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I’m 29—my testosterone levels were equivalent to those of a 70-year-old.
After zero luck with Western medicine, I took matters into my own hands.
Now they’re above optimal ranges, without even trying.
Here’s how—an in-depth guide on the things that truly matter.
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If I were going to be a hormone, I would be DHEA.
Neuroprotective, neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, precursor to sex hormones, anti-inflammatory, pro-dopamine, pro-androgen, anti-cortisol, lean mass, and more.
How to enhance & optimize your DHEA status.
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Why vitamin D supplements are NOT the same as vitamin D from sunlight 🌞
It's a horrible comparison honestly, vitamin D supplements are a terrible ROI.
Many people don't understand the full story as to how we actually make vitamin D in the sun.
Firstly, you must get infrared
I wish I had seen this 5 years ago, when I had the testosterone levels of a 70-year-old — symptoms like anxiety, low libido, ED, depression, brain fog & fatigue.
There are so many factors when it comes to optimising testosterone. Taking into account things like estrogen,
The most important pathways to all hormones & neurotransmitters that sculpt life as we know it.
Sunlight has heavy interactions with cholesterol, POMC & aromatic amino acids.
These are the building blocks for the most important molecules in the body. Every single one of these
A chronic inability to dream tells you that there is either a loss of GABA (B6, magnesium, CO2), glycine, acetylcholine (choline, B6, B1, zinc, vitamin A) or melanin loss in the neuroectoderm (sunlight, high stress/nnEMFs) being present.
Blood biochemistry markers from a circadian/quantum perspective🩸
Beyond just looking at symptoms & client's lifestyle/health/habits — I think blood biochemistry tests are the cheapest & most effective for indicating signs of nutrient deficiencies, metabolic health,
Sunlight. No calories/macros & eat whatever I want within reason. Train 3-4x/week, only bodyweight. Sleep before 9pm. No supplements. No alcohol. That is all.
I'm starting to become convinced that a lack of dopamine is the true missing link in our modern world that is making us sick, controllable, and fearful.
There is nothing in this modern world that will rob us of a molecule more than dopamine — technology, artificial light, porn,
These are the real pathways you should focus on to optimize your biochemistry for health, longevity, and effortless maintenance.
🌞The ones that are tuned by sunlight.
Case in action — Tyrosine & Tryptophan → Melanin & Melatonin.
Both melanin & melatonin are hard-hitters in
How much you love someone is determined by redox & electron density.
If you're in a relationship where you are healthy (more electrons), and the other isn't (less electrons). There's an imbalance in affection, touch, sex, kisses, hugs, and acts of service.
Why would this be?
Melanin is found almost everywhere.
Why? Because it is a biological chameleon.
It works hand-in-hand with our bioenergetic systems — mitochondria, water/collagen networks, semiconductive proteins, cell membranes & our overall charge. Melanin can also influence the flux of
This is what I would recommend to a modern-day athlete who's completely misguided by conventional health, lifestyle & nutrition advice, to enhance performance & prevent injury:
— high amounts of animal foods rich in carnitine, glycine, taurine & branched-chain amino acids.
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How sunlight and nature shape our biological hardware 🌞🌴❄️
As a cell phone requires semiconductive hardware and uses cell reception towers to make sense of its environment, whilst the energy and information it receives is harvested, transduced, stored, shuttled & utilized
🌞 What sunlight throughout the day can unlock for you:
🌅 SUNRISE (IR-A, red & blue light) — programs your circadian clocks, proper hydration inside your tissues of water / electrolytes (EZ water), collagen synthesis to prevent wrinkles / enhance skin elasticity, natural
The most important pathways to all hormones & neurotransmitters that sculpt life as we know it.
Sunlight has heavy interactions with cholesterol, POMC & aromatic amino acids.
These are the building blocks for the most important molecules in the body. Every single one of these
The easiest way to create a population of sick, weak & unhealthy men is to drive cortisol production over testosterone (stress, pregnenolone steal syndrome, blue light/nnEMFs).
Whilst any testosterone being made becomes aromatized into estrogen (inflammation, blue light, lack
I'm all about the abundance mindset. So here's all the people I have learnt so much from across all aspects of health & life on twitter:
@livevitaeuk
(biophysics & nutrition)
@Mitopapi
(hormones & nutrition)
@kieralwellness
(biophysics & philosophy)
@zaidkdahhaj
(circadian
This is a big one on hormones, light, bioenergetics & redox.
