How cold thermogenesis (CT) improves mitochondrial functioning. CT brings the respiratory proteins closer together. The closer the respiratory proteins are together the better the quantum tunneling is Matt Maruca: "When it comes to the CT series and the CT benefit that humans (and essentially all mammals) can get, does that initially descend from the extinction event?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "No, it starts immediately 3.8 billion years ago about the story I told you about redox chemistry. It turns out redox chemistry always works better when it's cooler. […] Remember what I told you that's in Nick Lane's book, that the closer the respiratory proteins are together the better the quantum tunneling is. And when the angstrom is split apart, it's a logarithmic effect; it's not a linear effect. So you lose energy production tremendously. So what does cold thermogenesis functionally do to the respiratory proteins, which is cytochrome I, II, III, IV, and the ATPase? It brings them closer together. You want that that whole complex from I through V to be within 48 to 60 angstroms. We know that from new science that's been done by people who are mitochondriacs. It turns out when you have diseases and heteroplasmy is higher they're spread out, and that's exactly what the stimulus is for apoptosis. Most people know that apoptosis is controlled by cytochrome IV. What happens is there's a whole sequence. . ." Matt Maruca: "I don't think most people actually know that [laughs]." Dr. Jack Kruse: "Well I mean they should, because what happens is the mitochondria swells, and the swelling opens up mitochondrial pores. One of those chemicals that people probably have heard is cardiolipin, and what does that do? It basically takes apart cytochrome c oxidase, and it leads to a cascade of events that's called apoptosis. Now it doesn't go fully, it can lead to fission, it can lead to fusion, there's a lot of different things that it can lead to. But that's functionally how it happens. "But it tells you again we're back to quantum thermodynamics. Most people don't realize that the tunneling of electrons requires a precise distance between the two. I've taught people ad nauseam, Matt, you remember how many times that I show you the chemical structure of chlorophyll and hemoglobin when you look at them they're identical. The atomic spacing is identical the only difference is that there's magnesium in the center of chlorophyll, and there's iron in the center of your red blood cell hemoglobin. And why is that a big difference? Magnesium is atomic number 12, iron is atomic number 26. What does that mean? You got 14 more electrons. What does that mean? You get more light, so you can be more complex. "Now you're back to the light diet again. That's how this works. Everything about you is light, and you know what? We got to get people to understand it is about light." Dr. Jack Kruse with Matt Maruca @ 45:59–49:04 (posted 2020-12-16)

If you sit in an electric car with a TriField TF2 meter you'll never want to sit in one again because it literally blows up the meter, flatlines it at max, on both the magnetic & the electric front. Irradiating your sex organs Shawn Stevenson: "OK, I'm going to do it. This is controversial. I want to ask you about electric cars." Dr. Alexis Cowan: "Oh, god." Shawn Stevenson: "Is there an issue? Because again, just thinking about this stuff because it's invisible and it's a big part of our culture now. Could our health be at risk when we're sitting in an electric vehicle or even a hybrid vehicle for long stints of time? I'm just going to pass it to you. I'm curious." Dr. Alexis Cowan: "Please. Yeah. I'm thankful that you went there because part of Becker's really important work was not only on the radio frequency front, but also on other forms of non-native EMFs, including non-native electric fields and magnetic fields. So, when we're talking about electric vehicles, we're really talking about these electric and magnetic fields. There are radio frequencies as well. The cars are Bluetooth laden, they're communicating with towers and they have all these modern conveniences, but that comes at a cost in my opinion. "If you just simply get like a TriField TF2 meter, they're like $200 on Amazon, and you turn that thing on and you go sit in an electric car, you'll never want to sit in one again because it literally blows up the meter, flatlines it at max, on both the magnetic and the electric front. So when it comes to batteries in general, they make a very strong magnetic field. And interestingly actually Becker's work in _Cross Currents_ and _The Body Electric_ he highlights the effects on growth, basically creating apparent growth or changing cell cycles from magnetic fields and electric fields. Even the AC power grid itself creates non-native EMFs in the form of dirty electricity of these non-native electric fields. So, whenever you're plugging something into a wall, that thing is going to have some level of detectable electric field coming coming off of it. "Now again, proximity is king when it comes to this. So, the closer you are, the stronger it's going to be. When it comes to electric vehicles, in particular, if you're sitting on the driver's side or the passenger side in the front seat, you're getting bombed compared to somebody in the back seat. They're getting a little bit less, but it's still quite high. And I believe in like Teslas and a lot of the popular electric cars, the battery is basically like right underneath the driver's seat, irradiating your sex organs and just going basically straight up your body. "So they're a huge no for me. I will never drive an electric car. Like you couldn't pay me to buy an electric car or to use one. Actually I remember the first time I sat in one, I got like this massive migraine and that was actually about a year, year and a half after I fell down the quantum and circadian biology rabbit hole. "And one thing that people will notice when they start engaging in these practices, when they start getting out at sunrise or first thing in the morning when they wake up, getting some midday sun, blocking blue light at night, only using red light, candle light, getting dark darkness in the evening, you start to build back your sensitivity." Dr. Alexis Cowan with Shawn Stevenson @ 45:00–47:51 (posted 2025-11-13)

