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The Autism Debate: Is it Neurological?

• Dr. Brandon Crawford • Season 1 • Episode 32

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In this episode of the Longevity Formula, Dr. Brandon Crawford explores whether autism is a neurological or mitochondrial disorder. He introduces mitochondrial heteroplasmy as a critical concept and explains the intricate workings of the electron transport chain. Dr. Crawford also discusses the impact of light exposure on neurological development and how modern technology has altered our environment, leading to increased cases of chronic conditions like autism and autoimmune diseases.

He details the critical role of circadian biology and the detrimental effects of non-native EMF and blue light on our mitochondrial function. Strategies for improving mitochondrial health through proper light exposure, seasonal and local eating habits, and cold thermogenesis are discussed, offering actionable steps to combat the rise in neurological and inflammatory disorders.

What You’ll Learn

  • The debate on whether autism is a neurological or mitochondrial disorder.
  • The concept of mitochondrial heteroplasmy and its role in health.
  • The impact of light exposure on neurological development and the negative effects of modern technology.
  • The critical role of circadian biology and the detrimental effects of non-native EMF and blue light on mitochondrial function.
  • Practical strategies for improving mitochondrial health through lifestyle changes.

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Dr. Brandon Crawford: We also get melatonin. Melatonin is actually produced by light and then expressed at night, right?

So it's actually expressed when we're in complete darkness. So if we don't have proper light exposure during the day, we actually don't get a proper expression of melatonin at night. And so what do you get? You get insomnia, right? You get sleeping problems and then that turns into anxiety and depression and all these other things.

Voice Over: Welcome to the Longevity Formula with Dr. Brandon Crawford. Let's explore the new era of wellness. Hey 

Dr. Brandon Crawford: Everyone, welcome back to the podcast. Today, I want to answer a question that I get asked a lot. So, I finally want to give more of a broad-level overview. We'll get into some details, but I really just want to give a good understanding.

And the question is, is autism neurological or is it a mitochondrial disorder? And there's all kinds of, you know, theories and questions when it comes to neurodevelopmental disorders. And those aren't the only two questions I get asked. You know, some people ask, is it genetic? You know, what's going on?

But those are the two main, you know, things, the two main prevailing theories, if you will, at this point in time. And really, if you ask me, and not just me, so it's not all Crawford conjecture, but there's actually good research. There's good data about what I'm going to talk about. And ultimately what I'm going to talk about is.

Mitochondrial heteroplasmy. That's a really weird word. You may not have ever heard it but I'm going to break it down and I'm going to tell you how because of mitochondrial heteroplasmy, it's both. It's, it's a neurological issue and it's a mitochondrial issue. It's a circadian biology issue.

It's an inflammatory issue, right? So there's so many different things that are going to fall out from This mitochondrial heteroplasmy story. So really, you know, the, the first thing to unpack is what is this weird thing that I just brought up mitochondrial heteroplasmy. So if you can imagine the mitochondria, right within the mitochondria, we have something called the electron transport chain and the electron transport chain is made up of five different complexes.

So you have complexes one, One, two, three, four, and then complex five has a special name called the ATP synthase pump. That is a literal rotary motor. It's the smallest rotary motor that we know of in the cell in our body. And really this story about the electron transport chain is really talking about electrons and hydrogen atoms.

What's happening is. Electrons are funneling through, being passed from complex 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 and as this is going on, there's a proton gradient or a hydrogen gradient that is occurring. And then at the end, at the ATP synthase pump, what should happen is we should get a hydrogen ion. Go through the pump, and when this happens we create ATP, which is the fuel for our cells.

Through this whole process, as those electrons are going through the complexes, at complex four, we produce exclusion zone water. Very, very important. Exclusion zone water is key. It literally turns our cell into its own battery pack. Quite amazing. So, when that exclusion zone water is compressed, it generates more electrons to feed the electron transport chain.

Very, very important to understand that now at the end of all of this, something that's really driving the whole process is the terminal oxygen. So there has to be an oxygen at the end of this process in order to make all of this work, right? So there's several different things to understand here.