Mechanisms / understanding / solutions.
One of the most crucial parts of building all steroid hormones (DHEA, progesterone, testosterone/DHT, estrogen, cortisol, neurosteroids, etc.) from pregnenolone is optimizing
Enhance sleep architecture by:
—No meals 3 hours before bed to enhance circadian sleep cues
—Indirect/direct sunlight via IR light to influence adenosine biochemistry to act on the reticular activating system in the brainstem and aid in sleep pressure
—Optimize tryptophan
🌞A few people on here think it's impossible to optimise your light environment in the modern world, whilst working a 9-5, so here's a long list on how to do it:
— get up at sunrise, eat breakfast, and do whatever you can outside.
— use blue light blockers, candles, red lamps,
My personal experience with fixing my sleep disorder
— and understanding the why.
I was always a snorer, a very loud one. Also a mouth-breather. I was quite unhealthy with the foods I ate & used both drugs/alcohol for the majority of my 20's.
I got a sleep study 4 years ago
Oh shit, another one.
Higher ultraviolet light (UV) exposure is associated with lower mortality.
New (SEPT 2024) cohort study with 450,000 participants from the UK — UV exposures were inversely associated with all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality.
MELANIN — THE ORGANIZING MOLECULE.
The composite picture of melanin & its established and proposed properties clearly suggests the need for a functional re-interpretation beyond the conventional view that melanin is merely a "breakdown polymer" or a "metabolic waste product."
Just a nice little reminder that...
Your circadian biology is the most important aspect of your health to get right on a day-to-day basis to influence hormones & neurotransmitters.
It all starts with melatonin being released by the pineal gland to signal the rest of the brain
Hey
@bryan_johnson
, do you have any protocols to fix sleep posture? Been waking up with some annoying headaches (that go away, luckily) and it sounds like your experience with jugular vein stenosis. Want to test out some different solutions.
Goodness gracious.
When you find out that the light that goes into our eye & is turned into electrical current via DHA & optimised vitamin A cycles. Then through our retinal-hypothalamic tract, and directly synapses with not only the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), but also the
🥥🍬🍊 Have you tried the high Peaterium diet?
The Peaty Community is an excellent case study on what happens if you eat carbohydrates out-of-season for years on end and the negative effects it has on our mitochondria.
What would have they done 100 years ago? Doing what they
THE SEASONAL EATING DEBATE + WHY I WILL NOT BE DRINKING OJ THIS WINTER
I don't know if i'm ready for the backlash i'm going to get from this post. We all have our own views and that is okay!
Let me first explain to how our mitochondria work. Our mitochondria are not static,
Melanocytes and melanin represent a first line of innate immunity against Candida albicans
HUGE.
There's a reason why we have an abundance of melanocytes // POMC around our stomach. It acts as a solar panel to yield melanin to migrate into regions of the gut.
Take as many
Grounding via the electron-dense // net-negative charge of the Earth not only yields electrons. But it also leads to higher levels of interactions with light.
Photons only interact with electrons. Important.
More electrons in the system = more photoelectric effect within water,
We know that B vitamins are very important ─ so remember that any artificial blue light has the power to degrade vitamin B2, B6, B9, and B12.
All of these B vitamins are linked to methylation cycles.
This is why blue light blockers are only entry level, you must go deeper.
As a male specimen, this is one of the most important feedback loops you want to optimize — Dopamine & Testosterone.
When both of these are at peak levels, you literally become an alpha male. Effortlessly.
Motivation is dialled in. Thoughts are crystal clear. Emotions are
Did you tan your white blood cells today?
Melanin is found in all leukocytes — granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils), monocytes, and lymphocytes (T cells and B cells). We found this out in 1965.
This makes a lot of sense when you understand melanin's role in
The antidote to low methylation // energy metabolism problems is more sunlight & less artificial light/nnEMFs.
It just about covers all bases.
The infrared light enhances your mitochondrial function, collagen & water networks. On top of that, it drives melatonin production
How to Optimize Androgen Receptor Activity Beyond Supplements.
Androgen receptors are what our male sex hormones (testosterone/DHT) bind to, in which they can work their magic for male vitality.
When it comes to male hormone optimization, it goes beyond just seeing your
Righto, baking soda and OJ lady.
Let me know when you ever find a sun that contains isolated UVA/UVB light like a sunbed does, without the 42% of IR light that is always present in sunlight.
