Logan Franklin

@ihtesham2005 Maybe she was ignored by medicine, but she is hardly the only scientist who has researched photobiomodulation for decades. Michael Hamblin at Harvard is just one example. scholar.google.com/citations?user…

A Russian biophysicist spent 30 years proving that shining red light on a cell could double its energy, and almost nobody believed her until a tech billionaire named Bryan Johnson made her work the most searched biohack on the internet. Her name was Tiina Karu. She worked in a Moscow lab through the 1980s and 1990s, and the discovery she defended for decades sat in journals nobody read while the rest of medicine ignored her. The whole thing started by accident. In 1967, a Hungarian doctor named Endre Mester was trying to use a new device called a laser to burn tumors out of mice. His laser was broken. It did not have enough power to burn anything. He used it anyway. The mice grew their hair back faster than the control group. Their wounds healed faster too. He had no idea why. Tiina Karu picked up his work and asked the question that mattered. Why does this happen. She ran experiments for 20 years. Different wavelengths. Different doses. Measuring what happens inside the cell when red light hits it. The answer she landed on was almost too specific to be true. The thing in your body that responds to red light is one enzyme. Cytochrome c oxidase. It sits inside your mitochondria. Mitochondria are the part of your cell that makes energy. They take oxygen and food and turn it into a molecule called ATP, which is the fuel your cells run on. Your body makes 40 to 70 kilograms of ATP every single day just to keep you alive. If your mitochondria slow down, you age faster, heal slower, lose hair, lose muscle, and get inflamed easier. Cytochrome c oxidase does most of the work. It contains copper and iron atoms. Those atoms happen to absorb light at very specific colors. Red light at 630 to 670 nanometers. Near-infrared light at 810 to 850 nanometers. Other colors do almost nothing. Blue does not work. Green does not work. The biology is locked to those two windows because that is what the metal inside the enzyme can physically catch. When a red photon hits that enzyme, three things happen. The enzyme runs faster. ATP production jumps 30 to 40% within minutes. Nitric oxide gets released. Blood vessels widen. More oxygen and nutrients flow in. A small stress signal goes off inside the cell that tells it to repair itself. The same signal it gets after exercise. Red light is not adding anything to the cell. It is just unlocking work the cell was already trying to do. For 30 years almost nobody outside her field cared. Red light therapy lived inside dental clinics for mouth ulcers and physical therapy offices for tendonitis. Medical schools did not teach it. The science sat in obscure journals. Then the evidence started piling up. A 2024 review of 18 trials confirmed red light speeds up wound healing. Another 2024 review found it lowered inflammation markers by 38% over 4 weeks. Athletes using red light before training had 45% less muscle soreness the next day. Seven separate trials on hair loss showed visible regrowth in every single one. A 2024 study found 15 minutes of red light before a meal cut blood sugar spikes by 27.7%. In March 2026, Nature published a 4,000 word feature on red light therapy. The most respected scientific journal on Earth officially admitted there was real biology under the hype. That was the moment the field crossed from fringe to mainstream. Bryan Johnson is the reason the average person now knows any of this exists. He uses a red light cap on his scalp for 6 minutes daily and a full-body panel three times a week. He posted his hair regrowth photos and his skin scans, and the algorithm did the rest. Red light masks went from biohacker forums to Sephora shelves in two years. Tiina Karu died in 2019. She did not live to see Nature validate her. She did not live to see a billionaire turn the enzyme she identified into a billion dollar industry. Every red light mask, panel, cap, and bed on the planet right now is just a way to deliver the photons she proved mattered. The wavelengths were always there. The enzyme was always there. The biology was always real. It just took a Hungarian doctor with a broken laser, a Russian scientist nobody listened to, and one tech billionaire willing to stand in front of a glowing panel for the world to finally pay attention.

@nicknorwitz What about Tocotrienols?

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Four days in the wilderness without screens improved creative problem-solving by 50%. The modern brain is not underloaded. It is interrupted.

@coinbureau Thank you.

One of the most important videos you can watch in 2026. A 24-minute masterclass on using Claude. Upgrade your knowledge by watching. Save & share this now. You're welcome.

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire.😍

@nicrypto #sell the news.

Damn. Bitcoin really just gave up the entire Clarity pump 🤷‍♂️

@NFLSTROUD fantastic.

Well done Tampa Bay Watch.

@Tyler_Neville_ @qthomp Hell yeah, do it.

Justin Timberlake frosted tips if we hit 20k after the hair grows back @qthomp

@JesseOlson I mean it only has to drop another $9,000. Could happen in less than 3 weeks.

WHAT IF $BTC forms a head and shoulders pattern? Price would drop below $70,000 within three weeks. Possible? 👇

@nicknorwitz Agree, and love the quote you began with.