DHA needs the shorter frequency light to run the main body clock in the SCN faster than the peripheral clocks. LEDs are missing the shorter frequency light. LEDs also have a huge spike in the blue range, impacting the melanopsin receptor. Incandescents mimic the sun closest Dr. Jack Kruse: "The key to DHA is you need to know that you need more of it in the eye to run this clock faster because what does DHA fundamentally do? It turns sunlight into a DC electric current. […] It's the big time key in this system here between the retina and the leptin receptor, and that whole key is the retinal hypothalamic tract. "And for those listeners who want to learn more about how incredibly important it is to know about this, there's a famous guy who used to be Walt Disney's time-lapse photographer. His name is John Ott. […] You need to read his book called _Health and Light_. This guy was incredible. He wasn't a scientist, but he was an observer. And I always tell people that humans are really good to see, but they're not good observers. This guy was unbelievable in his observations utilizing time-lapse photography, and he actually postulated that the problem with most diseases came from this defect in the central retinal pathway. And he brought this information to several different doctors. Some of them listened to him, but of course the bigwigs in, like, ophthalmology, they thought he was completely crazy. "And it turns out he's been now vindicated. Every journal you pick up now about chronobiology talks about the central retinal pathway. And guess what the central retinal pathway connects to, Dan, in the retina? The melanopsin receptor, which runs 435 to 465 in the retina. That's strongly in the blue range. "And if any of your members want to really see the true devastating effect of light, I would tell you, go look at my Ubiquination 24 blog post. I put three spectrums up of incandescents, that's the bulb behind me, fluorescents and LEDs. And you'll notice that fluorescents have a huge spike right at 465. You'll also know that LEDs have a huge spike there. The key thing is they have no red. "Incandescents mimic the sun closest. Now, is it close enough to keep you extremely healthy? In my opinion, no, but did it do a way better job for the first 65 to 70 years in the 20th century? Absolutely. And that's the reason why Neolithic diseases didn't begin to explode until 1960 and 1970. What did we do? The key thing is when you subtract out the UV purple and the IR red, what is the bulb called? It's called energy efficient. Why? Because you do. You use less electricity. "It goes to the story that you just asked me, Dan, about DHA. The key is, you need the shorter frequency lights to run this clock faster, and DHA is the chemical that does it." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Dan Pompa and Meredith Dykstra @ 42:47–45:53 (posted 2017-01-13)

LED bulbs have a huge blue spike. The blue spike can be used to control people through the dopamine pathway. Melanin breaks down into dopamine. If you open the blood-brain barrier dopamine floods the brain and it causes brain damage Dr. Jack Kruse: "[2011 is] magically when Obama says we're going to get rid of incandescent bulbs; we're going to go to LEDs. What do they find out? Because LED bulbs remove UV and red light have a huge blue spike. It turns out the blue spike can actually be used to control people through the dopamine pathway. How does that work? [...] "Melanin breaks down into dopamine. If you open the blood-brain barrier dopamine floods the brain and it causes brain damage. Anybody who's a health care practitioner, I guarantee when Kevin listens to this he'll understand it, knows that when we use dopamine in an ICU setting we have to be extremely careful with it when we're trying to elevate their blood pressure, because a low dose, a medium dose, or high dose can kill you. When people are in the ICU, they're around electromagnetic devices, this is the reason why. Because we're flooding their brain with dopamine, we're flooding their brain with serotonin. There's even something called the serotonin syndrome that y'all can look up and fact check Uncle Jack. This is the key things that Allen Frey finds out for DARPA." Dr. Jack Kruse with Marty Bent @ 28:28–29:41 (posted 2025-03-04)

How Hashimoto's impaired Sheryl's cognition. The mechanism Becker found to regenerate bone also regenerates other tissue. Reconnect with nature. Sunlight! Outside! That's how you regenerate the melanin sheets. Nature made us to be addicted to the healing sun Sheryl Utal: "I have been working in every possible way to elevate my consciousness, and optimize the time that I do have here for about the last 15 years, and your teachings have been a big part of that. […] I never really thought about my condition [Hashimoto's] being a TBI, but when you say that it makes so much sense to me, because I couldn't think at that time. I had cognitive impairment and it was really difficult. I had to dig deep for the will to fight for my life essentially, and to fight for my health and my well-being." Dr. Jack Kruse: "People don't understand that the leptin-melanocortin pathway, the real basics, is when you understand that those first order neurons go to the SCN and they go to the habenular nucleus. That is the reason you can't think, because anything distal to those tracts, and in your case, what's distal to the SCN tract? Your hypothalamus. That's where your thyroid problem is. What's distal to the habenular nucleus? Your frontal lobes. That's how you think. That's your new real estate that turned you to human from chimp. So what you just said totally makes sense. […] "What you need to realize what you profit from is actually nature. […] Read what Becker really found in bone regeneration. He found that the smallest ever electric current regenerates bone, doesn't leave a scar. So any disease you come to me with, but magically you know what happens, they're like, 'Oh well, that's just bone.' I'm like, 'OK. How about at the end of his career he was actually able to regenerate fingertips in a three-year-old who cut 'em off. And not only was it the the tissue, it was the bone, and the sensation. Everything came back.' "I just had one of my members ask me this question. […] 'Hey, Jack. I've got periodontal disease and they think I need to have periodontal grafts and this and that. What should I do?' And my answer was, 'How about you read the fucking blogs.' Because how do you regenerate your periodontal tissue? The same way Becker did! But they don't get it. It's reconnecting with nature, and it is that simple. It's the reason I'm here where I am, out of, how shall I say, the theater that is built in the United States to control you. There's not towers all the way around me. OK? […] I do have satellites above me, but thankfully I have a roof with grass on it that keeps Elon Musk at bay and keeps DARPA at bay. "So I guess what I'm trying to explain to people to become more fully conscious you need to understand what the key points are in the lessons that someone delivers to you, and no, don't get lost in the fluff. "But I'm telling you that number one thing that Becker found is huge, just like I told Andrew […] that every single cell releases ultraweak UV light. Well ask yourself why. It turns out that's what turns POMC on. That's how you regenerate your damn melanin sheets. What makes the water? Sunlight! Outside! That's the reason why β-endorphin is part of POMC. Nature told me the freaking answer 25 years ago. You are addicted to be in sunlight. We make opiates when we're in the sun. Like I don't know how big a telegraph that should be to everybody, but guess what? I've been saying it, and people still look at me like I'm crazy. And every time they put those Apple things in their ears, or they're watching a virtual reality thing, they have no idea that they just destroyed every single peptide that comes out of POMC." Dr. Jack Kruse with Sheryl Utal @ 01:03:51–01:09:14 (posted 2025-03-08)

