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Mitopapi 🧬🕊️

@Mitopapi

Aug 30, 2024 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐏𝐒𝐄𝐔𝐃𝐎𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲.

[𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞🧵]

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨

If someone tells you grounding is pseudoscience, it’s a sign that they have no idea what they are talking about.

This post is all about exploring the various health benefits that come with grounding, which is simply just touching your feet to the bare earth⚡️

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

When we ground our bare feet to the Earth, free electrons flow into our body which have the potential to neutralized positively charged free radicals.

Oxidative stress goes down, and your quality of life goes up!

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

Many of us live lifestyles full of chronic stress, in which our bodies are constantly on fight or flight mode (sympathetic)

Grounding helps enhance our rest and digest capabilities (parasympathetic)

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Cortisol (our stress hormone) is supposed to be higher in the morning and lower in the evening.

Grounding helps normalize our stress response back to what it’s supposed to be.

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫

One study found that participants who were grounded experienced statistically significant improvements in pleasant and positive moods compared to those who were not grounded.

Take that depression!

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

We need to optimize our sleep if we want our body to heal to its full capacity.

Our current environment is full of electric and light pollution.

By sleeping grounded, we can mitigate some of the damage.

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡

It has beneficial effects on:

• Blood viscosity
• Heart rate variability

Both of which are important for our CV health.

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡

I’m just going to let these study results do the talking here.

The illness in question?

Hint: we had an entire pandemic for it

Thanks for reading.

I hope you’re now motivated to go touch grass an hour a day⚡️

To silence the ignorant people that think grounding is fake, go ahead and share this post and bring more people to TEAM EARTH 🌍

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If you've tried anti-inflammatory diets, gut protocols, nervous system work, and every supplement under the sun and your brain fog STILL won't lift...

There is a self-perpetuating inflammatory loop running inside your brain between two immune cell types that most people have never even heard of.

And until you understand how it works, everything you throw at the problem is often downstream of the actual mechanism.

If this resonates with you, you're probably someone who has been through the wringer trying to figure out why your brain won't cooperate with you.

You've cleaned up the diet, worked on the gut, addressed the nervous system. And yet the cognitive symptoms, the fog, the inability to think clearly, the feeling like your brain is wading through mud, it persists.

I want to show you something that I think is going to change the way you understand neuroinflammation entirely.

This post will cover:

1. Why your brain has its own immune cells that nobody talks about (and what they do when they're activated)

2. The two cell types driving the loop and how they communicate

3. The exact signaling cascade that keeps this cycle running even after the original trigger is gone

4. How this connects to mast cell issues, chronic fatigue, post-viral syndromes, and treatment-resistant brain fog

5. The molecule your body already makes that can interrupt the loop

6. Practical steps

Let's get into it.

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Apr 2

The surveillance state is already arriving.

Most people are too comfortable to notice.

If you care about your freedom, it is very important that you read this.

Facial recognition is being rolled out across U.S. airports as you read this.

Tens of thousands of people are already walking around with microchips implanted in their hands. Brain-computer interfaces are moving into high-volume production this year.

None of this is theoretical.

The timeline is now, 2026.

TSA's PreCheck Touchless ID program is going from 15 airports to 65 by this spring. That’s more than a 4x expansion in a single rollout, and the long-term goal is to bring it to over 400 airports nationwide.

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You've cleaned up your diet.

You've worked on your gut.

You've managed your stress.

And your thyroid antibodies are STILL elevated...

I want to talk about something the mainstream thyroid conversation has been completely overlooking:

The compound is called Cordyceps sinensis.

It's a fermented fungal extract that has been studied in multiple clinical trials for both Hashimoto's and Graves' disease.

The antibody reduction numbers are significant on their own (I'll get to those), but the thing that really caught my attention is the way it interacts with the immune system, because the researchers who study it describe a "bidirectional" immune mechanism that is extremely uncommon in this area of the literature.

Quick note before the deep dive: This is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Nothing in this post should be taken as a recommendation to start, stop, or change any treatment.

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You cut the sugar. You took the antifungals. You did the "Candida cleanse."

And it worked... for a while. Then everything came back.

This is the part nobody explains to you.

Here's why Candida overgrowth resists almost everything people throw at it ↓

Most people think of Candida overgrowth as a simple infection. Something got out of control, so you kill it, and then you move on.

The problem with that line of thinking is that Candida overgrowth is a SYSTEMS problem. Your body has MULTIPLE overlapping defense systems that are supposed to keep this organism in check at all times. Your gut pH, your microbial community, your bile acids, your mucosal barrier, your immune surveillance, your hormones, your nutritional status.

Overgrowth happens when enough of those systems break down at the same time that the internal environment shifts toward a state where Candida can thrive.

And here's where it gets really important.

Once that shift happens, the dysfunction starts FEEDING ITSELF through something called feedback loops.

A feedback loop is when the output of one problem becomes the input for another problem, which then circles back and amplifies the original problem. When enough of these loops are active at the same time, they create a system that actively resists intervention.

This is why temporary improvement followed by relapse is one of the most common patterns people report with chronic Candida issues.

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They get almost no pleasure from it anymore.

And they still can't stop reaching for it.

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Most people assume addiction is about pleasure. You try something, it feels good, and you keep chasing that feeling.

That model sounds intuitive, but decades of neuroscience research tell us a very different story.

Robinson and Berridge's incentive-salience model (one of the most well-supported frameworks in addiction neuroscience) shows that "wanting" and "liking" can become completely uncoupled over time.

"Liking" runs primarily on opioid signaling in specific hedonic hotspots in the nucleus accumbens shell and ventral pallidum. Dopamine doesn't change how good something feels.

That's the hedonic impact. The part that makes something feel good in the moment.

"Wanting" runs on dopamine in mesolimbic circuits, and gets expressed through glutamate signaling in the nucleus accumbens core. That's the compulsive drive. The part that makes you reach for something even when you don't particularly enjoy it anymore.

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Two people with the exact same COMT gene.

One is calm, focused, and thriving.

The other is anxious, wired, and stuck in hypervigilance.

Same genetics. Completely different outcomes.

The reason comes down to something most are getting wrong, and it has massive implications for how you should be managing your stress, your diet, and your supplements ↓

COMT (catechol-O-methyltransferase) is responsible for over 60% of dopamine clearance in the prefrontal cortex. The Val158Met polymorphism creates roughly a 25–40% variation in enzyme efficiency, producing three phenotypes:

- Fast (Val/Val), about 25% of the population
- Intermediate (Val/Met), about 50%
- Slow (Met/Met), about 25%

The functional medicine world LOVES to label slow COMT as "the anxiety gene" and fast COMT as "the warrior gene." These labels collapse an incredibly nuanced system into bumper stickers, unfortunately.

THE INVERTED-U

Your prefrontal cortex runs on dopamine the way an engine runs on fuel.

Too little and it sputters.
Too much and it floods.

There's a sweet spot in the middle, and your COMT variant determines where you sit on that curve at baseline.

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