"Over the last six months all my ambition is gone." You've ruined melatonin, dopamine and GABA in your system. Your brain is browning out. Plug back into nature to tune up your melanin and your water battery Peter McCormack: "You might have a good answer this, Jack. Over the last six months all my ambition is gone, and I don't know why. I spent the whole life massively ambitious, and it's just all gone." Dr. Jack Kruse: "I would tell you the single number one thing to get it back is to actually to plug back into nature. I mean remember, you were ambitious with the podcast that you gave to Danny. That's when you plugged into the first network, which is manufactured, which is bitcoin. I would tell you now that you're older, realize what I told you, that you need your melanin and your water battery tuned up. What happens when you lose your ambition? You ruined melatonin, dopamine and GABA in your system. And guess what that does? Your brain browns out." Peter McCormack: "Yeah, I think I've done that." […] Dr. Jack Kruse: "I would tell you, you've got all this bitcoin money. Sell the fucking soccer team and get your ass down here." Peter McCormack: "I'm browning out, man." Dr. Jack Kruse: "It's as simple as that. I'm being honest with you, I think it's not only good for you, it's good for your family. But when you really understand that it makes a difference, and I would tell you, you don't have to do it right away, but what you would be smart to do, and this the same advice I gave Jack Mallers almost a year ago. I said, 'Get out of Chicago, come down here for like three or four months, and see how it goes.' […] "There's a pretty famous developer in bitcoin, Sam Parker, he is a good friend of mine. Sam had huge problems. He's 31, 32 years old. I invited him to come down and stay with me here in El Salvador. He walked back and forth on my front yard for three months with no shirt on. He's from Canada. Guess what? No shoes. Everything that was bothering him went away. Now he's trying to find the love of his life, somewhere in Europe. […] "If you want to put time back into your battery, that's how you do it. Plug in to the other network, which is nature that's fully decentralized. I think you owe it to yourself and your family, at least to give it a try and see if it changes things. Then if it does, that's when the tough decisions will come afterwards. 'OK, what am I going to do with this now that I know that this is the case?' That's a totally different podcast. But I would tell you, what effectively are you doing? You're actually making the statement, 'Yeah, my time is valuable, and I need to do something to improve it.'" Peter McCormack: "Yeah, yeah. Fair. OK." Dr. Jack Kruse & Peter McCormack with Nathan Fitzsimmons @ 58:56–59:44, 01:00:44–01:01:44 & 01:02:14–01:02:53 (posted 2026-02-24)

Protein intake postpartum actually needs to be as high or higher than a typical female athlete, probably a gram of protein per pound of body weight. If you don't you'll be absolutely ravenously hungry & eating all the carbs out of your pantry as quickly as possible Lily Nichols: "Generally speaking, the things that are brain supportive nutrients (for any stage of life) tend to carry over and have benefits for postpartum as well. We've talked a lot about vitamin D and DHA today, and B12. We haven't touched on iron too much; that's another one. Many of these nutrients are also beneficial to postpartum brain health as well. "Another major factor that I think is often overlooked is blood sugar levels and sufficient protein intake. […] If you've gone through periods of time where you haven't eaten enough protein, or somehow eating in a way where your blood sugar is just super imbalanced and all over the place like a high-carbohydrate, low-protein diet, you've probably felt the mental effects of those significant blood sugar swings. I mean there's anxiety, there's like almost like this insane state of urgency where you have to like eat right away. Like your mental health suffers. You don't feel grounded when you're eating that way. […] "Getting enough protein is so crucial, and the protein-rich foods are also your most nutrient-dense foods. So a lot of the nutrients we're talking about that are brain supportive nutrients are in those protein-rich foods, so for a variety of reasons, protein kind of checks all the boxes. But protein intake postpartum actually needs to be as high or higher than a typical female athlete. We actually finally have data on this, because there was no very like strong guidance on protein intake postpartum. They looked at women who are three to six months postpartum exclusively breastfeeding. So this doesn't even consider zero to three months postpartum, in which I would argue the needs are probably higher. And they found that these women needed 1.7 to 1.9 grams per kilogram of protein per day, and that was an estimated average requirement. If you were to make an RDA out of this it's probably a gram of protein per pound of body weight equivalent. Like I said, more than a typical female athlete. "And you will be so hungry postpartum that you will want to eat that amount of protein too, and if you don't you'll be absolutely ravenously hungry and eating all the carbs out of your pantry as quickly as possible, because you're just so famished. You're burning so much energy producing breast milk every day, and not to mention all the recovery that needs to go down post-birth as well. So I think a big one is if we get our protein dialed in, and our blood sugar levels stabilized, that also increases our micronutrient intake, I think that honestly should be some of the biggest first line nutritional intervention for postpartum, regardless if there's pre-existing or newly developed mental health concerns going on. But I don't think you can skip over it, like I don't know how you could maintain any semblance of balance and normalcy without getting the protein." Lily Nichols with npub19yjldzc98lsesatjncxzgunm8xpdjsr5tva3sjc9ggyqsjh5hedst2unad @ 49:55–51:08 & 52:08–54:19 (posted 2023-11-19)