Fat adaptation occurs when the inner mitochondrial membrane oscillates at 100 Hz. Cancers occur when your mitochondria cannot oscillate at a 100 Hz. We need to teach people how to engage autophagy, apoptosis, & biogenesis to fix their mitochondria Dr. Jack Kruse: "Fat adaptation has nothing to do with the fuel that you put in. You know what fat adaptation has to do with? […] The respiratory proteins stretched out. And guess who taught us that? Doug Wallace. And here's the key that we need to understand. When you get somebody, like say in one of my patients in the office has brain cancer. It doesn't mean that eating sugar is what caused this problem. It means eating sugar right now for that patient is a real problem, but to demonize sugar is the wrong thing. You know what the problem is? "That person has mitochondria that is senescent, meaning they're stretched out, their respiratory proteins are at 60 angstroms, they're no longer at 36. So even when you give them the proper fuels, they can't use it. So they're a Nissan Sentra blowing black smoke. They're not fat adapted. And what did Wallace teach us? "Fat adaptation occurs when the inner mitochondrial membrane oscillates at 100 Hz. Well guess what? That means that all cancers are situations where your mitochondria cannot oscillate at 100 Hz, and that's the real problem. So the key thing is to take those senescent mitochondria and fix them. In other words, here's the beautiful thing. "We come with change programs in our body. We need to teach people how to engage autophagy, apoptosis, mitochondrial biogenesis, or what we call mitophagy, and then we can get to the business of fixing it. Where Seyfried is right is it is a mitochondrial problem, not a nuclear problem. And for that issue I am always on his train. But when he starts down this glucose is bad thing, I'm sorry, if glucose is bad, everybody that lives on the equator should be dead. And that's not true. And the reason it's not true is because they have huge quantum yield from their environment. The problem is where he is at Pittsburgh, where Meredith is, those people eat bananas at the 42nd latitude and they do get brain cancer. And people who don't think deep enough blame sugar instead of realizing there's other things that are causing this problem. That's how we're going to solve the problem." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Dan Pompa and Meredith Dykstra @ 58:59–01:01:11 (posted 2017-01-13)

Circadian mismatches are the cause of leaky gut. If you live in an environment where there's no UV light then sugar is a problem. Eating a banana on Dec 23 in Pittsburgh causes a circadian mismatch. If you live around the equator you can eat sugar without problems Meredith Dykstra: "But something that really struck me, I thought it was so interesting when you were talking about food as information as we know, but that if we eat foods that aren't naturally in our environment, that it's a circadian mismatch. So I'm thinking, okay, I'm here in Pittsburgh and I'm. . ." Dr. Jack Kruse: "Don't eat any bananas." Meredith Dykstra: "Right. Well, I don't do bananas because of the sugar content, typically, but I'm thinking well I just ate them." Dr. Jack Kruse: "That's not the reason why. […] I'm glad you brought this up and I don't mean to interrupt you, but when you say this, I think this is going to be a huge benefit for people. I got to get you past. […] "Sugar is not the problem. You know why sugar is the problem? Because you're designed to eat sugar when there's UV light in your environment. Guess what? If you live in an environment where there's no UV light then sugar is a problem. But guess what? We have a lot of data from people that live around the equator that they can eat sugar and it doesn't cause problems that it causes us. But guess what? "Pittsburgh's at the 42nd latitude. On December 23rd, my dear, you're only going to see about eight to eight and a half hours of sunlight. And the only time you're going to get even a whisper UV is right around solar noon, which in your place is around 12:50 to 01:00 right now. So guess what? "You have no business eating very much carbohydrates at this time because of your latitude. And to take this further back, I want you to think about the Inuits because that's the one tribe that lives even north of you. The only carbohydrates they ate is usually when they grew locally. And see the problem is we control our environment now. And just because it is available in Whole Foods in Pittsburgh doesn't mean you should eat it. Why? Because what's the other part of the system? "The other part of the system that we spent a lot of time talking about was the eye and how it's sampling the sunlight. So the gut surface also needs to be yoked to that, and it is. And see, many of these alternative practitioners talk about leaky gut and they drive me nuts because they fundamentally don't realize that circadian mismatches are the cause of leaky gut, and it's not by most of the stuff that they believe. So when you eat a banana in Pittsburgh, you effectively cause a leaky gut because of a circadian mismatch." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Dan Pompa and Meredith Dykstra @ 55:13–57:32 (posted 2017-01-13)

