Your mitochondria are antennas for electromagnetic energy via their surrounding liquid crystalline water that trap EMFs to collect energy and information. They’re always tuned in to both endogenous and exogenous frequencies: the sun’s EMFs, artificial light EMFs, and even your heart’s magnetic field.

*The basics, summed up on one of my Instagram stories*

Maintaining optimal mitochondrial function is of utmost foundational importance for health and recovery as your mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell, pretty much determine the state of your health throughout your life. Mitochondrial dysfunction is surprisingly (or not so surprisingly) common today, especially in the developed world with indoor lifestyles, and is associated with most known chronic issues and modern dis-ease, from gut issues, cancers and hormonal imbalances, to autoimmunity. The good news is that mitochondrial dysfunction can be reversed with certain lifestyle practices. It all starts with light.

What happens when you restore genuinely optimal health?

Your skin has a youthful glow—at any age. Your teeth and bones are strong and bright with minimal plaque. Your brain, organs, muscles and nervous system all have adequate energy to perform daily tasks without fatigue. Diseases and health conditions begin to resolve. You become more resilient and resistant to burning in the sun. Little things cease to bother you as much as they once did. You begin to feel alive again!

What are the 3 pillars of restoring mitochondrial function?

Restoring redox (reduction-oxidation potential), coherent cellular water formation, and energy metabolism/ATP production.

How the heck do you re-establish redox? Tips:

• Restore circadian rhythm in alignment with the rising and falling of the sun. Avoid/reduce/mitigate nnEMF and artificial isolated blue light (tech screen) exposure, especially after sunset for your circadian rhythm. All of this accumulates deuterium within the cellular matrix, contributing to mitochondrial dysfunction. Opt for wired tech, avoid Bluetooth and wireless earbuds/headphones, and mitigate the impact of wi-fi and nnEMFs in general via magnesium supplementation.

• Go barefoot, grounded on the earth, gathering free electrons and charging your cellular water network from sunlight

• Reduce stress/make stress work for you

*Collecting wild spring water for my jelly-like exclusion zone water matrix. Visit* *findaspring.com*.

• Enjoy structured (4th phase/coherent cellular) spring water or reverse osmosis filtered, restructured and remineralized water for cooking and drinking, creating intracellular 4th phase water. This is the type of water that matches with our jelly-like exclusion zone water matrix that makes up 90% of our bodies. Find a filtered water dispenser at your local grocery store, or even better, visit findaspring.com to find a spring near you and fill up your own glass jars, usually for free.

• Ditch alcohol and caffeine. Quitting caffeine is often necessary to genuinely restore mitochondrial function because it depletes magnesium, zinc and thiamine, all essential for mitochondrial function. Caffeine also has an impact on cortisol/melatonin and circadian rhythm. If you’re in a place of resilience, of course this can be played around with, like all of these tips!

• Proper sleep in total darkness (see my sleep article here)

• Wild raw or lightly cooked seafood intake, higher fat diet (short-term supervised ketosis/fasting can be useful depending on context). Fatty fish can be especially supportive during the colder months in the northern hemisphere!

• Sauna/ice bath/sauna rotation (if suitable for you)

• Cold thermogenesis (swim in natural bodies of water ideally naked, go out in winter lightly dressed, morning/evening walks, cold showers), if suitable for you

*Cold fall dips in Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada*

*Earth Runners* *are my favourite sandals for the warmer months into fall, the next best thing to barefoot.*

• Sunlight/infrared light (outdoor sunrise and sunset exposure. Stand outside in the sunlight with bare feet exposure on the conductive earth (Schumann resonance) to soak up the free electrons and charge your body like a battery, sun ideally shining on the stomach to modulate gut microbiome). I believe the benefits and effects of safe sunlight exposure go far beyond what can be scientifically measured. Sunlight is the best zeitgeber (time giver, or any internal/external clue that entrains or synchronizes an organism’s biological rhythms to the Earth’s 24-hour light/dark cycle and 12-month seasonal cycle. Getting outside periodically throughout the day (ie. walks) informs your body what time it is by how much blue light there is in relation to the other colours of the visible light spectrum. Dr. Jay Montgomery, US quantum ophthalmologist, calls this “quantum sampling of the sun”.

• Living at a high altitude

• Exercise (outdoors)

Utilizing appropriate antioxidants from plant compounds can also help with redox status. Examples include polyphenols, flavonoids, and quinones. Focus on locally grown whole food sources for these phytochemicals. Whole food sources are the ultimate ways to get all the nutrients with the cofactors. Get in the sun, move your body, play in nature, look at a landscape, eat real food, sleep solid nights, and start feeling ALIVE again!

Utilizing a combination of as many of these tips as possible will produce the best results. The more we play in the wilderness, the more we may find, at any age, that we may satisfy a hunger that has been hibernating deep in our bones.

Why should redox be more of a priority than detox?

