It feels like it has been a while since I posted here. It’s simply because I’ve been learning, and this has caused me to pause and figure out how I want to direct the next few posts I share. Oh yeah, and my entire family was sick. That thankfully rarely happens, but it knocked me on my butt pretty good.

I have introduced the idea that we need light to be healthy. Light is one leg of the three-legged stool of health: light, water, and magnetism.  Light has always seemed like the easiest part to explain, maybe because it feels more tangible. We can see the sun and feel its warmth. Water and magnetism are less obvious and certainly less widely discussed.  But what I have come to understand is that magnetism may be considered the “father” of the other two. It helps determine how light and water behave and, ultimately, how our cells can use the energy they receive.  In other words, receiving sunlight is not the entire story.  Our mitochondria must still be able to turn light-derived information into usable energy. Part of that process depends on cardiolipin, a specialized fat within the inner mitochondrial membrane. Cardiolipin helps organize and stabilize the proteins of the electron-transport chain so electrons can move efficiently and the cell can make ATP. This is where the concept of a Marcus inversion comes in.

I had heard that phrase many times without fully understanding what it meant. In the simplest terms, electron transfer does not always become faster simply because more energy is available. Under certain conditions, the system can be pushed into a state in which electron transfer actually slows.  Applied to mitochondria, the concern is that electrons can become bottlenecked around Complexes I through III instead of continuing smoothly through the respiratory chain. Those electrons are more likely to leak, oxidative stress can increase, and less energy can be produced.  That is the idea that finally made something click for me: light reaching us does not automatically mean our cells can use it properly.

Within the framework discussed in the Sowing Prosperity episode, Dr. Jack Kruse: Circadian Biology Is Physics—Light, Water & Magnetism, the surrounding magnetic field helps shape the conditions under which electron transfer occurs. If that field changes, the argument is that the way our mitochondria handle light, water, and electrons changes with it.

We know from measurements that Earth’s magnetic field is neither fixed nor uniform. ESA’s Swarm satellites continuously measure its strength and direction and have documented significant regional changes, including continued weakening around the South Atlantic Anomaly.  The magnetic poles are also moving. Magnetic north has shifted away from the Canadian Arctic toward Siberia. That matters because changes in the field can affect its local direction, inclination, and intensity. Two locations can therefore receive similar sunlight while existing within different magnetic environments.  Overall, the magnetic environment surrounding us is dynamic, and the changes are not occurring equally everywhere. Certain regions are declining rapidly, while others are stable or increasing in magnetic intensity.

Light and magnetism have never been entirely separate inputs. Therefore, we need light, but we also need sufficient magnetic field strength to help determine how our bodies use the light energy they receive. 

And this is where the subject becomes deeply personal, and honestly, very conflicting.  It forces me to rethink what investing in my special-needs son’s health should look like. It brings me to the uncomfortable place where my faith, what I believe about God and His Sovereignty, what I am learning, and the reality of our lives all meet. 

For some, the implications of a weakening magnetic field where they live might be easy to ignore. Their health seems fine. There is no elephant in the room staring them in the face every day. They may be willing to acknowledge the information while still accepting the possible risk to their health because acting on it feels impractical or impossible.  But when you live with and care for a child whose biology is clearly already disrupted, how do you ignore the possibility that a different environment could do more to support their healing than anything else money can buy?

How do you take what the data is showing, consider what it might mean for your child, and then balance that against reality; your family, finances, and work?

I do not have a definitive answer for this.  It is something I pray about daily, wrestle with internally, and talk about frequently with my husband. I want to recognize what may be possible while remaining faithful to the life and responsibilities we have been given right now.  And for that reason, this post does not have a true ending.  This part of our story is still open-ended.

Hebrews 13:14 “For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. “