Embrace viruses as they allow us to innovate. Does your doctor start with, "Go outside, get fresh air, good water, reasonable sun?" You have a doctor inside you that works if you get out of its way. Sunglasses disrupts your ability to make needed hormones. 10 meds at age 50 Dr. Jack Kruse: "I'm going to tell you that viruses are actually something to embrace. That's actually how we build our genes as humans. When I tell people that their heads explode but it's true. 98% of the human genome […] are made from HERV viruses. Those are viruses that are retroviruses. […] So guess what? It means that mother nature shuffles the deck. We keep collecting viruses and that allows us to innovate solutions through the chaos, the butterfly effect, that we affect nature. "The problem is, can we create solutions when we live an indoor life? Just remember 1910 or the beginning of the 20th century when the Flexner report was first come out, nine out of 10 people worked outside. Today, 120 years later, 98% of people now work indoors. Has your doctor ever stopped to ask you that question? […] "If your doctor doesn't start with going outside and getting fresh air, good water, reasonable sun, then you have no business listening to them. […] "If […] your husband […] planted an orange tree in the backyard and your kids came out and put water and nutrients in the ground, after say, six months, would we get oranges? Turns out we would, right? But what happens if Jason […] comes around and puts a tarp over that tree? Are we going to get any oranges? […] "How smart is it to put contact lenses, eyeglasses, or sunglasses in front of my eyes, when I do know that there's these things called optic nerves that connect to my brain and my pituitary gland, and my pituitary gland makes all these hormones. Am I going to make all the hormones naturally? Is this the reason why people in California, Chicago, and New York have to spend $250,000 at the fertility clinic to have babies now? Is this the reason why kids don't want to have sex anymore because they're constantly checking their phone 150 times a day and that blue light destroys their circadian biology? […] "That's your job to ask, 'Is the digital babysitter that you bought your kids the real problem?' You want to blame it on your kids but you know what? More often than not it turns out it's the parents' decision around the choices in the kids environment that are important. […] "You have 3.8 billion years of quantum randomized controlled clinical trials going on in you. You have a doctor inside your head and your body that works if you get out of its way. Do you want to know what the single biggest problem is for most modern humans? They have this quantum computer in their head called the brain that allows them to break all of nature's laws, and they do it below their own perception. I told you just wearing clothes or putting contacts or glasses on are some of those examples. […] "Are we really surviving, are we really thriving, or are we sick and we're tethered to some big solution? I mean the last data I saw is a 50 year old the United States is tethered to a minimum of 10 medicines. To me that's preposterous." Dr. Jack Kruse @ 45:25–46:49, 48:15–50:07, 51:06–51:38 & 52:24–52:41 (posted 2020-11-13)

Without the sun there is no enlightenment. Sunlight is unpolarized. Every last bit of artificial light is polarized. That means it's suboptimal. There is no enlightenment with man-made artificial light Aaron Alexander: "What is light's role in enlightenment?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "It goes back to what I told you about the sun. It's pretty much everything. Without the sun, without you imbibing information and wisdom from nature, which is mostly from light, there is no enlightenment. It's impossible. And people fool themselves all the time when they're in an environment that is polluted with polarized light. They may think they're enlightened, but they're suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect. There is no enlightenment with man-made artificial light at any level. And anybody who tells you otherwise is also full of shit." Aaron Alexander: "Why is that?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Because that's not light we're designed to work with. Sunlight is unpolarized. Every last bit of artificial light, whether it's the electric or magnetic field associated with it, is polarized. That means it's suboptimal by definition." Dr. Jack Kruse with Aaron Alexander @ 01:57–03:05 (posted 2026-01-14)

When light hits an opsin in the eye it separates vitamin A. If vitamin A is not recycled by the DHA loop then circadian disease (e.g., inability to sleep, type 2 diabetes, inflammation) results. The leptin prescription & cold thermogenesis protocol Max Gotzler: "Could you explain the vitamin D and A cycle? […] How does that work in the brain in relation to mitochondria, electrons, and light?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Well, this is a pretty complicated story. […] Vitamin D in the brain and vitamin A are yoked, and this goes back to embryology. […] We have something called neuroectoderm. Neuroectoderm is where our brain and our skin come from. In humans that are in fully adult form, there is no direct connection between the skin and the brain. "Vitamin D and vitamin A bridge that gap, and they are what we call hydrated proteins that act like semiconductors that bring in light. Vitamin D happens to work best with the UVB part of the spectrum that we get from the sun, which is why I wanted Max to ski down the mountain with no clothes on to gain that. […] "Every opsin in our eye, both in the rods and the cones and also in the nighttime cones called melanopsin, any opsin is bound by vitamin A, and that's called retinol. That's the specific name. In humans (or any animal that's diurnal, meaning that lives in the light) that covalent bond is weak, so anytime light comes in, it separates. When it separates, the vitamin A has to be recycled, and it gets recycled in quantum precision with that DHA loop that I told you in your eye. "The reason why the eye is incredibly important for vitamin A being yoked, it's been shown in many, many studies that when vitamin A is not yoked properly, the patient will have circadian disease, meaning they won't be able to sleep, they'll have type 2 diabetes, they'll have multiple different problems tied to that. And the reason for that is that connection is the way that the skin and the brain talks to each other by way of light frequencies through the eye. So the brain needs that constant connection, otherwise it cannot tell proper time. "And when it can't tell proper time, I have an analogy that I use. […] If the deliveries all came at the same day and weren't spaced out appropriately, what would it be like to work at Home Depot at that day? It would be crazy. We would call that chaos. "What do we call chaos in a cell? Inflammation. And that's the problem. So you need to have the proper yoking within your skin and your eye so the brain is able to tell time. When you can't tell time, that's when you get a circadian mismatch, and that explains to you truly how the leptin prescription and the cold thermogenesis protocol really work, because those things are designed to work in the anterior visual system. Why? The retinas here, the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the middle, and what's distal to that, the leptin receptor. That's a giant semiconductor circuit that allows the human brain to tell night from day, day from night. […] "DHA is a quantum lipid, and it absorbs light and turns it into an electric current. And really what all our hydrated proteins and lipids do in that circuit act just like a semiconductor. […] Light is used in the system in order to tell time, and that's the key. "That's why circadian biology is incredibly important to biology. In fact, I think it's the single most important thing. That's why I don't focus a lot of time, Max, talking about food, because it's inconsequential when you understand how important light is in the way that we're put together. And I always tell people that mitochondria, fundamentally, are an electromagnetic sensor for our environment, meaning it's a light sensor, and that's how it's designed to work." Dr. Jack Kruse with Max Gotzler @ 30:33–35:14 (posted 2017-02-15)

