
POMC arose over 500 million years ago by an insertion of the melanocortin sequences into a prepro-endorphin gene. Evidence for this comes from structural identities with other opioid precursors in both the NH2- and COOH-terminal regions of POMC.
The phenomena of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) as a hormone precursor emerged gradually over time as observations slowly filled in pieces of the puzzle. Long before the concept of hormone precursors was realized, the bronzed skin color described by Addison in his patient with adrenal insufficiency (“melasma suprarenale”) gave perhaps the first hints of a connection between the hypothalamic, pituitary, adrenal (HPA) axis and skin color. A similar link between the pituitary and pigmentation came from the studies of Allen in 1916 and Smith in 1916 who both noted that immersing tadpoles in pituitary extract made their skins darker. In humans too, large doses of porcine pituitary extract also appeared to cause pigmentation in 1954, with this active extract of the pars intermedia of the pituitary henceforth termed “melanocyte stimulating hormone” or MSH.
In 1932, Cushing extended his clinical reports of a polyglandular syndrome caused by basophilic adenomas of the pituitary by linking this finding with adrenal hyperactivity. In the 1930s, work by Ingle and Kendall in the 1930s showed that administration of large amounts of “cortin,” a purified adrenal extract, produced atrophy of the adrenal cortex in rats. Importantly, they found that administration of the “adrenotropic principle” of the anterior pituitary was effective in preventing adrenal cortical regression following treatment with cortin. The first hints of a behavioral angle to POMC biology came from studies by Ferrari in the 1950s, when “stretching-yawning syndrome,” a bizarre crisis of muscular tone, occurred following central administration of MSH. Many other studies assessing the effects of central α-MSH on motivational processes followed, but it was not until 1976 that Panskepp observed for the first time that this peptide decreased food intake using light alone. What else might POMC do in a modern world run by artificial light now? Today, you get to see another perspective centralized science missed.
Viewed from the comfort and assured knowledge of the modern centralized molecular world, these observations and interventions could be considered overtly simplistic. However, I believe that these classic decentralized observations should be regarded as essential building core evolutionary building blocks, not only for our understanding of POMC peptide processing, but also for the work which subsequently tied together these seemingly diverse peptides.
Is this why did I had a ubiquitnation & mitochondrial series before the Quantum Engineering series on Patreon?
Yep.
In mammals, a master clock localized in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus synchronizes cellular clocks in other central nervous and peripheral tissues with each other and with external time. At the molecular level, these clocks are based on an interregulatory network of clock genes, including the 3 Period genes (Per1–3), that control circadian rhythms (CRs) by rhythmic orchestration of 5–10% of the cellular transcriptome in a post translational tissue-specific manner. CRs time stamp genes after they are translated and cause diseases. I relayed this last month to the government of El Salvador in a speech I gave there.
Transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL) is a cellular model for explaining circadian rhythms in behavior and physiology. Widely conserved across species, the TTFL is auto-regulatory, in which transcription of clock genes is regulated by their own protein products. Rev-erba is one and so is NF-kappa beta.
THIS IMPLIES TIME STAMPING CAUSES CHRONIC NEOLITHIC DISEASES.
What can we use as an example to see if light stress on out largest organ causes diseases below?
I posted the video above to show you how centralized edicational materials still miss the obvious elephant in the room. The lights used in surgery can cause the problem. the lights on laparascopic cameras are all high intensity blue lights, and it is already well know that other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum used in medicine can cause this problem without any previous surgery. Look at the picture below that I lifted from the video to show you how their own video on this topic misses the elephant in the room on adhesions. I even mentioned this to Huberman during my podcast when I told him everytime I open a skull I now worry about what I am doing because of my understanding.
Have you ever heard of adhesions of the gut?