Your nose is so sensitive during pregnancy that something becomes completely & immediately repulsive if there is any slight off scent. This helps to protect you should you choose to consume raw seafood, which has higher iodine & DHA levels, during pregnancy Dr. Max Gulhane: "What's your take on raw seafood consumption? When we think about the bioavailability and denaturing of nutrients, I think raw seafood is up there with the best food that we can eat. […] What's your take on what women should do or eat during pregnancy with regard to raw fish?" Lily Nichols: "Yeah, the raw fish one is controversial of course in the States and probably many other sort of Westernized societies. It's a big no no to have any sushi, but in other parts of the world it's not frowned upon. In Japan, it's known to be encouraged, actually. I finally even pulled up some of the Japanese guidelines on fish consumption and pregnancy, and it was interesting. Their whole document focused primarily on reassuring women that fish consumption was safe despite the mercury content. They get did give some more specific breakdowns of types of fish in quantity per week or month or whatever for some of these ones that are more commonly consumed over there. But they even broke it down by sashimi, like a typical portion size of sashimi, you can have like X amount based on the amount of mercury. They didn't even like go into whether sushi is controversial or problematic or should be avoided. It was just like sashimi was mentioned as like, yes, also factor this into your seafood intake. It was just sort of like an aside. So certainly, and I know from people who have lived in Japan, encouraged is what I've heard. There's no frowning upon consuming sashimi and other raw seafood. "There is a bit of controversy with like raw shellfish if it's not like super, super fresh. If you look at least US seafood illness outbreaks, like 75% of the seafood-associated outbreaks are from raw shellfish or undercooked shellfish. So that's one of those ones where I'm like, there's a slightly higher risk of food poisoning here, right? I say 75%, this is 75% of the ones associated with seafood. […] Half of foodborne illness outbreaks in the US are from raw fruits and vegetables, so this small proportion, or this proportion of the small amount that are due to seafood, 75% makes it sound really big, but this is relative only to other types of seafood. "I would say if you know where the oysters are from, and you can ensure they're super fresh, and they pass the smell test. I mean your nose is so sensitive during pregnancy. Like any slight off scent, something becomes completely and immediately repulsive. You can't imagine how strong this like gut response is, but it's very strong. So if anything smells fishy in that off sort of way you definitely are not going to want to consume it, right? But if you're live by like an oyster community like you could probably get really good ones and I would probably partake. "As for sashimi, I mean I enjoyed sushi during my pregnancy, raw fish sushi. You just want to use common food safety considerations: is it a reputable establishment, is it clean, are you eating it right away, you're not taking it home and eating it later, you're not getting the stuff pre-prepared at the grocery store. Like you want to get it fresh from a good sushi bar or a good restaurant that is hygienic and has good handling. The likelihood you'll actually get sick from it is pretty slim. Sushi-grade fish often has a requirement that it has been flash frozen and then frozen at a specific temperature for a specific amount of time to inactivate any potential parasites. So as long as post defrost it has been kept at the proper temperature, and you're consuming it right away, I personally wouldn't have any concerns over that. "But you also got to go with what your mental state will allow. Like some people are so anxious about possibly getting food poisoning that it's like too much to bear to go there. If that's you, that's fine. Enjoy it cooked. There do seem to be some nutrients that are better preserved when it is raw, iodine levels and DHA levels, for example, are both higher when it's raw. So, you know, you do you. "During my first pregnancy I was living in a fishing community so we had tons of fish freshly caught available so I did like raw sashimi and ceviche quite frequently in that pregnancy because it was so fresh and so widely available it was like a really you know primary protein source in that area so I partook and it was perfectly fine. I didn't get any food poisoning." Lily Nichols with npub19yjldzc98lsesatjncxzgunm8xpdjsr5tva3sjc9ggyqsjh5hedst2unad @ 14:25–19:47 (posted 2023-11-19)

Insufficient levels of DHA during pregnancy permanently impairs the fetus's brain & vision development. You cannot make up for low DHA intake during pregnancy after the fact. Your body is unable to convert enough of ALA from flax seeds or chia to DHA for optimal health Lily Nichols: "Out of all of the essential fatty acids, I would argue that DHA is probably the one we have the most evidence on for its benefits, and how truly it's an essential compound. Essential means your body can't produce it in sufficient quantities, and we have plenty of research to show that that is the case. "You try to take in other types of omega-3 fats, like ALA from plant foods, like flax seeds and chia, and your body just cannot convert enough of it into DHA for optimal health. So definitely I agree that it's certainly an essential compound. "Seafood by far is our greatest source of DHA. You start to look at other sources of it and while it is found in things like eggs, especially when the chickens have been fed omega-3s themselves, or grass-fed cows, for example, and ruminant, pasture-raised animals, the concentrations of DHA are so far below the amount that's in fish that you would just have to [consume large quantities] of those foods to get anywhere close to the amount of DHA found in like just a few ounces of seafood. "And when you get to something like fish eggs, roe, is extremely concentrated in DHA. You need just the tiniest amount to get manyfold more than you get in you know a fillet of salmon, for example. […] "When it comes to a baby's development in utero, there are like irreversible time periods of development where certain areas of the brain are being built or certain neuronal connections are being made and the eyes are being formed. And like, if you don't have sufficient amounts of key nutrients during that time, DHA is one of of many, then you can have permanently lower level function of those tissues. So you can't make up for low DHA intake during pregnancy after the fact. Like it's still great to get enough DHA then, if you're breastfeeding you're transferring that DHA via your breast milk, that's great, and children continue to need DHA as they grow and develop. But there's these specific time points at which some of these nutrients are super critical, and it does appear that certainly pregnancy, the whole nine months, there's a very important role for DHA in optimizing both brain and vision development, so I don't think it's one that you can skip over. Lily Nichols with npub19yjldzc98lsesatjncxzgunm8xpdjsr5tva3sjc9ggyqsjh5hedst2unad @ 08:41–10:27 & 11:49–12:58 (posted 2023-11-19)

