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All 111 Vital Codex entries, newest first. Tier I is free and open to everyone; Tier II adds the full mechanisms, dosing detail, and citations.
Copper: The Mineral That Runs Complex IV — and Kills Cells When It Runs Free
Copper is the catalytic centre of the last step of the electron transport chain, yet unbound copper triggers a distinct form of mitochondrial cell death — which is why form, dose, and the zinc ratio matter more than the raw milligram number.
Melanin: The Body's Radiation Shield — and Why Biophysicists Call It a Master Molecule
Melanin's best-established frontier role is radioprotection — it absorbs photons across the spectrum, traps Compton recoil electrons, and in engineered form took mouse survival after lethal gamma exposure from roughly 12% to 100%.
The Algae Question: Spirulina, Chlorella, and What They Actually Do to Mitochondria
Spirulina is a cyanobacterium, not a plant — and the mitochondria in your cells descend from bacteria too. That shared ancestry is real biology, but it is not the same thing as proof that green powder builds ATP.
Autophagy and Mitophagy: The Cellular Recycling Protocol
Cellular recycling is real biology with strong mechanistic support and weak human measurement. Here is what the evidence actually licenses you to claim about autophagy and mitophagy — and what it does not.
Bulbar ALS: A Systems Model of Motor-Neuron Energy Failure
Bulbar-onset ALS is better read as a converging systems failure than a single-cause disease — and the practical priorities are airway, sleep, and calories before any supplement stack.
Glutathione: The Body's Master Antioxidant and Detox Molecule
Glutathione is made inside nearly every cell from three amino acids, and it sits at the center of redox balance, phase II detoxification, and mitochondrial protection.
Heavy Metals and the Body's Real Detox Pathways
Toxic metal exposure is measurable and consequential. The biology of clearance is also well characterized — which makes most of the commercial detox market unnecessary.
Histotripsy: The Sound-Wave Therapy That Could Transform Cancer Care
Histotripsy uses focused sound to create a microscopic bubble storm inside a tumor, mechanically liquefying it with no incision, no radiation, and no heat. It is already authorized for selected liver tumors — and its immune implications may matter even more.
Mitochondria and Anti-Aging: A Practical Usage Guide
Most mitochondrial "anti-aging" advice stops at mechanism. This is the operational version — what to actually take, when, at what dose, who should not, and how to tell whether any of it is working.
Red Light Therapy: What the Science Actually Shows
Red and near-infrared light has a plausible mitochondrial mechanism and real clinical evidence in specific applications — alongside a great deal of marketing that outruns the data.
Starving the Tumor: The Mitochondrial Blueprint for Metabolic Cancer Recovery
A growing research literature treats cancer as a disorder of cellular energy. This is what the mitochondrial model actually claims, which repurposed drugs and diets are being tested against it, and where the evidence still runs thin.
TP53: The Guardian of the Genome
p53 is the most frequently disrupted defense system in human cancer — here is what the preclinical literature says about strengthening, protecting, and in some cases refolding it.
Iontology: The Science of Ions and Human Health
Every heartbeat, thought, and act of repair depends on charged particles moving across membranes. Cellular voltage is not a metaphor — it is measurable, and it changes with disease.
The New Biology: How the Body Heals Itself
A converging set of fields — epigenetics, microbiome science, bioelectric medicine, polyvagal theory — reframes the body as a self-organizing system rather than a machine that breaks.
The Frequency Cure: Rife, Bioelectric Medicine, and the Return of Terrain
From Royal Rife's suppressed 1934 cancer clinic to FDA-approved tumor-treating fields and histotripsy — how bioelectricity, frequency, and terrain support are converging on a new model of healing.
What We Got Wrong About Cancer and Parasites
Cancer is not primarily a genetic disease. It is a mitochondrial power-plant failure, described in 1924, ignored for a century, and now reappearing through an unlikely door — antiparasitic drugs.
Mitochondrial Bioenergetics: The Primary Lever of Cellular Aging
Energy production is not a background process. It sets the ceiling on repair, cognition, immune response, and how well tissue tolerates load.