"Lies confuse. The evil are 'the people of the lie,' deceiving others as they also build layer upon layer of self-deception."

M. Scott Peck, M.D. (1983). _People of the Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil_, A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, p.66

The biggest effect of food comes from its deuterium content. More deuterium makes more inflammation. The deuterium content varies depending upon where the food was grown. Rainwater in the periphery of the continent has much higher deuterium levels

Dr. Jack Kruse: "Most people are on the allopathic or functional medicine train when they talk about GMOs. That's not the biggest effect of food as far as it goes for me. The biggest effect in food for me happens to be the water content, and I'm much more interested in where the water comes from, and where the fruit comes from based on the season that you're in. So I told my members, for example, if you're wise you'll never eat any organic food from the state of Florida or from the state of California. And the reason for that it turns out that those are two states where most of our food in the United States that's grown and considered organic is harvested. If you know anything about the way rainwater and the deuterium content works in a continent, it turns out that anything on the periphery of the continent has much higher deuterium levels. That means that it makes much larger amounts of inflammation in your body. So that means functionally from a quantum perspective that an avocado in California is not equivalent to an avocado that's, say, grown in Mexico City."

Dr. Jack Kruse with Justin Stellman @ 33:28–34:48 (posted 2018-08-07) https://youtu.be/kSek0e4RCwI&t=2008

Cancer is actually a freezing of mitosis because there is no UV light. That's exactly opposite what oncologic centralized medicine tells you. Almost all the microtubule chemotherapeutic drugs out now block things at mitosis. We're actually doing the exact wrong things in medicine

Dr. Jack Kruse: "In Australia they really block the UV light, which tells you kind of why they have some of the unusual autoimmune conditions, electrohypersensitivity, and the melanoma and skin cancer story that they have down there.

"When I saw that in human vitiligo in the early 21st century could be reversed that quick, it made me realized that what happened to those little mammals at the time of the KT event didn't take as long as we all think from an evolutionary biology standpoint. I'm not going to tell you I know exactly how long it took, but this experiment told me that these melanocytes respond to UV light way faster. And that's when I jump down the whole POMC rabbit hole, and when I found out that POMC, this gene, was amplified in mammals from the KT event, especially in their neurologic system, and especially in their immune system. All of a sudden human evolution began to make a lot of sense to me, began to really, really change the way I thought about everything. It changed also the way I felt about cancer because I was like, 'Look, right now metastasis in melanin has a really bad connotation, but it turns out it really doesn't, it's actually how melanoma or melanocytes work.'

"So when you get melanoma on your skin, it's because you have no melanin sheets inside, and the melanin sheets are going through their normal migratory pathways that you had as an embryo, going back to the skin dermatome they're at, and they're looking for the UV light stimulus so that they can undergo mitosis, and then regain their position in the cell cycle.

"It turns out cancer is actually a freezing of mitosis because there is no UV light, and that's exactly opposite what oncologic centralized medicine tells you now. Why? Because almost all the microtubule chemotherapeutic drugs that are out there now block things at mitosis. We're actually doing the exact wrong things in medicine.

"In fact I released a blog this morning which is what stimulated that Twitter feed. It's called Quantum Engineering #62, and it has a very provocative title 'Have We Totally Shit the Bed on Our Ideas Around Cancer.' The blog shouldn't be new information to anybody who's been following me, but it's a continuation of the implications that I brought to the Huberman podcast. Why? Because I don't think I've really talked about all the implications of that Huberman podcast. [...] The ideas that I presented really interested people. Why? Because they had never heard these ideas before, and then when you think about them from a teologic sense, from an evolutionary sense, you begin to put things together, and you realize you're never going to have this idea unless you fundamentally understand how light and light frequencies interacts with matter, and how magnetism controls free radical signaling, and then how water actually deciphers electromagnetic codes to act as a battery. It's an electromagnetic capacitor for sunlight."

Dr. Jack Kruse with Sam Al-Qattan @ 23:47–27:22 (posted 2023-12-02) https://youtu.be/1r4EPDUcKKc&t=1427

We hear using light. There is a huge melanin sheet inside the human cochlea. Wireless earphones diminishes the melanin in your cochlea & in your brainstem. Tinnitus is actually a problem with the afferent loop as it's related to light

Sam Al-Qattan: "What do you mean specifically when you say in that podcast that we hear light and turn it into sound. How does that work?"

