Cultivating spiritual awareness to reach level of the true self "The principal method of Centering Prayer really is to sit down. Now that isn't too hard for most people. […] "Sitting comfortably, and with eyes closed, we settle briefly, like I'm settling in this nice chair, breathing easily, and so on. […] "There are going to be various thoughts, feelings, sense perceptions, noise in the room, people coughing, memories, imaginations, visualizations, sort of dreaming. All of this psychological material, you might say, is going to be flowing down the stream of consciousness as you sit there. And we say that it's inevitable, integral, and normal. […] "It's important not to resist these thoughts. In other words, it's important to have a joyful attitude towards the thoughts, a friendly attitude towards the most dreadful thoughts. Not that you linger over them or act them out, but it's important that we expect them, and they're normal, and they're integral. So we receive them all with a smile, sort of an inward smile, so to speak. A jolly attitude is recommended. 'Here they go again,' that sort of thing. […] "And out of the developing peace or interior silence that is gradually being insinuated through the Holy Spirit, into the spiritual level of your being. […] "This practice is constantly cultivating your spiritual awareness, the spiritual level of your being, the spiritual level of the intellect, which is intuitive, and the spiritual level of the will, which is the will to God, the will to open to infinite truth, infinite love, infinite happiness. […] "We're kind of absorbed, or dominated, in our ordinary psychological life, by the objects of events and people, and our emotional reactions to them. The purpose then, of the Centering Prayer, is to move from this [ordinary awareness] level to this [spiritual] level. And indeed, not to stop there, because the human being has greater depths than that, but to move even deeper, to the level of the true self, which is our participation in the divine life, and the divine presence itself as the source of our being at every level. "And it's accessing or awakening our awareness to this presence that is the ultimate goal of contemplative prayer or Centering Prayer. But to reach it, we have to pass through the spiritual level, and to awaken the true self, and whatever of God's ultimate divine presence he may want to share with us, which is a whole new life, which is a transformed life." Fr. Thomas Keating @ 02:51–02:59, 04:09–04:22, 05:30–06:03, 07:07–07:47, 10:33–10:47, 18:31–18:56 & 28:02–29:20 (posted 2017-09-13)

How can people who are very sensitive to the sun tan? Survivors Soup to help build a solar callus and help protect against blue light exposure. Athletes are breaking down from blue light toxicity John Nelson: "You talk about getting tan. That brings inevitably the question of people that are very sensitive to the sun. How do you work around that?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Hold on, dude. Do you know who you're talking to? Do you know who you're talking to? Take a good look [points at freckles on forehead]." John Nelson: "You look pretty tan from this video." Dr. Jack Kruse: "But look. You see the freckles? I'm a white dude who has an H haplotype. My people come from the 59th latitude. So what am I teaching you? Inside of you, remember I'm still a mammal, even though my people left the East African Rift, went up and lost all my melanin, sucked it inside. Look [points at freckles on forehead]. That's my African Heritage right there. All the other stuff is where I'm trying to stimulate POMC in. "You have the biophysical chemistry in you to build a solar callus. "I want to make sure you get this. If your wife takes you to Louis Vuitton store in Memphis and says, 'I really like these shoes but they hurt my feet,' and you are trying to be a good husband, you say, 'Baby, you can buy those, wear them five times in the house, and then they'll be fine.' You just told her you can break the shoes in. "What you guys need to realize we have the same process in our skin. There's something called urocanic acid that's made from an aromatic amino acid called histidine. The problem is you need to know how to use it. I have a Patreon blog called Survivors Soup. Survivors Soup adds tons of carotenes and polyphenols from seafood that will eventually go in your skin. Just so people understand, this works in us. […] You know that flamingos get pink only after they eat shrimp, right? […] That is true, and the same thing happens in you. "And just to show you how powerful this is, in your eye at the beginning of this retinal hypothalamic tract, you have something called the macula. Well, the full term that I learned in medical school is called macula lutea. What's the lutea stand for? Lutea is yellow in Latin. You know where that yellow pigment comes from? From the things that are in your diet. You know why it's yellow? It's a complementary color of blue. The body's telling you in central vision it wants no blue light. "So the reason I tell you this is each one of these kids that are all blue light toxic, because I promise you all of them are, you need to get them to add these things back to their diet so they can overcome all the stuff they did from when their parents were stupid, bought them an iPhone and an iPad as a digital babysitter, and basically gave Chris, at least six out of 18, that probably did that. That's a bad problem. And the thing is, this is the reason why these kids are breaking down, it's the reason why the NBA players are falling apart, it's the reason why even weekend warriors get the injuries they have." Dr. Jack Kruse with John Nelson and Chris Scarborough @ 47:06–50:08 (posted 2023-06-20)

