t talk to each
other fluently about their status and needs. And they don’t relay that
information to the organ systems that need to know such things, like the
immune system. All of that is the job of redox signaling molecules —
known to most of the world as free radicals.
Summary: In the same way that analyzing a car’s exhaust tells a
mechanic how well an engine is running, the ratio and volume of ROS
to RS indicates whether the cell is happy or distressed. Mitochondria, cell
nuclei, and organ systems can then use this information to activate
healing, or turn it off.
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Here are some of the “buttons” the nucleus can push to call for help List is from Dr. Gary
Samuelson’s paper
1. The DNA Repair “button” mobilizes the DNA damage detection- “The Science of
and-repair crew. Healing Revealed,”
2. The Antioxidant Boost button makes more antioxidants to
pp. 45-46.

neutralize the potentially harmful surplus of oxidants.

3. The Intercellular Communication button strengthens lines of
communication between cells.
4. The Increase Blood Supply button dilates blood vessels to cells
that need more resources.
5. The Stronger Cell Adhesion button makes cells hold more tightly
to each other.
6. The Inflame Tissue button stops damage from spreading.
7. The Secrete Antibiotics button deploys antibacterial substances to
fight foreign invaders.
8. The Stop Cell Division button prevents distressed/damaged cells
from replicating.
9. The Send Distress Call button sends a distress signal to the
immune system.
10. The More Energy to Repair Crew button brings in more energy
for repair processes to work with.
11. The Prepare Cell for Shutdown button places the decision to
euthanize a cell with its neighbors.
12, The Master Shutdown button kills and demolishes the cell.

That’s healing at a cellular level

If you didn’t notice, those buttons are basically healing on a cellular level.
Those genetically-controlled processes activated by the nucleus in
response to redox distress signals are the mechanisms whereby cells are
instructed to activate the repair process when repairable, or make way for
their replacements when gravely injured.
These are the mechanisms that heal cells and stave off the aging
process. A perfect example is button #12: The body is supposed to shut
down attempts to repair cells after two hours if they were unsuccessful,
and then turn on cell suicide (apoptosis). But poor redox signaling
disables this programming, allowing damaged cells to persist and replicate.
In a word, that’s aging.

Ox dative therapies use oxidation and reduction to heal & renew

hyperbaric oxygen chambers
chlorine dioxide
ozone therapy
hydrogen peroxide
exercise
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Both cell-cell communication networks come from mom

As Dr. Doug Wallace taught us, you inherit all your mitochondria from
your mother. Each human egg has some 100,000 mitochondria, which is
more than any other cell in the human body. On the other hand, the
200-or-fewer mitochondria that sperm have are seen as foreign and
selectively destroyed after the egg is fertilized. Mitochondria then
reproduce as welcome guests inside most new human cells made. Which
means all the mitochondria you will ever have descend from that original
batch in the egg.
A curious consequence of this process is that you acquire half your
redox communication ability from your mother at conception in the form
of mitochondria and the oxygen redox molecules they make in cells. And
you inherit the other half of your cell-cell communication from your
mother at birth in the form of bacterial microbiota and the carbon redox
molecules they make in the microbiome.
That is, when a baby is born conventionally, friendly bacteria from the
mother’s birth canal seeds baby’s digestive tract with starter cultures. Over
a baby’s first few weeks, those initial bacterial colonies populate their
gastro-intestinal tract and make the carbon redox molecules that form the
communication network of the microbiome.
So, as it turns out, fathers are almost useless in the world of redox
communications. Their role happens on the sidelines of all the action.

What happens when your redox system fails?

Poor cell-to-cell communication causes breakdowns and failures to occur
in protection, detection, repair and replacement, which leads directly to
e slow cell repair
low energy
premature aging
immune system dysregulation
autoimmune problems
neurotransmitter and hormone imbalances
psychological disturbances
chronic inflammation.

This failure to communicate collaborates with other aberrations to make

chronic, degenerative disease possible. First conspirator is a lack of energy.
That starts the degeneration process. The second is impaired redox
functioning so cells and mitochondria can’t tell there’s a problem brewing.
Meaning, cells can’t protect themselves from injury in a state of poor redox
signaling. They don’t know they’ve been injured. They don’t call for repair
mechanisms. And cells don’t replace themselves when they ought to.
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These imbalances and repercussions express themselves symptomatically

wherever the body is lowest in energy, or hardest hit by the ensuing
hormonal, neurological, and immunological stresses (i-e., rate of injury
outstrips rate of repair) — taking their toll as
® poor brain function in autism, Parkinson’s and ADD;
© digestive disorders like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s Disease;
¢ insulin dysfunction in diabetes;
® nerve damage in neuropathies;
® cardiac weakness in heart disease.
The damage of all these conditions is sustained by a failure of cells to
communicate and repair appropriately, which, for most intents and pur-
poses, is the same as chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation more or
less equals loss of cell-cell communication. They’re nearly one and the same.

The human body has incredible repair mechanisms, but it’s useless
without effective redox signaling
Our DNA (which mostly codes for proteins) is almost identical to the
way it was decades ago. Our machinery for cell repair is the same. Our
enzymes for detoxing haven’t changed. Everything is the same as it
always has been. But lately, our body’s repair kit is doing a miserable job
at keeping us running smoothly.
The systems are sitting there, ready to kick into action. But if the
signaling network goes down, cells can’t protect themselves like they’re
supposed to. They can’t marshal the resources they need for routine
maintenance. And, equally bad, cells don’t even realize when they’ve
been injured, let alone call for help.
With our rate of injury so high, and our rate of repair so low, cells are
not repairing and replacing themselves like they used to. So they’re
accumulating toxins and DNA damage, rather than continually rejuvena-
ting themselves like they should. Those imperfect cells then go on to
replicate in an unrepaired state. Yep, you guessed it; that’s aging and disease.

Rate of injury vs. rate of repair

Cells in your body are constantly being injured and killed every minute of
every day. At the same time, the body’s healing mechanisms continuously
repair damaged cells, and replace dead cells with healthy new ones. So
there’s always some rate of injury happening versus some rate of repair.
That ratio determines your ability to stay well. It greatly influences your
energy level — physically and mentally. It controls your recovery time from
exertion, injury, and illness. It has a lot to do with your rate of detoxifi-
cation. And it’s a primary factor in the rate at which you age biologically.
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The point being, both of those states — damage and repair — can change
quickly through interventions, or gradually through natural processes. But
you seldom notice any of these changes because the human body has a
built-in buffer zone of coping mechanisms — a reservoir of healing
capacity — that’s designed to favor life and healing, until your
compensation mechanisms are stretched past their limits of competency.
So you only notice three conditions:
1. When your rate ofnew injury increases rapidly due to some event or
circumstance (e.g., a major infection or massive toxin exposure).
is) . When repair has fallen far behind and injury is clearly winning (i.e.,
the basis of disease).
3. When your rate ofhealing improves quickly through a lifestyle change
such as a healthy new diet, an exercise program, becoming a
mitochondriac, or getting out of a bad relationship.
You see, complex organisms are designed to start their lives with a full
bucket of life force, if you will. They (should) spend the majority of their
lives with healing capacity to spare in the form of compensation
mechanisms, emergency procedures, and various workarounds the body
employs to cope with sub-optimal conditions. It’s only when injury
exceeds the body’s ability to repair by a wide margin that you see acute
disease take place, or you die.
In daily life, however, you typically don’t notice a gradual expansion
or contraction of your healing or repair, because your bufter zone absorbs
slow changes with any excess healing capacity you may have. Your body
just does its normal healing thing and you’re none the wiser.

But our multitude of sins against Nature have stretched our coping
mechanisms to the limit
Our excesses and irresponsibilities have exhausted our healing capacity at
all levels — cell, organ system, individual, society, and planet. So now the
majority of people are living their lives on a razor-fine edge between
health and sickness, with dangerously little safety margin to spare.
That’s an important concept to internalize, because the slightest new
insult in EMF exposure, diet, lifestyle choices, or internal milieu can push
a person over the tipping point into disorder. In case you hadn't noticed,
that very situation is occurring all around us in our personal lives, our
social circles, healthcare institutions, and every health statistic you’d care
to measure.
To venture a guess, I’d say probably 40% of the population is slightly
over the edge into the disease/ dysfunction side (minor disease), 20% 1s
well into disease (intractable disease), 25% is slightly on the
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desirable side of health (occasional health problems/ annoyances), and 15%

of the population has a decent amount of extra healing capacity to overcome
new insults.
In other words, almost everyone is on the verge of manifesting a
chronic, degenerative disease. Those in jeopardy just can’t see it. So as
soon as the body uses up the last trick it has in its arsenal to keep you
running problem-free, serious disease suddenly appears out of nowhere
and won’t go away.
High blood-sugar raises insulin, which triggers inflammation
Basic biology says the hormone/endocrine system regulates blood-sugar
level by releasing insulin to let sugar into cells. Insulin also causes the liver
to store sugar for future use. But did you know that eating sugar makes
mitochondria crank out free radicals as a by-product of ATP production?
The problem is, the more broken-down your energy production
system gets to be, the more ROS tends to be made relative to reductants.
Those extra reactive oxygen species increase chronic oxidative stress,
which can threaten cells all over the body with oxidative damage,
including insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
To protect itself from this rapid burst of oxidative damage, the pancreas
is designed to pump out insulin as fast as it can in order to store that sugar
in the liver, instead of burning it immediately and overwhelming the
system with free radicals. Unfortunately, it has the opposite effect. What
ends up happening is insulin drives the sugar into cells faster and more
furiously, which only increases oxidative stress and inflammation as by-
products of metabolism.
So basically, eating lots of refined carbs and sugar is like pouring
gasoline on a fire. It’s a sugar-induced explosion of oxidation that can
only be controlled (hopefully) by flooding the system with insulin to stash
sugar in the liver. This isn’t a problem when antioxidant supplies are
capable of handling the increased oxidative load. But, more and more
often, that’s not the case as our population loses its healing capacity, and
sugar consumption rises.
Thus, you’ve got yet another factor, among many difficult to avoid,
that increases inflammation... another coping mechanism stretched to the
limit. This is one of several vicious cycles involving redox reactions that
elevate and perpetuate inflammation. In this case, with antioxidant and
redox reserves exhausted throughout the body, insulin conspires to keep
the destruction phase of inflammation going longer than it’s supposed to.
Frequent high levels of insulin then cause the battle between
inflammatory destruction and repair to rage on continuously.
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Elevated blood sugar from blue light and nnEMFs also help keep the
wheels on this cycle spinning. Of course, constant demand for insulin also
contributes to diabetes (another pathway whereby poor redox signaling
turns into disease).

Chronic inflammation drives degenerative diseases

Chronic inflammation is integrally involved in creating most disorders
involving the immune system, the hormonal system, the heart, the brain,
the digestive tract, and cell repair — basically, everything that happens in
the body. This is because the majority of damage that a disease causes
is not done by the pathogen or problem itself, but by inflammation
the body employs to fight the threat.
In other words, most infections, toxins, and disease processes are not
the thing that does the most harm. Instead, the body’s own threat
annihilation system — inflammation — is far stronger at wiping out friendly
cells than the menace itself. When it persists, unchecked inflammation
causes the symptoms we collect into categories and call disease.
In fact, practitioners that know their stuff realize that most modern
diseases, barring trauma, are nothing more than a variety of different ways
and places that chronic inflammation exhibits itselfin the body, as repair
fails to keep up with injury. Therefore, a failure of cells to repair
themselves completely is what causes modern disease (as well as aging).
And that’s caused by inadequate energy production, combined with poor
redox signaling, which results in chronic inflammation and unfinished
repair. They’re partners in degeneration, with chronic inflammation
being the culprit that actually “pulls the trigger.”
Cancer cells are a quintessential example of what happens when
inflammation persists and cell’s distress signals go unanswered. Cancer is
believed to take place after a cell has borne the brunt of some 20,000-
25,000 unrepaired injuries to its DNA (i.e., failure to repair/replace).

How inflammation heals

The body uses inflammation to repair pretty much any sort of damage
that can happen anywhere in the body, including:
cuts, bruises and overuse injuries;
damage to bones, muscles, tendons, blood vessels and internal organs;
microbial infection;
radiation damage;
chemical and heavy metal poisoning;
as well as ordinary wear and tear.
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It does this by first increasing

permeability of blood vessels so immune
cells such as white blood cells can pass
through the vessel wall to fight invading
pathogens. This also lets more blood into
an area, which we call swelling. Swelling
makes movement painful, thus limiting
mobility and further damage.
Barring outside intervention, inflammation then launches an oxidative
attack on everything in the area the immune system doesn’t recognize as
your own healthy cells. Through oxidation, the first stage of inflammation
kills infectious microorganisms, neutralizes toxins and heavy metals, and it
destroys your own damaged, diseased and dead cells.
When inflammatory processes are working correctly (1.e., acute
inflammation), the first phase of inflammation eventually shuts down and
the second phase takes over. In the second phase of inflammation — the
repair phase — unhealthy cells and debris are replaced with new cells and
collagen fibers (made from protein and cholesterol).
On the other hand, when inflammation doesn’t let up, both phases stay
active at the same time — destruction and creation. And that’s the leading
cause of chronic, degenerative disease today — inflammation that doesn’t
stop destroying tissue — which is itself caused by poor redox signaling and
a lack of energy from the mitochondria.
But the mind-blow you need to know is that pain and swelling are
integral parts of the healing process. Ifyou prevent pain and swelling
from running their course — like with anti-inflammatory painkillers,
icing, elevating, compresses, or fever reducers — then full healing
may never take place because you shortcut the healing process.
Believe it or not, pain itself actually stimulates healing by kicking the
immune system into action.
This is why so many people today suffer from chronic pain issues that
linger too long, or never end: they’ve interrupted the healing process so
many times throughout their life — with drugs that block inflammation
and pain — that injuries and inflammation become more or less permanent.

Acute inflammation vs. chronic inflammation

There are two kinds of inflammation: acute inflammation, which is
temporary and beneficial, and chronic inflammation, which is persistent
and harmful. Acute inflammation heals and protects you on a daily basis
from threats that can damage tissue, such as cuts, bruises, infectious
organisms, ordinary wear and tear, oxygen deprivation, and toxin
exposure. Everyday occurrences like exercise and sun exposure also turn
on inflammation without you even knowing it.
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Through acute, fast-acting inflammation, the immune system gets

called into action. It wipes out the threat in a matter of days to months
using a four-step process whereby: (1) oxidants destroy; (2) antioxidants
team up with reductants to neutralize the oxidant; (3) redox signaling
partners with the immune system to repair or replace damaged cells; and (4)
when that process is finished, if everything’s working properly (i-e.,
complete healing and the redox signaling to match), inflammation shuts
down, and the body resumes normal operation.
On the other hand, chronic inflammation is where the same series of
processes get activated, but they’re unable to turn themselves off. Step 4
shut down gets started, but never gets completely turned off. Instead, the
first three stages get stuck in a vicious circle of destroying and repairing
cells repeatedly, which can smolder along unbeknownst to you for years,
or even decades.
The reason the immune system is not able to turn itself off after the
initial burst of activity is due to one or more of the following circumstances:

1. Your antioxidant system is overwhelmed

First, some significant insult takes place requiring the immune system to
use its oxidative stress tool — often between the ages of 10 and 30. This
could be a sports injury, a nasty infection, or an acute poisoning event
(such as a major round of vaccines).
In this situation, cells don’t have antioxidant and reductant reservoirs
large enough to neutralize the oxidation being done. So the repairing and
replacing of damaged cells is done slower, and less completely, than it
should. Cells then eke by and reproduce themselves in a partially-
damaged state, which is frustrated by lingering attempts by the immune
system to simultaneously destroy with low-grade oxidative stress and heal
using redox signaling and repair processes.
This smolders along underneath your conscious awareness until later in
life your cells are being injured by oxidative stress faster than they’re able
to heal. At that point, you get symptoms that bother you. But, all the
while, you’ve had chronic inflammation you only noticed occasionally
(like an old knee injury that only hurts when it starts to get cold out).

2. Pro-inflammatory exposures sustain the situation

¢ You eat pro-inflammatory foods, such as refined vegetable oils.
¢ Leaky membranes cause poor digestion, food sensitivities, immune
system hyper-activation, and autoimmune conditions.
¢ You continue to stress that old knee injury with the help of anti-
inflammatory painkillers or other medications.
You come down with a long-term illness such as Lyme’s disease.
You continue to take in toxins faster than you release them.
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3, Fewer reductants, diminished redox signaling capacity, and a

shortage of energy all prolong inflammation
As we age, we lose mitochondria. Scarcity of mitochondria means fewer
reductants get made, diminished redox signaling capacity, and not enough
ATP for all bodily processes. Plus, the mitochondria that do stick around
age with us. Their DNA accumulates damage just like ours does.
As our mitochondria age, our once-balanced blend of oxidants-to-
reductants tends to tip toward a surplus of oxidants, and a deficiency of
reductants. In other words, lower redox potential. That pushes us
increasingly in the direction of oxidative stress as we grow older.
However, too much of either one — oxidation or reduction — results in
unregulated oxidation and cell damage. To complicate matters further,
inefficient redox signaling sends unclear messages to the nucleus, which
then makes fewer antioxidants.
In this situation, any sort of severe or prolonged damage can cause the
immune system to dump oxidant into an area that it’s not able to clean
up properly due to reductant and/or antioxidant deficiency. So as
oxidative stress, positive charge, and acidity build up in the cell, the
clarity of the message conveyed by redox molecules declines.
From that point on, the immune system’s oxidative response becomes
its own worst enemy. Oxidant is dumped in the area to start the clean-up
process, but cells don’t have antioxidant reserves large enough to clean up
the oxidation. Full healing never takes place. The immune system senses
something’s wrong, but it gets confused by the mixed signals, and failure
of its tools to do their jobs properly. So it continues to promote the
destructive component of inflammation, as it tries in vain to rebuild as
best it can.
Neither side — destruction or healing — is able to prevail while the
immune system is caught in a vicious cycle of antioxidant/reductant
deficiency and imbalanced/unclear redox messaging. That’s what’s
happening when acute inflammation turns into chronic inflammation.
And that’s how chronic inflammation causes disease. It’s the failure of
cells to repair or replace themselves effectively. Cells then continue to
GAPS: Coined by
live and reproduce in an unrepaired state. gut-brain health
That’s most of what drives modern, degenerative diseases today — pioneer Dr. Natasha
including heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, cancer, diabetes, and GAPS Campbell-McBride,
Gut and Psychology
conditions. Syndrome conditions
are gut imbalances,
Redox potential such as leaky gut
Redox potential is a general term that mitochondriacs use to describe and gut dysbiosis,
that cause impaired
concentrated zones of electrons and their net negative charge and, in brain function, such
some instances, concentrated pools of protons and their (isolated) positive as ADD, autism,
anxiety and
charge. Not to be confused with redox molecules, redox potential depression.
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represents electrical charge itself, and what the body can do with that
voltage. Measuring the power held in your redox molecules, redox
potential is largely a function of how well you’re able to turn sunlight,
food, and magnetism into DC electric charge, while at the same time
minimizing the loss of electrons from modern living.
Broadly speaking, redox potential is the energy behind health and
resiliency, healing capacity, movement of materials, chemical reactions,
and life itself, When you’re loaded with redox potential, your biology is
more full of life. On the other hand, when you lose redox potential, your
body lacks the energy to maintain itself.

Negative charge and alkalinity are synonymous with health and

healing, while positive charge and acidity creates inflammation
and disease
If you had to pick only one metric to assess your relative state of health or
sickness, electrical charge and pH belong near the top of that list. You
can think of the two as pretty much the same thing in the body, because
they’re like dance partners.
When oxidation steals electrons, cells and atoms gain positive charge.
That means more corrosion, greater instability, and inflammation that
doesn’t know when to quit. It means your cells and atoms are literally
falling apart and not repairing themselves efficiently, which is imbalance,
sickness and aging, in a nutshell.
On the other hand, when your immune system is good at making
antioxidants, and it has all the electrons it needs for reduction, the atoms
in your cells stay happy and whole, instead of falling apart. We call this
neutralizing, quenching, or extinguishing oxidative stress. This translates into
better cell-cell communication,
inflammation that starts and stops
appropriately, and healing
capacity to spare.
NEUTRAL On the other side of the scale,
acids have more protons than
electrons, which gives them a
positive charge. The more
protons a substance has, the more
acidic it is. And the opposite is
true: the more electrons
something has in relation to
protons, the greater its alkalinity.
Hence, many alkaline foods and
substances are famous for their
healing/antioxidant effects.
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In short, extra electrons are negative charge and healing capacity through
oxidation quenching, and helping the immune system know when to
shut down inflammation (alkalinity supports cell-cell communication).
While at the other end of the spectrum, electron deficiency is positive
charge and poor healing ability through corrosion, lack of light energy
(electrons hold light energy), and failure to realize that inflammation is
not working the way it should. Acidity aids and abets breakdown.
Redox potential in action
When the water in your cells has a lower net negative charge, it can’t
hold as much oxygen, because voltage dictates how much oxygen will
dissolve into water. With less oxygen to support mitochondrial
metabolism (i.e., the Krebs cycle and ETC), ATP production declines.
Metabolism then switches from aerobic respiration in mitochondria to Aerobic: with
oxygen. Anaerobic:
anaerobic glycolysis in the cell. Unfortunately, glycolysis is 20 times without oxygen.
weaker than the aerobic respiration of fats. Hypoxic: low
So not only do you produce less ATP when low redox makes you oxygen.
hypoxic (adding insult to injury), but most pathogens thrive in anaerobic
conditions. Invigorated by a low oxygen environment, pathogens that
had been idle wake up and get hungry. They Levets ofprotein organization
release digestive enzymes to dissolve cell walls
to access their nutrients. You experience this as Pri . ‘

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repels electrons from one spot, and attracts them

to the next, with a force of 250-400 millivolts.
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under 250-200 millivolts between redox stations
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oxidation attract and repel electrons through the

ETC so mitochondria can power the body.
A third example happens in neuro-degeneration. Mis-folded proteins
in the brain are a primary cause of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and Parkinson’s.
That’s because proteins have four levels of structural bending to them. The
first two are controlled by DNA. The third and fourth are controlled, or
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botched, by redox potential. So when your redox is low, errors occur in

their shape, which alters the way energies make them resonate and
perform. This is an important way that redox power helps build either
functional or dysfunctional proteins.

Redox before you detox

Detoxing has become a hot topic in the
natural healing field the last few decades
na5 — and for good reason:
y
© Mercury in amalgam fillings, seafood,
coal (that fires power plants), and
vaccines is believed by many to be a
major cause of autism, ADD, neuro-
degeneration, and now heart disease.
¢ Industrial chemicals and pollutants such as bisphenol-A (BPA) and
glyphosate have been shown to mess with the endocrine system
through hormonal disruption.
¢ Severe emotional/psychological distress (e.g., rape, abuse, armed
combat) can cause brain cells to hold on to heavy metals, which can
hinder attempts to heal from that trauma.
These concerns are very real. However, detoxing through a product or a
program may not be the best way to avoid toxin injury. Instead, think
about detoxification as a function of your redox potential.

Detoxification systems are controlled by redox potential

Cells and detox organs need large caches of electrons, protons, and
antioxidants at their disposal to denature and remove toxins from the
body. In particular, the single most important element in how well, or
how poorly, the body detoxifies itself is the availability of electrons and
their negative charge, as well as pools of protons and their positive charge.
The body uses these charged particles to power chemical reactions and
move materials around. For example:
1. Electrons repair oxidation damage through the reduction process.
2. Electrons enable you to harvest the sun’s energy for better everything.
3. Electron flow through the electron transport chain makes ATP.
ATP operates the sodium-potassium pumps. They pump positively-
charged sodium and potassium into cells, which pushes positively-
charged toxins out through electrostatic repulsion.
4. High electrical differential at the cell wall helps remove
decommissioned toxins by bringing more water into the cell.
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5. More electrons moving through the ETC also improves magnetic

fields in the body, which increases blood flow, oxygenation, DHA
delivery, and hormone delivery.
So electrons and protons help break down toxins, mobilize them in
water, push them out of cells, and transport them away. For these reasons,
raising your redox potential is better at fixing toxicity issues than a detox
product or program. Electrical charge helps the body do what it’s
designed to do naturally, instead of applying an external force to support
one particular step in the detoxification process.
In this way, interventional detox products and programs are like a drug:
As soon as you stop doing it, you lose the effect. They also tend to target
fewer issues, whereas improving your redox potential straightens out a wide
variety of problems that lead you to better health, energy level, and longevity.
The lesson for the day: ““Redoxing” is more potent and comprehensive
in its benefit. It’s like a shotgun approach that fixes a wide range of toxin-
related issues, while accomplishing many things that expand overall health.
On the other hand, detoxing is closer to a rifle approach in that it often
targets specific toxins, or specific organs, for specific reasons, over a finite
period of time.
It’s for these reasons Dr. Jack tells his followers that heavy metals are
only a problem when your redox potential is really low. That’s why he
says you should redox before you detox.

The field of redox science has only just begun

The last 15-20 years of research into redox reactions have propelled
medical science into new paradigms of healing, energetics, and optimal
aging. As a result, genetics is now known to play a much smaller role in
health and sickness than previously thought. On the other hand, the end
products of mitochondrial metabolism — namely, their reactive oxygen
species — control bioenergetics, gene expression, and the whole of human
biology far more than our own genes do.
Yes, the field has learned a great deal in the last 15 years. Yet thought
leaders agree: the majority of discoveries in redox reactions have yet to be
made. This is only the tip of the iceberg in understanding how redox
molecules defend and heal cells, restore balance, and power our bodies.
The pr iRnaNni of redox science are staggering, as we’re just beginning
to realize.

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EARTHING
(aka “grounding”’)

Earthing has been called one of the greatest health discoveries ever
That’s because “earthing” (aka “grounding’’) gives you oodles of a vital
resource your body needs to live, heal, and resist aging: electrons. Yet it
was considered woo-woo pseudo-science prior to 2010. Indeed, when
you learn what earthing does in and for the body, you can’t help but
agree with its devotees: grounding is a basic nutrient that keeps us healthy
when we’re well, and heals us when we’re sick. Call it vitamin ‘G’.
As we now know, biology uses electrons to maintain itself, And the
earth is our best source for them. Unfortunately, modern society’s
infatuation with creature comforts such as rubber-soled shoes, artificial
flooring, and air conditioning give us every reason not to go outside and
touch real earth. Amenities like these help us avoid the smallest
discomfort in the moment. But they also separate us from a biological
resource we can’t live without.
Of course, we can get electrons from other sources. But they all come
at a higher cost biologically. So, considering what it does for us, earthing
has to be Nature’s most under-appreciated method of acquiring electrons,
redox potential, and healing capacity (virtually the same thing).
Indeed, earthing benefits the human body so profoundly even former
skeptics now consider it a secret source of healing and vitality.
What on earth is earthing?
Coined by its modern researcher/developer Clint Ober (retired cable
industry executive), earthing is the practice of physically connecting
directly to the earth and receiving its infinite flow of negatively-charged
electrons. Walking barefoot on a beach, or using a specially-designed
conductive device, are two such ways to deliberately ground yourself.
This gives you a variety of impressive health benefits, yet its
mechanisms of operation are so subtle in the body that you may not feel
it in action unless you pay close attention to the ‘before’ and ‘after’
sensations. That’s because, like many natural healing methods, earthing is
not jarring to the body. It doesn’t feel artificial and forced like drugs and
mainstream modalities usually do (are designed to do, actually).
Instead, it’s 100% in alignment with the way your body is supposed to
operate. So you hardly notice it unless you know what to expect and go
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looking for it. What’s more, it’s inexpensive or free. It works fast. You
never develop a tolerance, or intolerance, to it. And it’s simple as can be.

The value of earthing

Every living thing, including human beings, draws energy from the
earth’s electric and magnetic fields through its feet, paws, or roots. As
long as there’s been life on earth, those life forms have charged up their
“biological batteries” with electrons delivered through direct earth
contact, a natural water body, or some means of conduction.
But that’s the key: whether plant or animal, you have to be touching
the earth, or connected through an earthing device, to receive its nurturing
benefits. Unfortunately, six decades ago, people started wearing rubber-
soled shoes and spending most of their time indoors, disconnected from
the earth. Out of the same ignorance, we started insulating our pets and
livestock as well. “Coincidentally,” that’s when chronic, degenerative
diseases started taking off.
Before that, we went outside and played in the dirt. We swam in lakes
and drank from streams. We wore leather-soled shoes (which are
moderately conductive). Many worked outside in the fields. We even lived
in homes with dirt floors, ages ago. And we were much healthier then.
So is electron deficiency and the rise of chronic disease really a coinci-
dence? I say no. Separating ourselves from the earth’s energy blocks the flow
of health benefits we used to get when we lived in harmony with Nature.

What happens in the absence of earthing?

Being disconnected from the earth for long periods of time (days, months,
or even years) doesn’t necessarily make you sick or kill you right away.
You just aren’t as healthy and energetic as you could be. This makes you
more susceptible to poor circulation, low energy, unproductive sleep,
stress, slow wound healing, hormone imbalances, rapid aging, and weight
gain. Your mood suffers, and you aren’t at your best mentally.

Earthing’s biggest benefits

Electron donor. Earthing remedies an electron deficiency we all suffer
from in our modern insulated culture. Earthing builds redox potential.
Antioxidant. Earthing is like a limitless antioxidant (reductant,
actually). That’s because earthing uses electrons from the earth’s infinite
supply to neutralize free radicals that are responsible for cellular injury and
aging, when they go unchecked. Alternatively, food sources, as good as
they are, have their limitations.
Anti-inflammatory. Building up your supply of electrons and redox
potential extinguishes inflammation.
Blood thinner. By increasing negative charge, earthing increases the
zeta potential of red blood cells by 270%, which is a fancy way of saying
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earthing makes red blood cells repel each other with negative electrostatic
charge, instead of clumping together (called “rouleaux” formation). So,
instead of your blood being thick and viscous like motor oil, it’s thin and
easy-flowing like red wine. This makes it easier for blood to get into tiny
capillaries under one blood cell-width in diameter that might otherwise
clog from clumping (very common today, for a variety of reasons).
Most of the time, thinning the blood reduces blood pressure as well,
because the heart doesn’t have to work as hard. Thinner blood also
improves oxygenation, nutrient delivery, and waste removal. These markers
of health are virtually synonymous with life itself. If your body can’t do
these things well, you either have a medical condition, or you’re prone to
coming down with one. So it only makes sense: increasing blood flow,
oxygenation and nutrient exchange improves health across the board.

For these reasons, earthing is scientifically shown to:

e thin the blood, reduce blood pressure, and improve circulation
e reduce chronic inflammation and its plethora of adverse effects

e decrease pain from a variety of sources

¢ improve sleep in most people

e increase energy levels

e reduce stress and promote calmness by cooling down the nervous

system and lowering cortisol levels

normalize the body’s biorhythms
reduce muscle tension and headaches
decrease hormonal and menstrual symptoms
speed healing and prevent bedsores
reduce or eliminate jet lag
accelerate recovery from intense exercise
slow the aging process.

How strong is earthing?

The effects are strong enough that most people who try earthing see
obvious, significant improvements in their life — such as reduced pain,
improved sleep, more endurance, faster recovery, or better mood. Many
of these effects can be objectively verified by tests such as thermal
imaging. And the benefits often begin the first time you earth yourself,
continuing for as long as you earth yourself on a regular basis.
How grounding works
For a little background, electrons move from areas of high electrical
charge, towards areas of lower charge.
The earth has an effectively infinite supply of electrons that it gently
pushes into everything that’s physically connected to it through some sort
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of conductive medium, whether natural or man-made. Sunlight striking

earth then increases electron flow when you’re grounded. Other times,
the earth receives electrons from sources of higher charge in brief instances,
like static electricity. In other words, grounding moves electrons in
whichever direction has a lower charge.
Intentional grounding is thought to have originated in ninth century
China, soon after the invention of gunpowder. Workers manufacturing
ammunition and fireworks learned to be extremely careful to dissipate
static electricity through conductive grounding straps, before handling the
gunpowder they were making. Otherwise, they experienced oxidation so
rapid they would not soon forget it (aka an explosion). Same thing with oil
and petroleum workers. This is where the term “grounding” comes from.
Purging surplus energies for their own reasons, the cable TV industry
learned decades ago how to produce crystal-clear picture and sound by
shielding their cables with a grounded casing that carried unwanted EMFs
out to ground. We used to see these stray EMF signals as “noise” in our
picture years ago, but it rarely happens today because they've pretty much
perfected grounding in wired communications.
Nowadays, most electrical systems are designed to deplete excess charge
into the earth before this “static electricity” has a chance to damage sensi-
tive electronics in the home, or harm patients undergoing open heart
surgery, as examples. In other words, the electrical system of buildings
and gadgets are “grounded” through the third prong of electrical wiring.
This connects to a metallic ground rod stuck in the soil beneath the
structure to dissipate static charge through wires, directly into the earth.
Fortuitously, this also provides a path for electrons to travel upward to
grounding devices (and you) that are plugged into that third prong. So,
today, dozens of companies make and sell earthing products, such as bed
sheets, pillow cases, conductive mouse pads, foot pads, flooring, and lots
of other configurations.
But the problem is, dirty electricity and nnEMFs are captured and
transported through electrical wiring like an antenna. This can bring alien
electric and magnetic fields right into your living space. There are ways
to ground yourself safely with an earthing device through the third
prong, but you need to shield your space from electosmog, and filter out
the dirty electricity first, which may require the assistance of an EMF
remediation specialist.

$o Nature’s way is still the best way

e As a general rule, most materials made by Nature are good to great
conductors, while most artificial materials are poor conductors, if at all.
¢ At one extreme, you can earth yourself Nature’s way by touching
bare skin to grass, sand, rock, clay, or dirt.
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¢ At the other extreme, wood, asphalt, plastic, and most man-made

materials are insulators. They do not conduct electrons.
¢ Between the two extremes, cement and moist clay are slightly
conductive when they contain moisture.
¢ The more moisture in or on a material, the easier it is for electrons
to flow through them.
¢ Grounding works to some degree through cotton or wool socks —
more so if there’s any moisture in them.
¢ Specially-designed shoes that conduct electrons to the feet do an
excellent job of keeping you connected. Rubber-soled shoes: not at all.
¢ The ultimate earthing experience is taking a dip in an ocean, lake, or
stream. Water can absorb massive amounts of electromagnetic energy,
so it shields you from nnEMFs like a Faraday cage. That gives you
full electron flow, with no foreign frequencies.
¢ Lastly, sunshine (the positive “anode”’) hitting the earth (the negative
“cathode’”’) stirs electron mobility. So physically touching earth on a
sunny day gives you the very best grounding for your efforts.

What does earthing feel like?

It’s funny but sad that we even have to describe what it feels like to be
connected to the earth, because it should be as familiar to us as living and
breathing. But that’s “progress” for you.
The physical sensation you get from earthing is easily deniable. You
almost have to consciously pay attention in order to feel what it’s doing,
but its effects and health benefits are not so easily dismissible.
When you set your feet on slightly moist grass, or put your hand on a
grounded earthing pad, most people notice a warm, tingly sensation
where the flow of electrons enters the body. It’s a warm, fuzzy feeling
most people say is mildly stimulating. That’s the nurturing effect our
bodies are designed to receive several hours per day. Yet we've led
ourselves astray since we started isolating ourselves from the planet.
The quick and easy way to experience what earthing feels like is to
touch a metal faucet. Almost all bathroom and kitchen faucets are
grounded because many plumbing pipes are metallic and run straight into
the ground. That’s one reason showers feel amazingly refreshing: You're
getting drenched with massive quantities of negatively-charged water
particles. Same thing with throwing water on your face directly out of
the tap for a quick ‘pick-me-up’ — lots of negatively-charged particles.
Unfortunately for many people, those are the only times they get to
experience the benefits of earthing today.
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Earthing summary
Earthing is an outstanding way to increase circulation, healing efficiency,
sleep quality, and energy level. It’s a potent way to reduce inflammation
and increase redox potential. It’s among the cheapest, most beneficial
practices you can do for yourself. However, as of 2022, the challenges to
earthing yourself as Nature intended have grown considerably.

Risks
Over the past 5-15 years, electrosmog, jump conduction, and ground Electrosmog:
(Unwanted)
current have become legitimate risks that make it harder and harder for electromagnetic
you to ground yourself safely. Earthing, in principle, is still great for you. fields.
But now nnEMFs are corrupting the process — basically using you, and
_Jump conduction:
your equipment, as a low-resistance path to get to ground. Transference
To illustrate, which would you rather have: electromagnetic between conductors
ofstatic electricity
frequencies pass through you to get to ground, as earthing methods do? Or
from nnEMFs.
to have them hit you and stay in the body? The answer is neither. Passing
nnEMFs out to ground may sound a little better for you. But, ideally, Ground current:
Stray electricity in
you don’t want any nnEMFs to be hitting you in the first place, because the ground
any electromagnetic pollution touching you can’t not harmfully affect you. underneath you
Word to the wise: A building’s electrical system picks up ambient high- (not good).

frequency EMFs like an antenna, in addition to low-frequency dirty elec- Dirty electricity:
tricity riding the power lines. It sends those frequencies throughout a build- Unwanted spikes,
ing’s wiring to every grounding port on a circuit (the third prong). In doing surges, and
frequencies riding
so, earthing equipment can inadvertently transmit nnEMF pollution into the power lines
you. In fact, Dr. Dean Bonlie actually measured earthing equipment (below the
increasing the amplitude of nnEMFs going into a person’s body by 300%. frequency of wireless
commiutications).

Earthing Rx
Only ground yourself through your home’s electrical wiring if you know
it’s free of unwanted frequencies. Test and retest regularly. It’s definitely
the riskiest and most impractical way. A much safer way to get your
electron push is through an earthing rod stuck in the ground, and
connected to you through its own dedicated wiring. But watch out for
nnEMFs using you, and your equipment, as antennas. Make sure hostile
frequencies and stray voltage below you don’t travel up your grounding
cable. You'll want to test the whole circuit.
The best way to ground yourself is to get out and touch the earth with
bare feet and hands. In most places that’s still a good idea. However, it
might not be that way for long — particularly when 5G ramps up and
stray voltage roams around in the dirt as ground current.

9 —
 WATER’S MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS

Water is our largest mammalian battery pack

Water is essential to the energy needs of the body because it stores energy
from our surroundings, and later releases that energy to power cellular
processes. That makes water a battery, and the sun our best battery
charger. Without water, most bodily functions don’t work properly.
To give you some perspective on the importance of water, biochemists
have traditionally studied biology by looking at its composition. Meaning,
they take a cell or a tissue, break it down, empty out the water, and study
it in a dehydrated state. But how much can you really know about how a
cell works when you remove the single most important driver of cell
function? That’s the fundamental question mitophysics aims to answer:
What’s happening at a cell level to make wellness, illness, and aging occur
systemically throughout your body?
As one pillar of the biophysics triumvirate, water is an inseparable sculp-
tor of health or sickness because it powers, contains, or otherwise facilitates
Images of the
the physics and chemistry of the body. More broadly speaking, you can
exclusion zone
(“e-zone”’) in take the cell out of the sea, but you can’t take the sea out of the cell.
chapters 8 and 10 Without a doubt, there’s much more to water than you might think.
are used courtesy
of Prof. Gerald
But supporting the body’s biochemistry is only the beginning. Only
Pollack. recently has science come to learn most of the work in the human body
is done by water’s biophysical
Principle 1: Water Has Four Phases a properties we never knew it had.
More precisely, who would have
thought in the year 2000 that
water’s most important contribution
to human health comes from its
electrical potential? Wait, water is a
power source? That’s crazy.
ice
= eee re The fourth phase of water
Discovered and characterized by Prof. Gerald Pollack and colleagues
(based on the concepts of Gilbert Ling, Albert Szent-Gyérgyi, Walter
Drost-Hansen and James Clegg), the fourth phase of water is one of the
most intriguing scientific discoveries made in the last century, because it
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explains dozens of natural phenomena that happen around us every day,

but science and medicine had yet to explain.
Also called (1) “exclusion zone” water, (2) “EZ,” (3) structured water
(not the same as vortexing to de-cluster molecules), (4) interfacial water
(the interface between a surface and the water around it), (5) charge-
separated water, (6) H;O,, or (7) “e-zone”’ herein. Its applications in
science and medicine boggle the mind, because e-zone is a distinct phase
of water between a liquid and a solid. It’s found almost everywhere in
nature that normal water is present. And it has unique structural
dynamics, as well as its own remarkable properties.

Electrical charge is Nature’s favorite force

Most activity in the world around us — including that in the realms of
biology, hi-tech, physics, and geology — revolves around electrical charge,
because most work in the universe is done by ‘like’ charges repelling each
other, or unlike charges attracting each other. Gravity, in contrast, is many
orders of magnitude weaker at making things move (by a factor of 10**).
In other words, positive and negative charges are the driving force that
moves things in biological systems, in our man-made devices, and in
geology. Nature uses electrical charge in so many ways because electro-
static attraction and repulsion is astonishingly strong, particularly at the
subatomic level.
To illustrate, suppose you could collect the electrons flowing through
each of two (lit) incandescent light bulbs for one second. Position those
negative charges a few inches apart from each other, and how much
repulsive force do you think they’d have? Try the weight of 50,000
garbage trucks. Now remove 1% of the electrons from each of two
people, and those electrons placed a foot apart would repel each other
with the force equal to the weight of the earth.
How water’s positive charge separates from its negative charge
Regular water (H2O) is composed of two hydrogen atoms, each of which
has a +1 electrical charge, and one oxygen atom, which has a -2 electrical
charge. When combined, this gives water a neutral electrical charge (1+1
of hydrogen — 2 of oxygen = 0). Hence, water’s neutral electrical charge
can’t do any work (attract or repel) in its normal state. Yet those charges
do contain tremendous energy potential, as we shall see,
Exclusion zone water is able to power cellular processes (i.e., chemical
reactions and movement) by separating positively-charged hydrogen
atoms from negatively-charged OH groups, and rearranging them into
hexagonal sheets, with a pool of those hydrogens beside it. Separate pools
of charged particles thus create the electrical equivalent of electrolyte (the
liquid with all the juice in a car’s lead-acid battery)
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HONEYCOMB SHEET

What happens is, around surfaces (especially

oxygen
water-loving surfaces), water naturally
rearranges its atoms into layers of a
honeycomb shape, which are one atom thick.

The honeycomb sheet is

the EZ’s unitary structure.
Sheets stack parallel to the
material surface to build the
EZ.

The polarized layers build up on top of each

other, shifted sideways by one atom (i.e.,
oxygens in one layer are lined up with
hydrogens from another). This forms a crystal
lattice that’s easy to break apart due to its
weak bonds.

These configurations, like a game of musical

chairs, don’t have room for some of the
hydrogen atoms in its hexagonal matrix. So
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Configurations like this are called liquid crystals

because of their honeycomb-ordered structure
(crystal) and weak bonds (viscous fluid).
count: iS 7 &,
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charge:
hydrogen 3 X (41) = 43

oxygen 2 X (-2) = -4

In contrast, ice uses the same hexagonal structure netcharge: -1

as e-zone, only the layers are stacked directly on
top of each other. The negatively-charged oxygens
in one layer are bound to oxygens in the adjacent
layer through the positively-charged loner
hydrogen we just talked about, thus forming a
strong, solid bond. This strong electrostatic
connection is what makes ice solid.
Interesting to note, water goes through the
e-zone phase before it turns into ice. And when
ice melts, it becomes e-zone briefly before it turns
back into regular water. For these reasons, sailors
have noted for centuries that water surrounding
icebergs is more viscous than regular water. The
liquid crystal properties of e-zone explain why ships
slow down as if sailing through Jell-O.
RADIANT ENERGY

But the difference-maker for biology is that the

size and strength of the exclusion zone grows when
it’s exposed to light — particularly IR — thus
separating more charge, storing more energy, and
making a bigger battery. The wavelength of light
that is best at building e-zone is infrared, followed
by visible frequencies. This is how water stores
Radiant energy charges the battery.
the sun’s energy for our cells to use.
The energy comes from the sun
and other radiant sources. The
water absorbs these energies and
uses them to charge the battery.
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Sunlight charges up your water

Water. E-zone starts with pure water — no impurities. In particular,
fluoride, bromine, chlorine, and deuterium spoil e-zone’s battery capacity.
Radiant energy charges up the e-zone. The best way to build
e-zone in the body is by getting sunlight on the skin. Infrared wavelengths
penetrate soft tissues 10-30 cm. This is how sunlight directly charges your
battery. Visible frequencies also help, as do most natural energy sources —
including radiant energy from people, pets (i.e., warm bodies) and things.
IR light released by mitochondria. When mitochondria make heat,
the IR light they release shrinks the water around the respiratory proteins,
which condenses them, making those mitochondria more efficient. And,
just as helpful at powering cell function, that infrared light charge-separates
water into e-zone.
Note to those living a disconnected life: People who get more sun
exposure tend to use the first process — direct sunlight — to power up
their e-zone. While those who get more cold exposure use relatively
more food or brown fat electrons to charge up their e-zone — the fringe
benefit being their mitochondria stay tuned up. Both are good for you,
but only real sun or cold exposure on your skin will do.

Fluoride
Fluoride is particularly harmful to human health because it’s a potent
dielectric blocker. That means fluoride inhibits the formation of e-zone
in cells and mitochondria so water can’t absorb as much light, and it can’t
make as strong a battery. Wherever you get fluoride from — whether it’s
in toothpaste, water, or pharmaceuticals — it lowers water’s charge-
carrying Capacity.
Another reason to avoid fluoride at all costs is it unwinds the triple
helix of collagen. Athletes listen closely: tendons, ligaments, and cartilage
are made of collagen that contain water to lubricate and cushion joints,
make them stretchy, and house fluid in the knee capsule. So by breaking
down collagen, fluoride increases the prevalence of cushioning and
connective tissue injuries such as ACL tears, Achilles tendon injuries,
meniscus and rotator cuff tears, and strained hamstrings.
That means you could be doing good things for yourself by taking a
collagen supplement, like those sold in stores. But then fluoride could
wreck it all by causing an ACL, Achilles, or meniscus tear.
Damaged collagen also loses its piezoelectric current, which slows
bone regeneration. You see, when collagen is under tension or
compression, it releases tiny electrical currents. You'll never hear this
from your orthopedist, but microcurrents of bioelectricity are the
fundamental force that activates bone healing.
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Fluoride also forms tiny crystals in soft tissues, which contribute to

arthritis and joint problems as cartilage grates on bones like sandpaper.
What’s more, the Manhattan Project proved 70 years ago that fluoride
dumbs people down and makes them complacent.
A fifth (big) reason to unfriend fluoride is it releases more calcium
into the system. Calcium efflux, as it’s called, exaggerates the stress
response we experience from nnEMFs that are already harmful to begin
with. Remember: calcium activates nerves and muscles. So fluoride takes
the never-ending stress our systems are in from all the sympathetic
activators around us, and it keeps the volume turned up.
Whether those stressors are from nnEMFs, stimulants, sleep deprivation,
toxins, or our emotional state, the stress on your system just never lets
up... even when you’re asleep. So mobilizing more calcium into cells is
exactly what you don’t need when you're trying to tilt your biology
toward a parasympathetic state of rest and digest.
Lastly, fluoride displaces iodine. That’s a big deal because one of
iodine’s superpowers is it gladly shares its electrons with DHA to prevent
DHA from becoming oxidized. Thus, iodine protects DHA, while
fluoride is powerless to prevent DHA damage. There’s nothing good
about fluoride — including for teeth. It should be banned.
A chemical cousin offluoride — bromine — is bad as well, because they
both belong to a group of elements called “halogens” that displace iodine
in the thyroid, impairing its function. Commercial bread products
contain bromine — supposedly as a “dough conditioner,” It blocks water’s
ability to form e-zone like fluoride does. That’s a more enlightened
reason grains are bad for you.
Cee

What happens when youre dehydrated? an ae

ee ry a

(Water-rationing programs, crisis calls, and

disease complications)
Dehydration disrupts a wide range of processes
we count on every day for our bodies to run
properly. Here are some hidden consequences of
water scarcity in the body:
1. Back pain. 75% of our upper body weight
is supported by fluid in the discs of the spine.
25% is supported by fibers around the discs.
So prolonged sitting, standing, or exertion basically squeezes
water out of the discs and fibers, thereby compressing the
supportive structures of the back, leaving no cushioning to relieve
the stress. Using simple hydration strategies, many people are
shocked to find that their back pain goes away simply by drinking
more water instead of soft drinks, fruit juices, and coffee.
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2. Stomach ulcers. The stomach’s protective layer of mucosal lining

is made mostly of water. So it’s one of the first areas to be impaired
by dehydration. The remedy: You can support the stomach’s natural
barrier to acidity by drinking a glass of water 30 minutes before
eating. This thickens the mucosal wall, thereby protecting the walls
of the stomach from its hydrochloric acid, and preventing ulcers
from forming. Avoid drinking too much when you eat though,
because fluids dilute stomach acid and can impair digestion.
3. General pain. Nerve endings interpret a high acidity level in tissue
as pain. So locally-produced pain (as opposed to pain produced by
the central nervous system) can be caused by a shortage of water to
wash acidic compounds out of tissues.
4. Asthma. The body uses the neurotransmitter histamine to regulate
water use, and to manage drought. What happens in cases of asthma
is histamine constricts the bronchial tubes in an effort to minimize
water lost through respiration of the lungs.
5. Allergies. Excess histamine in drought conditions hyper-activates
the immune system in the nasal sinuses (i.e., inflammation), leading
to an allergic-type reaction to pollen, dust, and dander.
Consequently, many people are amazed to learn they can reduce or
eliminate allergies just by drinking more water. This is shown to
calm down inflammation and allergies — even if someone has had a
condition since childhood.
6. High blood pressure. In dehydration, little capillary networks shut
down to conserve full blood volume in other vessels. With more
resistance to flow, and less vasculature to distribute the load,
pressure has to be increased to keep the blood pumping.
7. Edema. The body so desperately needs water when chronically
dehydrated that it sometimes stores water as edema, and tries to force
the water into cells by increasing blood pressure and retaining salt.
8. Hormones and insulin issues. Drought messes with hormones,
and can contribute to metabolic problems. In dehydration,
prostaglandin E (a drought regulator subordinate to histamine)
lowers insulin production as a coping mechanism to keep sugar,
potassium, amino acids, and water out of cells. Water can then be
used for more critical needs such as digestion and the brain (that
doesn’t use insulin), All that contributes to insulin dysfunction
and metabolic issues.
9. Headache. Brain cells shrink from lack of water. That can cause a
headache.
10. Hard, dry stools/constipation. The colon removes water from
fecal material to form stools. So, in an effort to conserve water, the
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colon is ordered to save every last drop it can, which can make
stools overly firm, dry, and possibly hard to move.
11. Weaker oxygenation. The smallest air sacs of the lungs, called
alveoli, use moisture to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen. So
when you’re dehydrated, the lungs can’t completely get rid of all
the CO> wanting to leave the bloodstream, and you lose oxygen-
exchange capacity.
12. Joint pain/rheumatoid arthritis. Cartilage lubricates joint
movement. To do that, it needs to hold water in its structure. So in
a well-hydrated state, the friction and normal wearing away of
cartilage is minimal. But when water is withheld, cartilage shrinks
and becomes abrasive. It then wears away faster than it can be
replaced.
13. Digestive problems. In the mouth, saliva solubilizes and lubricates
the food we chew and swallow. In the stomach, the very act of
breaking down food requires gastric juices in order to turn solid
material into a nutrient soup. After the stomach, the pancreas needs
water and salt to make the sodium bicarbonate solution that
neutralizes the acidity of material leaving the stomach. All these
depend on water to make them go. And digestion is a high-priority
activity. So, in mild dehydration, the body takes water away from
other processes to make sure digestion proceeds as planned.
14. High cholesterol. In a well-hydrated state, water gets into cells
through gaps in their membranes. But in a drought, the body plugs
up those holes with cholesterol to retain water. So rehydrating
alone is shown to reduce cholesterol levels.
15.Disturbed brain function. The brain is a hydroelectric system. It
contains the highest percentage of water of any body tissue. But in
prolonged dehydration, brain cells shrink, blood flow diminishes
(particularly in capillaries), minerals aren’t broken down properly,
and amino acid levels (the precursors to neurotransmitters) suffer.
Water is also supposed to deliver neurotransmitters to nerve
endings. So no hydro, no brain function. As a result, dehydration
can cause or contribute to depression, negative thought patterns,
multiple sclerosis, ALS, and Alzheimer’s.
All of this goes to show that a plethora of problems is caused, or
worsened, by poor hydration in the cells: Water can’t get in. Minerals
and glucose can’t get in. And energy production drops. The geometry of
proteins changes so they don’t work properly. Detoxification slows. And
aging accelerates. Are you beginning to see how water deprivation is
making us sick and tired, without us having the slightest clue why it’s
happening, or how to fix it?
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Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj (author, Your Body’s Many Cries forWater)

“We are beginning to understand dehydration manifests itself in as many
ways as we in medicine have invented disease conditions. We in medicine,
not knowing that dehydration becomes symptom-producing, and lack of
water in the body is pathology-producing — we have labeled states of dehydra-
tion, and complications of dehydration, as disease conditions... and most
often diseases of unknown origin. When the body has been calling for water,
it has become [standard practice in medicine] to give it toxic chemicals.”

Magnesium needs water to work

Magnesium is hydrophilic. It needs water to operate optimally. So when
youre dehydrated due to nnEMFs and mitochondrial dysfunction, etc.,
then magnesium deficiency makes it harder to activate a parasympathetic
state of rest and digest. Magnesium is also used in over 50 enzymatic
reactions. So dehydration throws a monkey wrench in dozens of key
biochemical process through magnesium deficiency alone, including
helping ATP get to where it needs to go in the cell.

You can’t make vitamin D

when you’re dehydrated
Vitamin D bolsters the immune
system. It controls bone growth.
And it helps us avoid conditions
such as obesity, brain disorders,
multiple sclerosis, heart disease,
and cancer. Deficiency of vitamin
D plays a large part in causing
allergies. In fact, vitamin D is used by the body in so many ways, some
even consider it to be a hormone. Unfortunately, you can’t make vitamin
D without water because dehydration impairs the body’s ability to turn
LDL cholesterol into vitamin D, called the “isomerization” step.
To make it simple, the body needs water to make vitamin D. But
almost everyone today is at least moderately dehydrated. Unfortunately,
most experts and naive public believe UV sun exposure is bad for you,
and needs to be blocked with the latest super-duper sunscreen. Truth 1s,
UV light is not bad for you. UV frequencies that heal and regenerate our
biology only appear to damage the skin because most people are
dehydrated, deficient in sulfur (which blocks harmful rays), and have not
developed a “solar callus” through morning sun exposure.
But why are we so dehydrated? It’s mainly nnEMF exposure,
inadequate intake, fluoride in water, low moisture content in our food,
and weak mitochondria not making metabolic water, along with the
electrical differential that draws water into cells.
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Therefore, you solve dehydration problems by doing the opposite: You

drink more water, drink better water, eat more whole foods, and improve
your mitochondria. You eliminate as much wireless radiation as you can,
and fix those other problems. That helps you make more vitamin D. And
then magically you’ll be able to stay out in the sun longer. You won't get
burned. And you can harvest the sun’s energy like you’re supposed to.
Dr. Jack is a perfect example. He’s fair-skinned, freckled, of Irish
descent. But he’s out in the sun all the time, and does those other things
to help capture sunlight better. So he can tolerate strong sun exposure for
more than five hours a day.

Is your mammalian battery in shape?

There’s a way to test what kind of shape your mammalian
battery is in. Meaning, is it low and just needs to be charged
up? Or is there a fault with something in the system that has
to be fixed before your biology will run at full power? (In
this instance, mammalian battery refers all stores of electrical
charge in the body, the largest of which is e-zone.)
That biological “battery checker” is your vitamin D level.
You need some combination of all three of the following
for your battery to operate at full strength:
¢ Sun. What’s your solar yield like? If it’s low, your solar panels must
be either covered up by clothing, you’re not outside long enough,
you're out at the wrong times, your location is not conducive to
getting UV and IR, or you're not incorporating sunlight into your
physiology properly.
¢ Water. Are you well-hydrated? If you’re low, you could be dehydrated
from being around too many people, using too many microwave
devices, for too long. In other words, your environment is toxic.
¢ DHA. Got DHA? Ifit’s low, it could be because of too much blue
light, or a dietary deficiency of DHA, or poor recycling of DHA
(blue light impairs the long-loop recycling DHA through the liver),

The best water is made by mitochondria

We all know it’s important to drink lots of water. But did you know the
water you drink is not nearly as beneficial to the energy needs of the
body as the water your mitochondria make? To give you some
perspective, the water you find in nature, and the water you drink,
averages around 145-155 parts-per-million deuterium. (More on |
deuterium in chapter 13.) Unfortunately, the more deuterium in water,
the more resistant that water is to forming e-zone.
On the other hand, the water that mitochondria make possesses a very
special quality: When all’s well, it should be almost deuterium-free. This
 WATER’S MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS — | 109

is crucial in creating optimal energy and wellness, because the production

of this “metabolic” water helps dilute your deuterium level into a healthy
range (along with breathing, urinating, sweating, and other waste-
removal pathways).
Using this process to their great advantage, desert-going animals like
camels and snakes can survive long stretches without drinking water
because their mitochondria make it internally. You see, camels don’t
store water in their humps, as traditionally thought. Instead, camels are
evolutionarily adapted to go weeks without drinking by storing fat in
their humps, and converting it into deuterium-depleted water on-
demand. Used throughout the animal kingdom, deuterium-depleted
water is perfect for making e-zone to power the body’s processes.
Bottom line: the stronger
your mitochondria are, the . i}
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What’s more, that e-zone is
where you need it most: inside
the cell and mitochondria. Yet
another way the road to
wellness or illness goes through
your mitochondria.

Hydration strategies
1. Drink more water. Duh. And purity matters. Make it easy on your
detox systems by testing your water supply, filtering it, or buying
water that helps your body remove toxins, not adding to your
already high toxin load.
2. Fluoride is not your friend. Do whatever it takes to make sure
there’s no fluoride in your water. Filter it, or buy natural spring
water. Even reverse-osmosis water is better than fluoridated water.
3. Chlorine is pretty bad too. Reduce your water’s chlorine content
by letting it sit in an open container overnight. Since chlorine is a
gas in its natural state, it off-gasses over several hours. However,
chloramines (a chemical cousin of chlorine used to disinfect)
evaporate much more slowly. So this trick doesn’t work with them.
4. Reduce your nnEMF exposure. The EMF frequencies all around
us are mostly microwaves. And what does everyone know about
microwave ovens? They dehydrate. They bombard food with
microwave radiation so strong it shakes water molecules loose from
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their surroundings. That’s why steam pours out offood heated in a

microwave oven. And that’s how cell phones, Wi-Fi, and IoT
devices unquestionably dehydrate you in their presence. The solution?
Stop using hand-held microwave devices, put more distance between
you and the devices, drink more water, or all of the above.
. Reduce beverages and foods that dehydrate. Avoid diuretic
beverages like coffee, soft drinks, and energy drinks because caffeine
dehydrates (i.e., makes you pee out more than you drink). Stay away
from fruit juices and sweetened beverages because sugar dehydrates
as well. Their concentrated sweeteners are a burden on your system.
Avoid alcohol for the same reasons. And cut down on salty foods
when you can; they soak up water.
. Barbara O’Neill’s sea salt ‘“Shydration hack.” Dissolve a crystal of
Celtic sea salt under the tongue as you drink some water, or before.
It’s absorbed quickly through the oral mucosa, and beats the water
into the bloodstream. The salt then gets into cells first, which pulls
water inside from the magnesium in the salt (it’s hydrophilic). Just
make sure not to put the salt directly in the water you drink. It will
just absorb water before it enters the cell and not help you hydrate.
. Spread out your intake. Drink small amounts of water throughout
the day if you can, instead of all at once. That makes it easier for
the body to absorb. You may want to add a mild natural flavoring
like lemon juice to pure water so the digestive tract takes longer to
process it.
. Get more water from moisture-rich foods. Unsweetened tea,
unprocessed broths, and homemade soups are good ways to hydrate,
as are fruits and vegetables with a high water content. This is how
we used to get much of our water.
9. Drink water sparingly with meals. Water dilutes stomach acid,
which neutralizes its acidity and impairs digestion. Instead, drink most
of your water up to a half an hour before, or 14-2 hours after meals.
10. See also Chapter 13: Deuterium for more information on
drinking deuterium -depleted water to bring your level down.