Shining infrared light on blood vessels increases venous blood flow velocity by 30%, irrespective of the pumping action of the heart. Infrared light is generated endogenously by our mitochondria, and we're also able to use the infrared light from the sun Dr. Max Gulhane: "[…] What did Pollack do next? Well he took a chick embryo and used that to investigate whether this exclusion zone phenomenon was happening in a living system that is representative of our cardiovascular system. So he shone a infrared light source on this embryo model, and what did he notice? With infrared application venous flow velocity increased by 30%, beginning almost immediately. After the infrared source was removed the venous flow diminished below baseline. This positive effect of infrared agrees with the results of previous studies. So what does that mean? […] It means that blood flow is occurring at the level of the microcirculation, irrespective of the pumping action of the heart. That is, frankly, paradigm shattering because the cardiology dogma, or prevailing thought and orthodoxy, is that the heart operating as a pressure propulsion pump is the sole driver of velocity and flow of blood through the system. "What Pollack's work elegantly proves is that the blood vessels themselves intrinsically can drive blood flow through these exclusion zone water dynamics with, and driven by, infrared light that is being applied to them. It also really has massive implications for thinking about what or why and how we can best optimize our heart health. So the next question that you're probably asking is that where can we get infrared light from? "I'll tell you that natural sunlight has approximately 50% of infrared photons. […] Where else can we get infrared light from? "It turns out that your body emits infrared light. […] Some of it is heat, but some of it is shorter wavelength infrared light. "So what that means is that the infrared light source that is driving this exclusion zone water and this vascular flow is in part coming from the sun, and is in part coming from the endogenous energy that is being generated by your colony of mitochondria, all the time, 24/7. "So what is this infrared light doing? Well it's building the exclusion zone water in your blood vessels, and that has two massive implications which we've alluded to already: (1) it's going to be driving blood flow irrespective of the pumping action of the heart, and (2) it is going to be massively protecting the underlying endothelial layer and glycocalix from the contents of the lumen, whether they're red blood cells, whether they're LDL cholesterol, whether they're anything else." npub19yjldzc98lsesatjncxzgunm8xpdjsr5tva3sjc9ggyqsjh5hedst2unad @ 19:48–24:08 (posted 2024-06-01)

We need protection from blue light during the day when we're inside. Most computer screens are set to between 5700–6500 Kelvin. If you're working all day, you're getting a solar signal for noon the whole day. There's no circadian variation occurring Dr. Justin Marchegiani: "With the [blue-blocking] glasses, you're wearing those glasses all day long. Is that correct? Not just at night?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "I'm wearing these glasses anytime I'm inside." Dr. Justin Marchegiani: "Inside." Dr. Jack Kruse: "In this light that you're making me look at." Dr. Justin Marchegiani: [laughs] Dr. Jack Kruse: "You know that I didn't have these on when we first started talking." Dr. Justin Marchegiani: "No. You're in the car, and the sunroof open, and you were getting that exposure. Totally." Dr. Jack Kruse: "Exactly. And that's the point. And the thing is, one of the things in functional medicine that I think they can lead on, because it's not talked about enough, is that we need to wear protection from blue light during the day when we're inside. We really do, because people don't understand that circadian variation occurs. That's why I wanted you to understand that it goes from 1800 Kelvin all the way to 16,000 Kelvin. "Computer screens are optimized, most computer screens, between 5700 and 6500 globally by the technology companies. So if you're working all day, and say for 10–12 hours seeing patients, that means you're getting a complete solar signal for noon the whole day. What do you think that does with your central retinal pathway? What do you think that does to your HPA axis? What do you think that does to your brainstem? And then you wonder why people are coming in to you are zombies and they're trashed? But the problem is selling them pills and herbs aren't gonna fix that problem." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Justin Marchegiani @ 37:39–38:55 (posted 2017-04-21)

No problems with getting red or burned. You're designed to absorb all the UV frequencies in your melanin. Freckles hold the UV light; that's where all the excited electrons are. Nighttime is when you offload this into your cellular structure; that's why you're less pink next morning Dr. Justin Marchegiani: "How long does it take you to build that tolerance so that you can build that solar callus?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "It took me about 2–3 years. But did I know what I was doing when I started? No. Because all the variables that I just told you, I didn't really realize how important they are. Now I do. I have a K haplotype, my heteroplasmy rate, I've got it pretty dialed in because I've been a biohacker for about 12 years. On average, I would say in the winter time I need about 1.5–2 hours; in the summer time, I usually go 3–5 hours per day." Dr. Justin Marchegiani: "In the sun? And you're doing no sunscreen at all?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Dude. There's no freakin' chance that I would ever wear that." Dr. Justin Marchegiani: "And you're not burning at all either?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Well, if I get burned, if I get red, I have no problem. [...] The way sun is designed to work, this is probably a good thing for people to hear, you're designed to absorb all the UV frequencies in your melanin. So my freckles hold the UV light; that's where all the excited electrons are. Nighttime is when you offload this into your system. So you'll notice if you hung out with me for 3–4 hours, say now in New Orleans, the next morning when you saw me, I wouldn't be as pink. And why? Because I've offloaded those things into my cellular structure. "See the problem is you have to think about yourselves kinda like plant. When it's really thirsty for water, that is gonna be delivered to places that need it the most. So think about your skin. Most people have their arms exposed, they don't have their belly or legs, and this and that, and other things exposed. So those parts of your body are starved, absolutely starved, for light. So if you're smart, you start looking at, 'OK, what do I always have covered all the time? Those are the parts that I need to keep uncovered and get out there.' And what you do is slowly build up your solar callus. [...] "And when people start to see how it really goes, and they start to become what I would call more connected with nature, in other words, you reconnect with nature. See, your wireless relationship to the sun, and your complete connection to the earth through your feet or through leather-soled shoes, this is something we can't miss. And if you don't fix this, I don't care what you or I do in a clinic, it ain't gonna work." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Justin Marchegiani @ 34:49–37:37 (posted 2017-04-21)

