Light is Life! Do Holy Scriptures Agree with the Controversial Dr. Kruse?
All We Need is Light!
Dr. Jack Kruse is a bright man with a fiery loud temperament. He calls well-known establishment scientists (paid by grants and corporations) like Andrew Huberman fraudulent. Kruse is a polymath neurosurgeon who has turned against what he calls “centralized medicine” and the pharmaceutical cabals in Ivy league and top universities who purposefully ignore the truth about energy exchange between the human body and its environment and the metabolic impact of sunlight’s broad and balanced electromagnetic spectrum on our body’s main energy regulators through our skin and eyes. You can watch his video interviews (like the one I embedded below) or check his website. Some of his themes like “whole body physiology” and energy balance mirror what I have also discovered and shared in my three books and many Substack articles.
The key concept behind Dr. Kruse’s discovery is the crucial role of sunlight’s electromagnetic waves in adjusting our circadian rhythm, neuroendocrine system (cortisol, dopamine, melatonin, Leptin), mitochondrial health (energy and hydration levels) and growth (ILG-1, growth hormones, etc.). Even neurotransmitters like dopamine which trigger our sense of pleasure and learning can be balanced when we experience the proper exposure to sunlight. I also refer to some of these concepts in my three books.
An interesting part of Dr. Kruse’s discussions, which is an extension of the works of pioneers like Albert Szent Gyorgyi, Luc Montagnier, Robert O. Becker and Gerald Pollack, is the interaction of light (electromagnetic fields) with water to organize its meta structures, change its free electron and energy density, and its effect on the conformation of proteins that form or control living organisms (including our DNA, mitochondria, cells and receptors). And a lot of this starts with light entering our aperture to the world — namely our eyes — hitting the central retinal pathway, interacting with carotenoids like Beta-carotene (retinol, precursor to Vitamin A) and lutein, and regulating our pituitary gland, hormones and melatonin production. Vitamin A is in fact a master regulator of the human body’s circadian clock and metabolism. Yet UV light alone (without the balancing IR) downregulates mitochondrial activity and energy production in the human body. Similarly, the blue portion of the light spectrum, only when balanced by the red portion, leads to proper mitochondrial health and circadian hormonal production. Blue lights in light bulbs are harmful to our endocrine health and circadian rhythm. And slow mitochondria means slow metabolism, which Dr. Kruse believes is a key contributor to obesity and metabolic disease in modern humans.
What makes Dr. Kruse’s discoveries interesting is the use of the word “light” in many Holy scriptures as the conveyor of life and goodness (health and energy) on earth. In the Bible, for example we have “God is light!” (1 John 1:5) or “the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, Let there be light! and there was light!” (Genesis 1:2) in reference to the origin of life and energy on the planet. More interestingly, in Matthew 6:22 we read “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light (energy). But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness (metabolic fatigue).” Now this can be interpreted as seeing what God wants us to see, but the emphasis on lamp, eyes, light, health and energy seems very much aligned with Dr. Kruse’s points about light and metabolic health.
Even more interesting, is the way the well-known “Light” verse (Surah An-Nur, verse 35) in the Muslim’s Holy scripture (Quran) specifically mentions eyes and light: “The example of God’s (life-giving) light is as there was an aperture, wherein is a Lamp (source of energy), located beyond a Glass (like lens), .. The lamp is fired by oil like that of olive tree, directed neither to west or East.” One can say the aperture is our eye’s iris, backed by a lens which collimates the southern skies’ light (neither West nor east) onto oily substances found in olive oil that generate forever energy. You may be surprised to hear that the carotenoid fraction of unprocessed extra virgin olive oil is dominated by lutein and β-carotene. Beta-carotene converts to vitamin A (retinol) which is responsible for harvesting the light’s energy and adjusting our body’s circadian (light/energy management) rhythm, which Dr. Kruse talks about. Lutein is absorbed into the macula of the eye, where together with retinol absorbs blue light and protects the macula against macular degeneration.
I find Dr. Kruse’s speeches insightful but do not agree with his minimization of the role of what he eats (drinks or smokes) on his energy. After all, food is nothing but packaged energy (electrons), as I explain in The Right Way to Eat. I also find his approach to metabolic balance and preventing the adrenal fatigue too reductionist for my taste (see Chapter 7 of my first book to understand the serious limitations of the reductionist approach) and unnecessarily complicated. I am not sure why a man who lashes out at the centralized medicine and for-hire academia, is using their same reductionist approach and research findings to understand nature, i.e., explaining the body’s energy processes through molecules like melanopsin, POMC, etc.
All together, I find Dr. Kruse a bright and courageous man who talks fast because he has a lot to say and because he thinks fast. I sense that he is driven by his conscience (rare in today’s society, which most scientists are expensive salesmen or politicians) but also by an ego bruised by arrogant establishment influencers (he does lose his temper a lot and sounds demeaning to laymen by bragging about his medical credentials and using complex scientific words that confuse average listener). I shared the following with him on twitter, which he never replied to: “@DrJackKruse shared the truth as he saw it but truth without kindness is ineffective & often ego-driven.” I used to be like him. I was referencing the following from the scriptures:
"Don't let kindness and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you'll find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man." Proverbs 3:3-4