Abdominal adhesions commonly form after intra-abdominal surgery, radiation, and inflammatory processes in humans. In a subset of patients, adhesions lead to problematic symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating, and bowel obstruction. The mechanisms of adhesiogenesis are not well understood by centralized science but are believed to involve mesothelial surface disruption with subsequent fibrinocoagulative and inflammatory signaling processes. I believe the reason centralized science has missed the boat on adhesions is because aberent light causes it. It is a biophysical disease at its core. Melanin in your omentum is a big deal to the gut clocks below. The melanin in the omentum links to the POMC genes in the skin of the rectus sheets on your abdomen.
WHAT ARE ADHESIONS?
Abdominal adhesions are fibrous bands that span two or more intra-abdominal organs and/or the inner abdominal wall (i.e. peritoneal membrane) which typically form after abdominal surgery. Adhesions may also form secondary to inflammatory conditions of the abdomen in the absence of prior abdominal surgery or as a sequela of abdomino-pelvic radiation. Although the majority of patients with intra-abdominal adhesions remain asymptomatic, a clinically significant subset of patients will develop “adhesive disease”, a symptomatic state ranging from mild and/or vague to highly distressing and even life-threatening symptoms.
Considering the fact that adhesions have no characteristic laboratory features and are not readily visible by currently available imaging methods, many cases of adhesive disease will go undiagnosed for prolonged periods of time, causing medical providers to find themselves in a diagnostic and therapeutic quandary. Patients, consequently, after extensive non-diagnostic testing and empiric treatments, may not only experience protracted symptoms and adverse medical outcomes, but can also suffer from significant emotional distress or demoralization, which in turn may be misdiagnosed as depression, anxiety, or a functional bowel disorder. This topic was going to be the headliner in 2019 in Vermont. That never happened.
WHAT IS THE LIKELY DECENTRALIZED CAUSE OF ADHESIONS?
Irradiating human skin with blue light in frequency bands that causes both type of blue light toxicity is likely the cause of abdominal adhesions. People with autoimmune conditions are at increased risk of adhesions and keloid formation on their skin. The link between all these conditions is the chronic irradiation of human skin with artificial blue light devoid of IR- A and UV frequencies with blue light. One must remember that isolated blue frequencies activates the blue light hazard in mitochondria powered by melanopsin signaling that cause pseudohypoxia in mitochondria. When will centralized medicine learn how light stress not from sunlight ruins mitochondrial biology? Melanin is a key battery in the skin and deep inside of our systems.
This type of isolated light irradiation can set up adults for epithelial cancer, myopia, low dopamine diseases, diabetes, and skin cancer as they age and their heteroplasmy rates grow larger faster as they age into adults formats. If you destroy the battery you have no energy left for health and disease is the result. Could it also be the cause of adhesions? Might this mean adhesions in the gut are a warning signal that surgeons should be paying attention to in patients?
It is for me. When i see arachnoid webs in the brain I know what it means to my patients.
Women with keloids on their cesarean scar have been found in prospective studies to have increased adhesions between the uterus and the bladder and between the uterus and the abdominal wall. This certainly supports my theory and my ideas on this topic. This is cited below.
In mammals, a master clock localized in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus synchronizes cellular clocks in other central nervous and peripheral tissues with each other and with external time. At the molecular level, these clocks are based on an interregulatory network of clock genes, including the 3 Period genes (Per1–3), that control circadian rhythms (CR) by rhythmic orchestration of 5–10% of the cellular transcriptome in a post translational tissue-specific manner. This tells us that most human disease is not DNA/RNA based, it is mitochondrial based because circadian disease phenotypes mimic those of chronic diseases in centralized healthcare. Circadian biology and oscillations time stamp genes after they are translated and cause modern chronic diseases. How does it happen in humans?
Transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL) is a cellular model for explaining circadian rhythms in behavior and physiology. It is widely conserved across ALL species, & the TTFL is auto-regulatory, in which transcription of clock genes is regulated by their own protein products. Rev-erba is one and so is NF-kappa beta. I’ve written about both of these things in the past on my blogs.