A 70kg adult needs to make on average 85 kg of ATP per day. Food only provides 1/3 of the amount of electrons to make ATP. The other 2/3 is supposed to be provided by sunlight Dr. Jack Kruse: "What people functionally do not realize is if they look at a chloroplast and they look at mitochondria, they're exactly the same, meaning that they were both once bacteria, what we consider endosymbionts. In other words, we took them and we change their function to be an energy producer. Now what people don't understand in animals is that, on average, and I'm giving you average human being, a 70kg adult, needs on average to make 85 kg of ATP per day. So I want you to think about that for a minute. If you have to make more ATP per day than you weigh, that is the function of a mitochondria. "But here is where it gets really interesting. Food only provides 1/3 of the amount of electrons to make ATP. Well, guess what is supposed to provide the other 2/3? Sunlight. And how does that happen? It's a function of the protein in the inner mitochondrial membrane called cytochrome C oxidase, which I think most people know. And cytochrome C oxidase is a heme protein, just like hemoglobin in our skin, and what it does is it absorbs best in what we call the optical window, and the optical window goes from about 700–1400 nm, specifically in the red and near infrared range. And what does it do? It makes ATPase spin much faster and we create several things from that. Not only do we create ATP, we create the other 2/3 of the ATP that food don't provide us. "The other key thing is the faster the ATPase spins, the higher magnetic flux we create in a cell. And that's where magnetic fields come. And most people who are in the allopathic and functional medicine don't functionally really understand how the magnetic field is generated, and how it's designed to alter as current that comes across the inner mitochondrial membrane in the form of electrons. And all food, in fact, everything in the environment, everything, functionally comes down to electrons." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Justin Marchegiani @ 03:01–05:28 (posted 2017-04-21)

The isomerization step of making vitamin D requires hydrated skin. Non-native EMF dehydrates. Living in a populous area exposes you to more nnEMF. 'I don't care if you're naked outside on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, you're not going to raise your vitamin D.' High cholesterol Dr. Jack Kruse: "Remember, no matter where you are, […] you don't make any vitamin D until UVB sunlight kicks in. […] "The three variables for vitamin D function are latitude, altitude and population density, and population density is the one that most people don't understand. The more you live around other obedient idiots, the more you get dehydrated, because they're all using non-native devices. And the reason why this is an important thing, and why you see me here drinking my Green Mountain Valley mountain water, is the isomerization step of vitamin D3 that occurs in your skin requires you not to be dehydrated. Otherwise, your cholesterol will be really high and your vitamin D3 conversion will be low, and that pretty much describes just about everybody with diabetes and metabolic syndrome. "In fact, I think the epidemic in most patients with lipids is tied to this factor, and anybody who then says well giving them a statin makes any sense. What does a statin do? It actually increases the respiratory protein distance, and we already talked about what that's a bad idea. What is the link between cytochrome 3 and cytochrome 1? […] It's called Coenzyme Q10. Coenzyme Q10 ferries electrons between those cytochromes. So if you're stretching them out, are you making cytochrome C more happy to make more ATP or less happy? […] "The big effect for the United States is population density. So if you happen to live in a very popular state, I don't care if you're naked outside on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, you're not going to raise your vitamin D. "I talk to functional docs all the time. They're like, 'Jack, you know what I can't understand. These people live in San Diego, they live in Los Angeles, and I check their Vitamin D and they're at 31. I put them on 20,000 IU a day with 5mg of K2. They come back and they're at 38.' He goes, 'I just don't understand why.' "I said, 'It's pretty simple. They're all dehydrated. And the reason why,' I said, 'Check their BUN/Creatine ratios. Just do a regular chem 7, and invariably you'll see they're over 15:1.' And I explain to people the reason why: the isomerization step is blocked. It needs water to make Vitamin D. And people don't understand this. "So when I hear people default straight to the vitamin D thing, it's either because they have to make the Mercedes payment, or they're trying to get people on a program. That's not the answer. And the thing is we're gonna make those people worse if we just throw Vitamin D down the gullet." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Justin Marchegiani @ 20:59–21:05, 27:52–29:30 & 42:34–43:33 (posted 2017-04-21)