Using deuterium-depleted water when you're an elite athlete is almost like PEDs. Saturated fats are best. Egg yolks are probably one of the best things you could ever eat. Processing foods adds deuterium. Avoid whey protein supplements as they are loaded with deuterium Dr. Jack Kruse: "If the elite athlete has enough money […] they use deuterium-depleted water while they recover. […] Using deuterium-depleted water when you're an elite athlete is almost like PEDs, except you can't get busted for water. […] One deuterium atom in water binds 96 other H+. Remember, your mitochondrial matrix is filled nothing but H+, so you can imagine if that one deuterium puts a lasso around 96, can you be as thermally efficient as an athlete? The answer is no. It's obvious. So you need to get rid of all the deuterium that you possibly can in your life. "So in terms of foods, […] saturated fats are the best, so animal products are the best. Next best is things with protein, but real protein, not shit that you guys push, supplements and in a box. I'm talking about from a cow, from an animal. Not processed. Why? Because that adds deuterium to it. And then eggs. Eggs are probably one of the best things you could ever eat, but you want the yolk not the white part. Throw the white part out. How did I figure this out? I MRI'ed my food, because I can see the deuterium shadow in the food. "I said, 'Wait a minute. This is starting to make sense to me. Since the inside of the mitochondria is filled with H+ I need to eat foods that just have H+.' […] "So the last thing […] I found out that one mole of carbohydrates produces 55% of the water that saturated fats does. […] "What is photosynthesis? […] Sunlight + CO₂ makes sugar. […] Mitochondrial respiration reverses that process. It takes sugar and turns it into CO₂ and water. The CO₂ you exhale, the water you need, because it turns out water is the electromagnetic capacitor that you really need. […] Your mitochondria makes only deuterium-depleted water. So when you begin to understand why your mitochondria is doing it, because remember, those H+ go through the ATPase to spin it if you have deuterium in there it's kind of like putting maple syrup in your F₀ head. You can't make ATP, you can't perform. […] [The deuterium is] double the size and it breaks the spinning head. So it ruins all the beautiful nanomachines that nature put inside us to work with sunlight. "When you get that broken engine, like the guys that you said have the problem with the stress fractures in their back and their tibia, this is the process that's going on. Why? Because they use whey protein, […] that the shit's loaded with deuterium. And if you want to know how you can prove this, I'm going to give you guys a biohack that you can do yourself. […] Take some of the bullshit that they sell, the keto snacks and the processed protein powders, and go through TSA with it. You know what you'll find out? They'll pull it out of your bag. Do you know why? Because the RF pulses that they send gets the deuterium shadow, and they'll want to check your bag." Dr. Jack Kruse with John Nelson and Chris Scarborough @ 36:41–42:00 (posted 2023-06-20)

Prehistoric humans used tools to extract ketogenic, low-deuterium bone marrow. Our natural metabolic state is ketosis. Eat grass-fed animal fats. We adopted agriculture and chronic diseases appeared on a mass scale Dr. László Boros: "Four million years ago, and this was a big finding for me, papers that published that actually the prehistoric man was able to open the skull of large plant-eating animals and start eating bone marrow fat. That's what humans were eating and consuming for themselves for millions of years. […] These prehistoric men were able to go in a ketogenic, deuterium-depleted diet which provides nutritional ketosis and metabolic ketosis with low deuterium. […] They were able to develop brain skills, fine motor movements, fine kind of hand speech. They were able to use their body in a low-deuterium environment in a more flexible, more expressive, and in a more complicated complex way, as far as memory, as far as communications, as far as social behaviors, and so on. And that was all dependent on low-fat, ketogenic diets that they were obtaining from large, plant-eating animals carcasses. "Now, the other advantage of this is that they didn't have to chase, they didn't have to hunt, they didn't have to be exposed to predatory animals by competing for these preys. They just waited until the predators left, and the scavengers left, and the bones were kind of cleaned up for them just to break through those bones using stone tools. That's what they found in this Ethiopian land where they found these 3.8 to 4 million years old bone structures of large plant-eating animals that were actually broken into using tools. "So if you look at for example a mammoth, or if you look at like large plant-eating animals, they have about 20 kg of bone marrow in any of those big bones. So those were actually very reliable, good untouched food sources; they just had to learn how to use tools to get to this ketogenic, low deuterium fat source. […] "So as our natural metabolic profile is ketosis, they could maintain ketosis during the day, low deuterium ketosis, this is what we should do, by the way, this is our natural metabolic state. […] "Agriculture came along about 10,000 years ago, and they started cultivating plants that are higher in deuterium. They formed larger communities and they started harvesting and eating plants, and that's where chronic diseases, and that's where diseases appeared in mass scales as we know. And this is when infectious diseases appeared also, because infectious diseases also depend on deuterium for the propagation of infectious agents. And changing dieting behaviors changed the disease landscape on mankind and societies, and we ended up where we are now. "Most people eat processed food, and if you look at the kind of the general health or the chronic disease epidemics taking place on this entire planet you can tell there is a huge devastating change, and practically it's because of the environmental exposure and also the food. The food industry does not measure deuterium, they don't really label the deuterium, and they don't really care about deuterium, meaning that practically you're left alone, you have to figure out yourself where to find low deuterium food source, and those are grass-fed animal fat, practically." Dr. László Boros with npub1yd2h2lrwchshvm46jq7auh65tjkxmgnapkavh7tjtqq07kknupxsa980tv @ 59:34–01:05:26 (posted 2023-11-28)