Dr. Jack Kruse: "Just what I said. You actually use light. See, people forget that the way things work in biology there's afferent and efferent loops in neurologic systems. Well it turns out the afferent loop is actually the electromagnetism that is impacting on melanin. The way ENT doctors learn about this, they think it's just the sound wave that comes through the tympanic membrane, that works through the ossicles, that creates a fluid wave in the endolymphatic sac. That's actually not true, and this is part of the reason why they're impotent to figure out what tinnitus functionally is.

"Tinnitus is actually a problem with the afferent loop as it's related to light. So the things [wireless earbuds] you have in your ear right now, that's the perfect cause of tinnitus. Why? Because you're using a wireless device, and those two devices connect through your brain. They're not going this way [traces an arc over the top of his head]; they're going right through your brain, right through your cochlea, and what does that do? It diminishes the melanin sheets that are present, not only in your cochlea, but also in your brainstem, in the deep portions of your brain where the radiation goes through."

Sam Al-Qattan: "OK, when you say melanin sheet, you don't mean myelin sheets, right? I'm confusing the two."

Dr. Jack Kruse: "No, melanin. Melanin is a sheet. That's what is present inside the cochlea, which is what you specifically asked about. There's a huge melanin sheet inside the human cochlea."

Sam Al-Qattan: "That's really interesting that you say that, because three years ago I woke up one day with a headache, and I had chronic fatigue, and I had this condition, and tinnitus, my ears were ringing, and it never went away, ever. So I wonder if that really has something to do with the non-native EMFs, like you're saying. From what I know, Dr. Max Gulhane told me that the way it affects mitochondria, or mitochondrial function, is that it affects the amount of calcium that gets regulated in and out."

Dr. Jack Kruse: "EMF, it affects calcium efflux, and that affects the free radical signal that's generated. But melanin is more proximal to that system. Melanin actually creates electrons for mitochondria to use. In fact, any place you see melanin sheets inside the human body you'll almost always find that they're adjacent to the outer mitochondrial membrane. Why is that? Because they're generating free electrons from electromagnetic signals that are generated inside of cells, meaning endogenous electromagnetic signals that are coming from mitochondrial metabolism. That's what we call biophotons."

Dr. Jack Kruse with Sam Al-Qattan @ 03:07–06:06 (posted 2023-12-02) https://youtu.be/1r4EPDUcKKc&t=187

There can be no transformation without resistance. We face resistance & we feel like we're going nowhere, but this is when we grow the most. Our existence boils down to energy resistance. You want resistance in your life, but you want the right amount of resistance. Life is always difficult

Martin Picard, PhD: "There can be no transformation without resistance."

[…]

"If the ERP is real, and at this point I'd say I'm like 90%+ convinced that this is real, our existence boils down to energy resistance, then that should apply across scales. It should apply at the level of mitochondria, which we know is true. I described some experiments earlier that can overload cells mitochondria with electrons, with or without the ability to flow, and you see consequences of this. We know what happens in patients with mitochondrial disease. They're important ground truths, observations, and experiments that we've done.

"But this principle, I think, should scale at other levels of experiences, including at the level of subjective experiences, and at the level of the mind, like Nirosha alluded to. So the states like psychiatric disorders, and"

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "Even basic social interactions."

Martin Picard, PhD: "Yeah. And our ability to interact, the kind of things we gravitate towards, how we make decisions, the way we generate ideas, and the pursuit of human knowledge. Humans might have created science to create resistance."

"If the mind is never exposed to resistance, and I think you, Nick, are just amazing at this. You find the best questions, and you're always looking for what's the thing that we really need to understand. And in a way this is this is what scientists do. We create resistance, we create new questions, and questions and scientific problems are like obstacles for the mind to chew on, something for the mind to, kind of,"

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "resist"

Martin Picard, PhD: "resist. Yeah."

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "And also personal development. I mean we can go on about about this."

Martin Picard, PhD: "It applies pretty broadly, I expect. Something I'm writing about in the book _Energy_, expressions of energy, these kind of energetic principles, and how that applies across different levels in our biology and our inner body, but then also in the mind, and then in the way we interact with each other as energetic systems and relationships, and then how we interact with the world. They're big questions that I have the sense the energy resistance principle helps to address."

