Razor-Thin Medicine: When Methylene Blue Rescues Mitochondria… and When It Becomes Poison
Emergency medicine is built on brute force — shock the heart, slam vasopressors, crank the numbers. But septic shock exposes the flaw in that instinct: the harder you squeeze vessels from the outside,...
11 Touko 27min
Berries, Coffee, and Biohacking: Plant Compounds That Rebuild (or Break) Your Mitochondria
What if the spinach in your salad, the berries in your smoothie, and the caffeine in your coffee aren’t “fuel” at all — but evolved plant defense chemicals that can directly modify your mitochondria? ...
9 Touko 24min
Is Light Therapy Racially Biased? The Melanin Problem PBM Won’t Talk About
Photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) is marketed like universal biology: shine the right wavelength, hit cytochrome c oxidase, boost ATP, accelerate healing. But this Deep Dive unpacks a hidden variable ...
8 Touko 15min
Mitophagy: The Cellular Trash Pickup That Decides Your Energy, Aging & Alzheimer’s Risk
Upon Don Bailey's return to the Deep Dive episodes, he and Dr. Mike reframe fatigue, aging, and neurodegeneration through one core process: mitophagy — the cell’s highly selective mitochondrial recycl...
7 Touko 1h 2min
Blue Light Is Making Fat “Dumber”: Mitochondrial Damage, Lower Burn Rate, More Obesity
In this Energy Code Deep Dive episode, Dr. Mike breaks down a modern (and slightly unsettling) obesity paper: blue light exposure worsened obesity in high-fat diet–fed mice — not just through “sleep/c...
6 Touko 17min
ALS May Start in the Hypothalamus: Early Mitochondrial Failure + Metabolic Circuit Breakdown
In this Energy Code Deep Dive episode, Dr. Mike unpacks a paper that reframes ALS at a deeper level: ALS may begin as an energy regulation failure, starting in the hypothalamus, before it becomes an o...
5 Touko 16min
Methylene Blue + Near-Infrared Light: Two Tools, One Mitochondrial Neuroprotection Mechanism
In this Energy Code Deep Dive episode, Dr. Mike breaks down a provocative neuroprotection review: low-dose methylene blue and near-infrared (NIR) light may look like totally different therapies — one ...
4 Touko 15min
Shilajit for Real Performance: The “Strength-Under-Fatigue” Study
In this Energy Code Deep Dive episode, Dr. Mike breaks down a practical 8-week human study on shilajit and performance where it actually matters: after fatigue sets in. Recreationally active young men...
1 Touko 14min