The surgeons can cut out everything but cause. We can't cut out the cause. If we remove it, but the conflict is still active, it's still going to come back Dr. Melissa Sell: "If you have a something in your colon that grows and grows and grows, then it becomes a space occupying problem. And there are situations where a surgery is better. So if you grow a humongous tumor in the tube, and then you resolve the conflict, it would take a lot of decomposition and swelling, and in order. . ." Alec Zeck: "Like a major tumor on your breast." Dr. Melissa Sell: "Absolutely. So in those circumstances to go through the healing phase is going to be so intense. Let's take the surgical route because that allows you . . . We don't do it out of fear though. We don't take tons of extra tissue. I know people that have, 'OK, we had one spot on the colon and then we're going to take 10 ft of it.' And it's like, you don't need to do that. You don't need to go cut into the tissue that's not adapted. We just take the area where it's like, 'OK, it's going to be a lot to go through the healing phase here.' "And Dr. Hamer, he was a medical doctor. He wasn't anti using medical intervention for things, but it's all about the reason that you're doing it. And if you're doing it because you're scaring the person that there's something malignant and scary in their body that's going to spread everywhere, absolutely not. That's not the reason that we do it. We do it simply because you grew, you had a lot of conflict, and to go through the healing phase would be too intense and not easy for you, so let's go ahead do the surgery. "Still, we have to address the conflict, because if you have a surgery, right? There's a great Herbert Shelton quote: 'The surgeons can cut out everything but cause.' So it's like we can't cut out the cause. This is all downstream. If we remove it, but the conflict is still active, it's still going to come back." Dr. Melissa Sell with Alec Zeck @ 03:13:10–03:14:42 (posted 2025-11-21)

Time is only valuable when you have health. Wealth is only valuable when you have time. Bitcoin helps you utilize that time. Without your health your bitcoin really doesn't help you Dr. Jack Kruse: "I think what you kind of tapped into in this one gets to the crux of the issue. […] I give you the credit here because you got me to realize something. "I've told people time is only valuable when you have health. But guess what? Wealth is only valuable when you have time. "That to me is the distillation of our hour and a half together. Why? That needs to be the touchpoint for everybody. When they hear that statement, that is a statement that is a declarative sentence that cuts to the core of the issue. And when you understand that, you begin to live your life by those principles, but maybe it'll cause you to change your values. The things that you value now, when you understand this, guess what? Not only will you be doing to help on the financial side, but this is going to get people to realize that their health is a lot more important than even their bitcoin is, because without your health your bitcoin really doesn't help you. "And that's the architecture or the hierarchy that we're talking about. I'm still always going to tell people, and I think the thing that separates me in the bitcoin community from everybody else is I happen to know how to give people time back. Bitcoin helps you utilize that time, and they walk hand in hand. "I think if you only understand bitcoin from the time perspective without getting a health perspective you are subject to be maybe becoming Steve Jobs, and I don't want to see any bitcoiner ever become Steve Jobs. I want to make sure that you live past 56, that you live to see your grandchildren, that you live to build this regenerative farm wherever it is that you're going to do it, and that you're also going to fertilize all the neocortexes that you're going to touch with your podcast for the next 15 or 20 years." Dr. Jack Kruse with @NobodyCaribou @ 01:20:59–01:23:09

All human senses have a melanin sheet between you & the environment. If that melanin degrades, your ability to perceive art changes. We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. POMC needs UV light to make melanin. Get better sun to be more creative Dr. Jack Kruse: "Culture reflects the changes that happen in us. What most of you don't know yet, all five of your senses, human senses (including the sixth one that you may not know you have, which is the mitochondria itself), between you and the environment is a melanin sheet. Every sense: eyes, smell, taste, hearing. It doesn't matter. If that melanin degrades, your ability to perceive the art changes. So guess what that means? "The artist creates for himself. If the audience likes it, what does that mean? That means that their melanin sheets are intact. When you see something you don't like, like a Rothko, […] you're not identifying with the early 20th century, when things were dark, when people were inside. […] "The great apes, of which the chimps are from, have 24 pairs of chromosomes. Everybody in this room, I'm assuming nobody has Turner syndrome or Klinefelter's, you all have 23. Do you know what the difference between the great apes and us is? Their 24th chromosome got stuck by their telomeres and condensed down. Do you know what it became in us? Chromosome number two. Anybody want to guess what's on chromosome number two? The gene called POMC. You know what it makes? Alpha, beta, and gamma melanin. How do you like that? Pretty shocking, huh? So, I told you that light, water, and magnetism were the key to understanding where culture begins. That's where it comes from. […] "We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are. That was the point that I tried to make to Fen yesterday, that people who look at your artwork, people who look at Yusef's country, don't see it for what it is because their melanin in their sensory systems aren't the same. […] "We are creatures of light. Genesis was right. The evolutionists were really wrong. The Big Bang? Yeah, maybe. We needed to have light. Light is germane to our story. The POMC gene, proopiomelanocortin, is the key to understanding this mystery. It only gets translated by UV light. "So when you think the sun is bad for you, remember this talk. If you want to be more creative, I told Fen this already, want to be a better artist, Davis, you want to be a better writer, any of you guys in here, Andrew, come further south. Texas is big, but it's not got enough sun. You need to get the sun. Why do I think, unlike Curtis Yarvin, who you just heard speak? He's right. The people of El Salvador are the greatest asset, but we need to turn them loose in the light. We need to turn them into little savages […] that understand what decentralized medicine is all about: optimizing light, water, and magnetism. It's not just a story for the elites; it's a story for everybody." Dr. Jack Kruse @ 16:47–17:39, 23:25–24:56 & 43:07–44:25 (posted 2025-04-27)