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 MAGNETISM

Magnetism is essential for health and life

All life on earth needs to be in the planet’s magnetic field in order to
maintain and regenerate its physiology. We must have unidirectional
magnetism to live, because it supports our biology in ways that are hard
to fathom. There would be absolutely no life on earth without it. In fact,
planets that don’t have a magnetic field, like Mars, can’t support any life
on them at all.
To highlight what happens in the absence of magnetism, Dr. Valerie
Ref: “The Hunt, Professor of Physiological Science at UCLA, hooked human
Infinite Mind,” subjects up to EKGs, ECGs, and other monitoring equipment, and put
Valerie Hunt,
pp. 30-38. them in a 7’ x 7’ enclosure that completely shielded them from all
magnetic fields.
Within minutes, the subjects began to sob uncontrollably. “We feel
like we’re falling apart,” they said. A loss of sensation and muscle control
started at the extremities and worked its way inward and upward. After
two hours, the heart and brain were in such great distress that the
experiment had to be halted. Dr. Hunt was certain they would have died
had the experiment been allowed to continue another hour or two. That’s
how dependent we are on magnetism. Let me repeat that so it really
sinks in: Without magnetism, you’d be dead in about three hours.
Shocked and amazed by Dr. Hunt’s results, Dr. Dean Bonlie, DDS,
did a similar experiment years later on six healthy, adolescent mice. He
wanted to know what the physiologic effects of a partially-reduced
magnetic environment are. Where is the threshold between dysfunction
MuMetal: and lethality? So he put six littermates ina MuMETAL box that reduced
Magnetic
earth’s normal magnetic field from 0.5 gauss to 0.1.
shielding material
made ofnickel, Within 15 minutes, the mice went into slow motion. They were
fron, copper, barely able to move, or even get up after being flipped over. After 24
chromium, and
molybdenum.
hours, one mouse died. The others that survived ate twice as much food
to compensate for the loss in energy. Left in a 0.1 gauss field, they quickly
became so morbidly obese they were actually round.
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The earth’s magnetic field has

been declining for millions of years By
Some say it’s due to a cooling and slowing
of the earth’s molten iron core that makes
magnetism, or energetic changes in the sun,
or the area of the universe we’re travelling
through. Some suspect it’s caused or
worsened by the proliferation of man-made
EMFs ionizing our skies (i.e., electrically
charged, so it’s more reactive).
Whatever the case, the magnetic field has decreased from a whopping
300 gauss in dinosaur days (as measured by alignment of magnetite crystals
in geologic formations), to 2.8 gauss 4,000 years ago in ancient
Babylonian days, to an average of 0.5 gauss today, depending on location.
Some experts say this is barely sufficient to support life. Still, the earth’s
magnetic field is dropping about s—7% per century. At this rate, NASA
projects it will reach zero within s00—800 years. Unfortunately, the
decline appears to be accelerating. And we have to deal with the health
consequences in the meantime.
So, up high, a high magnetic flux supports life on a massive scale. oe
Indeed, the science (not dogmatic scientists) suggests prehistoric life forms Wyoming.
were way bigger back then simply because stronger
magnetism gave them more energy to support their
great size and no doubt longer lifespans.
But, down low, when the gauss level bottoms out,
the magnetic field reverses, the poles swap places
(called a “pole shift’), and a mass die-off occurs
during the transition from lack of energy. In fact,
these pole shifts and mass extinctions are shown in
the geologic records to have happened 183 times in
the last 83 million years. That’s about every 450,000
years, and we’re due for another one soon.

How long can you stay disconnected?

Most people in good health can tolerate being disconnected from the full
strength of earth’s magnetic field for a short while, like flying at 35,000
feet. Others with really poor mitochondria and redox function can’t
tolerate being disconnected even for a few hours, like those who suffer
heart attacks or acute psychotic episodes in the air, not to mention blood
clots and strokes.
But, ultimately, no one can stay disconnected from earth’s magnetic
field forever, because magnetism energizes the matter within us,
regenerates us in sleep, reduces free radical damage, and helps
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regulate our biorhythms. The body and mind pretty much fall apart at
every level, from the micro to the macro, when you don’t get your daily
dose of magnetism.

Magnetism energizes the matter within us

Magnetism increases the velocity that valence electrons spin around an
atom’s nucleus. This phenomenon is described in physics by the Larmor
Frequency Formula (Wiamor= = B), where
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¢ B = magnetic field vector.
Crucial to our biology, valence electrons are the outer orbiting electrons
involved in the body’s chemical reactions. They are the electromagnetic
glue that makes atoms cling together to make molecules, or it keeps
molecules apart from one another. In other words, the negative charge
on electrons makes molecules sticky or repulsive, as the case may be. This
has enormous implications in biology.
Like heating a liquid, increasing the speed/energy ofvalence electrons
improves the bioactivity and reactivity of molecules in basic processes such
as the electron transport chain, the electron transfer of oxidation and reduc-
tion, enzyme function, detoxification, and the digestion of food. Simply
put, magnetism enhances the physics and chemistry of the body by making
electrons faster and friendlier (more open to forming relationships).
To put magnetism in perspective, stirring a solution speeds up chemical
reactions by moving molecules by meters (macro), which gives them
greater opportunity to interact with others. Heating a solution can speed
up chemical reactions even more by inducing motion at an atomic,
molecular, and macro level. But magnetism operates on a level we can’t
see, and were never taught: It can increase molecular action by making
electrons dance faster at a sub-atomic level.
More active electrons not only move more. But a stronger magnetic
field also causes electrons to cut through more lines of flux as they dance
around their nucleus. That raises electrical charge just like an alternator
would, given stronger magnets. For left-brain folks, that means if you
increase a magnetic field by 10,000 times (5,000 gauss), electrons orbit
10,000 times as fast. And they cut through a magnetic field 10,000 times as
dense. That amounts to 1 million times the charge in those electrons
(10,000 x 10,000 = 1 million). Now that’s hot.
Crucial to health and life, electrical charge aids energy production,
blood flow (by making RBCs repel each other), oxygenation, hydration,
healing, and detoxification. And just as light turns into DC electricity via
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the Photoelectric effect, magnetism can also turn into DC electricity via
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electricity to one organ or tissue at a time, while you sleep, in order to
charge up their electrons — not too much different than charging up any
mobile device. Recharging of electrons also happens during the daytime
to a lesser extent.
Brain cells called “astrocytes” put tissues and organs in a better state of
health by sending them voltage along nerve pathways so their electrons
move faster. When electrons are more energetic, the physics and chemistry
of the body works better, which means all of biology works better.
Dr. Dean Bonlie calls the recharging of tissues by the brain’s electro-
magnetic pulses “resonance.” Still almost completely unknown in 2022,
the theory of electromagnetic resonance is mostly the work of Dr. Robert
O. Becker, refined by Dr. Bonlie using acupuncture principles. In other
words, this is a breakthrough concept (should the theory be proven true).
Now, most important for this discussion, the strength of resonance,
which is simply voltage, greatly influences how well cells and their
mitochondria function. Voltage from astrocytes, simply put, equals
potency ofregeneration. Unfortunately, when stress, heavy metals, sleep
deficiency, and foreign frequencies reduce electrical output from the
astrocytes, organs and tissues throughout the body don’t get their fair
share of reenergizing resonance. :
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One of the primary functions of astrocyte cells in the brain is to convert
chemical energy into electrical energy in order to heal and regenerate the
organs and tissues of the body. Loosely interpreted, the Chinese call the
body’s capacity to rejuvenate tissues with electricity and blood flow “chi,
Chi: Vital life vitality, or life force.” (To them, the act of restoration, and resulting
force, or essential
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determined primarily by the strength of their mitochondria, because
makes us alive.
mitochondria turn the chemical energy in glucose into electrical energy
in the form of electrons and protons (aka redox potential). The brain’s
mitochondria in particular are supported by magnetism, and they’re
inhibited by stress, heavy metals, sleep deficits, and nnEMFs.
So both production and consumption affect the availability of chi.
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electrons feeding through the electron transport chain.
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By supporting your chi with concepts like these, you can tilt the supply
and demand in your favor. Astrocytes will then be able to send sufficient
electrical flow to the tissues that need it in order to charge
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Natural vibrational frequency (aka fundamental

frequency)
Despite the way they are often depicted, electrons don’t
actually spin around an atom’s nucleus in perfect circular
orbits. Electrons are only presented like planets circling a
sun in order to show discrete energy levels they can occupy,
Electron configuration: 2, 8,18,18,7
called “orbital shells,” which are basically stair-stepped
levels of energy that electrons can reside at. More accurately, quantum
mechanics says electrons hang out in predictable, but not precisely
definable, patterns ofprobability around the nucleus, which we call “orbitals.”
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Now, the majority of the time, the weight and electrical charge of
electrons are somewhat evenly balanced across the atom. But, every so
often, electrons cluster more on one side of an atom than the other,
which over-weights that side with polarity and mass. Like a washing
machine spin-drying when it’s out of balance, the atom vibrates as one
side gets overloaded again and again. In the case of body tissues, this
happens about I—100 times per second.
Important for biology, when electrons cluster together, an atom’s
attractive and repulsive force on that side increases briefly because its
charge and momentum bunch up. An imbalance of charge and momentum
from this momentary grouping creates wobble and vibration, called “pre-
cession.” And the rate at which an atom, molecule, or organ oscillates in
this fashion is its natural vibrational frequency (which anyone could detect,
given the proper equipment and training). Consequently, the frequency
at which a material vibrates is one surefire way scientists can distinguish
one material from another, and one type of tissue from another.
What’s happening at an atomic level is, when atoms are together for
some time, as they are in an organ, the orbits of their outermost valence
electrons synch up with one another so they all spin around their nuclei
at regular intervals. Hence, you get signature rates of vibration the brain
can use to target just that organ or tissue for regeneration. Astrocytes can
then address each tissue individually, based on need and supply.

How resonance energizes and heals tissue

Like many pure materials, each tissue in our body oscillates at its own
distinct frequency. When the oscillation is strong enough (i.e., the
amplitude is high enough) in an inorganic material, and within the range of
human hearing, we hear the frequency vibrating air molecules as sound.
For example, we all know the sound a wine glass or tuning fork makes
when it’s tapped. Similarly, ifa strong oscillation is below the range of
human hearing, we might feel the vibration with our sense of touch,
Now resonance is when you expose an atom, molecule, or material to
the exact frequency at which it naturally vibrates — whether that
application of energy is a sound wave, a magnetic force, or an electrical
charge. In other words, atoms and pure materials are constantly vibrating
at a certain frequency — whether you can hear it, or feel it, or not.
Increasing the intensity of that vibration by applying sound, electrical
frequency, or magnetic pulses can turn imperceptible frequencies into
perceivable ones. So resonance is simply adding more of an
atom/material’s natural frequency to make it vibrate more intensely
— meaning, stronger as in amplitude, not faster as in higher-pitched.
Best example is an opera singer breaking a wine glass with sound. By
singing at the exact frequency at which the glass naturally oscillates, she
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introduces more energy into the crystal. The glass continues to absorb
this energy until the resulting vibration exceeds the material’s fracture
strength and the glass shatters.
Normally, resonance in the body can’t be felt because its amplitude is
too low. But when super-accelerated healing is taking place under the
colossal magnetism of the MME machine (more on that below),
resonance can be so intense that broken bones, degenerated discs, or
diseased livers can feel as if they’re vibrating so strongly they want to
jump right out of the body. Both patient and clinician can feel it.
What’s happening at a subatomic level is that resonance gives an atom’s
electrons a tiny push each time they hit the same spot in their orbit (.e.,
when they’re most lined up). This gets those electrons going faster and
faster with every push, which supercharges the cells, tissues, and organs
they reside in... literally.
Foundational to biophysics and chemistry, orbital velocity makes
electrons more enthusiastic dance partners in electron exchanges such as
the electron transport chain, in enzymatic reactions like digestion, and in
the production of proteins. Vital to maintenance and repair, electron
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To illustrate this effect, how do you get a kid on a swing to swing
higher with minimal effort? All you have to do is give them a tiny push
each time they stop moving backward and start moving forward — not a
moment sooner or later. Same thing with charging up electrons in living
tissue: perfectly timed pushes. Except, in the case of biology, orbital speed
of electrons translates into more energy for growth and maintenance.
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So timing is crucial, because if you push the electrons at the wrong

moment (slightly before or after they hit their “apex”), electrons don’t
continue to gather speed. Rather, some pulses add velocity, while others
take it away. The result being, overall electron speed does not change,
vibration of the atom stays the same, and you get no resonance. This is
what happens when astrocytes and cells around the body aren’t communi-
cating properly: lack of resonance equals lost opportunity to renew.
Similarly, if you give electrons a push in the wrong direction, instead of at
the wrong time, you unequivocally slow down their orbital speed,
decrease the atom’s vibration, and reduce its chemical activity. Not good
for life. You get this effect in a reverse-polarity magnetic field. It’s a loss
of energy and health, which is why you’ve got to watch out for unstable,
non-uniform magnetic fields: You speed up some electrons, while you
slow down others, thus upsetting communication between controller
glands in the brain and organs in the body, as well as organ function itself.
Without a doubt, bipolar magnetic fields and chaotic fields (like those
you find in a modern home or workplace) are not good for the body on a
continual basis. Applied repetitively, weaker (but still uniform) bipolar
magnetic fields activate a stress response, deplete the adrenals, and drain
your tissues and organs of the energy they need to renew, and even
Pulsed electro- maintain, themselves. This is what small magnets and PEMF devices do
magnetic field when used too often.
therapy devices
(PEMF) But even worse, highly irregular magnetic fields — meaning intensely
stimulate nerves, disordered — can easily cause the worst diseases imaginable, such as brain
muscles, and
cancer. Guess why. A portion of that exposure slows down valence
blood flow using
on-off electricity electrons, reduces ATP production, inhibits enzyme function, and cuts
to heal an area. protein production to repair cells and make biochemicals. This disastrous
situation can happen when your home is constructed with wiring errors.
How, then, does the brain know which frequencies to use, and how
much to apply to each tissue? That’s the job of biofeedback. Through
biofeedback, the astrocytes know which tissues need to be resonated with
electricity and which tissues don’t. Through this feedback-control system
the brain can target one tissue at a time with its favorite frequency to
bring it up to speed, instead of wasting resources resonating tissues that
don’t need it.

How astrocytes coordinate regeneration

Not well known, but instrumental in healing, the body’s electrical
regeneration system is a closed circuit (complete), with energy and
information going out to the body to charge up cells and tissues, and
coming back in through the return pathways of the acupuncture
meridians to tell the brain what cells need.
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Here’s a basic overview of the healing and communication circuit:

1. Astrocytes convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
Mitochondria in the brain’s astrocytes turn glucose into electrical
energy. This pulsed DC current is broadcast to tissues around the
body. Astrocytes use up their electricity during the day when you’re
active (the Chinese call this energy “chi, vitality, or life force”).
And you charge them back up at night when you sleep.
2. Carrier frequencies employ macro-frequencies to heal. Slow-
wave pulsed DC electricity (negative only) from the astrocytes flows
out to distant organs and tissues to resonate them. This energizes and
regenerates tissue by charging up their electrons.
3. Message frequencies employs micro-frequencies to communicate.
Encoded on those outbound healing frequencies (by piggybacking
small waveforms onto the larger carrier wave) are special instructions
for stem cells to tell them where they’re needed, and what to mature
into when they grow up (e.g., nerve cells, blood vessel cells, bone
cells). These directions are message frequencies. When these
messages are not received properly for some reason (most often
because of nnEMF interference, weak signal, or both), stem cells
don’t proliferate and differentiate into new tissue like they should.
That means full healing fails to take place. Mitochondria are given
their own set of instructions on message frequencies to respond to
the ATP needs of tissues.
4. Astrocytes collect data. Information is collected about the health
status of organs and tissues based on the frequency of their vibration,
which is then encoded onto the large carrier wave for its return trip.
Similar to 120 volt power returning to the power station, the carrier
frequency loops back around and returns through the covering of
the spinal cord, now loaded with information for the astrocytes to
decipher about the condition of tissues.
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On a technical note, electrical resonance frequencies are transmitted to

organs and tissues through the semi-conductive outer layer of nerves,
Fascia; Thin, filmy made up of Schwann cells. And, on the return trip, the fascia and spinal
casing surrounding
muscles, nerves,
cord covering are the semi-conductive layers that transmit the combined
organs, blood signal back to the astrocytes.
vessels, and bones From the intel gleaned in the resonance phase, astrocytes find out
that holds each
tissue in place, which cells in the body have lost their mojo, and which ones are happy
separates it, protects campers. Astrocytes then direct cell repair and replacement in real time as
it, and relays the carrier frequency is boosted and sent out for another go-round.
information,
The lesson for the day is that the electrical system of regenerative
resonance and cellular communication forms a complete circuit. It is
broadcast to the entire body on the outside of motor and sensory nerves.
And it returns through the acupuncture meridian system. This is the
body’s electrical regeneration system of resonance.

Why we sleep in 90- to 120-minute cycles

While we sleep, our astrocytes cycle through a range of frequencies at
which tissues resonate, once every 90 minutes to two hours. They manage
this not by matching frequencies exactly, but by hitting each tissue with a
harmonic of its natural frequency once per cycle. The cycle is repeated
until something makes us wake up, or we’ve gotten sufficient sleep.
Resonating each tissue repeatedly, and adding energy into their
electrons, is how the brain recharges, renews, and re-synchs organs back
to being their best selves. This includes the replenishment of neurotrans-
mitters and hormones, DNA making more RNA to build proteins and cells,
as well as mitochondria making more ATP due to freer flowing electrons.
Now, very important in hydration and heavy metal removal, more
ATP makes the sodium-potassium pumps work better to raise electrical
differential at the cell wall. Positive charge from sodium and potassium
helps bring more oxygen, water, and nutrients into the cell, while it
pushes out the trash more easily — notably mercury, lead, aluminum, and
other positively-charged toxins (majors causes of disease).
On the other hand, when organs or tissues are not resonating properly,
these processes break down and disorder sets in. That’s a state of incoherent
operation we call chronic inflammation, degeneration, and/or disease.
Cancer is the ultimate expression of communication breakdown between
the brain and a group of cells. No matter how hard the brain tries to talk
to a group of cancer cells and get them on the same page as the rest of the
body, the rogue cells just keep on doing their own thing. In this situation,
astrocytes aren’t resonating the cancer cells properly. Instructions from
astrocytes aren’t getting through to the cancerous cells, telling them to
sacrifice themselves with apoptosis. And cancer cells aren’t communicating
back to the astrocytes on message frequencies. It’s a mess.
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What throws the body out of resonance? What can you do about it?
Stress, in all of its forms, is the #1 cause of tissues not being able to
resonate properly — for example, a high-pressure job, sleep deficiency, too
much blue light, stimulant drinks, toxins, oxygen deficiency, poor nutrition,
hectic lifestyle, past traumas, and of course foreign frequencies on top of
it all. Stress depletes the body’s biochemical and biophysical reserves.
What happens is that stressors place extra wear and tear on an
organ/tissue. Through biofeedback, those cells tell astrocytes to send
extra electricity and blood flow to help them recover from the extra
demand. However, there’s only so much of that to go around. If these
coping mechanisms aren’t sufficient — in capacity or duration — stress
management chemicals such as adrenaline, cortisol, calcium, and ATP are
called in for support.
On a temporary basis, that’s fine. The bad news is, these backup
biochemicals are major contributors to chronic disease by launching
processes that bring heavy metals into the cell. Heavy metals interfere
with the mitochondria’s ability to make energy and avoid disease. But the
thing is, without stress, heavy metals would not be able to build up in
cells because, when all’s well, they get pushed out of the cell by resonance
and high electrical charge before they ever get a chance to build up.
Bottom line: Heavy metals, particularly mercury, are the villain that
“pulls the trigger” in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, chronic
fatigue, fibromyalgia, cardiovascular disease, and general failure to renew.
Stress starts the cascade by bringing mercury into the cell. But it’s
mercury, as well as lead and aluminum, that cause most of the damage by
undermining mitochondria’s ability to make ATP, electricity, magnetism,
and resonance from astrocytes. Thus, the body can’t renew.
See also chapter 17, section titled “Classic, biochemical stress
responses” (pg. 258), to learn how stress brings calcium into the cell in
order to suck in more oxygen for respiration. When that happens,
mercury gets pulled in by accident. Calcium later leaves easily, but the
mercury is much harder to get out. Hence, mercury accumulates, and you
get weaker mitochondrial function, less resonance, and deficient renewal. |
Diseases of the brain, nerves, heart, and energy level then show up, and |
we're left wondering why. |
Scar tissue through the fascia also blocks healing and message
frequencies, so avoid surgery whenever possible.
nnEMFs: Very important in today’s wireless world, when astrocytes
are able to, they turn up the power on the carrier/healing frequency to
overpower man-made frequencies. However, their capacity to do this is
limited by the amount of electrical power they’re able to generate.
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So as foreign frequencies around us get denser, we’re seeing more and

more extreme sensitivity to nnEMFs in the form of electro-hypersensitivity
(EHS). It’s a vulnerability to foreign frequencies so severe that they
scramble the more powerful carrier/healing signal. The person’s system
then malfunctions in all sorts of unpredictable ways that look like
hormone, electrical, and signaling problems.
More commonly seen, communication on message frequencies is far
more susceptible to interference from weaker nnEMFs because it’s a
much fainter signal than resonant healing frequencies, Three
consequences of this failure to communicate are chronic inflammation,
stem cells that can’t differentiate, and slower healing.
Luckily, fortifying the brain’s electrical output with a Magnetico Sleep
Pad fixes EHS more often than not, because exposure to enhanced earth-
type magnetism improves electron transfer of ATP production, charge on
the cell wall, and excretion of heavy metals out of astrocytes. Astrocytes
then have the chi/vitality to emit stronger resonance frequencies and
message frequencies than competing nnEMFs.
Conclusion: Magnetism is the main biophysical force that helps the
brain’s astrocytes produce enough electricity to resonate organs and tissues
Magnetico Sleep at the proper voltage, frequency, and timing. Hence, the Magnetico
Pads are made of Sleep Pad is one of the fastest, most powerful ways to reverse many
thousands of tiny
magnets that act as chronic conditions caused by mercury mayhem. It can dramatically
one giant magnet, increase your body’s ability to recharge its chi/vitality.
amplifying the
earth’s magnetic Exercise strengthens the body’s electrical system
field by 10, 20,
or 40 times. See Dr. Robert O. Becker’s books, The Body Electric and Cross Currents, taught
the end ofthis us that bones, muscles, and the ends of the ligaments, are piezoelectric.
chapter, and the
Recommended
That means muscles are like rechargeable batteries in that each time you
Resources section contract or relax a muscle, the trio (bones, ligaments, and muscles) emit
at the end ofthe static electric charges of electrons.
book, for mire
information.
By adding piezoelectricity into the resonance system with movement,
astrocytes then don’t have to work as hard converting chemical energy
into electricity for regeneration. For this reason, physical activity enhances
electrical messaging of the brain and body through donation of electrons
into the system — particularly when that movement is strenuous enough to
be considered exercise.
Thus, the brain’s got more power to heal — and be heard above
competing frequencies — which is a big deal when you're immersed in
electrosmog every minute of every day. Piezoelectricity of bones,
ligaments, and muscles is another reason exercise offers the body
biophysical benefits we're just beginning to understand after Dr. Becker
wrote about it in the 1980s.
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How the presence or absence of

magnetism affects you
Magnetism makes the ATPase spin faster — all by itself
When we're closer to the earth’s magnetic field, the fifth cytochrome (the
ATPase) in the electron transport chain spins faster. This makes
mitochondria more efficient at producing ATP. And that means more
energy is produced from the food you eat, fewer calories consumed, and
less waste. It could translate into easier weight loss.
One place you can get more magnetic flux, and thus make more energy,
is in the Gulf South of the United States. When the Chicxulub asteroid
hit the earth 66 million years ago near modern-day Mexico, it left a crater
12 miles deep, and 93 miles in diameter. That means the earth’s crust is
thinner from the coast of Louisiana to Florida, which puts earth’s magma
chamber closer to the surface. Hence, the entire region is in a stronger
magnetic field, which makes mitochondria pump out more energy.
To illustrate what this boon in energy means to life in the area, the
Gulf of Mexico is closer to the equator. It should not have much seafood
in it because warm water carries less oxygen and iron. It shouldn’t be as
fertile as colder water. However, the gulf has something special that other
equatorial waters don’t: extra magnetism. It’s this magnetism that gives
sea creatures more energy to thrive.
The perfect place to see this phenomenon for yourself is New Orleans.
Seafood is so plentiful there it’s not just another food category to residents;
it’s a cornerstone of their culture... practically a way of life.

The earth’s magnetic field drops during the day and increases at night
When the earth’s surface faces away from the sun, the magnetic fields of
both celestial bodies align and enhance each other. So at night, when our
biology is designed to use magnetism to recharge and renew, that’s when
the earth’s magnetic field is at its strongest.
On the other hand, during the day, the sun’s magnetic field — which is
% as strong as earth’s — competes with the earth’s magnetic field, pushing
it back toward the planet. As a result, the side facing the sun experiences
a lower magnetic field.
Bad for biology then, the magnetic field emanating from some areas of
the planet are so weak that the sun’s magnetic field completely overpowers
them and makes them reverse polarity. The South Atlantic Ocean is one
such area. Large stretches of the Atlantic Ocean now have a reversed mag-
netic field during the day, and a normal (reduced) magnetic field at night.
This is a big deal because the earth’s magnetic field (magnetosphere)
also keeps the ozone layer in place. So if the magnetic field goes away, so
does the ozone layer. That means we lose our protection against UV rays,
x-rays, and gamma rays. And that’s exactly what is happening in the area:
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Low magnetic flux in the South Atlantic has led to destruction of the ozone
layer over the North Atlantic, where the magnetic flux returns to earth.
No people live in most of the affected areas. But, for the first time
ever, scientists have reported seals in the arctic getting sunburned by the
intensity of UV light hitting the surface. In fact, UV rays have been
measured in Atlantic polar regions to be as intense as those at the equator.
Unfiltered light is melting ice in Greenland, Canada, and the North Pole
dramatically faster than the North Pacific where the ozone layer is still
intact. There, the icecap is actually growing.
That’s primarily what creates the appearance of climate change warming
the planet and melting ice. So-called “global warming” in the North
Atlantic is caused mostly by diminished magnetic field in the South
Atlantic. Waning magnetism is what breaks down the ozone layer over
Greenland, Eastern Canada, and around the North Pole, which allows
more UV light to hit icecaps, seas, and earth. It’s not CO, emissions.
For us, all of this means weakening magnetic fields reduce our healing
at night when we sleep. It means by day, the ozone layer is broken down
in certain areas of the world, so unfiltered light is wreaking havoc on the
biology beneath it. It means serious polar ice problems for those
ecosystems. And that also means, not too long from now, the earth’s
magnetic field will reverse, as it’s done nine times before, according to
the geologic record.

The earth’s magnetic field helps regulate our circadian biorhythms

Very few are aware of this, but proteins in mammalian biology go
through a daily/nightly cycle of “breathing” energy in and “exhaling”
energy out — which is their version of energy respiration in a daily cycle.
Our proteins literally expand by day to accept energy into them by
unfolding. And they contract by night, when we sleep, to recover from
the day’s exertion.
The molecule that expands them is ATP. And the fundamental force
that brings our proteins back together after a hard day’s work is
magnetism (aided by gravity). On the other hand, without magnetism to
re-condense your proteins, the collagen and DNA in your body slowly
unwinds — making your bones, cartilage, and muscles break down more
quickly. These are mysterious, but meaningful, reasons humans can’t live
without magnetism for long: The earth’s magnetic force acts like a tuning
fork, bringing you back in-line when you’re connected.
Conversely, the farther away from the earth you get, the lower the
magnetic field, and the sicker you’re going to be. Unfortunately, the
earth’s magnetic field appears to be bottoming out as we just talked
about. And magnetic flux weakens with distance, according to the inverse
square law.
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Feeling low on magnetism? Take a trip to

the North Pole
Lines of magnetic flux around the earth are
denser at the poles than they are at the equator
(picture iron filings around a bar magnet). The
magnetic field around the equator averages
about 0.3 gauss, while the magnetic field at the poles measures 0.6 gauss.
So, once again, we see how clever Nature is at supporting life all over
the planet. The tropics are blessed with abundant heat and sun, resulting
in a more prolific food chain. But colder climates of the North and South
poles have more magnetism, lots of water, iron, and higher Oz saturation
in water, which makes for more plankton and fatty fish in the area.
Without biological balancing mechanisms like these, extreme latitudes
would be barren wastelands like some other planets in our solar system
that shall remain nameless.

Rebar in concrete walls conducts magnetism

Dr. Dean Bonlie studied this effect. He found that the high iron content
of rebar conducts magnetism towards it. So the outer load-bearing walls,
elevator shafts, and corners of concrete buildings (where executives tend
to have their offices) have an above average magnetic field — as much as
twice the norm.
On the other hand, magnetism is conducted away from the center of
tall buildings. In fact, the middle of these rooms had about half the
magnetism compared to the outer walls and elevator shafts. That
encourages employees in common areas to eat more in order to keep up
their energy level. So they tend to get fatter working in a reduced
magnetic field. On the contrary, executives with the best offices had a
health advantage due to a stronger magnetic field and more energy. Hear
that kids: stay in school ;-)

Want to know what THE worst mitophysical environment will do to

a person? Spend some time in space
The space program doesn’t like talking about it, but living in space is
THE worst environment you can possibly be in from a biophysics
perspective. Life in high earth orbit is a virtual hell hole of inappropriate
light exposure, reduced magnetic field, dehydration, low oxygen, less
weight-bearing exercise, and zero gravity. All of that decimates human
health, much of which is irreversible.
When astronauts go into space for extended periods, the alien
environment around them uncouples their biology from the earth’s
natural rhythms. Meaning, all their chronobiology programs that run
sleep/awake cycles, metabolism, regeneration, and hormonal signaling are
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Stock image ofarandom guy in space.

thrown out of synch. In a word,

their biological programming
becomes incoherent. And that
makes organ systems malfunction
like an engine management
computer mis-reading its sensors.
Erroneous signaling spells trouble
for both people and computer-
controlled systems.
The International Space Station, for example, travels at 17,150 miles
per hour. At that speed, astronauts/cosmonauts onboard see the sun rise
and set every 90 minutes — 16 of each per day. Plus, the electromagnetic
frequencies they receive are radically different, and more intense, than
what we get at ground level because the sun’s rays in orbit are not being
filtered by the earth’s atmosphere. That means they’re exposed to the full
power density of the entire electromagnetic spectrum without any sort of
attenuation by earth’s ozone layer and atmosphere. Imagine what all that
ionizing radiation does to a person’s cells and circadian rhythms.
Just as upsetting to human biology, there’s no gravity. There’s no
natural grounding effect in space or Schumann resonance. They’re
constantly working under blue light. And they’re discouraged from
drinking a lot of water due to the lack of conventional toilets. Worst of
all, the vast majority of magnetism is from the sun, which is % that of
earth’s, at that distance.
What’s more, the frequent positional changes of being in a space station
subject the occupants to unstable magnetic fields ~ in contrast to being
upright or lying flat most of your hours on earth. This circadian nightmare
is so radically different than what our biology is built to tolerate that
astronauts experience decades’ worth of aging in mere months.
For example, Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days
aboard the Mir space station and was found to have lost 80% of his bone
density when he returned to earth (due to lack of magnetism, low
gravity, and circadian disruption). American astronauts have become
sterile permanently after long space flights.
What basically happens in space is human biorhythms are sped up,
deranged, and decoupled from one another, while regeneration programs
are derailed from a lack of native EMFs that normally regulate these
processes. So more damage is done faster to their bodies, while
regeneration almost completely crashes.
But the most important idea to incorporate into your consciousness 1s
this: The environmental exposures that astronauts receive in space
are just a more concentrated version of what we now get living in a
world that worships its wireless devices. Astronauts just get their
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exposures confined in space and time, whereas we get the same exposures
spread out in location and duration.
For example, Dr. Jack Kruse flatly states that every single person living
in populated area today has some degree of bone loss from the nnEMFs
a
trapped in our atmosphere. It’s as if we’re all living in a giant MRI
machine that someone forgot to turn off. Think about that.

Magnetism helps make the world’s best wine

Through centuries of observation and refinement, the
French have mastered the art of winemaking. Their most
famous is Champagne. But French wine isn’t in a class of
its own simply because of richer soil, better grapes, and
more passionate people. Its superiority comes from
minding the details. And the way the French store their
wine while it’s aging is an important part of that process.
The way it’s transported contributes to the quality.
You see, down through the centuries, the French
learned that aging their wine underground, where it’s
closer to the earth’s magnetic field, yielded a better
product. Storing it in cellars prevents photo-oxidation.
Shipping it in colder months protects it from temper-
ature oxidation.
So whether they knew why they were doing it or not, the higher
magnetism underground, combined with the consistently cool and dark
conditions, gives wine the ideal environment for their microbes to ferment
sugar. The little critters in wine benefit from being closer to the earth’s
magnetic field, just like our own cells and microbiota do. Once again, we
find physics to be fundamental, with chemistry bringing up the rear.

Some physiological effects of magnets

To observe what magnets are capable of doing, you can put a tiny shower
curtain magnet on an acupuncture point on the wrist and get these types
of measurable results (through blood test):
© 45% increase in beta-endorphin
@ 24% increase in serotonin
¢ 15% increase in ACTH (an adrenaline precursor)
¢ 12% reduction in cortisol.
Even more impressive, Dr. Gumiel (PhD ofscience, researcher with
Project Genesis, The World Development Organization)— his placebo-
controlled research showed that 23 different insects live 5 times as long
when they’re put in a magnetic field 10 times stronger than earth’s.
Likewise, human tissue cultures and mice live 2% times as long in that
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field. However, there is a difference between the tiny magnet test and Dr.
Gumiel’s results. It comes down to the type of magnetism used and how
each operates.
Crucial to understand, bipolar magnetism operates on a different
principle of action from unipolar magnetism. Unipolar magnetism (one-
way field from lots of small magnets acting as one big magnet) is an
amplification of earth’s own magnetic field, giving only positive benefit.
Bipolar magnetism (two-way field) redirects the body’s limited resources
to an area of need, which is essentially an emergency healing response.
Failure to understand this
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magnetic flux lines
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designed magnetic bed pad. As long as your EMF environment 1s not too
upward. The green bad, it’s one of the few products or practices in the world that deposits
magnetic field lines vitality into the health bank account of everyone using it — regardless of
(negative) flow
downward, which age, condition, lifestyle choices, or genetics. And sleep is the time when
is the same as the we need magnetism the most, because that’s when the body goes into
earth’s magnetic
active repair, replenishment, and regeneration mode.
field in the
Northern For these reasons and more, Dr. Dean Bonlie invented a unidirectional
hemisphere. magnetic sleep pad for home use, and an industrial-strength device for
clinical use. Both give you the benefits of the earth’s magnetic field, every
night times 10, 20, 40 or 12,000.
He calls the sleep pad for home use the Magnetico. It delivers 5, 10 or 20
gauss, depending on model, compared to today’s 0.5 gauss. And he calls the
machine designed for clinical use the Magnetic Molecular Energizer (MME).
It looks something like an MRI machine, and delivers 3,000-6,000 gauss.
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How the Magnetico Sleep Pad improves your health and resiliency
Dr. Dean Bonlie believes much of the Magnetico’s disease-fighting, anti-
aging magic happens primarily as a result of increasing the orbital velocity
of valence electrons. That makes atoms wobble more (or vibrate, called
“precession”), which makes them more chemically active.
Free radical production is also decreased (a primary reason we age). In
fact, he’s seen free radical production reduced by 80% at 3pm, after
sleeping on a Magnetico the night before... s—9% after just 20 minutes.
Blood cells also pick up more oxygen from increased polarity.
So the Magnetico basically energizes matter, enhances chemical
reactions, oxygenates more binding sites on hemoglobin, and protects
cells from oxidative stress. It’s even been shown to repair DNA damage
in genetically-modified mice, diseased livers, and malignant tumors.
For his part, Dr. Jack Kruse believes the Magnetico improves electrical
and magnetic charge from the mitochondria, water chemistry (structuring),
and the Photoelectric effect, as well as enhancing DHA, melatonin, and
cortisol cycling. It also maximizes the benefit you get from cold
thermogenesis, as well as detoxification by enhancing redox potential.
In particular, a major benefit of sleeping on the Magnetico is it
improves sleep quality, so each sleep cycle is more effective. In other
words, you can think of the Magnetico as a sleep accelerator. It is the #1
most powerful intervention I know of to improve sleep quality.
Indeed, many users have reported that they’re able to sleep fewer hours,
and wake feeling just as refreshed.

Conditions for which the MME or Magnetico have shown huge benefit
Enhanced, earth-type magnetism has helped alleviate the root causes of
fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, arterial plaque, low back pain, congestive
heart failure, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, neuropathy, cerebral palsy,
multiple sclerosis, stroke, PMS, arthritis, allergies, migraines, sleep
problems, cancer, autism, ADD, and heavy metal toxicity. Of course,
Magnetico makes no claims about treating these diseases directly.
Goodness gracious; a miracle cure for everything! I know it sounds
that way. But when you act on the most foundational levels of biology —
which are subatomic energy, electron exchange, ATP, redox potential, and
biochemistry — then those symptoms of energy deficiency listed above
disappear to the best of the body’s healing ability. Over-supplied with the
basic natural resource of magnetism, inconceivable healing becomes
possible, even commonplace.
Specifically, the MME is shown to grow new blood vessels and nerves.
It has repaired degenerated discs in the back, and dead heart muscle after
heart attack. Even the Magnetico, making “just” 10, 20 or 40 times the
earth’s magnetic field, has been shown to unclog plaque from arteries,
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change malignant tumors back into healthy tissue, and improve function
in autistics and Alzheimer’s, as well as grow new brain tissue after
parasites had literally eaten huge holes in it.
Consider it canon: 9 times out of 10, disease is nothing more than a
shortage of energy to recondition tissues. That’s is. And the MME
delivers that in extraordinary quantities. The Magnetico, for its part, does
similar things in the body, albeit its results are more like excellent to
outstanding, but more within the realm of believability.

You need maximum ATP to push heavy metals out of cells

Non-toxic metals leave the cell at around a 40-50 millivolt differential at
the cell wall (58 millivolts is normal), and even easier when the cell divides.
But brain cells don’t divide. So to get toxic metals out of the brain, you
need maximal electrical charge of 80-110 millivolt differential. That high
a positive voltage is needed to push positively-charged heavy metals out
of the cell with electrostatic repulsion, while negative charge outside the
cell helps suck the metals into the blood, lymph, and interstitial space.
To reach about twice the voltage as normal, mitochondria must be
running at full blast. Mitochondria need to
oversupply the sodium -potassium pumps with ATP
(their fuel) in order to raise voltage at the cell wall
from §8 millivolts to around a hundred.
Some things that crank up ATP production:
® magnetism
e IR and UV sun exposure
¢ low deuterium level
© low heteroplasmy rate
© a ketogenic diet (periodically)
® exercise
e and cold thermogenesis.

The Magnetico is masterful at getting heavy metals out of the brain

There is nothing more powerful at mobilizing heavy metals out of hard-
to-reach areas like the brain than a strong one-way magnetic field.
Chelating agents alone aren’t able to access heavy metals in the brain. But
Dr. Bonlie’s 1.3 Tesla MME machine has the power to do it. So does the
Magnetico (less aggressively). They’re able to increase ATP production,
and voltage at the cell wall, so heavy metals are released from the brain.
The challenge then, once mercury, lead and cadmium are mobile is to
capture and remove them from the bloodstream before they recirculate
and cause a Herxheimer reaction. Meaning, people with a high heavy
metal load (particularly MS and Parkinson’s) can get sick if you don’t
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bind up the heavy metals as they’re released from cells. DMSA and Dimercapto succinic
chlorella are Dr. Bonlie’s chelators of choice. Sian ne
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where they cause a plethora of chronic diseases, you need special help. them out of the
body through detox
You first need more earth-type magnetism to help push heavy metals out bedi
of brain cells. Then you need a chelating agent such as DMSA or chlorella
to bind the metals so detox organs can spot them and escort them out.

Most impressive, is how fast magnetism has healed bone fractures

A machinist who did some work for Dr. Bonlie broke the radius and
ulnar bones in his wrist, in places that are fairly hard to heal. He was
treated conventionally by an orthopedic doctor on a Saturday, and had
his arm put in a cast. On Monday morning, he called Dr. Bonlie to see if
he could do something about the horrible pain he was in. The swelling
was making his cast too tight for comfort.
He arrived at Dr. Bonlie’s clinic and put his forearm in the MME’s
10,000 pound electromagnet. His hand started to resonate so intensely he
asked the staff if the vibration was normal. They assured him it was.
Three-and-a-half hours later, the bones were completely healed. They
coaxed him into doing a pull-up on a door to prove it to himself.
Needless to say, he was impressed more than words can convey here.
Shortly thereafter, he went back to his orthopedist to mess with him a
bit. He jiggled his arm in front of the doctor and asked if he should have
the cast remade because it was too loose to be doing any good (i.e., no
swelling). His doctor panicked at the prospect of messing up the way that
the bones were set. But, unable to argue with the machinist’s logic, the
doctor ordered a new x-ray to take a look.
The three x-rays were placed next each other — the before picture, the
after setting the bones picture, and the x-ray just taken. His orthopedist
was in utter disbelief at what he was seeing. Totally mystified, his doctor
could not find the break that he himself set just days earlier. He asked
him what kind of voodoo he’d been doing.
Another man, a 34-year-old, broke the fibula bone in his lower leg
falling out ofa tree. He had it professionally set. Three-and-a-half hours
in the MME and he could walk on the leg again. Another two hours in
the machine and the bone was completely healed. Meaning, doctors
could not find the break on his x-rays.
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But the funny thing is, results like this are typical when astrocytes are
able to resonate tissues in a magnetic field 12,000 times that of earth’s.
These cases were resolved quicker than most, but not unheard of, when
you understand how magnetism gives the body thousands of times the
resources they normally have to heal at incredible rates.

Limitations of the MME and Magnetico

Unfortunately, the MME and Magnetico do not shield you from non-
native EMFs themselves (darn it). EMFs go right through magnetic fields,
bending their direction only slightly. But the MME and Magnetico do
help protect you from the adverse effects of nnEMFs by replenishing
chi/vitality faster. This is particularly helpful in relieving electro-
hypersensitivity. And the Magnetico does deflect alien magnetic fields
fairly well. The strongest magnetic field wins, basically.
The MME and Magnetico do not kill viruses, parasites, bacteria, and
other microorganisms directly. But unidirectional magnetism does
strengthen the immune system so your defenses are fortified against
microbial pathogens.
Until a few years ago, Dr. Bonlie had used the ultra-powerful MME in
his clinics for many conditions suspected to be caused or worsened by
heavy metals collected in the nervous system such as Alzheimer’s,
dementia, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, arterial plaque, cerebral palsy,
thyroid dysfunction, autism, and ADD. But, due to FDA regulations,
the MME is no longer in use (a good sign it works, in my opinion,
because it was shown to be extremely safe and effective, as claimed).
Magnetico Sleep Pads are a good way to do most of the same things at
home, albeit more slowly and with a lot less power.
To sum it up, the Magnetico improves energy production and healing
capacity so you can tolerate more nnEMF exposure before you come
down with a disease. Its one-way magnetism boosts your constitution.
But shielding your home against nnEMFs may be necessary if you live in
a densely-populated area and want the best health and resiliency possible.
Man-made frequencies are basically the MME’s kryptonite (i.e., disables
its superpowers), and a tax on the Magnetico’s performance that varies
from one person to the next.

The difference between a one-way magnetic field and a two-way

The earth’s magnetic field is so big it’s effectively unidirectional to the life
forms living within it. Meaning, the magnetic field travels in one
direction through you because the lines of flux come out of the planet in
the Southern hemisphere, and they go back in in the Northern hemisphere.
An interesting implication here is that exposing yourself to a
unidirectional field that’s directed against the earth’s own field will indeed
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slow down your valence electrons and deplete you of energy and healing
capacity. This actually happened to Dr. Bonlie early on, when customers
first used the Magnetico in the Southern hemisphere.
They stopped using it after one night because they felt it was killing
them. Meaning, they were getting the wrong polarity, at 20 times the
intensity. He put on his thinking cap to figure out why this was
happening. Once he understood the problem, the solution was simple:
He told them to turn the sleep pad over, and that fixed the problem.
With the polarity now traveling in the same direction as the earth’s
magnetic field, the Magnetico was then adding energy to the user’s
valence electrons, instead of taking it away. The lesson learned here for
everyone is: polarity matters; direction matters.
In contrast, a magnet you could hold in your hand is two-directional.
The magnetic field it produces is small enough so both its positive and
negative poles radiate through you at the same time. Generally, you get
60/40 exposure, because the field must loop around and return to its
other side as the opposite polarity. This is what we call a bi-directional,
or bipolar, magnetic field.
At first, the body is stressed by the disharmony of a bipolar field. A
“wrong way field upsets the body’s own delicate electrical system by
reducing ATP, and charge on the cell wall. So, if they’re able to,
astrocytes send more voltage to the area to regain control and give it extra
resources. Blood flow also increases. However, the eftect is limited
because it robs from Peter to pay Paul.
Simply put, the way bipolar fields act on the body are not natural. But
that’s not to say they’re without benefit. They just act differently and
temporarily. Meaning, bipolar magnetic fields can work well initially. But
they deplete the body’s electrical resources when you use them too
much. The benefit goes away the more often you do it, and the longer
you do it. For instance, adrenal fatigue happens a lot when you overuse
bipolar magnetism. Keep pushing the stress button over and over, and
pretty soon, your adrenals do an on-the-job slowdown, if not a strike.
Reason being, bipolar magnetic fields operate on very much the same
principle of action as acupuncture: they aggravate the electrical system,
and cells notice the disturbance. The body then responds by sending
more electrical current and blood flow to overcome foreign frequencies
and revitalize the area. It’s basically a call for help that reroutes resources
to an area of need. For this reason, acupuncturists are trained to treat
patients no more than once a week, or else the benefit goes away.
But, even worse, are oscillating magnetic fields and chaotic fields, like
those produced by electricity running through your walls, wires, and
devices. Oscillating magnetic fields from AC power and wireless sources
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can devastate a person’s health like few other exposures in the modern
world — in both totality and timeline.

Changing hemispheres
When you're introduced to a magnetic field going the opposite direction,
your cells need time to reorient their electrons’ direction of orbit. That
means if you go from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern, you
change the polarity of magnetism your cells and atoms are subjected to.
This temporarily makes you feel depleted because the new magnetic field
depresses your energy production, as well as hormones and chemistry of
the body.
But as cells divide, electron orbits on the new cells intrinsically match
the magnetic field they’re born into. So, for the first month or so you’re
in a new hemisphere, you lose energy and vitality. You feel ran down
and then clobbered. But from that point on, your energy starts to pick
back up, until you fully acclimate to the new magnetic field. After about
10-12 weeks, you're back to where you started. Unfortunately, if you
change hemispheres again, you have to repeat the process.

Along similar lines, sleeping orientation matters

If you spend the majority of the night sleeping on your stomach, that’s
the orientation your cells’ electrons are aligned to, more than any other
part of the day or night. Sleeping on your back is the opposite polarity, so
to speak.
That means changing from your front to your back, or vice versa,
during the night actually robs you of energy. It’s not a major effect on the
body. But let’s just say it’s not optimal. Somewhere in between is
sleeping on your side. Side sleeping is like an off-angle variation of either
your front or your back, so it isn’t detrimental to either one.
I’m predominantly a side-sleeper. But in the morning, I occasionally
lie on my stomach for a while to find a comfortable position. After that
short while, for some strange reason, it feels as if my flow of energy has
run out, and I desperately need to return to my side.

The #1 reason products and practices that worked great initially

lose their effectiveness over time
The concept to retain for future reference is the mechanism by which
acupuncture works. Many healing modalities operate on the principle of
creating some sort of stressful disturbance in the body. Think of it as a
crisis the body calls in emergency resources to fix.
These can make the modality work temporarily for some people... if
the body has the resources to draw from an area of lesser need. But then,
after some days, weeks or months, the benefit starts to wane... until it stops
working altogether, and you’re back to where you started, or even worse.
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Meanwhile, you continue to employ the product or practice because it

gave you some relief in the beginning. It seemed to help, and so you
became attached to the perception it gave you. But the benefit is gone,
and may even be hindering your efforts to get better over time. Just as
bad, you continue spending your time, money, and commitment on
something that’s not serving you in the present.
I’d venture to guess this is one of the most common reasons people fail
to get well when they have a “sick-until-made-well-by-a-‘buyable’-
product” mentality. In other words, don’t assume a product or practice
will continue to work for you weeks or months after you start using it
successfully. Many tap into the body’s limited pool of resources and steal
from other areas of need, in order to deal with a bigger, more urgent
threat. Unfortunately, they do this without replenishing the source. So
you take two steps forward, and two vacillating steps back, over and over
again.
To say it simply, these types of treatments are basically creating a
bigger emergency for the body to deal with. As long as you know
that, and apply the method judiciously, you can continue making positive
gains without regressing.

Conclusion: There are good magnetic fields and bad

Copycat magnetic pads, in an effort to save money, contain far fewer
magnets. By constructing the pads with fewer magnets, they have to
space them farther apart. And that makes each of the small magnets create
its own bipolar magnet field on the body, as opposed to acting like one
big (single) magnet, as the Magnetico does.
In other words, imitators expose you to bipolar fields that may give
you benefits when you first start using them. But the benefits wear off
over time, until you’re back to where you started 6-12 weeks later,
Indeed, you can even go backward after that. Most bipolar magnetic bed
pads then end up gathering dust in the user’s garage because of this
blunder of basic premise.
Conversely, the Magnetico’s patented design acts like one giant
magnet, because it’s made of an array of small magnets placed an inch
apart. Its field is so large that it acts just like a stronger version ofthe
earth’s own magnetic field. For this reason, you place the Magnetico
underneath your mattress, on top of your box spring, and not on top of
your mattress like some cheaper knock-offs. Their field is too small and
weak to reach you through a mattress.
When you (try to) pick up a Magnetico Sleep Pad, you'll feel what I
mean. It’s extremely heavy. Their king size version, for example, is made
of four pieces, weighing 99 pounds each. The sheer mass and strength of
magnets is why the Magnetico affects the body in subtle to stunning ways
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other brands can’t touch. It’s just that powerful at enhancing the earth’s
own essential magnetic field. Think of it as an earth’s magnetic field, enhanced.
Note: See Bottom line: Everyone might need to sleep on a Magnetico in the
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Fortunately, the Magnetico has the distinct advantage of putting time
on your side. Just think: Most therapies that you do for wellness require
you to carve out time in your schedule. Think hyperbaric oxygen
chambers, cold thermogenesis, sunbathing, massage, red light therapy,
yoga, acupuncture, or exercise. Even preparing healthy meals, making
shakes, or ingesting supplements takes time. These are big expenses of
resources you may not have considered.
But sleeping on a Magnetico is entirely effortless and automatic.
You get the benefits whether pursuing them or not; in wellness or in
deficit. It’s always present when you are. Consider shielding your
sleeping space for the very same reasons: passive benefits.
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The heart doesn’t pump blood the way we think it does

We've been told the heart manually pumps blood through the body’s
many miles of arteries, capillaries, and veins. Biologists say this pumping
action is the driving force that circulates blood around the body. But
William Harvey’s that’s a false assumption first published in 1628 by William Harvey and
theory of blood
petrified into doctrine ever since. Before that, a Greek physician for the
flow (1628):
Exercitatio Roman soldiers, Galen, said blood is made in the liver and sent to organs,
Anatomica de which consume that blood, never to be reused! So to this very day, not
Motu Cordis et
Sanguinis in
only is our belief about the heart and blood wrong; it’s absolutely
Animalibus, impossible, as you soon must admit to yourself or at least question.
commonly referred The mystery that medical science can’t adequately explain: How can
to as “de Motu
Cordis.” the heart push individual blood cells through the body’s many miles of
tiny capillaries, considering the fact that red blood cells (RBCs), 6-7
micrometers (tum) in diameter, are actually larger than the smallest capillaries
they pass through (3—5 um)? That means RBCs have to be deformed into
an elliptical shape to fit through the narrowest capillaries.
Those two factors — distance and deformation — (would) create unimag-
inable resistance to fluid flow. Can you imagine the friction? Can you
imagine the hydraulic pressure you'd need to push a viscous liquid through
miles of microscopic tubes AND distort the RBCs at the far reaches of
their circulation? Not to mention the pressure needed for the return trip.
It would require hydraulic pressure orders of magnitude greater than the
heart can possibly produce and the vessels can withstand. So that line of
thinking clearly does not hold water. Just try blowing air, which produces
far less friction than water, through a straw more than ten feet long.
You'll see what I mean. Now try pushing water through rubber tubing a
millimeter in diameter, 3,000 feet long, and clogged at the end.
Which leads us to only one conclusion: There has to be more to blood
flow than meets the eye. The heart can’t possibly do what we think it
does. Instead, blood flow must be driven by other forces to overcome the
unimaginable resistance that would theoretically be present, if blood flow
worked the way people thought it did.
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How blood circulates through the body

What follows is my take on how the cardiovascular
system operates, based on the work of Prof. Gerald
Pollack (dynamics of charged particles), Viktor Viktor Schauberger.
Schauberger (implosive energy flows of vortexing), © Schauberger-Archive.

my own analysis (zeta potential unifies the blood),

Dr. Jack Kruse (paramagnetism of blood), and Rudolf
Steiner/Thomas Cowan, MD (Cowan said Steiner
recognized the heart acts like a hydraulic ram pump). x
The circulatory system uses multiple mechanisms of action to operate
efficiently. Healthy blood flow is a combined effort of: (1) the electrostatic
repulsion and attraction of charged particles that cancel friction and
interconnect the blood; (2) the heart making blood flow pulsate and
vortex; (3) the suction effect of the heart’s magnetism; and (4) the
nervous system contracting blood vessels to create a pumping action.
When the circulatory system receives contribution from each of its
forces, blood flows around the body with minimal effort/maximum
conservation of energy. But when these forces weaken due to disease, or
when adjusting to exertion or temperature, the body compensates so the
right amount of oxygen is delivered and waste evacuated.

The blood behaves as a single organ, with lots of roving parts

It’s tempting to think of the blood as being little more than a collection
of cells in water. But Nature designed it to function more like a high-
fluidity gel, with trillions of pieces distributed throughout the body — all
adapting to their local terrain, but working as one, courtesy of polarity.
Blood, to put it simply, is not just a variety of cells floating in liquid. It is
exquisitely engineered bio-machinery whose movement is more
coordinated and compliant to vessel structure than its material or
chemical properties suggest.
Indeed, the technology contained in the blood and circulatory system
is so advanced, yet disguised, that it’s taken till 2022 for someone to come
along and break down the brilliance of its design into laymen’s terms.
Specifically, we have the blood’s electrostatic properties, combined with
the heart’s structuring of blood flow, to thank for the blood’s ability to
circulate as easily through microscopic vessels as it does through tubes the
size of a garden hose.

Speed of blood flow varies, but total momentum stays much the same
Counter-intuitively, total momentum of blood in the circulatory system
does not change much from one point to the next. Its toughest challenge
is probably to maintain some momentum as vessels branch into 3-5
micrometer capillaries... not just because the vessels are smaller than
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RBCs (certainly part of it) but, rather, the capillary bed is so spread out
that individual cells each carry negligible momentum when they need it
most: through the tiniest capillaries.
That’s why the body often resorts to raising blood pressure when the
blood loses polarity and cohesiveness, and/or when the heart is not
pulsing and vortexing the blood properly: cells need a minimal amount of
momentum to keep flowing in the right direction and not stall
somewhere midstream. Constricting the arteries to increase blood
pressure is how the body usually hikes circulation to meet this ‘force of
flow’ requirement. However, this has consequences.

We need to rethink our understanding of blood flow

Key to knowing how the circulatory systems works, blood is not pumped
around the body by mechanical forces of high pressure pushing it into
areas of low pressure. Rather, electrostatic repulsion and attraction do
most of the work turning many individual cells into a marching band
with many moves. Polarity makes the blood’s journey around the body
virtually frictionless. Here’s how I came to this incredible realization:
Watch micro blood In watching real video footage of how red blood cells actually move
flow in YouTube through small vessels, it was clear to me that areas of high pressure and
videos entitled
“Capillary BloodFl low pressure could not possibly make the cells move the way that they
ow.wmv”, link: do. Blood moves through the vessels too freely and homogenously (as-
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one) for that to be the case.
A, and “Blood First conundrum: How do red blood cells get into the smallest
Thur Veins2 capillaries? Why do capillaries less than one cell width in diameter get any
Microscopy blood
circulating flowing
RBCs to flow through them at all, when nearby vessels are far bigger, and
capillaries offer far less resistance? You’d think blood cells would avoid the hassle of
corpuscles vessel having to contort themselves when larger vessels offer a speedier, more
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comfortable ride, with no distortion needed. Doesn’t make any sense.
https: //youtu. be/ Second problem: How does the heart generate enough pressure to
WHO TWIFORM, push red blood cells through cramped capillaries? The heart is too far
away, and blood flow too widely distributed, for this passage to happen
against the friction we would expect.
Third, how do red blood cells exit the smallest capillaries and rejoin
their co-workers in line? RBCs with a normal zeta potential are supposed
to repel each other with negative charge. But I saw very slow-moving
RBCs leaving a capillary and entering a perpendicular, extremely fast-
moving larger vessel that was completely packed with cells. There seemed
to be no room to enter the fray, so they should have been blocked from
entering by the repulsion of traffic flying by.
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speed, the force couldn’t be mechanical

suction; it has to be electrostatic. Zeta potential
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as making red blood cells slippery so they don’t stick to each other and form Larryisgood,
clots. That’s good enough for common consumers, but an even more exact modified by
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understanding will greatly improve our ability to diagnose and treat cardio-
vascular disease. In my (non-clinical) estimation, zeta potential is probably
Zeta potential:
the first thing you want to fix when your cardiovascular system deviates.
Electrical charge of
In digging around, I found out zeta potential is actually a net-negative particles attached to
cloud of charged particles around red blood cells that encourage them to an object (larger
dotted circle in above
stay uniformly spaced from each another — meaning their round sides are graphic, composed of
very close together or touching, but their surfaces are not smushed fwo zones),
together or very far apart. Blood cells are neither intimate partners nor compared to ambient
solution. In biology,
strangers; they're good friends with all their cell-mates. Conversely, when zeta potential
RBCs are low on zeta potential their concave faces stick together like a describes the net
stack of coins, because RBCs are made of sticky glycoproteins. That’s negative charge
around red blood
incredibly bad for your circulation, oxygenation, and organ function. cells, which makes
Basically, charged particles form an invisible buffer zone, or lubricating them repel each
other and slippery to
film, around the RBCs that gives them the freedom to move indepen-
their surroundings.
dently, or help them catch up when they fall behind the rest of their
squadron. Close, but not clustered, is where RBCs feel most comfortable,
because that’s the distance of best flow rate and nutrient exchange.

Zeta potential keeps red blood cells from sticking to vessel walls
Cells of the endothelium (inner vessel wall) normally have a negative
charge. So repulsive force is what propels net negative RBCs through
negatively-charged blood vessels like a maglev train’s levitation and
propulsion system. The net negative charge of zeta potential cancels
friction between blood cells and the vessel walls — especially important in
one-cell capillaries. Not so coincidentally, like charges repelling each
other is Nature’s favorite way of making materials slippery such as ice.
By definition, zeta potential is the net charge of particles around RBCs,
compared to that of the surrounding fluid. In biology, zeta potential is
 BLOOD FLOW, PARAMAGNETISM AND DHA {| 143

mostly the measurement of electrons around RBCs, compared to protons

in the surrounding serum (the blood’s liquid).

