C60 vs. Sepsis: The Nanomaterial That Shielded Liver, Heart, and Brain
Sepsis is deadly on its own — but in diabetes, the baseline oxidative stress turns it into a full-blown organ-killing fire. In this Deep Dive, Dr. Mike and Don unpack a new study where water-soluble, ...
13 Mai 7min
Your Mitochondria Have a Self-Destruct Button (Here’s the “Death Finger” That Pulls It)
Mitochondria aren’t just your cell’s power plants — they may also contain a built-in kill switch. In this Deep Dive, Dr. Mike unpacks a 2026 Annual Review of Biophysics paper arguing that ATP synthase...
12 Mai 7min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 16min