“Don’t Confuse Your Prescription Pad with Critical Thinking”🧐 (Mini Rant) I’m about to say what a lot of people and patients want to say, but might not have the words. Let’s start with an observation. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has noticed the pattern: Some clinicians on X increasingly seem to treat credentials, prescription authority, and clinical status as though they are arguments in and of themselves. They mock “wellness influencers,” appeal to their ability to prescribe medications, or cheer on vulgar attacks against dissenters — all while conveniently sidestepping the actual data. They know who they are. And more importantly, you do too. Here’s the uncomfortable reality: Medicine is changing. The era of tightly gatekept information and unquestioned authority is ending. Patients are becoming more informed. Younger physicians, researchers, and scientific commutators are more willing to challenge assumptions. Science is becoming democratized. And that is a good thing. To be clear, clinical experience has value. But experience alone is not infallibility. It can sharpen judgment, or reinforce confirmation bias if it’s never challenged by data, humility, or self-reflection. Having access to a prescription pad does not automatically make someone wise, rigorous, or intellectually honest. Otherwise stated: don’t confuse your authority over a prescription pad with critical thinking.

@BrendanPedersen You're describing EVERY industry in America that has lobbyists, including the Banks.

Crypto is on the verge of accomplishing an unprecedented act of legislative piracy — writing its own legal framework in an otherwise stalled out Congress with sweeping implications for all of American finance. I wrote about the money that brought us here and what it means:

@PeterBerezinBCA I don't know how many of that younger generation are on FB. More likely TilTok and IG. But same effect.

$META

@SmallCapScience @_tmarsh_ Seems a reasonable bet, but wouldn't Wall Street have already figured this out and front run us plebs?

The war doesn’t need to escalate for a food shortage. Winter Wheat numbers are already down, tons of farmers globally are without Urea currently, climate scientists are predicting a summer of droughts due to El Niño, and none of those require escalation. You just commented telling me I’m wrong before doing even 5 minutes of research, I just tweeted this. Maybe tuck your bias aside, open your mind, and spend some time checking the thesis for yourself. I was early to both silver and oil, you don’t think that’s enough reason to invest some time?

The path to trading success in 2026 is simple. Step 1: Position in Oil Producers Step 2: Research Soft Commodities + Agriculture Step 3: Steadily Roll Oil Profits to Soft Comms + Ag Step 4: Sell Soft Comms + Ag During Food Shortage That is the entire playbook, nothing else.

@hillery_dan The average interest rate may be around 20%, but the top sure isn't. Upwards of 36%.

Bitcoin coming for the $100T bond market via STRC.

Right before you fall asleep, your hands and feet get warmer. That warming is the real trigger that switches your brain into sleep mode. A 1999 Nature paper tested it against melatonin, core body temperature, heart rate, and how sleepy people felt. The hand and foot warming won. The drawing in the tweet works on this exact trigger. The pose has a name in Japan: Mōkan Undō, or "capillary exercise." Katsuzō Nishi designed it in 1927. He was the chief technical engineer on the Tokyo subway, Japan's first. It became one of six daily exercises in his system, still done in Japan today. You lie on your back, point your arms and legs straight up, and shake them for thirty seconds. While the limbs are up, gravity drains the blood from them. When you lower them, the blood floods back into your hands and feet, warming them in seconds. Your brain reads that warming as a green light to sleep. The shaking activates a separate reflex, the kind most mammals use after a scare. Dogs and rabbits shake themselves off after a fright for the same reason. Dr. David Berceli, a trauma therapist, built a whole method around it, with certified instructors now in 40 countries. The shaking flips your nervous system out of "I'm wired" mode and into "I'm safe to sleep" mode. Nishi got the biology wrong. He believed capillaries, the tiny blood vessels at the ends of your veins, did the pumping. William Harvey, an English doctor, had shown the heart did the work, three centuries earlier, in 1628. The exercise still works, for entirely different reasons than Nishi thought. The drained limbs come back warm. The body reads that as a sleep cue, and the shaking calms the nervous system on top of it. A drawing on X with millions of views just rediscovered a 100-year-old Japanese sleep exercise. A subway engineer designed it first, decades before sleep scientists figured out why it would work.

@intangiblecoins Ugh

one reason that CLARITY matters NOW is that the race for senate control is tight if the dems take, sherrod brown (fmr sen) could be chair of senate banking again if sherrod doesn’t win the ohio senate race but dems take senate, elizabeth warren will lead senate banking 😱

@0x1_0NE @NTFabiano Switzerland?

@NTFabiano I confirm, I just looked outside and my brain rested for a full month in half a second.

Sitting by a window is associated with significantly improved cognitive performance.

@pelositracker Whew. Great thing they always follow the rules.

Breaking: US Senators have been banned from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately, per CNBC

@joao_wedson 500% seems a good target.

Bitcoin went up 2,000% from 2018 to 2021. Bitcoin went up 700% from 2022 to 2025. What if Bitcoin goes up 500% from 2026 to 2029? I had a dream Bitcoin did exactly that. But first, it made a lot of people rage quit the market.