Sunbeds are the easiest way to give yourself a nice cocktail of ROS/RNS throughout all
From what I've learnt, here's a list of how to live your best life:
— Understand stress/trauma holds you back, and do whatever is required to slowly address.
— Remove any forms of toxicity from your life. (relationships, toxins, drugs, etc.)
— Breathe through your nose, nice and
"Whole food PUFAs (NATURAL) are toxic." — Right. This explains a lot.
If you had no PUFAs at all, then by definition, all your cell membranes would be buckled, mate.
If whole food PUFAs are so bad then let me ask you this:
Why do we have a conserved mechanism in our biology to
This is a huge issue for females & ongoing skin issues—all make-up, foundations, etc. block ALL ultraviolet light—essentially acting like sunscreen on the face.
How many females leave the house without make-up these days?
Sunlight in itself acts as a controlling arm for
Ultraviolet light is the missing link to healing your acne. Not only does UV light kill the bacteria causing acne, but it also works indirectly to trim your waistline and induces a reaction that emits UVC light inside of you.
It’s also interesting to note that leptin has an
I want you to close your eyes. And pretend that you are inside the mitochondrial matrix—adjacent to the electron transport chain (ETC) on the inner mitochondrial membrane. You see lots of NADHs / FADH2's running a muck, passing around electrons & shit, like it's a game of hot
Whenever you are in a stressed state, whether that's from stress/trauma, blue light/nnEMFs, a lack of sunlight or nature, or it can even be something as small as a negative thought that doesn't pass.
The process is always the same.
Hypoxia will kick into gear. Your mitochondria
A depletion of melatonin (blue light, lack of UV/IR light), dopamine (blue light, lack of UV light, artificial dopamine-depleters) & melanopsin dysfunction (all of above) sets the stage for lots of health issues — starting from the retina & working its way down to other brain
Nature, light, and your environment modulate your gut microbiome and digestion, to couple to the seasonal foods available at your latitude.
❄️ Cold (winter) → bile acids → fat digestion / heat production
🌞 Heat/humidity (summer) → less bile acids / GLP-1 → more weight gain
Poor posture leads to faulty biomechanics — which affects both blood and lymph flow — resulting in toxin accumulation, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and melanin degradation.
When the oldies look like shrivelled sultanas from sun tanning, just know that they aren't the best examples.
And you shouldn't be worried about sunlight causing skin damage if you do it correctly.
This is the generation that got heavily influenced by pharmaceuticals, low-fat
A baby born being this big is leaving breadcrumbs that there is potentially a HUGE issue with nnEMFs in one's environment.
Putting on fat is a protective mechanism.
'BAYI 4.8kg paling berat lahir, kecoh satu hospital'
Seorang wanita berkongsi berita gembira melahirkan bayi seberat 4.8 kilogram (kg) melalui kaedah caesarean (czer) menerusi laman sosial.
Perkongsian itu mengundang bualan ramai apabila ramai yang menyifatkan fizikal bayi
Sunburn is not a seed oil phenomenon.
Goes waaaay deeper than that.
I eat seed oils almost every day in at least one meal & am in tropical sunlight for 4-8 hours daily — no sunburn whatsoever.
Been doing this for almost 6 months now. Seed oils being the problem is
If you have any sign of health issues on any of your surfaces (skin, eyes, gut, lungs) — just know this is the first warning that you need to change your environment (sunlight, blue light/nnEMFs, toxins), address stress/trauma and/or optimize your nutrition, beyond macros.
Yes, mold/mycotoxins is a problem in the modern world -- because we are not meant to live in apartments made of shitty materials/dark/no full-spectrum sunlight, whilst living >95% of our lives indoors in a nnEMF soup.
Why would melanin be found in the pineal gland?
When you tie it in with dopamine & norepinephrine regulating melatonin synthesis when sunlight is not present. Then it makes sense as to why.
Norepinephrine via the a2-adrenergic receptor is the on-switch for melatonin release.
A lot of seem to forget that Paul Saladino was eating a strict carnivore diet in Austin, Texas — 30° NORTH.
Doing this for 1.5 years, in a subtropical region with decent UV light all year round sets you up for failure. A carnivore diet like this is something you *might* get away
Here is why I quit the carnivore diet…
In 2018 I began a carnivore diet (meat, organs, salt, eggs) curious if this would help my long-standing autoimmune issues - eczema and asthma.