The first concept, this heteroplasmy concept is. The fact that as these complexes in the electron transport chain get farther apart, and I'm talking like minor, minor, minor, teeny little tiny changes in the distance, like one angstrom, okay as, as these complexes get further apart, the efficiency of those electrons to actually go through the complexes.

dramatically decreases. So even one angstrom increase in distance between these these complexes can have a huge impact on cellular energy and efficiency. So what's driving the changes in the mitochondria in the electron transport chain? Well, this is what I really want to focus on, because what I'm going to tell you is that autism and not just autism, but mental health disorders, inflammatory disorders, chronic conditions of all types, really autoimmunity, which, you know, is on the rise, chronic pain syndromes, all these things It really dates back to when the light bulbs were first created, right?

Which this is kind of an impromptu talk. So I don't know the exact year. I think it was like 1879. Can I get a fact check on that in the background? I'm really curious if I got that right. 1879. And what that did is that began this whole cascade of events that changed our environment. It changed our light environment so much so that we continued to innovate.

We continued to change our light environment. Did I get it right? 1879. I got it right. That's pretty good. All right. I'll just have to say I was right about the year of the invention of the light bulb. God, where do I store this information? This is insane. Okay, so completely changed our light environment and we are so receptive to light and in in light is going to drive our neurological development is going to drive our biochemistry.

What I'll tell you is that light and how it impacts even if we just talk about the central retinal pathways that Literally just that that part alone not even talking about the skin and not talking about all the other things that drives Your neurochemistry it drives your dopamine your serotonin your histamine All of these things that are associated with your aromatic amino acid acid.

So it's so, so important to understand all of this. So we have this invention of the light bulb, right? 1879. That has changed our complete society in so many different ways. But we also have some other things to consider here. Things like bioweapons. Think about Agent Orange from wartimes, right?

Think about all the different things that we probably don't even know about, right? We probably don't even know some of the things that we've been exposed to over the past several decades over the past several generations. And I bring that up because we have to understand that a lot of these bio weapons they actually will completely halt the production of stem cells.

They'll actually have this. This huge effect on our ability to regenerate our ability to regulate our systems. And how this has transpired is like this. So we start getting these changes in our maybe, you know, several generations ago, our great, great grandparents, whatever it is, right? So that starts to happen.

They start to have an altered circadian cycle. biology, they start to have this minor change in their mitochondria, right? They start to get this, this bad light in but it's not a huge amount, right? So we're just getting minor changes and then we take it up a notch. We take it up a notch, we take it up a notch, right?

And you can actually see light pollution maps in the world. And they'll show you I believe it goes back to like the 1950s and then it goes all the way. To like the early two thousands and you'll see how light pollution has exploded, right? And so what's going on is we have this blue lit microwave oven that we are now living in.

Why is that important? Well, here's why that's important. We have to understand that blue light literally degrades neurological tissue. Okay. First of all, we know that we see it. In the studies on how it influences the retina and the retina is really diencephalic tissue. So it's brain tissue. We know that this is going to have a very deleterious effect on brain tissue, literally will start to degrade it.

But what we also need to understand is that the presence of DHA, docosahexaenoic acid. In our brain, really in our entire body, our brain, our retina, our heart, our enterocytes in our gut. What DHA does is it actually takes certain wavelengths of light and actually converts it into DC electric current DC electric current as someone would understand if they've read Dr.

Becker's book, the body electric this is what's needed to actually regenerate tissue. So the converse thing can happen here. So the opposite can happen if. We're putting in the wrong kind of light. We actually get the opposite effect. But what I'm going to tell you is that as you're exposed to the wrong types of light, blue light, we have all this non native EMF.

What's going to happen is we're driving mitochondrial heteroplasmy. So we're driving this state of the mitochondria actually swelling, actually these complexes are moving further apart, right? We see this chronic inflammation building which by the way, side note, what is inflammation? Well, it's ultimately a discussion about electrons and protons.

And really what you're seeing is too little electrons or too many protons, right? That's really. What we're talking about when we're talking about inflammation, but, but why would this heteroplasmy be happening? Well, okay, let's go back to our discussion about the mitochondria and the electron transport chain.

So if we need electrons to flow in and go through the complexes and we need an oxygen at the end, okay, to drive this whole thing and if we have something driving inflammation, right? Let's just say something driving inflammation. And that cell is going to swell. Okay. We know it's going to swell just like this.

If you injure your ankle, does it get bigger or smaller? It gets bigger. It gets swollen. If you injure your brain, what do we look for in MRI? For that acute injury, you look for swelling. So as we are injured, as we have this inflammatory state, our cells swell. Now, why do they do that? So what did I tell you earlier?

