Shea Stickel

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

Rising with the sun is the single most powerful health practice 🌅 Here’s why to never miss a sunrise again (THREAD):

“The organism is, in the ideal, a quantum superposition of coherent activities over all space-times… each correlated with one another and with the whole, and yet independent of the whole.” - Mae-Wan Ho

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

@the_no_mind Good info, just missing a fundamental piece: Modern lighting

Chris Palmer, MD — on what impairs mitochondria: - Poor sleep / circadian disruption - Chronic stress - Ultra-processed food - Substance use: alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, some meds - Hormonal imbalances - Poor gut health - Lack of purpose - Chronic inflammation - Physical inactivity - Nutrient deficiencies - Loneliness - Unresolved trauma (List not exhaustive)

Consistent, direct exposure to UV-B light truly is Nature’s Ozempic

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

@LetterToLive Love the yin-yang reference 🌞

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. 1/

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.

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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.