Maintain gut health by getting sunlight on your entire front. Sunlight on your gut makes molecular hydrogen. See the sunrise to set the circadian rhythm for your gut Kriben Govender: "Nathan, if there was one thing that our audience could do for their gut health, what would it be?" Nathan Walz: "Get some sun on your gut. […] "Infrared light, red light, penetrates up to 30 centimeters into your body. The bacteria in your gut, they actually do like that light, so it's very good for your bacteria. […] When you get sunlight on your gut that actually makes molecular hydrogen in your gut the natural way, the way you're supposed to make it. So you don't have to spend a lot of money on that supplement. You can just go outside and expose your gut to the sun. […] "So anytime you can get sunlight on your gut, and your gut goes from your mouth all the way to your butt, so you want to get that sunlight on your entire front. But that's one of the best things you can do to really maintain good gut health." […] Kriben Govender: "Love it." Nathan Walz: "So go out, watch the sunrise. If you're able to take your shirt off, or even just kind of lift up your shirt some, get as much of that gut exposed to the sun in the morning. "Plus watching the sunrise sets your circadian rhythm, so you want to get that natural light in your eyes. No sunglasses. You want to have your glasses up. But your gut has a circadian rhythm, too. When your circadian rhythm is off in your gut you're gonna have different gut issues over time. So just that one thing: going out, watching the sunrise every morning, getting that stimulus in your eyes so your brain clock knows what time it is. It coordinates with all the other clocks, and your other organs, including your gut, work a whole lot better." Nathan Walz with Kriben Govender @ 52:04–52:13, 45:47–46:29, 48:28–48:46 & 52:13–53:00 (posted 2019-07-23)

If you visit the cenotes in Mexico for four to seven days, how long do the health benefits last? Nathan Walz: "So how long does it last after you leave Mexico?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "The latest research says the pop in redox you get from being down here is anywhere between four and six weeks. So it depends how long you stay. That's just four days. If you stay four to seven days you can get a four to six week pop. That's part of the reason why I come down here so often. I try to figure it out. I probably won't have to come down here as much as I used to, because I'm not taking call anymore. That was the thing that was killing me and my redox." Dr. Jack Kruse with Nathan Walz @ 28:18–28:46 (posted 2018-01-08)

Health benefits of visiting the cenotes in Mexico Nathan Walz: "So Jack, […] talk about why you chose Mexico for your members retreat." Dr. Jack Kruse: "[…] Most of the reason why we're here is about 65 million years ago there was an asteroid that hit the planet, took out the dinosaurs, and that's when the age of mammals came. And pretty much everybody that's on this call is probably a mammal, so what happened then it set the stage for eukaryotic evolution. And the reason why it's special is about 40 miles of the crust got blown away, so the mantle is really close to the surface, so there's a higher magnetic flux here. Normally on earth the µT is about 0.2 to 0.4 and in most places the earth. It turns out down here it's about 1.2 µT, so it's about 300 to 400% higher magnetic flux, so it's kind of like living on the ultimate Magnetico. "The other big thing here is when the asteroid hit […] it moved all the groundwater from deep in the mantle up to the surface, and it turns out the ground war is heavily deuterium depleted. That's where the cenote system came from, and the cenote system […] is on the rim of the asteroid. Only 13% is still exposed; 87% is actually in the Gulf of Mexico. If you look at a satellite image from Google […] you'll see that the rim of all the cenotes forms a perfect radius of the circle from that original asteroid hit. It turns out all the water from the Yucatan Peninsula comes through the cenote system, and what the governor of Mexico does, there's no lakes here, there's no rivers, there's none of that, it's all from the cenotes. That's from 65 million years of rainwater and groundwater sitting in these kettles inside this crater, so it's highly structured water. Some of the cenotes are open to the sun so they get constant UV year-round. So the water here is special. But Mexico does something really interesting. They actually use reverse osmosis to all the cenote water to further deuterium deplete it and clean it up. So the water here happens to be perfectly great right out the bottle. Now they have mineral water here, they have all different kinds of water, but all the water here including stuff you take a shower in is all cenote water, and it's all reverse osmosis treated. So that's what's good about it. "And obviously we're at the 20th north latitude so you're always in tropical weather. So the weather here, as you guys just know we just passed the winter solstice, so it's the shortest day of the year. Even here at the 20th latitude it's kind of probably better weather than most of you would get at your house on the best day in the summer, so that's what's special about it. And it's not humid; it's actually pretty clear." Dr. Jack Kruse with Nathan Walz @ 03:13–06:46 (posted 2018-01-08)