If we have this exclusion zone water being produced at complex four, okay, and it has this amazing ability to actually produce electrons if it's compressed. So if we need to produce more electrons because our complexes are moving further apart, we're driving heteroplasmy, okay, if we need to do that, we need to swell, we need to compress our cells.

So we're compressing our exclusion zone water. That should be generating more electrons so that we're flowing more electrons through the system so that we can still produce our energy, right? Okay, so what happens if you put a piece of steak in a microwave and you cook it for five minutes? Is it going to come out being nice and juicy?

Or is it going to be kind of dry and like leather? It's going to dry out. And what did I say earlier? We're living in a blue lit microwave oven. Okay. So, that non native EMF exposure that we are just bombarding ourselves with every single day, it's drying up our exclusion zone water. That's a problem. So now we're stuck in this state of chronic inflammation, this chronic mitochondrial heteroplasmy state, and we're not having enough electrons because we're, we're void of our exclusion zone water. Right? That's bad. That's not a good thing. But what did I also say? We also need an oxygen at the end of this whole system to make it run. So what happens if you have a chronic stress response? If you have a chronic stress response, you start to become hypoxic.

Right? You can put a pulse ox on your finger and you may read 99, 98, 96, whatever percent oxygen, but in the tissue, right, especially in the tissue that's stressed most, you'll see that over a chronic, over a period of time, if you're experiencing a chronic stressor, you actually start to lose oxygen. So we're void of electrons, we're void of oxygen.

We're in this chronic state of mitochondrial heteroplasmy. That's not good now. Okay, so we're in this blue lit microwave oven and I told you what mitochondrial heteroplasmy is How does this correlate with neurological dysfunction and mitochondrial dysfunction? How does this happen? Okay, so If you go back a while ago, I did a whole podcast on circadian biology and I told you how Blue light can have an impact, a negative impact on circadian biology for overexposed to it.

And when I say blue light, I'm talking about high frequency white and blue light, the stuff coming off screens, the stuff I'm sitting under now all these things, right? So, and just a side note, when you look at a screen, The majority of screens, whether they're TV, computer, phones, if you don't do anything to that screen, it is set to the same temperature, so measured in kelvins, it's set to the same temperature at about noon during the day.

So every time you look at your screen and you're not doing anything to that screen, so you're not changing the color of the temperature or anything like that manually, you have to go in and do that. Every time you look at it, your central retinal pathway, your brain literally is thinking it's noon.

That's a problem. If you're doing that at 10 o'clock at night, 11 o'clock at night, 12 o'clock at night, and you're wondering why you're not going to sleep anyway, going back to how is this also a neurological story. So we, we have to go back to that circadian biology discussion and understand that a lot of what light is doing, especially when we're in utero.

When we're developing in our mama's belly, that light is driving neural crest cell migration and neural development. So if we are constantly in this blue lit microwave oven and we're in our mama's belly and we're constantly being bombarded by non native EMF, high frequency white and blue lights, and we're not getting The, the beneficial sunlight, the, the far infrared, the mid infrared, the, the not the, the near infrared, the red light, which is super important.

We're not getting that exposure, which is how we combat the blue light, by the way, our neural crest cells those early, early moments in time when all of these cells are migrating into their places, they're altered in their migration. So what happens? We're born with these neurological imbalances. So the answer is both where we, we see, I see autism again.

So now go back to Crawford conjecture. I see autism and autism spectrum disorders as this confluence of disrupted circadian biology coupled with mitochondrial heteroplasmy that leads to neurological imbalances. And that's why we approach it the way we approach it. That's why we have the energy sensory.

And movement strategy and neuro solution because we first have to get our light, right? We first have to get the environment, right? I think of it this way. You can't heal in the same environment that you got sick in. Right? So, so if what I said is true, then if we're trying to treat a spectrum disorder or a mental health disorder or a chronic pain syndrome or whatever it may be, and we keep that person in a blue lit microwave box and we're not telling them how important early morning sunrises Is and in watching the sunset and all these things then we're, we're not really doing that person a favor, really just using band aids at that point in time.

So we really have to understand this. So that's, you know, high level. What's going on there. There's also a discussion about deuterium and how that also is driving some of these hetero plastic or some of this mitochondrial heteroplasmy. So basically, and this is again, this is broad level but deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen.

So you have hydrogen, which is a proton and an electron, and then you have deuterium, which is a proton, a neutron, and an electron. So when you add the neutron what you've done is you've doubled the size of that atom. You've doubled the mass. And so, What did I say? The ATP synthase pump is as you're you're shuttling electrons through the electron transport chain.