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "Or at least bring up more questions to address."

Martin Picard, PhD: "Oh yeah, more resistance. Resistance is good. My final summary is you want resistance in your life, but you want the right amount of resistance."

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "The right amount. Yeah."

"You cannot grow. . . resistance, suffering, when you go through shit. . . life is always difficult for anyone. When you go through difficult things, this feels hard, like this feels resistance. These are the hardest parts of our lives is when we struggle, we face resistance, and we feel like we're going nowhere. But then these are always the periods where we grow the most, and I suspect that's because our energy is literally flowing through something really resistive, and then transformation can only happen out of this.

"If your life was always easy, and nobody's life is like this, then we wouldn't have opportunities to grow. Challenges, problems that come our way and that feel salient are the greatest opportunities for growth, probably because they offer resistance to that which we are, the energetic field we are."

Martin Picard, PhD & Nirosha Murugan, PhD with Nick Jikomes, PhD @ 21:10–21:13 & 02:04:34–02:07:57 (posted 2025-10-29) https://youtu.be/GiwDfsIgziA&t=1270

Insulin resistance is a defense mechanism where the cells say there is too much electron pressure. The energy resistance principle approach to type 2 diabetes management is twofold: (1) increase flux by moving, (2) fasting. Fasting is probably the most underrated & the most underused intervention in medicine

Nick Jikomes, PhD: "[…] What is insulin resistance in your view from an energy resistance perspective, and how do you think about it?"

Martin Picard, PhD: "[…] Look at this energetically. What's happening? Why is the cell trying to block itself from being able to sense insulin? And then when insulin is stimulated, and the signaling axis is properly mobilized, you get glucose transporter that go to the cell membrane, and then the cell can take in glucose. That's the main point of insulin signaling.

"The second interpretation you have that cells are trying to, this is an adaptation, and that adaptation likely is an anti-energy resistance defense mechanism. So insulin resistance is likely a defense mechanism where the cell says there's too much electron pressure. I'm being fed too many electrons, too much glucose, relative to what I can sustain with my mitochondria, and relative to the flux that is being demanded of me. Right? If a cell doesn't burn energy, like we said earlier, ATP is very high. The ATP synthase doesn't turn, the membrane potential is really high. The electrons have nowhere to flow. There's too much resistance. So that resistance propagates like it would in an electrical circuit, and then propagates upwards. Then the resistance manifests at the level of the cell's surface, the plasma membrane, by removing the transporters for glucose, which effectively increases resistance.

"There's this beautiful paper from 2009. The title was, 'Insulin Resistance is an Antioxidant Defense Mechanism.' That's in PNAS. They were saying the reactive oxygen species that mitochondria spit out when there's excess energy resistance. It didn't use those terms, but they did the same kind of experiments I mentioned earlier where you feed mitochondria lots of electrons but you don't let them respire, you don't let them produce ATP, spit out tons of reactive oxygen species, and then they showed how this then propagates to the plasma membrane, and then the cell becomes insulin resistant. The pathology of insulin resistance starts in the mitochondria, somewhere along where the flow of electrons is not high enough to support the pressure. So it's a pressure to flow issue, and the core driver of pathogenesis is the system is overloaded."

Nick Jikomes, PhD: "Right. The cell's saying, 'I can't handle all these electrons from all this glucose or whatever, so stop giving me so much.'"

Martin Picard, PhD: "Exactly. So the insulin resistance really is the manifestation of a deeper seated energy resistance."

Nick Jikomes, PhD: "So then from a therapeutic standpoint, you'd want to focus your attention on fixing the mitochondrial problem rather than trying to. . ."

Martin Picard, PhD: "There's no mitochondrial problem."

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "Like a selective pressure problem of the flow of electrons."

Nick Jikomes, PhD: "Yeah. The flow problem as opposed to trying to undo the insulin resistance."

Martin Picard, PhD: "Yeah. And I've heard you know a couple clinicians who were reflecting on the use of insulin therapy in diabetes, because the standard of care nowadays, which is from a molecular perspective and how you started that question, there's an issue at the cell surface like insulin signaling is not happening. Let's restore, let's fix this, right?