Rev-erbα, a nuclear receptor and circadian clock component, is a mediator of microglial activation and neuroinflammation in the connection between the CNS and human gut.
I believe people who get adhesions (Crohn’s, UC, SIBO patients) all have destroyed Transcription-translation feedback loop destuction due to an altered circadian mechanism. I propose that such a mechanism can be found within the molecular control of circadian rhythms and “Clock” gene biology and a lack of melanin in some key places in the spinal cord that connect the gut to the CNS.
All melanin’s can create a toxin when they breakdown in human tissue. For example, neuromelanin can reversibly bind and interact with amine containing neurotoxins, (e.g., MPTP(1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine is an organic compound. It is classified as a tetrahydropyridine.) MPTP augments their actions in the terminal, eventually leading to the instability and degeneration of melanin-containing neurons due to oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction.
In particular, a lack of neuromelanin and POMC translation by a lack of UV light appears to confer susceptibility to chemical toxicity by providing a large sink of iron-bound, heme-like structures in a pi-conjugated system. This system seemingly allows for stabilizing interactions including pi-stacking, sodium inclusion, as well as ligand binding to iron in cells. Given the progressive accumulation of neuromelanin components with aging. it seems melanin degradation corresponds with an apparent decrease in dopamine synthetic pathways in man. This raises an immediate question of whether melanin can also create or is capable of binding dopamine, the primary functional monoamine utilized in gut enterocytes and its corresponding gut neurons, should be raised by centralized research. To date, it has not been.
A number of physiological processes demonstrating circadian variation have been shown to involve ‘Clock genes’ in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which then entrains a similar set of Clock genes in peripheral tissues such as the heart, brain, spleen, lung, liver, skeletal muscle and kidney. The intrinsic time-keeping system influences activity, such as sleep, temperature regulation, rates of metabolism, immune responses, blood pressure and hormone secretion. The function and availability of mediators involved in the inflammatory response, fibrinolytic and anti-coagulation pathways are all under the tight control of the molecular Clock system. These include IL-6, PAI-1, fibrinogen, fibroblasts and TNF-α. I am making the educated guess that disruptions in the ‘Clock system’ are central to the causal pathway of adhesion formation here. I am also implying this symptom is a gateway disease to many other diseases linked to altered cellular time stamping in humans.
The transcriptomic analysis of hippocampus from Rev-erbα-/- mammals has revealed a predominant inflammatory phenotype results in mammals and it suggests it comes from a dysregulated NF-κB signaling due to circadian dysfunction at its core. When one considers that melanin derivatives are always found in pathologic specimens it is not hard to come up with this linkage.
DEEP DECENTRALIZED SCIENCE THEY ARE MISSING
The brain gut connection requires pristine circadian rhythm control to stay healthy. Loss of Rev-erbα in primary astrocytes of the spinal cord of mammals had no effect on basal activation of the neurons that innervate the gut but do potentiate the inflammatory response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In vivo, Rev-erbα-/- in a mammalian model has exhibited enhanced hippocampal neuroinflammatory responses to peripheral LPS injection, while pharmacologic activation of Rev-erbs with the small molecule agonist SR9009 suppressed LPS-induced hippocampal neuroinflammation. This explains to us how a loss of circadian control allows the LPS of the microbiome to lead to a disease phenotype just with a loss of circadian control post translationally of DNA. This means DNA alteration is not the cause of a majority of modern human disease. This is 180 degrees from the current centralized perspective.
Rev-erbα deletion due to a loss of clock gene control clearly influences gut enterocyte function and neuronal health in a coordinated fashion. When this link breaks it makes the formation of adhesions post surgically much more likely. Lab experiments done have shown when gut neurons are conditionally cultured on media from Rev-erbα-deficient primary gut-glial cultures, it exacerbates oxidative damage in cultured neurons that innervate the gut. Rev-erbα-/- mammals have not only shown gut dysfunction in these models but they also exhibited significantly altered cortical resting-state functional connectivity. This finding tells me that many central neurological diseases maybe masquarding in centralized medicine clinics as circadian diseases of the Transcription-translation feedback loop(TTFL).
