Mitochondrial psychobiology,
I think,
Emerged from what used to be called psychosomatic medicine,
Right?
The psyche and the soma,
The mind and the body,
And then peripheral fields of psychoneuroimmunology,
Psychoneuroendocrinology,
And then those fields have realized for decades now that we're not going to understand how things work if we don't bring together,
You know,
The nervous system and the immune system or different parts.
So these are intrinsically interdisciplinary,
Right?
They lie at the intersection of disciplines.
And I think mitochondrial psychobiology similarly is an interdisciplinary field.
And I've tried very hard to make this not just interdisciplinary,
But a transdisciplinary science.
I think mitochondrial psychobiology has the potential to be a transdisciplinary science in the way that it transcends biology and it transcends psychology.
If we're successful at doing this,
Then we arrive at another layer of existence,
Of regulation,
Which is not the biology,
It's not the psychology,
It's another layer.
And I think that layer is energetic.
In a way than the tenets and the principles,
The basic principles for mitochondrial psychobiology are inherently transdisciplinary.
And they recognize that the basis for how the body works,
The basis for how the mind works,
Is really an underlying dance of energy.
That manifests biologically and that manifests psychologically or experientially.
So we're trying to understand what connects those,
Right?
What's the deeper truth?
The truth that's deeper than the biology,
Deeper than the experience.
And I'm getting increasingly convinced that that deeper truth is fundamentally about energy.
Very often you can't see energy.
Then you can't perceive it and sometimes you can't even measure it.
In field physics,
Physicists are very comfortable with this because most fields you cannot see and you can't quantify,
Measure it until you quantify or measure the effect that the field has on something else.
That's the gravity is a great example,
Right?
You want to know how strong gravity is.
You can try to see it,
To look at it,
Right?
You can put an instrument in it.
You cannot.
See or quantify it until you put an object into the field,
Right?
So you take a mitochondrion,
You put it in the field of gravity,
And then you let go of it,
And then you quantify,
Right?
How quickly does it fall?
And this is this movement,
Right?
It's not magic.
You can't see kind of what's pulling the mito down,
But there's a field,
It's called gravity.
It's 9.
8 meters squared,
You know,
It has a strength.
And we know this because if you bring an object in in the field and you let go of it,
Then you see the effect of the field on that object.
So I think in many ways that's what energy is and how it manifests in the body.
You see the effect of energy as a field on the organism.