Conditions necessary for a favorable induction of labor Ana Paula Markel: "Women never have any idea what an induction really looks like or what it really means to be induced. They think they're gonna go in the hospital in the morning and have the baby by the afternoon, and it's really not like that. It's also very important to inform a woman that what her cervix is doing before that induction begins is what's going to set the tone for that whole induction. "If her cervix is favorable, if she's already softened, dilated, the cervix is forward, that induction has a much higher chance of working and being very well received by her body and the baby. If her body is not ripened at all, she will probably have a three-day labor that's gonna end up in a Caesarean anyway. And that is the worst scenario that we witness women going through. Because by the time you see your baby, you can barely keep your eyes open, you cannot make decisions anymore, you don't care anymore, you're just so exhausted that you just wanna go to sleep. "So, it's really important for women to understand what induction means before they get there." Ana Paula Markel, Doula & Founder of BINI Birth @ 59:48 (aired 2011-11-08) More Business of Being Born, Part 3: Explore Your Options

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Blue light from screens lower dopamine levels. If this happens to a child it may destroy their ability to create their own fun, enjoy real friendships. It may also cause gender confusion. A computer screen without blue light Dr. Jack Kruse: "Here's my real problem with [how we're treating our kids]. Read the quote. I'll read it for you if you can't see it. 'If the neural pathways that control social and imaginative responses aren't developed in early childhood, it's difficult to revive them later. A whole generation could grow up without the mental ability to create their own fun, devise their own games and enjoy real friendships - all because of endless screen-time.' "I'm going to tell all of you, every screen besides Anjan's [Daylight Computer] emits blue light. What does blue light do? What's the damaging effect? It lowers dopamine and melatonin. That's what causes the major problems. Technology to an excess is a problem. [..] "The story that you never get told, you know that Sergey Brin and all of his friends, the VCs, tried to block Anjan's device to come to market. Do you know why? Because when he lowers your dopamine level, you create more freaks that don't know if they're girls or boys. They get pins through their nose. That's how you do it. And you think this is hyperbole. Do I have all the studies to back this up? Oh, yeah, I do. I do. I'm that guy. I hate to tell you. So, we need to be smart with how we do it. I'm not saying we can't use it; we just got to be smart." Dr. Jack Kruse @ 28:54–29:38 & 27:07–27:41 (posted 2025-04-27)

#1 tip for a healthy pregnancy: get 10 hours of darkness. Also: stabilize meal timing, eat per Lily Nichols, eat enough to feed baby, learn about the folate cycle, get outside in the morning and during the day, minimize EMF (it may aggravate morning sickness) Cameron Borg: "What do you work with [...] expecting parents, [...] even preconception? What do you like to have them do to make sure that the risk during birth is minimized as much as possible? I mean, this comes back to nutrition, circadian health, light exposure, EMF, all of these kind of things. What type of things do you encourage people to do?" Nikko Kennedy: "Mhm. Yeah. So, circadian, [...] I'll say like stabilize then strengthen. So, like the first thing is stabilizing the circadian rhythm, having a baseline of actual dark nights. I usually recommend about 10 hours of darkness because it takes a little while for melatonin to actually start flowing in the night. And so having that dark environment is really, really important. That is absolutely the one baseline that I think many of today's families are missing, not getting that 10 hours of darkness piece. "Once that is stabilized and then and meal timing too like a lot of people have erratic eating schedules, especially women who work, it can be hard to get that like anchoring morning meal. A lot of women I work with who are intending to conceive they do know that nutrition is important. So, I do talk with them a lot about that and most so many women I know they eat really, really healthy in terms of their food choices, but they don't realize the quantity that's required to grow a new baby and be nourished and healthy through that. So, I often recommend doing some kind of like a variation. [...] I'll recommend that they study the Brewer Diet for pregnancy, and Lily Nichols's work for pregnancy nutrition. Make a cross-section of those of those two paradigms, because Lily is really good at the food choices, and the Brewer Diet is really good at emphasizing the quantity that's required. "I'd also recommend the Root Cause Protocol to study and learn a little bit about that and how iron and magnesium work for the body. [...] I have a series in my Substack that's all about the folate cycle. But women are always told to supplement with all these different B vitamins, and they don't really know how they work. And so when you start getting them in like these random varieties, it doesn't necessarily optimize for biology. And we know that folate is extremely important for development, methylation, neural tube development, but also baby's brain. Methylation is what drives the DNA changes for the circadian rhythm to even fire. Like it's so, so key. So I look at I look at folate. I look at all of that kind of thing. [...] "And then after that is getting the daylight. So that's like the final chunk where I'm like getting outside in the morning, getting outside across the day on a being, you know, regular. And that's where a lot of women will be like, 'Well, what if I live in the far north and it's there's no daylight?' It's still brighter and the body has pathways for all of that, too. Sometimes women also ask me about like, 'Well, I've been doing cold plunges. Like, can I still keep doing that?' And right, there's a lot of nuanced things that we can talk about, but generally that dark night, having that really high quality, high volume food, and then the time outside, and grounding if possible. "I also recommend women to do a bit of study with electromagnetic hygiene. [...] One of the patterns I've seen is women with severe morning sickness may not realize that they actually have a Wi-Fi router or a smart meter right next to their bed. So we have them move like at least 10 ft away from a smart meter and you know at least a distance. And so I will for women who are living in EMF environments recommend that they get like some kind of electrosmog meter so they can see where the fields are the strongest and just try not to spend time in those spaces especially in the very initial first trimester." Nikko Kennedy with Cameron Borg @ 52:05–56:19 (posted 2026-01-09)