"And then one approach is to say the cells are insulin resistant to the effect of insulin, so let's give more insulin. Like that is the mindset that biomedicine is using to counter that problem. What this does at the cell level, you have the cell here, it says, 'Oh, the pressure of glucose, of electrons is so high. Let me protect myself.' And then the cell kind of finds some respite, probably in becoming insulin resistant. And then there's like 10× the amount of insulin that comes in and then it's overloaded. Then you start to damage your mitochondria.

"There's some notion in diabetes management that giving insulin is useful at decreasing blood glucose. So HB1C goes down, but now peripheral organs starts to suffer, and there might be more nerve damage like neuropathy, and more of the other damage in some tissues that are insulin sensitive because you're forcing glucose into cells effectively that are trying to protect themselves.

"So the energy resistance principle approach to disease management is twofold. Either you increase flux, right? How do you increase flux? You increase flux by moving. if you contract the muscles, that's going to increase the flux. You're going to breathe harder. So anything that kind of makes you breathe harder should be good to increase flux in the system.

"Or the other approach is to the decrease the numerator, the energy potential, and you do that by eating less sugar, the source, the energy that we know insulin resistance. I don't know what the percentage is, more than half of people with diabetes, pre-diabetes, it is reversible.

"Type 2 diabetes in many cases is completely reversible if you fast, and we know in normal healthy people you go through phases of more insulin resistance, and then insulin sensitive, and that's normal fluctuations with feed and fasting. If you fast for a day, or fast for two days, you become extremely insulin sensitive. Your tissues are like, 'OK, there's not too much pressure. Let me become receptive and sensitive to the influx of glucose.' I think fasting is probably the most underrated and the most underused therapy or intervention in medicine. So that's from first principles, ERP-based thinking, you can reduce the pressure by eating less, or eating less sugar, or you can increase flux by moving more. That's an ERP-like, first principles-informed strategy to addressing a medical issue in this case."

Martin Picard, PhD & Nirosha Murugan, PhD with Nick Jikomes, PhD @ 01:39:34–01:46:00 (posted 2025-10-29) https://youtu.be/GiwDfsIgziA&t=5974

At the whole brain level there's a fixed energy budget. If something hyperactivates, it suppresses something else. If you chronically move the budget towards the salience & the threat network, then you're deactivating other parts of the brain that are involved in, say, creating attachment to others. Reshaping brain energy networks

Martin Picard, PhD: "There are different large scale brain networks, like the mode network, the salience network, the ventral dorsal attention networks. There's this beautiful new paper from like two weeks ago, I think. Parker Kelley, who is a mitochondrial psychobiologist at UCSF, who does some work on psychedelics and mitochondria, he's come up with this beautiful ATP model which is about thinking energetically on how the brain manages energy.

"And if you have a network, a neural network that's activated, this is maybe the way that the brain has to decrease energy resistance in one network. But to decrease energy resistance somewhere, you increase energy resistance somewhere else, right? So the way that the brain generates these complex energetic states, or complex energetic patterns that we see with fMRI, that we see with EEG, right, all of these modalities, they image energetic states of the brain.

"Parker was thinking about this from an energy constraint perspective. And what we know is that at the whole brain level there's a fixed budget. The brain receives a certain amount of blood, so it has a certain energy budget. If it's going to hyperactivate something, it needs to suppress something else. There's always these kind of"

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "Push-pull dynamics."

Martin Picard, PhD: "Push-pull dynamics, right? Something is turned off for something to be turned on. And you chronically turn something on, and you chronically turn something off, what happens is if you turn something off repeatedly, and you basically decrease blood flow and activation there, that thing is going to atrophy, the same if you put a cast over your arm or over your leg, that muscle is going to shrink. If you increase energy resistance, energy can't flow in that direction. If energy can't flow then that part is biologically means it's not useful. It shouldn't be sustained. There less transformation there, then you get catabolism, the breakdown of stuff.

"The same thing could be happening in the brain. The brain has this budget, and if you chronically move the budget towards like the salience and the threat network then you're deactivating other parts of the brain that are involved in creating attachment to other human beings, or thinking positively about the world, about yourself, then those things atrophy. That's not a neurotransmitter-first process; this is an energetically driven process."

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "It explains why psychedelics have such a profound response, because you're redistributing that resistive network. So I think you have the brain energy network that people usually compute in neural networks, but then you can actually perhaps compute a resistive network, and therapeutics can basically modulate that resistance."