"They get the vaccine, they did what they're supposed to do, their child is injured." Be thankful if it didn't happen to you. You can't sue the manufacturers. Gaslighting parents with a child seriously injured by a vaccine. Denigrating people who don't vaccinate Aaron Siri, Esq: "Imagine your child has now been injured. And remember, because people always say to me, 'Well, the people who call your firm about vaccine injuries, they're anti-vaxxers.' And I'm like. . ." Lara Logan: "How can they be anti-vaxxers? They vaccinated their child!" Aaron Siri, Esq: "Exactly. The anti-vaxxers don't call (the 'anti-vaxxers,' whatever that means.) They don't call my firm because they don't get the vaccines! These are folks who vaccinated! So, they get the vaccine, they did what they're supposed to do, their child is injured. Before I continue the story, I have one other segue. "People also often say to me, 'Well, if vaccines cause injury I'll know it. I'd know it.' And I'd say, 'Really? Tell me the last three drugs that just came off the market, because drugs come off the market all the time. And tell me what injuries they caused. Oh, you don't know, do you? You know why you don't know? Because it didn't happen to you and be thankful. But that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. OK?' But vaccines won't come off the market because you can't sue the manufacturers, but let's put that aside. "So you have a family, kid is seriously injured by a vaccine, right? Their doctors are gaslighting them and then how are they talked about on the news, especially before covid?" Lara Logan: "Oh, please." Aaron Siri, Esq: "What group can you talk about in America the way they talk about people who don't vaccinate? Can you imagine? Replace what I'm about to say with any minority, any religious, any ethnic group. You ready for it? 'Throw them out of school.' 'Throw them out of their jobs.' 'They're selfish.'" Lara Logan: "'Don't treat them at the ER.'" Aaron Siri, Esq: "'Don't treat them.' 'Let them die.' 'They deserve it.' Who can you talk to about like that?" Aaron Siri, Esq with Lara Logan @ 19:25–20:57 (posted 2025-12-12)

Should a 20-year old consume deuterium-depleted water? How about a 53-year old? Nathan Walz: "Lynn wants to know if she should give her 20 year old son deuterium-depleted water, or would somebody his age need deuterium for growth and development?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "Yeah, I'm gonna tell you that I think that deuterium-depleted water for the first couple of decades, unless somebody has a significant mitochondrial disease, it's not needed. Deuterium-depleted water is best when heteroplasmy rate is higher. I wouldn't assume a 20-year old would have that, unless the kid was born would say a childhood cancer, or an autoimmune condition, or some kind of tumor. That would be the only time I would do that. "It's a good thing to do; don't get me wrong. I still think it's not a bad way to go. But the deuterium-depleted water pathway is a backup pathway. You're designed to make it mostly in your mitochondria. But you can offset a bad mitochondrial matrix by utilizing the oxidative branch of the pentose phosphate pathway. That's actually how drinking water can affect that. It also then has a spillover effect to another pathway, and that's called the NADPH pool. That pool is designed to really take care of RNA and DNA. And usually in young people that's not a big deal. There's another backup pathway that I've written about on my Patreon blogs. […] It's called the serine glycine inner conversion, and the way to use that is to use animal fats or plant fats to access that, and that's another way for you to help fix your matrix. "But again, that's also something I don't think a 20-year old really needs to do. Really, the key stuff somebody's 20 needs to do is the stuff that we talked about on the regular on the regular site, like the leptin prescription, cold thermogenesis, eating a seasonal diet, trying to mind your EMFs, definitely blocking blue light at night. Because if you don't do those things that's actually what allows the deuterium to go into your matrix, and then that leads to heteroplasmy or diseases, so that when you are me and Rich's age, you got to worry about it. "I'm 53, Rich is 65. For us, deuterium-depleted water is a good thing. Why? Because I'm in my sixth decade, Rich is in his seventh, and we know from Doug Wallace's work that every decade we live our heteroplasmy by chance alone goes up 10%. So him and I are closer to our ends so we need to do more, and that's why him going to the cenotes, and me down here drinking a lot of deuterium-depleted water from the cenotes, that's part of the reason I come here so many times. This year alone, this is my eighth time in 2017, and I'm here for a whole week and I'll be here for another week. This place is, when you said, 'Is it the Fountain of Youth?' You say it in a joking fashion, but to be quite honest with you, when you have a high heteroplasmy rate, this place is the shit. That's all I can tell you." Dr. Jack Kruse with Nathan Walz @ 23:44–26:56 (posted 2018-01-08)