DHA concentration is highest in retina & central retinohypothalamic tract. Blue light destroys DHA in that tract. A mismatch occurs if the SCN master clock does not run faster than every other peripheral clock in the body. Cell phones speed up nearby peripheral clocks Dr. Dan Pompa: "Jack, what about people that live in areas that don't get a lot of sunlight? I mean, I know the DHA plays a big role in these receptors in the eyes, you know, and blue light, the more blue light you're exposed to, the more DHA you need because it depletes, the blue light affects the melatonin, etc." Dr. Jack Kruse: "[…] The retina to the leptin receptor, […] I got kind of famous on the internet […] for the leptin prescription and the cold thermogenesis protocol. But you need to realize that DHA, which is fish oil, is the highest concentration […] is in your retina and the central retinohypothalamic tract that connects to the leptin receptor in the hypothalamus. "So if you have too much blue light, say you're on the computer all the time, you're a trader in Chicago, you have a higher need for DHA because blue light destroys DHA in that tract. "The key thing for circadian biology, […] we have a really cool system that is tied to this story right here on the internet and the cell phone. You guys know that we have a Garmin devices in our phones so that if I came to Park City and Dan told me where he was, I could navigate to him and get there, no problem. Well, what people don't realize is we have the same system set up in every cell in our body and it starts with our eye. And the way a GPS system works is that the clock that's up top has to run faster than all the clocks below it. OK? "In the phone, this, the Garmin device here, 30,000 km above the surface right now, there is a orbiting satellite that's basically controlling light from the sun using an atomic clock and it runs 38 microseconds faster than the clocks on the surface. That way, when I try to go find Dan in Park City, I don't get lost. If it was off, I would be off by a factor of 10 km on the surface of the earth. […] "Well, it turns out the same physical relationship, because remember, the laws of physics scale both from macro to micro, and it turns out the same issue, […] the key thing in the eye is that the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which […] is the main body clock for circadian biology, has to run faster than every other peripheral clock in the rest of our body. […] In front of every mammalian eukaryotic gene is a peripheral clock gene, and it takes its lead from this. "So let me give you a for example. If you take your laptop and put the laptop on your lap, […] if it's a lady, it's akin to a NuvaRing. It's actually no different. Why? Because how those IUDs work, they have metal in them. What they do is they spin that peripheral clock much faster than this clock here. That's the reason why ovulation is blocked. So when you put a laptop on your lap or a cell phone in your pocket, you're running the clock genes in that area much faster than this one here. That creates a mismatch. "The key to DHA is you need to know that you need more of it in the eye to run this clock faster because what does DHA fundamentally do? It turns sunlight into a DC electric current. And […] that whole electric potential […] goes on in the mitochondria. That electric potential is the key to life. Well, it's the big time key in this system here between the retina and the leptin receptor. And that whole key is the retinohypothalamic tract." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Dan Pompa and Meredith Dykstra @ 38:53–43:21 (posted 2017-01-13)

First trimester sunlight is really important. High latitude populations recycle vitamin D extremely efficiently. Caution warranted in vitamin D supplementation in high latitudes. When a woman goes in sunlight, her breast milk's vitamin D go up faster than her bloodstream's Cameron Borg: "Is there an optimal time of the year to conceive? […] Because if you give birth during winter, […] what do you do as far as vitamin D is concerned for the child? […]" Nikko Kennedy: "[…] Yeah, I have a few I've written about this a few times. There's a post I wrote like, 'Is there an ideal time to conceive,' and put the research together on that. 'Baby solar callus' has some of the research on the vitamin D and babies and milk question. […] "There's just naturally a rise in fertility and birth rates in the seasons where there's sun, where mom can get vitamin D in her first trimester. So the first trimester sunlight is really, really important and seems to have a protective effect against preterm birth. The farther away from the equator you get the stronger that effect is. "That effect may also be stronger in people who have like equatorial ancestry who have migrated out to those poles. […] Like Norwegian population, they did a study on them and their vitamin D recycling and they found they were extremely efficient at recycling vitamin D, and basically there wasn't an upper limit. They were easily recycling their vitamin D for months at a time. So getting the light in the summer, right, and that is fair skin adapted to cold. Right? And then there's also higher tolerance for oral vitamin D among some of those northern people. They did this one in the Eskimo Inuit communities where they were living off of whale blubber, and they found they actually had genes encoded. Where if you brought […] someone from the equator up there they would actually probably have a toxic reaction to that level of vitamin D, because they're optimized for solar production of vitamin D, and they don't have a huge need to recycle vitamin D or get it through dietary sources because year round UVB sunlight. "Again it kind of depends on how in tune with the environment you are. So bolus doses of vitamin D, synthetic vitamin D, where they're like irradiated lichen and lanolin, right? Those ones, a super high dose of that can actually stop the body's recycling processes, and cause it to dump vitamin D, and be less receptive to vitamin D. I always recommend a cautious take on vitamin D supplementation in a northern climate because the whole situation is you should be optimizing recycling and getting it from natural dietary sources. […] "And you asked about breast milk and vitamin D. So, yes, they say it doesn't have enough, but […] if someone's telling me that nature doesn't work, then I'm going to be a little skeptical of that claim. […] When a woman goes in the sunlight, the vitamin D levels in her milk go up way, way, way faster than they do in her bloodstream. So they did a survey of women in Nepal and they're like, 'Whoa, these moms are vitamin D deficient, but their breastfed babies aren't. How is this happening?' […] "I think that if you actually right rhythms and get light right and diet and everything synchronized with your environment then these problems of like breast milk not having enough vitamin D, childbirth being extremely painful and treacherous, right? Surprising, yes. Treacherous in a healthy mom, no, it shouldn't be, usually. All these things just they can all come into harmony." "I think of all fertility, all fecundity comes from the environment. If you saw all the fox moms were all miscarrying all the time, and you were finding them all dead of prolapse in the woods, you wouldn't be like, 'What's wrong with that fox?' You'd be like, 'What's going on in this ecosystem,' right? So that's how I think of it with humans, too. And I'm like, 'It's not this mom is unhealthy; it's this ecosystem needs support.'" Nikko Kennedy with Cameron Borg @ 01:05:05–01:06:01, 01:07:27–01:09:42 & 01:11:03–01:12:55 (posted 2026-01-09)

