Got exposed to low level hydrogen sulfide gas today (rotten egg smell) for a couple hours.
That stuff inhibits mitochondrial respiration the same way cyanide does. In low levels it causes neuropsychiatric issues - in my case, it made me tired as hell and a little negative and dropped my blood pressure too low. My daughter was fine, Dr. Lana my wife got really critical and hopeless, and my six-year-old son got depressed in a way I have never seen. In higher doses, hydrogen sulfide kills you, and it is used for suicide in Japan.
Different people have different mitochondria and respond to different environmental inputs differently.
To recover quickly, I took a handful of mitochondrial enhancers – it helps that I manufacture some of them – along with a source of nitrate, which is the antidote. And I went for hard-core oxygen therapy, which is another antidote.
If I was not a biohacker, I would have just assumed that this was a "bad day" and that I was just "tired". None of that is accurate – I was actually poisoned so that my body could not make enough electrons to support my normal energy level, and it manifested itself in my brain because the brain sucks the most energy.
In other words, there was no moral failing and this was not a willpower issue. It's liberating to understand what's really happening instead of blaming yourself.
By now, you're probably wondering how we got exposed.
Are you ready?
It came from rotting seaweed we were exposed to while learning to kayak.
Believe it or not, H2SO4 gas from seaweed has killed wild animals before.
I'm having so much fun writing the new book about mitochondria for you. It's getting harder and harder to find things that are *not* connected to the mitochondria in our bodies. And they are so hackable!
That stuff inhibits mitochondrial respiration the same way cyanide does. In low levels it causes neuropsychiatric issues - in my case, it made me tired as hell and a little negative and dropped my blood pressure too low. My daughter was fine, Dr. Lana my wife got really critical and hopeless, and my six-year-old son got depressed in a way I have never seen. In higher doses, hydrogen sulfide kills you, and it is used for suicide in Japan.
Different people have different mitochondria and respond to different environmental inputs differently.
To recover quickly, I took a handful of mitochondrial enhancers – it helps that I manufacture some of them – along with a source of nitrate, which is the antidote. And I went for hard-core oxygen therapy, which is another antidote.
If I was not a biohacker, I would have just assumed that this was a "bad day" and that I was just "tired". None of that is accurate – I was actually poisoned so that my body could not make enough electrons to support my normal energy level, and it manifested itself in my brain because the brain sucks the most energy.
In other words, there was no moral failing and this was not a willpower issue. It's liberating to understand what's really happening instead of blaming yourself.
By now, you're probably wondering how we got exposed.
Are you ready?
It came from rotting seaweed we were exposed to while learning to kayak.
Believe it or not, H2SO4 gas from seaweed has killed wild animals before.
I'm having so much fun writing the new book about mitochondria for you. It's getting harder and harder to find things that are *not* connected to the mitochondria in our bodies. And they are so hackable!
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