Biohacking 2024: My Strategies to Reverse Chronic Disease and Restore Health

I was recently a keynote speaker at the Biohacking Conference 2024 in Dallas, Texas. In the video above, you can watch my speech in its entirety as I expose the failures of conventional medicine and offer innovative strategies and solutions to reverse chronic disease and restore your individual health and well-being.

At a foundational level, the reason why we get sick is because we don’t have enough energy. The solution is to increase cellular energy, which allows your body to heal and your vitality to increase. At a Biohacking Conference in June 2023, I ended up arm wrestling Dr. Marcos de Andrade, a research physician and CEO of BIOHAXS. De Andrade was 38 years old and an extreme fitness buff, and I was 69. But I still beat him.

This is what happens when you’re making enough cellular energy. My new book, “Cellular Health: The Unified Theory of Disease,” comes out very soon and covers this process in great detail, but you can also learn key tips to start on your journey to wellness today.

US Medicine Is the Worst Example of Medicine in the World

In 2023, U.S. health care spending rose to $4.8 trillion,¹ but is fraught with failures, including an epidemic of chronic disease. Prescription drug use is at record levels, with 6.3 billion prescriptions filled annually. This works out to about 19 prescriptions for every American, every year.²

Meanwhile, 1 in 8 adults has taken Ozempic or another glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) mimetic drug at some point in their life.³ Not only are these drugs expensive, costing about $1,000 a month, but when you stop taking them your health your regain your weight because they do nothing to treat the cause and result in many other adverse effects.

Drugs like Ozempic closely mimic the effects of Akkermansia muciniphila, a bacterium that’s a keystone strain in your microbiome. The abundance of Akkermansia in your gut can easily be enhanced through dietary interventions, but first you need to understand the true cause of all disease.

Why Walking in the Sun at Solar Noon Is an Ideal Form of Exercise

Getting back to the basics, sunlight is the ultimate source of energy, as it essentially provides electrons either directly or indirectly to your body and electrons are the fuel your body uses to create ATP. When you get sun exposure, the benefits come not just from vitamin D production but also near infrared radiation, which triggers photobiomodulation benefits ultimately increasing your cellular energy.

The average American spends 93% of their time indoors,⁴ so fitting in that outdoor time is very important. I recommend multitasking, since we’re all so busy. Walking outside at solar noon — wearing minimal clothing — will maximize the benefits of sun exposure, while helping you fit in your 10,000 steps a day to stay active. Ideally, be sure to get in your walking first, then add other forms of exercise on top of that.

Exercising outdoors in the sun is key, as there is a human equivalent of photosynthesis; we can create energy from the sun. There’s a biological mechanism, which I’ve identified but haven’t yet disclosed. We’re in the process of conducting experiments in a New York laboratory, using equipment to measure mitochondrial function. The mechanism essentially converts photons extracellularly into electrons that are ultimately transported to your electron transport chain (ETC).

I strongly believe optimal sun exposure is not only highly beneficial for most people, but essential for optimal health. However, there are instances where individuals experience adverse reactions to sunlight.

One factor that contributes to these negative reactions is a concept known as reductive stress. This condition is characterized by an imbalance in your body’s redox state, where there is an excess of reducing agents or electron donors in your biology. Unlike the more commonly discussed oxidative stress, reductive stress involves an overabundance of electrons in your cells.

This electron excess interferes with your body’s normal metabolic functions and energy production pathways. Your body’s systems struggle to efficiently use this abundance of electrons, leading to decreased metabolic efficiency over time. This manifest as various symptoms or health issues when exposed to additional sources of electrons, such as those generated from sun exposure.

Your ETC operates on a delicate balance of electron transfer between complexes. An excess of electrons disrupts this balance, leading to a backup in your ETC. This disruption results in decreased ATP production efficiency and, even worse, increases the formation of reactive oxygen species.

It is important to remember though one of the reason’s sun exposure is so valuable is that it has many other effects in your body beyond electron generation, including vitamin D production, circadian rhythm regulation, and various neuroendocrine responses. These factors also play significant roles in how you feel after sun exposure.

The ideal way to relieve this reductive stress would be discharge the electron surplus into an ideal grounding system. Due to dirty electricity, most grounding in North America likely provides serious negatives that counter its benefits. The exception would be grounding in the ocean.

Since most don’t have regular access to the ocean one could consider using 5 mg of methylene blue about one hour before going out into the sun. Other strategies that have helped others include 50 mg of niacinamide or 85 mg of aspirin.