You're creating this proton gradient. So you're actually creating this concentration of hydrogen ions. And what really makes this thing work besides the electrons and the oxygen is this gradient. That then the hydrogen ion goes through the ATP synthase pump to drive the creation of ATP. If that hydrogen is a deuterium, and it's double the size, it's not gonna fit.

And so it will literally shear. This pump, it'll literally shear this rotary motor and that will drive mitochondrial heteroplasmy that will cause those complexes to literally shear. Like when I say sure, I say it for a reason. It will literally shear those complexes. And if this is happening over and over and over and over again, again, this is another reason that this is driving heteroplasmy.

And so where's the deuterium coming from? That is a very long discussion. But what I'll tell you is. A big part of it yes, from non native EMF yes, from the blue lit microwave oven that we're in. But also this concept of food and how we can literally eat anything at any time of the day from anywhere in the world.

This is the first time this has really happened for our species up until now we have been subjected to what is in season. Locally around us, and that's really important. It's really important because of the concept of photosynthesis. Right? So we're designed to eat what is grown or lives under the sun at the same time of year as we are living in.

And so when you consume food, it literally has a barcode, like a barcode in it that your mitochondria reads. Thanks. And this actually helps to drive the mitochondria because the mitochondria is really reading the signals coming from the sun and transducing it and turning that into energy. But it's doing that for our food as well, right?

So if we're consuming food from somewhere halfway across the world and the food's not even in season. That's really confusing for our mitochondria. So, you know, we can talk about paleo and we can talk about high fat protein, low carb, all of these different things. But what we really, really need to understand is that.

What do we need to eat? Well, we need to look at where we live, where are we from and what food is in season. And that's what we need to focus on eating because that's what our cells, that's what our mitochondria are designed to eat. That is how we've gotten to where we're at today. It is just that simple, guys.

And then that leads into a whole discussion on the microbiome. I mean, let's be honest. The microbiome is sculpted by light. Okay? So, I'm sorry, don't sit there and tell me that autism is caused by a problem in the gut. You will find gut dysfunction across the board in spectrum disorders. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't address it.

I'm not saying that probiotics are bad. I'm not saying detoxes are bad. All that's good, but if we don't understand how light impacts our microbiome and how light impacts the enterocytes on the gut lining, we've missed the story. So just to give you a little bit of a, a big picture, a review of that.

We need to understand that bacteria in our microbiome, that prokaryotic cell, that actually produces about 5, 000 times the amount of light as your eukaryotic cells. That's huge. That's actually a big deal. Why does that matter? Well, that matters because what did I say about DHA earlier, docosahexaenoic acid?

And I've been, I've been prescribing high doses of DHA for my patients since I graduated because I understood this part. I didn't understand it to the same degree that I understand it now, but I understood this DHA. I'll say it again. DHA is what takes light. Okay. It takes light and it converts it into a DC electric current.

And again, I'll reference, you need to read Dr. Becker's book, The Body Electric, to understand the full context of why that's important. Without that, we wouldn't have the brain that we have. Without that, we wouldn't have the heart that we have. Without that, we wouldn't have the gut that we have, right? We would not be the species that we are today.

Without that DC electric current being produced by DHA in driving all of this, this, you know, high level, for lack of better words, evolution in our bodies. So in the gut, where do you find DHA? You find it in the enterocyte, the enterocyte, the lining of the gut, right? So what do we see with chronic inflammation in the gut?

We see a breakdown in the gut lining. Okay. We see autoimmunity start to develop. We see things like zonulin antibodies and all of these things start to go crazy. And if, if you're not understanding the big picture it's very easy to get lost in the weeds, very easy to get lost in the weeds and focus in on, Oh, well, let's run the food sensitivity panel and, and let's just avoid those foods and let's take these supplements.

And again, it's not a bad thing. If, if you do have several food intolerances, You need to be aware of it. And yes, let's avoid them, but let's also be input. Let's also be practicing these other strategies that I'm going to talk about to fix the light and to fix the actual problem going on. Right.

So let's reduce the stressor by eliminating those foods and by doing all those things, but let's really understand what the problem is. Right. So, our enterocytes need that light. Our microbiome is sculpted by the light and that's what drives the regenerative capacity of the gut. That's what modulates the inflammatory reactions in our gut.

