22 y/o student of life, health, and mitochondria. IG: https://xitter.gq/t.co/DCcGwn9E7n
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What even is deuterium?
A thread on “heavy hydrogen” and why it’s so important in understanding mitochondrial health and the development of chronic disease
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Mitochondrial & circadian biology will eventually lead you to understand:
You should be getting as much sun as possible while at the same time avoiding getting burnt
Here’s how to do this: 🌞
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Rising with the sun is the single most powerful health practice 🌅
Here’s why to never miss a sunrise again (THREAD):
The human body is not a chaotic biochemical soup in need of constant medical intervention
It is a highly ordered, interconnected, bioelectric structure that houses an intelligence which stretches beyond anything our conscious minds can comprehend
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Read and study anything and everything. Build a coherent worldview.
Without this, your ideas — which dictate your actions — will always just be someone else’s
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Douglas Wallace's mitochondrial paradigm is prob the most important framework in medicine that nobody in mainstream practice uses.
Chronic disease is an energy problem (not one gene centralized bs).
- mtDNA sits right next to the electron transport chain
- No histones protecting it
- Minimal repair capacity
- Mutation rate x10-17 higher than nuclear DNA
BUT heteroplasmy (mito mutations) accumulates, and this is the KEY puzzle piece,
When dysfunctional mitochondria cross a threshold in a given tissue, that tissue begins fails. High ATP demand tissues go first and you see this reflected in chronic disease distributions.
Brain → neurodegeneration
Heart → cardiomyopathy
Beta cells → T2DM
Immune cells → chronic inflammation
Teh upstream dysfunction is similar.
You essentially just get a different diagnostic label depending on which tissue hits the threshold first.
Modern environmental mismatches drive this process.
- ALAN nuking melatonin (your most potent mitochondrial antioxidant).
- Processed seed oils driving cardiolipin remodeling in the inner mitochondrial membrane.
- Micronutrient depletion starving the ETC of its cofactors (CoQ10, B2, B3, iron-sulfur clusters, copper)
= accelerating heteroplasmy accumulation while simultaneously degrading the inputs mitochondria need to function and coordinate physiology.
Rising with the sun is the single most powerful health practice 🌅
Here’s why to never miss a sunrise again (THREAD):
Circadian rhythm is the foundation of health.
Watching sunrise is a non-negotiable.
- Check your weather app
- Set your alarm for sunrise
- Go outside. No sunglasses, no phone
This is truly how God designed us to live.
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Like + retweet if you enjoyed the thread.
Send to a friend who needs to fix his sleep schedule 🌄
And read the full article on my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/sheast…
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Timing *is* everything — and nature's ultimate yin-yang is blue + red light. Not blue alone or manmade light.
Blue (cool, high-energy, “yin”) wakes us up and sets the circadian clock. Red/NIR (warm, penetrating, “yang”) fuels mitochondria and restores order at night.
Plants figured this out billions of years ago: chlorophyll absorbs almost exclusively in the blue and red bands, and the light-harvesting complexes use **quantum coherence** to route that energy with >95 % efficiency — a “quantum walk” that explores every pathway simultaneously and lands on the perfect one. Zero waste.
We’re made of the same stardust. When we live in the same blue/red balance as the plants, our biology works the same way.
Carefull what light you live under— and read @DrJackKruse.
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Health = stabilization of the resting living state of the NPU (Nanoprotoplasm Units)
— per Gilbert Ling’s AIH and Matveev’s NAH cell models
T3 and IR light (sunlight, incandescent) stimulate mitochondrial function → more efficient production of ATP, CO₂, and metabolic water. These together stabilize the NPU, supported by sufficient intracellular Mg²⁺, K⁺, as well as extracellular Ca²⁺ and Na+.
Mitochondria are influenced by X factors (helpers) and Y factors (killers).
They also have other signaling roles (not discussed here).
This is the pure bioenergetic pathway toward preservation, healing, and resilience.
Everything else follows from this.