Eating only these foods did indeed lead to a complete resolution of my symptoms but after 1.5
🛜 nnEMFs tank your sex hormones, GABA, insulin, mitochondria, melanin and dopamine.
nnEMFs open up the gates of your calcium (Ca2+) channels to create high amounts of cell signalling.
This drives nitric oxide release (iNOS), which induces oxidative stress via ONOO- + NF-kB
It's 5 AM. The sun has started to rise. You go outside and drink some magnesium-infused San Pellegrino. The infrared light from the sun enhances the utilisation of the electrolytes throughout the body. The perfect balance of blue/red light switches on POMC to create a natural
To build up all sex hormones to efficient levels & in a quantized fashion — optimal hypothalamic-pituitary signals, vitamin A/retinol, thyroid hormone & LDL cholesterol transport/utilization are required.
Main drivers — sunlight/circadian biology, low stress & nutrient-density.
Supplements are not the same as what sunlight & nature provide.
The power of ultraviolet, visible & infrared light combined with grounding, fresh air & scenery/sounds of nature is unbeatable.
You will never find that in a bottle.
A personal report on airports, fasting, supplements, self-experimentation, and circadian rhythms.
I just embarked on a 40+ hour journey going halfway across the world. I wanted to share my insights on what I did to optimise this trip health-wise, jet lag, productivity, & more.
Hi, here's a long list of what the mitochondria can do beyond being the powerhouse of the cell (ATP):
— makes metabolic deuterium-depleted water (H2O).
— makes CO2 as a byproduct.
— mitochondrial melatonin production, one of the most powerful antioxidants we have.
— controls
Slow & long nasal breathing is the
#1
"zeitgeiber" for innervating parasympathetic/vagal tone.
Whenever you feel not at ease and/or stressed -- use it to override the sympathetic nervous system.
This works faster & more efficiently when done under sunlight & grounded.
The thing is though — you don't have to bend yourself backwards to suit your environment. By definition, that's an attitude problem, mate.
You can't cheat nature, unfortunately. There is always consequences whether you like it or not. I didn't make the rules, nature did.
I see
Men — sorry to offend.
But if you have to check your phone very first thing when you wake up. Or can't sit with your thoughts without checking your phone.
Then by default, you have a low dopamine problem.
Which means you have a high prolactin problem.
Which means you have a
Coffee/coffee beans are a TROPICAL plant that should only be consumed in strong UV light environments.
UV light increases the enzymes in the liver that metabolise caffeine and its other compounds.
This is why some get anxious and dependent on coffee during winter when there is
If you ever see high cholesterol markers on a blood test, there is the possibility of hypoxia // mitochondrial dysfunction.
Cholesterol can act like an oxygen sink for excess oxygen that isn't utilised by our mitochondria under hypoxic conditions. This also uses up a ton of
Tinnitus is the result of melanin degradation, as melanin is fundamental to absorb sound phonons and convert them into usable energy for our body // also acting as an important antioxidant. When this is somewhat impaired, we get higher than usual inflammation within the inner
@jack_schroder_
Fascinating. I had some tinnitus early in the winter with higher stress and now been getting high solar exposure in summer and it’s completely gone.
A personal journey on how I restored my testosterone
Going from levels equivalent to a 70-year-old man, to optimised levels and feeling excellent.
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This is already a somewhat established theory that ties in with biomechanics/tensegrity & quantum biology.
Fascia — which makes up our collagen/water networks — connects our whole body together from head-to-toe — including our musculoskeletal system, through to our whole nervous
One of my working theories is that the more compressed your skeletal system is
and the more stagnant your "bodily waters" are
the less you can tune into and receive divine energy and guidance.
Both are improved with exercise, stretching, walking, lifting, moving.
Mother Nature always has a plan. In this case — thyroid hormone.
Cold stimulates more bile acids, and these bile acids act on their receptors to enhance the conversion of inactive T4 → active T3.
— Certain bile acids also act as a signal to shift our gut microbiota towards a
I think one of the reasons why I was hugely drawn to
@DrJackKruse
's work and his ability to connect the dots of the likes of Gilbert Ling, Mae Wan Ho, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Robert Becker, Gerald Pollack, etc.
Is the fact that it is intermittently tied to concepts from
Man, it was such a good feeling to see this.
I remember back in 2021, when I was feeling an all-time low of several symptoms (fatigue, anxiety, depression, low libido, gut issues, addiction) that I would do whatever it took to feel back to normal—even contemplating both TRT &
🧠 Dopamine is more than just pleasure & reward, here's a long list of what else it can do:
— involved in learning, focus, and decision-making.