With the change to 5G, dirty electricity due to jump conduction now becomes the biggest non-native EMF problem, in addition to blue light. Mitochondria are sampling the increased power density brought on by 5G, creating massive electrical & magnetic problems in our bodies Dr. Jack Kruse: "The power density change that's coming between 4G and 5G allows for a very new phenomenon to occur that's called jump conduction. The power density change to 5G is going to be so strong that we are going to be able to take dirty electricity from anything connected to the power grids, and it's going to jump conduct to just about anything that's a conductor. That means the water pipes in your house, the gas lines in your house, anything at all will effectively bring dirty electricity straight to you. […] "I've told my members for about the last five years that, with time, one of the predictions will be shown that longevity within cities will begin to change. And it turned out in 2016 and 2017 the data is already in. For the first time in American history longevity has decreased in cities. And the reason for that is that the big change between 2G and 3G to 4G and 5G networks is because dirty electricity now becomes the biggest non-native EMF problem. "Before, it was blue light. Now it's gonna be blue light plus this jump conduction story. And the reason for that is because of the power density changes. […] The way the electromagnetic force works is on something called the inverse square law. When power density rises, it means that you have more energy in the local environment around you. "So the real problem for this is in a 5G world you're inviting more energy in and around your environment that your mitochondria will begin to sample. This is going to create massive electrical and magnetic problems within our bodies, and that's why it's considered electromagnetic pollution. […] "Because the coming change of 5G, the decision is going to be very simple for people to make. If 5G's power density is in your area, you only have one option. The option is you're gonna have to migrate, and the reason for that is because the only mitigation strategy that will work is the inverse square law. That's it. There's not going to be any crystals or any bullshit that people try to sell you online that's gonna work, and the reason for that is what Sam [Milham] had talked about: jump conduction is a real problem. And if people understood really just how bad jump conduction is. . . I'll give you a perfect example. "In New York City when one of the Con Edison's power lines grows into the roots of a maple tree, say on 57th and 5th, it affects it. That means that there's dirty electricity not only in the tree, but that electricity can jump conduct onto other pipes in your house, come in, and build an alien magnetic field right in the middle of your living room, and you'll never know about it unless you have a gauss meter to check. Justin Stellman: Yeah, that's some pretty scary stuff when you start thinking of it like that, because you can't see it, you can't feel it. It's pretty nuts." Dr. Jack Kruse: "Yeah, but guess what? Your mitochondria can and it does, and that's the reason why cancer manifests. People don't realize that the Warburg shift is a redox in your mitochondria. And until Doug Wallace's work gets out there, and until people stop believing the nonsense that cancer is a genetic disease, that it's actually a mitochondrial disease, we are going to have people continue to not make the connection of where this disease came from. Prior to 1874 cancer was unheard of. It was rare. And since we've built the power grid […] our entire economy is now based on this, and now it's getting us sick. […] "I know the devastation that's coming to the population in the 5G network. I told everybody. I said just look for mood disorders, AIs (?) and cancer, because you're gonna see huge spikes, and you're gonna see massive spikes in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. This is the reason why doctors can't fix these things with their prescriptions pads, because the cause is electromagnetic; it is not biochemical." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 01:14:40–01:16:51, 01:32:54–01:35:17 & 01:44:00–01:44:26 (posted 2018-08-07)

If I'm in a car, given that windows block UVB light, is that a time I would want to wear sunglasses? No. The biohack for driving is so simple it's ridiculous. Just crack the windows in your car. Just a little bit of natural light in your environment will help your skin & eyes Justin Stellman: "I wanted to ask you something sort of practical, just for my own benefit, for my own self. When I'm traveling in a car, for example, I know you've talked about how windows block, I believe, UV light. Is that right? UVA, is that what it blocks?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "It blocks mostly UVB, but it does block a significant portion of UVA, but it does allow some UVA to get through." Justin Stellman: "So my question is, if I'm in a car, like is there ever a time that I would want to wear sunglasses? Is sunglasses something that you'd want to wear inside of a car?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "No, I would never do that. The biohack for driving is so simple it's ridiculous. Just crack the windows in your car. That's all you have to do. Here's the beautiful thing about light it acts nonlinear. What does that mean? "For anybody who doesn't know anything about light here's your homework for today's podcast. I want you to go look up a guy named Dr. Thomas Young. He's the first guy that ever did the double slit experiment. If you just allow a little bit of light, natural sunlight, into your environment, you have already helped your skin and eyes. So if you happen to have say, a moonroof, a lot of them you can crack it or just open it. When you drive, just open up the windows around. That's it. That's all you need to do when it comes to driving your car. For those people who think, 'Well, what if the sun's not out?' Several of the sun's rays are still getting through those clouds, so the answer is yes, there is a benefit even on a cloudy day to getting out in the sun." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 01:10:20–01:12:04 (posted 2018-08-07)

You can never get well in the same environment that you got sick in until you realize that that's what you need to change. Odds are the defect is not in you Dr. Jack Kruse: "The mitochondriac perspective is all quantum living systems the defect isn't in them and I'll tell you the reason why I say that because that also is not an absolute truth but I can explain it. Most of the diseases that were afflicted by today or mitochondria based. Doug Wallace said […] that maybe 80% of diseases are mitochondrial or 20% are genetic. […] I believe it's only 5% are genetically based and 95% our mitochondria based. […] "The more we learn about mitochondria, the more clear it becomes that modern health care is focused in on the wrong genome. We focused on the nuclear genome because of Watson and Crick. But it turns out that we forgot the one that changes the most is the mitochondrial genome, and it's the one that responds most to the environment. "So this is the reason why the mitochondriac perspective is when you get sick the first thing you should do is don't look within; look outside in your environment and see what it is in your environment that has changed the power density relationship to your mitochondrial biology. And if you do that you're going to be far more effective then you will be if you have to rely on an expert functional medicine doctor or allopathic doctor. "The reason I point this out is I have so many people that come to me as new members, and they want to talk about their labs they just got done. […] I'm like stop for a minute. That testing absolutely tells you nothing about what's going on inside you. It says more about what was going on your environment the day you had it tested. And then it gets even crazier. If that lab was put on an airplane and sent through the mail it's affected by the environment until it got to the lab where it was deciphered. So is it really accurate on what is going on in you right now? The answer is when you really understand the quantum mechanisms in a mitochondria, they happen on an instantaneous basis. […] Justin Stellman: "So what you're talking about is you're never going to heal in the same environment that you got sick in […]" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Absolutely. I hope you say that again and again and again: You can never get well in the same environment that you got sick in until you realize that that's what you need to change. In other words, before you spend any money on any lab from an allopathic doctor or a functional medicine doctor, the number one thing you should spend money on is go hire yourself a non-native EMF engineer, rent their gear, and find out what the milligauss is in your car, your house, where you sleep, where you work, where you spend most of your time. Then begin to make changes, and then see how things change." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 45:41–48:20, 57:13–58:02 (posted 2018-08-07)

