HealthCast Now Podcast

27/02/2020

A viral post from an assistant principal at a middle school reminds parents to get in their kid's way when it comes to cell phones.

17/02/2020

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Why? Modern humans now live an indoor existence and they rarely go outside with their chest and/or their skin exposed to the sun ENOUGH. This is why those who live outside have better hearts and less heart disease. The sun wins again. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30412763

12/02/2020

We've been here before. When books were the fresh new tech, Socrates believed they would spread an epidemic of forgetfulness. A millennium later, aristocrats fretted that the printing press would lead to mental overload among the masses. Then parents worried that calculators handicapped arithmetic s...

18/01/2020

Sunglasses are having a significant negative impact on your health. Wear them at your own risk.

11/01/2020

Multifunctional materials are critical to enable next-generation implantable and wearable photonic healthcare devices. This Review examines these emerging materials and discusses the path for their clinical translation, along with the future research directions for the field, particularly regarding....

22/12/2019

If the sun causes skin cancer, then spoons make people fat.

23/11/2019

Have you been duped into buying a high intensity LED panel that claims a suspiciously round number like 100mW/cm^2 at 6 inches? We often see extremely high intensity numbers being advertised, but these numbers are based on improper measurement tools, techniques, and biased rounding. This blog will h...

16/11/2019

Deadly conditions like leukaemia, sepsis and malaria could be drawn from the body using magnets, after a British engineer designed a blood filtering system which sieves away disease.

06/11/2019

In an article published in JAMA Neurology on Monday, three Vanderbilt neurologists cited evidence of the detrimental effects of time changes on the brain, particularly the negative impact they may have on circadian rhythms.

19/10/2019

The disturbing trend worries researchers who have struggled to understand its causes.

02/10/2019

Notice what number 8 says below on my slide. We make B12 endogenously and its creation is tied to the light you choose to live with. When you take B12 exogenously because you are blue light or nnEMF toxic you uncouple the negative and positive feedback loops from one another and extinguish your ability to make it or use it. B12 acts as a photoreceptor in man that helps the gears of the molecular clocks in the circadian mechanism. Why is this important to UNDERSTAND WELL. WHY MUST YOU AVOID MARKETERS? In my recent webinar series, I have done for my members, I taught the public about how the loss of negative feedback control in coupled biologic systems is the sentinel event for aging and disease generation. Moreover, I showed you what happens when you lose it in one side of the coupled event. There I used predator or prey to make the point. If you alter the balance of predator or prey the result is always the EXTINCTION of both animals. I have told you that in aging and neolithic disease generation when NAD+ at cytochrome one becomes altered in relation to NADH. When this occurs you can bet that Vitamin B12 is also altered by free retinal as part of the feedback loss of control. These are things people selling supplements never tell you. They want to keep you as a customer instead of healing you. The chronic loss of NAD+ and B12 is the critical sign of a loss of negative feedback control of the ubiquitin cycle. Now for how this scales to your molecular circadian clock and your peripheral clock genes (CCG's). The current model of the mammalian circadian clock includes two interlocking transcription-translation feedback loops comprised of several so-called “clock” genes and their protein products, which ultimately regulate the transcription of “clock-controlled” genes. B12 is a cofactor in these gears. You take it, you ruin the gear mechanism. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27217104

28/09/2019

Dopamine is made in the eye by sunlight and it can be made in the gut by your microbiome. People forget that bacteria release 5000 times more light than eukaryotic cells and this light is capable of making dopamine from the aromatic amino acids in the gut. This is why serotonin and phenylalanine and tyrosine are stored in the enterochromaffin system there. The more and more I look into it, I feel confident in saying that light is just as...... Joshua a recent mitochondriac convert realizes now that "Light is the most powerful drug for living systems. The light release is more important than the fuel in the diet for our health outcomes because food has light information built into by photosynthesis. This stimulus leads to light release to start the optical signal cascade in the gut using aromatic amino acids as the mover in the GI tract. Joshua said, "When I was blue light toxic I could not repair my gut at all."
I can tell you this. Your gastrointestinal system will never function optimally in a circadian mismatch (melanopsin dysfunction) and that will bypass however good a diet is.

Serotonin synthesis via morning sunlight programs tryptophan which is a cells time crystal. When light between 200-400nm emits the aromatic rings of this amino acid the crystal oscillates and that allows cells to build a peripheral clock in the cell that can be entrained by the SCN in the eye. That is the main clock in the human system. Serotonin, therefore, plays many roles in regulating digestive function and that would seem obvious when you know that most of the bodies serotonin are actually created in the gut by light release from the microbiome that is controlled by the incident light we chose to live under. This is why serotonin in the gut is made in the gut of humans and not in the brain.

Study about serotonin in the gut below:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694720/
For instance, chronic constipation has been correlated with low mucosal levels of serotonin in the large intestine. Tryptophan is programmed by sunlight and it creates serotonin when the light is slowed down. Serotonin is also converted to melatonin, given that we aren't inhibiting it with BLUE light at night at some surface. This causes melanopsin dysfunction which lowers melatonin levels and destroys the two programs that control mtDNA.

Melatonin also plays large roles in the GI tract in this way.
In the gut melatonin plays significant roles in regulating intestinal motility, the immune system, GI secretion, and the release of peptides involved in energy balance and maintenance. Melatonin also protects the colon in different pathophysiological conditions, and these protective effects involve activation of antioxidative mechanisms which combat oxidative stress. This is why blue light causes light stress and this drives melatonin LOWER and diminishes your ability to sleep and regenerate.