Martin Picard, PhD: "Yeah, we could talk for a long time about psychedelics. But I wanted to ground this. The symptomatology and the ATP model is about psychopathology, and Parker's model about like energy being moving around in the brain and things being deprioritized, energetically deprioritized. You take the energy away from one network, and you put it towards like maybe the default network or the salience network. These energy dynamics are going to have a consequence on the hardware, eventually. This is a core tenet of the ERP.

"The hardware, the physiology, the same way we talked about with exercise. If there's like high energy resistance and then you decrease it, now that's going to trigger some adaptive changes. But if energy resistance is always too high now at some point that thing is going to atrophy. So that could be happening in the brain, and those dynamics of energy resistance, like you get up in the morning, there's a spike of energy resistance and waking up is difficult for most people. It's a stressor and your heart rate increases, cortisol increases to sustain that, to raise that energy pressure so that you have the desire and the will to wake up and to live. But then when you never have this kind of lowering of energy resistance, that kind of yin and yang, or that push and pull, now things become set, and maybe psychopathology.

"Like when not just you feel down for a day or two, but now you feel down all the time. This could be first and foremost the consequence of energetic disallocation. Your chronic reallocation of energy in one area and then you deprioritize something else and that thing ends up atrophying. Then that becomes a little fixed, and then it's really hard to get out of this rut. you that could be when when and how like neurally, ruts are created because of energetic forces, and then you become depressed, and you become schizophrenic, or you become bipolar.

"Those are gradual processes and even though we think about them as really like rigid, and then people get these labels. I've seen people who receive these diagnostic labels. They were stuck in a rut, and then for through various ways, including ketogenic diet, they found a way to kind come out of this or with psychedelics and re-enlivened maybe part of their brain, move their energy in ways that they haven't been able to in a long time. So there's a deep layer of regulation there where the very rapid energy dynamics that happens at the level of energy resistance end up shaping the biology of the brain, and probably the level of synapses, neural networks, and so on."

Martin Picard, PhD & Nirosha Murugan, PhD with Nick Jikomes, PhD @ 01:50:16–01:55:42 (posted 2025-10-29) https://youtu.be/GiwDfsIgziA&t=6616

Dance! Exercise is as good (if not better) in may cases than SSRIs, & dancing is the top modality. In most psychiatric disorders there's an energetic imbalance, which saps our will to exercise. However, moving increases the flux & reduces energy imbalance. In addition to increasing the flux at the cellular level, dancing increases the flux at the psychological level, too

Nick Jikomes, PhD: "From this [Energy Resistance Principle] perspective, how would you guys start to think about something like a psychiatric illness, like depression, or something else that you think is illustrative?"

Martin Picard, PhD: "Yeah, there's new evidence in depression. If you look at what proteins are upregulated, like what's happening physiologically, energetically, GDF15 is elevated in major depressive disorder, in other psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar anorexia. So it seems increasingly clear that there's an energetic imbalance, dysregulation, in most psychiatric disorders.

"There's a really nice work from a group at McLean Hospital in Boston where they've been imaging in the brain NADH / NAD ratio. Right? Like the first symptom or the first indication of reductive stress, and therefore energy resistance in the brain is that ratio, NADH and NAD, and energy resistance is elevated in the brains of people with severe mental illness.

"And I suspect that's why some of the interventions, metabolic interventions like ketogenic diet, which seems to relieve symptoms and help the management of disease in many patients, not all, but many patients, that might be how it works.

"And why exercise? […] If you have high energy resistance in your body, like the discomfort you have if you squat for too long your muscles start to burn, like imagine there's like 20% of that discomfort, but it's all the time in your body. And you feel terrible, right? It's like this ill-being, right? This like dis-ease, right? You're not at ease, ever. Like everything feels so painful. You don't want to exercise. You don't want to interact with other human beings. And so probably that energy resistance that we talked about diffuses through GDF15, maybe through other things, reaches the brain and makes you feel like shit. Exercising then is the last thing that you want to do. Despite this, there's really good evidence that moving, right, and maybe you moving is increasing flux in the equation, therefore reducing energy resistance. That improves symptoms across diagnostic categories.