Carbohydrates in season, when it's spring and summer, are perfectly fine for most people to eat. The problem is none of us protect ourselves from the damaging effects of blue light, and the more blue light you have the less carbohydrates you can eat Dr. Jack Kruse: "Blue light is the reason why people have this bad connotation to carbohydrates. A lot of people believe that carbohydrates are fundamentally bad. […] This is a half-truth; it's not true at all. Carbohydrates in season, when it's spring and summer, are perfectly fine for most people to eat. The problem is none of us protect ourselves from the damaging effects of blue light, and the more blue light you have the less carbohydrates you can eat. Why? Because this causes mitochondrial damage, and once the mitochondrial damage is present you can't handle carbohydrates anymore. But what do we do because we don't understand how mitochondria work? We immediately use linear relationships and blame the food, when it's really not the food at all; it's the light was behind it, 100%. […] "The seasonal approach, the easiest way for you to deal with it in your local environment is to sit down with a farmer in your area and say, 'Hey look, can you tell me what grows this time of the year, that time of the year, that time of the year,' and that's what you focus in on. […] "I advocate people eat locally, because guess what? You will get in a lot less trouble once you really know what's growing locally from your farmers." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 30:18–31:07, 33:00–33:16 & 39:51–40:02 (posted 2018-08-07)

When you are indoors under blue light, it is necessary to protect your solar panel (your skin) in addition to protecting your eyes. Incessantly irradiating the thyroid, which is less than a centimeter below the skin on the neck, with blue light. Hashimoto's thyroiditis Dr. Jack Kruse: "Most people in the biohacking world think that you can use technology with impunity as long as you have your blue blockers on. I laugh and make fun of these people. […] I've said for 12 years that, and this was a prediction I made a long time ago, sooner or later science was gonna catch up to me and realize that that blue opsin called melonopsin that's in our eye is gonna be found in our skin and our fat. Well guess what? In 2017, 2018, guess what they found? I was right. So you know what this means? "This means when you're watching the TV and have no clothes on in your house, but you have your blue blockers on, you are effectively doing the same thing through your skin. This is the reason why, for some of your readers that may have read some of the old anti-aging books, like that Suzanne Somers wrote back in the early '90s, she made a comment that there was a researcher from the University of Philadelphia that took a penlight and shined it right behind research subjects' knees, and found out that it disrupted their melatonin. "And everybody laughed at that in allopathic medicine for a long time. Well, I didn't laugh at it. I remember reading it the first time and and thinking to myself, we are exquisitely sensitive to light, just like a leaf is. I mean nobody laughs you know down here in New Orleans when the flowers are not growing, or the fruits not growing here in December. Because we know that the light doesn't have the power density to make those things happen. But we're completely unaware that the same thing happens in us, and that's the reason why the penlight, something that small, can have a huge effect. "So you have to pay attention to your entire body. That means when you are indoors under blue light you need to protect your solar panel and your eyes. "And the reason I'm making this point to you, and I hope you realize it, when I was in medical school we had a pathology book called Robins Pathology. In that book in 1986, I'll never forget this statement, we talked about thyroid diseases. It said that Hashimoto's thyroiditis is extremely rare. It'll only makes up 1% of cases. Today, it makes up 98% of cases of hypothyroidism. You want to know why that's changed in literally three decades? The reason is pretty simple. It's because we've irradiated our thyroids with blue light consistently since we embrace technology in the late 1980s. People sit in front of computers and phones and don't even realize that their thyroid gland is less than a centimeter below the skin on their neck." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 26:36–29:17 (posted 2018-08-07)

If you eat a cucumber, and you live in Toronto, a cucumber will highly fatten you because of its deuterium content, vs. you eating pork belly at the same place. The single most important thing is the quality of the hydrogen that's in the food Dr. Jack Kruse: "If you eat a cucumber, and you live in Toronto, a cucumber will highly fatten you because of its deuterium content, vs. you eating pork belly at the same place. […] Everybody looks at a cucumber as a health food, but people don't realize it's got seeds, it's a fruit, that means it's loaded with water. "Water makes up the the number one chemical in our bodies. And it turns out water, H₂O, everybody assumes that it's H, meaning hydrogen. That's what our body wants. "The water that made that cucumber comes from photosynthesis. And people have forgotten that third grade law that water plus CO₂ and sunlight make sugar. If you've got a lot of deuterium in your H₂O, that means that it's gonna be much more fattening. And if you happen to live at a very high latitude, well you got no business eating that at all. And this shocks people, because everybody normally thinks that carbohydrates themselves are fattening because of the glucose content. "It turns out the single number one most important thing is the quality of the hydrogen that's in the food. And when you really understand mitochondria well, you'll begin to understand why the first three cytochromes have an enzyme in it called a dehydrogenase. And then you start to realize that's what pulls the hydrogen off specific carbons in foods. And then we have this thing called a matrix, where this very famous equation is that most people know about called the TCA cycle or the Krebs cycle. That's the matrix in the mitochondria and guess what it collects? H+. And it turns out that major quantum nanomotor called the ATPase, that uses hydrogen protons to make energy, it's only built to work with H+; it's not built to work with deuterium. Deuterium is an isotope of H+, and it's got double the atomic mass. That means that it's got a different magnetic moment. Well, didn't we say before light, water, and magnetism? That means that deuterium and hydrogen do not work the same in a magnetic field. Well, don't we live on a planet with a magnetic field? […] "You start to realize that when big food, or big ag, or say, your municipality, it's organic seeds, but you're using deuterium-laced water that's got 155 parts per million, and not the normal 132 that the rain provides, you may begin to start to see that maybe the avocados and cucumbers that are grown in Southern California are not equivalent to the ones that nature makes by photosynthesis. "This is what makes it really, really difficult for people because they want to just eat an avocado. They assume that all avocados are the same everywhere on the planet. And it turns out that is not true. That goes back to exactly the question you asked me, 'Why do I advocate people eat locally?' Because guess what? You will get in a lot less trouble once you really know what's growing locally from your farmers. "The question the mitochondriac will ask is, 'OK, how do you grow your food?' […] The next question should be, 'Where's your water come from?' […] It turns out that's the single biggest issue, not the seed. And the reason for that goes back to photosynthesis because everything that's made in anything that grows goes back to that photosynthetic pathway. Photosynthesis consumes water, and guess what mitochondria do? When we reverse the process in us, we make water." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 36:10–40:45 (posted 2018-08-07)

