We Are Resistance.
Life is order. Anti-chaos. Reverse entropy.
Mammals, like plants and other terrestrial creatures, depend on the solar energy for their existence.
Whether it is by direct conduction of solar emissions through our proteinaceous semi-conductors, or by consumption of autotrophs that produce the fruits we eat.
We can conceptualize this passage of energy as the current that moves from the Sun to the Earth. Lifeforms exist and succeed by converting this continuous flow of energy into structured organisms.
Life is the manifestation of chaotic energy ordered into structures. These structures take the shape of proteins, cells, organs…all the way to the complex plant and mammalian lives we see today.
Life places conductors and converters of energy into place, such that it can harness the abundance of energy in the physical universe and order it into life.
Life is anti-entropy.
Like the load on an electrical circuit, we are the manifestation of resistance along this path of continuous energy.
In a standard tungsten filament light-bulb, the electricity that flows through the filament encounters resistance. Resistance can be thought of as brakes on the flow of electrical current. This generates heat, and eventually the filament glows red-hot. It is this glowing which is the light.
If the heat that accumulates along this filament gets too intense, the filament can break. This marks the death of the light-bulb.
This is the simple function of tungsten within the bulb. The resistance is used to generate heat & light.
We humans, as intermediaries along the path of solar energy that reaches the Sun also utilize this current through an infinitely complex network of objects with resistance. This resistance can be measured, and it is the reason why we experience electrical burns.
Similar to how the tungsten filament can overheat from the accumulation of energy, we can burn and experience severe organ damage from a high-voltage outlet.
Unless we are grounded. Grounding can mitigate the damage we experience in these accidental encounters.
Using this analogy to understand the continuity of life and our relationship to the environment around us is incredibly informative.
To live and to thrive, we need to maintain a balance between energy harvesting and structuring life without overdoing the accumulation of energy.
For example, one could make the case that obesity is a function of this mechanism gone awry. We need to maintain efficiency of energy conductance, harvesting and utilization. This has implications for many of the systems which contribute to weight gain.
Quality of the water we consume and produce in our bodies
Adequate exposure to solar energy
Adequate outlet of excess current (e.g. grounding)
Optimal mitochondrial health
When one or more of these systems begin to malfunction, we experience what mainstream medicine calls “metabolic syndrome.”
The inappropriate flow of energy through our bodies initiates a protective mechanism. Our body begins to store this “discharge” of energy as body fat.
Simultaneously shunting the excess energy away from our conductive pathways, and storing it for use in the future.
It’s quite awe-inspiring.
To borrow from Jack Kruse’s analogy…
What happens when a star becomes less efficient and starts dying? It gets bigger.
What happens when the heart becomes less energetically efficient? It gets bigger.
What happens when we become less energetically efficient? We get bigger.
Implications for Our Health
If we imagine that a beam of sunlight is a current of energy streaming towards the earth, and we as living beings are intermediaries along this path…it becomes clearer.
We need to optimize our lives in a couple of ways:
Adequate exposure and capture of energy
This is why we are seeing gurus promote sun exposure
Take in the adequate amounts of the appropriate substrates we use for metabolism and function
Adequate electrolyte intake optimizes the flow of current, as well as function of proteins (which are functionally semi-conductors)
Optimize the quality of water in our bodies
Discussion of mitochondrial water production and deuterium-depleted water intake has also become popular
Grounding. This should be self-explanatory.
Minimize our exposure to dirty electricity, alternating current and non-natural EMF
These artificial impositions on our environment dysregulate or electro-chemical balance
The more I ponder this analogy, the clearer things become.
This framework can inform what we do, how we do it, what we eat, and what we drink.
In my opinion, this is how we empower people to optimize their health.
Here are a few related articles to further one’s understanding of these processes.
Informative and interesting. I understand what you mean with "Life is anti-entropy". But as I get nearer and nearer to my eighth decade of life, entropy seems to be creeping in with increasing speed. I don't think I'm going to beat it.
Exactly. In techy terms I prefer to call it reactance instead of resistance. LIfe moves things by altering the reactance on one or both sides of a balance.
http://polistrasmill.com/2024/06/04/pits-and-spoons/