At the same time, protons in the serum give blood cohesiveness

Essential to blood’s interconnectedness, particles of positive charge in the
serum are the attractive force that gives whole blood its urge for
solidarity. Protons pull RBCs along when they need to accelerate — much
more than the force of suction does. Wherever the serum goes, it sucks
the RBCs along, using positive-negative attraction. Imagine tiny magnets
in the serum pulling RBCs through the smallest tunnels, against the
greatest resistance, or merely into gaps in arteriole (small artery) flow.
Electrostatic attraction is as important as repulsion to blood flow:
¢ This would explain a more plausible means by which RBCs get
pulled through the narrowest capillaries, other than areas of high
pressure and low pressure.
¢ This explains why small gaps in a larger, fast-flowing arteriole
violently suck stationary RBCs into the flow from a single-file
capillary: the net negative charge in a tightly packed arteriole (lots of
RBCs) pulls the positive charge of the serum into the flow when
small capillaries space the cells out (i.e., more positive fluid, fewer
negative cells). RBCs in the capillary then get pulled into the current
like yanking a big water balloon out of someone’s hand.
Ejection fraction: e An absence of attraction explains the occurrence of low “ejection
Percentage of fractions”: attraction between the liquid and the cells is low, so
blood ejected from
the heart with
blood flow doesn’t have its usual oneness. Each contraction then
each contraction, leaves more blood behind in the chamber.
compared to how
¢ Tissue polarity is another way that blood manages to get through the
much remains tn
the chamber. capillary bed without losing much momentum: oxygen-poor tissue
in the capillary bed, which is positive, literally pushes proton-rich
serum out of the way, while pulling oxygen-rich (negative) RBCs
toward it. RBCs are linked to the serum like a chain of rubber bands.
e And this explains why, when you actually watch it, blood flow
appears incredibly agile and energetic, as if red blood cells
enthusiastically go wherever they’re needed, instead of fighting
friction and momentum, were it not for electrostatics.

No doubt, conventional mechanics helps mobility of the blood a little,

such as fluid molecules crashing into the back of RBCs, and the pressure
differentials we always assumed were the blood’s sole motive for
movement. But it’s clear: mechanical forces are completely inadequate to
explain how a one-pound heart can push a viscous fluid through 60,000
miles of small-to-microscopic tubing.
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Now can you appreciate how RBCs like to keep some personal space
and, at the same time, the positive charge in the serum keeps whole bie
blood moving in a train-like fashion? Can you see why, except for when Ged Sonne OF
the heart interrupts the flow to create pulsation, all the blood in the entire Gerald Pollack.
circulatory system does its best to move in unison?
Of course, blood flow must adapt to differences in
vessel size, shape, pressure, occlusions, and
temperature-related constriction/dilation. But these
are understandable reasons why the design of the
cardiovascular system has tricked people into
believing the ‘heart is a pump’ paradigm for hundreds
of years. It’s because the blood’s most important
properties are not mechanical or chemical in nature
(the lenses through which medical science sees
biology). Instead, they’re centered around electrical
charge, physics, and the flow of energy.
Look closely at how blood really moves through
medium-sized vessels and you'll see groups of cells
flowing as a unit. Then, when a breakaway group
enters a single-file capillary, those cells act more
independently (i.e., spacing becomes more random)
as friction goes up and the influence of mechanical
pressure goes down. Finally, as cells re-enter bigger
vessels, they go back to behaving as a group. 7
Gerald Pollack described this cohesion action in his
book The Fourth Phase of Water. He wrote that zZ
objects of like charge in a solution are attracted to
each other because their clouds of opposite charge
surrounding each object comingle, pulling the objects
together due to a doubling of electrostatic attraction
between them (see image top right). When (or if) the
objects touch, the particles of opposite charge then
glue the objects together with “like-opposite-like”
charges. This explains why “like likes like” in physics.
Wet sand clings together using this phenomenon
(unlike dry sand) to make sand castles, as do water
droplets to form clouds, among many more scenarios.
Well, the cells in whole blood express the very same
dynamics, only the negative charge around RBCs is
not a single layer of charged particles; it’s a zone com-
posed of two layers. And blood is not fixed; it’s fluid.
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The heart has 6 main jobs (none of which are to pump the blood)
1. Makes blood flow pulsate. The heart stops blood flow for a split
How a hydraulic second to build a pressure differential between the supply side of the
ram pump operates:
Water from source
tricuspid valve and the delivery side. When the valve opens, a
‘C’ causes one-way pressure wave is launched into the preceding one.
valve ‘A’ to close. 2. Vortexes. It converts a laminar (flat) flow into a vortex (swirling).
Water pressure
increases around
3. One-way valve. It keeps blood flowing in the right direction.
‘H’, which pushes 4. Pulse rate. When you need more oxygen, the autonomic nervous
water through valve system makes the heart beat faster to increase the frequency of its
‘G’ into vessel ‘B’,
while the air pressure waves. This is how the heart regulates quantity of blood flow.
contained in ‘D’ ww". Adds propulsion with the blood’s paramagnetism.
gets compressed. 6. Structures water molecules in the blood. The heart’s magnetic field
Soon, valve ‘G’
closes from the high structures the blood’s water molecules into smaller clusters. This
pressure in ‘D’, enhances charge-separation and erases energetic residues.
which pushes water
up pipe ‘EB’.
The heart doesn’t pump the blood the way that we’re told
Meanwhile, valve
‘A’ has opened It does not create an area of high pressure, which then drives blood out to
from the low the tissues and back. That’s laughable. Instead, the heart controls the quality
pressure around
‘H’. That’s one
of blood flow first and its quantity second. The heart shapes the way the
full cycle. blood flows, which is a large reason why blood is able to circulate around
the body at all. If the circulatory
its= system were not designed around
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Nature’s principles of implosion,
acceleration, anti-friction, polarity,
and conservation of energy — then
the blood would not get very far,
and complex life forms would not
exist.

The heart operates similar to a

hydraulic ram pump
See a hydraulic Hydraulic ram pumps (aka “water hammer” pumps) have been used for
ram pump centuries to move water uphill, using pressure differentials created by a
operating in the
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flow of water. Ram pumps take in water from a fast-flowing stream (C)
entitled “How the into a pipe (H) with a pressure accumulator (D). Water pressure slams a
ram pump works”: one-way valve shut (A), which causes positive pressure to build up on the
utps://youtu.be/i
3 1hGIIZOTs. supply side (H) of the one-way valve (G), which sucks water into the
delivery side (B) of the valve (G). When valve (G) closes in the second
half of the cycle, water is pushed through the system by the air pressure in
accumulator (D). In this way, the kinetic energy of flowing water (C) is
converted into pressure, which is used to move materials against gravity
or resistance (E).
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The cardiovascular system uses a similar concept to help regulate blood

flow, except in biology it’s a completely closed system, the components are
in-line, and there’s no waste overflow. The heart is essentially a modified
hydraulic ram pump. In fact, hydraulic ram pumps are 70% efficient at
best, while a healthy ejection fraction (a measurement of heart efficiency)
for a fit person is also around 70%. Coincidence? I think not.
Furthermore, the blood is already moving at full speed when it reaches
the heart. It leaves at that same speed, slows down each time the system
branches, then picks up steam on its way back to the heart. But, crucial to
our understanding, blood is motivated to move through the system by
other means, which are described below. On the other hand, if the heart
did all of the work pumping blood around the body, its pressure and
velocity would be lowest before entering the heart, and highest when it
leaves. But it’s not.

The heart makes blood flow pulsate and spiral

The tricuspid valve in the heart stops blood flow for a fraction of a
section. This causes positive pressure to build up on the supply side of the
valve, which expands the vessels (superior and inferior vena cava) with
blood, while a vacuum builds up on the delivery side of the tricuspid (the
right ventricle). When the tricuspid opens, the blood is both pushed and
pulled out of the heart, which vortexes, cools, condenses, and structures
its constituents. The left side of the heart structures blood flow the same
way, along with oxygen from the lungs.

Vortexing employs secret sciences of

implosion, acceleration, energy
conservation, and friction negation
Johns Hopkins University and
Leonardo da Vinci both showed that
the heart turns laminar blood flow into
a vortex pattern (picture water swirling
down a drain). The centripetal (outside-
in) acceleration of vortexing takes the
flow’s momentum and concentrates that
energy through the center of vessels.
The coldest, densest portions of blood accelerate faster through the
middle, sucking the warmer, less-dense fractions after them. The warmest
fractions along the vessel wall form counter-rotating eddies, which act as
ball bearings for the colder, core fractions. This flow pattern allows the
warmer components of blood greater opportunity to form e-zone on the
vessel walls (from IR light/heat), as well as protons, which go into the flow.
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Indeed, Viktor Schauberger showed in the testing of his specially-

designed plumbing pipes that when water is vortexed, friction is
dramatically reduced — briefly dropping into the negative range at times,
thereby creating a supernatural effect that a critic of Schauberger’s,
professor Franz P6pel (Director of the Institute of Hygiene), called
“negative friction,” reminiscent of levitation. Schauberger believed the
implosive motion of a vortex adds extra-dimensional energy into the
system which has been called orgone energy, scalar waves, zero-point
energy, torsion fields, dark energy, tachyon energy, or source field
energy. Vortexing implodes matter to manifest small amounts of energy,
which is the opposite dynamic to that of an explosion.
In summary, vortexing the blood does a spectacular job of conserving
energy, and it vitalizes the water in the blood by structuring its molecules.
But, most weird and wonderful, vortexing generates energy in the
circulatory system that ancient traditions have described as “filling the
body with lifeforce,” for it is at this time that energy enters the material
world to breathe life into the body. It’s even been said that the moment
the heart pauses and restarts circulation to vortex the blood is when God
enters the human body. Vortexing imbues water with life-giving
properties that modern humans have done their best not to notice.

Blood is pulled into the heart with paramagnetism

The heart, by virtue of hosting more mitochondria than any other organ,
creates a magnetic field around itself. The more prolific your heart’s
mitochondria are, the stronger the electron flow through their transport
chains. A livelier stream of electrons creates a more powerful magnetic
field with which to draw blood into the heart.
Paramagnetism: Paramagnetism, as this attractive force in the blood is called, is a
Substance that ts primary means (probably not the strongest) by which blood is propelled
weakly attracted to
magnetic fields through the body. Paramagnetic materials like the blood are drawn to
because of its induced magnetic fields because their unpaired electrons have an
unpaired
electrical charge that is attracted to other electromagnetic charges.
electron(s)
In this case, the heart is an electromagnet from its mitochondna. And
the blood is paramagnetic from its oxygen, cells, (iron-based) hemoglobin,
and zeta potential. Hence, the heart sucks blood into its chambers using
this attraction we call paramagnetism. The attractive force is much
weaker than conventional magnetism, but significant in systems where
conservation of energy is essential to efficiency of operation.

The heart’s magnetic field structures water molecules in the blood

For decades, health enthusiasts have vortexed their water in a magnetic
field to make it healthier to drink. This is done by attaching magnets to
the outside of a blender, or between water bottles spun mouth-to-mouth,
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to break apart large clusters into smaller ones so they’re easier to absorb
and energetically purified.
Vortexing water in a magnetic field mimics the turbulent movement of
a mountain stream — the tumbling over rocks, swirling around bends, and
descending from falls. In nature, these asymmetrical movements energize
water with increased oxygenation, more mineralization, improved clustering,
and enhanced electrical properties, while at the same time it kills pathogenic
microbes. In a home-made vortex, you get all that minus the minerals.
Vortexing with magnetism also erases the energetic imprints of
chemical toxins, drug residues, mistreatment through city water systems,
and people’s negative emotions embedded in the water. You see, water
records exposures, both good and bad, in the arrangement of its clusters Watch the
documentary “Secret
(they say in the voids). It retains these imprints until it freezes as snow of Water” on Gaia,
and thaws (the natural way), or its molecular arrangement is reset through or other streaming
vortexing — sometimes with magnetism to break apart its clusters faster platforms, to learn
more about water’s
(the beneficial, man-made way). Water then transmits these “memories” memory and
onto its consumers as a health benefit or a hazard. Homeopathy uses restructuring if.
water memory for therapeutic benefit.
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to distance themselves from each other. Water will then continue to flow
into and out of the tube on its own, in whichever direction the flow was
initiated, powered only by light or a native EME. Recall that e-zone is
created and sustained mostly by IR and visible light exposure.
Similarly, Prof. Pollack theorizes in The Fourth Phase of Water that
e-zone is formed around the inside of capillaries, which would propel
blood through the same mechanism as a hydrophilic tube: protons in the
fluid. Blood vessels are hydrophilic tubes, after all.
For me, I can’t imagine that e-zone would be sturdy enough in small
capillaries to survive blood cells rubbing up against it (e-zone is inherently
unstable), But, based on Pollack’s meticulous research, it’s easy to picture
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e-zone forming in larger vessels and perhaps around the RBCs

themselves. One or both of these formations would add electrons to
surfaces in the system, as well as protons to the serum, thereby adding
polarity, propulsion, lubricity, and cohesiveness to the blood.

Blood vessels employ a peristaltic “squeezing” action

Blood vessels expand and contract in rhythm with the beating action of
the heart. The question is, whether expansion and contraction of blood
vessels is a passive reaction to pressure produced by the heart, or an active
driver of blood locomotion by design.
My theory is that the autonomic nervous system tells the smooth
muscle fibers of the arteries (called the “tunica media’’) to contract after
being filled by the heart, in order to create their own pumping action. I
think the vessels do more of the pumping than commonly believed,
while the heart does far less than all of it.
It just appears as if the heart is doing all the pumping because it’s
obviously doing something. So we just assumed it was doing everything,
based on our biases toward classical Newtonian mechanics. And we never
considered the many contributions made by unseen phenomena and secret
sciences. We mistook the expansion and contraction of blood vessels to be
incidental to the hoopla surrounding the heart when, in truth, constriction
of vessels may be one of the blood’s main motives of movement.
As evidence, Professor Kurt Bergel of Berlin observed this vascular
pumping action when he opened the top of bird eggs after a few days of
incubation. He noticed that blood vessels surrounding the yolk-sac
pulsated before the heart had even been formed. How is that possible?

Where does blood get the energy to return to the heart?

Energy for the blood’s return trip comes from suction forces — both
electrostatic and mechanical — combined with concentration of momen-
tum through a decrease in total vessel volume (like choking down the
stream of a garden hose with your thumb to get it to squirt farther).
After escaping the distortion and friction of the capillaries, resistance to
blood flow goes down, while suction forces pick back up. The current
progressively picks up speed as its kinetic energy aggregates into smaller
overall vessel size (i.e., bigger vessels but fewer of them) — similar to the
way a slow wetland current turns into a raging river as more current
passes through a narrower waterway. This is the easy part of the blood’s
journey because momentum is being concentrated.
To add to that, Schauberger told us that oxygenated blood has greater
volume (i.e., 20 milliliters of O2/100 ml of blood volume, with 0.3 ml
being dissolved in plasma). So the propulsive effect is greatest from the
lungs to the tissues. As that oxygen is dropped off to the tissues, pressure
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decreases. This creates expansion and propulsion before the capillary bed,
and a slight vacuum on the way back.
Plus, paramagnetism of the blood, combined with electrostatic
cohesion, contribute a suction effect of their own. These factors make the
blood’s return trip virtually effortless, as blood is pulled back up to its
highest velocity by suction, polarity, and momentum.

How does the heart know when to close its valves and contract?
Schauberger theorized that closure of the valve, and contraction of the
heart, are triggered by a difference in electrical charge between
oxygenated blood and deoxygenated/carbon-nich blood.
My (loose) understanding of this mechanism: The two states carry
opposite charges, so the heart uses that electrical differential to know
when to contract (perhaps playing a role in powering its contractions).
Each contraction is activated when opposing chambers of the heart fill
with blood and reach a certain voltage. The upper chambers work
together, as do the lower chambers (four in-total), to create a double-
segmented heartbeat (“lub-dub”). When the right and left chambers
reach full capacity, the negative and positive charges held in their blood
merge and equalize to zero. This is the signal for the heart to contract.
This is why Schauberger said the heart does not “pump” the blood, so
much as it “is pumped” by the blood. Mind-boggling to imagine we've
had it backwards this whole time: the heart does not pump the blood the
way that we are told. Rather, it is blood flow, combined with gas
exchange of the lungs, that causes the heart to beat.

Summation of circulation
Our traditional concept of blood flow conflicts with science, reason and
reality. Think about it: the idea of a high-pressure area making physical
contact with a long succession of molecules, one after another like billiard
balls, to push blood through 60,000 miles of tubing. There’s no way on
earth that could be correct, based on logic and what blood flow actually
looks like. Far too much energy would be absorbed and wasted by the
very squishy RBCs, serum, and vessel walls.
On the other hand, it’s easy to understand how the momentum from
each surge of cells and fluid electrostatically drives preceding groups
forward. Picture the RBCs momentum flooding arteries like tens-of-
thousands of marathon runners leaving the starting line and staying a few
feet apart the entire race. As pent-up energy at the valve is released, each
burst of blood adds momentum not just to the group immediately ahead,
but to every group in front of it, until those at the frontlines are peer-
pressured to run through the single-cell capillaries,
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To start the show, charged particles set the stage for blood flow to occur.
Their job is successful when friction is close to zero, and pulses of pressure
are Causing a ripple effect. Once the blood is moving effortlessly and
homogeneously with the polarity of zeta potential, the physics behind
pulsation and implosion raise the second act of the circulation story to a
crescendo. Third, structuring water molecules with magnetism, forming
e-zone with IR, triggering the valves with voltage, and pumping the blood
with vessel contractions bring this story to its triumphant conclusion.
Each element is a piece to the puzzle, a subplot in the story, of how the
blood circulates around the body without breaking a sweat. Conversely,
when an actor is unable to perform their duties, the show doesn’t usually
end right there. You have others who can pick up some of the slack.
Adaptation protocols are called into action and the show goes on.
Here are some of those corrective measures:

What causes blood flow to break down? What can we do about it?
Let’s deconstruct some potential causes of poor blood supply, so we can
understand them and find out what might be required to fix them.
Excessive friction. Negation of friction is the first fundamental of blood
that flows freely. For this to be accomplished, red blood cells have to be
surrounded by a cloud of charged particles, called zeta potential, that contain
more electrons than protons. The polarity of charged particles keeps blood
from sticking to vessel walls and to each other. Equally integral to the
blood’s hydrodynamic efficiency, protons from the formation of e-zone
unify the blood so cells and fluid move with an affinity for each other.
So what would happen if zeta potential drops and friction rises? Poor
blood flow, oxygenation, metabolism, hormone function, and detox-
ification would be the obvious effects. The body would then raise blood
pressure by constricting the vessels in order to increase flow rate at the
expense of volume. When blood is not moving well, the vessels take
whatever momentum is available in the blood and project it into fewer
RBCs — basically concentrating their investment into fewer cells.
FYI: Before its use in medical research, zeta potential was used in
Colloid; A manufacturing and formulation to measure the stability of colloidal
solution with solutions such as cosmetics, inks, dyes, coatings, detergents, electronics,
free-floating
particles mixed and pharmaceuticals — mainly to optimize flow and absorption by
in (e.g., milk). avoiding aggregation. Thus far, zeta potential is not commonly used in
routine office visits to analyze properties of the blood such as clustering
and clotting. Rather, it has been used mostly by researchers to study
polarity’s effects on a wide variety of other bodily functions.
Zeta potential is calculated from how fast RBCs move in an electric
field, thereby inferring electrical charge around RBCs. It is not a direct
measurement. When blood cells move freely, you have a healthy zeta
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potential (minus 9.3 mV to minus 15 mV is normal). When they stick

together, you have low a zeta potential (under 9 mV).
The two best ways to improve your zeta potential are grounding and To learn more about
how zeta potential
sleeping on a Magnetico. Supporting strategies are drinking better water effects the blood,
and more of it, getting sunlight on your skin, cutting nnEMF exposure, read this research
exercising regularly, eating an alkalizing diet, and avoiding the usual stuff paper: Chevalier,
G., Sinatra, S.,
such as smoking, stress, and drinking too much alcohol. (2013), “Earthing
Inelastic blood vessels. The smooth muscle fibers of the blood vessels (Grounding) the
are encased interiorly and exteriorly by an elastic membrane, called the Human Body
Reduces Blood
“internal and external elastic lamina,” respectively. These smooth muscles Viscosity — a
contract and relax to control blood pressure. But what happens, according Major Factor in
Cardiovascular
to Dr. Jerry Tennant’s working theory, is that intrusion of fluoride breaks
Disease.” The
down the collagen and elastin fibers of the elastic lamina that are supposed Journal of
to limit the movement of smooth muscles like a netting. Alternative and
Complementary
Without the restriction of this netting, the smooth muscles are then Medicine, Vol. 19,
free to overstretch themselves. Dr. Tennant believes this causes a wound, No. 2, 2013, pp.
which the body tries to repair with cholesterol, which becomes an 102-110.

arterial plaque. My guess is, Dr. Bonlie’s theory of plaque buildup is

more accurate (pg. 301), in which heavy metals and their positive charge
falsely attract repair processes, including cholesterol.
In either case, the point to consider here is that breakdown of the
elastic lamina would impair the ability of blood vessels to expand and
contract, thus hindering the pumping action of the vessels — whether the
vessels’ elasticity is designed to actively do the work of pumping the
blood or just be a passive reaction. If fluoride weakens the elastic lamina to
the point of incompetence, elasticity of the vessels is certain to be
compromised and, along with it, blood flow.
What would the body do then? Unable to expand and contraction on-
demand, the body might then keep arteries constricted permanently. We
would see this situation expressed as high blood pressure and/or narrow
arteries. Calcified arteries also make the arteries inelastic. So whether
fluoride damages vessel walls on the way to being repaired with
cholesterol, or lead and mercury cause a calcified plaque, both scenarios
result in a loss of vessel elasticity that cuts down that input of energy
(propulsion) into the system, thereby making blood flow less efficient.
Possible solutions: The Magnetico Sleep Pad helps remove heavy
metals by improving mitochondria function, thereby clearing up the
source of clogged arteries. The chelating agent EDTA has been shown to
unclog arteries — I believe because of its ability to detox heavy metals —
but it’s not FDA-approved for such use. Best combo: The Magnetico,
with DMSA, plus iodine, minus fluoride.
The heart can’t pull the blood into it. Two situations can cause this:
Frailty of the heart’s mitochondria, or the blood has lost paramagnetism
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from low zeta potential. Compensation mechanisms the body would then
employ to make up for the energy loss might include: increase blood
pressure, narrow the veins/arteries, or alter the heart’s anatomy such as
enlargement, muscle thickening, or distorting its shape.
Is it making sense how mitochondrial toxins such as smoking, drinking,
stress, nnEMBFs, prescription drugs, lead, and mercury connect to the
cardiovascular outcomes listed above? Hint: hypertension and changes to
the heart and vasculature are symptoms, not causes. How then should a
person remedy these root causes? A mitochondriac would reread the list
of mitochondrial toxins on page 68 and start by fixing those issues.
Poorly structured blood flow. Blood flow must pulsate, and it must
spiral, to give blood the boost it needs to avoid losing too much
momentum through the capillary bed. Both stem from the hydraulic ram
effect centered around the closing and opening of the heart valves. Breaks
in the flow generate pulses of pressure, which leave the valves in a helical
pattern that reduces friction and consolidates energy.
The centripetal acceleration of vortexing preserves kinetic energy
present in the blood. And it is thought to bring more energy into our
3-D space at the moment blood flow is halted by the closing of the valves
— like squeezing small amounts of energy into this realm by condensing
matter. It’s not a lot, but it is enough to keep total momentum of the
bloodstream at breakeven (resting, sustainable) or better (athletic,
resilient). That’s how I would describe the roles of pulsation and
vortexing in the efficiency of blood flow.
Unfortunately, when body parts such as vessels, valves or heart muscles
deteriorate, you get corrective measures like high blood pressure, congestive
heart failure, or inflammation. Hopefully, now you recognize how most
anatomical changes are preceded by a decay in your biophysical state —
meaning electrical charge, magnetism, light, water, and mitochondria.

Tirst three images

from the left are
used courtesy of
Frank Chester.

Misshapen heart. The heart is shaped like an inflated seven-sided

“chestahedron” (as its discoverer/inventor, Frank Chester, named it). This
expression of sacred geometry gives the heart special energetic properties.
To give you some idea, Nature uses the “golden ratio” of 1:1.618 (aka the
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“golden mean” or “divine ratio,” symbolized by the Greek letter phi) in

everything from joints of the arm and hand, to tree branches, to snail shells,
to the spiral shape of galaxies, because those proportions are where etheric
energies coalesce into material form (like nodes on a cosmic blueprint).
Similarly, the heart uses sacred geometry to maximize energy flows
entering the bloodstream. The heart is significantly less efficient without
this chestahedron shape. For example, in congestive heart failure, the
heart becomes more spherical in shape. This upsets the flow pattern
through the lower chambers. The heart then can’t eject as much blood
with each beat, and its vortices are malformed.
A woo way to describe it is, when you lose the electrical, implosive,
and geometric properties of Nature’s design, you dip under the over-
unity arrangement that makes the cardiovascular system capable of running
problem-free for decades. When that happens, the body needs to jerry-ng
the way your anatomy functions in a variety of sub-optimal ways to make
up for the loss. However, you can never match, let alone beat, the
efficiency of your original equipment and the way it’s designed to work.
“They” say congestive heart failure (CHF) is due to a breakdown of
the heart muscle. I say CHF and other forms of heart inflammation can
be traced back to irregularities with your electrical charge, mitochondria,
(para)magnetism, lead and mercury in vessels, fluoride, and man-made
vegetable oils disrupting repair processes. Something’s not right with one
or more of the factors we’re examining, and the heart is forced to change
its muscle thickness, composition, or architecture as a result. I say, focus
on your blood and your vessels first, because they probably caused the
heart to change its shape.
Impotent e-zone. When it’s hot out, your circulatory system needs
less help delivering a decent amount of blood because you're collecting
more energy from your environment. IR light builds more e-zone in blood
vessels which adds polarity and propulsion to the blood, at a time when
UV light is increasing flow volume by dilating vessels with nitric oxide.
On the other hand, when you get cold, or when your internal
biophysics are abnormal, the circulatory system goes into adaptation
mode because you don’t have the zeta potential to delete friction with
electrons, and help propel the blood with protons. What does the body
do then to compensate for a low flow situation? It constricts the vessels to
keep the blood’s momentum up.
Similarly, when your extremities get cold, those vessels shrink to
minimize heat loss. When IR exposure drops low enough — both Exogenous: From
exogenously and endogenously — vessels close and blood flow ceases outside the body.
entirely. But did the blood stop flowing because the vessels were closed
Endogenous: Made
off? Or did the vessels shut down because there was no IR-induced e-zone in/by the body.
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to keep them open (ie., charged particles, friction negation, propulsion,

and cohesion of the blood)?
My answer would be the former, while the latter seems more likely to
be a coincidence of complimentary factors. But it is an interesting
whodunnit. Remember, e-zone is very unstable. Small changes in
temperature, pressure, pH, salt concentration, or mechanical agitation
either build it up or tear it down. That means e-zone’s structure is in a
constant state of flux arriving at a delicate equilibrium. This impacts
blood flow enormously.
E-zone is probably one of the body’s main contributors to zeta
potential and blood flow, but more research is needed to determine what
roles they do play in the efficiency of blood flow.
Consider a similar condition of great significance to millions: A
shortage of charged particles has got to play a major role in poor
circulation in diabetics (aka “peripheral artery disease”). Is low polarity,
propulsion and cohesiveness to blame for poor circulation in our diabetic
population? I would be shocked if the factors I’m laying out here were
not a whole lot closer to the truth than the fake science about bad fats
blocking up arteries and causing neuropathy (nerve damage),
nephropathy (kidney disease), and retinopathy (eye damage). Even high
blood-sugar probably doesn’t damage nerves as much as poor blood flow
from weak zeta potential and e-zone. Betcha.
Arterial plaque. I can’t prove it but, based on the way Nature
operates, I wouldn’t be surprised if narrowing of the arteries was
sometimes used by the body to keep the blood’s velocity up when it gets
sluggish — basically putting the blood’s momentum into fewer cells in an
effort to maintain the hydrodynamic efficiency of the circulatory system.
Cholesterol and saturated fats do not cause heart disease. Awake
and aware observers know that cholesterol and saturated fats, such as
animal fats, have nothing to do with clogged arteries. Eating natural fats
simply does not cause heart disease. In fact, people who have low blood-
cholesterol levels are at increased risk of diseases involving: the heart, the
brain and nervous system, mood and behavior (from inability to make
hormones and neurotransmitters), metabolism, infertility and libido, as
well as the maintenance and repair of cells. ...And the whole story about
“good cholesterol and bad cholesterol” = pure fiction.

Paramagnetism
Once blood is flowing properly due to the forces and phenomena we just
pondered over, the body is infused with life by transferring nutrients from
the bloodstream into cells.
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Oxygen is paramagnetic
High O, in the lungs/low O., in the capillaries make it easy for O. to
enter the bloodstream and hop aboard the hemoglobin molecule in
RBGs. Later, in the capillary bed, high CO: in the tissues and low CO, in
the RBCs make it easier for RBCs to give up their oxygen for CO.
These are conventional pressure gradients that promote the gas exchange
of respiration. But the force seldom mentioned is paramagnetism.
A force that helps oxygen make it to its final destination in the
mitochondria is paramagnetism (weakly attracted to magnetic fields).
Paramagnetism helps oxygen find its way through multiple membranes
from the RBCs, to the interstitial space, into the cell, and to the end of
the electron transport chain, where it can be used for respiration.
For context, ferromagnetism (conventional magnetism) is when the
direction of magnetic charges in a material such as iron are easily aligned
with a magnetic field. When far more of a material’s atoms are attracted
to a magnetic field than repelled, you have conventional magnetism. But
paramagnetism is when a small majority of a material’s atomic charges align
with an induced magnetic field (due to its unpaired electrons). This is
what gives oxygen paramagnetic properties: its unpaired electrons give it
slightly more attraction to the magnetic field of productive mitochondria
than repulsion. This is what pulls oxygen into the respiratory process.
Unfortunately, when cells’ magnetic field is weak due to poor
mitochondria function (i.e., low electron flow), oxygen is not sucked
into the cells and mitochondria very well. That’s one of the biggest causes
of hypoxia (low oxygen), poor metabolism, and free radical damage. It’s
an inability to transfer oxygen all the way from the red blood cells to the
ETC — both caused, at least in part, by weak electric and magnetic fields
in mitochondria.

Diabetes is primarily a disease involving weakness of mitochondria, |

oxygenation and magnetism
Diabetic degeneration is also caused by crashed mitochondrial function. |
Sluggish mitochondria produce a weak magnetic field, which compromises
blood flow, oxygenation, DHA delivery, and hormone function,
Many diabetics know from experience what can happen
symptomatically when you have less magnetic field — though most of
them have never been told that weak mitochondria cause their poor
circulation, low oxygenation, and resulting nerve damage. Those
breakdowns are responsible for causing complications such as peripheral
neuropathy, retinopathy, impaired metabolism (from insulin dysfunction),
and a host of other problems.
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Alzheimer’s is a similar story

Functional medicine educators have
called Alzheimer’s “diabetes of the
brain” because, in this condition,
brain cells lack the energy they need
to support themselves. Mental health
experts say faulty metabolism in the brain impairs its function. But it’s
more accurate to say broken-down mitochondria in brain cells weaken
the magnetic field around them, which cuts blood flow, oxygenation,
nutrient exchange, DHA delivery, detoxification, and energy availability
in the area. These are some of the under-the-radar causes of the neuro-
degeneration we call Alzheimer’s.
You see, the brain should be a powerful electromagnet like the heart.
But with Alzheimer’s, mitochondria in the brain are absolutely exhausted.
Brain cells are low in redox potential. That deforms their proteins, which
causes long-term memory circuits to fail.

Many modern diseases are caused by “hormonal disconnection”

The reason so many people have hormone problems today is not because
the endocrine system is not producing the hormones, or because the
hormones don’t work properly when they’re received. What’s happening
is, hormones operate on paramagnetism, and the magnetic force is not
present in the organs to control where those hormones go, and/or the
hormones are unresponsive to the organs’ magnetic fields.
To put it more precisely, crucial controller organs like the thyroid,
pituitary, and adrenals are making the hormones, and may be releasing them
okay. But worker glands such as the pancreas, testes, ovaries, and pineal
gland don’t have sufficient magnetic force to pull them inside, so the
hormones go undelivered. This breaks the connection between the chiefs
and the workers. Organs then don’t perform the way they’re supposed to.
Hence, you can see why hormone panel tests can trick functional
medicine docs into thinking hormones are imbalanced in some way, so
external supplementation is needed to fix dysfunctional organs. When the
reality is, hormones are being made and shipped out. They’re just not
being received the way they’re supposed to. That’s one of the primary
causes of so many modern diseases of metabolism, sleep, digestion, energy
production, regeneration, and fertility.
The first cause is unproductive mitochondria in organs, which reduces
each organ’s magnetic field. Secondary causes are either lack of polarity in
the blood to induce paramagnetism, or a low flow.
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How a magnetic field is generated around endocrine glands

Influential endocrine organs like the pituitary have dense networks of
blood vessels encircling them. Charged particles in the blood travel through
these arteriole and capillary networks and create a magnetic field around
the organ to make its hormones more responsive to the magnetism of
organs. Physics tells us that the movement of charged particles creates a
magnetic field at a 90° angle.
Unfortunately, when hormones aren’t properly “magnetized” they
can’t get off-loaded into glands and tissues when they arrive at their
destination. This drop in magnetism that begins as mitochondria weak-
ness then contributes to hormone problems that precipitate into diabetes,
weight gain, infertility, and many more chronic conditions. It’s one of
the single biggest drivers of chronic disease that stumps modern medicine
as to both source and solution... but biophysics explains perfectly.
Simply put, electromagnetism is essential to the operation of many
endocrine functions, while biochemicals such as insulin and testosterone
are just middlemen that get blamed for breakdowns that make our lives
miserable. In reality, the transportation and communication systems are to
blame, most of the time.

DHA (docosahexaenoic acid)

DHA is a very special fat that the body preserves and concentrates in
almost all our cell membranes because of what it, and only it, can do. It’s
the only nutrient found in food that’s truly irreplaceable. That’s because
DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is the only substance that can convert light
into DC electricity, and back again. Far more than an ordinary omega-3
fatty acid, DHA is the only food constituent that can turn light directly
into electricity in order to power our biochemical processes. No other fat
can do that directly — not even the fatty acid DPA, which is almost
identical in structure.
That makes DHA essential to all members of the animal kingdom. In
fact, almost every eukaryotic cell type uses DHA in its membranes, just
like we do. We actually hoard three pounds of it in our nervous system,
yet it’s never used as a fuel source like all other fats are. Instead, the body
retains every last bit of it we can get and recycles it through the eye, which
is called the “short loop,” and the liver, which is the “long loop.”
In contrast, a shortage of DHA starves the body of electrical charge,
which uncouples supervisor glands like the pituitary from subordinate
organs such as the ovaries and testes. This reduces the energy of cells, and
the competency of organs. For instance, metabolic syndrome, sleep
disturbances, and infertility are partly caused by a shortage of DHA. DHA
deficiency causes operator glands to run low on electrical power, which
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slows their clock genes compared to controller glands that have the DC
current to run their clocks faster.
To illustrate the value of DHA in action, consider conditions we think
of as allergic reactions: eczema and allergies to seafood and eggs. They go
away when you raise your DC electricity with DHA, get more sun, and
reduce nnEMF exposure.
Which 1s all to say, most of the conditions we think of as diseases are
completely reversible when you stop polluting your body with unnatural
frequencies, and live the way Nature intended us to live. DHA plays a
key role in bringing your DC current back up to full power, and
reestablishing hormonal communications. The biggest enemies in this
fight being blue light and wireless microwaves.

DHA is paramagnetic
DHA 1s attracted to the magnetic fields generated by electron flow in
mitochondria. That means DHA is most attracted to the organs with the
densest mitochondria populations and strongest magnetic fields, which are
the heart, the brain, and the hormone/endocrine organs.
High energy-consuming organs like these collect more DHA from the
bloodstream than relatively inactive organs, in order for their cells to
convert light into electrical current and magnetic field. The more DHA a
cell membrane has, the more electricity it
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electricity to run the biochemistry that recycles enterocytes and tight
junctions. Hence, they don’t turn over as fast as our toxin load
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the biggest threats to integrity of the gut lining. That’s a leading

contributor to leaky gut: cells and proteins not being renewed as quickly
as they’re wearing out due to electrical deficiency. DHA can help with that.
DHA is Nature’s way of amplifying the solar yield up North
It does this through DHA’s special ability to convert photonic energy
into electrical power. Just think: fish and seafood, which are high in
DHA, grow best in cold, arctic waters. At these latitudes, sunshine is
scarcer and weaker.
So the most readily available food that Eskimos and Scandinavians have
to eat in their local environment contains a substance that helps them
extract more solar energy from sunlight: DHA. In effect, they were given
a solar collection booster to offset the scarcity of natural sunlight where
they live. Dang, Nature thought of everything.

There’s good DHA, and useless DHA

In order for DHA to enter the central and peripheral nervous system, and
do what it’s supposed to do — which is a dense electron cloud and the
production of DC electricity — it has to have a special planar structure,
which is the “sn2” position. This flat shape makes DHA paramagnetic,
and gives it its quantum conversion ability. Otherwise, it can’t get into
nervous system cells like the brain, and it has no Glycerol
ability to convert sunlight into DC energy.
You see, fats have three linked carbon atoms
on their glycerol backbone. And the DHA
found in natural fish oil can only convert sunlight
into DC electricity when it’s “ordered” in the
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lesser degree, grass-fed beef also contains DHA
in the sn2 position. But to our disadvantage,
processed fish oil supplements have their DHA
mostly in the outer sni or sn3 positions, which
makes most of it incapable of producing DC electricity,
The way DHA is made in nature is this: fish eat algae that contains
DHA mostly in the sni and sn3 positions, Fish convert algae’s DHA to
the sn2 position, where it can produce a DC electric current. Otherwise,
it’s useless. What’s more, DHA is a polyunsaturated fat that can cause
inflammation when the body is not able to use it correctly.
The takeaway: You can get a little sn2-DHA in supplements. But
you've got to make sure it’s made, shipped and stored in a cold, dark
environment because DHA, especially in supplement form, is highly
susceptible to temperature and photo-oxidation.
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So, if you're trying to fix some kind of health problem, the best practice
is to get as much DHA as you can from oysters and cold-water fish, and
not rely on supplements. Farmed fish is better than the best grass-fed beef
liver. Raw and wild is best, but farmed fish is better than nothing. The body
can convert 1-3% of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) to DHA, which is not much.

Should you worry about mercury in seafood?

This question comes up a lot because seafood is the best source of DHA.
No food group is higher in it. However, we’ve been told to limit our
consumption of seafood because some species of fish are high in mercury.
So what should we be more concerned about: mercury or DHA?
No, you don’t have to worry about mercury in seafood... when your
redox potential is high. On the other hand, when your redox potential is low,
you need to be careful about what you eat, as you work to bring it up.
Here’s the conflict: Certain species of seafood give you both mercury
that toxifies, and DHA that helps you detoxify. So you can raise your redox
potential with DHA. But if that effort fails to get rid of mercury faster
than it’s coming in, for whatever reason, neurotoxicity can be an issue.
The solution is two-fold: First, stay away from things that assault
mitochondria function in a big way, such as cholesterol-lowering statins,
high stress load, or chain-smoking cigarettes. Risk factors like these can
put your detox efforts in a pickle. Then, don’t binge on seafood that’s
high in mercury but low in DHA, while your redox is low. For instance,
swordfish and tuna are notoriously high in mercury, while raw oysters are
a go-to source for DHA.
To illustrate these ideas in action, when Dr. Jack started eating lots of
seafood, he started to notice symptoms of heavy metal toxicity. But they
went away after six weeks because his redox potential went through the
roof with all the things he was doing to improve his mitochondria.
If anyone should have mercury poisoning it would be Dr. Jack,
considering how much seafood he eats. But he doesn’t — showing you
mercury in seafood isn’t a problem when your redox is high. On the other
hand, low redox potential causes you to retain heavy metals because you
don’t have the positive charge in cells to push out positively-charged metals.
Bottom line: You need DHA. Seafood is the best source. So seafood
with moderate to low mercury levels is still better than the best grass-fed
meat as a source of DHA.
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Weight Gain
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DR. JACK WAS A
FAT ASS THAT
SAW THE LIGHT
(As he described himself)

The future of weight loss is not about food

or exercise. It’s all about biophysics. And it’s here now
This may go against everything you’ve ever been taught about weight
loss but revitalizing your mitochondria, and correcting poor hormone
reception, are actually stronger, faster and more sustainable ways to
normalize weight than the traditional calories in, calories out approach.
Ever since the invention of organized dieting and exercise, companies
and consumers have obsessed over calories, calories, calories. In fact,
calories are mentioned so often, and so convincingly, we bought the story
completely, without anyone even bothering to question whether the
premise is true or not. Unfortunately, that belief contains about as much
truth as most sweetened beverages contain nutrition... not much.
Don’t get me wrong. You can lose weight by eating more “healthy.”
And you can lose weight by exercising and burning more calories.
However, those two practices — which are accepted as unquestioned
essentials of weight loss to this day — are actually vastly inferior strategies
compared to improving your mitochondrial efficiency and correcting your hormone
signaling (meaning leptin and circadian/infradian rhythms).
Dr. Jack even goes so far as to say when your mitochondria and
hormones work well, diet and exercise are not terribly important in
losing weight and keeping it off. By regaining functionality of these
two biological imperatives, you can lose ridiculous amounts of weight,
ridiculously fast, without starving yourself, without sweating a bit, and
without endangering your health.
What’s more, the new approaches are more than safe, because you’re
not stressing the body with extreme metabolic challenges. Instead, you're
removing the stress and discordance that caused the inappropriate energy
accumulation (fat storage) in the first place. So as long as you don’t stray
from the reservation too far, the weight won’t come back because these
protocols fix the real cause of the yo-yo dieting, which is primarily leptin
resistance due to inflammation.
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In fact, people have lost so much weight so fast using Dr. Jack's
protocols that friends and family wonder what’s going on
How are you doing it? Did you get gastric bypass surgery? Are you on
chemotherapy? Was it liposuction? Are you on a fad diet that’s going to
wreck your health? Nope, nope, and nope.
On the contrary, Dr. Jack’s techniques are actually the body’s own
dysfunctional energy management systems being awakened. It’s a
metabolic reset, if you will... simple as that. However, it is shocking for
the uninitiated to see, because we’ve been conditioned to believe
substantial weight loss is a never-ending battle many people fight their
entire adult lives and end up losing.
But who can blame them for thinking this way? Prior to the new
biophysics of weight loss, we all got saddled with the belief that weight
loss is supposed to be an arduous battle that revolves around calories
consumed vs. calories burned, ketosis, primal nutrition, and macro-
nutrients such as carbs, proteins, and fats. We’re taught you need a
willpower of steel, and the tenacity to match, in order to win the weight-
loss game for good. Not true times two.
As it turns out, food and exercise are relatively unimportant because they
are like the fuel that goes in your vehicle. Whereas mitochondria are the
engine itself, and hormone reception (of leptin) is the main program run
by its management system. Food and exercise do make a difference, but
their effect is minor compared to what the body’s own energy management
systems do for you. Mitochondria and hormone sensitivity are much
more powerful and direct drivers of fat mass and energy balance, while
food and exercise are probably fifth or sixth down the list of influences.
... Which Dr. Jack discovered firsthand when an ancient master
inspired his epiphany to benefit all mankind:

After his residency, Dr. Jack Kruse ballooned up to 357 pounds (at
6~foot-2)
Prior to medical school, Dr. Jack was an All-American football and base-
ball player in college. But after his residency, his weight swelled. Before
long, he got up to 357 pounds (more than Shaquille O’Neal in his playing
days), which greatly concerned him and those around him. He knew he
had to do something. So he did what any conventional thinker would do:
He visited a primary care colleague for advice on how to lose weight.
Of course, his friend gave him the stereotypical advice: eat less and
exercise more. And, with that, he gained 30 pounds. You see, at the
time, Dr. Jack was a classically-trained neurosurgeon: He believed what
he was taught in medical school without question.
But something inside him said food and lack of exercise alone could
not explain how he got to be so big so fast. Something had to have
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radically changed in his world to go from fit and athletic to morbidly

obese in just a few years. The damage had to be coming from his
environment, he presumed.

That’s when the Universe delivered his call-to-action

Dr. Jack stood up at an industry conference to give a talk. He felt a
terrible pain in his right knee. Turns out, the very act of standing tore his
meniscus (cushioning cartilage in the knee).
A colleague at the conference thought she knew what caused the
injury, and offered to send him material on what she believed to have
epee caused the problem. He accepted, not knowing what she had in mind...
under Creative and the journey it would send him on.
Commons 3.0 When he got back home, a FedEx package arrived with six papers and
license. Author:
Marcus Obal.
4 book for him to read. From that box of material, he learned some
interesting information about water, leptin, and the Photoelectric effect.
But it wasn’t until he found himself standing under the feet
of Michelangelo’s statue of David in Florence, Italy that
everything clicked for him.
Comparing his fat ass (as he described himself) to the
perfection of David, he realized the difference was all about
light frequencies and energy. He deduced correctly that the
untainted electromagnetic environment in which
Michelangelo had sculpted David in the early 1500s was
radically quieter and more complementary to human biology
than the EMF environment of today. And that, he
concluded, is what’s draining the health out of modern
humans, as his 360 pounds would attest to.
Inspired by what this could mean for the future of human
health, he wrote revelation after revelation down on airplane
napkins on the 14-hour flight back. These core concepts
became his “Quilt” document. The Quilt document outlines
Dr. Jack’s interconnected understandings of human biology
that weave together a person’s health or sickness tapestry. He
calls these foundational phenomena of the body “levees,” in
that they shore up and protect your good health when
sound. Or else your well-being falls apart when they
degenerate. But he didn’t stop there...

For the next 18 months, Dr. Jack jumped down the

rabbit hole head first
He hit the scientific literature hard. He devoured every research paper he
could get his hands on concerning light, mitochondria, circadian biology,
and biophysics — ultimately enough to fill a 16-foot moving van. He even
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went so far as to spend over $10,000 photocopying and translating papers

written decades ago... in Russian.
Mind you, when Dr. Jack did this research around 2009-2011,
information was scarce on these topics. Most of the source material was
not organized and neatly presented in books the way it is today. And you
couldn’t find it anywhere on the Internet. Indeed, fashioning the research
into a coherent message from remote sources was like assembling a jigsaw
puzzle without knowing what the end result 1s supposed to look like.
His learning and teaching continue to this day, as the fields of quantum
biology, mitochondrial bioenergetics, and chronobiology gain traction
everywhere, on research started as far back as the 1700s. In doing so,
biophysics is graduating from a fringe subject for non-conforming
researchers (renegades ahead of their time, really), to taking its rightful
place as an indispensable life science with which all health professionals
can understand and reverse common, complex diseases.
Subjects include:
e Light. Lots of research has been conducted and published around
light’s many effects on human biology, beginning in earnest around
the 1920s. But it’s largely been ignored and forgotten by science and
industry, because it doesn’t fit the mainstream’s now-crumbling
narrative that genetics and chemical deficiencies cause disease.
¢ Electricity. The effects of electricity on the human body have been
documented around the world for more than 250 years. But that
information has not gotten much attention in the West — mostly
because the majority of people prior to about the year 2000 could
tolerate electric fields without obvious effects. However, that’s
changing fast.
¢ Mitochondria. Newer research around mitochondria is rapidly
gaining traction in academic circles, but has yet to be broadly
promoted by the mainstream. Biggest reason is, mitochondnial
biology doesn’t have immediate and highly-profitable
pharmaceutical applications. In other words, mitochondria are all
about energy, not primarily chemicals.
¢ Water. The discovery of how light charge-separates water into
e-zone is pretty much brand new. Prof. Gerald Pollack just released
his book The Fourth Phase of Water in 2013, explaining water’s
electrical properties. In “science years,” that’s remarkably recent.
¢ Non-natural microwave frequencies. The general public is just
now beginning to realize how 4G, Wi-Fi, and smart meters upset
our hormones, metabolism, circadian rhythms, and fertility. But the
worst is yet to come. §G is almost certain to be so destructive to life
on earth, it will become obvious to anyone who’s paying attention.
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That means microwave EMFs drain you of health faster than you’d
ever believe possible. However, this information is not welcomed by
The Average Jane, because no one wants to hear their favorite
companies and addictions are killing them.
In Dr. Jack’s case, he realized his staggering weight gain was caused by all
the punishment that hospital technology was inflicting on his biology —
including artificial lighting in surgical suites; electric fields and magnetic
fields from imaging equipment, monitors and communication devices; as
well as ungodly hours being on-call. He knew if he didn’t do something
fast, he’d succumb to the same diseases his patients were presenting to him.

Finally, after 18 months of intensive research, he was ready to put

his knowledge into action
He created two protocols to repair his broken energy balance systems. He
dubbed them the “Leptin Prescription Reset” and the “Cold
Thermogenesis Protocol.” For extra motivation and accountability, he
announced his intentions at a family gathering. “A year from now, I'll be
wearing a Speedo when I’m not wearing jeans that are your size,” he told
his 200 pound cousin with a 32-inch waist. Dr. Jack’s waist size at the
time was 46 inches.
Here’s what happened: He started off with just the Leptin Prescription,
and lost 77 pounds in three months. Then he added the Cold
Thermogenesis Protocol to the mix and lost another 54 pounds over the
following seven months. Over the next three months, he lost another 26
pounds — bringing the total to 157 pounds in five quarters. And he did it
while eating more, and not exercising at all. He just ate different
foods, at different times in the day.
Startled by the transformation, a colleague of Dr. Jack’s started sending
him patients to treat for a variety of conditions. They got great results.
And so the new paradigm of metabolism management began.

Just three months into the effort (and 77 pounds lighter), Dr. Jach’s
son and nephew saw him for the first time in months
They met on vacation in Disneyworld. His son Konner had been away in
a private high school, and was now out for the summer. “What the hell
did you do, Dad?” his son asked upon seeing Dr. Jack for the first time in
months. “Whatever you did, I want to try it. Just tell me what I need to
do, and I'll do it.” At the time, his son was 15 years old, 6’3” inches tall,
and 257 pounds.
Dr. Jack’s 21-year-old nephew Kyle was there too and wanted to try it.
He had flunked out of college, 267 pounds, and was struggling to find his
way in life. So the three of them skipped the rides at Disneyworld to sit
down for hours and hear what Dr. Jack had done to lose all that weight.
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After the trip to Florida, the boys did what Dr. Jack recommended.
And 6% weeks later, Konner went back to school 57 pounds lighter. Kyle
lost 100 pounds over a year, and eventually joined the military to become
a Navy Seal. Ten years later, Konner is an engineer (designing quantum
devices). And Kyle is still in the Navy.

Dr. Jack put his protocols to the test

To see how his protocols stacked up against other popular diets at the
time, he decided to use himself as a guinea pig. He hired a registered
dietician to construct a personal plan for him based on the books of two
famous paleo guys. Using a combination of their diets, he ate a
supposedly healthier diet, while exercising under blue light. He also made
himself hypoxic (lacking oxygen) by using a training mask that restricts
oxygen intake. And he stopped sleeping on his Magnetico.
The result? He gained 42 pounds in nine months and developed sleep
apnea (that took 6 months to reverse). He then switched back to his own
protocols and lost all the weight again, and has since kept it in a normal
range without depriving himself.

Why would he lose all that weight, only to gain a bunch back?
Why would he do that to himself? Wasn’t he afraid he would not be able
to lose the weight again like most people? Not at all. He wasn’t the least
bit worried because he knew the laws of biophysics are a two-way street.
He could simply return to his protocols, and he’d invariably lose the
weight again, without any trouble. It’s no big deal to lose weight when
you know how weight loss really works, and you control it.
In stark contrast, most people don’t understand the real reasons they
gained weight in the first place. They blindly believe the calories and
macro-nutrients half-truths being sold to the desperate and trusting
masses. As a result, they lose a little or a lot, and eventually gain it back,
over and over again — like a trench war no one can win. Hence, the
battle of the bulge becomes the struggle of a lifetime.
Sandy Kruse and Dr. Jack’s daughter receive their wake-up call
Seven years after seeing the protocols work on family members, the
reality still hadn’t sunk in for Dr. Jack’s wife at the time, Sandy. For all
that time, she didn’t listen to Dr. Jack’s “encouragement.” But, now, Dr.
Jack’s 12-year-old daughter was starting to face the same weight
challenges others in the family had already beaten.
Dr. Jack knew the only way to change his daughter was for Sandy to
go first. She had to lead by example for her daughter to follow. So Dr.
Jack did the unthinkable: He locked Sandy and his daughter out of the
house so they got the message loud and clear: He wasn’t messing around.
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“T’m okay if you want to kill yourself,” Dr. Jack said to Sandy. “But I’m
not okay if you want to kill my daughter. She has your mitochondrial DNA,
and if you don’t fix this in yourself, she’s going to have a big problem.”
His message: He wasn’t trying to force Sandy to do anything for herself.
Rather, he knew Sandy’s example was the key to fixing his daughter.
And you know what? It worked for Sandy and their daughter. Now in
her late 50s, post-menopausal, and 100 pounds lighter, Sandy is in the
best shape of her life.

The sneaky 6 reasons people gain weight (not in order)

Here are the six biggest secret reasons people gain weight, and gain it back
after losing it. However, you probably haven’t heard much about them
because the science is still being developed as we speak.
. Microbiome lacking diversity.
. Leakage of light.
. Electron deficiency.
. Weak mitochondria.
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for weight gain, such as poor food quality
and toxins, are covered at-length in this
book’s predecessor, Gut-Brain Secrets.

1. Microbiome lacking diversity

Research into the microbiome tells us
there’s a strong connection between obe-
sity and a narrowing of microbial species
in the gastro-intestinal tract. So most gut-
health experts now agree that when
certain bacteria strains dominate the gut,
they promote weight gain, while diversity
does the opposite: it normalizes weight.
However, the very latest research by
Jeff Leach strongly suggests that classic
risk factors, such as diet and antibiotics,
don’t narrow microbial diversity in the
gut by themselves. Instead, it’s chronic
exposure to an altered light spectrum that
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leaves the door open for poor diet and antimicrobial threats to corrupt
the microbiome. It’s both non-native frequencies and ingesting toxic
substances that damages the microbiome.
And how did Jeff Leach figured that out? He took an indigenous tribe
of hunter-gatherers that live near the equator, the Hadza. He fed them a
standard American diet — with soft drinks, candy bars, and antibiotics. He
examined their feces for microbial content. And you know what he
found? Their microbiome didn’t change at all. Once again, consistently
excellent sun exposure protected their microbiomes from
corruption, despite a crappy new diet.
So Dr. Jack and Mr. Leach now firmly believe the many colors
contained in natural sunlight protect diversity of the microbiome. Native
light frequencies are the microbiome’s best defense against functional
decay. On the flip side, they believe our microbiomes in the West lose
diversity mostly because of artificial blue light and lack of real, full-
spectrum sunlight on our eyes and skin.
The big a-ha for us all: No other hazard in the modern world narrows
microbial species in the gut chronically as much as the wrong light signals
do — meaning too much blue light, too much wireless radiation, and not
enough real sunlight. Lack of diversity in the microbiome then sets the
stage for obesity to occur.

2. Leakage of light
Every cell of every organism emits extremely low frequency UV
biophotons while it’s alive. But when cells are stressed or diseased, they
release more biophotons than they would normally. Obesity is one such
condition that’s associated with biophoton loss.
That means when your internal electric and magnetic fields are weak,
your cells can’t retain light as well as they should, and you leak energy
out of your light “gas tank” — energy that would have, should have, and
could have been used for productive purposes. Basically, those with
excess fat leak more light — all kinds of light, including biophotons,
[R/heat, and frequencies released from food electrons, as they hop
through the ETC.
If the loss of light is happening below the neck, the circadian system
motivates you to eat more in an effort to compensate for the energy loss.
Unfortunately, if you don’t fix the sources of the problem — which are
bad mitochondria, poor redox potential, chronic inflammation, and a
toxic environment — your internal programming leaves your appetite in
the ‘on’ position, which undermines your best efforts to lose weight.
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3. Electron deficiency
Low electron intake. We’ve already talked extensively about electron
deficiency, so we'll just recap here: Whatever your diet may be, all food
ultimately breaks down into electrons, protons, and light. So that’s what
you need to focus on: the quantity (and quality) of electrons, protons, and
photons that a food offers. That determines how much energy your body
can extract from the calories you consume.
In other words, focus on how many electrons the macronutrient can
send through the electron transport chain, relative to its calorie count.
Whole foods and natural foods are naturally higher in electrons, whereas
processing depletes electrons, especially in carbs. Electron density tells
you how many units of ATP your mitochondria can make in relation to
calories consumed. That, right there — ATP per calorie — is much more
on-point as a basic philosophy for weight loss than the conventional
‘calories in, calories out’ belief system.
Prescription for a wireless world: Eat more good fat, as it yields almost
four times as many electrons as carbs per unit density. That amounts to
more net energy for every calorie eaten. Fat is designed to store energy,
after all. In contrast, carbs produce less ATP energy, and they contribute
fewer electrons to healing and repair, hormone reception, increasing
alkalinity/reducing acidity, circulation, hydration, and reducing inflam-
mation — all things that electrons and negative charge bring to the body.
Electron loss. An inability to retain electrons is another way you can
find yourself electron-deficient. You can lose electrons through blue
light, microwaves from tech devices, high heteroplasmy rate (the first
three usually go together), and low DHA. And what happens when you
are electron-deficient? You can’t capture and use as much light.

The less connected you are to earth and sun, the more food you
need to eat to make ATP
Radical concept: One-third of the electrons needed to make ATP are
supposed to come from the food you eat, and two-thirds are supposed to
come from grounding and sun exposure! That’s right: we’re biologically
designed to have 66% of our electrons supplied by grounding and
sunlight (along with DHA and being properly-hydrated).
The simple act of touching the earth (directly or through grounding
equipment) gently pushes electrons into your body, because the earth is
an electron donor. Grounding is even more effective when your eyes and
skin are getting sun exposure (i.e., without sun-blockers like eyeglasses,
sunglasses, sunscreen, window glass, and clothing).
Like a solar panel, skin turns sunlight into electrons and electric charge.
Yet how many people today ground themselves daily, or get full-body
exposure to the sun? Hence, we need to make up the deficit by eating
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more calories. And that’s big reason #3 that people are fat: We're making
up for the lack of sun and grounding by eating more food — particularly
carbs — to get our fill of electrons.

4. Weak mitochondria
We’ve discussed mitochondrial productivity in previous chapters. So, to
summarize, the strength of your mitochondria is the single biggest factor
in when and where disease strikes you, and the speed at which you age.
When your mitochondria are strong, you make a lot of ATP relative to
calorie consumption, with little waste. But when your mitochondria are
struggling to make ATP, more calories are essentially wasted in ATP
production. Hence, you need to eat more.
So it’s not so much an excess of calories consumed per se that makes
you gain weight. It’s inefficient conversion of one form of stored energy
(such as calories, protons, and electrons) to other forms the body can use
(such as ATP, electrical charge, and magnetism) that is largely responsible
for weight gain. You’re basically not getting enough sunshine and
grounding on the front end, while electrons and protons are leaking out
of the electron transport chain. This lack of energy into, and out of,
mitochondria is a primary cause of weight gain.
It’s this conversion inefficiency — this “decoupling” — combined with
signaling and regulatory breakdowns (involving leptin, hormones, and
infradian rhythms) that creates surplus energy and weight gain.
Encapsulated in one phrase, weight gain is the result of poor “metabolism
management.” And fixing this metabolism mismanagement is the future
of weight loss, as you will soon learn.
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12
LEPTIN
The weight and energy balance hormone

The discovery of leptin is a monumental

breakthrough for weight loss and all of human health
That’s because leptin is the master hormone that influences all energy
production and usage in the body, including psychological programming
affecting motivation and activity. It’s the once-mysterious force that
controls programs, processes, and perplexing conditions even the most
renowned healers in history could never explain before.
Like a concert conductor, leptin controls the activity of all the hormones
used by the digestive system, the adrenals, the brain, and the reproductive
organs... in order to regulate your weight, resting “idle speed,” immune
function, fertility, and emotional state. Yet most people know nothing
about it, having just been discovered in 1994.