The human brain's preferential fuel is ketones, not glucose. The lower limit of carbohydrates in the human diet is zero. There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Why chubby babies Anthony Chaffee, MD: "This is something people talk about, that glucose is the brain's primary energy source. What do you say about that?" Benjamin Bikman, PhD: Yeah. […] I just […] presented at […] the meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists. […] I felt compelled to inform the person reaching out to me, […] 'Look, I'm a nutrient biochemist, mitochondrial physiologist. What do I have to say?' And he had said, 'I'm familiar with your work on brain energy use. I am putting together a session about the changes in […] our ancestor diets over these periods of evolution, and I want you to talk about the brain acting as a hybrid.' […] "I […] shared with them a quote by the National Academy of Sciences in the US stating that the lower limit of carbohydrates in the human diet is zero. In other words, there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate, and the idea that the human brain evolved because our ancestors ate a lot of carbs, that's utterly ridiculous. […] It's because they mistake dietary carbohydrates with blood glucose. What does appear to be the case is that the brain has some demand for some glucose. That appears to be accurate, although the lower limit is unknown. Early work by a fasting physiologist named George Cahill, he was putting people's glucose down to like 20 mg/dL, which most people would say you're unconscious, you're in a coma, and you're going to die. And these people, because they've been long-term fast adapted, which I would say ketone adapted, there appeared to be no deficit to cognition, and that's a pretty bloody low level of glucose. "But nevertheless, let's kind of grant that side of it, that the brain has some requirement for some glucose. Well it is a minimal requirement, because if you take a body that has five millimolar (mM) glucose, then you start increasing the ketones to one or two or even 3 mM, which is still less than the 5 mM of glucose, so there's still less of the ketone in the blood than there is the glucose, by then the brain has already dramatically shifted its energy use. And even though the ketone may be less than half of what the glucose is in the blood, it's now providing twice as much of energy to the brain as the glucose is. So if the brain has any preferential fuel, it is absolutely for the ketone. […] "You can take a newborn baby, and the baby can breastfeed or bottle feed, and then within an hour the baby is in a deeper state of ketosis than an adult would be after fasting for a full day. That baby will be at 2 mM ketones in an hour. And an adult, for me, if I want to get to 2 mM, I gotta fast for like 36 hours to get to that point. So if there's any natural state, […] it is clearly that a natural state is a state of ketosis. […] "We are such totally unique creatures, where we are the only land-based mammals born obese, and the only animal who has a brain that is larger than the birth canal, much to a mother's chagrin. But that means we have these very big hungry brains, and all of this chubby, adorable baby fat that is just producing ketones like gangbusters to fuel the brain growth. And if you have a baby that is born premature and lacks sufficient adipose tissue, it is much more likely that they're going to develop neurological disorders, all the more reason to chubby up that baby as quickly as you can." Benjamin Bikman, PhD with Anthony Chaffee, MD @ 35:22–40:57 (posted 2022-04-13)

Humans suffer neurological disorders without earth's Schumann field. Schumann simulators for astronauts "_Schumann radiation_. This spatially coherent, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation represents the transverse electromagnetic normal modes of the Earth's ionosphere cavity whose source is the totality of global lightning discharges. […] "Isolation from the Schumann field (and also from the Earth's magnetic field) during space travel (beyond the ionosphere) correlates with the onset of certain neurological disorders in astronauts. To counteract this, Schumann simulators are now fitted into spacecraft." Roeland Van Wijk (2014). _Light In Shaping Life: Biophotons in Biology and Medicine_, Meluna, Geldermalsen, The Netherlands, p.268

The myth that the sun is toxic. The medical curriculum is subsidized by big pharma Meredith: "What would you say is the biggest myth that people have about going out in the sun?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "That the sun is toxic. That is absolute utter nonsense. If it was, every wild animal and all these beautiful trees around us would have every rip roaring disease, and it turns out we're the only animal on this planet that has chronic disease epidemics. And what do we do? We come out of our mama, we wear clothes, we wear sunglasses, we have sunscreen. […] It's almost ludicrous. If you took your three children to one of the farms that are up here, and you saw a baby horse or a baby pig being born, would they come out with Abercrombie & Fitch on it? […] Is there any animal that does what humans do? Maybe we need to start asking those questions right then and there. Maybe we need to start questioning anything. […] "I always tell people it's the mark of an educated mind to take something you fundamentally do not believe, so any physician watching this who doesn't believe that the sun is helpful for health, you need to hold that concept in your mind, go examine it, go look at all the papers that are out there. You might be shocked at what you find. You may find that what you learned at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, UCSF, UC San Diego, any place you want to go. All of those places, the medical curriculum is subsidized by big pharma. Shocker." Dr. Jack Kruse with Meredith @ 27:20–28:22 & 30:22–31:02 (posted 2020-11-13)

Information is energy. Light has information in it. When you're in the wrong light, you delete melatonin, you delete your life force. "What's the defect in the environment that led to this disease state?" Dr. Jack Kruse: "And it turns out with information theory, what does it say? When information is lost from light, mass has to be expended. […] "Information is energy. That's the leap. And it turns out that light has information in it. Well if you're a doctor, don't you think you want to know what kind of information your patients are getting? Do you think the information in an indoor blue-lit world is maybe different than the one that comes from the sun when you're outside in the morning? "And do you think that may have bigger implications then maybe you currently think now and just because we live in indoor existence and 99.8% of the light that humans live under today is manufactured, that should be a stunning realization too. You should say, 'Well, if we're living under this light that we created from Tesla and Edison, how is this ruining information signaling?' Like are we making all the zeros and ones that we're supposed to? Is disease maybe tied to what Jack just said, when information is lost in a system mass is lost. "Well last time I checked melatonin is made out of mass. When melatonin is lost, you lose the two change programs in mitochondria. You can't change them. So guess what? Now I just explained to you that a loss of information of your light can actually create losses of things with mass [snaps fingers] overnight. Like it doesn't have to develop; there's no prodrome. [snaps fingers] It [snaps fingers] happens [snaps fingers] like that. Why? Because how does light work? Photons experience no time, and you keep forgetting that. […] "I tried to give you that clue about the light bulbs in your house. I want you to understand that when you change the light bulbs in your house compared to that sun behind me, that ultimately it's going to lead to a deletion of mass and different proteins in your body. It turns out that those proteins might be some of the most important proteins you have. Like melatonin, everybody thinks about sleep. It's not, it's really not. Melatonin controls actually how good your engines are in your body, which are your mitochondria, through those two change programs you talked about. […] When you're in the wrong light, you delete melatonin from the system. That means you deleted your life force. OK? […] "Is anybody really asking the fundamental question? Like, 'What information in my environment is being lost that's causing a problem in my life?' No, because the patient doesn't know to ask that question when they show up in your office. It's your job as a clinician to say, 'What makes this person unique? What about them is causing them to lose information from the waveforms in their environment?' Instead of looking at the defect in them, […] maybe the way we need to think about this, 'What's the defect in the environment that led to this disease state?' Then maybe you'll get a different answer than you've gotten from doctors for 10, 15, 20 years." Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Stephanie Rimka @ 21:56–22:03, 32:28–34:05, 43:18–44:01 & 01:06:22–01:07:14 (posted 2021-11-10)