That's what allows us to have the gut microbiome that we have is our exposure to light. So, where does this take us, right? We also need to understand you know, let's talk about things like ADHD. A lot of, I don't know if it's still being discussed today, but when I was going through a lot of my fellowship training, everyone was focused on the dopamine story with ADHD.

And yeah, there's, there's several discussions to have with dopamine in regards to ADHD and then other mental health disorders. But we need to know what really makes these neurochemicals. So again, we'll go back to the eyes, right? So we have the central retinal pathway. And when it's stimulated with the right kind of light at the right time of day, we actually produce things like dopamine.

And we actually produce them in the correct quantities. And we actually produce our serotonin. We actually produce and modulate our histamine pathways and all of these different things that I could go on and on and on about. We also get melatonin. Melatonin is actually Produced by light and then expressed at night, right?

So it's actually expressed when we're in complete darkness. So if we don't have proper light exposure during the day, we actually don't get a proper expression of melatonin at night. And so what do you get? You get insomnia, right? You get sleeping problems and then that turns into anxiety and depression and all these other things.

Gut problems, right? Anyway, so how do we fix it, right? What do we need to do? What are some simple strategies that we can start to take in order to really start to address the mitochondrial heteroplasmy story, the neural crest cell migration story, really start to bring order and structure back into this whole process that's driving us in the wrong direction as a society, driving chronic conditions, autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, autoimmunity, chronic pain, mental health issues, you name it.

Well, we need to understand. That all those neurochemicals, all of those things are really, really, really based on the timing of sunrise and sunset, and It's very important to understand that as the sun is rising, we need to be outside. We really need our eyeballs exposed to this early morning sunrise. Even if it's just five minutes a day, but, you know, ideally 10, 15, maybe even 20 minutes.

And you don't have to be staring directly at the sun. I would say face the east, like as the sun's rising. But you know, even if it's a cloudy day, you're still getting the proper wavelengths of light that are coming in. Hitting your eyes and I just said proper wavelengths, what's, what kind of wavelengths are coming in at that point in time?

Guess what? Blue light. Cause that's when we're designed to have blue light, but what is it coupled with? It's coupled with red light. So at that time of day, you have the highest amount of blue light and you, it's coupled with an equal amount of red light and there's little to no UV light. Well, why is there a little to no UV light?

Well, what happens in the mitochondria when we get exposure of UV light? Is we actually produce nitric oxide and nitric oxide then actually reduces our mitochondrial capacity. So it actually reduces our mitochondrial energy production. It downregulates it. Well, what time of day do we have the most UV light?

Well, as that sun setting, we're getting this UV light and what's that doing? That's actually preparing us for bed. So timing is so important, but so that early morning sunrise, you know, you're getting the blue light to wake things up. You're getting, it's coupled with the red light because we have to have the red with the blue.

So, we don't want to just, it's like staring at a screen. We can't just stare at a screen. There's no red light there. It's going to be deleterious. That's going to set in motion a whole circadian you know, biological cascade of events. That's going to set you up for success. That's going to help your brain function.

Your gut function is going to help you sleep. It's going to reduce your pain is going to help you think better. It's going to help you move better. All of those things, right? Now, what else would I like for you to do? I would love for you to have some kind of cold exposure in the early part of the day.

Why? There's several different reasons. So, going back to mitochondria in the electron transport chain, what did I say we need? We need electrons. We need oxygen and we need this proton gradient and we need exclusions on water. So when we have cold thermogenesis, when we expose ourselves to cold temperatures we have to understand that we have these semiconductors all in our body, our bones largely, right?

And there's actually research on this. So if you cool a bone and other tissues too, but the research in my mind is coming up related to the bones you actually produce more electrons. So what are you doing? If you have that cold exposure in the day, you're increasing your electrons even better You're outside grounding.

You're you're barefoot. You're maybe even you're laying on the ground. I don't know You're you're in a good body of water, you know a lake or something like that absorbing electrons, right? What else did I say you need? We need oxygen because if we just front load the system with electrons well, we still need that terminal oxygen.

So that's a great time of day to do our breath work. If you do have, like, an active disease state or some kind of chronic condition. This would be a good time to do some oxygen, some supplemental oxygen but breathing techniques can be very, very effective here. I've talked about them. We've done some podcasts on various types of breathing, breathing techniques.

But this, some type of breathing that you focus more on the exhalation to increase your parasympathetic tone, to, to really get more oxygen into your small capillary beds et cetera. Right. So you have to have that oxygen. In order to do this as well. And what happens when you do all of this correctly is you start to at the atomic subatomic level, you actually start to address that chronic stress state that your cells, your being has been in.