How the leptin system regulates body weight

The endocrine system uses leptin level in the blood to adjust your
appetite up or down so your weight stays as stable as possible. The way it
works is simple: The hormone leptin is made by subcutaneous fat cells in
proportion to a person’s total fat mass. The more leptin that leptin
receptors in the hypothalamus find circulating in the bloodstream at
night, the more it suppresses appetite. The less they find, the more your
appetite increases. So through this feedback and control mechanism, fat
mass is designed to regulate not just how much you eat, but also how
much energy you use.
More specifically, the presence of body fat and leptin should give you
an earlier, and stronger, sensation of fullness when you eat in order to
encourage you to lose weight. Conversely, the absence of body fat and
leptin should make you more hungry, more often, in an effort help you
get to your ideal weight. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work,
We now realize through our understanding of how leptin works that
this feedback-control mechanism is malfunctioning in a large percentage
of the population, breeding rampant obesity, adrenal dysfunction,
diabetes, and fertility problems, among other conditions so common we
consider them normal.
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To help you understand the biological programming behind these

breakdowns, when leptin receptors in your hypothalamus are unable to
see how much leptin is in your system — because of leptin resistance —
your body thinks it’s starving. So, like a car with a broken gas gauge, it
makes you fill up more frequently than you really need to by increasing
your appetite prematurely... just to be on the safe side.
Equally problematic, the endocrine system lowers thyroid function, the
immune system, insulin signaling, and reproductive function in order to
conserve energy for higher priorities. Your mental and emotional states
are also turned down to discourage activities that burn energy.
Leptin resistance (i.e., when the system is under-performing) basically
creates a starvation response in people by chronically activating all sorts of
adaptive mechanisms to cope with the perceived energy shortage. It
basically down-regulates organs, processes, and behaviors to conserve
energy. And that spells disorder all over the body.
Bottom line: Leptin isn’t the only mechanism that regulates body
weight. But it is the most important one, because it’s meant to be the
master controller that uses its executive powers to manage a wide range
of essential processes throughout the body.
That means leptin is commander-in-chief of weight maintenance. And
it does so with impressive influence over bodily functions and
programming. So the other systems and processes we thought were
responsible for weight gain/loss act subordinately to leptin’s direction.
Insulin and thyroid function are but two ofleptin’s principal lackeys.

Nature planned for us to get leptin first in breast milk Methylation is the
transfer of one carbon
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helps establish methylation early in life. Methylation controls the called a “methyl
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So its absence can alter gene expression through epigenetics. This is one groups control
way obesity, and other family traits, are passed on to future generations. detoxification
through glutathione,
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production for brain
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response and more.
Unfortunately, when your hypothalamus is unable to see how much Methylation defects
leptin is in the bloodstream — that is, when you lose leptin sensitivity — it are thought to
can’t tell how much fat mass the body has. This makes you lose the contribute to autism
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ability to regulate appetite, energy expenditure, and ultimately body mass. disorders.
 Therefore, obesity is primarily a failure of the leptin system to respond
to high leptin levels in the blood (>10 ng/ml), while anorexia can be a
failure of leptin receptors to recognize low leptin levels (<4 ng/ml). Both
are caused by dysfunctional leptin reception, which spoils your appetite
regulation.
News you can use: When you “wake up” your leptin system from its
state of slumber, the body realizes its fat mass is dramatically different than
what it thought. It then puts enormous pressure on your energy
management systems to get you to your ideal weight. This causes the
body to make all kinds of adjustments large and small to get you to eat
less, store less, and burn more. And that’s how people are losing
staggering amounts of weight in record time using the Leptin Prescription
Reset and Cold Thermogenesis Protocols.
Internalize this like a mantra: The new, improved road to substantial
weight loss is the journey to leptin sensitivity. On the other hand, weight
loss without regaining leptin sensitivity is the biggest reason the pounds
tend to come back with a vengeance, after a successful diet.

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In other words, leptin resistance can make you have a “slow
metabolism,” give you the appearance of thyroid dysfunction, and make
weight loss extremely difficult because your resting calorie consumption
is too low. It can even prevent people from losing weight when they
exercise, because the metabolic benefits of exercise are not carrying over
fully into the resting state.
As a result, leptin resistance can cause health practitioners to
misinterpret thyroid function tests, because the presence or absence of
thyroid hormones may not be the actual cause. Leptin insensitivity may
be the real problem— predominately, or as a contributing factor.
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Women are more sensitive to leptin, and their environment

Women are built to be more sensitive to biophysical forces around them
— temperature, food and EMBs, for instance — than men are. They have
to be so that their mitochondria can adjust their metabolism to suit their
surroundings. They then pass those survival-enhancing adaptations on to
their children in the form of mitochondrial haplotype and heteroplasmy
rate, as well as epigenetic changes to nuclear DNA.
Women also average more fat mass than men, on a percentage basis.
That means more leptin. The thing is, leptin is pro-inflammatory, having
thought to have evolved from interleukin-6 (IL-6), a pro-inflammatory
chemical made by the body. That’s how leptin works: leptin from fat
creates an inflammatory state (and a signal) that the leptin receptor reads,
then tells endocrine organs to either gain weight or lose weight.
Those two factors — chronically higher leptin levels, and greater
sensitivity to the environment — put women closer to the edge of having
chronic inflammation all the time. It’s in their nature to have a finer
line between inflamed and not inflamed. This is a huge reason why women
typically gain weight more easily, and have a harder time losing it.

Leptin overload contributes to type 2 and type 1.5 diabetes

High leptin levels in the blood destroy “amylin,” a protein made by the
beta cells of the pancreas. This should come as no surprise since leptin is
thought to have evolved from the pro-inflammatory chemical IL-6. When
beta cells can’t make amylin, the pancreas can’t make insulin. And that’s a
foundational disturbance upon which type 2 diabetes is built. It’s leptin
continually flooding the pancreas and destroying insulin production,
At the same time, eating lots of sugary foods that spike insulin levels
stresses the pancreas even more. So type 2 diabetes is caused, in large
degree, by a condition of excessive leptin wiping out insulin production,
exacerbated by increased demand for insulin due to high blood-sugar level.
Interesting to note for its predictive and preventive value, this process
of high leptin levels beating up the beta cells typically precedes insulin
resistance by s—7 years. That makes leptin resistance a good predictor of
type 2 diabetes.
However, if leptin insensitivity develops quickly, as it can with
pregnancy or leaky gut, then we could be talking about type 1.5 diabetes,
which basically means autoimmune-type diabetes. In type 1.5 diabetes,
the autoimmune attack on pancreatic beta cells is more intense. So
pancreas and insulin function fails faster than in type 2 diabetes.
Unfortunately for those affected, the medical system focuses on
treating insulin-resistant diabetes after it occurs. But wouldn’t it make
more sense to treat the underlying problem of leptin resistance, before it
turns into type 2 diabetes?
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To land the plane here, leptin resistance precedes insulin resistance.

And, when both occur long enough, you get adrenal resistance, which
means cortisol is elevated chronically so the adrenals stop responding to it.
Most people call it adrenal fatigue. Not good, because high insulin and
cortisol at the same time can turn into cancer and many chronic diseases.

The difference between /eptin resistance and insulin resistance

“When people talk about insulin resistance, they automatically think
about insulin resistance from a pathologic standpoint — meaning type 2
diabetes or metabolic syndrome. But what they don’t realize is that
insulin resistance also has a physiologic role [a benefit]... in ketosis, in
starvation, and also in brain development for infants. They’re designed to be
insulin resistant up until they’re almost 25 years old to myelinate their
brain. So when you understand that very fact, you start to realize that
insulin resistance has a key role [in evolutionary biology].
Here’s an interesting conundrum that people don’t realize: Insulin
resistance has very little to do with fertility. What’s the goal of evolution?
It’s to have another generation. Well guess what, when you’re leptin
resistant, you can’t have a baby. But when you’re insulin resistant, you
can still have a child... So which one is really more important from an
evolutionary standpoint?
...What is [leptin’s real purpose?] It’s an electron accountant. It counts
the electrons that are in our system. It also counts how many protons are
in our system. So when you have too many protons, and not enough
electrons, you’re leptin resistant.
Leptin controls selection of eggs from the ovaries. And it controls
sperm production in males. That means leptin directly controls fertility.”
— Dr. Jack Kruse.

Leptin controls fertility

The leptin system is Nature’s way of picking a good time to have a baby.
It does this by monitoring both energy reserves, and energy in
circulation, to make sure the body has enough resources to gestate a baby.
If the leptin system senses a woman has enough energy to safely carry a
baby to term, it picks an immature egg to develop, and Nature takes its
course. When it doesn’t, the leptin system makes her inner terrain
inhospitable to pregnancy by delivering eggs of poor quality, irregular
menstrual cycles, and reduced receptivity of the uterine lining.
Leptin level is supposed to control this process. However, when leptin
receptors aren’t responding properly to leptin in the system, the
endocrine system blocks reproductive processes. Couples having trouble
conceiving experience this as infertility. A major cause, if not the single
biggest reason (among several), is leptin resistance.
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A major drug company cancelled its synthetic leptin trial (planned

for weight loss) because it worked too well
After spending many millions of dollars, and getting well into the FDA
approval process, a major drug company in the US halted its clinical trial
of synthetic leptin because releasing the drug would have negated the need
for other, more profitable drugs they, and the rest of Big Pharma, sell.
The company arrived at the stunning realization that once you fix a
person’s broken leptin system, a plethora of the body’s most vexing
problems simply vanish. They realized how influential the leptin system is
at controlling biological programming throughout the body, and how
adept it is at doing its job.
Therefore, if they were to allow synthetic leptin onto the market, they
would be teaching the entire healthcare industry what really causes
dozens of chronic, degenerative diseases... and why Big Pharma is doing
a horrible job at fixing them with their synthetic drugs.
By releasing the cure to so many profit centers... | mean diseases...
they would, in effect, be digging their own grave. It simply won’t do. As
with all solutions that work too well, have too little markup, or are not
patent-protectable, they had to stop it before it threatened their
monetization and control over many disease processes.

What causes leptin resistance?

Leptin receptors start to measure how much leptin is in the system four
hours after you eat your last meal of the day, or four hours after your last
light exposure. A spike in insulin blocks leptin in the blood from being
read by leptin receptors in the hypothalamus, which is why Dr. Jack tells
you not to snack after dinner.
Of the many factors at play, artificial blue light in the eye and on the
skin is most responsible for creating leptin resistance. In the eye, blue light
breaks the bond between vitamin A and melanopsin (a photoreceptor
involved in risk of injury from blue light), which releases a thread of
positively-charged protons.
In a perfect world, DHA’s massive cloud of electrons is able to offset
the positive charge from dissociated melanopsin. But modern living
overextends our electron supply from DHA, due to the amount of blue
in our manufactured light. Hence, positive charge and inflammation in
the area go up, while healing and communication go down.
The crush of blue light also slows the ETC locally by stretching out
respiratory proteins in mitochondria, which lowers redox further. Those
two factors — increased positive charge and decreased mitochondria
function — combine to increase inflammation in the retina, SCN, and
leptin receptor. The three live along a semiconducting circuit called the
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naked in the mirror. The very presence, or acute absence, of fat mass tells
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back of the eyes to responding appropriately. That means you can tell if your leptin reception
the SCN and
leptin receptor in is broken based on results. Too heavy, or too thin: both mean you’re
the hypothalamus. leptin-resistant. It’s possible for those at a normal weight to be leptin-
The CRP helps
resistant as well (as other factors bring you into balance).
tell the brain what
time of day or There are simple, straightforward tests you can do to give your
night it is. healthcare providers objective measurements to evaluate. However,
C-reactive protein
they’re rarely used by clinicians because leptin resistance is not widely
test is a common understood or practiced yet. And the tests are not covered by insurance.
measure of Low vitamin D level is a good indicator of leptin resistance to start
inflammation, A
Highly Sensitive with. But even better are a “highly sensitive C-reactive protein” test
C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) and a “reverse T3” test. Practitioners have long used the
test (hsCRP)
common “C-reactive protein test” to measure inflammation in the body.
measures low levels
of C-reactive So scoring high on the standard-sensitivity C-reactive protein test reveals
protein in the that your leptin receptors may be responding poorly to leptin due to C-
blood.
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reactive protein binding to leptin and interfering with its function, and/or
a systemic inflammation.
The other good indicator of leptin resistance is when you score high
ona Reverse T; test. The hormone Reverse T; suppresses thyroid function
because it acts in opposition to the hormones T3 and T, that run the
thyroid. For this reason, leptin resistance and thyroid dysfunction usually
go together. You can surmise how leptin-resistant you are by seeing how
inappropriate the leptin system’s instructions for the thyroid are (i.e., slow-
ing down the thyroid when the leptin system should be speeding it up).
This also explains why standard thyroid tests can mislead you when
you have leptin resistance: Your thyroid probably isn’t broken. That’s the
least likely, most severe, condition. Leptin resistance is more likely to be
causing slow metabolism issues (along with fluoride decreasing T; and T,
levels). But leptin dysfunction is making it appear as if your thyroid needs
repair (via hormone replacement).
Consequently, anything you do to try to fix your thyroid, such as
hormone supplementation, is misguided and potentially counter-
productive because thyroid glands are not normally the weakest link:
toxicity and inflammation are (from fluoride, blue light, C-reactive
protein, and other pro-inflammatories). As a result, supplementation can
uncouple your thyroid system from the feedback mechanism that’s
supposed to control it, eventually weakening your endogenous production.

Restoring leptin function

DHA. To start with, you can protect your leptin receptors from retinal
and inflammation damage by having more DHA (and its electrons)
available to neutralize the positive charge resulting from broken vitamin
A-to-photoreceptor bonds (the blue light “beat down” we talked about
earlier). Eat more seafood with DHA in it, such as oysters and cold-water
fish. Liver from grass-fed animals has more DHA than regular beef, lamb,
etc. But seafood is still the best.
Cold exposure. Next, you can reduce the amount ofleptin in your
system through cold exposure. Cold exposure turns on ancient
temperature regulation pathways Nature installed in all mammals to help
them survive winter weather. As part of this seasonal programming, cold
exposure increases production of “uncoupling protein 1,” which stretches
out the respiratory proteins on purpose to make the ETC less efficient —
meaning more heat.
Brown fat. Cold exposure also activates fat-burning pathways that turn
white fat into brown fat. Brown fat’s enviable ability is all of it goes into
heat production, rather than ATP. These two mechanisms — uncoupling
protein 1 and brown fat usage — turn up the furnace function of your
mitochondria, thus dissipating calories as heat, instead of retaining them.
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Reducing inflammation everywhere. It’s the side benefits of

activating fat-burning pathways that will really blow your mind. You see,
researchers believe leptin evolved from a pro-inflammatory cytokine the
body uses widely to promote inflammation, called IL-6 (interleukin-6).
As discussed, inflammation is beneficial when it’s acute and temporary.
But inflammation becomes destructive when it stays switched on when
it’s no longer needed.
The point to ponder deeply here is this: As temperature on the skin
goes down, so does inflammation. They’re a coupled system. Our ancient
seasonal programming lowers leptin and IL-6 levels, as it burns fat and
generates heat. That’s how cold exposure works. So when you’re
exposed to the cold, not only do you burn more fat, but it also stomps
out a variety of inflammatory conditions such as diabetes, heart disease,
and cancer as a consequence of turning down inflammation.
This is why Dr. Jack calls obesity an inflammatory brain condition, and
why The Wim Hof Method is renowned for reversing dozens of chronic
conditions using cold exposure. The implications are staggering.
Dr. Jack’s Leptin Prescription. Finally, the way to get your leptin
sensitivity back is to retrain your brain to see leptin at the appropriate
times in the day, and to avoid seeing it at the wrong times of the day.
Here’s why: Leptin signaling is supposed to be synched to daily cycles of
daylight, darkness, wakefulness, and sleep. That’s because fat-burning and
the release of growth hormone, for example, work best when they
happen on schedule with circadian rhythms.
So Dr. Jack’s protocol not only tells you what to eat, but when to eat,
and what other lifestyle choices contribute to your results. We get deeper
into that in Chapter 15: Dr. Jack Kruse’s Protocols.
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you’re younger... metabolism, disease and aging when you're older
Deuterium is a special form of hydrogen that Nature uses to help regulate
human life cycles. Present all around us to varying degrees, deuterium is
nothing more than a common hydrogen atom with an extra neutron in
its nucleus. In non-living systems, that extra neutron doesn’t do anything;
deuterium behaves the same as regular H* hydrogen in chemical
reactions. But in living systems, Nature uses the extra neutron to regulate
mitochondnial output, seasonal biorhythms, and so much more.
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And we know from Dr. Doug Wallace’s work that mitochondrial
dysfunction is the driving force behind modern disease as we know it. So
whatever organs or systems accumulate the most deuterium in adulthood
will be hardest hit by dysfunction and disease as the individual ages,
because that organ’s mitochondria won’t be able to make as much energy
to maintain and repair cells.
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Deuterium serves several roles in survival, maturation and metabolism

Deuterium is a control factor the body uses to start or stop growth and
metabolism programs, based on its presence or absence. For example, in
the third trimester of pregnancy, mom’s body offloads her deuterium into
baby to fatten it up to help it survive after birth. This reduces the
mother’s deuterium load, which invigorates her energy production, while
at the same time baby gets a growth aid. For these reasons, babies are like
the fruit of a human.
Deuterium also prevents myelin from forming around the baby’s brain
cells while it’s in the womb. This keeps babies’ brains as small as possible
so they can fit through the birth canal (which in humans is pretty tight).
But it also delays maturation of brain function until well after the baby is
outside the womb. In fact, brain function continues to mature through
this myelination process until a person’s mid-20s (one more reason
children are especially vulnerable to wireless radiation: less insulation to
protect the brain). This is Nature’s way of making humans as smart as
possible, given constrictions of the birthing process.
Now what’s been happening in recent decades is that more and more
toddlers to adolescents look like they were born with an “obesity gene”
turned on full blast. Their weight regulation appears to be broken from
inception — even more then you’d expect, given their family’s genes and
lifestyle choices. But why would this be happening?
Excessive deuterium gets into the egg before it’s even been
fertilized, damaging its 100,000 mitochondria. The germ line itself (the
egg) is damaged before conception, which is passed on to that generation,
and their progeny, in a compromised state.
By inheriting defective mitochondria, young children then become
obese far in excess of normal baby fat. So instead of young children eating
anything they want and not gaining weight, they actually gain weight
regardless of what they eat or how much they exercise. And those frail
mitochondria predispose the individual to diseases we’ve always associated
with “getting old.”
Therefore, weak mitochondria are the single biggest factor in childhood
obesity and disease. High levels of deuterium are causing kids to lose
ATP production, eat more, and get fat as a result. All three are not good.
But it’s actually the drop in ATP that causes organs to malfunction and
disease to kick in due to compromised maintenance and repair systems,
not excess calorie consumption or obesity by themselves.

Deuterium promotes growth and maturation

After early childhood, elevated deuterium from high exposure and/or
slow elimination can cause precocious development and early-onset
puberty. That produces rapid physical development in adolescents to early
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teens. But, to their detriment, it also means early development of diseases

associated with aging because deuterium overload makes you live fast and
die young, mitophysically speaking.
This is exactly what we’re seeing with so many childhood diseases
showing up decades earlier than they used to. For instance, we’re seeing
diseases such as arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer that used to show up at
age 50 and 60 now showing up in 20-somethings, teens, or even younger.
Now you know why.
It’s because deuterium is Nature’s special way of getting animals and
plants to grow and mature by regulating their metabolism. Unfortunately,
that effect does not extend to regeneration and vitality. Instead, excess
deuterium continues to promote aging, even when you don’t want it or
need it. To put it simply, deuterium makes you age faster the more of it
you have in your body.

But deuterium isn’t always bad

There are some places in the body where deuterium serves a beneficial
role in adulthood. Meaning, it’s useful and welcome in some places and
not others. It just becomes problematic when/where you have too much
of it in organs and tissues that depend on mitochondria for energy.
So not only does deuterium not harm you when it gets into blood
plasma, red blood cells (that don’t have mitochondria), sperm, eggs, and
the uterine lining, as examples. But it’s actually beneficial, because those
pathways help deplete it from the body. Another use for deuterium is that
white blood cells need it to generate hydrogen peroxide so they can kill
off bacteria.
In a nutshell, deuterium is not toxic for all people, all the time. Instead,
it’s more a matter of it being in the wrong place, in the wrong amount, at
the wrong time that makes it destructive to human health. In fact, our
systems are designed around its presence. So it’s only when society’s ways
concentrate deuterium in our food, our water, and in our bodies that it
becomes an enemy to ideal health.

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called the ATP after your body and brain have fully matured.
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But, like fabric getting jammed in a zipper, the deuterium atom, with
an extra neutron attached to its proton, is too big to fit through the
spinning head of the ATPase. This gums up the tiny rotor so it doesn’t
spin properly, which breaks the ATPase and lowers ATP production.
The electron transport chain then makes more oxygen radicals, which
contribute further to the aging process.
ATPase blockages also decrease the magnetic field around
mitochondria, because the fewer ATPases you have spinning vigorously
in a mitochondrion, the weaker the magnetic field around it. Lower
magnetic field weakens blood flow, hormone delivery, and DHA to the
cell, as well as oxygen supply to the mitochondria, because they’re all
drawn to magnetic fields. Deuterium also inhibits the formation of
e-zone, because its extra neutron doesn’t fit in the e-zone’s crystal matrix.
That’s how deuterium in the diet is like pouring syrup into a car’s
engine instead of oil. The net result being that ATP production suffers, as
does blood flow, oxygen utilization, hormone delivery, and regeneration.
What’s more, when deuterium clogs up the ATPase, the body can’t fix
them. If certain species of bacteria aren’t available to unjam the ATPases,
they have to be replaced.
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which is the single biggest factor in how healthy or sick you are. And
that’s what makes deuterium a major concern to mitochondriacs.
Found in a variety of foods, a high deuterium level:
increases inflammation
makes you more sensitive to nnEMFs
screws up enzyme function
is associated with cancer, MS, osteoporosis, and autoimmunity
reduces ATP output, which then increases your chances of having
fibromyalgia, brain fog, Lyme disease, and autism
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And that’s why surplus deuterium is Nature’s fat-maker, energy-
decreaser, and age-accelerator.

Deuterium changes gene expression through epigenetics

Some educators still believe disease is caused by gene defects, when, in
fact, probably more than 90% of diseases are caused by epigenetic
alterations to the way genes build a human being. This makes it look like
a disease is being caused by the genes themselves misbehaving, when it’s
actually deuterium and other influences that are responsible for activating
or suppressing genes, which then turn into symptoms we can see.
To illustrate how DNA works: genes are preceded by segments of
DNA that activate the gene — called a “promoter” region — as well as
DNA that suppresses gene expression — called a “silencer.” When
deuterium collects in the promoter region, its proteins change shape,
which alters their resonance and function. That gene then gets over-
activated (“over-expressed,” as it’s called), which can result in elevated
levels of a disease-causing protein in a cell.
Similarly, when a suppressor gets loaded with deuterium, that gene
may get more turned off. In this situation, fewer protective agents are
made to combat disease. To make matters more interesting, varying
degrees of both effects can happen at the same time.
In other words, a buildup of deuterium in DNA’s transcription
regulators (promoters and silencers) alters gene expression so those
epigenetic alterations are often misconstrued to be genetic mutations that
cause disease. This is one way gene expression changes in response to
your environment (aka epigenetics).
Unfortunately for us today, that means deuterium predominately
corrupts gene expression for the worse. And it’s a major reason that
geneticists are tricked into believing a disorder is being caused by genes
that look defective, when, in fact, it’s just epigenetic misfortune that all of
the afflicted have in common.
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Extremely common examples today are glyphosate (active ingredient

in the weedkiller Roundup) and childhood vaccine exposures triggering a
cascade of: leaky gut and autoimmune issues; poor digestion with
pathogen overgrowth; mineral and vitamin deficiency; pitiful
detoxification; and protein misfolding (particularly in the brain). This
tidal wave of chronic issues leads to autism and other GAPS conditions
(brain and developmental disorders). Deuterium plays a role in much of
that because it’s tied to energy in many ways, and it regulates our biology.
The net result is that genes don’t do much in comparison to epigenetic
influences such as deuterium, glyphosate, and the toxins in vaccines.

Cholesterol can’t be turned into hormones when its deuterated

Normally, cholesterol gets broken down into pregnenolone (a master
hormone), which gets converted into steroid hormones such as estrogen,
progesterone and testosterone, as well as vitamin D and bile salts (which
break down fats). But when cholesterol has too much deuterium in it —
when it’s “deuterated” — it can’t be used as a raw material in the
production of those crucial hormones and biochemicals. That’s because
carbon-deuterium bonds in cholesterol are seven times harder to break
than carbon-hydrogen bonds in hormone production.
Whatever the reason, when cholesterol is not being converted into
vitamin D and hormones efficiently, your cholesterol level goes up.
That’s an important reason so many people have high cholesterol
today. Its normal usage/depletion pathways get clogged by dehydration,
nnEMBs, lack of UV on the skin, and hormonal disconnection. With
exits blocked, cholesterol then floods the system. And we blame it on
animal fat.

Why “local” produce is good for you and “non-local”... not so much
Nature designed us to eat what’s available in our local environment by
yoking deuterium in our food to UV light exposure of the seasons. That
means the more deuterium your food has in it, the more UV light
exposure you need to offset the decrease in mitochondrial efficiency,
To say it another way, when you eat fruits and vegetables in weak sun
weather (i.e., late fall and winter) that were grown in strong sun weather
(e.g., imported from sunny places), you create a seasonal mismatch with
insidious health consequences.
You see, fruit is loaded with deuterium which slows down
mitochondrial efficiency. That’s bad for your health... or it would be bad
without ways to offset deuterium’s effects. Fortunately, Nature gave us
the solution which required no thought or effort on our part: UV light.
UV light makes your mitochondria more efficient at producing energy,
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What’s the most important factor in food quality from a mitochondriac’s
perspective? It’s the quality of water that food was grown with —
specifically its deuterium level (for most mature adults). That determines
how efficient your mitochondria are at making ATP.
Plants grown in coastal regions of California and Florida, for instance,
tend to have the most deuterium because the heavy hydrogen of
deuterium is released by rain clouds before regular H2O, as they travel
inland. And deuterium naturally collects in waterways at lower elevations
because it’s twice as heavy as regular hydrogen and last to evaporate.
Therefore, plants grown closer to water bodies tend to be higher in
deuterium. Likewise, plants grown toward the equator are naturally high
in it, while those grown further North, or at elevation, tend to be lower.
Consequently, an avocado grown in California is not as good for you as
an avocado grown in Mexico City, in terms of deuterium.
Those with excellent mitochondrial capacity (i.e., low heteroplasmy
rate), and those living in stronger sunlight, can get away with eating more
high-deuterium foods, because their mitochondria typically have more
efficiency to spare. Meaning, their metabolisms are better equipped to
offset any drop in output. Higher redox potential also makes them better
able to withstand the burdens that GMOs, glyphosate, and poor-quality
food place on their detox systems. Free radicals are usually less of an issue
for them too.
Conversely, those with poor mitochondrial production to begin with
are hurt more by high-deuterium foods and water, because they’re
already low on power. They’re likely to have more inflammation. And so
they don’t repair, renew, or maintain weight as well.
For these reasons, a cucumber that’s loaded with deuterium can be a
highly fattening food for the wrong person — especially when it’s eaten
out of season for your locale. And that’s why deuterium level in water,
and in produce, is a bigger factor in people’s health than those grocery
store labels we’ve blindly been trusting to bring us wellness. Deuterium
clogs our mitochondria, increases calorie retention, and turns up
inflammation.
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Where food categories rank in deuterium concentration

¢ Naturally-raised animal products are lowest in deuterium because
an animal’s mitochondria make low deuterium water, which dilutes
levels systemically. And their detox systems are designed to remove
deuterium all the time. That’s why naturally-raised animal products
are an asset in lowering your deuterium level — particularly fat.
© Vegetables are typically higher in deuterium than animal products
because they deplete deuterium differently than animals do.
Chloroplasts lower a plant’s deuterium level by segregating then
concentrating it in their seeds, fruits, and vegetables, rather than
diluting it through metabolism. Plants also need deuterium for rapid
growth cycles, so they have less need to get rid of it, as an animal
would when it is mature.
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deuterium to begin with, and we concentrate them more. You then
get the worst of all worlds: (1) grains, oils and sugars that are (2)
refined and concentrated; (3) grown in poor quality water; and (4)
often GMO. This “stacking of the biological burden” is arguably the
most harmful aspect of why junk food is bad for you: It gums up your
mitochondria, lowers your energy level, and hastens the development
of disease and dysfunction by loading you up with deuterium.
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Deuterium depletion overview

As a general rule, unless a person under 20 years of age has chronic health
problems, there’s no reason to think they should proactively take steps to
deplete their deuterium level. You’d expect their mitochondria to be
young and in good shape. Their percent heteroplasmy rate should be low.
And deuterium does support human development earlier in life. So they
probably don’t need to go on a deuterium-depletion program.
But when you get up into your late 30s and beyond, or you start to
have health problems before that, you may want to consider taking active
measures to reduce your deuterium load. Our mitochondria do decline
naturally with age. Gumming them up with deuterium then accelerates
that process. And, after your mid-thirties, your body and mind are well
past any need for maturation at that point.
Plus, our ability to deplete deuterium also declines with age.
Therefore, deuterium level almost always rises over time. So depleting
your body of it through daily practices, or a dedicated program, can help
you be the youngest and healthiest you can be, because it keeps your
mitochondria as productive as they can be.
Indeed, experts in the field, including Dr. Laszl6 Boros (a leading
researcher on deuterium and deuterium depletion), believe most diseases
afflicting modern man today are caused by deuterium upsetting local
energy production in mitochondria, which triggers clusters of adverse
effects we call disease. Specifically, when our deuterium depletion
processes fail, metabolic and hormonal diseases such as cancer,
Alzheimer’s, dementia, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity can occur.
Standards ofcare: For these reasons, most treatments and modalities (including “standards
Normal, acceptable of care” in mainstream medicine) work better when you lower your
ways to treat
disease in the deuterium level first. That’s because the body then has more endogenous
medical system, energy to fix itself. Same thing applies to keto and paleo diets. They work
according to medical precisely because they deplete deuterium when you eat fats and proteins,
boards and public
health agencies. which are low in deuterium — instead of sugars, grains, and starches,
When conventional which are high in deuterium.
doctors step outside
these boundaries,
Deuterium depletion starts in photosynthesis. Bacteria then
they risk being
sanctioned by their continue it in the gut
boards. Plant chloroplasts start reducing deuterium levels in the food chain
through photosynthesis. Recall that photosynthesis converts water and
CO) into sugars using sunlight. Chloroplasts separate helpful hydrogen
from harmful deuterium by taking advantage of the difference in bond
strength between each of them and oxygen.
In a water molecule, deuterium holds on to oxygen about ten times
stronger than regular hydrogen does (it has to do with how the bond
resonates when hit by sunlight). So when light hits water in the
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photosynthetic process, hydrogens break off more easily to move the

photosynthetic process forward, while deuterium tends to stay attached so
it can be dealt with as a hazardous substance. This enables chloroplasts to
start the multi-step process of discriminating and fractionating deuterium
from hydrogen.
Later, in the gut microbiome and other tissues, bacteria filter deuterium
from the body by running the ATPase in reverse. This is why recent
research shows that breast cancer is linked to an absence of certain bacteria
strains. It’s because bacteria are actively depleting deuterium levels in breast
tissue mitochondria, thereby supporting metabolism, detoxification and
renewal programs locally, which protect the woman from cancer.

Glycolysis and the TCA cycle decontaminate water of its deuterium TCA cycle, aka
Krebs cycle, citric
to protect the ETC acid cycle. See pg.
Deuterium is so destructive to mitochondrial function that our cycles of 55 for diagram
metabolism (e.g., glycolysis and the TCA cycle) employ what seem to be and description.

unnecessary steps just so they can remove and examine hydrogens from See diagram of
their intermediate substrates to make absolutely sure they’re not deuterium glycolysis on pg.
54 to understand
before reaching the ETC and breaking the ATPase. Substrates are base the transformation
molecules that are added to, or taken away from, to make other molecules ofone molecular
in a chain of reactions (think “precursor’’), Example: adenosine diphosphate substrate into
another.
(ADP) is a substrate for the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Reducing deuterium level is so important in keeping energy
production up, and disease processes at bay, that the body performs action
steps that appear to be overly complicated and wasteful when seen
through a ‘mitochondria only make ATP’ lens. When, in fact, glycolysis and
the TCA Cycle have a total of 19 enzymatic steps not to befuddle pre-
med students, but rather to purify the ETC’s fuel multiple times to
prevent deuterium from jamming the ATPase.
In other words, glycolysis and the TCA cycle are setup the way they
are not to maximize energy production, but do the best job possible at
depleting deuterium. That’s the real purpose of glycolysis and the TCA
cycle. Researchers have just been operating under the assumption that
ATP yield is the one and only goal of metabolism. This lends credibility
to Dr, Boros’s assertion that mitochondria’s most important function is
making deuterium-depleted water. ATP is more like a “handy helper” in
bodily function.
Here’s the short version of how these two cycles of metabolism
separate H* hydrogen from deuterium to keep it out of the ETC:
Enzymatic stages of glycolysis (the steps you see on pg. 52) pull hydrogens
off sugar substrates and put them in a pool of water in the cell (the
cytoplasm). A tiny percentage of these hydrogens are deuterium. Some
steps in glycolysis have H” hydrogen added back to their substrates, while
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other substrates are repleted with H* later in the TCA cycle. Deuterium
stays in the cytoplasm where it can’t break the ETC in the mitochondria.
This process of glycolysis has been described as “dehydrating” glucose,
meaning removing hydrogens themselves, not water. The end product of
Pyruvate: An glycolysis, which is deuterium-depleted pyruvate, then goes on to feed
end product of
glycolysis,
the TCA cycle in the mitochondria. Next, three enzymatic stages of the
pyruvate is a TCA cycle take low-deuterium metabolic water from the mitochondrial
chemical matrix and attach it to the cycle’s substrates. Another stage of TCA makes
compound that
fuels the TCA
water and puts it back into the matrix.
cycle (aka the Through these processes, any deuterium that started out on glucose
Krebs Cycle, molecules stays in the cell where it can’t harm energy production, while
citric acid cycle).
See diagram of substrates holding the desired H* hydrogens move on to drive the
Cellular electron transport chain in mitochondria (which live inside cells). So you
Respiration on can think of the glycolysis-TCA pair as “washing” intermediate
pg. 51, and the
citric acid cycle on metabolites clean of deuterium like a washing machine.
pe. 53. Glycolysis starts removing deuterium from substrates with a drying
process in the cell’s cytoplasm. And the TCA cycle completes the cleaning
process by “rehydrating” with deuterium-depleted water from the mito-
chondria’s matrix. That’s how glycolysis and the TCA cycle repeatedly
reuse metabolic/matrix water’s purity to keep substrates clean of deuterium.
The takeaway: The body goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure
matrix water is extremely low in deuterium because it absolutely
devastates mitochondrial function and disease resistance. That’s why high-
carb/low-fat diets are bad for you, while nutritional ketosis (fats and
proteins) can alleviate conditions such as diabetes and neuro-
degeneration. It all comes down to how much deuterium the cycles of
metabolism are required to process. Carbs are naturally higher in
deuterium, while animal fats are low in deuterium by nature.

Depleting deuterium can improve athletic performance

Admittedly, this is still a new technique to improve athletic performance,
so it has yet to stand the test of time. But here’s an interesting observation
to illustrate the potential of proactively depleting your deuterium level:
In the 2016 NEL season, the Los Angeles Rams finished with one of
the worst records in the league, at 4-12. It’s been reported the Rams
owner, Stan Kroenke, met with Dr. Laszl6 Boros who coached the team
on the benefits of drinking deuterium-depleted water. The next season,
the Rams finished with an 11-5 record. So they went from near last place
in the league, to near first place, in one season. They followed it up in
the 2018 season by going to the Super Bowl.
Now, no one in their right mind would claim deuterium depletion
alone was the sole reason for the stunning turn-around, but it does make
you wonder how big a role deuterium in their water did play. I’m sure
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we'll learn much more in the years to come about drinking deutertum-
depleted water to reduce recovery time and increase stamina.
Breaking news: The Rams won the 2022 Superbowl just days before
this goes to print. They must be doing something right.

Deuterium ranges
Geologic records tell us deuterium in the environment was 10—T5 parts-
per-million (ppm) lower 15,000-20,000 years ago. That would have to
mean human physiology is evolutionarily adapted to handle that
concentration of deuterium with no problem. At that rate of exposure,
you would expect our detox systems to be fully competent to remove it
fast enough to keep us in a healthy range.
This then is a sensible goal we can all aspire to as a general guideline:
10-15 ppm lower than our current level — both in the body, and from the
food, water, and air we’re routinely exposed to. Unfortunately, society’s
ways, and the trend in geology, have raised non-threatening Ice Age
levels up to the more problematic levels we get today.
To our biology, that means the higher up you go above that historic
baseline (127-137 in the body), the harder it is for your depletion systems
to get rid of deuterium fast enough to avoid energy deficits and organ
dysfunction. Don’t forget: dose makes the toxin. And toxicity increases
rapidly for every § ppm above the 130 range, because our deuterium
depleting mechanisms get overwhelmed above a certain threshold.

Deuterium levels in the environment and food today

e Average deuterium level at lower latitudes and elevations — both
oceans and rainwater — is 145-155 ppm.
Glacial melt water averages about 125 ppm.
Extremely low levels from snow or spring water at high altitude is 25.
Unsaturated fat is 110 ppm.
Animal fat 118 ppm.
Butter 124 ppm.
Olive oil 130 ppm.
e Table sugar 146 ppm.
e White wheat flour 150 ppm.
¢ Some refined vegetable oils are as high as 250 ppm.

Testing deuterium level

As part of the detoxification process, the body purposely moves
deuterium from certain places where it’s harmful to others where it’s
harmless, or even beneficial. So you have to be consistent about which
body compartment you’re measuring in order to extract meaning from
the numbers.
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One place you can measure your deuterium level is in your expired
air. In one test, you breathe into a test tube, and the condensation in your
exhaled air gives you a good idea what your tissue fractionation level is.
Another one tests your saliva. The difference between breath and saliva
tells you how effectively your body is excreting deuterium. A 7-10 point
difference is good. A 3~5 point difference is on the low side. Any less
than that and it looks like a weakness in your system is causing you to
detox deuterium slowly.
Other tests measure deuterium in the urine or blood. Still more lab
tests are being developed to measure it from other body compartments.
Your outermost body compartments such as saliva should be highest,
while your innermost compartments like the mitochondrial matrix should
have almost no deuterium at all. It’s devastating to mitochondrial
function when deuterium gets into the matrix. Deuterium level should be
somewhere in-between those two extremes for the middle body
Interstitial space: compartments such as the blood, lymph, and interstitial space.
The fluid and
structural The Center for Deuterium Depletion breath and saliva deuterium
environment
guideline levels:
between blood
vessels and cells, ¢ Saturated. Their “red” zone is over 150 ppm.
¢ Elevated. Their “yellow” zone 130-150 ppm.
© Desired. Their “green” level is 130 ppm and below.
¢ Average deuterium level in a human today is 137-147 ppm.
Generally speaking, it gets exponentially harder to achieve and maintain a
level below 130 ppm in the body; 100-75 ppm is very low to extremely
low. On the other hand, the more you exceed 130 ppm, the
exponentially worse off your mitochondria fitness and overall health are
likely to be. A level of 150 ppm and above is cause for concern, because
that’s usually a sign you have an underlying medical condition that’s
preventing your system from getting rid of it. That means you're
retaining it through some combination of poor metabolism, excessive
intake, and toxic environment.
Dr. Jack even goes so far as to predict that if you have a deuterium level
in your tissue above 130 ppm, you're at risk for cancer and autoimmune
conditions. If it’s below 130 ppm, you will not have those diseases,
period. For their part, Dr. Boros and Dr. Que Collins (Center for
Deuterium Depletion) do agree with the “line in the sand” concept. But
they’d choose a lower number. They say diseases like these would be
extremely unlikely to occur at perhaps 120 ppm or below in saliva.

Some supplements are loaded with deuterium

Experts in the field now think high deuterium levels in supplements,
drugs, vitamins, and health products are secretly undermining the benefits
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you get from these ingestible products — potentially turning interventions

meant to help you into a mixed bag of some good effects and some bad.
In fact, the folks at The Center for Deuterium Depletion believe
deuterium level will soon become one of the most important factors to
monitor and manage in determining any therapy’s risk-to-reward value.
They believe supplement companies will eventually need to
demonstrate low deuterium levels, and perhaps be certified, for their
products to be considered top-grade. For their part, the USFDA is now
looking into testing deuterium level as a factor in determining a
pharmaceutical’s toxicity and efficacy.

Depleting your deuterium level

Just like any substance that’s toxic at high levels, your total body burden
of deuterium is a function of your intake vs, excretion rate. Incoming
exposure comes from the food, water, and air sources listed in the next
section. And the body expels deuterium through breathing, urinating,
defecating, sweating, metabolism, and in reproductive cells (sperm, egg,
and uterine lining).
That means sleep, exercise, and reproduction are the three activities that
deplete deuterium the fastest, as far as excretion is concerned. You burn
fat when you're sleeping and in ketosis. Fat is the best macronutrient with
which you make metabolic water. Metabolism increases when you
exercise, which also makes metabolic water. And reproduction requires lots
of deuterium to accelerate growth.
More generally speaking, it takes energy to deplete deuterium — all kinds
of energy. But the funny thing is, the cycles of metabolism make ATP,
and they make metabolic water. Both ATP and metabolic water deplete
deuterium. But as deuterium level increases, metabolism crashes because
deuterium derails steps of metabolism in glycolysis and the Krebs cycle.
Therefore, the stronger your mitochondria and cell biochemistry, the
more energy your Krebs cycle, urea cycle, and ATPase have to process
the deuterium they encounter and make metabolic water. Unfortunately,
low energy availability makes you detox deuterium more slowly in a
vicious cycle, which clogs several steps in metabolism. That means you
can either deplete deuterium through a protocol first, and mitochondrial
metabolism improves as a result. Or you can fix your mitochondria first,
and deuterium tends to come down in-kind.
Deuterium depletion strategies
Consume natural oils and fats. Drinking a natural oil, such as olive
oil (not that I’m recommending you do), is theoretically the perfect way
to make “‘matrix” water that’s low in deuterium. You can think of the
technique as active dilution of deuterium. Eating animal fats — bacon fat
and lard, for example — does the same thing.
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Eat naturally-raised animal products. As a food category, pasture-

raised animal products are lowest in deuterium because mammals with
mitochondria actively “filter” out deuterium through metabolism and
their detox pathways. In contrast, grain-fed animals are higher in
deuterium because they consume more of it in their food and water.
Avoid fruit that doesn’t grow locally (at that time of year). Eating
fruit out of season increases accumulation of deuterium. Sweet fruits such
as strawberries, pineapples, and bananas are highest of all whole foods in
deuterium. That means eating them (imported) out of season can be the
most fattening ofall food types, because they’ve got both the sugar and
the deuterium contributing to calorie retention. Shopping at local
farmer’s markets is the easiest way to make sure the produce you're eating
was locally grown.
Avoid grains when you’re not getting UV light. Carbohydrates are
among the most deuterium-heavy food types. From late spring to early
fall, you can get away with it, because long light cycles make your
mitochondria more efficient at producing energy. In other words, strong
UV light exposure helps you burn off deuterium without adverse effect.
On the other hand, the shorter light cycles of fall and winter turn the
deuterium in grains into fattening foods. That’s when and why carbs are
fattening, not otherwise.
Reduce vegetables not grown locally. Vegetables are generally higher
in deuterium than animal products. The fiber does clean the GI tract and
help you detox, along with antioxidants and water content. But loading
up on veggies in the winter, like when you juice them, can contribute to
weight gain, while decreasing ATP production.
Eat more plants grown inland. Plants grown near the coast tend to
collect more deuterium, because deuterium-laden water is heavier than
regular water. So it precipitates out of clouds first. Later, as rivers and
streams flow towards the sea, the heaviest water tends to migrate
downhill. That’s why organic produce grown in California and Florida
may not be as healthy for you as conventional produce grown inland.
Drink water from higher
latitudes and elevations. Water
from polar regions like Iceland
is naturally lower in deuterium
O Nodata (~125—135 ppm) than water
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springs. Check out the website “findaspring.com”’ to locate natural springs

all over the world.
Drink deuterium -depleted water. Deuterium-depleted water is now
being used as a health supplement and therapeutic intervention. In fact,
2§ ppm water is a registered drug that veterinarians in Europe use to treat
dogs with cancer. So far, super-low levels (<s50 ppm) are hard to make in
~ commercial quantities, and terribly expensive. But I’m sure the cost will
come down once supplement companies develop ways to make it
cheaper/faster/better.
Get more sun. Sun exposure, even when it’s cloudy, helps reduce
your deuterium level by supporting metabolism and detoxification
pathways. As examples, red light invigorates cytochromes III, IV, and
especially V so more ATP gets made. UV light raises melatonin levels to
enhance autophagy and apoptosis. Heat, sweating, and exercise reduce
deuterium through perspiration and urination. And, most important of
all, the ETC makes deuterium-depleted water, which is the ideal water
for hydrating proteins, making e-zone, and diluting your deuterium levels.
Soak in hot springs. Water that’s low in deuterium is the first to
evaporate from hot springs. So the spring water itselfislow in deuterium
to begin with, and the vapor is even lower.
Adopt a ketogenic diet. Animals, like humans, have systems that
deplete deuterium naturally. So a ketogenic diet high in fats and proteins
helps lower your deuterium level, in addition to periods of ketotic fasting.
Have more sex (men). Deuterium collects in germ cells to support
maturation of a fertilized egg. So the release of sperm is one way to deplete
deuterium.
Ovulation and menstruation (in women). Women have built-in
deuterium-detoxing advantages due to their monthly cycles. Their bodies
accumulate deuterium in the egg and endometrium (which are put there
to facilitate growth). So, with every monthly cycle, they’re releasing loads
of deuterium. This is an unrecognized reason women tend to live longer
than men.

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?
Food’s few effects that make a big difference

Food takes its orders from the physics of life

Natural healers have been telling us for decades that food is the root of
exquisite health and a resilient body. They say what you eat determines
how long you’re going to live, and how healthy you’re going to be in
that time. But that claim is not as valid as you might think. Food is
indeed important to health and healing. But it’s further down the list of
factors than most of us realize. In fact, it’s probably fifth or sixth on the
list for most modern humans, after real light exposure, magnetism, water
quality, man-made EMFs, stress level, grounding, and cold exposure.
The reality is, food does not act alone in feeding the body as health
gurus have implied. Instead, the physical forces of Nature govern how
food affects the body. Light, water and magnetism control how well, or
how poorly, that food is received by your mitochondria and turned into
resources that either support your biology or sap it of life force.
In other words, food is most beneficial to the body when consumed
under favorable mitophysical conditions. On the flip side, food is not as
good for you when consumed under conditions that conflict with
Nature. Prime example: The light by which you eat, by itself, can control
your biology as much as the food itself. So, basically, your environment
makes food better or worse for you, depending on how true-to-Nature it 1s.
That’s why this chapter is shorter than health-conscious consumers
might expect. Food (except for DHA) is not really that important,
compared to the physics oflife. Of all bodily concerns, food receives
more attention than any other. Meanwhile, biophysics influences our
biology in one direction or another, underneath our conscious awareness.
Here are the most interesting aspects of that conversion of food into
biologic function, as supported or inhibited by the physics of life:

We say young people can eat anything because they have a “fast
metabolism”
That’s not entirely accurate. It’s not simply that young people burn
calories faster. It’s more accurate to say young people can eat pretty much
whatever they want and not gain weight because their mitochondria
operate more efficiently. Meaning, their mitochondria produce more ATP
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from the food they eat, with less waste — meaning fat and free radicals. In
other words, their electron transport chains make ATP more efficiently.
So wherever you get your electrons and protons from to run the
electron transport chain — whether it’s food, fat stores, grounding, or sun
— you don’t have to eat as much to make ATP when your mitochondria
run well. That means fewer calories in, and fewer calories absorbed, to
get your supply of ATP to run the body.
On the other hand, as you get older, you lose mitochondrial efficiency,
which means you need to eat more food, and metabolize more calories,
to make the same amount of ATP. That releases more toxins through
digestion and metabolism. And it places a greater burden on your digestive
processes all-around — similar to how insulin can take a toll on the body.
As you age, your mitochondria also lose the ability to operate the electron
transport chain on poor-quality food. So processed foods hit your detox
organs harder, and they damage your mitochondria more, leading to
more loss ofperformance.
Like a car when it ages, your engines run dirtier, and you make less
power. So you need more gas to make your vehicle run. The difference
is, cars release inefficient combustion as air pollution. Whereas, extra fuel
consumption in humans becomes weight gain, toxin load, inflammation,
and DNA damage that leads to aging and disease. To our great disadvan-
tage, we turn our excess calories into fat, toxin stores, and free radicals.
This is why calorie restriction later in life is well-known to extend lifespan.
Carbohydrates in excess raise positive charge
As we’ve already addressed, carbs eaten out of season (in a low-UV light
environment) appear to be bad for you because, on the surface of it, carbs
look as if they contribute to insulin resistance and weight gain.
However, we learned the real reasons carbs cause problems is not
primarily the carbs themselves; it’s a lack of UV light exposure creating an
infradian conflict between the light signal contained in those carbs and
the light signal hitting our eyes, skin, and gut lining. This infradian
mismatch dysregulates mitochondrial performance, which contributes to
metabolism and weight problems.
The dirtier combustion that comes from carbs also produces fewer
electrons compared to fat metabolism. That equates to relatively more
protons. More protons raise positive charge in your body through a
hormone in your brain called neuropeptide Y. Unfortunately, if you
don’t have sufficient negative charge to offset a high-carbohydrate diet,
those excess carbs increase acidity and inflammation, while decreasing
redox potential.
Bottom line: Eating carbs such as muffins, pizza, and sugary drinks at a
bad time of year not only reduces your healing capacity by limiting your
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supply of free electron, but carbs in winter or late fall also causes your
mitochondria to make less ATP, electrical charge, and magnetism. And
all of that can turn carbs into bad guys when eaten without Nature’s
complement to carbs: UV light.
So Nature had good reason to make most carbs ripen during the long-
light cycles of summer to fall, when the strong sun makes up for the lower
power density of carbs and all the potential problems that go with it.

But too much electron flow can uncouple your mitochondria

On the other hand, it’s not a good idea to eat a carb-free diet 365 days a
Autophagy: year, because autophagy never gets activated. A no-carb diet makes your
The controlled
mitochondria age faster than they should, and you along with it.
breakdown and
replacement of When you eat fats and proteins all the time — especially when you’re
damaged cellular not burning that energy as soon as it’s made — your metabolic pathways
components to
keep the cell
naturally uncouple your mitochondria in an attempt to get you into
runsing well. autophagy. Said differently, if you fat-burn too much, and for too long,
your mitochondria will purposely turn down their efficiency in order to
temporarily mimic a carb-burning state, with its benefits.
Lowering mitochondrial efficiency in this manner is an adaptive
program designed to keep your power production as high as possible in
the present AND your mitochondria strong long-term, when you may be
forced to eat whatever you can find. So no, it’s not healthy to be ketotic
all the time. You actually need those cyclical periods of lower power
production from carbs in order to induce autophagy to optimal effect.
In addition, some people have such low DHA, electric charge, and
magnetism levels that they can’t make the free radical called superoxide.
This too blocks autophagy, causing your cells and systems to hobble
through life on old, worn-out engines. In real life, this tends to show up
in the form of obesity, digestive and hormonal problems when you're
younger, and heart failure and neuro-degeneration when you’re older.
To put this bio-program in perspective, this is one of the body’s coupled
systems that makes you pay a price when you eat a contrived diet that’s
different from what grows in your area. Meaning, you’re only supposed
to eat carbs when and where your environment is able to grow them. But
you miss out on the opportunity to freshen up your mitochondria when
you eat a concocted diet year ‘round that was invented by marketers to
sell their books and programs — including keto, vegan/vegetarian, high
carb/low carb, Atkins, raw, fruititarian, and paleo diets.
The flaw in all these unnatural ways of eating is that they don’t take
seasonal rhythms of light, electrons, protons, free radicals, and autophagy
into account when their authors made them up. Again, physics of Nature
leads and biochemistry follows.
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Eating some carbs in season helps recycle mitochondria

Here’s the happy middle ground: Carbs are Nature’s way of slowing down
the electron transport chain to renew mitochondria. However, they have
to be eaten in a balanced fashion with fats, and they have to be eaten in
season, to be of greatest benefit to your metabolism and mitochondria.
Acting like spring cleaning for your metabolism management, carbs
produce a far smaller stream of electrons through the electron transport
chain than fat does. In this colder, dirtier burn mode, mitochondria make
more free radicals from burning those carbs. It’s this free radical signal that
triggers highly beneficial mitochondrial renewal — provided it happens in
a controlled manner. Meaning, you don’t want to get stuck all the time
in this low-power production mode that makes lots of free radicals,
because runaway free radical formation leads to all sorts of chronic diseases.
Accordingly, it’s good for you to eat some carbs mixed in with fats and
proteins in the summertime because it: (1) reduces mitochondrial burn
efficiency; (2) makes a manageable amount of free radicals from the ETC;
and (3) activates autophagy. That’s the ideal diet for preserving the vitality
of your mitochondria: Eat the food that grows in your environment.

Why ketosis matters

Ketosis is basically the
burning offat and protein
rather than carbs, because
fat is more energy-dense (as
electrons and protons) than
carbs. Fat makes 135-147
units of ATP per unit mass,
compared to the 37 of carbs. Those extra protons and electrons moving
through mitochondria produce more electrical current, and a stronger
magnetic field, to power cells and organ systems. All of those good things
previously mentioned — blood flow, oxygen, DHA delivery, and
hormone balance — are raised when you're in a ketotic state.
On the other hand, carbs expand the respiratory proteins of
mitochondria, making electron tunneling less efficient. That means carbs
not only make you consume more calories to make ATP, but they also
increase heteroplasmy rate long-term. That’s one reason why excessive
carbohydrate consumption erodes mitochondrial vitality and energy
production over time.
In summary, optimal health requires you to have high mitochondrial
efficiency the majority of the time, interspersed with pulses of low
mitochondrial efficiency and higher free radical formation. This
combination supplies your body with the energy it needs now, and keeps
your mitochondria strong long-term by inducing autophagy.
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Big Ag loves deuterium

Farmers and commercial agriculture companies (Big Ag) love what
deuterium does for them, because it helps plants grow faster. Whether
they realize what they’re doing or not, deuterium is a profit-maker for
producers because Nature uses it to accelerate a plant’s maturation.
A higher deuterium concentration goes hand-in-hand with
¢ mass-production practices such as irrigation and hydroponics
(unnatural hydrological cycle),
greenhouse growing and two-crop seasons (accelerated growth cycles),
¢ grow lights (altered light and photosynthesis),
Crop amendment: as well as GMOs and the crop amendments that go with them (more
Material applied to growth aids, less microbial life in soil to sequester deuterium).
a crop and/or soil
to improve its
Unfortunately, when you eat plants that are loaded with deuterium, if
physical or
chemical you're done growing upwards deuterium encourages you to outwards (as in
properties. getting fat) due to the higher deuterium-to-nutrient/calorie ratio. And it
ages your cells and mitochondria faster. That’s not winning.

The ugly truth behind the need for GMOs

Plant cells, just like mammalian cells, release calcium from their storage
sites when they’re under stress from non-native EMFs such as 4G and
dirty electricity. It’s called “calcium efflux.” Problem is, plants need
calcium to germinate. That means EMF pollution decimates plants’ ability
to live and reproduce by depleting them of the calcium they need for
new growth.
Just look around you and you'll see the devastating effects of calcium
efflux where cell towers and nnEMFs are present. Trees, shrubs, and
indigenous vegetation are struggling as if they were being exterminated
with growth inhibitors (because they are).
What a coincidence: Big Ag is trying to engineer GMOs to germinate
without calcium. That’s the secret, hidden rationale for the existence of
GMOs that your gurus and government orgs never told you about. In
fact, one day soon when plants can no longer thrive due to electrosmog,
we may need GMOs in order to grow enough food to feed everyone.
How do you like that?
That’s why the US government and others are giving Big Ag
companies carte blanche to experiment with everyone’s health through
regulations that seem risky, short-sighted, and woefully inadequate. For
example, new GMOs that come to market are automatically granted the
designation “GRAS” (Generally Regarded As Safe) by the USFDA...
before any safety testing is done on them whatsoever. Food companies
are also allowed to put genetically modified organisms in packaged
products without telling you on the label.
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Add to that the grotesqueness of telecom companies thoughtlessly clear-

cutting trees anywhere they get in the way of 5G reception, and you can
bet the world of tomorrow will look nothing like the majesty of early 20"
Century nature. That’s the real travesty happening now, while globalists
and Fake News outlets make us worry about CO, and climate change.
And to put the finishing touches on our condemnation of GMOs, Dr.
Fritz-Albert Popp found that GMO plants release fewer biophotons than
real, organically-grown plants when they’re cut open and measured in a
photo-multiplier. That means you literally get less of the sun’s energy
when you eat a GMO food compared to an organic food.
Translated, that means GMO foods give you less energy with which to
support life... but all of the calories, as well as extra helpings of herbicides
and pesticides like glyphosate. They’ve basically corrupted the nourishing
forces of Nature, and manipulate and monetize them for their own
power and profits. It’s disgusting.

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DR. JACK KRUSE’S PROTOCOLS
Overviews of The Leptin Prescription Reset and Cold Thermogenesis
Protocols

Have you tried every diet, but nothing seems

to work? Maybe it’s time to update your approach
Dozens of factors go into weight loss, so guaranteeing that a program will
work for everyone would be unrealistic. But I can say the following
about Dr. Jack’s protocols:
The Leptin Rx ¢ New and radically different. The Leptin Rx Reset and Cold
Reset: Dr, Jack Thermogenesis Protocols are revolutionary approaches to losing
Kruse’s protocol to
improve the body’s weight and keeping it off, because they focus on the real problem,
response to leptin in which is the body’s impaired energy-management systems, not on
order to achieve a calories or food type.
healthy weight and
fix hormone/ ¢ Past failures not a problem. Failure with other diets or exercise
endocrine programs means little because Dr. Jack’s protocols work on different
dysfunctions such as
hypothyroidism. metabolic pathways than other weight loss measures you’ve heard
about or tried.
Cold Thermogenesis
Protocol: Dr. Jack
© Post-menopausal women who have tremendous difficulty losing
Kruse’s name for weight are still good candidates.
using cold exposure ¢ Willpower not required. Good news: You don’t have to deprive
to increase
mitochondrial yourself. So a lack of willpower when it comes to eating and exercise
efficiency and is not a major concern. In fact, a core principle of The Leptin Rx is
magnetism
it endeavors to fix inappropriate cravings that cause you to eat too
throughout the
body. much. However, if you decide to employ cold thermogenesis, you
still need the discipline to acclimate yourself to cold water, which is
“different,” let’s just say.
¢ Not dependent on each other. Can you do one protocol and not
the other? Absolutely. They complement one another, but also work
independent of each other.
© Contraindications. There are no known contraindications that
would prohibit you from considering either protocol. However,
make sure to check with your healthcare professional to discuss how
either program might affect your biology, because even positive
changes such as better insulin sensitivity and weight loss can affect
other treatments you’re doing — taking medications, for example.
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e Warnings. Those possessing an equatorial haplotype (generally dark-

skinned) should be wary of creating infradian mismatches that radically
shift heteroplasmy rate. Their mitochondria are tightly coupled to
begin with, so cold exposure and overdoing fatty foods affects them
differently than Northern European haplotypes.

Introducing Dr. Jack's Leptin Prescription Reset

For more information, visit “jackkruse.com” and his book Epi-Paleo Rx
to learn more about resetting your metabolism management. The
following is just an overview.

First, check to see if you are leptin resistant

e If you’re overweight, you’re probably leptin resistant. The very
presence of excess body mass is a strong indicator that leptin receptors
in your brain are not responding properly to leptin in the
bloodstream by decreasing your appetite and increasing your resting
calorie consumption.
On the other end, if you’re excessively thin, that can mean your
leptin receptors have lost sensitivity to leptin as well.
Large appetite and carb craving, especially at night, are two more
signs that you're leptin resistant.
It is possible for those at a normal weight to be leptin resistant. You
can test for leptin resistance by checking your Reverse T; (an
inhibitor of the thyroid hormones T3 and T,) level on a blood test.
Elevated Reverse T3 is a sign of leptin resistance in fit people. Scoring
high on a salivary cortisol test is another indicator of leptin resistance
(cortisol is thought to regulate leptin secretion).