*Spring foraging around the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario*

Redox (mitochondrial function) allows your cells to have the energy (ATP) needed for the methionine/methylation and glutathione cycles to function in the first place. This is energy to make the entire biology function, which jumpstarts your healing processes (autophagy, apoptosis, repair, mitochondrial biogenesis/mitophagy (fusion/fission), and neurogenesis/synaptogenesis... you get the gist).

Human beings (well... most of us) are literally beings of light, our cells emitting biophotons (light). Full-spectrum sunlight makes up two-thirds of the ATP (energy development, production and usage within the body), with food only making up about one-third. Nurturing both simultaneously will reap the greatest rewards when it comes to health recovery or regeneration.

Sunlight has been the most underrated, overlooked, yet obvious and most widely accessible nutrient. You will want to get serious about your sunlight exposure if you haven’t already. As previously mentioned in the Ultimate Gut Healing Protocol, carefully build up your solar callus along with eliminating inflammatory lifestyle factors to your best extent. Of course, live your life, but know that restoring mitochondrial function will actually form the basis of life. As a quantum being, your body wants the connection to full spectrum sunlight, the gathering and unimpeded flowing of electrons beyond just food, and healing fields that create coherence. The light signals, especially from morning light, sync up every process in the body.

DAILY PRACTICE

Expose your bare skin to the sunlight and bare eyes to the brighter parts of the sky during the key periods and recharge your cellular water: sunrise/morning, midday, and evening/sunset, ALL spring and summer, and well into fall when the sun is most out in both northern and southern latitudes. Vitamin D is fat soluble and an indicator of mitochondrial status, and the vitamin D produced by proper sun exposure will last you throughout winter. Our human ancestors lived primarily outdoors without excessive artificial lighting, nnEMF and tech screens, and this is how they lived vibrantly with adequate vitamin D. They also subsisted off of wild foraged herbs and plant foods, seafood and grass fed animal proteins (nose-to-tail), as grocery stores were not around to ship in fruits and vegetables from out of season and out of latitude, or stock indoor factory farmed meats.

Once your solar callus is built up, get out as much as you can, bare skin in the sun, without burning. At the same time, minimize your exposure to artificial blue light and nnEMF to your best ability, especially after sunset to maintain your circadian rhythm.
When you rise with the sun in the morning, the first thing you should do BEFORE looking at your phone or any screen or artificial light is to get outside and watch the sunrise, with as much skin as you can expose in your context. If you start your circadian day by looking at screens or turning on an LED light (alien light sources) before getting outside in the sunlight, you will dysregulate your circadian rhythm right at the beginning of the day by communicating to your brain through your eyes in the SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus) that it is solar noon when it’s actually 7:00 am. Place your hands and feet on the bare ground. Grass, dirt, sand, stone (not sidewalk or asphalt), in a safe place for 10-30 minutes minimum.
If it’s winter, simply go for a walk in the morning light after your first meal. Bonus points for cold thermogenesis/cold exposure and not bundling up too much.
Afterwards, enjoy a protein and fat-centric breakfast within about half an hour.
Then go for a post-meal digestive walk with the sunlight to convert that food into energy with magnesium chloride supplement either in your drinking water/smoothie, or sprayed transdermally onto your skin.
Do this every single day (while reducing any excessive artificial isolated blue light exposure after sunset that disrupts circadian signalling) for best results. Nutritional support for sunlight exposure and healing from isolated blue light/tech screens includes foods with DHA and iodine, so it’s best to include seafood, fish, bivalves, crustaceans, and/or sea vegetables with many of your meals (especially if you work a tech screen job like I do!)

How would you live if you were living a primitive lifestyle? Aim for that in today’s environment in order to create balance and restore gene expression.

Your daytime and nighttime light environment is the most important factor in mitochondrial function. If you work an indoor job, take breaks periodically to go out. Get outside and see the sunrise (6-7 am) and sunset every single day for the rest of your life, with sunlight exposure throughout the day as well. If you miss a day, just pick it back up again the next day and try to keep it consistent moving forward. Set an alarm on your phone in the morning—you can go back to sleep after sunrise exposure but the sunrise is energizing in itself and you will adjust more easily if you fix your evening/nighttime light environment. Surround yourself with healing fields and even generate your own healing fields. It’s a good idea to make plans to move out of dense urban areas such as major cities, and away from cell towers for best results.

In the evening/nighttime, optimally or if you have a severe health condition, ZERO artificial light after sunset is critical to resetting your mitochondrial status and circadian rhythm. It’s a good idea to make plans to move out of dense urban areas such as major cities, and away from cell towers for best results.

If you must use a computer at night, at least wear orange tinted blue light blocking glasses, wear full body clothing to protect your skin from the artificial light and protect your thyroid with a scarf, set your system up with a red light filter such as f.lux, and turn off all screens at least 1-2 hours before sleep to protect your circadian rhythm.

Sunlight on bare skin (even on cloudy days), barefoot, movement, nature, and good vibes! A radically new paradigm of living literally begins with you.