Fruits are deuterium bombs. Glyphosate allows for more deuterium to go into the fruit, which make the fruit even more inflammatory, especially when it's eaten out of season Dr. Jack Kruse: "Of the chemicals that we tend to use, the one that gets the most press in the functional medicine world, which is glyphosate, which is Roundup. Turns out one of the things that Roundup does, besides screwing with some of the chiral properties of amino acids like glycine, it allows for more deuterium to go into the fruit. The way fruits normally work, they're deuterium bombs by nature alone, and they're doing that so they can spread their seeds all over the planet, so things will go. But man has put more deuterium in them so that makes these fruits a lot more inflammatory, especially when it's eaten out of season." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 34:51–35:32 (posted 2018-08-07)

Mitochondria control gene expression. To understand cancer, we need to know what happened to those mitochondria before the cancer came. Mitochondria don't deal with food. Mitochondria only deal with three things: electrons, protons, & photons Justin Stellman: "So the mitochondria is what actually causes genetic expression to occur and what controls, so the mitochondria is another layer up from the genes?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Oh yes. And the problem right now with the modern paradigm as I think you know and just about all your listeners know, I mean let's take a perfect example: cancer. Right now, all oncologists and all research is focused in on the gene I think all of us know that if you open up every book but what is [Doug] Wallace telling us? That is a misplaced focus. We need to be looking in the mitochondria and not the 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." Justin Stellman: "Interesting." Dr. Jack Kruse: "And see, that's where we get into the heteroplasmy thing. And that's where we get into the the distance between respiratory proteins. And the reason it becomes so interesting for me is because what do mitochondria deal with? Mitochondria don't deal with the things that most of the other people in both the healthcare paradigm, or the paleo paradigm, or the food paradigm, what I call food gurus, they deal with things that are to me inconsequential. Mitochondria only deal with three things: electrons, protons, and photons. That is quantum physics. "So from my perspective, you need to understand a little bit of physics to understand truly what's going on inside of mitochondria. And once you begin to open yourself to that perspective, then guess what? Some of the things that are really difficult for us to answer today in medicine become much more easy to do. […] The leptin prescription and the cold thermogenesis protocols all tie back to how electrons, protons, and photons actually work inside of mitochondria." Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 30:32–32:41 (posted 2016-10-10)

While light is God, polarized light is evil. If you destroy melanin at any level, you've got a problem. That's what's happened with the 49ers, it's what's happening with my osteoporosis patients, it's what's happening to the astronauts in space Brett Hanson: "If God is light, light is God, and if that is the case, then what is evil? What is the satanic pull of all these people?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "[…] That would be polarized light, light that we're not based to operate with. Let's be quite frank. If you understand the thesis that I've tried to teach people about evolution or God, you know that light is primordial. That's in the book of Genesis, but God's never told you the recipe. What did I tell you is the key to the recipe in this podcast? The leptin-melanocortin pathway. "So realize that melanin, way back 4.2 billion years ago, when the only two things alive on the planet were bacteria and archaea, even before them melanin gave you a shield. Why did you need a shield then? There was no ozone layer. Why? Because there was no oxygen on the planet. So that meant that when life began it had to begin below the surface, underneath the ground, and at hydrothermal vents. So what magically happens? Melanin comes. Why? Because the stimulus on Earth is UV radiation is pounding on it for half a billion years. So what happens? It interacts with D-shell transition elements, specifically iron, copper, manganese, molybdenum, also deuterium. And what magically happens? Melanin shows up on Earth. Where does melanin first shows up? […] "In bacteria. When the bacteria get a melanin shield, they're able to come to the surface. Then what happens when they come to the surface? Couple billion years later, you get into the great oxygenation event, you start making oxygen. What happens? What is the first step? […] Photosynthesis is how you make the entire food web. But how did life begin? "Radiosynthesis. What is radiosynthesis? Radiosynthesis is when you take melanin, you absorb all frequencies of electromagnetic spectrum, and you turn it into a DC electric current. It turns out that's the first thing that happens on Earth. "Then what else does melanin do? It actually chelates these D-shell transition atoms. All of those atoms to this very day they're still important on the inner mitochondrial membrane. Only then after almost three billion years then do you get photosynthesis. Then what reverses photosynthesis? That's mitochondrial biology, oxidative phosphorylation. So what did I just tell you? Radiosynthesis was first. […] How did we find out about it? "In 1986 Chernobyl blows up, right? Everybody heard about that. They put a concrete shield over the thing because of the gamma radiation. They tell everybody in the world, Russia, United States scientists, Chinese scientists, everybody said the same thing. Humans will not be able to go there in a thousand years. So what magically happens 25 years later? "The deer, the bear, the boar, butterflies, and flowers are all growing around Chernobyl. So what do they do? They drill a hole in the core, and they take a robot and put the robot in and see what's going on. They find inside there's bacteria that have melanin and fungi that have melanin that are absorbing the gamma rays and turning it into a DC electric current and changing the whole environment so that it's not dangerous for the animals to be in. "So guess what? We found out that life has another way. […] Radiosynthesis is how it began. That's how we took light and abiotic atoms from the periodic table in the dirty chemistry 4.6 to 4.2 billion years, and magically what's the first thing that really shows up? Melanin. That's how the story starts, my friend. "So, if you do anything to destroy melanin at any level, you got a problem. That's what's happened with the 49ers, it's what's happening my osteoporosis patients, it's what's happening to the astronauts in space. Anywhere you look, that problem's there. […] If you know how to renovate your melanin right away, you never devolve into a chronic disease that MAHA is trying to solve." Dr. Jack Kruse with Brett Hanson @ 01:35:58–01:40:58 (posted 2026-02-08)