Second, know whatto eat. A big part of the Leptin Rx Reset is

following Dr. Jack’s Epi-Paleo Diet
There’s a lot more to the Epi-Paleo Diet than can be explained here.
Here’s just a taste:
e Produce. Eat vegetables and fruits that are in season near you. If it’s
sold at a local farmer’s market, it’s likely to be conducive to the diet.
Protein. Eat lots of good-quality proteins. Seafood is best. Grass-fed,
pasture-raised organ meats are next best. Grass-fed muscle meats are
third best.
Fats. Cook and flavor with fats according to season. In spring and
summer, favor these fats: coconut oil, pastured butter, olive oil, raw
cream, avocado oil, ghee, palm oil, duck fat, beef tallow, bacon fat,
and duck fat. In fall and winter, look for animal fats such as ghee,
pastured butter, duck fat, beef tallow, bacon fat, non-hydrogenated
lard, and raw cream.
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¢ Oils. Avoid nut or seed oils when starting the Epi-Paleo Diet.
¢ Broth. Eat bone broths made from grass-fed animals (to heal leaky
gut) and seafood broths.
¢ Fermented veggies. Eat all the naturally-fermented vegetables you can.
¢ Carbs. If you’re overweight, limit carbs to 25 grams with breakfast.
If you're of average weight, limit carbs to 50 grams. If you’re fit,
limit carbs to 100 grams.

Dr. Jack Kruse’s food pyramid

1. The base of the pyramid (most plentiful) is shellfish like oysters
(other than crustaceans). They’re best for brain function.
. Next up are crustaceans.
. Followed by fish.
. Then organ meat of pasture-raised animals — especially liver.
. The fifth level is grass-fed muscle meats.
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An . Pastured eggs (unless you have allergies to them).
7. At the top (least plentiful in your diet) are nuts and seeds.

Foods to avoid
1. All grains.
2. All pasteurized and homogenized dairy.
3. Nightshade vegetables — if you have chronic inflammation or are
low in vitamin D.

Third, know ow to eat

e Eat as soon as you can after waking — preferably within 30 minutes
of rising. Breakfast may include pastured/organic eggs, grass-fed
meat, poultry, fish, protein shakes (less ideal).
e Eat three meals a day, to start. As your hunger/cravings go away, eat
two times a day.
e Don’t snack between meals. Snacking activates the liver more
frequently than necessary, and upsets the timing of your circadian
rhythms that work with leptin. You need to retrain your liver to
make glucose on its own (aka ketosis).
® Do not count calories.
¢ Allow 4-5 hours between dinner and bedtime.

Most will notice a change in cravings within 4-6 weeks.

Supporting strategies
¢ Don’t exercise before or right after breakfast. Exercise after spm.
¢ Trouble sleeping? Do 3~5 minutes of light exercises before bedtime
(i.e., pushups or squats). Avoid activities that elevate cortisol.
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® Within an hour of sunset, make your surroundings as dark as

possible. Most important, reduce your exposure to artificial blue
light (less insulin). This helps turn off cortisol, turn on melatonin,
and increase detection of leptin by the hypothalamus.

What to expect when the Leptin Rx is working for you (i.e.,

increased leptin sensitivity)
¢ Rapid weight loss for men.
¢ Women will notice mood changes (calmer, more centered),
improved sleep (huge clue). Clothes may fit differently, but weight
may not change much initially.
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Iodine helps normalize thyroid function,

fat-burning pathways, and weight
Most women today, and a lot of men, have depressed thyroid function.
This “hypothyroidism,” as it is called, makes it easy for you to gain
weight, and hard to lose it. In addition, you may experience other
unwelcome effects of the thyroid’s energy conservation efforts such as
thin hair, brittle nails, cold extremities, dry skin, and chronic fatigue.
Hypothyroidism can be caused by one or more of the following:
¢ fluoride accumulation in the thyroid
¢ leptin resistance
® autoimmunity to your thyroid
® circadian disruption
¢ nnEMF exposure
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Regardless of cause, iodine may help you recover your thyroid function.
It can turn on your ability to burn fat and lose weight. Iodine does this by
elevating thyroid hormone levels to an optimal range, thus controlling
the body’s “idle speed” and energy expenditure.
Iodine also increases fat-burning by turning on uncoupling proteins
that let mitochondria burn calories as free heat, instead of those electrons
and protons going through default pathways such as the Krebs cycle,
Brown fat: A glycolysis, and the electron transport chain. Brown fat stores are burned as
specialized type of free heat through this pathway.
fat whose dense
mitochondria Iodine makes you a better fat-burner by fixing your thyroid so its
populations burn it weight-control feature works properly. It’s broken in a lot of people. At
to make heat when
the same time, iodine can shift your metabolism away from the tightly-
you get cold.
coupled energy production of an equatorial person, toward the heat
generation programming of a Northerner, when needed.
In doing so, iodine helps mitochondria turn calories directly into heat,
while avoiding the usual downsides of metabolism, such as weight gain
and free radicals. Iodine is extremely important to your endocrine
hormonal system for these reasons and more. So you can think of it as a
secret weapon in your battle of the bulge. Get it from ocean plants such
as seaweed or kelp, if you can, or
supplements, as a second option.

Cold Thermogenesis Protocol

Dr. Jack Kruse’s Cold Thermogenesis
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Creative Commons Hof and others) is the practice of
2.5 license. purposely exposing your body to cold
Author; Dr.
Dennis Cronk. temperature in an effort to raise
mitochondrial efficiency and, with it,
magnetism throughout the body.
Here’s how it works: When you soak
your body in cold water, the thermal-
regulatory functions of your body tell
your mitochondria you’re now living in a
cold climate. Your mitochondria respond by burning stored energy
(mostly brown fat) to make infrared heat, and by increasing heat
production from the food you eat.
Heat shrinks the water around the respiratory proteins of your
mitochondria (whereas cold temperature expands water). Condensing the
respiratory proteins improves electron flow through the ETC due toa
massive drop in electrical resistance. In fact, each angstrom (a really small
distance) that respiratory proteins move closer together makes it ten times
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easier for electrons to jump between their redox centers (structures that
shuttle electrons between them).
Increasing electron flow then makes the rotating head of the ATPase
spin faster. And we know from physics anything that spins really fast
makes a magnetic field perpendicular to the flow of current. So cold
exposure speeds electron flow, which increases the magnetic field around
mitochondria, cells, and organs. More magnetism then improves the
movement of blood, oxygen, hormones, and DHA. The cold also makes
inflammation levels plummet, as we talked about.

Acclimating your body to the cold

It’s easier to get used to being cold when you stair-step the process, instead
of starting “whole hog.” First try dunking your face in cold water once or
twice at a time, for as long as you can hold your breath. Most people don’t
mind their face being cold, while others would describe it as exhilarating.
Face dunks tell your temperature receptors you're in a cold environ-
ment, so your body needs to turn on its built-in cold adaptations. What
it’s doing is turning on the mammalian programming that all animals
have, but modern humans avoid through clothing and indoor heat.
You don’t have to freeze your face off 50-55°F is all you need. You
see, any exposure below 98°F makes mitochondria release more heat. This
speeds up electrons, making more magnetism and ATP, as mentioned.
Done regularly, it also decreases heteroplasmy rate long-term, as if you
were tuning up your mitochondria, which is exactly what you’re doing.
After you get used to the face dunks, soak yourself in a tub of cold water
as long as you can stand it, as many times per week as you’re able. You’re
not trying to give yourself hypothermia, just build up to 15 minutes, 30
minutes, or more, at a time. The more you do it, the easier it gets.
The lower the temperature you can tolerate, the better. But even small
temperature challenges help. So if you can’t stand the temperature straight
out of the tap (about 50-55°F in most places), start with just five or ten
degrees colder than your comfort zone. Remember, it’s not a contest. It’s
a practice with impressive long-term benefits to your energy production,
disease resistance, longevity, and weight normalization.
For example, I bike, run or swim wearing a minimal amount of
insulation. Works great when it’s around 50°F out. By doing cold
thermogenesis while I’m exerting myself, it’s not nearly as disagreeable as
it might be just soaking in a tub of ice water. So lately, I’ve noticed a
rising sense of exhilaration the more I cold-challenge my body — kind of
like an out-of-body experience the brain uses to protect you from trauma.
A word of caution though: Avoid cold exposure when trying to heal a
sports-type injury because coldness shuts down inflammation. It suppresses
the healing response, without you realizing it.
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I learned this the hard way when I hurt my back exercising on two
separate occasions. It was healing slower than I usually do, and was rarely
hurt to begin with. (I never take pain killers so I always heal completely.)
This last time, it got worse and worse for two-and-a-half weeks as I
continued to work out on my usual schedule.
I put on my thinking cap and realized that cold exposure had been
decreasing inflammation, blood supply, and muscle repair. When I figured
that out, I stopped the cold exposure, gave it more heat, and reduced my
workouts to every other day. That allowed the healing to catch up. The
pain and spasms got better... while I continued to work out.
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Electromagnetic frequencies native to this planet and solar system

Wait... some electromagnetic frequencies are good for you?

Many forms of electromagnetism occur naturally on earth and throughout
the universe. All living things use oscillating frequencies to form their
structure and sustain their function. In fact, we can’t live without
electromagnetic fields - EMFs as they’re also called — because everyone
and everything in the universe is vibrational in nature. Meaning,
vibration creates all matter in the universe, all forms of energy, and even
carries consciousness itself.

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One of the most rudimentary ways that vibrational energy supports our
well-being is this: At rest, it’s frequency that “teaches” brain and nervous
system cells the vibrational rate at which they work best — similar to the
way a metronome helps a musician stay in rhythm. The ultimate example
is the “Schumann resonance.” Oscillating at 7.83 cycles per second, it is
said the Schumann resonance originates from energy waves such as
lightning strikes and cosmic rays circumnavigating the globe.
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As the quintessential friendly frequency, Schumann’s gentle electro-

magnetic waves are like the heartbeat of the planet. They effectively
synch our vibrational frequency to the optimal rate for brain cells and
body cells to thrive in, which happens to be the same as that of planet
Earth (what a coincidence!).
Having lived in kinship with the earth for so long, we’ve synched our
internal biorhythms to the slow, rhythmic pulses of the planet, because
7.83 Hz is our brain and body’s neutral “zero point.” It’s what you might
call the body’s baseline calibration frequency between the normal 9-12
Hz of daytime, and the 8-to-under-1 Hz of nighttime.
Two other native frequency ranges that support human biology are
infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV). Below the visible spectrum, infrared
powers cells and mitochondria. And it controls regeneration programming.
Above the visible spectrum, ultraviolet light makes biochemicals, powers
cellular activity, regulates biorhythms, and beneficially stresses our proteins
when received in moderation. That is, UV gently oxidizes proteins such as
collagen and elastin in the skin, which can be good for you, or it can be bad
for you, depending on how well your body is able to rebuild the corrosion.
Let’s explore the many ways that light has uplifted our biology since
the dawn of time.

Sunlight is far more than it appears to be

Sunlight allows us to see. It warms the planet. And it sets the food chain
in motion via photosynthesis. But those aren’t the only ways that sunlight
builds our reality and regulates our biology.
For starters, sunlight isn’t just one color, as it appears to us. It is a blend
of many colors mixed together. Remember Pink Floyd’s album cover for
Dark Side of the Moon, depicting white light going into a prism and splitting
into the six colors of a rainbow? Well, what you might not have noticed
is that effect is actually bi-directional. White light can be split into six colors.
And the six colors can also be
combined to make white light.
So sunlight, curiously enough,
is actually an amalgamation of
colors that appear white. What’s
more, real sunlight’s composition
of colors changes over the
course of a day, and over the
seasons, as the sun’s rays
penetrate the atmosphere from
different directions. Six of these
colors are visible when isolated
and seen independently, while
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two at the far ends of the spectrum are not. But even more interesting to
mitochondriacs, each color contained in sunlight controls different aspects
of our biology via photoreceptors in the eyes and skin, with the help of
regulatory organs such as the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).
To illustrate, early morning sun in most parts
of the world has all the colors of the visible
Kelvin (light): A rainbow — including blue light at 1800° Kelvin,
measurement of a 42% infrared light, and no ultraviolet. This
light’s color, ranging
between 1000°K mixture of light, with its high IR content and no UV, preconditions the
and 12,000°K or skin to accept the UV that comes later so you can tan without burning.
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daylight (white),
When late morning rolls around, blue light begins to peak and UV-A
and modern, arrives. UV-A tells your internal pharmacy to turn off hormone production.
energy-efficient Then, as evening turns into dusk, the
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termination of blue light turns off cortisol
9000°K (blue). production and turns on melatonin, which gets
you ready for sleep and regeneration.
On the flip side, there’s artificial light, which /ooks substantially similar
to real light, but is actually worlds apart in both composition and effect.
In fact, the differences may not seem obvious at first, but it would be fair
to call manufactured light “synthetic,” since the negative connotations are
so fitting. To summarize the difference between real light and fake light...

Natural sunlight is like a whole food, whereas man-made light is

like junk food
To the average person, sunlight and artificial light are the same because
they look the same. But nothing could be further from the truth. In
reality, natural sunlight contains a variety of ingredients (like co-factors)
that need to be present to give you a healthy, balanced effect.
The best example is blue light. Blue light from the sun can potentially
over-stimulate the regulatory system if you get too much of it, and at the
wrong time of day. As a natural antidote, the regenerative effects of red
counteract the potentially harmful effects of blue. For these reasons, Nature
always supplies red with blue, whether that’s in sunshine or from fire.
In contrast, man-made light is like a refined food. Over the last few
decades, our science and industry have learned how to make light that’s
composed almost entirely of single, pure frequencies because they’re more
energy-efficient. So now our lights and tech devices contain concentrated
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doses of blue, while they leave out purple and red frequencies that give
you a balanced response. Basically, artificial light is like junk food that’s
high in sugar (the stimulus), but low in fiber (the moderator).

But the sun causes cancer, wrinkles and eye problems, right?
Well, not exactly. Dermatologists and oncologists are partly right about
UV and partly wrong because they don’t understand the full story behind
sun exposure. The truth of the matter is, sunlight energizes us. Sunlight
regulates our biorhythms. And it heals us. Our bodies are designed to be
out in the sun. So anyone who thinks sun exposure is bad for you has
frankly been brainwashed by false conclusions going way back, and a
prevailing paradigm few think to question today.
In fact, at least eight large-scale meta-studies prove that all-cause
mortality goes down the more sun exposure you get. Dermatologists
and ophthalmologists can’t explain these results. But the simple fact is, in
every disease ever studied, sun exposure has been found to help people
live longer, healthier lives. So not only is sunlight not bad for you, it’s
actually the single best promoter of energy, health, longevity, and mood.
We are dependent on the sun for our very existence.
However, not everyone is able to capture sunlight and use it the
way Nature intended — hence all the confusion and controversy. True,
you can damage your skin and eyes from too much sunlight too quickly
(before you've built up your “solar callus” as Dr. Jack calls it). Indeed, the
UV-B in sunlight does cause ionizing damage to skin cells (that we repair
with good redox potential). And, yes, infradian mismatches can damage
your mitochondria, which then cause disease.
But sun exposure is just like exercise: You need to work your way up
to higher intensities and longer exposure times to receive benefit without
hurting yourself. You need a little knowledge and strategy to reap the
rewards and avoid the risks. After all, sunlight is the strongest medicine
Nature has given us. So you need to be smart about it and treat your light
exposure with the same respect/reverence that ancient peoples did.

When you're sensitive to bright light

Bright sunlight hurts your eyes, and you tear up. You squint. You need
to blink. You feel a strong urge to put on sunglasses. What’s really
happening here? You’re not getting enough ultraviolet and infrared light.
A quantum biologist will tell you that blinking covers the cornea with
tears. That reduces exposure and cools the surface of the eye. Cold
temperature increases electrical conductivity, which helps you absorb
more UV light. So, believe it or not, blinking in strong sunlight is a
biophysical program hardwired into mammals to help us capture more
sunlight when we’re solar deficient.
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Bottom line: When you’re overly sensitive to sunlight on your skin

and eyes, that means you’re solar deficient. You need more sun, not
less. Unfortunately, dark sunglasses do exactly the wrong thing, as you’ll
soon learn. Shade is a much better to moderate and acclimate.
However, it’s not just the quantity of sunlight that gives you the
benefits you want. It’s how well your physiology and mitochondria are
able to incorporate the sunlight that you do get, which includes staying
away from bad influences.
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One reason we're surprised to learn that light affects our biology so much
is that we simply don’t realize how deeply it penetrates the skin and tissues.
Infrared: The light that penetrates deepest of all is infrared light (IR).
IR penetrates soft tissues a whopping 1o—30 centimeters, depending on
intensity. That means it can go all the way through the skin and subcut-
aneous fat, reach into your internal organs, and charge up the water in your
cells and mitochondria with electrical potential. That’s a very good thing.
Blue light penetrates the skin 3-6 centimeters. That’s really bad news
when it comes to absorbing artificial blue light from tech screens and light
emitting diode lights (LEDs). For social media junkies, software
developers, and women in general that means the thyroid, which sits less
than a centimeter below the skin surface, is bathed in blue light pretty
much every waking hour from your phone and lights. That stresses the
thyroid into releasing hormones non-stop, which can turn into adrenal
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dysfunction, leptin resistance, weight gain, hormone imbalances, and all

kinds of metabolic problems.
Ultraviolet: At the upper end of the bio-friendly spectrum, UV light
contains the most energy. It’s the most potent of the bunch, in good
effects and bad. So our biology developed techniques to modulate our
UV absorption. To protect us from getting too much UV, Nature first
created dark skin. Dead skin cells on the top layer are another UV-
protection factor. They are a natural sunblock.
On the other hand, when you need more UV light, and
photoreceptors sense it on the skin, the circadian system releases nitric
oxide. Nitric oxide dilates blood vessels to bring more light-capturing
blood to the surface, since UV only penetrates a fraction of a millimeter.
Light produces non-linear effects in biology
Another reason we don’t realize that light can influence our biology so
profoundly is because linear effects dominate the human experience. Linear
means an effect is more or less proportional to the amount of input or
stimulus you put into a system (e.g., small input, small effect; big input,
big effect). Nowhere is this phenomenon better exemplified than in
eating and weight loss.
We’re conditioned to believe that we need to eat less and exercise
more in order to lose weight: That is, each calorie we consume
potentially makes us gain weight. While each calorie we burn potentially
causes us to lose weight. So we think radical changes are required to
produce radical results. That’s a linear effect.
But that’s not the way light affects our biology when it comes to
metabolism, healing and regeneration, hormones, and daily rhythms of
sleep and stress. Instead, even modest exposure to certain frequencies of
light can produce sweeping effects, and cascades ofeffects.
So even though the lens of the eye filters out 97% of the UV-A and 99%
of the UV-B, those small doses still produce prodigious effects. For example:
¢ Your “internal pharmacy” of biochemicals is scheduled to close for
the day when UV-A shows up in late morning.
¢ You only need 1-3 minutes of blue light exposure in morning sun to
set your internal clock for the day (when done consistently).
¢ Specific frequencies of light control some 100,000 biochemicals and
their linked reactions.
¢ Many diseases such as type 2 diabetes get worse when eye surgeons
remove cataracts and replace them with artificial lens implants that
block all UV and half of the blue.
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Simply put, our biology uses boatloads of biochemicals to run countless
processes. And it is light that controls most of the proceedings. Striking
example: When sunlight hits your skin, it makes 1,400 metabolites as
LDL cholesterol is turned into vitamin D.

Here are some pathways through which light becomes energy,

matter, and physiologic function
Chromophores. Originally, chromophore meant part of a molecule
that gives a material its color (based on the band of color frequencies
absorbed and emitted). Today, mitochondriacs focus less on what a
chromophore makes a material look like, and more on which color(s)
enable the body to do certain things. So, to mitochondniacs, the term
chromophore is not about what we see; it’s about how certain color
bands affect our bio-energetics and biorhythms. The frequencies of light
that a substance absorbs is called its “absorption spectrum.”
For instance, water is the perfect red-light chromophore. Water
absorbs all frequencies of red from 600 to 3,000 nanometers, and
circulates the union around the body as the largest component of blood.
Water also harnesses IR to build e-zone. Other examples of red light
chromophores are the protein subunits of Cytochromes III, IV and V.
Made by the body, these chromophores use the power of red light to
tune up the electron transport chain for maximum efficiency.
Photoreceptors. Old definition: Photoreceptors are sensors in the eye
that convert light into an electrical signal for the brain to decode into
pictures and information. Decades ago, biologists thought of the rods and
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cones of the retina as the body’s only photoreceptors. But the definition
has evolved since then for both the mainstream and the mitochondriac, as
we learn more about how light runs the biology within us.
Modern, expanded definition: Photoreceptors are simply receptors for
light stimuli. They are proteins that produce sensitive and specific
responses to light. In other words, photoreceptors are sensor/switches
found in the eye, skin, fat and blood vessels, whose signal helps
control daily and seasonal cycles. As examples, leptin and vitamin A
each absorb light and trigger chemical reactions that activate/deactivate
physiologic responses. Thus, each is a mitochondriac’s photoreceptor.
Opsins (a class of photoreceptor) are complex molecules composed
of seven helical coils that straighten out when exposed to light. This
produces a reverse type of signal by decreasing the flow of glutamate — a
stimulatory neurotransmitter. Less glutamate = a stronger signal, basically.
Research into opsins is exploding right now because they are frontline
sensors that control our chronobiology, for better or worse. Here are
some examples:
¢ Melanopsin. Found in the eye, skin, fat and blood vessels,
melanopsin is of great concern to mitochondriacs because ofits
light-sensing capabilities. However, vision is not involved. Instead,
melanopsin absorbs blue light to control circadian rhythms. The
problem is, when you get unfavorable blue light exposure (in source,
time, and duration), the weak bond between melanopsin and
vitamin A breaks. Leptin signaling, mitochondria function, and
vitamin A function then suffer. For these reasons, melanopsin has
been called the blue light detector.
¢ Neuropsin. Discovered in 2009, neuropsin is a UV-A detector that’s
found in the eye and the skin. It helps control biorhythms through
its response to UV-A light.
¢ Rhodopsin is a pigment found in the rods of the retina that absorbs
mostly green and blue light, and is responsible for black-and-white
vision in low-light conditions.
¢ Photopsins (aka cone opsins) are found in the cones of the retina.
They help us see colors. The L-cone opsin (aka Photopsin I) is the
red-cone opsin that absorbs mostly yellowish-green frequencies.
The M-cone opsin (aka Photopsin II) is the green-cone opsin whose
absorption peaks in the green range. And the S-cone opsin (aka
Photopsin III) is the blue-cone opsin that does most ofits business
with bluish-violet light.
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reflecting green, this gives chlorophyll and plants their green color.
The animal kingdom, including humans, employs the porphyrin
structure in the heme subunits of RBCs to form the pigment hemoglobin.
Hemoglobin’s distinguishing feature is an iron atom (Fe) in each of its
four heme cores. Fundamental to all complex life forms, it’s (positively-
charged) iron that enables each heme subunit to carry a (negatively-
charged) O2 molecule around on red blood cells. There are 270 million
hemoglobins in each RBC, and each hemoglobin can carry four O2
molecules. Interestingly enough, when hemoglobin is holding oxygen, it
absorbs blue-green light, as well as yellow, while transmitting red. This is
what gives oxygenated blood its bright red color in arteries.
Through the respiratory process, when the hemoglobin molecule is in
an acidic environment — like when you’re out of breath — the
hemoglobin changes shape, which ejects the oxygen molecule. The
positive charge of acidic tissue is the electromagnetic force that helps
unload the negatively-charged oxygen. This is how oxygen is delivered
to tissues that need it, and not to tissues that don’t.
After releasing its oxygen, hemoglobin returns to its original shape,
which changes its absorption spectrum to green, while transmitting red
and blue light. This is what gives venous blood its burgundy color on the
way back to the heart. But, even more brilliant, Nature gave hemoglobin
the ability to absorb four non-visible frequencies of light we desperately
need: three frequencies of IR and one frequency of UV. What are the
chances that was just a random accident?
So that’s how blood carries light around the body: both on the
hemoglobin (porphyrin) in red blood cells, and in the chromophore that
water is. Red blood cells are also shaped like two-sided satellite dishes to
maximize the visible frequencies they can absorb. These are reasons why
Dr. Jack says red blood cells are ferryboats for light that wirelessly
connect the sun to our mitochondria.
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Last, but not least, cytochrome complexes in the ETC use porphyrin-
based heme proteins to ferry electrons. Porphyrins are key purveyors of
health because they absorb all frequencies of UV light.
Fluorophores. A fluorophore is an organic molecule that can absorb
one frequency of light and emit it at a different wavelength — mostly in
the UV range. The main molecule of respiratory complex I, for instance,
is NADH. It’s a fluorophore made from tryptophan. Dentin and tooth
enamel are also fluorophore proteins. They fluoresce when cells around
them emit certain frequencies of light.
Important biochemicals are first made in the eye. Dopamine, mela-
tonin, serotonin, and melanin are first made in the eye from aromatic amino
acids and UV light. When UV light hits the retinal pigment epithelium
(RPE) of the retina, it makes its dense core granules spin, which makes
biochemicals such as melatonin to run sleep programming. That’s why
getting full-spectrum sunlight on the eyes and skin is the second-best
way to improve your sleep quality (after a Magnetico Sleep Pad).
Finally, tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine
each have a benzene ring (a ring of carbons in the
center of abenzene molecule) that traps photons.
The ring captures light, particularly UV and IR, to
program these important precursors with the light
of the morning sun.
An interesting idea to reflect on: What happens
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when you eat plant-based supplements that are
grown, not synthesized? Some say the benefits that these
vitamins, herbs, and supplements offer are not all chemical
in nature. Rather, they work partly by storing sunlight for
later use. ;
Aha! So that’s why some plant-based supplements work Benzene
well, while others work poorly, or not at all — even when Cette
the ingredients on the label are identical. Oftentimes, it
comes down to where those ingredients were grown, and
the solar exposures contained within.

Blue light
Blue ight fundamentally has a stimulating effect on our biology. It turns on
the daytime portion of our circadian cycles, based on its color temperature
(think brightness of color). The lighter the blue, the more stimulating it is.
As mentioned, blue light in morning sun tells your pituitary it’s time to wake
up. It’s time to get moving, use that brain of yours, and get things done.
Serving as your internal pharmacy, the awakened pituitary coordinates
the release of hormones and neurotransmitters that fuel mental and
physical activity. Cortisol, dopamine, adrenaline, and sex hormones such
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as testosterone are called into action, along with everything related to the
stress response. Blue light basically turns on the chemistry in your body to
help you make things happen. A few hours later, UV light starts showing
up to tell the pharmacy when it’s closing time.
Unfortunately, modern humans are doing a great job of messing up
their daily biorhythms by exposing themselves to too much blue in their
technology, and from morning to nighttime each day. As a result, your
system gets over-stimulated chronically, and you get depleted of
biochemicals that run your endocrine organs and brain. Blue without red
and purple basically “rev up” your adrenal engine constantly, without
ever allowing it to rest and recharge.

Infrared light
As an integral part of the stimulation/activation process, Nature designed
sunlight to give you equal parts blue and red, because infrared light (IR) is
Nature’s antidote to the stimulatory effects of blue. Infrared protects your
circuits from “blue light blowout” by activating regeneration programming.
After blue light reduces mitochondrial function by stretching out your
respiratory proteins, the heat of infrared raises mitochondrial efficiency
back up by absorbing into water and shrinking the respiratory proteins.
Infrared forms e-zone, which holds electrical charge and healing capacity.
IR also spins the ATPase faster all by itself, thus making more ATP. And
IR light warms the body as heat, which enhances blood flow and oxygen-
ation through better circulation. ... Yet another example of how Nature’s
brilliance is found in its balance: blue light activates, while red light restores.
In case you were wondering, heat is the vibrational movement of
atoms and molecules (kinetic). This motion radiates IR light at earthly
temperatures, which you see as colors on a thermal image. Very close but
not the same, infrared light is an electromagnetic oscillation with no mass
(photons). It is pure energy that is not heat in itself, but rather it can
increase the temperature of materials by making their atoms vibrate (same
as microwaves). In other words, heat at earth-type temperatures makes
matter emit IR frequencies. Whereas IR becomes heat only after it hits
atoms and makes them jiggle.

Red light makes the ATP synthase spin faster

Red light has a superpower that makes it especially valuable in elevating
your energy level, your healing capacity, and your resistance to aging: It
actually makes the fifth cytochrome in the electron transport chain spin
faster, thereby making more ATP without any electrons from food,
brown fat, or grounding. In fact, the red part of the spectrum makes the
ATPase spin twice as fast: 3,000 protons/ second revving up its quantum
nano rotor motor vs. 1,500/second normally.
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Red light, by itself, helps your mitochondria make more ATP. That
means red light, believe it or not, is a substitute for food, to some extent.
It’s one reason we feel good when we get out in the sun: Red light,
whether absorbed directly through the skin, or captured and carried
around in the blood, is literally increasing energy production, along with
all the benefits that more ATP offers the body.

Red light biohacks

¢ Infrared lamps. Most of us have no choice but to work under LED
or fluorescent lighting for many hours a day looking at computers
and whatnot. Then we go home and watch TV at night. In situations
like these, you can neutralize much of the damage that bad light does
to your mitochondria and circadian rhythms by manually adding back
infrared. Simply shine an infrared (heat) lamp into your room or work-
space when you're getting zapped by the blue. In addition to offsetting
the adverse effects of blue we just talked about, red also fills in the gaps
when your AC-powered light strobes at 50 or 60 times-a-second.
¢ Red light therapy. Many devices on the market use visible and
invisible red light to give you therapeutic benefits. Some target
specific areas to increase circulation (such as for diabetic neuropathy).
Others use red to improve mood. And then there are enlightened
mitochondriacs who use red light devices to get mitochondrial and
circadian benefits most people wouldn’t appreciate. I haven’t tried
them yet myself, but Joovv red light therapy devices come highly
recommended.
¢ Gold foil. If you have a home sauna, you can amp up your infrared
exposure by lining its walls with real gold foil. Real gold is an ideal
infrared reflector, not foil that’s just gold-colored.

UV light
Ultraviolet light is the most underappreciated type of light in the modern
world... certainly the most vilified, considering all that it does for us.
That's because most people outside the mitochondriac community think
UV light can only harm our skin, eyes, and man-made materials (as
oxidation). When, in reality, human biology has evolved to use UV light
in ways that are foreign to most medical experts.
Ultraviolet is designed to give us more biophysical benefit than any
other frequency of light by virtue of its unsurpassed energy within the
“good” parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Integral to its benefit, UV
contains the most powerful wavelengths of light our biology can possibly
tolerate before hormesis (beneficial stress) becomes irreparable injury. Yet
we can’t see UV at all. In fact, UV’s benefits would be inactivated if
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Quantum Xeno humans had the ability to see it due to the Quantum Xeno Effect,
Effect: Quantum
physics /quantum
whereby the mere act of observing a quantum system changes the effect.
mechanics tells us On the list of benefits, the biochemicals and redox potential that our
that the mere act of bodies make with UV light control our thoughts and mood, power our
observing or
measuring
cellular processes, and regulate our biorhythms. For example, here are
subatomic particles, four ways you can feel the effects of UV, without knowing a lick of
such as electrons or
biochemistry behind how they work in the body:
photons, invariably
changes the results. ¢ UV light exposure gives you a natural high by making a biochemical
called POMC. POMC gets divided into beta-endorphin, which
inspires people to idolize the sun.
¢ UV naturally lowers your blood pressure by dilating blood vessels
with nitric oxide.
A sympathetic ¢ UV calms down the sympathetic stress response from the
state ts alert,
active, and focused.
paraventricular nucleus (which is chronically overstimulated in most
people). At the same time, it raises parasympathetic tone from the
Parasympathetic is vagal motor nucleus, which controls your rest-and-digest response.
the state of rest,
digest, and e As part of the preceding process, UV is a natural calcium-channel
calniness. blocker, which means it reduces the stress response.
Now you know why UV light relaxes you in a more biocompatible way
than any prescription drug. But, too bad for us, over the last century,
medical science has observed some of the destructive qualities of UV and
proceeded to condemn it with its teachings and technology, while at the
same time ignoring its gifts. Thus, our science and industry now tell us
UV is a bad guy, to be avoided at all costs, in all situations.
Well let me take this opportunity to set the record straight: They’re
dead wrong: UV light is not bad for you. It’s simply misunderstood.
Doctors, public health agencies, and most for-profit companies don’t
have a clue how UV works in the body. Hence, our modern society
denounces it and mismanages it. Clearly, we’re ignorant about UV, and
that’s why our relationship with it is broken. Failing to realize what UV
does for us, we have all but deleted UV from our lives.
But that doesn’t mean you have to going forward. Instead, start doing
your homework to understand how to reap the rewards of UV, while
avoiding its hazards. Dispense with the false assumptions of science-past,
and trust that Nature did not bless you with UV light by accident. Learn
what it’s designed to do in you, and for you, and you will live as
biologically-empowered a life as you were meant to.

Sunglasses, contact lenses, and glass block UV light

In 1969, Philip Salvatori (trustee of the Environmental Health and Light
Research Institute) did an experiment that compared different types of
contact lenses under different conditions. In one eye of a subject, his team
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put a contact lens that blocks UV light. In the other eye, they put one that
lets the UV light through. What his group found shocked and amazed them.
Indoors, under artificial light with no UV, pupil dilation was the same.
But, in outdoor sunlight, the pupil that was blocked from getting UV was
more enlarged than the one that let UV light through. Therefore, even
though we can’t see UV frequencies with the naked eye, photoreceptors
in the eye do, in fact, pick them up. And the pupil responds to these
unseen wavelengths by constricting.
So, when we wear sunglasses or contacts that block UV light, our
pupils expand more than they should and let in more visible light
than our eyes are meant to tolerate. Of course, a modern human’s
natural response is to reduce all light entering the eye with sunglasses.
That ought to protect your eyes from overexposure, and make you look
cool in the process, right?
Unfortunately, this is one more instance of man underestimating
Nature... and paying the price for it. What we failed to realize is that
sunglasses don’t fix the real problem, which is inadequate pupil
constriction when we circumvent the UV signal. No wonder so many
people are light-sensitive and prone to sun damage: We’ve been
overexposing our eyes to full-spectrum sun, while at the same time
underexposing them to UV.
Secretly sabotaging our health all this time, we’ve uncoupled cause from
effect in our biology. You see, X amount of sunlight (UV) is supposed to
constrict the pupils Y amount. But we’ve messed up our photo-regulatory
systems by changing Nature’s formula, before knowing the rules. And
now we're reaping the consequences, without realizing how or why.
Similarly, normal window glass blocks about 75% of UV-A light and
almost all UV-B. Car windshields, being multi-layered, are specially-
treated to block UV-A. But side and rear windows are not. They allow
most UV-A to pass through. Plastic, such as polycarbonate, is the
exception: it does not block UV light. Furthermore, most sunglasses
block all the UV they can, while standard contact lenses in the US block
all UV-A and UV-B, as well as 50% of the blue.
The point to remember here: When we filter the UV out of sunlight,
it’s actually over~exposing our eyes to all the other wavelengths — as we
do indoors, for instance. Bizarre to think about: just living indoors
automatically makes you blue-light toxic the more time you spend
behind glass, because window glass is blocking the UV, and some IR,
while letting all of the blue through.
However, as we discuss several times, mindlessly reducing sun
exposure across the board with sunglasses, sunscreen, and sun avoidance is
not a sound strategy either. Indeed, it’s a health hazard with serious
consequences. It’s quantum malnutrition, plain and simple.
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These are important reasons why our relationship with UV has become
so dysfunctional: (1) We purposely omit UV in all our artificial sources; (2)
we block it in our natural sources as if were poisonous; and (3) we’re over-
exposing our eyes to other frequencies when we do block UV. As a result,
our biology is uncoupled and out ofbalance with our light environment. These
are unrecognized reasons why we're so sick and getting sicker.

Sun exposure is different from sun damage

Sun exposure can make your skin tone look more uneven short-term —
some would say “older” looking — because it exaggerates pigment level
variation, freckle darkening, and dead skin layer formation. To the
uneducated observer, irregular skin tone after being out in the sun might
appear to be premature aging. But this is not necessarily the case. Rather,
it is use and conditioning.
These are just Nature’s ways of helping you collect more sunlight from
your solar panels — UV in particular. It is part of a comprehensive natural
system in every human to help us incorporate more light into our
physiology. The net result on a population basis is mortality from all
diseases declines the more sun exposure you get. That includes skin
cancer: It goes down when you get more sun.
Think of it like this: If you cover a car and let it sit for thirty years, it
might still look fabulous on the outside when you take it out and give it a
wash. But if you value life over looks, it’s the condition on the inside that
counts. For in that time, its internal parts will have rusted, rotted, and
seized up from neglect. The engine and transmission will actually be
worse off mechanically than if you drove it every once in a while.
Well, you and your skin are no different. Use your solar panels
regularly and you may see that they’ve been used. However, your organs,
tissues, and mitochondria will be in better working order than if you had
avoided the sun at every opportunity. Fix your relationship with light,
and your skin will naturally look better long term.
Consider getting early-morning sun on the eyes and skin, unblocking
UV and IR in your life, drinking good-quality water, avoiding blue light
at night, protecting yourself from nnEMFs, eating deuterium-depleting
foods, getting more sulfur in your diet, and doing all the things you can
to tune up your mitochondria.
All that being said, wrinkles, dryness, fragility, and uneven texture are
indeed signs that skin has lost health. See Chapter 19: Bad skin (pg. 303)
to learn more about skin problems.

Harvesting UV light
Assimilating UV light takes a little bit of know-how since UV-A can only
penetrate the skin 0.3 mm, UV-B only goes 0.1 mm deep, and the very
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limited amount of UV-C that makes it through the atmosphere penetrates

the epidermis about 0.05 mm. (Although a lot more UV-C has been
reaching ground level as the atmosphere is ravaged by geoengineering.)
Bringing more blood to the surface is step one. When all’s working
correctly, UV on the skin releases nitric oxide, which dilates blood
vessels. In doing so, the body brings shuttles to the surface to pick up the
UV and deliver it to cells around the body. These shuttles are protein
pigments found in red blood cells. One group of these shuttles absorb all
frequencies of UV light. They’re called “porphryins” (see pg. 221).
Included in that group is the most famous porphyrin in the animal
kingdom, called hemoglobin. It absorbs one wavelength of UV and three
frequencies of infrared. Similarly, after eating, extra blood is directed to
the gut to extract the light that microbes liberate from food.
On a related note, you know how very light-skinned people can get
red quickly after they’re out in the sun a short while? Everyone thinks
that’s a sunburn, but it’s not. It’s actually the body bringing red blood
cells up to the surface to help harvest UV light. The process just persists
longest in fair-skinned people as an extra effort to capture more sun. This
is why anemics have trouble in this area: A deficiency of red blood cells
(hemoglobin) slows down the transit of UV away from the area.
Likewise, the reason Irish people have more freckles than any other is
that melanin in their freckles help them harvest what little UV light they
get in their cloudy environment. Melanin is a storage protein for UV
light. It absorbs UV light during the day. Then, at night, the body
offloads the stored light to porphyrins in red blood cells.

How much UV light is available where you live?

People living at higher latitudes are seasonally disadvantaged when it
comes to collecting UV light because, in some places, there might not be
any of it reaching ground level in the shortened light cycles of fall and
winter. In fact, the angle that sunlight travels through the atmosphere can
block all UV in the darkest months, at the highest latitudes.
But you may be able to hack your way around that seasonal limitation.
¢ Higher elevations let more UV light through. So skiing on a
mountain lets vacationers offset their UV deprivation in winter.
¢ Aluminum foil is a perfect reflector of UV light (picture old face-tan
reflectors). Yet another practice that might look silly to the uninitiated
but will, in fact, give you the last laugh when you escape the diseases
of civilization that those around you are prone to experiencing.
¢ Cloudy days are no excuse to skip your daily dose of sun. Clouds do
substantially reduce solar yield, but a lot of sun still makes it through.
And a little UV can go a long way, since light acts in a non-linear
fashion with our biology.
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Seven tips to help you harvest sunlight the way Nature intended
Mitochondriac’s Sun Secret #1 — Build your solar callus.
Infrared-A light prepares your skin to receive UV light later in the
day without causing a sunburn. Early-morning sun contains 41% IR
light that increases your tolerance to the UV-B rays that burn skin
with overexposure. There’s lots of IR light in late-evening sun too.
Even extremely pale people of Irish descent can tolerate many hours
of intense sun exposure without burning... after they’ve worked
their way up to high solar yield through “hybrid tanning,” as Dr.
Jack calls this IR pre-conditioning strategy.
But what if you can’t get early-morning sun? Get an infrared-A
therapy light. It’s not as good as full-spectrum sun, but it will pre-
condition your skin indoors to receive more UV light outdoors.
Carbs are meant to do something similar. As one of Nature’s energy-
balancing mechanisms, carbs naturally thicken the skin to help you
capture more summer sun. However, eating more carbs than you
should just to get this effect (whether in season or not) is not
recommended for reasons mentioned throughout.
Sun Secret #2 — Adequate hydration. When your skin is dehydrated
you can’t make vitamin D (an all-important vitamin). That prevents
you from harvesting sunlight the way you should. The four biggest
causes of dehydration are nnEMFs (particularly microwaves and blue
light), low fluid intake, diuretic beverages (such as coffee, tea, soft
drinks, and alcohol), and poor mitochondrial function.
Sun Secret #3 — Sulfur. Sulfur helps us capture good frequencies of
sunlight, while reflecting the bad. For instance, sulfur helps us collect
IR and UV light close to the visible range, while limiting our exposure
to IR and UV extremes like UV-C. Unfortunately, cholesterol,
vitamin D,, and DHEA don’t have as much sulfur as they used to.
Sun Secret #4 — Avoid polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid
(linoleic acid). Most health educators know that too much omega-6
fatty acid vegetable oil is bad for you — including oil from corn,
safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, and canola. But most have
no idea just how bad they are at increasing inflammation and oxidation
in skin cells, predisposing you to sunburn. Dr. Joe Mercola believes
linoleic acid is 10-100 times worse for you than sugar. He says, it’s
much harder to get sunburned when you don’t eat these vegetable oils.
Sun Secret #5 — Natural sunblock. Dead cells on the top layer of
skin unwind their DNA, which acts as a natural protectant against
overexposure. That means exfoliating may make your skin look
younger short-term, but can actually make you look older long term.
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e Sun Secret #6 — Avoid chemical sun blocks. Avoid enemies of

your biophysical state such as sunscreen. It blocks the UV you desper-
ately need. Same thing with most types of makeup: They’re designed
to block UV in the hopes that it will reduce the signs of aging.
Unfortunately, by avoiding all UV-induced wear-and-tear on your
skin, you also depress cell repair and replacement. Just as bad, most
sunscreen contains chemicals that are toxic or even cancer-causing.
e Sun Secret #7 — Avoid UV-blocking materials. Just because you
can see through it does not mean you're receiving full-spectrum
sunlight through it. So look for ways to remove the presence of any
material that alters the light spectrum your eyes receive. Here’s one
for the road: When you're driving, at least crack a window, and/or
open your sunroof. That’s enough to let some sun in.
e Mitochondriac’s Sun Secret #8 — More electrons. The more
electrons you have coming in, and the more electrons you retain,
the better you’re able to capture and use sunlight. Remember, light
can only interact with electrons.
Goal to set for yourself: raise your melatonin level with more UV-A and
infrared-A light — particularly from morning sun. Melatonin repairs the
damage that every photoreceptor in the eye incurs through daily use. And
melatonin recycles mitochondria, which protects circadian clock
functions of the eye and the mitochondria.

$un-permeable bathing suits and clothing

For those who have areas of the body “where the sun never shines,”
remember, those areas suffer energy deficits from a lack of sun exposure
just like other body parts. UV and IR deficiency basically forces those organs
and tissues to use energy collected through other means, instead of those
cells and mitochondria being able to harvest energy directly from the sun
themselves. Second-hand supply means fewer frequencies, and less of them.
To put it simply, solar malnutrition of your privates does contribute to
reproductive dysfunction (e.g., erectile dysfunction, prostate problems,
lack of libido, and infertility in both sexes). And remediating that
deficiency can help them get their mojo back.
Help from the mitohacker’s toolbox: A number of swimwear
manufacturers such as Kiniki® and CoolTan® now make UV-permeable
bathing suits and clothing that allow a portion of UV and IR rays to go
right through them. This “tan-through” clothing, as some people call it, is
a great solution for the more bashful among us that badly need the UV
and IR healing frequencies, but don’t want to be cruising around with
our privates out in public.
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Fall and winter sunbathing, made more pleasant

Another challenge that Northerners have in getting adequate sun
exposure is the cold. Many Northern cities do get direct sunlight in the
fall and winter that could be used for our biophysical benefit. But many
people find it too cold to go shirtless and pantless below 60°F.
Consider a Biomat™ far-infrared heating pad to help you stay
comfortable when it’s cold out. The Biomat™ is filled with electrically-
heated amethyst crystals and activated carbon that give you relaxing and
therapeutic far-infrared rays which feel truly heavenly. Like any electrical
device, the Biomat™ does create an electric field when powered on. But
the manufacturer has designed it with a built-in grounding mechanism to
minimize harmful effects. To reduce that to zero, you can always heat it
up beforehand, and turn it off just prior to use.
When you lay on the mat, the heat from below will help your backside
stay warm, while your front-side stays warm from the sun. When your
top-side gets cold, flip yourself over. Like other minerals, the crystals are
See the
dense enough to retain heat for 15 minutes or so.
Recommended Infrared heat lamps and propane-powered patio heaters are other ways
Resources section
to eliminate excuses from your regimen. Whichever way you can manage
at the end for more
information about to get full-spectrum sun on your skin and eyes, do it — be that
the Biomat. electrically-powered infrared light bulbs, or propane-powered heat/light.

To summarize our connection to light

We need sunlight as much as plants do. We just have more ways to get it,
and better backup systems to cope with its absence for longer. However,
a deficiency of real, natural sunlight hitting our eyes and skin 1s still
increasingly detrimental to our energy level, health, and healing the
John Ott, deeper the deficit goes. We’ve just never realized its significance before,
researcher and because we’ve been misguided into believing so many half-true, partially-
author. As
detailed in his
effective paradigms for so long, instead of where the real fault and solution
beok, Health and lies: in the quality of our light, water, magnetism, and mitochondria.
Light, Ott John Ott said it best, based on his research from the 1930s onward: A
developed time-
lapse photography shortage of certain frequencies causes a deficiency of biochemicals and
techniques to study hormones in both plants and animals that he described as a state of “mal-
how light affects
plant growth, in
illumination” comparable to malnutrition. This deficiency of natural light
addition to how is about half the story of why we're so sick and tired, and mentally unwell
their chloroplasts today. It’s a huge, previously untold story that Dr. Jack Kruse and fellow
mitochondriacs are piecing together as we speak, and telling to everyone
utilize light in
photosynthesis,
and how children who will listen.
became hyperactive The other half of the story is how man-made, foreign frequencies foul
when exposed to
artificial light in up our energy production, our circadian and infradian rhythms, and our
classrooms. biochemistry. That’s coming up in the next episode.
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HOW MAN-MADE ELECTROMAGNETIC
FREQUENGIES HURT YOU

Earth used to be a nice, quiet place to live, energetically speaking

Whatever solar radiation the earth was exposed to was moderated, or all-
but eliminated by the atmosphere, before it reached ground level. That
means terrestrial biology, having evolved alongside these frequencies for
eons, has the ability to use these waves as energy and information. So if
an electromagnetic frequency was found on earth a thousand years ago,
we can use it for our benefit, or at least tolerate it.
That made the earth a sanctuary that let in good solar energies that
helped us, while keeping out bad solar radiation that hurt us. This, more
than anything in the terrestrial experience, is what made life on earth
possible. Sunshine through the earth’s atmosphere pampered us with
friendly frequencies, while protecting us from frequencies that were
foreign to our experience. That was life on earth, in a nutshell.
However, the message within the message here is that our biology is
not built to tolerate frequencies and intensities that were not present on
ancient earth. If we didn’t grow up around it, our biology isn’t designed
to be exposed to it. As a result, foreign frequencies are stressful at best,
and harmful or possibly deadly over time. And that’s exactly the situation
we find ourselves in today.
We’ve contaminated our once-pristine electromagnetic environment,
to the point where more microwave EMFs are trying to get out of the
earth’s atmosphere — and can’t — than those trying to get in. Man-made
frequencies have turned a supremely nurturing place into a hostile
environment that’s antagonistic to all biology.
We’re now swimming in a sea of invisible, unhealthy, non-native
electromagnetic radiation that clashes with the Schumann resonance and
overpowers it. This deluge of faster, more intense man-made EMFs inter-
feres with our mitochondrial function in dozens of ways. And it corrupts
our brain and body’s electrical system in ways we never suspected.
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Many consider these high-frequency waves from our

communication devices to be “electromagnetic pollution”
That’s because they bombard our cells with harmful frequencies that
conflict with those native to our planet and beneficial to our biology.
Using frequencies in the millions or billions of cycles per second
(megahertz {MHz} or gigahertz {GHz}, respectively), our cell phones,
Wi-Fi networks and smart devices use frequency ranges radically faster
and more powerful than those our brain and body are meant to receive.
Take “smart meters,” for example. They’re an almost universal health
hazards now toxifying our airwaves. These digital power meters wirelessly
report electricity usage from your home back to the power company.
And they do it in the microwave/radio-frequency range — supposedly to
help you use electricity more wisely. But what they really do is collect
data about you and your family’s habits so they can sell that information
to corporations and government agencies — including which devices you
use, when you use them, and even what TV shows you’re watching
(based on the waveform of electricity used).
Privacy issues aside, probably the most harmful aspect of having a smart
meter installed on every home and business is that each one transmits
microwaves to and from a relay station many times per hour. That means,
in populated areas, you could have hundreds of these things transmitting
nucrowaves through you every few minutes, if not more.
This chronic bombardment of high-energy electromagnetic
frequencies undermines human health by drowning out the body’s own
electrical signals, which are much weaker. Non-native EMFs basically
spoil your internal environment by making your cells vibrate to an alien
tune, instead of Nature’s own supportive frequencies.
But even worse are cell phones due to their proximity. Cell phone
signals agitate cells all over the body with their microwave radiation —
especially the brain when you hold the phone against your head, or use a
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Bluetooth headset. This can disturb your sleep and concentration. It’s
known to cause headaches, fatigue, and hypersensitivity to all nnEMFs.
And cell phone microwaves can depress your immune system, lower
fertility, and even cause brain tumors.
And we aren’t alone. Lower life forms are even more profoundly
affected by nnEMFs because their biology is simpler, and more closely
connected to Nature. The metabolism of bees, for example, is spoiled by
nnEMFs so they have great difficulty living close to transmitters. Non-
native EMFs stunt plant growth, particularly trees. And nnEMFs
aggravate our gut flora too.
But, despite decades of data to the contrary, tech companies still claim
that modern communication devices are not dangerous because the EMFs
they emit aren’t strong enough to heat tissue, or shake electrons loose in
large numbers the way radioactivity does.
At the same time, corporate executives and engineers acknowledge
behind closed doors the subtle and insidious health dangers that non-
ionizing EMFs present to all life forms. They’re just keeping it quiet as
long as possible because wireless technology is driving most of the
“progress” and profit in commerce today... so much so that experts on
both sides of the argument consider crowding of our airwaves
unstoppable now, no matter how bad it is for people and planet.
So, as a smokescreen, industry spokespeople argue that microwaves are
a natural phenomenon... that we shouldn’t promote fear-mongering
because the environment has always borne microwaves throughout Earth’s
history. And they would be right. But that’s not the whole truth. You
see, the part they neglect to mention is that the quantity of microwave
radiation we now endure on a daily basis compared to 190 is... wait for
it... a quintillion times what it was back then! And it’s expanding
rapidly with nothing but awareness efforts like this one to slow the spread.
Bottom line: nnEMFs are far worse for you than you might imagine.
Yet it can be difficult for the average person to trace his symptoms back
to their source. That’s because the mitochondriac community 1s pretty
much the only group of people actively studying and using biophysics as a
frontline modality to combat modern disease.
When you learn for yourself the full extent of the damage that
electrosmog inflicts upon people, you'll be shocked how little is being
done to protect human health and safety, despite decades’ worth of
evidence of harm. That means you’re going to have to take steps to
protect yourself and your loved ones, because no government
organization or mainstream doctor is going to do it for you.
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Alternating current electricity (AC power)

The power grid is more toxic than people realize
The average American doesn’t think electric fields can damage human
health to the degree that they do because they never heard it from official
sources, basically. But that’s changing fast as more people come down with
chronic conditions and accept the fact that nnEMFs could be to blame.
Without a doubt, stray voltage around a home’s wiring, as well as fields
surrounding the devices themselves, are more harmful to human health
than we ever thought. It just hadn’t posed a significant threat to most
people prior to the Wi-Fi and 4G era, because we had extra healing ©
capacity to spare. Thus, we could tolerate a fair amount of environmental
stressors without showing any symptoms.
But, unfortunately for us, AC power in our walls and devices disturbs
the physics of the body. In particular, the 60 Hz electricity used in North
America messes with mitochondrial function in myriad ways. That makes
obesity, neuro-degeneration, and cancer more likely to occur. While on
the other side of the pond, the s0 Hz power used by most European
countries causes more electro-hypersensitivity to nnEMFs.
Even low-voltage direct current (DC) from battery-operated devices is ed ee
damaging when used close to the body — especially to those who are from the generat
hypersensitive to unnatural frequencies. The field of a continuous electron but —
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flow (DC current) is not as bad as oscillating current (AC). But it does Newclean See
indeed disturb biology — especially since portable devices are often used circa 185
inches from sensitive organs.

nnEMF damage started with Tesla’s electric power

The story of unfriendly frequencies stressing human biology
started in the 1890s when Nikola Tesla invented alternating
current (AC) electricity. Now, no one would argue with
the fact that Tesla’s AC current is vastly superior to Edison’s
DC current at powering our electric grid. However, if we
take a moment to consider the health effects of AC current,
we start to see downsides we never saw before.
As a “foundational disturbance” of sorts, AC upsets
biological systems far more than DC, because AC oscillates
faster than the body’s own frequencies that recharge and
regenerate our cells. In contrast, DC current operates on a
less-disturbing continuous flow of electrons.
Of course, few people paid any attention to these health effects through
the early rgoos, because the cumulative dose of these frequencies was so
small that most people could cope with the insult and not lose any
function. AC power just wasn’t a huge problem across the population.
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But that started to change in the middle decades of the 20" Century
when radio, television, and radar signals began filling our airwaves. In the
ensuing decades, we found every imaginable use for electricity in our
lives. So now, a saturation of devices that use electricity has led gadget-
makers to turn to wireless technology as the next great opportunity to sell
stimulation-seekers of the world lots of new stuff.
Certainly, battery power helped get the wireless party started. And
artificial intelligence is about to raise the roof on the saturation of our
airwaves — in self-driving cars and smart cities, to name two applications.
All of that is rapidly depleting whatever regeneration ability we have left.

“Dirty electricity” causes most of the harm

Even worse than regular, “clean” electricity,
the damage potential rises dramatically when
unintended high-frequency oscillations
piggyback on the standard 60 Hz waveform —
as it usually does in our power grid. Looking
something like fur on a camel’s back, most 60
Hz power supplied to our homes can aptly be
called “dirty,” because variations in the
waveform are the most destructive aspect of
electricity to our cells and systems.
Image used courtesy Dirty electricity, which used to be called “electromagnetic interference”
of Dave Stetzer of (EMI) or “high-frequency voltage transients” (HFVT), is caused by:
stetzerelectric.com.
¢ irregularities in how electricity is generated at the power plant;
® appliances drawing power from shared lines (particularly power supplies);
@ airborne nnEMFs captured on power lines and brought into the home.
Disturbances such as these form tiny anomalies on the primary 60 Hz
signal that sound like crackling noise or interference over a speaker (think
AM radio with tons of static) — the result being exaggerated wear-and-tear
on your appliances, your electronics, your cells, and your mitochondria.
Like countless tiny speed bumps in the road, dirty electricity violently
shakes things up, making them — and you — break down faster.
Basically, any sort of intermediate frequency noise, between about 60
Hz to more than 2000 Hz, can make its way onto power lines and travel
downstream to your outlets, and upstream to “infect” your home’s
circuits. It’s this dirty electricity that contributes to in-home EMF injury,
once fairly uncommon in people years ago, but all-too common today.
Without a doubt, dirty electricity has become a much bigger threat to the
population now that we all must endure wireless stressors constantly
irritating our anatomy.
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Common sources of dirty electricity

© compact fluorescent light bulbs
© smart meters
e dimmer switches on LED lights (they delete portions of the wave-
form w/o replacing them, resulting in abrupt on/off transitions)
e household appliances such as microwave ovens, refrigerators, plasma
TVs, and computer power supplies
variable speed HVAC, well, and swimming pool pumps
cell towers
wiring errors
solar or wind power
electric car battery chargers
even trees brushing up against power lines

Dirty electricity remediation

You can buy a meter and test the acuity of your home’s dirty electricity
for less than $200. You can hire a specialist to give you a more thorough
analysis. Or you can start with a test-hack to see how dirty electricity is
actually affecting you. Simply turn off circuit breakers at night and see if
your symptoms go away (assuming you have rooms not subjected to
electrical fields from neighbors).
Once you know your risk level, most homes can be cleaned up fairly
easily by installing filters in your electrical outlets, or at the breaker panel.
You just plug handheld boxes into strategically-chosen outlets around
your home. They then filter out the extraneous high-frequency noise
emanating from lines, the devices plugged into those lines, and ambient
frequencies entering your home’s circuitry.
That effectively eliminates the majority of stress-causing noise that
makes electricity harmful to you, your pets, and your electrical devices.
For best results, hire a nnEMF remediation specialist, because there can
be intricacies involved both in cleaning up the electro-pollution and in
how the signal impacts your health, healing ability, and cognitive function.
For example, you may get better results by installing a whole-home filter
at your breaker box than installing individual filters around your house.

How AC power corrupts healing and regeneration

The fields around AC power shake our cells at rates and intensities that
conflict with the brain’s own regenerative frequencies of between 12 Hz
to under 1 Hz. In doing so, electricity can overpower the body’s own
message frequencies because cells then can’t hear the more subtle signals
the brain sends to organs and tissue.
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As we examined, when the AC signal is stronger than the brain’s

outgoing message frequencies, stem cells don’t know where to go, and
what to turn into, when they mature. That interferes with cell signaling
for repair and replacement. At the same time, the brain doesn’t receive
accurate information about the needs of tissues around the body that
normally report their status back to the brain to call for service. Astrocytes
are then left in the dark about what cells need.
Plus, in countries that use it, 50 Hz electricity oscillates at a frequency
that closely competes with the mitochondria’s optimal fat- and protein-
burning frequencies of 100 Hz. That’s troublesome for energy production
in mitochondria, resulting in more free radicals, less ATP, and greater
vulnerability to nnEMFs due to lower healing capacity. In this state, your
defenses (e.g., redox, magnetism, and glutathione) are weakened, so
foreign frequencies can cause you problems as electro-hypersensitivity.
In short, AC power fields going through your wires, walls, and devices
shift your metabolism in the wrong direction and diminish your redox
reserves. Daily exposures then become more serious threats to your
regenerative capacity. And, let’s not forget, electricity does not act alone
anymore. The stress that AC power places on the body is cumulative
with all the other nnEMFs we’re exposed to. New wireless technologies
then take that damage to another level.

The ETC burns fat best when cytochromes oscillate at 100 Hz

Electrons from carbs tend to enter the electron transport chain at
Cytochrome I, while most fat and protein electrons enter the ETC at
Cytochrome II or II. The thing is, Cytochromes II and III need to
oscillate at 100 Hz to work best. That means 50 Hz power, which is the
second harmonic of 100 Hz, messes with mitochondria’s ability to burn
fats and proteins by screwing up the middle portions of the electron
transport chain with static interference. Hence, throughput of the ETC
gets restricted, the body resorts to less-efficient processes such as glycolysis
for energy, and symptoms of low energy output develop.
On the other hand, you could say that 60 Hz power helps Americans
over-indulge in carbohydrate consumption, because 60 Hz electricity
interferes less with Cytochrome I and the ETC as the fifth harmonic of
100 Hz (60 x 5 = 300). However, we disturb our mitochondrial
Most of Europe
uses the GSM efficiency through other means — such as too much deuterium from
standard ofcell processed foods, eating foods out of season, dirty electricity, and blue
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Americans with 60 Hz power, and predominantly CDMA cell service

combined with GSM, tend to be heavier. We also have more cancer and
cognitive decline in the form of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and dementia.

