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Understanding Your Pet's Natural Circadian Rhythms Why Your Furry Friends Don't Need Sunscreen Adapted from Article By Zaid K. Dahhaj | June 27, 2025 The concept of applying sunscreen to pets represents a fundamental misunderstanding of animal biology and natural behavior. While this idea might seem caring on the surface, it reveals how disconnected we've become from understanding the innate wisdom that animals possess regarding their relationship with sunlight and natural rhythms. Animals possess an inherent understanding of their circadian needs. Watch any cat or dog, and you'll observe them naturally seeking sunlight when beneficial and retreating to shade when...

Busting the 10,000-Step Myth: Why QMT Measures What Movement Misses Hi All – Rick Cohen, M.D. For decades, the 10,000-step rule has dominated public-health messaging. It’s simple and trackable—but also misleading, context-blind, and increasingly irrelevant to modern physiology. Your body doesn’t count steps. It counts signals. Quantum Mitochondrial Tracking (QMT) exists to track those signals—and, more importantly, to guide adaptation. The Problem with 10,000 Steps 1. Not All Steps Are Equal Walking 10,000 steps on a treadmill under fluorescent light is not the same as walking barefoot outdoors at sunrise. Mitochondria, fascia, and the nervous system respond to light, breath,...

  Water as a Quantified QMT Intervention One of the biggest opportunities we have with Quantum Mitochondrial Testing (QMT) isn’t just in what we measure—it’s in how we intervene and prove the effect of those interventions. And water, as basic as it sounds, may be one of the most powerful tools we have. Why Water Matters Decades ago, researchers such as Louis-Claude Vincent and Dr. Bodo Köhler showed that you can track health—or degeneration—by measuring three parameters in urine or water: pH – acidic vs. alkaline state ORP (Oxidation–Reduction Potential) – cellular stress vs. resilience Resistance – whether energy is flowing freely or blocked When these values...

“Detox,” “drainage,” “cleanse”—the language dominates wellness marketing, yet it dissolves under even basic biological scrutiny. Over months of mapping Quantum Mitochondrial Tracking (QMT) and related protocols, a recurring theme emerged: health is not about flushing mythical sludge but about restoring the body’s native energetic coherence. 1. The Myth-Making Machine Commercial detox products promise to pull unnamed toxins from the liver, lymph or “interstitial space.” A Johns Hopkins review explains that marketed cleanses “have not been proven to rid your body of damage from excess consumption.” A landmark critical review in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics concluded that there...