Practicing cold thermogenesis at age 14: "I would always go out with a wet head. […] I'd ride to school on the subway, in between the subway cars, and my hair would freeze." Why cold thermogenesis is useful for many diseases Dr. Jack Kruse: "I remember distinctly, waking up in New York City, going to high school. I would always go out with a wet head. At the time I used to have curly hair like Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, and it used to go down the back of my head. I would go out with it soaking wet, it would make my coat wet. I'd ride to school on the subway, in between the subway cars, and my hair would freeze. Every day my mom was convinced I was going to have pneumonia, I was going to die. Turned out when I was that age, I was the only one in the house that never got sick, even living in New York City, traveling in a subway. That's the effect of cooling on your head. That's something called cold thermogenesis. "Well, let's fast forward now 30 years. I'm a neurosurgeon. What do I do when someone gets their head bashed in? I cool their head to improve their function. Why? Because it actually makes mitochondria a more thermally efficient heat engine. How about that? So guess what? The same principle that I didn't even know I was doing at 14 years old, now at 55, people are paying me money for it. "And when I teach people to use it for different diseases now, their primary care doctor will say, 'Oh well, you know, we're not talking about your head kicked in. We're talking about you having diabetes, or we're talking about you having obesity. It won't work for that.' Well, it won't? Tell me why it won't? And they can't. It's the height of ignorance and arrogance for someone not to examine the science behind something then go out and tell the public, 'Oh, this won't work.' […] It's an epidemic in medicine right now. Huge epidemic. "And I always tell people, it's the mark of an educated mind to take something you fundamentally do not believe, […] you need to hold that concept in your mind, go examine it, go look at all the papers that are out there. You might be shocked at what you find." Dr. Jack Kruse @ 28:30–30:43 (posted 2020-11-13)

Cool white LEDs are the most disruptive to circadian and overall health. The 2007 energy bill will effectively ban warm white LEDs and require cool white LEDs in 2028. Scott Zimmerman's petition Dr. Alexis Cowan: "The other thing that I'll say just briefly is that like people will probably see if they're watching that I have like lights on in here. They're incandescent bulbs. And the ban on incandescent bulbs is not lifted. There's been like some kind of rumors online that with the new administration that that ban was lifted. It is not. There's actually petitions going around. One

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of them is led by Scott Zimmerman, who's a colleague of mine. […] "But the issue is a 2007 energy bill that sets the requirements for energy consumption per visible light exposed. And so essentially through that stringent guideline, they're going to be phasing out not only incandescent bulbs, but even warm white LEDs will not adhere to the stringent guideline. Virtually every public space you go in, if this ends up going through in 2028, will be cool white LEDs, which are the most disruptive to circadian health and overall health, so we need to make some progress on that front. If people want to learn more about that anyway, you can just give me a follow. I'll be posting about petitions and ways to kind of help counterbalance that." Dr. Alexis Cowan with Shawn Stevenson @ 01:17:50–01:18:58 (posted 2025-11-13)

Sunlight helps create nitric oxide release in our skin and arterials. Why are we pushing drugs like Viagra? People just need to go outside and take their clothes off and do sensible solar exposure Dr. Jack Kruse: "Nitric oxide was, you know, given the Nobel Prize in 1992. But you know what the problem is? Even to this very day, it's 2020 now, does everybody really understand what the implications of 1992 Nobel Prize was for clinical medicine? The answer is absolutely not. "Sunlight helps create nitric oxide release in our skin and arterials. Well once you know that, why are we pushing drugs like Viagra? Why are we pushing drugs that work on the nitric oxide renin-angiotensin system for Big Pharma? Why? Because you can patent it. You don't need a patent for sunlight. People just need to go outside and take their clothes off and do sensible solar exposure. The problem is what does Big Pharma and dermatologists and eye doctors tell you? There is no sensible solar exposure, because if you do go in the sun you're not going to need our solutions. That's the point. That's the point that the Regular Joe needs to get to. And what I just said right there, that's not controversial; that's blatantly obvious. It's medical fact. It's not opinion. It's not even hyperbole." Dr. Jack Kruse @ 04:29–05:37 (posted 2020-11-13)