— fundamental in fear extinction.
— aids in regulating insulin secretion.
— involved in inducing REM sleep.
— movement control/motor
Your electron density is directly tied to your overall health & redox status. This is important as to who we surround ourselves with & the relationships we are in.
Have you ever gotten an electrostatic shock from touching a handrail on an escalator? This is a transfer of
How much you love someone is determined by redox & electron density.
If you're in a relationship where you are healthy (more electrons), and the other isn't (less electrons). There's an imbalance in affection, touch, sex, kisses, hugs, and acts of service.
Why would this be?
Ancient cultures understood the power of grounding:
“In the Native American tradition, when someone was ill, a slight dip would be dug for them in the ground and lined with moist grass to create a bed. The Native Americans knew this was the best place to nurse a person back to
Hormones, mitochondria, light, & deuterium 🌞💧💪
All steroid hormones (testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, DHEA, cortisol, etc.) have the same backbone derived from cholesterol.
We need optimal production and timing of release of these to have excellent energy levels, mood,
My birthday this year started with a swim in the ocean of my beautiful current home - Vietnam 🇻🇳
To think that 3 years ago it probably would have been filled with alcohol, cocaine, cigarettes, and regret - funny how we change.
Life is a bloody gift 🥰
If you require 5+ days of strength training, alongside 200g+ of protein to induce muscle hypertrophy & growth then there's a clear indication your environment or circadian biology is trashed.
Optimising melatonin improves mitochondrial function and density, makes you more
@helios_brah
As a doctor in medical school — the main thing that you actually learn over the course of 5-10 years — both ironically & subconsciously, is how to be extremely narrow-minded.
They don't realise this is 100% intentional. This clearly shows.
Melanoma is from a lack of sunlight (UV) // too much blue light/nnEMFs. Melanin/melanocytes are literally being sucked from the inside to the outside looking for any light possible to harvest — forming melanocytic/melanin clusters.
It's a form of cancer with a high survival rate
One of the first things to look at as a woman if you have hormonal imbalances & are displaying symptoms is: your environment 🌞☯️🌴
Light dictates which hormonal pathways we go down.
Yin and Yang.
Copy nature via sunlight, grounding, being outdoors & eating seasonally — It
I will never forget the 2 weeks I spent on a double-volcanic island in the middle of a lake in Nicaragua—raw & true beauty.
100% of the time I was either bare-foot or in earth runners. A feeling like no other.
@livevitaeuk
lives like 30 minutes from here (jealous as).
Surrounding yourself with constant non-native EMFs (artificial light, technology, cell phone signals, etc.), coupled with a lack of native EMFs (sunlight, grounding, nature, etc.) — is akin to putting a radio next to a powerline & hearing static noise.
The energy (noise) is
Beyond the higher omega-6 content // oxidative products, I think the deuterium (D+) content in seed oils (sometimes ~200ppm, supposedly) is the major culprit.
This causes major issues with people who have broken mitochondria / bioenergetics. Usually coupled with a horrible light
This is a common belief in health circles
It’s not as nearly as big of a deal as you believe. Light is more fundamental than nutrition when it comes to avoiding burns
I still advocate for reducing deuterium loaded vegetable oils
But this idea that you have to be perfect with
Alright, one more time just to reiterate.
If you're healthy, you should not need to take endless supplements, hormone pills, 1-2L of orange juice, constant intake of sugar & 4+ coffees just to feel 'good' and be 'healthy'.
There is something underlying all this that is broken —
The easiest way to control a population is to make them avoid sunlight and increase artificial light.
Ultimately, this leads to low melanin, which therefore leads to low dopamine, which makes you easy to control.
Constantly seeking dopamine stimulation from artificial sources
It's crazy to think that we are living in a world where certain jobs/careers are more detrimental to health now more than ever. And people are still unaware.
Basically — the more artificial light/technology you use, the more you must mitigate.
I'm convinced that if there's no
Wowee. These photos were almost exactly a year ago from one another. First one in Indonesia & second one in Mexico. 8 countries in between.
I have learnt a lot about myself & life in general from my travels, especially whilst doing it alone and in a 20L backpack with very little
Ultraviolet B acts as a dietary restriction mimetic by targeting mitochondrial bioenergetics.
This study used direct UVB irradiation, and it didn't even take into account the benefits of infrared light (42% of sunlight) on oxygen, water, cytochrome c oxidase, and mitochondrial