Fascinating reading some of Dr Bruce Hoffman’s work this week on cell danger response and healing. Much of it is pretty complex but I liked his advice about diet and eating seasonally:
Food carries the light signature of its season. Aligning your diet with nature’s cycles restores metabolic harmony… and gives your mitochondria the signal they need to function optimally.
When your food, environment, and biology are synchronized, healing becomes possible.
In other words, he is proposing that eating seasonally affects the signalling process in our mitochondria – the energy ‘batteries’ if you like in each cell. He goes on to explain more:
Food as Light Code
In the 1970s, German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp discovered that all living cells emit ultra-weak light; biophotons. These emissions are biologically active and highly coherent. Popp showed that fresh, organic, seasonal food emits higher levels of biophotons, while ultra-processed, irradiated, or long-shelf-life foods emit incoherent or no light at all.
Biophotons are the language your cells speak. They guide DNA transcription, redox regulation, and mitochondrial signaling. When you eat local, seasonal food, ripened under your local sun, you ingest light that’s encoded for your specific latitude, time, and circadian rhythm.
Dead food = dead signal. It may deliver calories, but not meaningful cellular instruction that your mitochondria depend on.
Fascinating. Although I do wonder how people would do it if they live in the desert or not very agricultural regions, or if they have very restricted diets – although we may be the very people who need to do it the most!
You can read his whole article on it in his newsletter – sadly I can’t find a link to how to join it! I get it through his Facebook page here.
There’s also an excellent article here from him on it:
The Mitochondria: The Gatekeepers of Life and Death
So, if we want to be well or heal, maybe we should all be eating (growing?) local, seasonal food more than we are? It’s so tempting just to order what you normally do from the supermarket, isn’t it?
Food for thought. Literally.