What Do We Mean by Physics?
This is where things often go wrong. For many people, physics sounds like something involving formulas and complex theories. However, in the context of health, physics means something simple: it’s about energy and the conditions in which biochemistry takes place.
You can view biochemistry as a factory full of machines. These machines can only operate when there’s power in the grid. Physics is that power. It’s the electrons and protons that provide energy, the light that drives your biological clock, the water that gives structure to your cells, and the electromagnetic field that regulates your nerve timing.
Without these basic conditions, biochemistry cannot function properly. This is precisely the layer that doctors often miss: they mainly look at numbers in your blood but not at the environment that determines why these numbers become irregular in the first place.
The Biological Clock as the Key
Every cell in your body contains a clock that determines when genes turn on or off, when your hormones rise or fall, and when your mitochondria, the energy factories of your cells, produce energy or recover.
We now know that this clock responds directly to light and darkness. Specific receptors in your eye capture the morning light and transmit a signal to your brain. This signal switches your entire system to ‘day mode’: cortisol levels rise, your digestion becomes active, and your brain awakens. As soon as it gets dark, your melatonin levels increase, and your body switches to recovery.
There’s a significant difference between sunlight and artificial light. Sunlight contains the entire spectrum, from red and infrared to blue and ultraviolet, in exactly the proportion your clock needs. Artificial light and screens often only contain peaks of blue and white, making your brain think it’s always midday. This disrupts the clock and consequently the energy factories in all your cells.
When you miss these natural signals or replace them with artificial light, your clock falls out of sync. It begins subtly with fatigue or cravings, but over time it manifests in serious conditions: from diabetes and heart disease to PCOS, Crohn’s, colitis, and psoriasis.
That’s why the biological clock is the bridge between physics and biochemistry. It’s the director that determines whether all processes in your body occur in the right sequence and at the right time.
Light, Water, and Energy
Light is thus much more than vision. It’s a daily reset for your biological clock and thereby your entire system. Morning light starts the engine, darkness enables recovery. Too much artificial light and screens in the evening undermine this balance.
Water in your cells forms a structure that helps electrons and protons move. This is the foundation of energy production. When that structure is lost, the energy flow falters and reactions stall.
Your mitochondria, the energy factories of your cells, respond to all these signals. With the right light and rhythm, they run cleanly and efficiently. Without these conditions, they produce less energy and more waste products. You feel this as fatigue and see it as inflammation.
Mitochondria and Health Issues
Mitochondria are often simply called the powerhouses of your cells. While this is true, it understates their actual role. They’re not only responsible for producing ATP, the fuel used by every cell, but also for regulating signals that determine whether a cell will grow, repair, or enter survival mode.
When mitochondria function properly, this process runs smoothly. Electrons move efficiently through the electron transport chain, oxygen is properly processed, and clean energy is produced with minimal waste products. You feel clear-headed, energetic, and resilient.
However, when mitochondria are improperly regulated, for instance due to a disrupted biological clock, artificial light, or chronic stress, things go wrong. The electron flow stalls, oxygen isn’t fully utilized, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) form. These molecules are beneficial in small quantities for signaling functions but become harmful in large amounts. Excess ROS leads to oxidative stress, damage to DNA and proteins, and a constant inflammatory stimulus.
This inflammatory state isn’t an isolated problem but a common thread in many modern diseases. While conventional medicine primarily focuses on the inflammation itself and tries to suppress it, the core issue often lies deeper: mitochondria that are no longer synchronized with the rhythm of light and dark.
Mitochondria don’t function in isolation. Their efficiency is closely tied to the biological clock. Light is the most important controlling factor in this process.
Morning light, rich in blue and red wavelengths, sets the clock in the brain and cells. The signal reaches the mitochondria and indicates that energy is needed for activity, focus, and movement. In the evening, when darkness falls and melatonin rises, mitochondria switch to recovery and repair mode.
When this rhythm is disrupted by artificial light in the evening or insufficient sunlight during the day, mitochondria become confused. They continue operating in ‘day mode’ when it’s night, or remain sluggish when energy is actually needed. The result is inefficient metabolism: less energy, more waste products, and constant pressure toward inflammation.
This explains why symptoms like fatigue or brain fog don’t disappear with more coffee or supplements. The problem isn’t a deficiency of substances, but an incorrectly regulated energy system.
The consequences of poorly functioning mitochondria and a disrupted biological clock are clearly visible in common complaints and diseases.
Brain fog: your brain is extremely dependent on a stable energy supply. Poorly functioning mitochondria in brain cells lead to concentration problems, foggy thinking, and impaired memory. Hormonal problems: hormones are regulated by signals from the biological clock and the energy supplied by mitochondria. In women, this can lead to disrupted cycles or PCOS; in men, it can lead to a decrease in testosterone and libido. Intestinal complaints: the intestinal wall cells are among the cells with the highest energy demand in the body. If mitochondria there function poorly, the intestinal wall does not recover properly, and the immune system remains active. This contributes to chronic inflammatory diseases such as Crohn’s and colitis.
Psoriasis: skin cells also follow a strict rhythm of regeneration and repair. When this rhythm is lost and mitochondria in the skin are constantly under stress, a cycle of accelerated cell division and inflammation arises, manifesting as skin complaints.
What these conditions have in common is that they don’t arise from a single biochemical defect, but from a fundamental disruption of energy and timing. Mitochondria under constant pressure produce less energy and more inflammatory signals. The biological clock running out of sync amplifies this process.
Conventional medicine often views fatigue, brain fog, PCOS, Crohn’s, colitis, or psoriasis as separate conditions with their own treatment protocols. But in reality, they share the same core problem: a body that has lost its natural rhythm and therefore can no longer properly regulate its power plants.
Once you understand this, health becomes a different story. Not a battle against isolated diseases, but a restoration of the layer that controls everything: light, rhythm, and mitochondria.
The Price of Forgetting this Layer
Look at where we stand now. More and more people suffer from chronic fatigue, sleep problems, digestive issues, skin conditions, or hormonal imbalances. Increasingly younger people are developing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Women struggle with PCOS and hormonal cycles, men lose their energy and libido, children have concentration problems. People with Crohn’s and colitis live with pain and inflammation, while psoriasis is a visible signal that the body is out of balance.
Yet conventional medicine continues to focus primarily on biochemistry. Values in your blood are pushed down with medications, but the context in which these values arise is often not restored.
Hopeful and Practical
The beautiful thing is that you can influence this physical layer yourself. It mainly requires conscious choices in your living environment.
Go outside in the morning and expose your skin and eyes to sunlight. Ensure your nights are truly dark. Drink clean and vital water. Avoid artificial light in the evening as much as possible. Allow your body rest periods so your mitochondria, the powerhouses of your cells, can do their work.
These are simple steps, but they reset your biological clock. Once that clock is correct, biochemistry naturally falls back into balance. Your energy increases, your sleep deepens, your mood improves. Conditions you may have been dealing with for years, from fatigue to PCOS, Crohn’s, colitis, or psoriasis, become manageable or significantly decrease.