"And there's this cool meta analysis that was done recently showing that exercise, of course, is like at least as good (if not better) in many cases than SSRIs and other pharmacological treatments. And dancing, there's like one or two studies on like dancing was like the top anti-depressant modality in this meta analysis, and we can speculate as to why this would be the case, but for sure, dancing involves more flowing, more kind of increasing the flux, maybe not just at the cellular level, but psychologically, and there's like coordination, and other."

Martin Picard, PhD & Nirosha Murugan, PhD with Nick Jikomes, PhD @ 01:46:03–01:48:54 (posted 2025-10-29) https://youtu.be/GiwDfsIgziA&t=6363

Diseases are adaptation to changes in energy resistance, e.g., cancer is an emergent phenomena of resistance changes accumulating over time. Energy resistance isn't a singular state; it's a dynamic state. Cure diseases by addressing the energy resistance changes instead of focusing on molecules like cytokines

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "I want to emphasize the adaptation to energy resistance, I think that will help ground this. I bring up cancer again because it is a problem that we really don't understand if we just look at it from mutations and p53 expression.

"You mentioned that if you had high energy resistance chronically our bodies adapt. Our bodies are very good at adapting to inflammation, so if you had chronic inflammation, because there's resistance in our bodies from whatever we're doing, because of food sources or mutation increases, I think this is one way of looking at how resistance accumulates over time and causes emergent phenomena like cancer. So I think"

Martin Picard, PhD: "this frames diseases as adaptation to"

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "energy resistance, right, or modulation of energy resistance.

"And I think the biggest takeaway here is that energy resistance isn't a singular state; it's a dynamic state. If you view our physiology and the imprints that, we see which is cytokines molecules, hormones, whatever, and we just create therapeutics to modulate those imprints, then we're not going to really address a problem. We're just addressing the accumulation of that resistance. We're alleviating maybe temporarily, but it's not really getting the underlying cause of the energetic landscape.

"And I think thinking about it this way also makes neural tech become more feasible. Thinking about complex processes like longevity, aging, that isn't a singular signature of molecules become realistic into how we understand it.

"And then we can scale this to even something more abstract like consciousness as a flow of information, flow of energy resistance with and without our environment included becomes more realistic, and to having discussions around thinking it this way.

"So I think understanding our system, our physiology, isn't just this molecular landscape, molecular machine, I think is where we started this conversation with, but as a flow of energy that's imprinted in a chemical signature is a good way of reframing how we think about our bodies."

Martin Picard, PhD & Nirosha Murugan, PhD with Nick Jikomes, PhD @ 01:55:51–01:58:08 (posted 2025-10-29) https://youtu.be/GiwDfsIgziA&t=6951

Mitochondria are not powerhouse. Energy is neither created nor produced in mitochondria. Energy is transformed, always, through resistance. The analogy of mitochondria as a powerhouse is deeply misleading, and really restricts the spectrum of things you can consider

Nick Jikomes, PhD: "So the energy is being transformed, as you said, Martin, it's not being created out of nowhere. Correct?"

Martin Picard, PhD: "Yeah. We often, kind of in common parlance (and even in undergrad text) you'll see 'energy is produced.'"

Nirosha Murugan, PhD: "Or 'created.'"

Martin Picard, PhD: "Yeah. 'Energy is created, energy is produced in mitochondria.' Energy is not produced. Energy is not created. Energy is transformed, always, through resistance.

"The analogy of mitochondria as a powerhouse is deeply misleading, because it simplifies this beautiful transformative organelle into like a unifunctional unit, like a little machine, which I think clouds this analogy. Analogies are so powerful, and they really restrict the spectrum of things you can consider, kind of entertain, once your mind is set on 'mitochondria are powerhouse.'

"So I always encourage our trainees and anyone I get to talk to mitochondria about that that powerhouse analogy is really expired, and the more we continue using that term the more we do a disservice to the new, next generation of students and people who come into thinking about mitochondria."

Martin Picard, PhD & Nirosha Murugan, PhD with Nick Jikomes, PhD @ 27:40–28:51 (posted 2025-10-29) https://youtu.be/GiwDfsIgziA&t=1660

"I used to believe that blue light was the big issue, but I think I would put polarized light on top. That's all the light that's man-made. I'd put blue light second, because there are some versions of blue light that are not damaging. […] Fire was the first non-native EMF light." — Dr. Jack Kruse
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Andreas David Christou: "Would you say that artificial blue light and non-native EMFs contributes to brain damage?"

