137. Extreme Biohacking: Millennial Edition with Matt Maruca

Matt Maruca

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Matt Maruca is an 18-year-old researcher, writer, vlogger, and coach of Quantum Biology, Mitochondrial Medicine, and Optimal Human Health. He is the Founder of Ra Optics, a company that makes products to help people minimize the negative sides of our modern technologies and lifestyle so that they can enjoy their many fruits. 

Matt began his health journey by becoming a vegetarian at age 8, and has since tested many allopathic drugs, “alternative" treatments, and diets, ultimately coming to find that the science of mitochondrial medicine is the first to have clearly proven that the cause of all “chronic” disease is mitochondrial dysfunction, the first cause of which is artificial light frequencies altering biologic cycles. He is currently focused on reversing this situation, as well as integrating the science with ancient Eastern wisdom.

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In this episode, our guest is Matt Maruca, Founder of Ra Optics.

At 18-years-old, Matt is, by far, the youngest guest we’ve had on the show (and possibly the world’s youngest biohacker). But don’t let his age fool you – this guy is smart. While in high school, he learned more about optimizing health than most people do in a lifetime, and he gave the machine that is his body a complete overhaul.

When you look at nature, every other species has a lifestyle that is dictated by their environment, and they are in harmony with their environment.

But humans have changed their environment, resulting in a fundamental disconnect from what they need to nourish their bodies. As a result, we are constantly pursuing the newest health trend – but the fact that they are trends, the fact that they are always changing, proves that none of them are actually the answer.

For years, Matt found himself in this trap: he chased the newest trends and diets just so that he could stop feeling like crap. He exhausted every popular food program available, but nothing worked (of course).

Then Matt really started digging in. He started following thought leaders like our friend Jack Kruse and asking big questions: How is food used in our body, on a chemical level? How does seasonal eating play into things? Geographic eating? What is light’s role in all of this? Temperature’s? What are these mitochondria things and why isn’t anyone talking about them?

It’s time to use some common sense, holla at nature, and fix the dysfunction in our bodies.

–Luke

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • What mitochondria are, how they run our cells, & why you’ll die if they aren’t doing their job
  • The fallacy of authority
  • The problem with “health trends” and fad diets
  • Struggling with migraines (once for three weeks straight)
  • How Jack Kruse, Matt’s mentor, saved his life
  • Dr. Douglas Wallace, “The Galileo of Biology”
  • How our man-made environment is damaging our bodies
  • Common sense & nature
  • How to figure out what YOU should be eating
  • Repairing mitochondrial function
  • Being homo domesticus
  • Using technology to mimic natural environments & fix our bodies
  • The cold factor & the cold thermogenesis protocol
  • Why infrared light is so cool
  • The restorative power of darkness
  • Benefits of sex & the problem with ejaculating too much
  • The sun doesn’t cause cancer – mitochondrial dysfunction does
  • Humans are the first animal to un-ground themselves & remove themselves from the sun

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