Light impacts hunger. UVB light stimulates POMC production, creating α-MSH, thereby suppressing appetite. Modern humans don't get enough UVB light. GLP-1s, like Ozempic, stimulate POMC production in the hypothalamus to reduce appetite. You could have just gone outside and gotten the UVB light to get a very similar effect Shawn Stevenson: "Does a light impact our hunger?" Dr. Alexis Cowan: "Hugely, hugely, hugely. So, a lot of people think that hunger is a willpower issue. It is not. It is controlled by the brain through many complex mechanisms. But this is also why I really want to talk about UVB light because when we're exposed to UVB light, it creates a neurohormone in our brain and in our skin called POMC or proopiomelanocortin. So this is a complex prohormone that's cleaved into 10 different hormonal products. One of these products is α-MSH. So MSH stands for melanocyte-stimulating hormone. So, as the name implies, α-MSH is responsible, it's one of the factors responsible for telling melanocytes to turn on melanin production in response to UVB light. And so, that's one reason why you get a tan in response to the sun, because your melanocytes are getting the signal to, Hey, we need to make more melanin. And this is not only from a protection standpoint, but from an actual harnessing of the energetic capacity of UV light standpoint as well, which we can talk about in a bit when we're talking about melanin. "But with regards to hunger control, appetite and energy expenditure control, α-MSH also plays a very important role. So α-MSH actually binds in the hypothalamus of the brain, which is like the kind of the control center for metabolism, appetite, bioenergetics like it is the hub that is telling you when to eat, when not to eat, when to move, when not to move. And α-MSH, when it binds to receptors in the hypothalamus suppresses appetite and increases energy expenditure, which should sound like a holy grail with regards to the obesity epidemic and you know a lot of the issues that we have as a result of that diabetes, etc., because if you're getting that UVB light input, you're naturally going to want to eat less, and you're naturally going to not only want to move your body more and have more energy, but you're just going to burn more energy at rest through an elevation in your basal metabolic rate. "So this is just one factor from POMC that is having all these effects. We can talk about the others as well, but light plays an absolutely critical role in regulating appetite and energy expenditure. And when you learn that modern humans, especially in America, are spending over 90% of their time indoors not getting any of those UV rays, and when they are going outside, they're told to wear sunblock, sunglasses, protect themselves from the UVB light, then it makes so much sense that as a result of that, we are basically having a bioenergetic collapse and a lot of kind of a frayed system that is not able to regulate its appetite and energy expenditure effectively to yoke that to the environment. So it's a absolutely huge issue and a crux of the problem." Shawn Stevenson: "Wow. Oh my gosh. So it just makes sense with dysregulation and hunger and we jump to instead we're trying to treat the symptom with all these new innovations, GLP-1s, and the like." Dr. Alexis Cowan: "Well it's actually interesting but the GLP-1s, like Ozempic, work on this POMC pathway. They actually stimulate POMC production in the hypothalamus to reduce appetite, when you could have just gone outside and gotten the UVB light to get a very similar effect." Dr. Alexis Cowan with Shawn Stevenson @ 16:01–19:09 (posted 2025-11-13)

Aluminum in sunscreen is very toxic. Rate of skin melanoma has been going up in step with increased use of sunscreen. Glyphosate may be disrupting precursors to melanin, thereby increasing the likelihood of turning red instead of tanning Aastha Jain Simes: "One of your recommendations is get out in the sun, get more sunlight, because sulfate is produced in your body, […] and of course for other benefits as well. But what about the worries around skin cancer? You also mentioned you shouldn't wear sunscreen. What about mineral-based sunscreen? Is that OK? […]" 42:08 Dr. Stephanie Seneff: "Yeah, I don't recommend sunscreen at all, and certainly not aluminum. There's a lot of sunscreens that contain aluminum, and that aluminum will absorb through your skin, and that's going to also mess up your enzymes. Aluminum is very toxic. It's actually interesting that the rate of melanoma in the skin has been going up over time in step with increased use of sunscreen. So if you think sunscreen is protecting you from melanoma, why is the rate going up? It doesn't make any sense. "I think part of the problem is the glyphosate, and part of the reason there is the melanin, because melanin is one of the many biologically active molecules that comes out of that shikimate pathway that glyphosate disrupts. So the microbes are making the precursors, which are those aromatic amino acids that I mentioned earlier, and those are precursors to melanin which is a skin tanning agent that naturally turns your skin dark when you're exposed to sunlight, and that is a fantastic natural protection that humans have if they have melanin. "But when the melanin becomes deficient, a lot of people say, 'Well, I get out in the sun, but I just turn red. I don't tan,' and I'm thinking, 'OK, glyphosate,' [laughs] I suspect. So part of the problem is because of glyphosate we're more sensitive, we have more problems with the sun causing damage, again because our own system is disrupted, and we're not able to use it properly the way it would be intended to protect us. I certainly think it's much better to just quiet slowly build up a tan during the spring so you can handle the summer sun without sunscreen. As long as you have a good tan you don't need sunscreen, in my opinion." Dr. Stephanie Seneff with Aastha Jain Simes @ 41:47–43:45 (posted 2024-05-30)

