Introduction to biophysics from The Mitochondriac Manifesto.
Biophysics is more important to human health than diet, exercise, genes, toxins, the microbiome or 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 and maintain 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 their 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 week, and the body builds a tolerance to interventions based on emergency response?
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).
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 electromagnetic frequencies – both good and bad. Biochemicals are virtual passengers along for the ride; whereas photoelectricity is the real driver – meaning electrons, protons and photons.
The ultimate example is found in how ATP is made. Crucial to prosperity of the cell cycle, energy production in mitochondria is an “electron transport chain” – not a protein transport chain, or a carbohydrate transport chain, or a fat transport. So we’ve heard it. But only when it’s pointed out to us do we realize biochemicals that run the body are driven by electrons, protons and photons – not directly by macronutrients like proteins, fats and carbs – as food czars tell us.
ATP: Adenosine triphosphate is an energy storage molecule made in mitochondria that drives dozens of cellular processes crucial to running the body.
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 rudimentary to life than any diet, practice, program, or other life science.
We were lost, but now we’re found(ed)
Supporting actors and cosmetic enhancements to good health, including diet and exercise, occupy our attention and receive most of our efforts because with them it’s easier to see both cause and effect. 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 a human 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 cellular injury 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 ¼ 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.
Learn how the improvement of your internal energy production can help you escape the common, complex diseases we all know by name, yet 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.
Circadian rhythm: Biorhythm lasting about 24 hours, such as daily cycles of sleep and waking.
Infradian rhythm: Biorhythm lasting longer than 24 hours. Herein, infradian generally refers to an annual cycle. For example, humans tend to gain weight in late fall through winter, and sleep less in summer, while animals breed, hibernate, molt, and lose/grow fur seasonally.
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 tests like blood work or 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, poor digestion, chest pain, weight, foggy thinking, or 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 bad genes. 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.
So instead of finding the cure to cancer, Alzheimer’s or 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 95 out of a 100 health questions is mitochondria and their gene expression.
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.
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 mitochondriac 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 mitophysical environment is unique to them. That makes each person’s biology 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.
‘n’ is shorthand for the number of people in a study. So instead of a 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.
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 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 of its 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.