One neurologic disease in particular intrigues me with its skin & gut connection is ALS. ALS patients tend not to show up in low latitudes and they tend to be quite pale because they lack UV exposure POMC requires for translation of melanin. In human ALS, abnormalities have been found in mitochondrial structure, mitochondrial respiratory chain enzymes, and mitochondrial cell death proteins indicative of some non-classical form of programmed cell death. In ALS patients this happens in the spinal cord, skin, and their gut in pulsatile fashion over timescales. This is a hint to me that it might be a disease of time stamping of the TTFL masquarading as a neurological disease.
The creation of MPTP, which is lipid-soluble, readily penetrates the blood—brain barrier and enters the brain cells. Because it is amphiphilic, it is captured into acidic organelles, mostly lysosomes, of astrocytes. MPTP itself does not appear to be toxic, but its oxidized product, 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+), is toxic. This has been linked in Parkinson’s Disease but I think it might link to ALS because the toxic MPP+ could affect defective mitochondria in neurons in the anterior motor horn from circadian rhythm damage in the gut. These malfunctioning mitochondria might contribute to neuronal death in ALS through the biophysical entity called the mitochondrial permeability pore (mPTP) activation.
The major protein components of the mPTP are enriched in mammalian motor neurons which also have abundant POMC genes. Early in the course of disease in ALS humans seem to present with mutant superoxide dismutase-1 enzymes in their mitochondria. The mitochondria in motor neurons undergo “trafficking abnormalities” which results in dramatic remodeling of mitochondria in ALS patients that results in the formation of mega-mitochondria (larger size) and coinciding with increased protein carbonyl formation and nitration of mPTP components. Anything that enlarges is a thermodynamic sign to me. In fact, lab experiments in nocturnal mammals have shown that genetic deletion of a major mPTP component called cyclophilin D which has robust effects in ALS by delaying disease onset & phenotype and extending survival of the anterior motor neurons.
When this process is disrupted the MPP+ action it appears to destroy the mPTP in a cascading manner in the spinal cord mitochondria and spreads like an infection would in the anterior motor neurons. I think the circadian disruption in the anterior motor neurons causes a paralysis like effect that we normally see in REM sleep. In ALS, the circadian disruption shows up when we are awake and it has gone unrecognized as a completely disrupted rhthym disorder because of how we perceive the disease and we have not looked at the data carefully enough. I happen to have one person with this disease who is doing something no one else has done with this diagnosis. He is improving his solar redox and improving mtDNA function by living in the tropics adjacent to a flat beach. So far he is doing a lot better than other ALS patients who aren’t paying attention to their light stamping problem. In fact, I believe some of these patients diseases are made worse when they travel outside of time zones. That seems to make the diseases more aggressive.
I think this model in mammals explains why anterior motor neurons can be destroyed in isolated fashion in the spinal cord when the circadian rhythms are disrupted in the nerves that innervate the gut but link back to their embryologic origins. The inflammatory cascade could start out in the splanchnic nerves below but as the spinal cord anterior motor neurons loses REV-erb alpha it could create an inflammatory cascade of LPS induced damage to “infect” other adjacent motor neurons by destroying their clock gene TTFL’s. This is how ALS might be progressing in these patients.
The Rev-erbα, mPTP in mitochondria, and TTFL should be thought of as as a key biophysical link between the circadian clock control and neuroinflammation in the CNS. People forget that the spinal cord is part of the CNS and so is their skin. Nerves link the gut to both.
Look more carefully at the picture above then you did in QE #47. Note the skin is on the left of the picture and it is our largest organ and it has a somatotopic organization to the ENTIRE spinal cord and to our internal organs by way of nerves.