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simple as moving from one side of your couch to the other can change the
polarity and intensity of magnetism running through your body from what
it was just moments before.
It’s these unstable, stratified zones of magnetism that do serious damage
to your organs and tissues by disconnecting them from one another.
Organs and tissues then operate out of synch with each another as they
struggle with varying degrees of function to dysfunction. That can easily
lead to fibromyalgia, cancer, autoimmunity, and neuro-degeneration after
your astrocytes run out of electricity to recharge cells.
For your information, “live,” unshielded electrical wires produce an
electric field around them, whether the line is in use or not (i.e., current is
being used). That’s not good for you. But AC lines produce a magnetic
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field around them only when current is actively running through the
wire. And that’s horrible for you.
You can think of the danger posed by electric fields as a function of
proximity times voltage in the line — whether the line is being used or
not. High voltage is why kids have developed leukemia living under
high-tension power lines. On the other hand, the health risks associated
with non-uniform magnetic fields rise in relation to current running
through the line and proximity. It’s the flow of electrons that produces a
magnetic field at go° angle.

Ground current
Stray electricity in the earth beneath your feet is called “ground current.”
It’s caused by improper wiring in buildings, poorly-designed recovery of
electrons from the power grid, and a buildup of static electricity from 5G.
First researched as a result of unhappy cows, ground current was shown
to lower milk production, cause foot sores, and trigger miscarriages when
cows basically get mildly electrocuted non-stop just standing over stray
current. Ground current is a major reason it’s not safe for people to do
grounding in some populated areas anymore. There are just too many
places that have excessive stray voltage to ground yourself safely.

Blue light
Artificial blue light is ruining our circadian rhythms (daily cycles of sleep
and repair) chronically more than any toxin known to man. That’s
because natural blue light is supposed to control the body’s daily-nightly
stress levels and mitochondrial fitness. But artificial blue light doesn’t have
the red and purple light present in real sunlight to counteract the
potentially harmful effects of blue.
Natural blue light exposure, in insolation, is bad enough for you. But man-
made blue light is profoundly more damaging to our biology because: (1)
computer screens and modern light bulbs radiate blue light that’s three or
four times the color intensity; (2) we get it way too often; (3) we’re exposed
to it far too long; (4) we get it at the wrong times of the day; and (5) it’s
usually present alone, without its natural counter-balancing frequency of red.
To give you some perspective, not too long ago, all we had was the
incandescent light bulb. They make light that’s kind of like the sun’s. It
contains almost the full spectrum of colors, including some IR, with a tad
more blue than real sunlight. But unfortunately for our health, the industry
moved away from incandescent light bulbs, to fluorescents, and now LEDs.
They sold us on their energy efficiency, while ignoring the health
decay. You see, to be energy-efficient, LEDs don’t waste energy making
light you don’t see, and wouldn’t think to miss. So modern LEDs
produce light that’s almost entirely blue, and not much else.
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Let’s take a moment to define blue light. When mitochondriacs talk

about artificial blue light, most of the time we mean white-looking light
with a very high color temperature (>4500°K) so it appears bluish, instead
of having a yellowish hue like traditional incandescent light (<3000°K).
To explain how the idea of color temperature came about, the
nomenclature is modeled after the color at which tungsten glows when
heated to the corresponding temperature. The lower the temperature that
tungsten is, the more yellow/orange/red it appears, while the hotter the
temperature, the more bluish-white it appears. Color temperature is very
important because our circadian system is controlled by these frequencies
of light hitting our photoreceptors.
Another reason we call artificial light blue is because it fundamentally
begins that way. There is no such thing as an inherently white LED.
LEDs can only produce one color, whereas real white is a mixture of
colors. So most of our tech devices create “white” light by coating blue
LEDs with yellow phosphors to make them glow white in color.
Unfortunately, blue light from our gadgetry is many times more intense
than the blue that’s mixed in with natural sunlight. It’s 6500° Kelvin or
more in LEDs vs. 1800°K in early-morning sun. Artificial blue light is also
used everywhere, in pretty much every light-emitting device made — from
smartphone screens and LED lights, to street lamps and modern TVs.
But to compound the catastrophe, we’re psycho-socially addicted to
blue light because it has a stimulating effect on our hormones and nervous
systems, and because of the digital content that’s delivered with it. That
means the typical millennial looks at their cell phone more than 150 times
a day, which does a marvelous job of depleting social media addicts of
dopamine, cortisol, and sex hormones through constant activation of
their adrenal, pituitary, and psychological reward systems.
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Blue light basically tells our internal pharmacy to release chemicals so
we can concentrate and deal with our daily stresses. Unfortunately, we’re
doing this all day and night, non-stop, so the pharmacy runs out of chemi-
cals to give us to meet normal daily demands. To show you the industry
knows, my computer warns: “Screens emit blue light, which can keep
you up at night. Night light displays warmer colors to help you sleep.”
Most people never notice how much that blue light is stressing their
system and inhibiting sleep because they’re running on emergency reserves
every day. But if you ever try falling asleep well before your body is
exhausted, you'd be surprised how jacked up the blue is making you feel.
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You wouldn’t believe how toxic blue light is to our biology

Increases heteroplasmy rate. Blue light expands the respiratory
proteins in mitochondria, thereby lowering mitochondrial efficiency.
Dehydrates you. Sluggish mitochondria make less water. That results
in less e-zone to store energy, slower detoxification, and impediments
to dozens of bodily functions due to protein malformation.
Activates the stress response. Blue light in the eye stimulates the
adrenal system into releasing cortisol and dopamine to prepare us for
daily activities. The stress response also raises blood-sugar level, and
dampens digestion and metabolism. In doing so, blue light
chronically stresses the body and mind, upsets our hormonal systems
(especially the adrenals), and contributes to type 2 diabetes.
Wrecks DHA function in your eye and brain. Weak mitochondria
(from heteroplasmy) make a smaller magnetic field. That reduces
DHA delivery because magnetism moves DHA around in blood and
offloads it into cells.
Gives you brain fog and dumbs you down by “over-spending”
your dopamine supply. When your dopamine level drops, you can’t
concentrate as well, you don’t make mental connections as well
(creativity), you lose motivation, you lose empathy, and you lose
patience. You become a slave to stimulation in your environment. In
a word, that’s ADD.
¢ Disturbs melatonin and sleep.
Blue light interferes with sleep cycles
by damaging melatonin via
melanopsin-vitamin A degradation.
¢ Impairs thyroid function. Blue
light penetrates the skin 3-6 cm. So,
when you spend many hours a day
with your throat area exposed to
intense blue light — as gamers and
social media addicts do — that blue
light can wreck mitochondria
function in your thyroid, trigger
inflammation, and give you
hypothyroidism... or even
Hashimoto’s, in severe cases.
Upsets testosterone production and ovulatory cycles. This causes
hormone imbalances, sexual dysfunction, and sometimes infertility.
Increases reactive oxygen species. Stretched-out mitochondria
make more free radicals, which perpetuates inflammation and causes
biologic aging.
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e Exaggerates metabolic problems. Blue light raises glucose levels,

suppresses insulin, and contributes to type 2 diabetes.
© Promotes vitamin A deficiency and obesity. Blue light breaks the
bond between melanopsin and vitamin A (retinol), turning retinol
into a toxic version of itself: retinal. Especially significant to those with
weight problems, vitamin A deficiency is linked to obesity. That's a
little-known circumstance by which blue light contributes to obesity.
Blue light stretches out your mitochondria (heteroplasmy)
The most harmful thing that artificial blue light does to your long-term
health is it stretches out the respiratory proteins in your mitochondria.
Recall that respiratory proteins are the building blocks of mitochondria’s
five cytochromes that form key workstations along the electron transport
chain. Together, the ETC: (1) makes ATP, (2) creates a magnetic field
around organs that moves paramagnetic materials, and (3) builds redox
potential to power cells, heal, and extinguish inflammation.
So in the same way that increased distance makes it harder for static
electricity to jump from finger to doorknob, swelling of the respiratory
proteins makes it harder for electrons to jump from one spot to the next
along the ETC. That lowers ATP. Cells then don’t work as well. DC
electricity that powers healing drops, as does the magnetic field that
moves blood, oxygen, DHA, and hormones around the body.
A less-efficient electron transport chain, combined with reduced
oxygen delivery, then creates more free radicals. All of that describes how
blue light directly depresses mitochondrial function.

How blue light destroys photoreceptors

Photoreceptors are proteins that absorb light and help initiate circadian
programming. In humans, photoreceptors are loosely bound to vitamin A
(retinol). That association is important, because vitamin A/retinol must
stay bound to a photoreceptor to maintain its biologic benefits.
Unfortunately, when blue light or other non-native frequencies hit
photoreceptors, the loose covalent bond that holds vitamin A to its
photoreceptor disintegrates, and vitamin A becomes toxic. Retinol turns
into a rogue version ofitself —an “aldehyde” called “retinal” (aka
retinaldehyde or retinene, which are poorly named since they’re easily
confused with each other, and things related to the retina). With nothing
to disable its destructive qualities, retinal blows other molecules to bits,
with insidious consequences (imagine formaldehyde freely circulating).
Uncoupled from a photoreceptor, retinal runs amok in the body,
trashing any photoreceptors it encounters. For example, researchers
have recently reported seeing retinal eat up the rods and cones of the eye
in its unchaperoned form. For this reason, rogue vitamin A (combined
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with poor regeneration of photoreceptors and mitochondria, due to low

melatonin) is a primary cause of macular degeneration and cataracts that
are increasing by leaps and bounds in recent years.
This whole scenario also explains some confusing literature published
in the past that said vitamin A is harmful to human health. It’s because
the design of these studies was fundamentally flawed in more ways than
one. Firstly, researchers didn’t distinguish between vitamin A in
supplement form (which could be retinol or retinal) and the real thing
operating under natural conditions — which is coupled to vitamin D
usage, circadian rhythms, and opsins. Secondly, mainstream studies don’t
control for light, water, and magnetism. In other words, the effects that
you see in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study are not the same as
what happens in real life.

Dissociated vitamin A (retinal) attacks melanopsin, melatonin,

respiratory proteins, and metabolism
Melanopsin. Crucial to circadian biology, disassociated vitamin A des-
troys one of the main photoreceptors the central retinal pathway uses to
control daily and seasonal cycles: melanopsin. As alluded to above, when
blue light hits melanopsin in the eyes, skin or fat, the retinol that was bound
to it breaks off and turns into (toxic) retinal, which then goes around and
annihilates melanopsin, thereby crashing its function. When melanopsin
isn’t working correctly, light frequencies such as UV lose control of daily
and seasonal rhythms of stress, sleep, and metabolism.
Melatonin. Through retinal toxicity, blue light also ruins melatonin
function by collateral damage, everywhere that melanopsin is found.
That’s hugely detrimental to human health because melatonin
dysfunction disturbs sleep, mitochondrial recycling, and regeneration of
all photoreceptors. Let me repeat that: blue light interferes with sleep,
mitochondrial vitality, and photoreceptor repair via melatonin.
Respiratory proteins. Equally problematic, dissociated vitamin A also
attacks respiratory proteins in the mitochondria, because they too have
photoreceptors in them. That’s bad news for energy production because
broken-down respiratory complexes wreck the efficiency with which the
ETC handles electrons, protons, and photons.
Metabolism. Consequently, those who think a special diet such as
keto, paleo, or vegan will fix a calorie, insulin, or hormonal problem: it
won’t because most weight and metabolism problems aren’t primarily a
macronutrient problem (carbs vs. fats and protein), or even a biochemical
problem. Special diets may help to some degree in alleviating symptoms.
But blue light-induced heteroplasmy is a primary source of metabolic
dysfunction. That’s most of what is causing both diabetes and obesity.
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So it doesn’t matter what you eat; the efficiency with which your mito-
chondria process food is the real problem in both weight gain and insulin
resistance. In other words, you can improve the fuel, which is your food.
But that can only help so much when your engines are broken, which are
your mitochondria. Sure, whatever you do to improve the type or quality
of the food you eat will have some impact. But it’s a smaller and weaker
effect compared to the mitophysical exposures to which we’re subjecting
our eyes and organs, including blue light and microwave radiation.
The moral of this story: Changing your diet in an attempt fix a weight
problem, a metabolic problem, or a thyroid problem is like putting
premium gas in a 1970s VW Beetle that’s billowing black smoke. You
have to fix the engine before better fuel will make much difference in
how well your vehicle runs overall.

Blue light inhibits regeneration of melanopsin

Photoreceptors that capture daylight in the eye are optimized to work
around the yellow frequency of light, which is near the center of the
visible spectrum. So the cones of the eye use mostly blue, yellow, green,
and red to see with during the day. This is the daytime color vision we
know and love.
But what most people don’t realize is that our night vision is run by
the photoreceptor melanopsin. The rods of the eye use melanopsin to
convert the light and shadows we see in dim settings into an electrical
signal our brain uses to see with in black and white. Most important,
melanopsin is optimized to work around the blue frequency.
Here’s where the plot thickens: You regenerate melanopsin during the
day, and the cones at night. So when modern humans inundate their eyes
with hot blue light during the day, melanopsin receptors get beat up from
overuse at a time when they should be resting and regenerating.
To make matters worse, melanopsin receptors aren’t limited to just the
eye; they’re also found in your skin, blood vessels, and subcutaneous fat.
They too get fatigued when blue light hits that anatomy. All of that’s
extremely bad news for mitochondrial function because the melanopsin
system is what controls the central retinal pathway (CRP). It’s the CRP
that controls mitochondrial density almost everywhere in the body.
Crucial to your constitution, melanopsin damage from blue light messes
up your mitochondria.
That's a major reason why everyone’s health today is so fragile, and
their thinking so foggy: Communication devices and artificial lighting
expose you to blue light that ravages your mitochondrial function — not
to mention causing hormone imbalances, a non-stop stress response, and
all that that entails. That’s why restoration and metabolism are crashing in
people like never before.
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That’s the secret, subversive reason why people are so weak and
susceptible to sickness today. It’s a chain reaction of: (1) too much blue
light crashing the melanopsin system; (2) impaired melanopsin crippling
CRP function; and (3) a disabled CRP wiping out mitochondrial
populations and productivity. As a result, people are living on
mitochondria that should have been retired long ago.

Blue light causes near-sightedness (myopia)

In the 1950s, 18% of the population in South Korea were near-sighted.
Now about 96% need corrective lenses. Throughout the rest of Asia,
myopia has doubled or tripled. Here at home (US), I’m disturbed to see
very young children, even toddlers, wearing glasses with a remarkably
strong prescription, because when I was growing up, most kids didn’t
start needing glasses until they were in their teens — myself included.
So what causes myopia? Of course, there is a genetic component to
near-sightedness. But the overlooked factor underpinning the vast
majority of cases is artificial light and nnEMFs. Poor eyesight would not
be nearly as common or acute without the presence of blue light from
smartphones, computers, TVs, fluorescent lights, and LED lights.
To understand how myopia happens in a person, look at a rainbow of
colors coming out of a prism. You'll notice that blue light bends more
than most colors (see page 214). Now, by nature, our eyes are built to
focus using full-spectrum light. However, artificial light contains mostly
blue. So under natural light, the lenses of our eyes put their point of focus
more forward, toward the center of the eyeball, which means a rounder
eyeball and better vision.
On the other hand, under fake blue light, our eyes get used to forcing
their point of focus further back to compensate for the fact that blue light
bends more than other colors in white light. The longer this goes on —
blue, instead of full-spectrum — the more pressure there is on the eyeball
to elongate and stay that way. That’s how we get myopia (short-
sightedness) — at least until you shift your “light style” toward natural
light, and away from the blue, which is what I’ve done.
Since I began learning from Dr. Jack how light works, I’ve made a
concerted effort to open my sunroof while driving, wear glasses instead of
contacts when I go for a bike ride, open windows, and get sun in my
eyes. And the results are striking: My eyesight improved so much over a
few months that I suddenly needed a new prescription.
I can see further than I ever could with my old prescription. And I can
see better without glasses — especially after getting real sunlight the day
before, and avoiding artificial light at night. But I can’t see things close up
through my glasses anymore; my prescription is too strong. So now my
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vision is caught in a tug-of-war. It gets better when I get UV exposure,

and it gets worse with glasses and artificial light.
But the hard lesson some people learn from myopia is this: Having bad
eyesight is much more than buying glasses or contacts and you're good to
go. Myopia is actually an early-warning sign of mitochondrial
distress and diseases of low-energy supply. It’s a “canary in a coal
mine” predicting the occurrence of other diseases, as this chapter
should make abundantly clear.

How blue light creates insulin resistance

Of great concern to millions of diabetics, the blue light and vitamin A-
toxicity story is a major factor in the development of insulin resistance — not
just carbs overloading the system with glucose (although that isn’t helping).
Instead, the bigger bottleneck is happening downstream. Blue light
creates insulin resistance because it breaks your mitochondrial engines by
stretching out the cytochrome proteins. Mitochondria then can’t
metabolize glucose as efficiently as they should be able to because retinal
damages the respiratory proteins.
So insulin injections force more glucose into cells faster. But that only
improves throughput marginally because the bottleneck is glucose
metabolism at the cell and mitochondria level, not so much getting
glucose into cells. Hence, those with type 2 diabetes tend to get worse
over time the longer they take insulin... unless they fix their
mitochondrial dysfunction first.
Here again, mainstream medicine is once again extremely concerned
with pacifying symptoms without actually fixing a damn thing. However,
I do believe this is a rare case of legitimate ignorance because they don’t
know biophysics like a mitochondriac.

Jack Kruse tells Aaron Alexander how blue light and nnEMFs are used From Aaron
to dumb people down, get them addicted, and harvest their money Alexander's
“Align” podcast,
AA: “Looking at the world from a dystopian perspective... it’s almost episode 144, titled:
like a mental illness towards staring into things that end up zapping you “Dr. Jack Kruse:
of energy. Or eating sugary things that zap you ofenergy... It’s like being Longevity Secrets,
Cell Phone Effects,
in an abusive relationship.” . Obesity Paradox”:
JK: “If you could see my face, I’ve got the biggest shit grin smile on it.
You’re using this as a metaphor. It’s not a metaphor. It’s actually wisode/1124149

He
really what it [technology] does. That’s what nnEMEF does. It lowers
your dopamine and melatonin to make you addicted. Guess what,
Google owns the patents on this. Facebook has patents on this. This is
how Alexa works.
What you don’t realize, when your dopamine level drops, you effectively
are becoming less able to [make mental connections] in your environment,
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and you become more controllable. The more you use technology, the
more you're going to fall in line with everybody else. And that’s exactly
what they want you to do, because that’s how they harvest money.
A lot of people think I’m a giant asshole for pointing these things out.
I’m not doing this to be an asshole. It’s because people are asleep. They
do not see this going on. They don’t even realize these patents exist. The
guy that originally warned [us] about all this was [Robert O.] Becker.
Not even Becker probably could fathom just how bad this is. The
Navy in '73 asked him to review some papers that were never published
about pilots [to study the safety of nnEMFs for a prospective radar
installation]. You know what all the biochemical changes were? They
had cognitive problems, they had symptoms of leaky gut, they also gained
weight, and they looked like they were developing metabolic syndrome.
This was in ’73, before anybody even knew about this stuff. This was
from pilots that sat in cockpits of planes.
Becker pointed out [to the Navy about the antenna they were studying]
this had effects between 1-10 Hz. He goes, “When you guys realize this
antenna is over 60 Hz, that’s exactly where the power grid oscillates to. So not
only is the antenna a problem, but the entire electric power grid is a problem.’
You [Aaron] are worried about the MacBook and the [iPhone]. These
work on frequencies that would blow your mind. When you understand
Becker’s original work... then you begin to understand that this is not a
metaphor. This is by design [the way technology devices dumb you
down and get you addicted].”
AA: “So you think there’s actually like a physiological dependency here?”
JK: “Dude, I don’t think... It’s published. There’s so much data on this,
it’s not even arguable anymore. Anyone that poses that question to me
announces themselves to the world that they are fundamentally clueless
about what’s in the literature. The guys at Facebook, the guys at Google,
the guys at LinkedIn ... There is not a social media empire that doesn’t
know about this [phenomenon]. There is not a cell phone company that
doesn’t know this. That’s the reason why every screen is blue lit.
How easy would it be Aaron to turn the screen to
red? ...Just make sure it’s blue lit [screens] and you
thin the retina, affect their growth and metabolism
pathways, lower their dopamine and melatonin, and
make them more controllable, so that you can give
‘em suggestions, so that they follow along, and you
can harvest all the money out of their wallet.
This is not hyperbole. This is not Jack Kruse’s
opinion. I could give you tons of patents that are
tied to this.”
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Dr. Kruse goes on to say the #1 biggest risk to mankind today is a 1996 Video from Paul
Joseph Watson
FCC ruling that sells large portions of the electromagnetic spectrum — sums up the societal
particularly in the microwave range — to the telecom companies to do impact of cell phone
with as they please. He says (and I agree) it’s akin to letting the Big addiction:
brighteon.com/583
Pharma companies put any experimental drug they want in our water 7731061001.
supply without testing it, and without telling us!

Blue light in a nutshell

As of 2020-2021, artificial blue light (absent UV and IR) is the most
destructive toxin to modern man because it interferes with photoreceptor
function, hormones, mitochondrial efficiency, and energy collection. It
ruins circadian programming that controls sleep, stress level/alertness,
metabolism, and renewal. Blue light is sneaky-disruptive, more than
you’d ever guess. Yet modern medicine can’t see the connection because
it’s totally focused on biochemical imbalances and resulting symptoms,
not the true source of what’s upsetting our biology.
To put it simply, when all you have is a hammer (pharmaceuticals and
surgery), everything starts to look like a nail. And nail us in the body,
mind, and pocketbook they will, with all their off-target solutions. So
that’s where we’re at with healthcare and intentional wellness today.
However, blue light is soon to be dethroned as the most harmful toxin of
them all as sG ramps up in cities around the world.

Non-native EMFs
Since the 1970s, supporters of industry have said the non-native EMFs
used for communications can’t hurt us because the radiation they emit is
non-ionizing. They’re not powerful enough to knock electrons out of
atoms the way radioactive materials do. While technically that may be
true, it would be a mistake to think non-ionizing radiation is harmless. It
just does its damage in other ways.
For example, a single cell phone, Wi-Fi device, or smart meter can’t
shake large volumes of electrons free quickly and create free radicals. But
what microwave frequencies can do is activate voltage-gated calcium
channels, which raises intracellular calcium. That makes reactive oxygen
species through a secondary, oxidative process, which is a chemical
exchange of electrons, rather than ionization, which displaces electrons
through bombardment of high energy particles.
In other words, ionization directly damages DNA by dislodging
electrons from atoms, while excessive calcium in the cell causes Eiecnon
loss through oxidative chemical exchange. Two different mechanisms,
similar amount of damage done. The net result being, the industry’s
flawed reasoning fails the real-world test.
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But that’s all rhetoric. Actual EMF safety guidelines are based on thermal
effects. Standard industry tests basically say that if your cell phone signal
can’t heat water significantly with one call, you have nothing to worry
about; it’s completely safe. But real-world exposure is not limited to one
call on one cell phone, or one smart meter, or one Wi-Fi signal. Nor is
the risk of injury limited only to thermal effects.
Rather, we’re now swimming in a sea of always-on electromagnetic
pollution everywhere people live and work. Even worse, people are using
Jonesing: Strong their devices with the frequency of a recovering surgery patient “jonesing”
need, desire, or
craving for for pain medication — delivering tiny hits of stimulation every few minutes
something — to keep their dopamine level up. Therefore, thermal tests are a completely
especially by an inadequate reflection of real-world exposure. They’re essentially
addict.
meaningless... a sleight-of-hand trick, or industry con, if you will.
Back to reality: Dr. Martin Pall’s analyses of published literature reveal
a multitude of effects that have nothing to do with heat, and at orders of
magnitude lower than industry-designed and sponsored safety guidelines:
¢ Lowered fertility (18 reviews)
¢ Neurological/psychiatric effects (25 reviews)
© 3 types of DNA damage (21 reviews)
© Compromised apoptosis (13 reviews)
¢ Oxidative stress/free radical damage (19 reviews)
Endocrine/hormonal effects (12 reviews)
Excessive intracellular calcium (15 reviews)
Cancer (35 reviews).
In a nutshell, the quantity, intensity, variety, and duration of two-way
signals you’re being exposed to would simply blow your mind if you could
see or hear them all. At the same time, the wide range of effects being
ignored or denied by the entire industry is equally hard to wrap your head
around. So, for now, all you need to know is that the degree of damage
caused by these artificial frequencies is determined by how antagonistic an
electromagnetic wave is to your biology, times your total exposure.

Non-ionizing EMFs may do more damage than /onizing radiation

To most scientists, this concept may seem preposterous. But here’s how
Dr. Pall believes it could be true: Moderate doses of ionizing radiation,
like that you’d get from a diagnostic x-ray, give you one level of
amplification that goes like this: High-energy photons knock electrons out
of place. The photons and displaced electrons dislodge more electrons in
a chain reaction, until the energy is used up and the chain reaction stops.
Atomic bombs and nuclear power plants do something similar — only
these reactions apply more energy than an x-ray machine, and their fuel is
far more reactive than human tissue. That’s ionization in essence.
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into the cell per second. VGCCs normally bring calcium (+) into
the cell to draw in more oxygen (-) and help you cope with stress.
2. Calcium makes more nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide radicals.
3. The super-destructive free radical called peroxynitrite (ONOO) is
formed as the product of nitric oxide concentration times superoxide
concentration (NO x superoxide = peroxynitrite). Peroxynitrite is a
highly reactive oxidant that breaks down cell walls and proteins.
So the immediate and direct damage to DNA may be greater when you
get an x-ray (from the burst of moderate-strength ionization). But the
total damage you suffer from microwave transmissions may actually be
worse, due to persistent medium-to-low grade oxidative stress.

World governments already know how toxic non-native EMFs can be

¢ China. Pregnant women are required by law to wear EMF-shielding
belly bands.
¢ Israel. New cell phones must carry this warning: ‘Heavy use of this
device, or carrying it close to your body, can increase the risk of
cancer — especially in children.’
¢ France. Wi-Fi was banned in nursery schools in 2014.
¢ Russia. Premier Vladimir Putin has gone on record saying, ‘We do
not need to go to war with America. America is committing
collective suicide by the way they are using electricity (anEMFs).
We just have to wait until they’re all in the psychiatric hospital.’
¢ World Health Organization. In 2011, the WHO classified
microwave radiation as a Class 2B possible human carcinogen, based
on increased risk of brain cancer due to cell phone use. And that was
at 2011 exposure levels.
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In addition, the following countries have set their radio frequency

exposure safety limits 100 to 10,000 times lower than the United States
(not that these limits are enforced): Italy, Switzerland, France, Austria,
Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Israel, Russia, and China.

Some symptoms of nnEMF exposure

¢ headaches
® ringing in the ears
¢ brain fog
® insomnia
© general fatigue
® irritability/stress
Health outcomes
¢ sleep problems
¢ infertility, sexual dysfunction
@ leaky gut, food sensitivities
© diabetes, obesity
e Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia, and other neurological problems
¢ DNA damage, cancer.
To put nnEMF damage in perspective, we already know that microwave
radiation is currently being used around the world in military weaponry
and “‘active denial” crowd-control systems. And we know that US
government agencies have publicly accused Russia, Cuba, and China of
aiming microwave weapons at US embassies in those countries, with the
intent of causing cancer and serious illness in diplomats and staff. This has
resulted in at least three US ambassadors dying of aggressive and rare
cancers in recent decades.
In other words, we know for certain that microwave frequency
radiation makes a phenomenal weapon, because it’s devastating or deadly.
And you can’t see it, hear it, or feel it. So why would anyone doubt that
it’s harmful to humans, animals, and plant life? It’s willful ignorance, once
you know the facts.
To illustrate how nnEMFs torment our anatomy...

We've become steak in a microwave oven

If you use microwave ovens, you know they’re notorious for dehydrating
food as they heat it. They basically bombard the atoms in food with micro-
wave radiation to get their subatomic particles moving faster. This motion
is nearly synonymous with heat. However, there are unwanted side effects.
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So much energy is added so quickly, using unnatural levels of

microwave radiation, that many water molecules get ejected from their
affiliations. As we’ve discussed, water is where an organism stores much
of the energy and information it gets from its environment. Just as bad, a
small percentage of electrons are lost from constituents of that food,
which alters them minimally in form, but substantially in function. For
instance, many vitamins, enzymes, antioxidants, and fats are fragile. Some
of their chemical bonds self-destruct when oxidized by oxygen or EMFs.
In other words, eating or drinking microwaved foods (even pure
water) is not going to kill anyone right away. But, from a texture and
nutritional standpoint, the food will never be quite the same again after
it’s exposed to concentrated microwaves. You can see this for yourself by
cooking meat in a microwave oven without adding water. It comes out
tasting like shoe leather the longer you cook it.
Well, guess what: Most communication devices we use today transmit
and receive using microwaves that could heat and cook food if you
concentrated them. So, multiply the number of devices around you,
times the intensity of nnEMFs they emit, times how long you use them,
times how often you use them... add all of that up, and we’ve become
the steak in a life-sized microwave oven.
To illustrate how the telecom industry agrees with the microwave
heating phenomenon, yet still fails to create testing standards that
accurately reflect real-life exposure, get this: The industry-standard test to
check cell phone emissions basically involves operating a cell phone a few
inches away from a container full of water shaped like a human head. If it
doesn’t raise the water’s temperature appreciably, the phone’s radiation
emissions are deemed to be safe for use without restriction or warning —
as if one call, on one phone, could heat a balloon full of water... as if heat
were the only risk factor microwaves pose to human health.
Bottom line: Living organisms — living precisely because natural
frequencies control their biology — are much more disturbed by foreign
frequencies than inanimate foodstuffs are. And we have been witnessing
the myriad consequences to human health ever since the FCC began
licensing the electromagnetic spectrum out to telecom companies more
than two decades ago. Wejust didn’t know which changes in our
environment were responsible for causing the explosion of illness we see
today. Hence, we continue to expand our use of the spectrum AND
believe industry propaganda beyond any semblance of reason, science, or
minimal common sense.
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Sources of electromagnetic pollution
1. Cell phones.
2. Smart meters (for electricity and gas). Smart meters relay signals
through each other to communicate “back to base,” resulting in
between 17,000 and 190,000 transmissions per day hitting your
average city dweller.
3. Wi-Fi (wireless computer network devices).
4. “Smart” appliances, aka “Internet of Things” devices.
5. Residential cordless DECT phones (digital enhanced cordless
technology). DECT phones use a frequency found to be most
harmful to the human reproductive system (some say purposely):
2.4 gigahertz. They’re also very close to you, and they’re
broadcasting all the time.
6. Alarm systems.
7. Baby monitors.
8. Police and fire systems
9. Compact fluorescent and LED light bulbs.
10. Air traffic radar.
11. Cars (most new cars now have wireless systems installed).
And don’t forget to multiply each category by how many devices of each
are broadcasting in your vicinity.
How nnEMFs and dehydration conspire to corrupt biology
The more dehydrated you are, the worse your EMF symptoms get,
because when you’re dehydrated: (1) you can’t assimilate as much energy
from the light you get (as exclusion zone water); (2) magnesium doesn’t
work as well in enzymatic reactions; and (3) your skin can’t turn
cholesterol into vitamin D. Simultaneously, nnEMFs alone weaken
mitochondrial function, (4) which is where the best water for the body
comes from: deuterium-depleted “metabolic water.”
In case you’re just learning how to make sickness go away and good
health stay as long as possible, those four things are profoundly tied to
making optimal health happen intentionally: (1) harvesting energy from
light; (2) maximizing mitochondrial function; (3) improving enzyme
function, which aids our biochemistry; and (4) having all the vitamin D
your body needs to run the immune, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems.
Crucially important, but not yet well-understood, water is supposed to
envelope the highly convoluted shapes of proteins in soft tissues and
biochemicals. The shape and structure of proteins, particularly their
surface architecture, controls the vibrations they emit in response to
frequencies around them. So a lack of hydration in and around a protein
can substantially change its function.
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But before proteins can even collect water around them, they need to
unfold. That’s the job of ATP. An important role of ATP involves
loosening and expanding the folds of protein so more water can bind to
them. Once proteins have a hydration shell around them, light can
charge-separate that water — basically turning it into a battery — to power
thousands of cellular processes. In other words, light from the sun, or
IR/heat released from mitochondria, charges up the water around
proteins like a battery, fully activating the protein. Water also stores
electrons and protons made from the ETC. So when you don’t have
water, you lose battery capacity.
To recap: Proteins depend on water to maintain their architecture and
their power supply. So the more nnEMFs you’re exposed to, the more
water gets shaken loose from its environment and is lost from the body
(or at least that compartment). The less water you have, the more
disfigured your proteins become, and the less water is available to form
e-zone, which powers cellular work with DC electricity.
It’s this deficiency of net negative charge coming from mitochondria,
and stored in water, that’s most responsible for causing disease, dysfunction,
and imbalance in the body. Said another way, you don’t heal and regen-
erate as well when you’re dehydrated because you don’t have as much
energy. That’s why dehydration is the #1 reason nnEMFs are bad for you.

What stress does to you

nnEMFs (particularly blue light) cause a stress response
The second-worst chronic effect that nnEMFs impose on the body is the
activation of a system-wide chronic stress response. By over-stimulating
the brain center responsible for running the stress state (called the
“paraventricular nucleus” or PVN), non-native EMFs put your nervous The paraventricul
system into a prolonged sympathetic state (as opposed to rest and digest, nucleus of tl
hypothalami
which is parasympathetic). (PVN), |
Now, being in an ordinary and temporary stress state during waking collaboration wit
hours is perfectly normal and harmless, because being awake and alert the suprachiasmat
nucleus (SCN
uses stress chemicals the body likes to have in moderation — cortisol, controls homeostas
dopamine, and adrenaline, to name three. (normal operation
However, having your stress response elevated all the time is essentially state) by regulati
a broad range
activating the body’s fight-or-flight survival mechanisms non-stop, while autonomic functioi
never allowing the body time to relax, replenish, and recover. That’s akin — includi
to running your endocrine/hormone system near redline constantly... cardiovasculd
thermoregulator
which depletes you of the biochemicals you need to run higher brain metabolic, circadii
functions such as concentration and creativity. and stress response
The way blue light in particular activates the stress response is by telling
the eye and the brain (through the suprachiasmatic nucleus) that it’s noon
all the time. With things to do during the day, the circadian system
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responds by infusing stress chemicals into your system repeatedly through-

out the day, which raises your stress level and heightens your alertness.
Unfortunately, “going to that well” too much wears on your adrenals,
your brain, and your heart like racing a car designed for the street. Which
is what we’re doing to our physiology when we’re glued to our
smartphones, LED TVs, and artificial lights: We poke and prod our
adrenals into releasing whatever cortisol, adrenaline, and dopamine the
endocrine system has available.
You see, stress chemicals are supposed to start out high in the morning
to wake us up, then elevate throughout the day whenever we need to focus.
But we’re basically using blue light all day long like a drug. We’ve
become addicts. And our digital devices are how we’re getting our fix.
Working in tandem with the adrenals, the PVN does something
similar when it’s stressed by nnEMFs: foreign frequencies act as a stressor
on the nervous system and mitochondria. The PVN reads nnEMF
radiation in your environment and reflexively raises intracellular calcium
as a false trigger for your stress response. So, like a chicken or egg
scenario, it doesn’t matter which comes first: the stress on cells and
mitochondria by itself, or simply more calcium in the cell. Either way,
nnEMFs trigger a cascade of stress effects.
And, let’s not forget, the other environmental triggers that activate the
sympathetic nervous system are far more than just ordinary psychological
stress, as we’re accustomed to thinking. Rather, stress takes many forms.

As this excerpt from Gut-Brain Secrets explains:

Mental/emotional stress: Much harder on the body are our modern
forms of acute and prolonged stress that tend to be more mental/
emotional in nature, happen more often, last longer, and lack a physical
outlet for expression. Examples would be repeatedly facing gunfire on the
battlefield, working in a high-pressure sales job, moving to a new town,
finding a new job, going through a breakup, or the death ofa loved one.
Important in understanding the body’s stress response, most situations
from man’s ancient past that required adrenal intervention were
employed by the body to produce both a physical and a mental response.
That is, situations of-old were often both physical and mental challenges.
For that reason, the adrenal system does not differentiate between
physical, mental, or any other type of challenge today. It treats all threats
the same by releasing the same biochemicals — including stressors that fit
into two newer categories: chemical and environmental stresses.
(Modern) Chemical and environmental stressors: Exposure to
stressors such as bisphenol-A, artificial lights, irregular sleep patterns,
temperature extremes, and even high levels of fructose, create a persistent
stress response from the adrenals just like traditional kinds ofstress do.
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Past (and future) stressors: What’s more, traumatic events such as

early childhood traumas, rape, or war-related stress can permanently
hyper-sensitize your stress response, unless/until you successfully process
them psychologically. Obsessively worrying about future events, by itself,
can also chronically raise your baseline stress level.
So whether threats are physical, mental, emotional, chemical, or
environmental... whether they’re in the past, present, or future...
whether they’re real or imagined... your adrenals are constantly being
tasked with the job of keeping you on top of all the challenges your body
and mind face on a daily and minute-by-minute basis. And the adrenals
respond to these extra, sometimes extraordinary, demands on the body
and mind by releasing more of the same stress-management chemicals
that routine mental and physical challenges employ in order to activate
certain mechanisms in the body, while deactivating others.
Key point: All these stressors have a cumulative effect on the
adrenals and body. All these individual stressors “stack” up, one on top
of another, to form your total stress load. The sum total of all stresses in
your life(style) turn into chemical wear and tear on your body. When any
stressor occurs too frequently or too intensely, the persistent presence of
stress chemicals in the system disturbs the body’s biochemical balance,
which can lead to physical damage to cells, organs, and systems from the
increased energy consumption (e.g., ATP and electricity from astrocytes)
and decreased recovery (resonance).
Emergency energy consumption also tends to borrow energy and
alertness from the future, which encourages you to keep borrowing from
future energy reserves in the form of more stimulants to get you through
each day, and each situation... or else suffer through an energy shortage
we call a “crash.”
Simply put, the use of your adrenals to survive emergency situations
like these is increasingly stressful to sustain the longer it continues. And
there’s a variety ofprices to pay for unrelenting stress in its many forms.
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Classic, biochernical stress responses
Calcium efflux. Stress takes calcium from where it’s harmless, or even
needed, and puts it/keeps it where it’s destructive long-term. Depending
on cell type, calcium is used to either transmit nerve signals, contract
muscles, secrete hormones, or express genes. So any stress response,
whatever the source, takes calcium out of storage sites like the bones and
inappropriately transports it to areas of activity through voltage-gated
calcium channels (VGCCs). The process is called “calcium efflux.”
VGCCs are located on the plasma membrane of cells, and are actuated
by exquisitely sensitive voltage sensors that do exactly what you'd expect:
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they’re electrically-activated gatekeepers. Unfortunately for us, nnEMFs

activate the voltage sensors by accident. Calcium then wrongly floods
into the cell, which begins a cascade of effects. VGCCs basically keep the
stress response turned on, including the effects discussed in this section.
Another sticky situation occurs when mitochondria need to make
ATP, but the positive charge at the cell wall isn’t strong enough to pull in
enough negatively-charged oxygen to accept electrons from the ETC.
When that happens, the VGCCs draw in more calcium and other
positively-charged minerals to raise the charge on the cell wall
biochemically, instead of raising positive charge the biophysics way,
which is through electricity from the astrocytes. In other words, calcium
efflux is a biochemical backup strategy to raise the positive charge in cell
walls so more negatively-charged oxygen can be pulled inside.
Later, when stress subsides through the parasympathetic response, the
VGCCs use ATP, and adequate (negative) voltage, to reverse the process
and expel the calcium out of the cell, where it’s not detrimental.
Unfortunately, when your cells retain calcium for any reason: classic
stress, stress from nnEMFs, insufficient ATP, and/or low voltage — then
extra calcium in the cells makes more nitric oxide, superoxide, and
peroxynitrite free radicals — as described by Dr. Martin Pall (pg. 252).
That’s the second major mechanism whereby nnEMFs do their
damage (after dehydration): Calcium in cells makes more free radicals
(particularly peroxynitrite) that increase oxidative stress and chronic
inflammation. And it happens from extremely low frequencies, like 60
Hz electricity activating the VGCCs, to beyond the microwave range.
One way we know for sure that excessive calcium in the cell is
responsible for the majority of electrosmog effects is by examining what
happens when a person takes a calcium channel-blocker drug. A number
of papers have shown that when you block activation of the voltage-
gated calcium channels, viold, you block the adverse health effects too. In
other words, when you prevent calcium from getting into cells, you
make fewer free radicals and stop the most damaging effects of nnEMFs.
Dr. Pall also believes electromagnetic fields harm plants through similar
mechanisms of calcium-channel activation, the same as animals. That’s
because plants need calcium to germinate. So Pall believes that nnEMFs
disturb plant biology by engaging the voltage sensors by accident and
depleting calcium that’s needed for germination. This would explain at least
one reason plants are struggling to grow in places teeming with nnEMFs.
Just look at the plants around you for signs of distress; they're everywhere.
Moreover, when plants are stressed, not only is their growth impaired,
but some of them dramatically increase their production of organic
compounds which they use to defend themselves from insects and
herbivores, called terpenes and terpenoids. The huge problem for air-
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breathing life forms is terpenes are highly flammable hydrocarbons that

were used to make turpentine years ago. So terpenes, nnEMF stress, and
the combustibility of geoengineering particles (e.g., aluminum, barium,
cadmium, and strontium) combine to produce record-breaking forest
fires that can send smoke halfway around the world.
Yes, I’m saying global-scale forest fires are being caused primarily by
nnEMPs, geoengineering and glyphosate, which are stressing trees to their
limit. And it’s being done on purpose, or at least with full awareness. I'll go
even further and say each time you buy a 5G or IoT device, you
empower the telecom companies to destroy our ecosystem by
legally obligating them to build dense wireless networks.
Heavy metals. Stress and low ATP also contribute to heavy-metal
buildup in cells. Cells aren’t smart enough to distinguish between
calcium, which is positively-charged and heavy metals, which are also
positively-charged. So when cells pull in calcium (positive) to attract
more oxygen (negative), heavy metals get pulled in by mistake. That
becomes a problem when a chronic state of stress keeps calcium and
heavy metals in the cell on purpose, or when your ATP production isn’t
high enough to make the heavy metals leave.
Digestion. High cortisol shuts down stomach acid production, because
digesting food is less important than running or fighting for your life.
Glucose and insulin resistance. Stress and cortisol also flood the body
with glucose. But, perhaps counter-intuitively, cortisol inhibits insulin
production in order to prevent glucose from being stored away in skeletal
muscles. Instead, the body needs glucose to be circulating in the
bloodstream — ready to go for anything (like the heart and brain).
Immune system. Cortisol shuts down the immune system, because
fighting infection is a longer-term priority than fighting an adversary
that’s right in front of you.
Blood flow. The stress response also directs blood flow away from
visceral organs such as the stomach and intestines, toward peripheral
muscles so you can fight or flee.
Sleep and repair. Cortisol and adrenaline inhibit sleep and healing.
Sleep is the time when you repair and replace damaged cells and
mitochondria. So you short-change restoration when you stay in a
sympathetic state.
To sum up biochemical stress responses, a chronic state of stress
keeps a plethora of bodily functions and systems turned on and off,
inappropriately. And that leads to continual over-activation of brain cells,
nerve cells, and muscle cells. It causes your cells to store heavy metals.
And it impairs digestion, metabolism, and the immune system. Stress is
draining on the body long-term. It is corrosive to cells. That’s how
nnEMFs do their damage at a biochemical level.
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Biophysical stress responses

Biophoton loss. Under normal operating conditions, your cells release
individual photons of light from very low in the UV range. They are
releasing this light all the time. But the more stress your cells are under,
the faster these “biophotons” escape the cell — even though you can’t see
them without a special UV detector.
This leakage of light, as you may think of it, is lost energy — like having
a leaking gas tank. It is energy inefficiency. And the loss of light contributes
significantly to dysfunction and decrepitude manifesting in the body. It is
another way that nnEMFs and blue light discharge your mammalian battery.
Same thing happens in mitochondria. High heteroplasmy rate from any
stressor lets more biophotons escape the ETC simply because the
respiratory proteins are more stretched out and “porous.” However,
biophoton loss is not normally seen or studied, so mainstream medicine
ignores its role in biology.
Electron deficiency. nnEMFs such as artificial blue light also cause
you to lose electrons. When blue light and microwaves stretch out your
respiratory proteins, they make the mitochondria’s electron transport
chain less efficient. That translates into poor conversion of energy from
one form into another — such as metabolism turning food into electrons
and protons; red light making the ATPase spin faster; or the mitochondria
making metabolic water to store more electrons and solar energy.
Of paramount importance, inefficient power production means fewer
electrons are available as a resource for healing, regeneration, and basic
cell function. nnEMFs basically gum up systems and processes all over the
body for capturing, converting, storing, and using energy. They interfere
with the regulation of energy on every level from the biochemical, to the
biophysical, and psychological. And that hastens the development of
dysfunction, illness, and aging.

Brian Hoyer of ShieldedHealing.com explains how nnEMFs ruin

sleep quality and deplete us of magnesium.
“In a typical scenario, a person... in their bedroom, their millivoltage
could be anywhere from 500 millivolts at the lowest... up to 10,000-
15,000 millivolts on their body... all night long, while you’re sleeping
you've got this contraction of your muscles happening.
You just think about the way that electricity impacts the body. How
do we restart a heart? We pump voltage into it. It makes your heart
muscle contract... Calcium causes the muscle to contract. Magnesium
helps it to relax. ... There are some studies that actually show this too...
one of the reasons we’re so magnesium deficient in our modern culture is
because we’ve got this constant exposure to this alternating current that’s
got these micro-contractions happening all night long, all day long in
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some instances, with our muscles. And it’s depleting us of our

magnesium, which is trying to relax our muscles.
So we’ve got this constant tension that’s going on all the time. And if
you have that at night when you're sleeping, your body can never really
get into that full parasympathetic state so that you can actually do the
healing and restoration that you need, because your body is so tensed up.
Your cortisol’s going up. Your melatonin’s going down. And you're not
getting that restorative detoxification of the brain, and all the lymphatics
detoxing optimally.
You'll get a little bit... and a lot of people will be like, “Oh, I sleep
great’. Sleeping great is not a sign necessarily that your body is actually
restoring itself... People that have sleep apnea say they sleep great... but
they have this oxygen issue, and airway issue.”
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In short, nnEMF exposure creates tension in muscles and other tissues,
disturbing sleep quality, raising calcium in cells, and depleting our
magnesium stores.

A simple test reveals if your adrenals are over-stressed

Try this: In a dark room, just shine a penlight in your eye. If your pupil
can’t hold the constriction, or it starts to pulsate, that’s a sign of adrenal
stress. This Pupillary Reflex Test, as it’s called, is a simple, in-home test to
tell if your adrenals are exhausted.
More than any other factor, this condition is being caused by blue light
and nnEMF toxicity (on top of stimulants such as coffee and energy drinks,
lack of restorative sleep, and chronic daily stress). The solution? Cut out
the blue light at night, shield your sleeping and working spaces from
nnEMPs, and enjoy full spectrum sun on your eyes and skin.
The frequency of EMF determines the type of free radicals made
Each type of electromagnetism has its own range of frequencies, called its
“spectrum,” that energizes the way we live. For example, near the lower
end of the electromagnetic spectrum, electricity operates at 50 or 60
hertz (differs by country). Above that, FM radio operates at 88-108
megahertz. Above the visible spectrum, x-rays are 30 peta-hertz to 30
exahertz. And, within the microwave spectrum, the range of frequencies
the FCC has carved out for 5G is 3 gigahertz, all the way up to 90+
gigahertz — by far the broadest spectrum of any man-made EME.
Range of frequencies is very important because the exact frequency at
which an electromagnetic wave oscillates determines the type of free
radicals the electron transport chain makes. And the type of free radicals
the ETC makes controls: (1) how much the respiratory proteins expand
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or contract (their productivity); (2) mitochondrial density and recycling;

and (3) turning on/off of your own genes.
It’s this specific heteroplasmy rate, and resulting DNA activation/
deactivation, that controls which organs and tissues are affected by
nnEMFs, what symptoms you get, and thus what type of EMF sensitivity
you develop. To put it more plainly, each specific wavelength of
microwave radiation causes a different kind of mitochondrial poison to be
made and, with it, a different illness.
You can think of these electromagnetic hypersensitivities as allergies to
certain frequencies. However, when 5G is fully rolled out, it won’t be
the same from one place to the next, or from one person to the next,
because the lay of the land will vary, 5G frequencies will vary, as will free
radicals made, and which area of a person’s body is hardest hit by weak
mitochondria. In other words, cause-and-effect will be hard to pin down
with any consistency.
Heat shock proteins and DNA damage
A leading researcher in the field of nnEMFs, Dr. Martin Blank, found
that even low levels of nnEMFs increase production of a group of
proteins that cells release when they get too hot — called, not surprisingly,
“heat shock proteins.”’ Cells make heat shock proteins when they’re
exposed to high temperature, acidity, heavy metals, or any potentially
harmful stimuli — including nnEMFs.
They’re a big part of what happens when nnEMFs activate the stress
response. In fact, Dr. Blank and colleagues even published a paper
proposing that heat shock protein levels be used as a marker in EMF
safety tests, because they are a clear indication that cells are under stress.
Dr. Blank also found that DNA acts as an antenna for nnEMFs. Of
course, we all know DNA is shaped like a twisted ladder, called a double
helix. But hardly anyone knows that spiral shape actually twists upon itself
to form a coil. And then that coil coils again, which is called a
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In doing so, DNA acts like a fractal antenna, capturing signals at three
different frequency ranges. Meaning, its architecture replicates itself on
three different scales, which makes it a good antenna for the top, middle,
and bottom portions of the EMF spectrum.
The bad news is: some strands of DNA break apart when high-powered
frequencies hit them. When they go unrepaired and then replicated, these
breaks become mutations that can get passed on to progeny.
So to sum up four sure signs of nnNEMF exposure: We know that low-
frequency nnEMFs are stressing our cells when heat shock proteins start
showing up; calcium efflux, free radicals and the release of biophotons
happen across the full range and intensity of nnEMFs; and higher power
levels such as UV-C and x-rays can damage the physical structure of
DNA directly, causing DNA mutations.
So clearly, nnEMFs are far more than just thermal effects and ionizing
damage above the UV-A range.

How EMF sensitivities might manifest themselves

A sG cell tower from one company might be extremely efficacious at
giving people cancer or autoimmunity, while another operating at a
different frequency might cause Alzheimer’s and neuro-degeneration,
while yet another, in a different city, gives children close to it leaky gut,
food sensitivities, obesity, or autism. So one frequency may affect the
brain; one with a slightly different waveform is more likely to cause pro-
blems with metabolism; and still other frequencies can mutate your DNA.
That’s going to cause a lot of confusion and finger-pointing because
scientists, government agencies, and watchdog groups won’t be able to
pinpoint symptoms back to their real source. Remember: The current
paradigm of randomized, placebo-controlled studies only tests one
variable at a time in their safety and efficacy trials. That’s the way they
think, and how they operate. They don’t examine multiple inputs and
variable outputs... the way light and biophysics work in real life.
Women are more vulnerable to EMFs than men, children even
more so, and babies in the womb most of all
Women are more sensitive to nnEMFs than men, because the myelin
sheath covering their nerves is thinner, as is the female skull. Thinner
insulation means less attenuation/dissipation of harmful frequencies hitting
nerves and tissue. Thinner shielding means nnEMFs do more damage.
This applies even more so to children. Not only are their skulls thinner
still, but their neurons are growing rapidly. Those neurons are less
myelinated, and children are still developing cognitively. That
significantly increases the net dose of EMFs children receive, as well as
the damage done, compared to adults. One more reason to keep your
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kids away from EMF-emitting devices as if they were a health vampire...

because that’s what they are.
But, worst of all, nnEMFs are many times more damaging to babies in
the womb than they are to adults, because the womb focuses nnEMFs
inward like a magnifying glass, and babies’ heads are much softer than an
adult’s. In fact, nnEMEF levels are shown to be 20 times higher inside the
womb than outside. So it’s no surprise that the most reliable predictor of
autism is nnEMF exposure in the womb — particularly the location where
the mother slept when she was pregnant.
Nature made women more sensitive to nnEMFs for a reason. Women’s
mitochondria need to be more acutely aware of environmental conditions
that could give them a survival advantage — such as temperature, season,
how they metabolize food, and even the emotions of others. The better
adapted they are to their environment, the more likely they and their
whole family unit are to survive and thrive, then pass their genes on to
future generations.
That’s why women are more sensitive to vibrations of all kinds, both
good and bad. And it’s why women are more susceptible to dirty
electricity, mismatched foods and weight gain, and especially alien
electromagnetic fields and resulting EHS.

Why honey bees are disappearing

Prof. Neelima Kumar, PhD at Panjab University in India, explained a
major (if not the #1) reason honey bee colonies are collapsing around the
world. Her research shows that metabolism in bees crashes (and doesn’t
burn) when the bees are exposed to cell phone signals for ten minutes.
Carbohydrate concentration in their blood, called “hemolymph,” went
from 1.29 milligrams per milliliter to 1.5 after 10 minutes, and 1.73 after
20 minutes. Glucose rose from 0.218 to 0.277. Lipids rose from 2.06 to
4.50. Proteins rose from 0.475 to 0.825 mg/ml. And cholesterol
skyrocketed from 0.230 to 2.565 mg/ml over that same time frame.
That means after just ten minutes of microwave exposure, a bee’s
mitochondria lose most of their ability to turn sugars, proteins, and fats into
life-sustaining ATP. Their mitochondria are clearly affected by microwave
radiation just as ours are, so their metabolism ceases to function.
However, because a bee’s metabolism runs so much faster than ours, you
can measure their energy reserves in minutes, whereas we can survive
many years on a faulty supply.

Many people can hear wireless nnEMFs with the naked ear
I know I can. And if you know what these frequencies sound like, you
can probably hear them too. They sound like an extremely high-pitched
ringing in the ears — like tinnitus. However, they're most noticeable at
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night, when all’s quiet throughout the house, and a smart meter or cell
phone suddenly starts transmitting.
It’s as if a wall of ultrasonic sound suddenly sweeps through your body,
and you go hard-of-hearing, or your ears start ringing like you’d been at
a heavy metal concert the night before. Pay attention and it’s obvious.
You just never knew what it was before.

More nnEMF concerns

1. nnEMFs open the blood-brain barrier and gut barrier. Research
shows another startling side-effect of nnEMFs: They break down
the barriers of the body, including the blood-brain barrier, the gut
barrier, and the placental barrier. Perforating the blood-brain
barrier is particularly bad news for those with autism, ADD, and
children in general when you want to keep heavy metals such as
mercury, and toxins such as aldehydes, out of the brain.
2. Microbes excrete biotoxins when they feel threatened. For
example, molds excrete 600 times more toxins when they’re
exposed to nnEMFs. They react as if they’re being attacked by
malicious forces and respond by trying to defend themselves with
the only weaponry they have: toxins.
3. nnEMFs turn probiotic microorganisms into aggressive
pathogens. Just like molds, when symbiotic microbes feel they’re
under attack from nnEMFs, they too turn up their production of
biotoxins, thereby turning friendly microbes into harmful pathogens.
4. Nighttime exposure is much worse than daytime. You’re most
vulnerable to the damaging effects of nnEMFs at night, when your
parasympathetic nervous system is supposed to be renewing cells and
replenishing biochemicals.

Everybody is affected by nnEMFs

It’s comforting to assume nnEMFs can’t hurt you if you appear not to be
electro-hypersensitive. It’s tempting to think that, if you don’t exhibit
any symptoms from nnEMF exposure, you're not being adversely
affected. You would be incorrect. Everyone is affected by nnEMEF
exposure, but you may not know which exposures cause which effects.
More accurately, it’s hard to tell when your healing capacity is being
drained, before you come down with a diagnosable disease.
Perfect example: nnEMPs provably increase chronic inflammation as
demonstrated by lab tests... even when you don’t feel a thing. For
instance, after people have a smart meter installed on their home or
apartment complex, inflammatory markers such as TGF-Beta tr, MMP-o,
and serum copper levels go way up on people’s blood work. Hormones
and neurotransmitters are also thrown out of whack.
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Changes like this lead to imbalance, then dysfunction, then disease.

That’s how disease develops. First your physiology is stressed and it
employs corrective measures from its bag of tricks (which are extensive).
If the exposure continues, your body’s healing capacity is whittled down,
until it runs out. Then you exhibit preliminary symptoms. And then,
when your body runs out of regenerative capacity, your organ or system
fails entirely.
However, you might not notice anything except mild discomfort or
“good days and bad days” along the way, before complete shutdown
occurs. Hence, scenarios similar to the following have become
disturbingly common: One day my eight-year-old was perfectly fine, and the
next day he came down with kidney failure or leukemia.
Point being, nnEMFs disturb systems at their source, which is far
upstream, instead of at end-stage failure. So disease processes usually
develop imperceptibly through poor hydration, mitochondrial
dysfunction, circadian disruption, impaired vitamin A and D cycling, and
reduced redox potential. That means everyone’s physiology suffers
adverse effects from nnEMF exposure, not just those that seem to be
hypersensitive. However, mitochondriacs are the only ones paying close
attention to the symptoms of crummy light, water and magnetism for
what they really are, and addressing deficiencies and dysfunctions before
they turn into serious conditions.
To break it down further for you, the early warning signs telling you
disease is on the way are less obvious, and more easily dismissed, because
many of the clues are different from what mainstream medicine trains you
to notice. The symptoms you see and feel are biophysical, rather than
biochemical, so most people don’t know what they’re experiencing but
not understanding. Stay involved. We’ll change that.

Heavy metals scatter nnEMF transmissions

Heavy metals such as mercury and aluminum increase the injury that
nnEMEFs do because they break up the uniformity of electromagnetic
signals and make them bounce around inside the body chaotically, instead
of passing through relatively quickly and quietly.
So instead of a unidirectional wave traveling one trajectory through
you, the wave becomes omnidirectional — ricocheting off in random
directions after the wave hits metal. Shaking cells and mitochondria in all
directions disturbs them even more than a back-and-forth motion. It does
not make them happy. And that compounds the stress and injury to cells.
If you’ve ever put metal in a microwave oven, you've seen what
microwave radiation does when it strikes metal. You get sparks, violent
popping sounds, heat buildup, and possibly a fire.
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Now, on a microscopic scale, you don’t get the same fireworks. But
what you do get is microwaves and metal not getting along, in addition
to (t) a buildup and sudden release of static electricity; (2) foreign
frequencies made more destructive by multiplying their angle of attack;
and (3) delicate biology in the middle of the mélée... all reasons why
heavy metals in the body amplify the damage done by nnEMFs.
This is one more reason why vaccines are bad for you: aluminum-
based adjuvants deflect biophotons, thus interfering with the body’s own
internal communications and causing more nnEMF damage.

Metals can also act as antennas (transmitting EMFs to you)

Some common sources may shock you:
¢ Tattoos. Colored inks used in tattoos contain metals that don’t play
well with nnEMPs. Red ink, for example, is made with a lot of iron
that interferes with the skin’s ability to assimilate sunlight. In fact,
tattoo inks diminish vitamin D production, redox potential, and
leptin reception. When that happens, mitochondria cannot maintain
or repair cells as well. As a result, doctors examining x-rays often see
metal artifacts in the tissues directly underneath tattoos — artifacts
such as organ dysfunction and degenerated discs in the spine.
Mercury amalgam fillings and dental fixtures.
Orthopedic hardware.
Metal-frame glasses.
Underwire bras.
Metal belt buckles and metal jewelry.
Heavy metals. Toxic metals in the body respond to microwave and
radio-frequency radiation. They receive them and react to them. In
doing so, they interfere with the body’s own regenerative frequencies.

