36. Jalal Khan: Circadian Biology, Mitochondria, POMC and Why You Need Sunlight for Optimal Health

Regenerative Health with Max Gulhane, MD

Dr Jalal Khan is one of Australia’s leading quantum health clinicians as well as a practicing dentist. In this fascinating conversation we cover Jalal’s thoughts on the centrality of circadian biology to health, why diet-only health paradigms lack the complete picture, role of mitochondrial dysfunction and disease, pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), melanin and much more.
TIMESTAMPS
00:01:39 What is Quantum health & circadian biology?
00:07:07 How is food just a form of light? The effect of unseasonal eating on your mitochondria
00:14:00 Why carnivore and animal based diets work: reducing deuterium
00:15:45 Dr Max: Contribution of fruit to metabolic syndrome is dependent on latitude and circadian regulation
00:21:10 Invitation for practitioners to consider the context of their patients when reversing disease
00:23:35 What is deuterium?
00:29:40 Understanding mitochondrial heteroplasmy and mitochondrial dysfunction
00:35:30 Mitochondria as environmental light sensors, the need for UV light for our biology
00:45:30 The essential role of melatonin
00:49:00 Pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) is the master regulator of energy metabolism
00:57:40 Dr Max: theme park ticket analogy of POMC and its evolutionary history
01:04:20 Melanin allows us to harvest energy from UV light
01:08:00 The incredible functions of melanin in biology
01:16:45 Reflections on the recent REGNERATE health summit, preview of upcoming Quantum Health Summit
LINKS
A mitochondrial bioenergetic etiology of disease by Dr Doug Wallace- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614529/
60 YEARS OF POMC: Regulation of feeding and energy homeostasis by α-MSH https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26939593/
Melanin, the Master Molecule by Arturo Solís Herrera- https://benthambooks.com/book/9781681086538/
Jack Kruse Series on Regenerative Health Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrv4qp8WwfQFHxy3WDCAOiy-WZiwrG2ti
Follow Dr Khan
Dr Khan’s website: https://www.k2calibre.com/
Quantum Health Summit - https://wolkifarm.com.au/product/quantum-health-summit/

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