Another effect of melatonin is the alteration of gut flora and potential anti-microbiotic actions. So we can deduct from this that lower serotonin, and thus melatonin, can play a role in stages of dysbiosis. Study about melatonin found below:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198018/
Morning sunlight also stimulates dopamine production and we now know that dopamine receptors in the GI tract regulate gastrointestinal motility.
Irritable bowel syndrome and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which are becoming pandemic today, are largely motility related disorders. Coincidence? I think not, although there are other dietary, pathogenic, and environmental factors that contribute.

Dopamine in the gastrointestinal tract stimulates exocrine secretions, inhibits gut motility, modulates sodium absorption and mucosal blood flow, and is protective against gastroduodenal ulcer disease. Study about dopamine in the gut below:
https://academic.oup.com/…/Substantial-Production-of-Dopami…
So the message of all this is that everything seems downstream of the appropriate light exposure in our environment due to its influence on these neurotransmitters, mitochondria, and many hormones involved in various processes." WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER YOU DO BETTER!!!!! Few of your food or microbiome gurus do. Realize that now. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/82/11/3864/2866142/Substantial-Production-of-Dopamine-in-the-Human

26/09/2019

Research has found working 10 hours a day increases your risk of a stroke.

15/09/2019

Trusii's hydrogen water machines were supposed to help users with their health problems, but customers claim the company is involved in a giant scam.

13/09/2019

Social media use by adolescents linked to behaviors that may indicate mental health problems such as social withdrawal and difficulty coping with anxiety or depression

25/08/2019

An investigation by the Chicago Tribune suggests iPhones and Galaxy models may exceed radio frequency radiation safety limits.

18/08/2019

It’s not just in the Eyes, it is the skin too!

Until 2017 we thought that melanopsin only existed in the eyes of humans. A study published in Nature showed that subcutaneous white adipocytes express a light sensitive signalling pathway mediated via a melanopsin/TRPC channel axis. It is now evident that melanopsin was present in the skin and fat cells and can translate light signals even if we block blue light from entering our eyes.
When TRPC receptors are exposed to blue light after dark it is very common that inflammation occurs. This is probably one of the reasons why night shift workers are the highest users of prescription pain relief medication and why we have a major dependence on pain medication in the developed world. Personally, if I have my skin exposed to blue light after dark I get very twitchy and itchy and this is sure fire proof that blue light is irritating my skin via the TRPC channels via melanopsin activation.

In humans the bond between melanopsin to retinol is a very weak covalent bond. The bond is easily broken by short wavelength blue light. What do human’s live and work under 24/7? You guessed it, BLUE LIGHT. When you look at rodent models you still find melanopsin in the skin, but how they differ from human’s is they have fur covering the skin, which weakens the influence of blue light on melanopsin. That is why ancestrally speaking when we were covered in hair the main receptors for blue light would be found in the eye. However, we have evolved not to need our body hair and as such have exposed our melanopsin to the outside world. This is now a much larger surface area for melanopsin to be affected by artificial blue and green light after dark.

WHAT IS THE BLUE LIGHT HAZARD = melanopsin dissociates from retinal and free retinal destroys photoreceptors = destroys optical signaling. The lower your redox is the more retinal is released. Certain stimuli are more apt to release retinal in this way. Blue light is the one that is now best identified. Now that we know the human bond between melanopsin is a weak covalent bond we know that 1G-5G waveforms can also separate them. We’ve believed that melanopsin was only present in the eye since its discovery in humans since 1998. We then discovered it in human blood vessels in 2014. Then, in December 2017 we got the shock data it was also in our skin and subcutaneous fat helping explain why nature put leptin, another photoreceptor molecule, in our subcutaneous fat. Leptin is designed to take optical data from the skin and skin arteriole surface about day and night and couple that with energy balance information and deliver it to the hypothalamus under the cover of darkness. Free retinol from surface light at the wrong time of the day is what ruins this hormones behavior optically. Once leptin signaling is disrupted by circadian mechanisms, the hypothalamus loses control of all growth and metabolism inputs. This leads to many chronic human maladies such as obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. They are all defects in optical signaling caused by Vitamin A’s ability to destroy photoreceptors. This is why the the authors in the article make this statement, about blue light, ”It's toxic. If you shine blue light on retina, the retinal kills photoreceptor cells as the signaling molecule on the membrane dissolves.”
That is a definitive unequivocal statement.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/31418890/

18/08/2019

https://neurosciencenews.com/iq-hyper-brain-body-7720/

A new study reveals an increased risk of psychological and physiological disorders in high IQ people compared to national averages. Researchers report 20% of Mensa members, with an IQ of 130 and over, have a diagnosed anxiety disorder, compared to 10% of the general public.

13/08/2019

Scientists from EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering have discovered that the circadian clock and the cell-cycle are, in fact, synchronized.

05/08/2019

When people want to have a conversation about fitness, wellness, weight, etc....one of the first thing I ask is how’s your sleep?

Until you get the basics down, I could give a s**t having convos about anything else.

Breath
Sleep
Mindset / Stress
Nutrition
Movement

Everything else is surface BS to keep you from dealing with what’s really going on. Via Waddell

05/08/2019

In December 1963 two boys hit upon an idea for a school science project – stay awake for as long as possible. And it shed new light on what happens inside our tired brains.

03/08/2019

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48268110?fbclid=IwAR0vmoziTj8CAnrl9t3Gb-W81IzXFPUQVJgIozcLOZwV69dkrgVe_O5REso

Getting enough sleep is fundamental to our wellbeing, but one key factor is often overlooked.

01/08/2019

The university's hijacked vending machines and 5,000 other IoT devices were making seafood-related DNS requests every 15 minutes.