Maybe not just for years, but for generations, right? Because what did I say? This really started back in 1879. This started with wars. It started with our with our generations long ago, having these changes in their environments. And we started to see changes in autism, changes in mental health, changes in chronic conditions, changes in autoimmunity.

And then all of a sudden, what are we seeing now? An exponential rise. And if you look at our lifestyle, if you look at where we spend most of our day, look at where your eyes are looking most of the day, how much screen time are you getting? When you go outside, are you wearing sunglasses, right? I don't want you to wear sunglasses when you go outside your eyes need to know what time of day it is.

And that's challenging for me. And even going back to, you know, my story when I was in, when, you know, I, I, I, I At some point in my life, I told this story already, but I sold everything and I moved to Costa Rica. It, now I talk about it like a sabbatical back then I thought I was retiring, whatever. It wasn't God's plan.

But my eyes were super sensitive to light. I was not in great health. I had thyroid problems like crazy, super low energy. I was just not doing great, right? What did we do? Well, we ran around naked in the jungle. We swam in the ocean pretty much every day. We were in the sun all the time. We were not on screens hardly ever, like literally, I mean, there was no internet.

I mean, we, even if we wanted to be on a screen, we couldn't which was funny cause I was trying to be a day trader and that was not very fun. Effective when you don't have internet that was anyway, so, but what happened? I remember we were leaving, we were going somewhere, probably going to go explore a beach or something and I get in the car, and I don't have my sunglasses on, and I didn't even realize I didn't have my sunglasses on until we were halfway to where we were going, and I thought, Wow, my eyes are no longer sensitive to the sun.

What's going on here? But that's what we need, right? We need our eyes to be exposed to the sun. We need our skin to be exposed to the sun. When we're out side doing all of this work, you know, and again, it doesn't have to be like for hours at a time, but we need that early morning exposure. With as much skin exposure to the sun as possible.

And then we need that midday exposure because our brain needs to know what time of day it is. In that midday, we have increased in far infrared lights. We have it in far infrared wavelengths. It's a different type of light exposure then, which carries its own type of healing benefits. And then in the evening, as the sun is setting, We need to, again, go outside, be exposed to those types of wavelengths.

Again, those wavelengths are getting us ready for bed. They're downregulating things, upregulating other things. And again, as, you know, little clothing as possible. Obviously, if you live in a city, you can't be running around naked. That might cause some problems. But but, but we need to be getting as much exposure as possible.

So those are some things, again, Thanks. Early morning sunrise exposure, cold thermogenesis, preferably early in the day making sure to get outside midday, be outside end of day. When it comes to the food story and gut health, we need to understand where we live. We need to understand. Maybe not just where we live, but where and understand the seasonality of food.

We may need to eat more carbs because during the summer months, that's when crops grow, right? So we need to know what grows when. We need to eat what is seasonal when. That includes fruits, that includes vegetables. And then what happens in the winter, we start getting less of that stuff. When you start having to rely more on animal fats and those types of things.

So understanding that we need to eat what is around us and what is available to us based on the season. And you know, that is going to have a huge impact, not just on your gut health, but on your mitochondrial health. Again, think of food as another form of light. That's essentially what it is.

And it has this barcode that gets scanned every time you consume something, your mitochondria scans and it, it may go, what the heck is this man? Am I in China? What's going on? Like, no, I'm in Texas. Well, where'd this food come from? You know? That can be very destructive over time as you do that time and time again.

And here's the thing. It's not just impacting you, but it's impacting the generations to come. And I believe that's why we have this explosion in autism, autism spectrum disorders chronic health conditions of all types, mental health, chronic pain, you name it. This all relates back to this blue lit microwave oven that we're living in, driving mitochondrial heteroplasmy, influencing our neural crest cell development and migration.

We're being born with these neurological imbalances. We can address those imbalances, but again, if we don't address what's driving them, then I think we're failing. So. Thank you. That's a little bit of Crawford conjecture mixed with some legit data and literature that I would implore you to research, try and prove me wrong.

I welcome the feedback. I hope that this really has opened up your eyes. I hope that I've given you some strategies, not just some strategies, but the information behind why you need to be doing these things. I hope that you, your loved ones find this helpful. If you do, please like and share this information.

Other than that, I'll see you next time.

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