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This is incontrovertible evidence that growing of hair is reversible and it can be pretty fast.
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>> Wow. And there's more. So, we all walk around with our biological history encoded in your hair. Like for example,
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if you have marijuana 6 months ago, it's going to be in your hair. >> I need to get a haircut. I'm joking.
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>> So, my research lab had the idea that if we could find what was happening in this
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person's life when this young hair become old, then we could understand the mechanism of the aging process.
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>> So, what is the secret to anti-aging? It's the proper allocation of energy. >> Can you can you how what's the simplest
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way you can explain that to me? >> So, first energy is real and it's the difference between feeling like you can
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change the world or feeling completely drained and a lot of people live on that end of the spectrum and it's because
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there's a finite energy budget with a hierarchy of energy needs in the body. For example, we did an experiment
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because we wanted to know how much energy does it cost to worry about the future, to ruminate about yesterday. And
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we found that the stress hormone increased energy expenditure by 60%. Right? So, it needs to steal energy from
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some of the things that keep you young. So, it's not the stress that burns us down, it's the response to stress. And
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the third piece is this energy is from your mitochondria. And there's about 5,000 trillion mitochondria in your
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body. And so, they made our bodies possible. And they can change how you feel. Well, I read that studies on
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brains of dead people have found that those with greater sense of purpose have more efficient mitochondria.
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>> Yes, we are really in service of the mitochondria. They allow us to be alive.
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>> Okay, I've got so many questions for you based on what people wanted to know.
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It's like how patients with me, chronic fatigue or long COVID safely rehabilitate their mitochondria? What I
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consume, how does that impact the efficiency of the energy? if red light therapy impacts mitochondria and is
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there anything I can do to have more energy available? But before that, I've heard you say that most diseases or
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disorders can be explained by understanding energy resistance. >> Yeah, we think there's increased energy
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resistance in cancer than Alzheimer's. Like fundamentally, diabetes is a disease of energy resistance.
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>> So, is there anything I can do? >> There is. So you can start by