Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDoes Red Light Therapy Actually Work? 3 Studies, 3 Very Different Answers
Episode 290
Photobiomodulation (PBM) and low-level light therapy (LLLT) are everywhere, and so are the claims: more ATP, better recovery, fat loss, nervous syste…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
AI vs The Biological Clock: Mitochondria, Oxidative Stress & Telomeres
Episode 289
Reproductive aging isn’t just your birthday — it’s biology. In this Deep Dive, Dr. Mike Belkowski breaks down the emerging science of AI in fertility…
1 month ago
Scar Reset: Microneedling + Light + Methylene Blue (The Keloid Breakthrough)
Episode 288
Most people treat scars like an aesthetic afterthought, but hypertrophic scars and keloids are biologically active tissue: itchy, painful, stiff, inf…
1 month ago
Biohacking Isn’t a Stack — It’s a Science: The Mitochondria-First Framework That Cuts Through the Noise
Episode 287
This episode is a graduate-seminar style scholarly review of biohacking; not as a vibe or a shopping list, but as an ecosystem of claims, evidence ty…
1 month ago
The “Second Hit” After Concussion: How Methylene Blue May Protect the Brain’s Mitochondria
Episode 286
Traumatic brain injury isn’t just the impact, it’s the secondary injury cascade that follows: swelling, inflammation, oxidative overload, mitochondri…
1 month, 1 week ago
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Just Plaques — It’s a Mitophagy Breakdown (Brain Energy Failure Explained)
Episode 285
Alzheimer’s is usually framed as plaques and tangles—but this Deep Dive goes upstream: mitochondrial failure and impaired mitophagy. Dr. Mike Belkows…
1 month, 1 week ago
Your Mitochondria Are Listening: The Gut–EV–Mitochondria Axis That Controls Aging, Energy & Fertility
Episode 284
Mitochondria aren’t isolated “batteries”... they’re sensors responding to your light exposure, diet, sleep, stress, inflammation, toxins, and microbi…
1 month, 1 week ago
Stop Borrowing Energy From Tomorrow: The Science of Ergothioneine + Ginseng + Rhodiola
Episode 283
Most “energy” products are just caffeine in disguise — a short-term loan with a brutal crash. In this Deep Dive, we go beyond stimulation and into re…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Did Your Dad Contribute to Your Mitochondria? The “Spare Tire” Theory That Could Rewrite Biology
Episode 282
In this Energy Code Deep Dive, Dr. Mike Belkowski and co-host Don Bailey unpack a 2025 review in Mitochondrion that challenges one of biology’s most …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Cancer’s Hidden Engine Room: How Tumors Hijack Mitochondria to Grow, Spread, and Survive
Episode 281
In this Energy Code Deep Dive, Dr. Mike Belkowski and co-host Don Bailey unpack a striking 2025 paper by Liu and colleagues on gastrointestinal cance…
1 month, 2 weeks ago