See the sunrise every single day of your life from today forward. When the sun sets make sure it stays as dark as possible in your world. If you do those two things right you will live a long, prosperous life Craig LeBlanc: "I did want you to maybe give like a fifth grade-level prescription to those that don't understand anything about the power that sunlight has over your health. Like in the earlier part of your story you had said the carnivore diet people, the workout people did not realize how important it was. So can you kind of break that down a little bit, maybe just start say, 'Look, basically you need to be outside for this many hours in the morning, in the evening, you know.'" Dr. Jack Kruse: "They can't start like that, because you just asked me to give you a centralized approach to decentralized medicine. I will never do that for you. This is about as easy as I can make it." Craig LeBlanc: "All right. Go ahead." Dr. Jack Kruse: "Think about 5,000 years ago. The ancient Egyptians built a monument at the 28th latitude that looks to the east, all four extremities grounded. It's called the Sphinx. Why did they do that? Why is their name of their god Ra named after the sun? Even the ancients knew there was something magical about the light from the sun. Every single ancient civilization, the Incas, the Aztecs, the Mayans, all of them, they knew the power of the sun. "What the powers to be today in the Western World want you to believe, they want you to believe Bill Gates, dermatologist, and ophthalmologist are right that we should block the sun. You know why they believe that? Because it creates profits for them. That is absolutely a shitcoin opinion. "So, what is the number one thing that bitcoiners need to do so that you can begin to protect your stack? This is better than self-custody, it's actually better than cold storage. It's called seeing the sunrise every single day of your life from today forward. If this is the first time you've ever heard this advice that's what you want to do. The second side of the coin is to make sure when the sun sets wherever you live, make sure that it stays as dark as possible in your world. If you do those two things right you will live a long, prosperous life with your family and your bitcoin. And then you can start to talk to BTC Sessions about self-custody and wallets and all that. But you need to get the story of sunrise and sunset absolutely correct to protect your health. It's that simple." Dr. Jack Kruse with npub1v757r6atj75hlv4dkj06qwvu3uxjhqyuh3wptmv7l0xajkrjhxsqcumlww @ 34:58–37:30 (posted 2024-10-03)

Darkness at night is really important. Sleeping just one night in a low-lit (10 lux) environment can impair melatonin production, impair sleep quality, increase insulin resistance markers, decrease HRV, increase fasting glucose. Reducing non-native EMF exposure at night important, too. How to reducing nnEMF exposure Shawn Stevenson: "Let's talk about darkness in relationship to our biology." Dr. Alexis Cowan: "Yeah. Our biology is a decentralized system, meaning there's not one centralized single controller. Light is not more important than dark, dark is not more important than light. They are equally important for regulating and co-controlling the system. […] Making that serotonin from getting bright, full-spectrum light during the day is going to tee you up to be able to make ample amounts of melatonin later because that serotonin actually […] gets converted into melatonin in the pineal gland, which then helps you go to sleep and get good quality sleep: […] deep sleep, REM, all the things. "So that darkness at night is really important, but most people don't sleep in dark environments. Some people, God forbid, sleep with the TV on or lights on. And there was a really powerful study that came out, I believe in 2021, that showed even very low levels of light in the sleeping environment, under 10 lux, are able to actually mess with your melatonin production and impair your sleep quality. And the next morning, the people who were exposed to even low levels of light had increased insulin resistance markers, decreased HRV, increased fasting glucose. That's from just a single night of sleeping in a low-lit light environment during sleep. Now, imagine if you do that every single night. You're literally fomenting mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance on a day-to-day basis. "The other thing I want to hone on here with regards to dark darkness at night is the light that we can't necessarily see with our eyes. That is also important. […] The light I'm referring to there is non-native EMF, which are primarily radio frequencies in the modern world, so this would be our Wi-Fi, 5G, Bluetooth, 4G, LTE, all those things. […] "Dr. Allan Frey's work showed that in the radio frequency range of like our 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth that you can actually open up the gut and blood-brain barriers, make them leaky. And then when you have these hyperpermeable membranes, we start to get things moving through these membranes that shouldn't be. So we get more systemic inflammation because now basically, our microbiomes become dysbiotic. We're getting leaking of lipotoxin and endotoxin from bacteria into the bloodstream, fomenting inflammation in the fat tissue and in the organs. With regards to the blood-brain barrier, that hyperpermeable blood brain-barriers is associated with brain fog, psychological mood disorders, cognitive decline, all of these things. […] "When it comes to non-native EMFs, the most important thing to understand is the inverse square law. This is a physics concept that basically says that the closer you are to a source of EMFs, the stronger the stimulus will be. So, whenever you can put some space in between you and the source, you're going to be benefiting yourself. So that would include putting your Wi-Fi router in a room you don't spend time in, or better yet, using Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi, not keeping your cell phone in your pocket, not putting your laptop on your lap, reducing proximity wherever you can. "And then wherever you can't, there's technology and stuff out there now that you can use to help mitigate those frequencies. So like EMF-blocking paint, curtains, clothing, like there's a lot out there. The best thing to do is reduce proximity, but when you can't, you can go these other options to try to block the frequencies." Dr. Alexis Cowan with Shawn Stevenson @ 35:08–36:59 & 40:35–42:37 (posted 2025-11-13)