Get as much outside or outside-like time as possible. Don't underestimate driving with the sunroof open. Don't underestimate opening windows. Block artificial light before sunrise. Block blue light after sunset. Eliminate non-native EMFs that are on the body like AirPods, Apple Watch, or cell phone Dr. Max Gulhane: "So you're seeing a patient like this: they're having problems with fertility, they're having problems with weight gain, they're not perhaps hormonally optimized. What do you like to do and guide them through in terms of helping them? And we've already talked about a little a couple of things." Carrie Bennett: "Foundational is light environment. I do lay that down as the first. So we talk about what can one do to block artificial light before sunrise to make natural light the first signal that really hits their eyes and communicates to their suprachiasmatic nucleus what's going on, and their hypothalamus. So that's step one. "And then getting as much what I call outside or outside-like time as possible in the morning. So don't underestimate opening windows, don't underestimate driving with the sunroof open, don't underestimate like you know, I have clients who take a little break, or they have they make a phone call, but they make their their work phone call in their car with their windows down, right? So like just saying, 'What can I do to get more natural light exposure in the morning?' I've got teachers who turn off their fluorescents and do they crack open windows and they stick their heads out in between classes when there's like a five minute change, and they sky gaze a little bit through the screen. Like all of these things matter, because anytime you can sync up with the correct signaling from the light your body it provides your body with information, and that's useful information the body can use to optimize its function. So that's number one. "Number two is what's happening at the end of the day. So I really think most people need a good a good pair, and it doesn't have to be an expensive pair, but a pair of orange-toned blue blockers. Because when we're filtering the light through orange we're preventing the brain from sensing blue and that signals to the pineal gland it's the night time and it can start to make melatonin. So we see optimization of hormones on that end of the spectrum plus elevation of melatonin to help with all the repair. "And then in conjunction with that, Max, is like a lot of things these are people who probably have a lot of mitochondrial dysfunction. So I say we because I co-teach a fertility course with Sarah Kleiner, and so we really talk about things like what can we do to support mitochondrial health and that would be, What does red light therapy look like? What is cold exposures and cold plunges look like? What about deuterium? Are these people who have to do things to help support deuterium levels in their body? So there's talk around other things as well. "And then lastly we really are diligent about helping people slowly eliminate their exposures to non-native EMFs, because oftentimes it has to be a gradual process. We start first with the non-native EMFs that are on someone's body. So this is someone who was typically wearing AirPods all the time, or an Apple Watch, or had a cell phone in their pocket, or on their purse all day long. We start to remove those exposures. Then the next step is can you hardwire your workstation you know can you turn off your Wi-Fi at night can you put your phone on airplane mode whenever possible little things like that can start to make a big difference in what the mitochondria perceive as a threat, so that they can optimize their function during the day as well." Carrie Bennett with @MaxGulhaneMD @ 34:30–37:37 (posted 2023-05-28)

Having breakfast shortly after sunrise signals to your body that food is plentiful. When you sync up all your circadian signaling & leptin signaling it shuts off hunger signaling later in the day. This can be a powerful tool for weight loss Carrie Bennett: "I'm not against intermittent fasting. It just has to be done in the complete exact opposite [of having coffee on an empty stomach in the morning and not eating until two o'clock in the afternoon]. It has to be an early fueling window, so from sunrise when you have breakfast till six to eight hours later, you've signaled to your body food is plentiful. Then […] it can go into a kind of repair mode. It doesn't need anything else for the day. So if someone wants to intermittent fast, I'm not against it. It just has to be done in that early fueling window, because of the fact that otherwise it's going to signal a stress response in the body." Dr. Max Gulhane: "Yes, yes. And I've had some great success with some of my patients who are interested in doing a bit of fasting and doing time-restricted eating in conjunction with something like a carnivore diet. They ate from 07:30 AM after the sunrise to about 11:00, and then no more, an incredibly powerful tool for weight loss." Carrie Bennett: "And you know it works with leptin too, because people when they do that they actually have low hunger in the evening. The biggest complaint with a lot of the clients I see is, 'Well, I can't do that because I'm going to be starving at night,' and it's the exact opposite. When you've synced up all of your circadian signaling and leptin signaling is strong it says, 'Carrie's got enough body fat on her body. She doesn't have to worry about finding, hunting, gathering more food,' so it really shuts off hunger signaling later on in the day." Carrie Bennett with npub19yjldzc98lsesatjncxzgunm8xpdjsr5tva3sjc9ggyqsjh5hedst2unad @ 21:35–22:53 (posted 2023-05-28)