The first four topics are covered more extensively in The Mitochondriac Manifesto. Leptin and deuterium are individual breakout chapters. More widely-recognized reasons for weight gain, such as poor food quality and toxins, are covered at-length in this book’s predecessor, Gut-Brain Secrets. The sneaky 6 reasons people gain weight (not in order) Here are the six biggest secret reasons people gain...
Deuterium
Overview of deuterium from The Mitochondriac Manifesto. Deuterium controls survival, growth and maturation when 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...
Leptin: The Weight- and Energy-Balance Hormone
From The Mitochondriac Manifesto. 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 Toxicity of Artificial Blue Light
From The Mitochondriac Manifesto. 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...