Dr. Jack Kruse: "It's the cause of brain damage, most of it. And I think it's the number one cause of all diseases. I think if you really wanted me to break it down, I used to believe that blue light was the big issue, but I think I would put polarized light on top. That's all the light that's man-made. I'd put blue light second, because there are some versions of blue light that are not damaging. […]

"Fire was the first non-native EMF light. Why? People don't realize that fire is partially polarized, and we even have evolutionary proof that that light is enough to change us. Why? That's how Neanderthalss lost 125 grams of brain and we took over for them. So their brain shrunk and we showed up. But the real true part of this story that links to this Neanderthal story that people don't like to hear, people think all these new diseases, they call them Neolithic diseases, that's bullshit too. Why? Because all you have to do is go to Egypt and look at the King Tut exhibit and you'll see the mummies in the ground who lived inside with the fire versus the Nubians that were buried on the side of the Sphinx. The Nubians were perfect humans, perfect skulls, perfect dentition, thick outer and inner table of their bones. These were the guys that built the pyramid and the Sphinx. They were they were as healthy as healthy could be. We can tell from their fossils. And yet, when we x-ray King Tut and all the pharaohs, they have all the diseases that we have.

"Remember, there was no power grid then. So, what does that tell you? How really important light is. And that light, fire light, is only partially polarized. So why did I tell you that I put polarized light above that? Because probably in the last 10 years, I realized that I was doing my tribe a disservice.

"Even fire light from candles disrupts melatonin. It's not very much, but it does it. And if it does it, that means it can start this process of unraveling the evolution of what happened on the inner mitochondrial membrane. And I think people need to know that.

"It's the same reason why I don't do affiliate marketing for red light guys. Why? Yeah, it's good, it's better than the LED lights. But remember, most of the red lights you have, they're all polarized. So, are you really doing yourself a favor? The answer is no. So, why do you always see on Twitter when people ask me what's the best red light? I always put Sun is TINA. What does TINA stand for? There Is No Alternative."

Dr. Jack Kruse with Andreas David Christou @ 01:27:44–01:30:33 (posted 2026-03-01) https://youtu.be/tg9c6shuazI&t=5264

We got everything backwards: we keep looking inside out when the story is outside in. For Parkinson's, instead of operating to put a wire in your head, how about you clean up your environment, get melanin on the outside so you can suck it inside & fix your own substantia nigra

Dr. Jack Kruse: "But I think the stuff that we talked about today as a doctor I had 40 years of seeing my patients fall apart, and I believe that is actually the same thing that Einstein did in the patent office where he saw these thermodynamic givens and he had to make sense of it. I had to see a lot of sick patients to really figure out what was wrong with them. And then when I figured it out and came up with the leptin prescription, and I started to see all these people get better that couldn't get better, kind of like your girlfriend, I was stunned, because I didn't believe it either. I said, 'We got everything backwards, because we keep looking inside out when the story is outside in.' And when you think about it like that, then you then you start to realize nature was a wise theoretical biologist when she put leptin underneath the skin in us. And when you realize that almost every single animal on this planet, no matter if it's GOE or not, has melanin in its surface and the most complex ones tend to have more melanin inside than on the surface doing very specific things, like the some of the things that you asked me about, about dopamine.

"I mean, most people know that Parkinson's disease is tied to neuromelanin destruction in the substantia nigra. And that story is not solved even to this day in centralized medicine. I'm a brain surgeon. I know a lot about this. I've done a lot of these surgeries to try to help people out. And what are the surgeries all tied to? Putting a hole in your head, putting a wire down there to put a DC electric current in there. Well, that's exactly what melanin does.

"And it's amazing to me that we don't think about that. We would rather spend, I don't know, $100,000 doing this fancy operation to put a wire in someone's head than instead of telling them, 'How about you clean up your environment, get melanin on the outside so you can suck it on the inside and you can fix your own substantia nigra.'

"But it turns out people in New Jersey, people in New York, people in Finland, they don't want to do that. They would rather have a hole drilled in your head and put a device in there to improve the situation. And functionally, when you have the device in there long enough, it actually doesn't work either. It's better than the drugs, but it's still not better than how nature built us."

Dr. Jack Kruse with Andreas David Christou @ 01:25:17–01:27:41 (posted 2026-03-01) https://youtu.be/tg9c6shuazI&t=5117