The rea/reason the world seems to have completely lost its mind
(e.g. 5G/loT, prescription drug addiction, glyphosate, mandatory vaccination, desecration of
the planet, water and electricity rationing, wild fires, homelessness, school shootings, mental
illness, wokeism and cancel culture)
If wireless EMFs are so bad for people, why don’t our elected officials
and corporate heads do something about it? They wouldn’t knowingly
hurt millions of people, would they? They’d purposely be destroying
themselves, their children, and the planet by taking part in the plan. It
would be suicidal. It would be like committing mass murder on a
planetary scale... one abuse at a time. How could they?
You know what I say to people who suffer from such profound
ignorance? ‘Don’t project your values onto other people — especially
those you might call the ruling elite — because you’d be as wrong as a
brainwashed person can be.’
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You see, these people were raised with a completely different moral
code then you and me. They were taught a sense of entitlement from the
time they were in grade school. So they grew up thinking they’re better
than everyone else. And now they believe they have a divine right to rule
the planet, and do with it whatever they please — including destroy it, and
exterminate all life on it, to serve their wicked agenda. Therefore, controlling
and manipulating people doesn’t pose a moral dilemma for them. It’s just
their way of life. The higher up the pyramid you go, the more true this is.
The multi-generational ruling elite have grown up with all the wealth
and privilege the world has to offer. And that takes a lot of the fun out of
spending money on “ordinary people pleasures” like fast cars, nice
clothes, exotic vacations, and the best of everything. So what happens?
Having mastered money, they turn to controlling and manipulating
people, systems, and populations to get their adrenaline rush. Getting
away with unspeakable evil and corruption on a grand scale is now their
idea of fun, when just being rich doesn’t do it for you anymore.
That means those near the top of the hierarchy, but not quite at the
top, are given an agenda to fulfill. There’s a master plan created behind
closed doors. And they each do their part in the plan, or else their
income and privilege gets taken away, and they go to work in food
service or retail for worker’s wages. That brings them in line pretty fast.
In the wireless era, that means everyone from heads of industry to
“elected” officials to the end consumer is doing their part to move the
wireless agenda forward. A few people know what their part in the plan
is. Most don’t. Another way to put it is consumers are played emotionally
like a piano, while the elites of the world are compelled to participate
using money, power, and privilege. It’s very simple.
Bottom line: 5G systems, artificial intelligence (AI), and the surveillance
state are nothing less than tools of tyranny sold to us for their convenience
and rewards. Along with injections and monitoring apps, these are the
technologies that globalists are weaving into society to exercise power and
control over We The People. In this socialist/communist/totalitarian
state (aka ““The Great Reset”) the working class won’t have real
freedom and self-determination. What little you may have left is only
an illusion. Can it be stopped? We’ll find out in the next few years.

5 Generation wireless (5G)

This section is especially significant for your health, your freedom,
and all living things within the reaches of 5G. It’s a warning of
profound implications that you won’t get from your doctor, the
media, or federal regulators. Pay close attention so you'll be able to
recognize symptoms occurring in the people around you. Ignore it,
or underestimate it, at your peril.
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As I write this in 2019-2022, $G is set to become the most destructive

force man has ever unleashed onto terrestrial biology. As it’s rolled out in
cities across America (and the world) over the next 24-36 months, you're
going to see unprecedented numbers of people suddenly coming down
with serious unexplained illnesses, without any prior history or traditional
risk factors.
Conditions such as cognitive decline, autoimmune disorders, metabolic
syndrome, cancer, suicide, psychosis, heart attack, stroke, and allergies
will become frighteningly common. And they'll be hitting previously
well people without warning.

Dr. Jack even has the cojones to say 5G may actually be a good
thing. He’s optimistic about 5G
Why in the world would anyone say that? Because it’s the technology
that will finally get skeptics and slow learners to realize that the explosion
of chronic, degenerative disease is caused first and foremost by non-native
frequencies — not just bad food, pesticides, heavy metals, bad bacteria, bad
genes, or lack of exercise. It is the tipping point — the metaphorical slap in
the face — that will finally wake people up to the devastating effects that
non-natural frequencies have on humanity... not to mention what it does
to plants, animals, and microorganisms.
But why now? Why 5G and not previous generations of technology?
The main reason for the devastation coming our way is the nature of the
5G signal. Unlike previous generations 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, etc., 5G runs ona
lower transmission power, higher density of signal — effectively creating a
blanket of millimeter waves that envelope your physiology every minute
of every day.
Even worse, the waveform of the 5G signal is “micro-shaped,” meaning
that smaller waveforms are embedded onto the larger primary sine wave
so it can carry at least one more level of data. Structuring the waveform
to carry more data is very similar to the way dirty electricity rides on 60
Hz power — only this time it’s deliberate. This basically adds another level
of damage potential to 5G exposure — possibly multiplying the harm it
does. No one really knows for sure. But we can say dirty electricity is far
more destructive to human health than a clean 60 Hz sine wave.
Of course, the 5G signal itself is not immediately life-threatening the
way nuclear radiation is. Instead, the damage is proportional to: (1) the
number of transceiver nodes you’re exposed to; (2) the proximity of the
signal; (3) the multitude of directions from which they hit you; (4) the
range of frequencies involved; (5) the damage potential of micro-
structuring the waveform; and (6) the amount of time you’re exposed.
Most concerning of all, in order to give users “blazing-fast” download
speeds, 5G has to surround you with transmitter/receivers every 500 feet
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or so. That’s literally like cooking your brain, body, and microbiome in a
low-power, always-on microwave oven you can’t feel, and some would
even mock, because you trust those whose job it is to protect you.

Attack vectors of 5G
Wireless technologies prior to 5G were designed to connect you to one
antenna tower at a time. But now, when you communicate over a 5G
network, the data packets are broken up and routed through multiple cell
towers, if possible. That’s one of the reasons 5G can achieve such mind-
boggling connection speeds: it’s “gang-relayed” through multiple cell towers.
More signal sources means that one call or data connection is now far
more disturbing to the surfaces of your cells and mitochondria. So instead
of %—52 billion oscillations per second from a single source, 5G subjects
your internal biophysics to hundreds of billions of oscillations per second.
It’s like you are being attacked on all sides with corruptive frequencies,
instead of from just one tower. The industry has not studied what multi-
tower communications will do to a person’s biology. But you can be sure
it will cause more injury than any single-tower technology thus far.
But if there were any way the potential for injury could be worse, this
is it: 4G transmitters can now be put in §G cell nodes (every 500 feet).
Unfortunately for life on earth, the 4G signal travels farther than 5G, and
penetrates much deeper into materials such as human flesh. That means
we'll soon be getting the worst of both worlds: the virulence of the 4G
signal, combined with the proximity of 5G.
For many unfortunate families, that will put a high-powered
microwave transceiver within 25-100 feet of their sleeping space. And it
will be camouflaged so people will feel the adverse effects, but won’t
know what’s causing it. How do you like your steak cooked? Because no
matter whether the signal is designed to be a weapon, orjust a way to
stream movies, microwaves maim regardless of purpose.

Crazier still, 5G was designed specifically to carry the signals of

Internet of Things (loT) devices
So now, it’s not just outdoor cell phone signals you need to worry about.
When 5G really gets going, its signal will bombard your body with two-
way microwaves from cell phones, laptops, tablets, TVs, refrigerators,
washing machines, dish washers, microwave ovens, toasters, light bulbs,
doorbells, baby monitors, surveillance cameras, speakers and everything
else corporate interests and government can conceivably put on a network.
And that’s just one network among more than half'a dozen equally
corruptive waveforms that aren’t doing your health and mental state any
favors. Are you starting to see how living in a microwave oven is beyond
a bad idea? But even more disturbing...
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5G is designed for surveillance and centralized control

5G is not about connection speed, safety or security, because if those
were its main purposes optical fiber is much faster, safer in terms of health
effects, and more secure against hackers. Nor is 5G about making your
life easier, being better connected, or other bogus justifications like that.
Rather, 5G was conceived and built from the ground up to spy on
people, and ultimately control every aspect of your life and mine. Skeptics
don’t want to believe it, but that’s exactly why puppet masters behind the
telecom companies are pushing 5G as hard as they possibly can.
It’s military technology for the purposes of knowing everything about
you — including what you’re buying, who you're talking to, what you're
saying, where you’re travelling, what you’re using your energy on and
when... and, with AI technology, what you're likely to think and do
next. It’s wall-to-wall surveillance and control, with some benefits
thrown in to get the mindless masses to accept their own enslavement by
agreement, indeed pay for their own servitude.
But you’ve done nothing wrong. You’ve got nothing to hide,
right? That’s fine and dandy if surveillance is, and will only ever be, used
to catch terrorists. But how would you like your bank accounts to be
docked for using electricity or water in unapproved ways? You can’t
undo the charges, or even question them, because penalties are automatic
and irreversible. How would you like to be hit with civil disobedience
penalties, possibly thrown in jail if you object to fluoridation, mandatory
vaccinations, GMOs, taxes, government policies, critical race theory, or
even the forced drugging of your children with stimulants such as Ritalin
to attend public schools?
How would you like to have your children taken away from you
because you were teaching them traditional values, or the religion of your
choice? How would you like to have your bank accounts turned off, or
your retirement accounts deleted, when you speak out against
injustice’... Because 5G and IoT make all ofthat very easy.
Don’t care about privacy? Okay, why don’t you post all your pass-
words on your Facebook page? Why don’t you record all your conver-
sations and post them online so anyone can listen to them whenever they
want to? And while you’re at it, why don’t you tell the world when you
leave the house, when you go on vacation, and where your children are
at all times — on your Twitter feed?... Because 5G is very hackable.
I'll say it again: Don’t project your values onto other people and other
groups. Just because you wouldn’t use powerful surveillance tools like sG
for nefarious purposes doesn’t mean others won’t. That’s like saying fairness
and the rule of law always prevail over greed for money and power.
Here’s the proof: China is already using a social scoring system, and
Australia is rolling one out. For several years now, the Chinese
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government has been implementing state-sponsored surveillance and

enforcement with their social credit scoring system. In this system,
jaywalk and you could be fined electronically. Write articles that criticize
the Chinese Communist Party and you could be docked social credit
points. Protest, or break the law in any way, and you could be denied a
bank loan, a job, a travel permit, a credit card, social services, or even
health care if your social score drops too low.
Oh, but that’s a communist country. It couldn’t possibly happen here,
in a democracy, right? That’s naive, frankly. All of that is happening as
fast as we allow it to happen — that is, as fast as they can get away with.
Some people just can’t see it.
Bottom line: 5G is not inherently good or evil. It’s just a tool. The
intentions and moral compass of the people wielding that tool are what
you need to worry about. So ask yourself this: Do your would-be rule-
makers respect boundaries, or do they continually cross them, move the
line, and then lie about it? Are they fair and honest people, or are they
money-motivated, corrupt(able), and self-interested?
Finally, do you trust them with unlimited access to your personal infor-
mation, your finances, your life, and your family’s health? ...Because with
every minute detail about you monitored and recorded for easy access,
you won’t have any privacy, and you must fit in at all times, or suffer the
consequences. Or, an even simpler way to say that: data is the new oil —
specifically, your personal information. And it’s being monetized now.
5G is the demarcation line between an oil-based economy, into one
where you, and the information they mine about you, is the world’s most
valuable asset. Which means the telcos, on a purely financial level, are
going to squeeze every last drop ofprofit they can out of selling your
personal information to marketers and agencies that want to know what
you're doing at all times.
That’s what 5G is really about. Invite it into your life through
purchases or acquiescence, and that’s what you're signing up for. But
don’t expect living in that world to be fair, to make sense like you think
it should, and that it will never be used against you. That’s fantasy.
Indeed, one truth-teller called it brilliantly when he said his definition of
smart is “Surveillance Marketed As Revolutionary Technology.”
Update from early 2022: When I wrote this section back in 2019, it
was just analytical prediction. It was yesterday’s “conspiracy theory.” But
it’s obviously coming true faster than anyone would have believed. So to
those that still believe what public health officials and the Fake News tell
them: We’re in a war for control over the planet and everyone on it.
You better wake up fast before your health or your life are taken from
you, and We The People become enslaved forever.
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Watch out for freakish effects of 5G

Jump conduction. The power density of sG is so much greater than
previous cell phone signals that it can actually accumulate on conductive
materials and jump to other conductors. This can release shocking levels
of static electricity, bordering on electrocution.
For example, 5G frequencies can accumulate on street lights and jump
to hand rails and manhole covers. Even worse, a home’s electrical wiring
can accumulate 5G frequencies and jump onto water pipes, gas lines,
metal studs, and electrical wiring, thus creating a seriously nasty field of
dirty electricity right in your living room or bedroom.
Unexplained fires. It’s been known for decades that coronal mass
ejections from the sun threaten our power grid. Fortunately, in modern
times, CMEs haven’t caused any major outages in the US. However, 5G Coronal
ejections (C
dramatically reduces the amount of solar energy needed to disturb the
release large am
power grid so that minor solar activity could now cause massive damage. of plasma, ma
This is exactly the phenomenon that’s believed by some flux, and I
from the sun.
mitochondriacs to have caused the Santa Rosa fires of 2017. Just days after CMEs cat
the 5G network was activated in the area, huge changes to the electrical down power
power grid were reported by PG&E. Shortly after that, fire ravaged cause fire:
electrocute |
Northern California’s wine country, with Santa Rosa getting the worst of touching condt
it. But this was no ordinary fire.
Some buildings were completely leveled as if an atomic bomb had
gone off— even the metal in buildings. Aluminum engine blocks and
metal appliances melted, while nearby trees were singed but would easily
recover. Pictures revealed a nightmarish scene like something out of a
zombie apocalypse movie.
The reason? The $G signal, combined with solar activity, jumped onto
power lines and was captured in devices and electrical conductors,
essentially fueling the fire. On the other hand, trees and plants, being
well-grounded, were able to dissipate excess EMFs back to ground and
were spared terminal damage.
Freakish effects of 5G to look for
Water main breaks.
Changes in earthquake activity.
Underground fires.
Fires at gas stations, triggered by sG phones. If you have one, put it
on airplane mode when stopping at a gas station, because the energy
these phones emit may now be strong enough to ignite flammables.

5G will come from satellites above

It’s already begun: At the start of 2019, telecom companies announced
plans to launch tens of thousands of satellites to carry 5G. By 2021,
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hundreds had already gone up. This will create a sort of slow-burn death
ray, which will result in major health problems that doctors and
government agencies cannot explain.
Retrofitting your home with metal roofing, or building from the
ground-up with EMF-blocking materials, may be the only way to protect
yourself against this type of alien energy assault.

If you live in a big city, you already have 5G

Many people are tempted to think §G is still years away from activation
in their area because it isn’t activated yet. But that isn’t entirely accurate.
Telcos have to install the sG equipment, and calibrate it to the local
geography well before they start selling it to consumers. That means if
you live in a city of any significant size, you’re already living in a 5G world.
If you live near a major airport or military base, you already have 5G.
If you’re a first responder, you already live in a §G world. The spectrum
of frequencies, and bandwidth of the network, isn’t fully loaded yet. But
you're already swimming in the §G signal. And you can be sure: It’s
already beginning to affect you and your family with the issues we’re
exposing here.

Telecom companies know the damage their products do

Telecom companies are fully aware of the science proving that blue light
and non-native EMFs disturb bodily function, chronically, in many ways.
But they’ve done a phenomenal job of hiding the data, and confusing
people about what the science really says.
All they’ve had to do is ignore the literature that’s already been
published, deny its validity whenever it’s brought up, and confuse the
issue as long as possible by funding questionable science that appear to
support their safety claims (such as designing cell phone studies to last
four years when they know cancer starts showing up at the five-year mark).
Unfortunately for us all, no single company or government agency is
going to willingly stop the rollout from taking place, no matter how
harmful it is, because admitting the truth would cause sales and company
stocks to crater. It would reveal the web of lies and deceit they’ve been
spinning for decades. And it would crash economies around the world
that depend on selling the latest gizmos we could do without.
Furthermore, there are frequencies that do not harm us, or can even be
used to heal. But the wireless industry has deliberately chosen frequencies
that harm the human body. Sterilization is a prime example: A study
done in orphanages, and later used in psychiatric hospitals, found the best
frequency to cause infertility is 2.4 gigahertz.
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to let
And wouldn’t you know: That’s the frequency the FCC chose
ht — a kind of “free-f or-
companies use without license or active oversig
s,
all” frequency. Hence, it’s used in cordless telephones, baby monitor
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microwave ovens, car alarms, and wireles s
microphones, among others. What a coincidence, that lines up perfectly
with our plummeting fertility rates.

The tech industry installed liability shields

In 1996, after spending $50 million in lobbying, the
telecom companies got the Telecommunications
Act (TCA) passed. It prescribed into law that no one
can prevent telecom companies from putting up cell
towers. And no one can make them remove wireless
service based on health effects, as long as they remain
compliant with the prevailing FCC guidelines.
Furthermore, an FCC law passed in 2006 exempts technology
companies from all liability when their products cause death and disease —
provided their products were legal to sell at the time of manufacture. This
gives us clear evidence they knew about the danger long ago, and have
lobbied Congress to reduce their liability exposure as they ramp up the
power and pervasiveness of electromagnetic pollution.
However, those laws only protect telecom companies in the US
market from liability. They have not been able to exert their undue
influence as broadly in other countries as they have here. As a result, at
least one retired executive from a giant telecom company says his
company was putting away $250 million a quarter as a reserve for the
coming cell phone lawsuits, despite the liability waiver they have in U.S.
Industry leaders “in the know” keep their children away from nnEMFs
Millions of people across the world idolize Steve Jobs for leading us into
the wireless era. However, the story seldom told is how he and Apple
have known for decades about the damage their devices do to us, yet
they’ve continued to claim their products are completely harmless.
And how do we know for sure that they know nnEMEFs hurt people?
Because they’ve installed features in their products, and liability shields in
the regulations, specifically to mitigate the damage that their products do.
You can deny the facts all you want. But the truth is that they are
purposely hurting children, women, and men in order to sustain their
market share and profits.
Case in point: For years, Apple has been putting infrared sensors in
their iPads and iPhones that recognize when the devices are close to a
person’s body, while the Wi-Fi is inactive. That way, the Wi-Fi can be
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turned off when it’s idling to reduce injury to a person’s internal and
reproductive organs. Shocking but true.
They've gone to the trouble and expense of engineering a feature into
their devices that helps protect people from harm. Yet they’ve never
promoted that in their advertising. They must know about the health
effects, but saying so would be admitting that they know. Despite FCC
laws that shield the company from liability when legally compliant at the
time of manufacture, they’re still taking steps to reduce the health conseq-
The pancreas sits uences. They are preparing for the inevitable disclosure that microwave
in the abdomen — EMFs and blue light are far worse than the industry has let on.
inches away from
where a laptop And what’s the dead giveaway that Jobs knew? In the last few years of
signal on the lap, his life, he never let his own children use the wireless devices his
and a cellphone company was making. What does that tell you? So, was his death from
signal in the back
pocket, would pancreatic cancer coincidence or was it karma? You be the judge. What’s
intersect. more, Steve Jobs is not alone. Bill Gates did not allow his children to
use wireless devices, either. It seems he knows as well. And so does the
entire industry.
As Dr. Jack Kruse suggests, every single company of size and sophisti-
cation is fully aware of the damage that artificial blue light and microwave
radiation does to our cognitive function, hormones, gut permeability,
metabolism, and mitochondria. Yet they do it willfully because repetitively
stimulating your rewards system keeps you addicted. Depressing your
dopamine and critical thinking ability helps them sell more stuff to you.
It’s a brilliant, albeit manipulative and self-serving, business model.
Finally, there are multiple reports of high-level telecom executives
admitting privately that their companies know darn well their products
profoundly disturb biological systems. But those insiders say they’re
terrified because whole economies are being supported by these new
technologies, such as loT devices. They’re afraid to say anything.
In conclusion, anyone who believes the largest corporations in the
world are innocent actors in the relentless march of progress simply
doesn’t know how the world really works. These are the type of sheeple
who would believe the tobacco companies didn’t know smoking was bad
for you 50 years before they were forced to admit to it in the 1990s.
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Honest mistakes of this magnitude are extremely rare when big money
is involved. They know a day of reckoning is coming when the world
realizes the full extent to which nnEMFs devastate human health, and
they’re preparing for it.

Lloyd’s of London refuses to insure tech companies against 5G claims

Lloyd’s of London — the international insurance company that’s notorious
for insuring things other insurance companies won’t touch — refuses to
insure tech companies against health claims related to the harm caused by
5G. That tells you something.
If an insurance company that’s world-famous for insuring everything
under the sun refuses to take an entire industry’s billions in premiums, it’s
because they believe the risks are too high. That tells you they anticipate
more money being paid out to claimants than they could possibly recoup.
And it’s not as if they simply don’t know and are playing it safe when
it comes to multi-billion-dollar risks such as this. They already know the
damage that 4G and other nnEMFs are doing, and can do with 5G. They
absolutely, positively know. They’ve done the math and figured out they
can’t make money in the 5G business because they anticipate too many
people getting sick and dying from $G.
Furthermore, their decision has nothing to do with fear in the way that
The Industry accuses consumer advocates of fear-mongering. Their well-
reasoned decision is strictly business. It’s their business to assess the risk vs.
reward. And, based on what they know now, they’ve decided that their
risks are too real, and too high; they’re staying out of the sG business.
Lloyd’s is turning down billions of dollars in profits today, for a liability
that may be years away. That’s extremely well-informed analysis and
rational decision-making that we ignore at our peril.

We’re moving into uncharted territory with 5G

As 5Gis being rolled out across the globe in 2019-2023, no one really
knows how bad the consequences will be to all life on earth because
there is no research to say it’s safe. We can only estimate, based on the
science of how nnEMFs harm mitochondrial health and circadian
rhythms, correlated with the damage that preceding technologies are
proven to do. Early evidence is showing that 5G may be so blatantly bad
for you that telecom companies will be forced to admit to it, and change
it to make it less toxic to all life on earth. F

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NON-NATIVE EMF BELIEFS
REMEDIATION
Strategies, products and practices

Where technology is headed and why

Since the 1950s and 60s, technology companies have claimed their devices
are completely safe because their EMF emissions are not strong enough to
heat tissue, or ionize atoms like radioactivity does. They’ve avoided blame
and financial responsibility for decades because, frankly, it’s been hard to
connect their products and practices back to individual consumer’s health
problems. The connections have just been too hard to prove in a court of
law, or public opinion, since most disease has multiple causes.
However, behind the scenes, most corporate execs, engineers and
elected officials are fully aware of the hidden health dangers that non-
ionizing frequencies present to all life on earth. They absolutely know.
They’re just keeping it quiet for as long as possible because both industry
and its supporters in government see wireless technology as the one and
only future for sales and society moving forward. They consider 5G and
the saturation of our airwaves to be inevitable, no matter what happens to
life on earth.
So their thinking at this point goes something like the following: “We
know the adverse effects are going to be unfortunate for some, and a
living hell for others. But we'll just have to wait and see exactly how bad
people’s injuries are, and how much accountability we'll be forced to
take. We'll deal with the backlash when it gets here. Until then, all
opposition to 5G and AI must be stomped out by any means necessary,
no matter what the consequences to them or us.” No joke.
Becoming your own health boss
That means YOU are going to have to take steps to protect yourself and
your family, because no doctor, three letter agency, or advocacy group 1s
going to do it for you. YOU are going to have to: (1) know enough so
that you’re not so easy to fool; (2) spend some money on your health and
wellness from time to time; (3) try out some biohacks to find out what
works for you and what doesn’t; and (4) adopt lifestyle changes that
attract good outcomes into your life, while repelling the bad. YOU are
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going to have to learn a little about light, water, magnetism, and your
mitochondria so you can make more intelligent choices.
You know it’s not like the good old days when you could leave your
family’s health up to a guy in a lab coat, an insurance company, and
supplement companies that seem to care about you. Those days have
been over since 4G and Wi-Fi rolled out... and since glyphosate
(Roundup) started to be sprayed on crops by the billions of pounds. We
crossed that tipping point around the year 2000 (it’s called disease
statistics), We've just been in collective denial for more than a decade.
But all that is changing in a big way. People are beginning to wake up.
People are taking responsibility for their own well-being. People are
making their health a priority with smarter decisions and more determined
action. However, even that may not be enough, because millions of
people routinely undermine their good intentions with flawed
information, deranged priorities, commercialism, and complacency.
To our misfortune, we’ve been fooled into believing the right diet,
supplements, fitness program, and drugs will make us well and keep us
well. When, in fact, they’re more like a headwind or a tailwind on our
efforts, rather than the motor that actually drives us where we want to go.
For the record, exquisite health is built on a foundation of two things:
getting your mitophysical exposures right — including light, water, and
magnetism — and ridding your living spaces of nnEMEFs. As two sides to
your wellness/illness coin, they are the most powerful approach to reversing
illness, and the most direct route to attaining wellness beyond appearances.
That means the benefits you get from doing what everyone else is
doing pale in comparison to the gains to be made by upping the native
EMF exposures in your life, and purging unnatural frequencies from your
routine at every opportunity... starting now.
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Get as much real sunlight as you can on your eyes and skin
See the sun rise as often as possible. And see it set, if you can. It’s
Dr. Jack’s #1 recommendation for boosting your circadian and
biophysical health.
Get as naked as you can when you're outside during the day, and let
the sun hit your skin. Several companies make UV-permeable bathing
suits and clothing so you can be more presentable in public places.
While getting your daily dose of sun, forgo sunglasses, eyeglasses,
contacts and window glass, because they all block UV and part of
the IR. Getting UV and real sunlight also improves your eyesight.
For every hour you spend inside exposed to blue light during the
day, try taking a “sun break” outside of at least five minutes or more.
Don’t use sunscreen. Instead, acclimate yourself to more sun exposure
without burning by hybrid tanning, as described in chapter 16 (pg. 229).

Reduce your bad-light exposure

When you can’t turn off the artificial light, swap it out, or avoid it, then
block it through the eyes, and on the skin.
A company called Bluetec makes clear eyeglass lenses that block 50%
of the blue. That’s a good start, but you can block closer to 100% by
adding an amber-colored tint such as BPI (Brain Power Incorporated
brand) to any prescription lenses. You can even buy pre-made blue-
blocking glasses with a BPI tint starting at about $10 online. But
avoid wearing them during the day — when driving, for example —
because they can make you sleepy by raising your melatonin.
Next, most tech screens have settings or downloadable apps that shift
their color balance away from blue, toward red. This can help more
than you might imagine. But blue-blocking glasses are considerably
more effective at reducing your blue light exposure.
The more indoor blue light you’re in (intensity and duration), the
more important it is to cover your skin with clothing. In particular,
you want to cover your throat area when using your smartphone,
watching an LED TV, or working on a computer, because blue light
penetrates into the thyroid (which sits just below the skin surface).
Remember, heteroplasmy and circadian mismatches from blue light
are a major contributor to hypothyroidism, So button your collar all
the way to the top, wear a scarf, or get turtleneck sweaters.
Night time is the one time it might be beneficial to wear as much
makeup on your face as you like in order to block the blue.
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Choosing the healthiest light bulbs

All artificial light is bad for you because it’s different from the real full-
spectrum sunlight that powers and controls our biology. Man-made light
contains too much blue, and not enough of the other colors. You also
tend to receive it at the wrong times — meaning, the more mismatched it
is to real sunlight at that time of day, the worse it is for you. And you
tend to receive it indoors, behind glass windows, which block UV and a
lot of the IR.
Make this your mantra from now on: Real sunlight is good for you,
and artificial light after dark is bad for you. However, there’s a little more
to it than that. You may be surprised to learn how remarkable the
differences are when it comes to composition of light produced by the
different bulb types, and the health effects they invite into your life.

Ranking light bulb types, from least healthy to most healthy

LED is by far the worst for you, because cool
white LEDs (~5700°K) put out a big spike of
blue light, reduced amounts of the rest of the
visible spectrum, no UV, and almost no IR light.
They’re made by encasing a blue LED in yellow phosphors to turn the
light whiter. The bad news is, blue light between 435 to 465 nanometers
destroys melatonin, mitochondrial function, and dopamine — making
light from cool white LEDs the most unfriendly type of light you can buy
for human biology.
Warm white LEDs (~2700° Kelvin) are a
little better for you. They peak in the green-to-
orange range, depending on design, and have a
smaller, but still sizable, spike of blue, with no
UV and very little IR, if any. That makes warm white LEDs one grade
better for you than cool white LEDs, but still pretty bad. Both flicker and
mess with your circadian cycle more than you’d think.
Fluorescent. Compact fluorescent bulbs are
worse than worthless. At least you can say LEDs
are the most energy efficient, and longest lasting,
of all bulb types.
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But fluorescent lights:

® use more power than LEDs;
¢ don’t last nearly as long as LEDs;
° flicker at twice the rate of the power grid, which stresses the brain
smoothing out the strobe effect;
¢ produce huge amounts of dirty electricity (compact fluorescents);
¢ produce huge spikes of mostly blue, green and orange, with no UV
and IR to heal you;
© electrify mercury to produce UV, which hits the bulb’s
phosphorescent coating, making it glow; this homeopathically
embeds the vibrational frequency of mercury onto the wavelengths
emitted (somewhat like dirty electricity does), which radiates all your
cells with destructive frequencies (particularly brain cells), while
mobilizing toxins in the body such as mercury;
¢ release large amounts of mercury when broken — accidentally, or
when disposed of improperly.
Candlelight-style OLED. By comparison,
candlelight-style OLEDs are not terrible. They
do flicker, but they produce a full spectrum of
visible colors that looks like a mountain with
orange in the middle, no UV or IR. Most important, they don’t have
much blue, so they avoid the big spike that makes cool white LEDs so
destructive to melatonin, dopamine, and mitochondria.
Halogen. Halogen lights are a brighter, more
energy-efficient type of incandescent light. So
they don’t flicker very much. They make nearly
full-spectrum light weighted toward the middle
(yellow), with good IR, and no UV. That means they’re modestly disrup-
tive to our circadian biology due to their altered light spectrum, and
when you tend to receive that exposure. Overall rating: above average.
Incandescent. Traditional incandescent is the
best type of light bulb for you, in terms of health
impact. Their light comes from a hot tungsten
filament, so they produce full-spectrum light
weighted toward the red/infrared. That makes their light minimally-
disruptive to your circadian rhythm from a color standpoint, and
potentially disruptive when used hours after nightfall.
Of course, they’re the most expensive to run in terms of electricity,
since they produce a lot of heat that goes to waste. And they don’t last as
long as the others. However, higher wattage bulbs (>60 watts) don’t
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flicker like LEDs and fluorescents. And their color spectrum is best of the
artificial bunch — next best thing to fire.
Fire and candle light. The best type of light
for human biology, after the sun, is fire. That’s
because it contains the full spectrum of colors,
and a healthy dose of IR (42%). That means its
mixture of colors and intensities is generally not harmful.
But the time of day/night when you get them can potentially upset
your circadian system. That is, too much red, too often, long after sundown,
can lower your melatonin level. And it can give you cataracts. However,
most people have got much bigger EMF concerns to worry about.
Verdict: cavemen were mitochondriacs before it was cool. Fire’s still best.

The thinking man’s way to choose light bulbs

It is possible to save money on electricity with energy-saving light bulbs.
But you’re going to end up spending far more on medical bills over time.
So save up that sick time, make sure you have good health insurance, and
get used to taking pills. We call that being pennywise and pound-foolish.
Don’t be fooled: LED and fluorescent light bulbs are more economical
to buy and operate. But you’re going to be sicker, dumber, and more
controllable as your reward. Instead, invest in the single easiest lifestyle
choice you can make for better health: getting your light environment
right. Just spend the extra hundred or two on electricity each year to buy
yourself more wellness.
Lighting prescription: Use
candle light, a patio fire pit, or
port Card
oil-filled lamps as your preferred
light source at night, if you can.
If that’s not doable, go with
incandescent or halogen in the
places where you spend the most
time. And use LEDs in places
where the energy savings y |
outweighs any erosion of health
— such as outdoor security lights,
laundry rooms, and attics. =
Wireless nnEMF mitigation strategies
Start your EMF remediation effort by expanding your knowledge and
awareness of nnEMFs. Learn when and where you’re exposed to EMFs,
what dangers they present to you, and how to disentangle yourself from
their influence. For example, instead of streaming music or videos to your
smartphone in real time, download them first while the device is away
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from your body, or to your (wired) home computer. Then play them
back from your phone’s memory. Simple strategies like this dramatically
cut down on EMF exposure from your cell phone — probably by a factor
of 10 to 100, or more.
Next, try simple assessments like the following to get your head and
your heart on the same page: Pay attention to the way cordless phone
radiation makes your brain feel — particularly on the side of your head you
rest your phone against. If you feel warm, tingly sensations — or any odd
effects — realize that that is auxiliary blood flow and electrical flow being
directed to the site to try to correct disrupted ATP production and cell
wall charge caused by foreign frequencies. You need to notice when
damage is being done, and understand it for what it is.
Keep in mind, this type of stimulation is different from Nature’s own
electromagnetic waves. Our bodies know what sunlight and heat from a
fire are supposed to feel like. But we’re not ‘wired’ to know what non-
native electromagnetic frequencies — including microwaves, x-rays, and
gamma rays — feel like. This tends to make us misread our senses. That is,
unless a person of supposed authority tells us differently.
In other words, programming short-circuits a person’s own critical thinking
ability so they lose independence and become reactive. When critical
thinking is not there to protect you, medical experts and media stories become
your default truth, as a result of conformist thinking. Lately, people who
can’t think for themselves have been dubbed “normies” to poke fun at
just how fast asleep some people are to what’s really going on around them.
On the other hand, independent thinkers take responsibility for what they
believe, and the outcomes they get in life. Most important, mitochondriacs
treat all information coming from the mainstream as suspect when separating
truth and good will from fake stories circulated to push hidden agendas.
Unfortunately, none of us are a given an accurate B.S. detector at-birth.
Instead, open-minded individuals develop a sense of skepticism by seeing
the narratives of false authorities crumble to pieces, one after another.
Over time, we learn to question the conventional wisdom by catching the
Establishment in lie after lie. Nevertheless, it’s human nature to want to
believe others. So a survival skill we all need to practice in a wireless
world is the power of discernment.
To illustrate bias in action, try this thought experiment: Say you just
gave your pet Chihuahua a bubble bath. It’s shivering, so now you want
to dry it off as soon as possible. Why don’t you just put it in the
microwave oven to warm it up, and dry it off, pronto? It will love that,
right? How about for only a minute? What... not even on low power?
How could that possibly hurt?
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I don’t know about you, but this sounds like an incredibly bad idea —
even for one second on low power. Yet we knowingly do almost the
same thing each time we put a cell phone against our head. .
Why do we deliberately shoot microwave s into our brain, many times
a day, if we wouldn’t do the same thing to a pet? Because those we trust
said it was okay. That’s it. Experts have told us cell phone signals are safe
AND everyone else is doing it. So we assume ‘everything I buy and use is
safe and effectiveforme and my family, because I trust “the experts” to protect
me... and to do what’s right.’ Sadly, this is why most people set aside their
own reasoning and default to groupthink, 99% of the time.
You see how societal bias is ingrained into all of us? We’re all
prejudiced towards trusting authority figures, instead of exercising our
own judgment. Like good consumers, we just think and do as we’re told.
Well, I can tell you, that’s not going to go well for you anymore. I advise
you to take the red pill and see the world around you the way it truly is. Red pill: A rude
awakening when
General guidelines to reduce your nnEMF exposure a person’s false
beliefs are
1. Increase distance (the Inverse Square Law): Distance is your dispelled after they
friend when it comes to reducing nnEMF exposure. When you can’t were programmed
to think in
turn off the source, and you can’t shield yourself from it, your best another way.
strategy to reduce exposure is through the Inverse Square Law. It states
the total amount of nnEMF exposure goes down in proportion to the
square of the distance.
That means if you double the distance between you and an EMF
source, your exposure level isn’t just cut in half. It’s actually a quarter of
what it was. So if you move from 10 feet away to 20 feet away, you're
getting 25% of the exposure. Of course, the opposite happens when you
halve the distance to an EMF source: you quadruple the dose/exposure.
Unfortunately, these days you may have no other choice but to move
to a new location in order to put more distance between yourself and the
hordes of obedient idiots irradiating themselves like addicts.
2. Decrease exposure time. Perhaps easier said than done, because
“they” make it easy to get hooked, and as difficult as possible to get
unplugged. That’s because blue light and social media are addictive by
nature. Technology is getting harder and harder to turn off —literally, and
in terms of dependency. The tech companies just keep you coming back
for more, and spending what you will, consequences be damned.
Fortunately, getting natural light, at the appropriate times of day,
rebuilds your body’s endogenous supply of pleasure chemicals so you
don’t need external sources as much in order to feel good. Find those
‘off buttons and give the real world a try for a while. You can break the
cycle by not supporting the industry that is intentionally harming you.
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3- Population density. Along the same lines, your biggest exposure

concern should be how many people live and work around you. Irksome
to the informed, the average person today uses between 7—17 wireless
devices. Most have no idea what they’re doing to themselves and others.
That number will only increase as people saturate their lives with smart
devices. Which means if you experience serious mitochondrial issues from
other people’s nnEMFs, you may have no choice but to move to a less-
populated area to get some relief.
In other words, don’t suffer through chronic illness, or even become a
statistic on a chart, just because lifestyle changes are inconvenient, or cost
more. It’s been proven time and time again that people with severe cases
of mitochondnal dysfunction, circadian disruption, and EMF sensitivity can
feel like a brand-new person in a matter of days when they get away from
the exposures that made them sick. Just go camping in the woods for several
days, or take a trip to Mexico, to try it before you buy into the belief.
4. Nighttime exposure is much worse than daytime. Your stress
level is supposed to be higher during day so you can function better. On
the other hand, you’re designed to rest and recuperate at night. So
activating your stress response at night with microwaves messes up your
hormones, metabolism, and regeneration substantially more than during
the day. That means you'll get the most bang for your mitigation buck
focusing on your nighttime exposure first, and daytime second. Accord-
ingly, if you choose to shield your home from nnEMFs, shield the room(s)
you spend the most time in, which is usually the bedroom. I remind you:
Shielding your sleeping quarters gives you passive and automatic
benefits requiring no effort, ongoing expense, or extra time to achieve.
5. DHA, oxygen and water. The more blue light and nnEMFs you're
exposed to, the more DHA, oxygen, and water you need to offset their
effects — DHA because you need more DC electricity to offset the
heteroplasmy damage of blue light; oxygen because your mitochondria
make more ATP and fewer free radicals with O.; and water because it
stores energy and maintains the architecture of proteins, which are
otherwise lost in dehydration.

Targeted tips to reduce nnEMF exposure

e Filter dirty electricity out of your living spaces. Bedrooms and
kitchens are the worst for dirty electricity and stray electrical fields.
© Reduce your exposure to electricity. Move your bed away from
walls that have electrical wires running through them. Turn devices
off when not in use. Power strips are great for this. Install kill
switches at the breaker box, if necessary. Or unplug devices entirely.
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Choose devices that use less power. Battery power is preferable.

Direct current is usually better for you than 120 or 220 volt power
that oscillates.
Check for bipolar magnetic fields where you spend the most time,
and correct the ones presenting the highest exposure.
Turn off your home computer network’s Wi-Fi. Hardwire your
router with CAT6-8 cable. Or put a kill switch on the router that
turns it off when you go to sleep. Consider a timer. Some Wi-Fi
routers also have a setting that lets you turn down its signal strength.
Shield your house from nnEMFs coming in. Unfortunately, it can be
fairly involving, but totally worth it. Start with your sleeping
location, Shielding paint is a pitch-black paint containing graphite
fiber, carbon fiber, and conductive particles that traffick nnEMF
pollution out through a ground connection.
Shielding clothing can potentially help, but it’s not easy to achieve full
protection. Don’t get a false sense of security just because part of your
body is covered. Specifically, your head and neck may still be exposed.
And, don’t forget, most devices transmit and receive in all directions.
Rule of thumb when it comes to ambient electrosmog: Total .
amount of body exposure is more important than where nnEMFs hit
you. As a result, larger people tend to be more electro-sensitive
simply because they have more surface area acting as an antenna.
nnEMF Rx: If you’ve got the financial wherewithal, get a whole home
assessment from a good nnEMF remediation specialist. They have advanced
tools and training to evaluate your home or apartment (whether owned
or rented), They can recommend devices and techniques to reduce the
adverse effects of nnEMFs around you. But bear in mind: There’s an art
and a science to nnEMF remediation as with any professional trade. And
you're likely to get better results, at a better price, over the long term, all
things considered. It could be the best money you ever spend.

Strategies to reduce exposure to cell phone radiation

The main goal in reducing your exposure level is to get the device away
from your body, and minimize its ‘on’ time. And, let’s not forget, most of
the people around you have a cell phone in their pocket too.
* Activate airplane mode when you aren’t using your phone, so it’s
not pinging cell towers every few minutes.
¢ Disable other modes of connectivity when not in use (of the 5
or 6 different kinds). Smartphones have up to six different microwave
antennas operating at any one time — including call service (e.g., 3G,
4G, §G), a data connection, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a geo-locator, and a
hotspot. You might need to disable some of them separately.
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¢ Turn your phone off at night. Nighttime exposure is much worse

for you than daytime, because you need to be as stress-free as
possible when you sleep.
* Charge your phone away from your body.
¢ Hold it away from your ear. Speakerphone is best. An air-tube
headset is second best. A low-power wireless headset is third best. If
you can’t do any of the three, just holding it away from your head is
fourth best. Even an inch or two can cut your exposure dramatically.
A general rule of thumb is to hold your phone at least 5 mm away
from your head — the more, the better — at a 15 degree angle.
¢ Avoid using laptop computers and tablets against your lap. Even
if you don’t mind being infertile, no one wants sexual dysfunction
and hormone imbalances. Not attractive. A radiation shield can help.
¢ Avoid using your phone when you have poor reception. Cell
phones crank up their signal strength when reception is weak in
order to maximize call quality. So you could get 1,000 times as
much exposure when your phone is struggling to stay connected.
Even a loss of one bar can translate into 10-100 times the radiation
beamed directly into your brain.
¢ Watch out for poorly-shielded cases. Shielding cases for
smartphones have become popular among the wise and proactive.
But beware ofbreaches in their shielding that make your phone
increase its signal strength.
e Impact-protection cases. Some impact protection cases increase
your absorption of radiation by 20-70%, according to the
Environmental Working Group.
e Avoid using cell phones in moving vehicles. Not only do nnEMFs
bounce around inside metal boxes, but signal strength goes way up
when your phone switches from one cell tower to another,
¢ Switch to a previous generation signal for lower power. Some
smartphones allow you to switch to older communication protocols
(e.g., 3G signal instead of 4G) in the settings. You may not notice
any difference in call quality, but using 4G instead of sG can reduce
your nnEMF exposure by more than 80%, because each successive
generation radically increases the power density ofits signal,
° Be wary of frequency harmonizers. Harmonizing low frequency
microwaves with stickers and pendants reduces some forms of
damage and not others. It can make you feel less electro-
hypersensitive, for example. But cancer and neurological injury
could remain, or even increase.
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Biophysics in Action
IQ
THE REAL CAUSES OF SOME COMMON
CONDITIONS

Let’s put healthcare back on the right track

To begin steering healthcare back in the direction of truth again, this
chapter explains the root causes for some common conditions that seem
to stump modern medicine today. It’s a peek into where the field of
intentional wellness might be heading in the next few decades, should we
learn to live the way we were meant to, instead of always trying to beat
Nature at its own game.
The views presented here are the best explanations and theories from
educators and practitioners on the cutting edge. Much of it has objective
evidence to back it up, while some of it has yet to be demonstrated
clinically. But be forewarned: The Establishment, and its clique of
accomplices, will likely disagree with these conclusions because, in almost
every case, disease is caused by corrupted forms of light, water, magnetism,
and mitochondria — not by unlucky genes or biochemical imbalances.
In fact, almost every concept shared in this chapter completely
contradicts what the mainstream says, and with what it ofters. So don’t
expect the FDA, the AMA, the ADA, or the CDC to have anything nice
to say about the descriptions that follow. They don’t have good answers
themselves. But that doesn’t stop them from attacking truth-seekers
offering credible explanations and vastly superior options. So which party
is in the right, and which party routinely mistreats people’s health to serve
their own interests? We shall see.
First points to contemplate: How many chronic diseases have become
commonplace since 1900? There are dozens upon dozens. Now, how
many conditions can allopathic, evidence-based medicine accurately
explain causation for, in their decades of “intensive” research? How much
have they spent over the last 70 years of so-called progress? And how
many diseases have they actually cured?
I rest my case. You'd think that, with countless billions spent, and
hundreds of thousands of research hours, they’d have accomplished a real
breakthrough with at least one condition. But no. Not one cure for a
chronic disease of any significance in the last 70 years. Just symptom
suppression and empty explanations. In fact, diseases have gotten much
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worse in prevalence, severity, and damage done. You’ve got to admit:

that’s pathetic, You be the judge whose message is closer to the truth:
theirs or ours.

A better understanding leads to better results

As this knowledge stirs you to decision and action, start with the premise
that the defect rarely begins in your genes and biochemistry. Instead, the
defect is almost always external, Exposures in your environment are to
blame for your dysfunction and disease.
Repeat with me: You are not broken. Your body is working exactly
the way it’s designed to work, You just need to change your
environmental exposures and, like magic, your problems unravel in the
reverse order of how they were created and woven together. On the
other hand, you can’t get fully well when you stay in the environment
that made you sick in the first place.
In addition to the principles presented earlier, this chapter gives you
the best assessments the leading edge has to offer about common health
problems. Using all these insights, you'll be better equipped to make
decisions on your own, based on the best intel available. You now have a
choice. Better information = better decisions = better outcomes.
These are the basic understandings you can use to handle health
challenges moving forward — some explained at a root level for the first
time in print. It’s not necessarily a complete picture just yet, but definitely
headed in the right direction.

Cancer
Cancer is caused when you lose control of growth mechanisms — meaning,
autophagy and apoptosis are malfunctioning (i.e., cell recycling and
programmed cell suicide, respectively). In fact, it’s impossible for cancer
to manifest when apoptosis is working properly because, under normal
circumstances, the immune system can tell when cells are so damaged that
it’s not worth fixing them, When that happens, un-repairable cells are
instructed to kill themselves in order to make way for healthy, new cells.
On the other hand, in a cancerous state, cells aren’t getting repaired
properly. And they’re not dying off the way they’re supposed to. Quite
the opposite: they’re growing and dividing as fast as they can because they
don’t realize they’re cancerous and need to be either fixed or destroyed.
So what causes the breakdown of apoptosis that leads to cancer?
Initially, before cancer shows up, the electron transport chain is slow.
The slower the ETC, the less chance you can lose control over apoptosis.
But later, two things happen to make cancer come knocking on your
door: The speed of electrons moving across the ETC must be high to
support abnormally rapid cell growth, and to make huge amounts of free
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radicals that damage mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA. More simply
put, free radical DNA damage, and runaway cell growth, are partners in
causing cancer. And an overdriven ETC fuels both fires. So what causes
the ETC to run fast? What slows it down?
The ETC runs fast when you're solar deficient. Normally, the vitamin
D receptor in Cytochrome III slows down the electron transport chain
when you get lots of sun. And UV-B makes vitamin D. You see, when
you get lots of sun, your ETC doesn’t need to run as fast to make energy.
You're getting energy directly from the sun. So the ETC purposely slows
down oxidative phosphorylation to balance out the body’s energy needs.
Solar exposure also dilates blood vessels to absorb more UV light and
enhance oxygen delivery. Since UV penetrates tissue under 1 mm, nitric
oxide dilates vessels to bring blood closer to the surface. Through this
process, Cytochrome III sees higher levels of nitric oxide (a free radical),
and uses that free radical signal to know when to turn down the speed of
the ETC. To boil it down, UV light puts the brakes on the electron trans-
port chain when you get more energy from the sun, instead of from food.
For these reasons, the more sun you get, the less chance you’re going
to experience runaway energy production that harms healthy cells with
free radicals and feeds cancer. Hence, the sun is truly Nature’s vaccine
against cancer. And, as we'd expect, low vitamin D is the #1 risk factor
for breast cancer. Deficient autophagy, low redox, weak detoxing, and
inflammation/acidity also help pave the way for cancerous cells to
overstay their welcome. They usually go together.
But, counter-intuitively, when you have poor mitochondrial function,
low oxygen levels actually protect you from cancer. That’s one of the
reasons some people with bad mitochondria develop sleep apnea. Their
bodies are purposely lowering oxygen levels to protect them from
inefficient energy production, which results in lots of free radicals. In
other words, hypoxia is often a protective mechanism.
So even though most cancers cause a low-oxygen condition, supple-
menting with oxygen — like in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber — is not
always a good idea. With some types of cancer, the addition of oxygen
can make a person sicker. It can kill them faster because it speeds up the
ETC in the absence of apoptosis, making lots more free radicals.
Simply put, hyperbaric oxygen can be deadly when your ETC is prone
to making free radicals, because you produce more of them. Conversely,
oxygen can be helpful for other types of cancer when autophagy and
apoptosis are still working, and your heteroplasmy rate is improving.
The solution: Reversing cancer the biophysical way revolves around
restoring mitochondrial efficiency to reduce the following: (1) free radicals
and inflammation; (2) degenerative programming; and (3) the resulting
(epi)genetic mutations. You need to expand your redox potential “gas
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e system
tank” and fill it up with net negative charge, so your immun
wakes up. Cells can then communicate with each other effectiv ely.
Some cancer mitohacks to consider:
© Correct bipolar magnetic fields in your home — especially around your
sleep and work spaces.
Increase energy production and detoxification with strong earth-type
magnetism.
¢ Decontaminate your home environment of unnatural frequencies —
including dirty electricity, blue light, and microwave sources such as
Wi-Fi and 4G/5G.
Get copious amounts of full-spectrum sunlight in the eyes and skin, as
close to the equator as possible (or at altitude).
e Cut fluoride out of your water and food.
¢ Deplete your deuterium level with a seasonal diet or specific protocol.
¢ Cut down on foods that acidify, and increase foods that alkalize.
© Do a heavy-duty detox, and continue detoxing daily.

Thin hair
Have you noticed how many people in their teens and twenties have
unusually thin hair these days? It’s getting to be epidemic in seemingly
normal, healthy adults. You'll really notice the contrast when you go
back and examine pictures from the 70s, 80s, and before. Many women
had remarkably thick hair, while you hardly saw any with unexplained
thinning problems (and it wasn’t just the hairspray).
So what’s causing abnormally thin hair of unknown origin today?
Chronic, systemic stress is at least partly to blame, if not most of it. It’s
living in a sympathetic mode pretty much all day and night from artificial
blue light, no natural light, nnEMFs, poor sleep quality, stimulants,
psychological stress, toxins such as fluoride, trauma, and all the other
stressors we've examined.
This depletes mitochondria, hinders resonance and detoxification, and
causes thyroid dysfunction and hormonal issues (which hormone panel
tests might miss for reasons we've discussed). It’s basically chronic,
subclinical hypothyroidism that makes the thyroid cut back on energy
expenditure wherever it can. And hair is considered an expendable luxury
to the thyroid.
We've been taught to blame genes, nutrient deficiency, and stress for
hair and nail problems. But you now have a more credible and actionable
reason for hair loss than medical science has ever given you.
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Electro-hypersensitivity (EHS)
Electro-hypersensitivity is caused primarily by 50 and 60 Hz electric fields
and their dirty electricity, in combination with wireless microwaves from
our tech devices. These foreign frequencies disturb energy production in
the mitochondria. Here’s what follows from there:
¢ The ETC can’t burn fats and proteins as well, so mitochondria and
cells fall back to glucose and carbs for fuel. That means less energy,
lower redox potential and healing, disturbed signaling, and weaker
electric and magnetic fields made by mitochondria.
Inflammation and oxidative stress.
Increased stress response.
Elevated histamine.
Lower melatonin.
Anti-myelin antibodies.
Which can turn into:
¢ Brain fog, memory difficulties.
¢ Disrupted sleep.
¢ Blood-sugar problems.
© Headaches, dizziness, migraines.
e Asthma/allergies.
¢ Weakness and fatigue.
e Hearing problems/tinnitus.
© Speech difficulties.
¢ Depression, anxiety, irritability.
¢ Skin problems.
@ Stress.
© Digestive disorders.
¢ Heart problems, high blood pressure.
e Flu-like symptoms/breathing problems.
e Sensitivity to light/eye problems.
e Tremors, cramps.
¢ Joint and muscle pain, numbness.
¢ Lower sperm motility and testosterone.
@ Erectile dysfunction.
e Weight gain.
The solution? You need to remediate your nnEMF environment, or else
nothing you do in the way of treatments is going to solve your root
problem. Get out of there. Remove yourself from the EMF pollution
around you to see how much/how fast your symptoms go away — either
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by visiting a location undisturbed by nnEMF emissions, or by trying out a

well-shielded space.
More often than not, you'll be shocked at how well a pristine EMF
environment doesn’t just soothe your symptoms, but cause them to
utterly vanish, They cease to exist, because the true source of the
dysregulation and damage is gone,
Sometimes symptoms stop immediately — tinnitus, for example — while
others can take three to seven days. Susceptibility usually remains, but
often there is no permanent injury done.
Autoimmune diseases
The root cause of autoimmune disease is a circadian mismatch between
the light entering the eye, and the light absorbed by T-regulator cells in
the gut associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) where food is broken down.
The GALT is the frontline of the immune system... the Great Wall of
the digestive tract.
Autoimmunity starts when the circadian clock in the brain (SCN) gets
unyoked from circadian clocks in the GALT. In real life, that means
you're getting artificial blue light from your smartphone, TV, and LED
lights, in the absence of UV and IR from full-spectrum sun... while at the
same time your gut lining gets a summertime UV light signal released from
the chips and crackers you're eating. Too bad for those eating imported
foods: when the eye and gut receive conflicting signals about your current
light environment, your infradian biology gets confused about which
season you're in, and thus which program it should be running.
The mismatch increases heteroplasmy rate of mitochondria in T-
regulator cells Ts; and Ty, which makes them malfunction... unable to
distinguish your own proteins from those you eat frequently, such as
gluten. Since T; and Ty systems control both arms of immunity — innate
and acquired — autoimmunity is fundamentally T; and Ty cells whose
mitochondria are stretched out and not recycling themselves well. So
their “foreign protein detectors” get glitchy and can’t tell one protein
from another, since a lot of them look very similar. T-regulator cells of
the GALT basically get blurry vision and attack everything.
Now, the science that explains the situation is rooted in evolutionary
biology going back 600 million years. Prokaryotic cells (bacteria and Prokaryotes:
archaea) have a different relationship to light than our own cells do Single-celled
organisms lacking
(especially UV light), Prokaryotes don’t collect any DHA like our own
a nucleus,
cells do. They can’t turn sunlight into DC electricity. So they can’t utilize including bacteria
sunlight nearly as well as eukaryotes. Instead, prokaryotes are designed to and archaea.
release light much more liberally than the cells of higher life forms...
5,000 times more light than eukaryotic cells. They basically live fast and
die young, as far as collecting and “spending” sunlight is concerned.
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So, after you eat, bacteria in the gut begin the digestion process. But,
not being evolutionarily adapted to retain light, bacteria extract light
energy from food electrons as biophotons and other frequencies. They
release that light immediately into the gut lumen like a projector. That
light is absorbed by cells of the gut lining like a movie screen in this
scenario, because our cells do have DHA in their cell membranes, so they
are able to turn light into a DC electric current, as their mitochondria
collect seasonal light information from electrons.
The problem, however, is that absorbed light turns on an infradian
signal for UV light in the GALT, but not the eye, because the eye is
getting a different signal from your surroundings. That’s big, because
more light and DC electricity in cells of the GALT makes its clock genes
run faster than clock genes in the brain. That raises heteroplasmy rate in
the GALT’s mitochondria, and confuses communication from brain to
immune cells, which then impairs the ability of T-regulator cells to
distinguish food proteins from the proteins of your own tissues. That,
over time, becomes autoimmunity.
That also means you can’t fix an autoimmune condition through diet
or repairing a leaky gut alone. Sure, there’s plenty of evidence to show
that you can alleviate some foreign protein allergies by avoiding foods
that give you symptoms, or by repairing tight junctions of the gut.
However, those are proving to be partial or temporary fixes, because the
root cause of autoimmunity is fundamentally circadian clock genes in the
GALT running faster than clock genes in the suprachiasmatic nucleus
(SCN)... not just avoiding foods that give you symptoms.

Sleep apnea
Deuterium overload in the central brain stem that controls breathing is a
primary cause of sleep apnea (among others). This localized toxicity
breaks mitochondrial energy production in that part of the brain so it
doesn’t work the way it should and you lose the urge to breathe.
To illustrate how complicated sleep problems can be, when the
thinking parts of the brain shut down to repair and replenish in sleep, one
area of the brain is supposed to stay active so it can keep the airway open.
But when deuterium upsets mitochondrial function in that area, the
complex coordination required to run sleep breaks down.
Among more than half-a-dozen factors supporting or inhibiting easy and
effective sleep, the brain center responsible for maintaining the airway shuts
down when it’s not supposed to. So not only is the urge to breathe
depressed in this situation, but the airway is also obstructed until high CO:
levels in the blood shout at the autonomic nervous system that you're
flirting with death.
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This can happen in addition to some combination of poor melatonin

levels, excessive cortisol and adrenaline keeping your stress level high, or
a bunch of other factors — all biophysical or circadian related, and mostly
a result of blue light toxicity, nnEMF exposure, excessive deuterium in
the diet, stimulant consumption, and circadian mismatches.
This sort of situation also explains why fatty, un-toned tissue around
the throat can make it seem as if that’s the problem when, in fact, it’s
only a contributor that would not cause sleep apnea on its own.
Conclusion: The physics of the body, and circadian disruptions, answer
the complex questions raised by sleep apnea, where conventional medicine
offers only non-specific explanations and limited treatment of symptoms.

Cataracts
Cataracts are a defense mechanism against too much red light. Red and
infrared light are generally beneficial to get. But overexposure to red
light, especially in artificial (imbalanced) lighting, causes the body to try
and protect itself by turning the lenses of the eye cloudy. This reduces the
focus and intensity of non-full spectrum light hitting the retina.
Disturbing but all-too true, it also means when eye doctors remove
cataracts and replace them with artificial lens implants (which block 100%
of UV light and 50% of blue light) you actually make the person’s health
worse, as the ophthalmology literature reports quite clearly in diseases
across the board. Quite simply, your health suffers when you don’t get
UV light. And most lens implants do exactly that.
The solution? Of course, it’s getting full-spectrum sun during the day,
and avoiding artificial light at night.

Mold toxicity
Mold toxicity is caused by nnEMFs disrupting mitochondrial metabolism bs

which makes you more sensitive to mold. It’s basically a state of poor
mitochondrial function and redox potential that lowers your immune
system’s ability to handle mold toxins. Therefore, when you get your
light, water, magnetism, and seasonal eating exposures right, most mold
reactions go away because your detox systems are able to handle much
greater exposures to mold without a problem.

Dental fluorosis
For decades now, the American Dental Association and member dentists
have told their patients there’s nothing you can do about white spots or
pitting on teeth caused by too much fluoride in your water, toothpaste,
and food. They say it’s an unfortunate side effect of fluoride you have to
live with in order to get the benefits of harder enamel.
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They’re mistaken. You can do something about it. First, remove the
source of ongoing exposure. Stop drinking water with fluoride in it. And
avoid processed foods that are made with it.
Unfortunately, the water in some regions, such as the desert Southwest
of the US around New Mexico, is naturally high in fluoride. Most food
companies don’t bother to filter it out either, wherever they’re located.
That means fluoride is hidden in many packaged foods because their
ingredients are grown with fluoridated water, and/or fluoridated water is
added in manufacturing.
Next, stop using toothpaste with fluoride added to it. Better yet, instead
of toothpaste, switch to a charcoal, clay and essential oil-based toothpowder
that naturally whitens, detoxifies and cleans better at the same time.
Finally, you can reverse dental fluorosis when you improve your redox
potential, because teeth, like other parts of the body, can heal themselves.
More precisely, fluorosis can only happen when dental structures are
being damaged by fluoride faster than they’re being re-mineralized.
However, more calcium isn’t the answer, as the dairy industry would
have us believe. It’s only a building material. And most people get plenty
of it in milk and milk products such as cheese, yogurt, and ice cream. In
fact, most of us get too much calcium — especially relative to magnesium.
The following excerpt from Gut-
Brain Secrets explain tooth healing so
you can better understand it:

Cavities
Most people have been conditioned to
think that teeth are static chunks of
bony material that decay and wear
away over time, and can never be
repaired once they’re worn or
damaged. But, contrary to dentistry
doctrine, when you get the right set of nutrients in your diet, and you
avoid certain insults, teeth can remineralize and rebuild themselves after
their outer structures are lost.
You see, teeth have their own nutrient delivery system that’s designed
to continuously supply the outer structures such as dentin and enamel
with minerals to rebuild wear and tear. Microscopic channels, called
“dentin tubules,” bring a special nutrient-carrying fluid (1) derived from
the bloodstream, (2) to the pulp chamber, (3) through the dentin and
enamel, to replenish minerals lost.
As long as this fluid is flowing out instead of in, minerals have an
opportunity to replenish faster than they're being eroded, and teeth stay
strong and beautiful. On the other hand, when this fluid migrates inward,
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sugar, bacteria, and acid get pulled inside the tooth and eat away at its
structure, causing cavities.
Think of tooth-building (and bone-building) like this: The trace
minerals you need to heal minor cavities and damaged enamel (like that
caused by fluorosis) are mostly phosphorus, selenium, boron, magnesium,
cobalt, and calcium. And the fat-soluble vitamins needed to tell the
minerals where they need to go are A, D, E, and Ko.
@ Calcium and other minerals are bricks in the wall that are your teeth
and bones,
® Collagen, fat, and protein are the mortar that holds the wall together.
e And fat-soluble vitamins coordinate the construction by telling the
materials where they need to go.
So what we lack is phosphorus as a building block, “glue” factors in the
form of collagen and protein, as well as vitamins found in some animal
products to facilitate the process. These vitamins, Ko in particular, make
calcium go where it’s supposed to — into bones and teeth — and not into
soft tissues where it doesn’t belong — like blood vessels, kidneys, bile
ducts, pineal gland, and eyes.
Unfortunately, a shortage of these fat-soluble vitamins, as well as
binding agents, can be a serious problem for vegans and vegetarians. Lack
of protein and fat in their diet can cause a deficiency not only of fat-
soluble vitamins, but also collagen deficiency. Thus, they lack the glue
that holds everything together.
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redox potential. Net negative charge is the force that helps
all the materials get to where they need to go, and enables
the rebuilding processes to happen faster than fluorosis is
creating new damage to enamel.
On a related note, gum disease can be reversed naturally
by getting sunlight, Vitamin K2 captures and transmits
both UV and IR light. Blue light makes vitamin A. And
UV-B light makes vitamin D, Full spectrum sun interacts
with these vitamins to rebuild tooth and gum structures.