The more man-made light you got the less time you get. You're designed to fill back up by plugging into the sun & the earth. Your job is to do that more than you do other things. If you do that you're gonna be fine Dr. Jack Kruse: "Well, the funny thing that you said, 'Well, we pretty much have to live in cities, we have to do this, we have. . .' No we don't. That's a belief system. And I would tell you, I'll give you a for example. I can't do neurosurgery outdoors. So what do I do? For example, when I go to surgery, after my case, I go immediately outside, take my scrubs off. Now people in the hospital look at that and they're like, 'Wow. Why are you doing that?' And I sit down and explain to them exactly why. I said, 'I just ruined myself for an hour in there so now I need to refurbish myself.' [...] as much time as I can get. "And here's the thing. You made a statement about, 'People can't afford to do this.' You can't afford not to do it. Do you know why? What's the most valuable thing that all three of us have? Time. Time, dude. Think about it. We're trying to create more time for people. Well, if you read my time series, all through the 24 blogs, you know what the key take-home is? Light makes time. Light, and the light that we allow. When I say light, I'm not just talking about the sun. I'm talking about the fake light, the man-made light, the altered spectrums that we have. The more of that you got the less time you get. It's that simple. "I'm gonna tell you I know that my ideas for you guys may be a tough pill to swallow, but I'm gonna try to explain this to you simply by a couple of quick statements, and I hope that you get it and it resonates with the listeners. Mankind has not woven the web of life, my friend. We are all just one thread in that web, and whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. All things in nature are bound together, and all things connect in few ways that most people understand. And really the tragedy of our time, the modern world, is that we have a monoculture of ideas. All thinkers are forced to believe the same bullshit. What we don't realize today is that this slow-moving mitochondrial poison is quietly buried at the heart of our technology. It's becoming more venomous as exposure rates continue to explode exponentially. And let me just tell you something. The more we embrace it, the more it's going to cause us problems. "And that's the reason why just about every study you read when people go out camping and they come back, they magically get better and nobody seems to know why. Well, I can tell you why, because they're reconnected with the things how you're designed to work. That mitochondria is designed to work in nature. My take-home is very simple. Reconnect with what you're designed to work with. An example: when you plug the iPhone in when it runs out of juice, it fills back up. Well, you're designed to plug in the earth and plug into the sun, and do the things that you do that way. Your job is to do that more than you do other things. If you do that you're gonna be fine." Dr. Jack Kruse with Naudi Aguilar & Adam Lowery @ 01:06:01–09:33 (posted 2017-04-08)

It's not your "genetic defects." Dr. Kruse stopped looking for disease processes in patients and started looking for defects in their environment. "I look outside in, not inside out." Connect to the sun with your feet and hands firmly attached to the earth Dr. Jack Kruse: "Let me try to give it to you as simple as I can, to put it in a one statement. Once you eliminate epistemology and ignore the obvious controls that epistemology gives you, you can scientifically prove just about anything to keep grant money flowing in. And that's really what modern science is in a nutshell. And that's why when people ask me, 'Well, can you give me citations?' Sure, I can give you citations. But what does that do? Is that moving you to a place that you should be? "See, [...] I'm always trying to get people to understand, I just need you to connect with nature. When you connect with nature that's what the animal in us is required. We are designed to be wirelessly connected to that sun and with our feet and hands firmly attached to things on this earth, either the earth itself, or trees, or things like that. That's how you're designed to move through this environment. And if you stay with that, you do that more often than not, you will be fine. "The supplement makers, the pill pushers, the coffee makers, all that stuff, that is people who are preying on you, realizing what you've been taught. Our educational system in the sciences is the big problem. And listen, scientists don't like this message because what am I fundamentally teaching people is that when we get in the classroom we're telling people, 'Hey, you need to look this way, not this way.' "And I think my Come to Jesus moment was when I began to stop looking for disease processes in me, or in my patients, and realizing what in the environment is broken that is causing them to be broken. And that's the key perspective change. I look outside in, not inside out. And medicine these days is about, 'Oh, your "genetic defects," you know, or this that, and the other thing.' That's not the problem. We have environmental defects that we've created as a species that is hurting us all and hurting the animals in the environment. "And it's so foreign to people to look at disease in this way, but that's how a mitochondriac does it. The way I got this perspective is being a mitochondriac, understanding that a mitochondria and a chloroplast is an electromagnetic sensor that checks out all the waves around us, that's doing it right now with both of us. Our body pays attention to that, to those waveforms. Those waveforms are all it cares about because it needs to understand the environment in order to harness that light energy on those electrons. And if it can't do that then our Ferraris become Nissan Sentra blowing black smoke." Dr. Jack Kruse with Naudi Aguilar & Adam Lowery @ 32:46–35:46 (posted 2017-04-08)