The Quantum Enginnering #47 blog has the key metric of why the eye, skin, PVN, and DLF of the brain stem sleep and pain areas give the input into celiac plexus to cause gut problems via the microbiome. The implications of this connection are massive in many other diseases besides bipolar disorder. I told you that there and I am doubling down on it here.
WHAT DID I SAY IN QE #47 AGAIN ABOUT THIS PROCESS?
I said, “The dorsal longitudinal fasciculus (fasciculus of Schutz) is a periaqueductal (area around ventricular system Aq above) ascending and descending fiber system arising from the hypothalamus and terminating to the autonomic nuclei of the pons and the medulla, conveying autonomic fibers from the brain to the gut in humans. It also conveys pain messages and is important in the sleep pathways of humans. These are usually altered in bipolar patients as well because of a lack of melanin in these areas.
The dorsal longitudinal fasciculus is found within the dorsal brainstem tegmentum. It passes through the periaqueductal gray matter and contains both ascending and descending fibers. The ascending fibers pass from the reticular formation (sleep region/insomnia) passing to the hypothalamus thus transmitting information related to the viscera in the thorax and abdomen. THIS IS HOW THEY PASS THE ANTERIOR MOTOR HORN CELLS AND THE GUT VISCERA!
People who travel a lot across time zones or people who use a lot of blue light or nnEMF at night or day in their cities are going to have massive sleep disturbances because they lack charge density in this spot. They mimic people with mental disorders like bipolar patients because they have broken the same rules of Nature. I view insomnia as a mental disorder in my decentralized medicine framework.
This topologic neuronal surface is a critical barrier to the brain health of humans. This is the pathway where metabolic syndrome, poor sleep, and fatty liver all come from fundamentally. This pathway could be in many blogs but I left it out this detail. Why? You already thought this stuff was too hard. Why add another level of complexity with neuroanatomy?
Many of these same findings are found in diabetics, bipolar disorder, and those with sleep disorders like insomnia. Patients with bipolar disorder tend to have all these symptoms at times that vary based on how defective their FM antennae are in their eyes & brains.”
DOES ANYONE SEE THOSE LINKS NOW IN THIS BLOG IN THE SERIES?
Now, go back and look at the lipofuscin blog in this series. That chemical comes from melanin degradation and is always associated with aging and light stress. Dopamine is made in the eye several ways by sunlight and it can be made in the gut by your microbiome due to the link to melanin. People forget that bacteria release 5000 times more light than eukaryotic cells and this light is capable of making dopamine from the aromatic amino acids in the gut. This is why serotonin and phenylalanine and tyrosine are stored in the enterochromaffin system in our gut.
The more and more you look into its biology, I feel more confident in saying that light is the most powerful drug for living systems. The light release is more important than the fuel in the diet for our health outcomes because food has light information built into photosynthesis. This stimulus leads to light release to start the optical signal cascade in the gut using aromatic amino acids as the mover in the GI tract. When you are blue light/nnEMF toxic you cannot repair the gut or sleep issues at all. This is why many people get gut adhesions without having had any surgery. The same thing will be true for pain thresholds and opiate use. I can tell you this. Your gastrointestinal system will never function optimally in a circadian mismatch (melanopsin/encephalopsin dysfunction) and that will bypass however good a diet is.
The study linked below in cite 6 is a longitudinal study on TBI following college football athletes across a sports season.
•Nanopore 16S rRNA sequencing of gut microbiome reveals changes after head injury.
•Serum biomarker GFAP increased during the competitive period of the season.
•S100β and SAA blood levels were positively correlated with Eubacterium rectale.
•Gut microbiota is suggested as a future biomarker for diagnosis following head & neck injury.
The blue light hazard/nnEMF links the gut to the brain, heart, and vascular damage leading to neurodegeneration that causes protein folding issues in blue light-damaged tissues as cites 4 and 5 show. Few are making these links in diseases like adhesions and ALS.
But I am.
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