Vitiligo is caused by mis-matched light hitting eyes,

skin and gut
When you lose skin pigment in blotches, that’s called
vitiligo. It happens when your immune system in the gut
can’t turn on its T-regulator cells, Like a car with a faulty
electrical system, this causes a circadian mismatch with
melanocytes that produce melanin in the skin,
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They basically aren’t communicating properly, which causes the

melanocytes to stop producing melanin in patches. The reason?
Enterocytes (that support T-regulator cells of the GALT)
miscommunicate with melanocytes due to high heteroplasmy rate. The
solution is to reverse mitochondria damage and increase electron flow
through Dr. Jack’s protocols.

Clogged arteries (e.g., atherosclerosis, peripheral artery disease,

and coronary heart disease)
Heart associations and cardiologists tell us cholesterol and inflammation
are to blame for blocking arteries and causing cardiovascular disease,
because that’s what they find there. But, as you'll soon learn, cholesterol
and inflammation are both downstream consequences of reversed polarity
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accumulation of positively charged heavy metals such as mercury and lead
in smooth muscle cells beneath the endothelium (inner vessel wall). You
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beneath the interior vessel wall, the vessel wall changes polarity. It changes
from negative to positive charge locally, which is the polarity of injury, and
the signal that calls healing mechanisms to the area. For instance, if you
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Positive charge on the vessel wall then causes (negative) platelets to
stick to it. If the injury were a cut, platelets plug the vessel to stop the
bleeding. Platelets then tell fibrocytes to attach themselves to the positive
endothelium to make a mesh. We recognize the mesh as a scab.
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bacteria find food and lodging in the plaque, the body tries to wall it off
with calcium to minimize the damage done to other tissues. This causes
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Over time, soft plaque restricts blood flow from the artery, which
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That’s how cholesterol-filled plaques are created in arteries, and why

inflammation is found around major blockages. However, cholesterol
does not logjam the smallest blood vessels, as you would think. Now why
is that? It’s because cholesterol is not a “hairball” in your cardiac plumbing,
clogging them up. Instead, cholesterol is at the scene trying to help.
So, as you can see, cardiovascular disease is not caused by cholesterol
(biochemistry) or resulting inflammation (symptom). Instead, it all begins
with biophysics — positive polarity from heavy metals where there should
be negative charge — plain and simple. In this case, poor mitochondrial
function and a shortage of ATP inhibit heavy metal removal —
exacerbated by stress, smoking, drinking, poor diet, obesity, diabetes, etc.
This sets off a chain reaction of chronic events that has confused
medical scientists for more than halfa century as to cause and effect.
They’re quick to blame cardiovascular disease on cholesterol, obesity and
heredity, because they support Industry’s false narrative. But the evidence
is piling up that cholesterol and saturated fat are clearly not responsible for
causing heart disease.
And how can we be so sure that heavy metals initiate cardiovascular
disease? A pathologist from the University of Wisconsin examined the
vessel walls of 120 patients that had died of heart attack, looking for toxic
substances they had in common. To his amazement, he discovered 120 out
of 120 had plaque buildup over every spot containing high concentrations
of lead and/or mercury in the smooth muscle cells of the vessel.
What’s more, in locations that didn’t have heavy metals, there was no
plaque in every case. That means we have 100% positive confirmation in
cases AND locations in the body, as well as zero contradictions in
location. That’s what researchers and statisticians call a very high statistical
probability and confidence level. Assuming he tested only ten sites per
patient, that’s 1,200 out of 1,200 sites supporting this heavy metal-
atherosclerosis theory (Dr. Dean Bonlie’s), with none to refute it.
So what can we do about it? Can the process be reversed? If you catch
the plaque buildup early on while it’s still pliable, the Magnetico Sleep
Pad and a chelating agent like DMSA can help remove heavy metals in
the vessel’s smooth muscle cells. With heavy metals gone, negative charge
is restored on the vessel wall, the plaque clears up, and everything returns
to normal. (Completely calcified blockages are harder to dissolve,
however.) Once more, biophysics leads and biochemistry follows.

Bad skin ts
Almost everyone thinks dry, wrinkly, unattractive skin is caused by bad
genes, too much sun exposure and, in some cases, too much partying.
Not true. Not entirely, anyway. I'd say that beliefislike a book that’s
missing chapters, so it doesn’t tell the whole story.
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One of those missing chapters is that unhealthy skin is caused in-part

by worn-out mitochondria and intracellular (metabolic) dehydration.
Certainly, external creams and treatments can improve the appearance of
skin from the outside in. But the thinking woman knows that a better
way to improve her skin tone is from the inside out — with hydration,
better diet, detoxification, exercise, and healing the microbiome.
Add perkier mitochondria to the mix, and your skin is as beautiful as
can be. All those things give you benefits not purely as standalone
solutions, but because they work on biophysics and the mitochondria.
Along with all the other things mitochondria do (or don’t do) for us, they
make water to keep skin plump, smooth, and youthful-looking from the
inside of cells. That’s the biggest benefit, because water:
1, stores redox energy from the sun and food in its e-zone;
2. maintains the surfaces of proteins so mitochondria and cells work
the way they’re supposed to;
3. enables the skin to make vitamin D;
4. potentiates magnesium;
s. enhances detoxification.

Mitochondria also produce the power (ATP) for skin cells to turn over
and resist the aging process — for example, repairing DNA breaks and
fixing holes in proteins from sun ionization. Actually, when you think
about it, changing your diet, detoxifying, exercising, and healing your
microbiome all travel different paths to arrive at common ground, which
is enhancing energy production and minimizing free-radical damage by
making mitochondria more efficient. The happy by-product is enhanced
intracellular hydration. Lively mitochondria also produce more ATP,
which helps move oils, toxins, and bacteria efficiently through the pores
of the skin, instead of stagnating and causing pimples and boils.
The takeaway from this short course on skin biology is this: Diet,
detoxing, exercise, and ingesting water are one level removed from the
real driver of attractive skin, which is mitochondria that rock.
Moisturizers and esthetician treatments such as clinical exfoliation and
laser treatments are two levels removed from the source of great skin.
That means you can take an outside-in approach, or an inside-out
approach, to getting great-looking skin. And you might get the results
you're looking for, But neither approach will be quite as good, or last as
long, as actually having younger skin on a cellular level. To put it plainly,
when your mitochondria are in great shape, they make your skin look as
fabulous as can be,
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Biochemicals such as testosterone enable you to experience the joy for life
The mechanisms that spoil your dopamine and hormone levels also cause
you to have low testosterone. These include blue light and microwave
EMFs activating your adrenals non-stop, circadian mismatches, signaling
breakdowns, and nutrient deficiencies.
Environmental factors like these derail production of testosterone, as
well as its release and recycling. Low testosterone not only inhibits
muscle-building, libido, fat distribution and bone mass, but also effects
how good or bad you feel physically, which influences occupational
compatibility and exercise choice of the sexes. Most significant for this
topic, testosterone modulates how men feel physically and mentally.
For example, men are better suited to hard physical jobs because
testosterone acts as a natural opioid to the body and mind. It makes men
feel good after a strenuous workout (i.e., less exhausted) — producing what
we might call a “heavy-workout high” — in addition to actually making
muscles and bones stronger. Whereas women tend to feel more rundown,
more quickly, doing the same work day after day. That’s because
testosterone counteracts the feeling of depletion after hard, physical labor.
Testosterone does have body- and mind-enhancing qualities for
women, but they have much less available to bounce back after a hard
workout. Other biochemicals such as adrenaline and cortisol make up
some of the difference. But, fundamentally, lower testosterone is one
reason women prefer aerobic exercises, toning practices such as yoga, and
training specific body parts such as the butt and abs — instead of working
all the major muscles groups, as men usually do. And it’s why women do
better in jobs that don’t require heavy, repetitive movement.
This could be life-changing for you: I bring up testosterone because
it demonstrates how biochemicals make you feel as your baseline... your
daily norm. When you have an adequate supply of these mood-
modulators, you feel vital, energetic, and happy with life. Conversely,
when you run low on these chemicals, you go through life feeling dark
and dissatisfied physically and mentally. You routinely feel “less than” as
your everyday experience or even icky.
When your psychological reward centers don’t have enough of these
pleasure chemicals to give you — whether you're not making them, or
because you ran out of them prematurely — you're not able to feel happy
and whole just being... just existing. This is why so many people feel
compelled to take stimulants and anti-depressants on a daily basis to boost
their biochemicals into a normal range. To their bottomless discontent,
they need constant stimulation or else they go through life in a depleted
state, Let me tell you: That’s no way to live your life. But that doesn’t
have to be your future from this point forward.
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Here are some tips to help you get to your happy place:
e First, be acutely aware of how biochemicals such as serotonin,
dopamine, and testosterone control your feeling of well-being.
¢ Next, improve your light and EMF exposures to fix daily and
seasonal timing issues that regulate your biochemistry. Most
important, see the sun rise, cut out the blue, and increase the UV.
e Fix faults in your lifestyle that interfere with production of
biochemicals (e.g., nutrient deficiencies).
e Reduce your stress level from all sympathetic activators.
® Ground yourself as much as you can.
e Raise your redox potential.
Mitohacks like these raise your mood-makers out of deficiency and into
balance, or even positive territory. Sunlight on the eyes, by itself,
makes the feel-good chemicals that enable you to feel pleasure and
emotions — both at baseline and during peak experiences. So if you're
feeling depressed or anxious, why not give your body the resources it needs
to make its own mood-raising neurotransmitters and hormones from
within, instead of taking drugs that force your body into releasing its limited
supplies of biochemicals at inappropriate times, causing even greater
deficiency and imbalance? That resource is natural, unadulterated sunlight.
Once your body is in firm control ofits biochemical levels, you go
through life with a natural feeling of well-being, instead of relying on
coffee, energy drinks, social media, drama, unhealthy habits, or serotonin-
enhancing drugs (SSRIs) that borrow from tomorrow to survive today.
Small-to-moderate changes like these can radically improve your
perception ofliving... of life itself. They can change your life experience
from within, instead of continually looking for external sources to supply
you with happiness and satisfaction. Now that’s winning.
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PARTING WORDS

Some people have the good fortune to be gifted excellent health

throughout their lives and don’t have to work very hard for it.
Unfortunately, with our disconnection from Nature so advanced, and our
airwaves polluted the way they are, those people are quickly becoming an
endangered species. That means most of us will now have to fight through-
out our lives for the right to be healthy, and to live the life we want.
But although the health challenges threatening us all may seem
daunting, be assured there are solutions to fix the chronic conditions we
all know by name. Despite what the skeptics may say, biophysics,
mitochondrial biology, and quantum biology have the answers (along
with most of the solutions) that mainstream medicine struggles to
adequately address, or even acknowledge. I hope that’s been made
abundantly clear from all the myths dispelled throughout, and the
mysteries of the body explained as they truly are.
Contrary to what doctors and health agencies say about chronic
conditions being incurable, mitophysics is a two-way street. That means
when you stop contaminating yourself with electromagnetic frequencies
that steal your energy and healing capacity. And you start doing the things
that deposit wellness into your health bank account. Then your body
does what it’s designed to do: repair and replenish itself. One more time:
You are not broken. It’s your environment that’s defective. And unless
you’re down to your last electron of redox potential, you can get better.
The journey to wellness may not be as quick, cheap, or easy as you'd
like it to be. But it’s almost always quicker, cheaper, and easier to fix
health problems than it was to create them. So keep your expectations
realistic short term and your outlook optimistic, long term. It’s okay to be
skeptical, as long as you keep looking for answers and you keep moving
forward. Simply refuse to accept underwhelming treatments and lame
excuses from a broken system that likes to keep you doped up,
disempowered, and dependent.
Just remember: The way of the mitochondriac is not a single practice
or a set protocol. There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all, perfect way
to achieve immaculate health and resiliency. That’s the wrong way to
think about the new health paradigm of n=1. Instead, think of it as a
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journey ~ a new way of life that you build one principle at a time, one
practice at a time, and one product at a time.
Conversely, relying on a bunch of thoroughly indoctrinated white lab
coats to give you a pill for every ill... that’s a lazy man’s way to accumulate
a lifetime of annoying side effects, hidden costs, and declining health. Your
crusade to a better place may take a little time, and a little experimentation.
However, the results are more all-encompassing, more reliably attained, and
far more satisfying, because now you’re working with Nature, not against it.
Just test out one or two measures at a time that make sense to you.
Start with the quick and easy ones, and see how they fit into your
(upgraded) lifestyle and budget. Keep the tips you like. Set aside the ones
that don’t work well for you. Challenge and re-challenge to make sure Challenge /re-
challenge test:
the measures you adopt continue to work for you long-term. Just don’t Purposely stopping
fall victim to complacency. Don’t give up for the wrong reasons. Get and restarting a
greedy when it comes to your health. Keep looking to add more supplement or
therapy to confirm
mitochondrial capacity, and you’ll be rewarded in ways you don’t always its benefits (in
notice straight away, but will ultimately appreciate when you realize how your mind).
much they’re benefitting you.
In other words, don’t accept anything less than robust energy, a fully-
functioning brain, and excellent health for as long as possible, because
now you have a choice. It is with these thoughts that I offer this
collection of cutting-edge principles and practices to you, your family,
and your loved ones.

The End (of the edification)

... The start of something life-changing for you
GLOSSARY

Archaea microbes that are similar to bacteria, but different enough to be

considered another life form.
Aromatic amino acid a building block of neurotransmitters.
ATP adenosine triphosphate is an energy storage molecule made in mitochondria
that drives dozens of cellular processes crucial to running the body.
ATP synthase (aka ATPase) fifth cytochrome ‘workstation’ of the electron
transport chain that completes ATP production.
Autophagy controlled breakdown and replacement of damaged cellular
components to keep the cell running well.
Beta-oxidation process by which long-chain fats are broken down to move ATP
production forward.
Biophysics the physics that controls biology.
Brown fat a specialized type of fat whose dense mitochondria populations burn it
to make heat when you get cold.
Challenge/re-challenge test purposely stopping and restarting a supplement or
therapy to confirm its benefits (in your mind).
Chi vital life force, or essential energy, running through all living beings that
makes us alive.
Chloroplast primitive symbiotic life form inside plants that uses chlorophyll to
convert sunlight into energy. Thought to have evolved from early bacteria,
chloroplasts perform photosynthesis.
Chronobiology time-based biological cycles (e.g., circadian, infradian, and
ultradian rhythms).
Circadian rhythm biorhythm lasting about 24 hours, such as daily cycles of sleep
and waking.
Cold Thermogenesis Protocol Dr. Jack Kruse’s way of using cold exposure to
increase mitochondrial efficiency and magnetism throughout the body.
Colloid solution with free-floating particles mixed in (e.g., milk).
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Coronal mass ejection (CME) the release of large amounts of plasma, magnetic
flux, and EMFs from the sun. Large CMEs can shut down power grids, cause
fires, and electrocute people touching conductors.
C-reactive protein test a common measure of inflammation. A highly sensitive
C-reactive protein test (nsCRP) measures low levels of C-reactive protein in the
blood.

Crop amendment material applied to a crop and/or soil to improve its physical
or chemical properties.
Cytochrome the electron transport chain (that makes ATP) is comprised of five
cytochrome complexes, also called respiratory proteins, or just cytochromes for short.
Central retinal pathway (CRP) helps tell the brain what time of day or night it
is. It runs from the retinas at the back of the eyes to the SCN and leptin receptor
in the hypothalamus.
DHA docosahexaenoic acid is a very special fat that can convert sunlight into DC
electricity, and back again.
Deuterium a hydrogen atom with an extra neutron in its nucleus. Nature uses
deuterium’s different structure and properties to control biological programs such
as energy production, food seasonality, and aging.
Dirty electricity unwanted spikes, surges, and frequencies riding the power lines
(below the frequency of wireless communications).
Dimercapto succinic acid (DMSA) is a potent clinical-strength chelator of
heavy metals that is over-the-counter and gentle enough to use at home. It grabs
hold of metals such as lead and mercury and escorts them out of the body through
detox pathways.
Ejection fraction percentage of blood pumped out of the heart with each
contraction.

Electrosmog (unwanted) electromagnetic fields.

Emergency healing response the body’s short-term fix for a problem that
borrows resources from another area, instead of making more at the source.
Endogenous made in/by the body.
Epigenetics environmental factors control the way our genes turn into physical
traits and behaviors.
Eukaryote multi-celled organism, in contrast to bacteria, which are single-celled
Exclusion zone water, EZ, or e-zone the fourth phase of water, between a
liquid and a solid.
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Exogenous from outside the body.

Extra-cellular matrix supportive structures and biochemicals outside of cells (ec.
collagen, enzymes, glycoproteins, and minerals.
Fascia thin, filmy casing surrounding muscles, nerves, organs, blood vessels, and
bones that holds each tissue in place, separates it, protects it, and relays information.
GAPS coined by gut-brain health pioneer Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, Gut
and Psychology Syndrome conditions are gut imbalances, such as leaky gut and
gut dysbiosis, that cause impaired brain function, such as ADD, autism, anxiety,
and depression.
Ground current stray electricity in the ground underneath you.
Heteroplasmy rate degree to which your respiratory proteins in mitochondria are
stretched out vs. condensed. A high heteroplasmy rate is unproductive and
unhealthy; low is condensed and productive.
Infradian rhythm biorhythm lasting longer than 24 hours. In this book, infradian
rhythm refers to a seasonal cycle. For example, humans tend to gain weight in late
fall through winter, and sleep less in summer, while animals breed, hibernate,
molt, and grow fur or lose fur seasonally.
Interstitial space the fluid and structural environment between blood vessels and
cells.
Inverse Spin Hall Effect discovered around 2008, the ISHE explains that current
spin (in this case from magnetic flux) creates an electrical current at a 90° angle.
Isotope elements with a different number of neutrons than their basic variety —
often making that isotope radioactive. For example, the radioactive tritium is a
hydrogen atom with two extra neutrons.
Kruse, Dr. Jack world’s leading mitochondriac educator and neurosurgeon.

Jonesing a strong need, desire, or craving for something — especially by an addict.

Jump conduction transference between conductors ofstatic electricity from
nnEMBPs.
Kelvin (light) a measurement of a light’s color, ranging between 1000°K and
12,000°K or higher. Traditional incandescent light is considered “warm” at about
2700-3000°K (yellowish). Color temperatures around 5500-6 s00°K approximate
daylight (white). Modern, energy-efficient LED lights and screens are 6500—
gooo°K (blue).
Leptin Prescription Reset Dr. Jack Kruse's protocol to improve the body’s
response to leptin in order to achieve a healthy weight and fix
hormone/endocrine dysfunctions such as hypothyroidism.
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Mammalian battery informal, general term describing stores of electric charge

and photonic energy that cells can use to do work. (1) E-zone is the biggest
cache. (2) ATP holds electrical energy in its chemical bonds. (3) Cell membranes
hold electrical charge. (4) Muscle movement releases electrons — as piezoelectricity
mostly from bones, ligaments, cartilage and tendons — into the acupuncture
meridians. (5) DNA is its own battery, powered by a spiraling coalescence of
cosmic energy, often called “scalar energy.”
Manhattan Project Top Secret US government project employing 100,000
people to build the first atomic bomb, which ended World War IL.
Methylation the transfer of one carbon atom and three hydrogens (CH)) — called
a “methyl group” — to another molecule. Methyl groups control detoxification
through glutathione, immunity, inflammation, gene expression, repair of free
radical damage, neurotransmitter production for brain function, energy
production, the stress response and more. Methylation defects are thought to
contribute to autism and many other disorders.
Mitchell, Dr. Peter scientist famous for discovering how mitochondria make
energy (ATP): electrons jump along the ETC, pumping protons as they go, finally
the fifth cytochrome adds a phosphate group to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to
form adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Mitochondria microscopic powerplants of the cell. They convert sugar, fat and
protein from food into energy that the body can use (ATP).
Mitochondriac a fan/follower of mitochondria, biophysics, and seasonal cycles of
the body.
MuMetal magnetic shielding material made of nickel, iron, copper, chromium,
and molybdenum.
n=1 ‘n’ is shorthand for the number of people in a study, So instead ofa test group
representing the general population, n=1, in this context, means you are your own
test subject. Mitochondriacs use the term “n=1" informally to mean your response
to a given diet, supplement, drug, practice, or treatment is unique to you.
Orbital path in which an electron might be found orbiting around its nucleus —
not necessarily a linear path, but a path of probability.
Ott, John researcher and author who developed time-lapse photography
techniques to study how light affects plant growth, in addition to how their
chloroplasts utilize light in photosynthesis, and how children became hyperactive
when exposed to artificial light in classrooms.
Oxidative phosphorylation aka the electron transport chain (ETC). The main
process by which ATP (energy) is made in mitochondria.
 GLOSSARY Y d3

Paramagnetism substance that is weakly attracted to magnetic fields because of its

unpaired electron(s).
Parasympathetic state of rest, digest, and calmness.
Paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, in collaboration with the
suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), controls homeostasis (normal operational state) by
regulating a broad range of autonomic functions — including cardiovascular,
thermoregulatory, metabolic, circadian and stress responses.
Price, Dr. Weston A. dentist and researcher who travelled the world in the 1930s
to study how diet affected the health of indigenous populations.
Prokaryote single-celled organism lacking a nucleus, including bacteria and
archaea.
Pulsed electro-magnetic field therapy devices (PEMEF) stimulate nerves,
muscles, and blood flow using ‘on-off electricity to heal an area.
Pyruvate produced primarily by glycolysis, pyruvate is a chemical compound that
fuels the TCA cycle (aka the Krebs cycle, citric acid cycle). See diagram of cellular
respiration on pg. $1, and the citric acid cycle on pg. $3.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS, aka free radicals, oxygen radicals or redox
molecules) metabolism makes dozens of different ROS molecules characterized by
oxygen atoms with one or more unpaired electrons.
Redox short for “REDuction-O Xidation.” Redox reactions involve oxidation
and reduction.

Redox potential pools of electrons and their net-negative charge (and, in some
cases, pools of positively-charged protons) that the body uses to move materials
and perform chemical reactions (think battery power).
Red pill a rude awakening when a person’s false beliefs are dispelled after they
were programmed to think in another way.
Respiratory protein workstations (1-5) in mitochondria that make ATP, using
electrons and protons.
Quantum biology how light photons and electrons influence biology.
Quantum Xeno Effect quantum physics/quantum mechanics tells us that the
mere act of observing or measuring subatomic particles, such as electrons or
photons, invariably changes the results.
Schumann resonance earth’s natural resonant frequency, which is slow and
gentle at 7.83 cycles per sec.
Serum (of blood) the liquidy part of blood (i.e., not the cells or clotting factors).
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Standards of care normal, acceptable ways to treat disease in the medical system,
according to medical boards and public health agencies. When conventional
doctors step outside these guidelines, they risk being sanctioned by their boards.
Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) one of the brain’s primary control centers that
run daily and seasonal cycles (circadian and infradian, respectively), based on the
information it receives about your environment.
Sympathetic alert, active, and focused state.
TCA cycle (aka Krebs cycle, citric acid cycle) a preparatory process that makes
precursors for the ETC, as well as producing a small amount of ATP on its own.
Ultradian rhythm biorhythm lasting less than 24 hours. For instance, sleep cycles
last about 90-120 minutes.

Voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) extremely sensitive, electrically-

powered valves that let calcium into the cell.
Wallace, Dr. Doug world’s leading mitochondria researcher. He taught the field
most of what it knows about mitochondria, including how they are generationally
inherited, and how local food and climate controls metabolism, epigenetic
expression, and aging (through free radicals).

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INDEX A appetite, 170, 173-175, 206
AC/alternating current Apple, Inc., 276
electricity, v, 135, 224, 236, archaea, 15-17, 22, 296, 313
238-240 aromatic amino acid, 8, 222
acetyl-CoA, 52, 53, 56 arthnitis, 6, 88, 104, 106, 130, 185
Achilles tendon, 103 artificial intelligence/AI, 237,
acidic/acidity, 24, 26, 43, 58, 269, 272, 279
73-76, 88, 89, 105, 106, artificial light, 9, 10, 18, 68,

110, 171, 200; 221, 263, 293 215, 216, 226, 242, 247,
ACTH, 8, 128 281, 282, 298, 312
asthma, 105, 295
acupuncture, 114, 119, 121.
128,135, 136 astrocytes, 114-123, 134, 239,
adjuvants, 268 240, 258, 259
atherosclerosis, 301, 303
ADP/adenosine diphosphate,
Atkins diet, 33, 201
56, 57, 192, 312
adrenal/adrenal fatigue, 6, 40, ATP/adenosine triphosphate,
3, 16, 20, 24, 26, 32-35, 42,
11981345 1355) 9575173:
43, 48-62, 65-69, 84, 88, 91,
177, 218, 223, 242, 243,
107, 115, 119-125, 130-134,
257, 258, 262, 305
171, 172, 180, 184-189,
adrenaline, 40, 122, 128, 215,
192, 196-202, 210, 223,
222, 256, 257, 260, 269,
224, 239, 244, 256-260,
298, 305
aging, 49, 75-82, 89, 92, 94,
265, 285, 287, 303, 304,
309-314
95, 106, anti-aging, 2, 78,
ATPase/synthase, 43, 54-57,
130, 183, 186
67, 124, 185, 186, 192, 196,
alcohol, 110, 229
210, 223, 261, 309
aldehyde, 244, 266
attention deficit disorder/
Alexander, Aaron, 248
ADD, 82; 91, 130, 132, 242,
alkalinity, 73, 76, 89, 90, 171
243, 266, 311, 333
allergies, xvii, 105
autism, xviii, 6, 62, 82, 91,
aluminum, 121, 122, 259, 267, 268
130, 132, 187, 188, 264-
aluminum foil, 228
266,311, S12. 992
Alzheimer’s, xviii, 8, 41, 65,
autoimmunity, xix, 6, 81, 87,
66, 88, 90, 106, 122, 130-
176, 187, 188, 195, 208,
132, 157, 191, 240, 253, 264
240, 264, 270, 296, 297
amalgam (cavities), 91, 133, 268
autonomic nervous system,
ancestral programming, 33-36
149, 297
animal fat, xii, 188
autophagy/mitochondrial
animal products, 300
recycling/mitophagy, 55, 64,
anorexia, 23, 175
65, 69, 198, 201, 202, 245,
anterior cruciate
292, 293, 309
ligement/ACL, 103
antibiotics, 68, 69, 80, 169, 170
anti-depressants, 4, 305
B
bacteria, 2, 15-17, 22, 23, 68,
anti-inflammatory, 86, 94
75, 81, 131, 169, 185, 186,
antimicrobial, 73
192, 270, 296-299, 302,
antioxidant, 35, 59, 73-80, 84-
304, 309, 310, 313
94, 186, 197, 254
Batmanghelidj, Fereydoon, xv,
apoptosis, 64, 65, 69, 80, 118,
107, 334
121, 198, 251, 292, 293
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Becker, Dr. Robert O, xv, brain fog, 187, 243, 253, 295 chi/vatality/life force, 115,
114, 123, 249, 334 breathing, 97 120, 123, 131, 240
bees, 235, 265 bromine, 103, 104 chloramines, 109
Bergel, Kurt, 149 brown fat, 29, 43, 103, 180, chlorella, 132, 133
beta cells (of pancreas), 84, 176 209, 223, 309 chlorine/chlorinated, 26, 69,
beta-endorphin, 8, 128, 225 74, 80, 103, 109
Big Ag, 203 Se chlorine dioxide, 74, 80
Big Pharma, x, 13, 178, 250 cadmium, 132, 260 chlorophyll, 21, 25, 33, 44,
bile, 300 caffeine, 110 PAR Fo)O}e)
biochemistry, 2, 9, 13, 24, 99, calcium, 45, 76, 104, 122, 203, chloroplasts, 25, 190, 191
130, 159, 196, 201, 225, 225, 250-252, 257-260, 262, cholesterol, xii, 69, 86, 106,
231, 240, 255, 292, 303, 306 264, 299-302, 314, calcium 1071522 T5521 64 Loi,
biofeedback, 119, 122 efflux, 104, 203, 258, 259, 264 188; 219; 229, 255, 265,
biological programming, 2, 31, calcium channel-blocker, 259 301, 303
174, 178 Cambrian Explosion, 17 chromophore, 44, 219
Biomat, 230, 231, 335 cancer, v, Xii, XViii, xix, 6, 8, chronic fatigue, 122, 130, 208
biophotons/extremely low 63, 66, 79, 85, 88, 107, 119, chronobiology, 5, 45, 126,
frequency UV light/ELF 12 ISOS Sie aeoy 166, 220
UV, 22, 23, 45, 170, 204, 187, 191-195, 198, 216, circadian rhythm/biology/
261, 264, 297 227, 229, 236, 240, 251- system/clock, xvii, 4-7, 13,
biorhythms, 1, 5, 6, 32, 38, 55, 253, 264, 270, 275, 277, 18, 28, 38, 40-42, 45, 58,
95, 113; 125, 127, 1837214; 289, 292-294 68, 125, 127, 163-166, 170,
216, 219, 220, 223, 225 candida, 59 181, 207, 208, 218, 220,
Blank, Dr. Martin, 263 capillary bed, 141, 143, 150, 222, 224, 230, 231; 241-
blood/blood flow, xii, xiv, 2, 153, 156 245, 250, 256, 267, 278,
3, 7, 30, 39; 40, 53,66, 76, carbon redox molecules, 81 281-284, 287, 296-300, 305,
80, 84-86, 92, 95, 105, 106, carbs: 3) 10s 25,50 ,Go) oD. Ao. 309, 313, 314
112-115, 120, 122, 128, 55-60, 65, 66, 69, 84, 164, circulation, xiv, 30, 43, 94, 95,
131, 132, 135, 139-158, 171, 172, 190, 197, 200- 98, 139-156, 171, 177, 223, 224
173-178, 185, 186, 195, 202, 207, 229, 239, 245, citric acid cycle, see TCA cycle
202, 206, 210,211, 218= 248, 295 climate change, 125, 204
225, 228, 243, 244, 246, cardiovascular disease, 122, clock genes (circadian), 297
260, 265, 266, 285, 293, 301, 303 clotting/clogged arteries, 151,
295, 297, 300-303, 310-313 carrier frequencies (resonance), 120 152,155; 313
blood-brain barrier, 266 cartilage, 103, 104, 106, 125, 165 clustering (water), 148, 151
blood-sugar level, 39, 84, 176, 243 cataracts, 218, 245, 284, 298 coffee, 104, 110
blue light, v, 5, 6, 10, 19, 26, cavities, 299 cognitive decline, 240, 270
33, 39, 42-45, 67-69, 85, CDMA (cell service), 239 cognitive function, 2, 238, 277
108, 122, 127, 159, 168- cell-cell communication, 49, cohesiveness (of blood), 140-
171, 178-180, 208, 215-223, 81, 82, 89, 90, 239 144, 148-150, 155, 165
227, 229; 239-250, 256, cellular respiration, 20, 51, 52, cold thermogenesis, 25, 69, 130,
25/201 262,27 neiie 56, 72 132, 167, 205, 209, 210, 309
281, 282, 286, 287, 294, Center for Deuterium collagen, 42, 76, 86, 103, 125,
296, 298, 300, 305 Depletion, 195, 196 214, 300, 311
bone, xix, 85, 104, 108, 118, central retinal pathway, 179, Collins, Dr. Que, 195
123, 1259133, 258, 300) 245, 246 colon, 105
305, 311 Champagne, 128 color temperature, 215, 222, 242
Bonlie, Dr. Dean, xiv, xv, 98, charged particles, 91, 97, 100, colostrum, 174
111, 114, 126, 129-134, 303 140-155, 158, see also zeta congestive heart failure, 62,
Boros, Dr. Laszl6, 191, 192, potential 130, 153, 154
eS pate) chestahedron/Chester, Frank, contact lenses, 225, 226
brain, 82, 105, 106 153, 154 coping mechanism, 59, 84, 105
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CoQto, 55, 68, 69 digestion, 7, 8, 37, 87, 105, enamel (tooth), 222, 298-300
cortisol, 8, 40, 42, 95, 122, 106; 210, 113, 118, 157; endocrine organs/system, 84, 91,
128, 130, 177, 206-208, 159, 188, 200, 243, 260, 297 157-159, 173-177, 223, 257
2155 242) 243,256,257, dinosaur, 112 endosymbiosis, 17
260, 262, 298, 305 dirty electricity, 69, 96, 98, entangled particles, 40, 41
coupling efficiency (ETC), 59-61 203, 237-239, 265, 270, enterocytes, 159
Cowan, Dr. Thomas,140 274, 283, 287, 294, 295, 310 enzyme, 82, 113, 119, 187,
cravings, 59 DMSA (chelator), 132, 133, 240, 255
creativity, 243, 256 152,308), o510) 335 epigenetics, 3, 9, 27, 174, 187
C-reactive protein/CRP (test), DNA, 7, 15-17, 23, 27, 43, 48, estrogen, 38, 188
179, 180, 246, 247, highly 49, 55, 59, 61-64, 69, 72, eukaryotes/eukaryotic, 16, 17,
sensitive C-reactive protein 78, 80, 82, 85, 88, 90, 121, 48, 158, 296
test (hsCRP test), 179 125, 130; 169; 176, 187, exclusion zone/e-zone/EZ/
200, 229, 240, 250-253, fourth phase of water, x, xv,
D 263, 264, 293, 304 Dy 222526549, 51455: 99"
da Vinci, Leonardo, 146 dopamine, 8, 48, 72, 222, 242, 104, 108, 109, 146-155,
Darwin, Charles, 27 243, 248-251, 256, 257, 166, 186, 198, 219, 223,
DC electricity, 10, 18, 22, 39, 277, 282, 283, 305, 306 243, 255, 256, 304, 310
49, 68, 109, 113-115, 118, exercise, 1, 2, 4, 25, 30, 34,
120, 158-160, 236, 244, E 36) 49) 51) 532517, 1605 64)
256, 287, 296, 297, 310 earthing/grounding, iv, 6, 24, 75-80, 83, 86, 95, 123, 126,
deficiency-additive paradigm, 4 25, 30, 40, 51, 93-98, 114, 132, 163, 164, 175, 184,
dehydration, xv, 24, 105-108, LTE Mie 2. 1995 200; 196, 198, 205-208, 216,
126, 188, 229, 255, 256, 225 25 2 218, 269, 270, 304, 305
259, 287, 304 eczema, 159 extra-cellular matrix, 76
dementia, 90, 132, 191, 240, 253 edema, 105 eyes, 73, 300
dentin tubules, 299 PDIGAy is2
depression, 106 Einstein, Albert, 20 B
detoxification, 37, 48, 75, 78, ejection fraction, 146 FADH2, 53-56
82, 91, 92, 106, 113, 130, electrical charge, 24, 39, 66, fascia, 121, 122
157, 188, 192, 194, 198, 74, 78, 89, 95, 100, 108, fat-burning pathways, 180,
243, 262, 294, 304, 312 ilptlaky With7isslPAeeS Ile bates 181, 208
deuterium, iv, 6, 10, 43, 45, 172, 201, 223 fatty acid oxidation, 52
48, 49, 55, 60, 68, 69, 72, electro-hypersensitivity (EHS), fatty acids, 77
103, 108-110, 132, 169, (Qe olheZoDy 200n zoo, FGC, 250, 254, 262, 276, 277
183-198, 203, 227, 239, 265, 266, 289, 295 fermentation, 59
255, 294, 297, 298, 310 electron deprivation, 25 ferromagnetism, 156
deuterium depletion, 191, 197 electron donor, 55, 171 fertility, 6, 38, 157, 166, 173,
DHA, iv, 6, 10, 16, 22, 23, 39, electron transport chain/ETC, 177, 235, 242, 251, 276
65, 92, 104, 108, 130, 139, 3,5, 16, 20, 33-36, 43-46, fiber, 33, 35, 60, 186, 197,
156-161, 171, 178, 180, 50-60, 63-68, 77, 90-92, 216, 272, 288
186, 199, 201, 202, 210, 113, 115, 118, 124, 147, fibrocyte, 302
243, 244, 287, 296, 297, 170-172, 178, 180, 185, fibromyalgia, 122, 130, 187, 240
310, short loop, 158, long 186, 192, 193, 198, 200, 50 Hz (fifty hertz electricity),
loop (DHA recycling), 158, 202) 209% 219) 222; 223; 45, 236, 239
sn2 position, 160 239, 244, 245, 256, 259- 5G (five gee telephony), v, 12,
262, 292-295, 309-314 19, 26, 98, 166, 204, 241,
DHEA, 229
diabetes, xviii, 4, 6,8, 25, 35, electrostatic (attraction, 250, 260-264, 269-275, 278,
repulsion), 64, 91, 95, 102, 279, 288, 289, 294
39, 41, 62, 65, 66, 82, 85,
88, 106, 156-158, 173, 176, 132, 140-144, 149, 150 fluorescent lights, 247, 283
177, 179, 181, 191, 193, emergency healing response,
218, 242-245, 248, 253, 303 xiv, 129
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fluoride, fluorosis, v, 26, 68, 69, hormone panel test, 2, 157, 294
Fi Hunt, Valerie, 111
72, 103, 104, 107; 109, 152, Hadza tribe, 170
154, 180, 208, 294, 298-300 hybrid tanning/IR pre-
hamstring, 103
fluorophore, 222 conditioning, 107, 216, 229, 281
haplogroup, 34, 61
food compatibility/mismatched hydration, 78, 105, 106, 110
haplotype, 34, 35, 61, 63, 176, 206
foods, 28, 265 hydraulic ram pump, 140, 145, 146
Harvey, William, 139
food sensitivities, 87, 253, 264 hydrogen peroxide, 80, 185
headache, 95, 105, 235, 253, 295
4G (four gee telephony), 11, hyperbaric oxygen, 293
healing capacity, 5, 6, 11, 25,
26, 166, 203, 236, 270, 271, hypothalamus, 8, 173, 174,
27, 58, 83, 84, 89, 90, 93,
278, 280, 288, 289, 294 178, 179, 208, 310, 313
130 1342003223" 236,
freckle, 227 hypothyroidism, 175, 208
239, 266, 307
free radical, see reactive oxygen hypoxia/hypoxic, 23, 53, 57,
health bank account, 129, 307
species 156, 168, 293
heart, xii, xvili, xix, 40, 53-56,
fruit, 23, 31, 33, 58, 68, 69,
62, 66, 82, 85, 88, 91, 95, 96,
110, 186-190, 197, 206
1O7 pie dl25 122, 1305-131,
I
ice, 91; 10254252 210,299
139-141, 144-159, 181, 191,
G PAWL PPR RAS VASOPA Gil
immune system, 48, 72, 73,
Galen, 139 79-81, 85-90, 105, 107, 131,
270, 285, 301, 303, 310,
gamma rays, 124, 285 174, 235, 260, 292, 294,
heart valve, 145, 146, 150
Gates, Bill, 277 296, 298, 300
heart disease, xii, xviii, 62, 82,
genes/genetic/gene expression/ implosion/implosive/spiraling,
88, 91, 107, 181, 191, 301, 303
genome, x, 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 15- 140, 145-147, 151, 154
heat shock protein 70, 65, 263
17, 27, 28, 38-40, 43, 58, incandescent (light), 100, 241,
heavy metals, 2, 77, 86, 91, 92,
61-64, 72, 78-80, 92, 129, 242, 283, 284, 311
IN es BaTS i ed eh
159, 166, 174, 184, 187, infection, 79, 83, 85, 87
133, 161, 260, 263, 266,
188, 258, 262, 265, 270, infertility, xix, 4, 40, 155, 158,
268, 270, 301-303, 310
291-294, 297, 303, 310, 312 177, 230, 243, 253, 275
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty
genetically modified organism/ inflammation, 2, 24, 26, 31,
Principle, 116
GMO, 189, 190, 204 3D 56 S94, SS nT s
hemoglobin, 21, 130, 147,
geoengineering, 228, 260 81-90, 94, 95, 98, 105, 121,
156, 221, 228
global warming, 125 123, 160, 163, 170, 176,
Herxheimer reaction, 132
glucose, 51, 52, 67, 106, 115, 178-181, 187, 189, 200, 207,
heteroplasmy rate, 10, 35, 43,
120, 193, 207, 244, 248, 210, 229, 243, 244, 259,
58, 59, 63-69, 132, 171, 176,
260, 265, 295 266, 293, 301-303, 310, 312
189, 191, 202, 206, 209,
glutathione, 74, 77, 239, 312 infradian rhythm/biology/
210, 243-245, 261,263, 281,
gluten, 59, 159, 296 programming, 5, 6, 13, 20,
287, 293, 296, 297, 301, 311
glycolysis, 16, 51, 52, 58, 59, 67, 29, 32-38, 44, 163, 172,
high blood pressure/hypertension,
IEPA ARMS WTA AAUS), P2819) Shi 183, 200, 206, 216, 231,
152, 153, 295
glyphosate, 9, 91, 159, 188, 296, 297, 309, 311, 314
histamine, 105, 295, 302
189, 204, 260, 268, 280 infrared light/IR/red light, 5,
histidine, 8
golden ratio, 153 20-23, 30, 37, 43, 44, 59,
Hof, Wim, 31, 181, 209
gravity, 38, 40, 100, 125-127 68, 102, 103, 108, 132, 146,
hormone, xii, 2,5, 6, 10, 22,
ground current, 98, 241, 311 154, 170, 209; 214-217,
31, 38-41, 45, 66, 72, 75,
grounding, see earthing 219-231, 241, 250, 256,
79, 81-85, 91-95, 105, 107,
GSM (cell service), 239 276, 281-284, 296, 298, 300
PTL Se A veul Oo Seon.
Gumiel, Dr., 129 inner mitochondrial
155-159, 163-166, 171-175,
Gut and Pyschology Syndrome/ membrane, 22, 45, 64
180, 181, 186-188, 191, 200-
GAPS diet, 88, 188, 311 insulin, 4, 6, 25, 82-85, 105,
202, 206, 209, 210, 215,
gut associated lymphatic 156, 158, 174-179, 200,
218, 222, 231, 240-246,
tissue/GALT, 296, 297, 301 205, 208, 244-248, 260
250) 251, 256,258) 277,
gut barrier, 266 interconnectedness (of blood),
287, 289, 294, 305, 306, 311
see cohesiveness
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interleukin-6/IL-6, 176, 181 Lepun Prescription (Rx) Reset, meniscus, 103, 165
intermembrane space 1675 175, 205, 311 Mercola, Dr. Joe, 229
(mitochondria), 53, 54 leukemia, 241, 267 mercury, xii, 91, 121-123,
intermittent fasting, 64 libido, 41, 155, 208, 230, 305 132, 133, 152-154, 161,
internal pharmacy, 22, 215, ligaments, 103, 123 266-268, 283, 301, 303, 310
218, 222, 242 linoleic acid, see omega-6 fatty metabolic reset, 164
Internet of Things/IoT, 110, acid metabolic syndrome, 158, 177,
255, 260, 268, 271, 272, 277 linear effect, 218 249, 270
Inverse Square Law, 286 Ling, Gilbert, 50, 99 metabolic water, 43, 51, 55,
iodine, 104, 152, 208, 209 liver, 23, 39, 41, 66, 84, 108, 107, 193, 196, 255, 261
ionization, 44, 250-252, 304 139, 158, 161, 207 metabolism, 2, 20, 22, 25, 28,
Irish, 108, 228, 229 lungs, 105, 106, 146, 149, 150, 156 31, 32, 37-41, 45, 56-60, 67,
iron, 21, 41, 64, 73, 76, 112, lyme disease, 87, 187 72-79, 92, 127, 151, 156,
124, 126, 221, 268 lymph, 132, 195 157, 166, 1675 192; 175,
ischemia, 53 176, 180, 183-185, 190-202,
M 206, 209, 218, 235, 239,
JJobs, Steve,
276, 277
macronutrients, 2, 3, 25, 171, 243-250, 260, 261, 264,
196, 245 265, 277, 287, 298, 313, 314
Johns Hopkins University, 146 macular degeneration, 179, 245 methylation, 174
jump conduction, 98, 274, 311 magnesium, 21, 76, 107, 110, microbiome, 75, 78, $1
junk food, 190 LOA 255201, 202,299, microbiota, 71
300, 304 micronutrients, 2
K magnetic fields, xi, xiv, 5, 23, microwave oven, 109, 110, 238,
ketogenic diet (keto), 33, 132, 39, 41, 45, 56, 64-66, 69, 253, 254, 267, 271, 276, 285
191, 198, 201, 245 94, 96, 111-113, 118, 119, minerals, 35, 59, 76, 106, 231,
ketosis/ketotic, 25, 48, 64, 65, 124-139, 147, 156-159, 167, 259, 299, 300
164, 177, 193, 196, 198, 170, 186, 202, 210, 240- mis-folded proteins, 90
201, 202, 207 244, 288, 294, 295, 312, Mitchell, Dr. Peter, 50
kidney, 300 313, bipolar magnetism, 119, mitochondriac, xix, 12-14, 37,
Krebs cycle, see TCA cycle 129, 135, 240, chaotic fields, 68, 83, 189, 220, 224, 235,
Kruse, Dr. Jack, iv, xv, 9-12, 119, 135, unidirectional/ 248, 307, 311
23, 38, 63, 92, 108, 128, unipolar/one-way field, 111, mitohack, 306
130, 140, 161-170, 177, 129, 131, 134, 267 mitophysics, 5, 6, 55, 99, 307
178, 181, 195, 205-209, Magnetic Molecular Energizer/ mold toxicity, v, 298
216, 221, 229; 231, 247- MME, 118, 130- 133 mood, 32, 94, 95, 208, 216,
250, 270, 277, 281, 301, Magnetico Sleep Pad, 123, 224, 225, 305, 306
309, 311 129-137, 152) 168) 2227 mood-miodulators
303, 335 (endogenous), 305
L mainstream medicine/ multiple sclerosis/MS, 106,

lactic acid, 53 orthodox medicine, ix, x, 107, 122, 130, 132, 187
Larmor Frequency Formula, 113 xix, xii, 12, 13, 191, 248, muscles, 8, 17, 30, 53, 66, 85,
lateral gene transfer, 17 261, 267, 298 104, 123, 125, 258-262,
Leach, Jeff, 169, 170 magnetosphere, 124 305, 311, 313
lead, xiv, 4, 7, 38, 39, 44, 92, mammalian battery, 24, 99, myelin, 184, 264, 295

100, 121, 122, 132, 168, 108, 261 myelinate (nerves), 177, 183
240, 258, 267, 301, 303, 310 melanin, 8, 222, 228, 300, 301 MRI, 128, 130
leakage of light, 22, 23, 39, 261 melanopsin, 69, 178, 179, 220,
leaky gut, 1, 159, 160, 176, 243-247 N
188, 207, 249, 264, 297, 311 melatonin, 8, 38, 42, 69, 130, n=1;9; 312
leptin, iv, xv, 6, 36, 38, 40, 41, 198, 208, 215, 222, 230, NADH, 53-56, 222
243, 245, 248, 249, 262, negative charge, 73, 75, 88-91,
163-169, 172-181, 205-208,
281-284, 295, 298 95, 100, 101, 113, 132, 141-
218, 220, 268, 310, 311
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144, 171, 200, 256, 294, oysters, 161, 180, 207 pollution, 98
300, 303, 313 ozone/QO3, 16, 74, 80, 124, Polyakov, Valeri, 127
nephropathy, 155 1255127 POMC, 8, 225
neuro-degeneration, 62, 90, ozone layer, 124, 125, 127 poor circulation,
155
91, 157, 179, 193, 201, 236, Popp PhD, Fritz-Albert, 204
240, 264 Iv porphyrin, 44, 221, 222, 228
neuropathy/nerve damage, 82, pain, 7, 68, 86, 87, 94, 95, positive charge, 24, 58, 73, 88-
130, 155, 156, 224 104-106, 130, 133, 165, 91, 100, 101, 143, 144, 152,
neurotransmitter, 2, 6, 8, 22, Pratl, PAS) 161, 178-180, 200, 221,
40, 72, 81, 105, 106, 215, paleo, 33, 168, 191, 201, 245 2095 202
220, 222, 242, 266, 309, 312 Pall, Dr. Martin, 251, 259 potassium, 76, 91, 105, 121, 132
nitric oxide/NO, 74, 154, 218, pancreas, 23, 39, 41, 84, 106, precession, 130
DONS PLR, PAA, P39), PATS 157, 176 pregnenolone, 188
nnEMF remediation, 238, 288 paramagnetism, iv, 6, 139, 147, Price, Dr. Weston A., 10
non-ionizing radiation, 250, 252 155-157, 312 processed foods, 26, 33, 43, 68,
non-linear effects, 218 parasites, 131 69, 200, 239, 299
North Pole, 125, 126 parasympathetic, 48, 104, 107, progesterone, 188
Northerner, 35 225, 256, 259, 262, 266 prokaryote, 296
paraventricular nucleus/PVN, protons, 2, 3, 5, 20, 25, 43, 45,
O 250, 2705 53-56, 59, 74, 75, 88-92,
Ober, Clint, 93 Parkinson’s, 65, 82, 90, 122, 101, 115, 142-155, 171,
obesity, 23, 41, 62, 107, 170, 130, 132, 240, 253 172, 177, 178, 200-202,
173-175, 181, 184, 191, 201, pathogens, 73, 77, 78, 86, 131, 266 209, 223, 245, 256, 261,
236, 242-245, 253, 264, 303 PEMF devices, 119, 313 312313
omega-6 fatty acid/vegetable periodontal disease, 300 psychological, 81, 91, 173,
oil, 229 peripheral nervous system, 160 242, 257, 261, 294, 305
O’Neill, Barbara, 110 peroxynitrite radical, 252, 259 pulsate/pulses (blood), 114,
opsins, 22, 220, 245, neuropsin, pH, 76, 78, 89 117, 118, 119, 140-146,
220, photopsin, 220, phenylalanine, 8, 222 151, 153, 202, 214, 262
rhodopsin, 220 Photoelectric effect, 20, 21, 24, Pupillary Reflex Test, 262
orbital, 44, 45, 55, 115-119, 130 114, 130, 165 pyruvate, 51-53, 56, 193
organic, 189, 197, 204, 207, photoreceptors, 29, 32, 33, 37,
222, 259
orthodox medicine, see
179, 215, 218, 220, 226, 242-245
photosynthesis, 5, 8, 16, 19,
Q
Q Cycle, 67
mainstream medicine 21, 24, 33, 44, 47, 55,191, quantum biology, xvii, 5, 9,
osteoporosis, 6, 185, 187 203, 214, 309, 312 166, 307
Ott, John, 231, 334 piezoelectric, 103, 123 Quantum Xeno Effect, 224, 313
ovaries, 41, 157, 158, 177 pineal gland, 157, 300 Quilt document (Dr. Jack
oxidation/oxidant, 26, 52, 56, pituitary, 40, 41, 157, 158, Kruse's), 165
57, 73-80, 86-91, 96, 113, 222, 242
128, 160, 224, 309, 313 placebo effect, xiv R
oxidative phosphorylation/ placental barrier, 266 radiation, 85
chemiosmosis, see electron plaque, 130-132, 152, 155, rate of injury/rate of repair, 82
transport chain 302, 303 reactive oxygen species (ROS)/
oxidative stress, 26, 75, 77, 79, platelets, 302 free radicals/oxygen radicals,
84, 87-89, 130, 229, 251, polarity, xv, 117, 119, 124, 35, 41-43, 48, 55-58, 63-67,
252, 259, 295 134, 135, 140-157, 240, 72-79, 84, 92, 94, 186, 200-
oxygen radicals/oxygen redox 301-303, 334, see also 202, 209, 239, 243, 244,
molecules, see reactive electrostatic 250, 259, 262-264, 287,
oxygen species pole shift, 112 293, 313, 314
oxygenation, 78, 92, 95, 106, Pollack, Prof. Gerald, x, xv,
113, 142, 148, 151, 156, 157 99, 140, 144, 148, 166, 334
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red blood cells/RBCs, 95, 113, seafood, 10, 91, 124, 159-161, Stress response, 5, 68, 104, 119,
139, 141-144, 149-151, 156, 180, 207 223, 225, 243, 246, 256-
185, 221, 224, 228 seasonal cycles, 1, 5, 15, 25, 37, 260, 263, 287, 295, 312
red pill, 286 38, 45, 220, 245, 314, 333 suction (blood), 140-143, 149, 150
redox centers, 55, 60, 210 seasonal eating/seasonal sugar, 59, 77, 84, 110
redox molecules, 48, 72-79, mismatch, 13, 23, 29, 33, suicide, xix, 65, 80, 252, 270, 292
$1, 88, 92,313 34, 36, 55, 188, 298, 310 sulfur, 74, 107, 227, 229
redox potential, 24, 36, 43, 49, seasonal programming, 29, 44, sun, 5, 8-10, 15-25, 31, 33, 35,
58, 73, 75, 88-94, 109, 115, 45, 180, 181 40, 42, 44, 47, 51, 59, 67,
130, 157, 161, 170, 189, serotonin, 8, 48, 72, 128, 222, 306 68, 86, 91, 99, 102, 107,
200, 216, 225, 244, 267, serum (blood), 143, 144, 149, 108, 112, 115, 124, 126,
268, 293, 295, 298-300, 150, 266 127, 1325 SOMO alias
306, 307 sexual dysfunction, 40, 253, 188, 198, 200, 201, 204,
redox signaling, xv, 72-88 243, 289 214-222, 224-231, 241, 242,
reductant/reduced species (RS), 60 Hz (sixty hertz electricity), 247, 256, 262, 274, 278,
74-88 236-240, 259, 270, 295 281, 284, 293, 296, 298,
reduction, 57, 73-80, 88-91, skin, v, 97, 227, 303 300, 303, 304, 310
128, 313 sleep, 2, 6, 8, 22, 37, 38, 42, sun damage, 226, 227
regeneration programming, 45, 47, 49, 64, 94, 95, 98, superoxide radical, 41, 57, 64,
214, 223 104, 112-115, 120-122, 125, 65, 201, 252, 259
resonance, 114-123, 187, 213, 127, 129, 130, 134, 137, supplements, x, xv, 1, 6, 11,
258, 294 157, 158, 168, 181, 196, 14, 25, 45, 69, 76, 160, 161,
respiratory proteins/complexes/ 208; 25) 218. 222. 235, 196, 209, 222, 280
cytochromes, 21, 22, 30, 33, 241, 243, 245, 250, 260- suprachiasmatic nucleus/SCN,
35, 43-46, 53, 55-68, 103, 262, 288, 289, 293-298, 37-41, 178, 215, 256, 296,
124, 178, 180, 202, 209, 222, 309, 311, 314 297, 310, 313, 314
223, 239, 243-248, 261, 262, sleep apnea, 168, 262, 293, surveillance state, 269, 271-273
309-312 297, 298 swelling, 86, 133, 244
retina (eye), 178, 220, 222, smart meter, 166, 234 sympathetic state, 104, 225,
244, 249, 298 smoking, 61, 152, 153, 161, 256, 257, 260, 294, 306
retinal (vitamin A), 179, 180, 277, 303
222, 244-246, 248, 310 sodium-potassium pumps, 91, ak
retinal pigment epithelium 121,132 Ts hormone, 40, 179, 180,
(RPE), 222 soft drink, 104 206, 296
retinopathy, 155, 156 soil microbes, 19 Ty hormone, 40, 180, 206, 296
rotator cuffs, 103 South Atlantic Ocean, 124 tan-through/sun-permeable
rouleaux formation (blood), 95 space program, 126 clothing, 230
retinol (vitamin A), 244 sperm, 81, 177, 185, 196, 198, 295 tattoos, 268
reverse T3, 206 SSRIs, 306 TCA cycle, 16, 51-53, 56, 58,
standard American diet, 35, 170 60, 67, 192, 193, 196, 209,
S static electricity, 96, 241, 244, 313, 314
sacred geometry, 153, 154 268, 274, 311 teeth, 299, 300
salt, 74, 77, 110 statins, 68, 69, 161 Telecommunications Act, 276

Salvatori, Philip, 225 Steiner, Rudolf, 140 tendons, xix, 85, 103
stem cells, 120, 123, 238 Tennant, Dr. Jerry, 152
saturated fat, 303
stimulants, 122, 298 testes, 41, 157, 158
scar tissue, 122
Schauberger, Viktor, xv, 140, stomach ulcers, 105 testosterone, v, 38, 158, 188,
stools, 105 223, 243, 295, 305, 306
147, 149, 150, 334
stress, 5, 37, 40, 68, 72, 78, 87, thyroid, xix, 6, 40, 104, 1eor
Schumann resonance, 40, 127,
a95. 115, 122,153; 199) 157, 174, 175, 180, 206,
255258, 919
250, 257, 258, 260, 287, 208, 209, 217, 243, 246,
schwann cells, 121
295, 298, 306 281, 294
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tight junctions, 159, 297 vegetables, 6, 23, 31, 58, 69, weight, x, xiv, 4, 6, 7, 25, 32-
tinnitus, 265, 295, 296 76, 110, 186, 188, 190, 197, 37, 41, 58, 59, 62, 66, 94,
tongue, 110 206, 207 100, 104, 117, 124, 126,
toxin/toxicity, 72, 79, 83, 86 vibration, 117-120, 133, 213 158, 163, 164, 167-179,
transcription regulator, 187 viruses, 131 183-185, 189, 197-200,
trauma, 85 . vitamin A, 69, 76, 178-180, 205-210, 218, 244-246, 249,
T-regulator cells, 296, 297, 220, 243-245, 248, 267, 300 265, 311
300, 301 vitamin C, 76 weight gain, 32, 33, 36, 37, 94,
tryptophan, 8, 69, 219, 222 vitamin D, 107, 108, 179, 188, 158, 167, 169, 172-175,
tyrosine, 8, 222 207, 219, 229, 245, 255, 183, 197, 200, 209, 218,
268, 293, 300, 304 246, 265
U vitamins, 35, 186, 196, 222, weight loss, 32, 37, 58, 124,
ultraviolet light/UV, xu, 5, 8, 254, 300 163, 164, 168, 171-178,
16, 19-23, 29-37, 44, 55, 68, vitiligo, v, 300 205, 208, 218
69, 107, 108, 124, 125, 132, voltage, 24, 25, 53, 54, 65, 89, weight management, 25, 35
170, 188, 197-201, 214-230, 90, 98, 114, 115, 123, 131- Wi-Fi, 11, 26, 68, 110, 166,
242, 245, 248, 250, 261, 134, 236, 237, 241, 250, 234, 236, 250-252, 255,
264, 268, 281-283, 293, 252258: 259. 264 270, 276, 280, 288, 294
296-300, 306 voltage-gated calcium
uncoupling protein, 60, 180, 209 channels/VGCCGs, 45, 49,
unstructured/bulk water, 101 250, 252, 258, 259, 314 x-rays, 124, 133, 262, 264,
urea cycle, 58, 196 vortexing/spiraling/ centripetal 268, 285
acceleration, 140, 145-148,
V 153, 154, 263
vaccine, xii, 87, 91, 188, 268 zeta potential, 95, 140-155
vegan, 300, W
vegetable oil, xii, 58, 69, 87, Wallace, Dr. Doug, xv, 7, 61,
190, 194, 229 62, 81, 183
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