The Feed

For millions of years: diverse diets, hundreds of plant species, seasonal variation, nutrient density modern food can’t match. Bodies were taller. Teeth were better. Chronic disease was rare. Then, ten thousand years ago, we traded all of it for grain. The agricultural revolution brought shortened stature, dental decay, the first chronic diseases. The gut microbiome began its long simplification. Civilization was the gain. Bandwidth in the receiver was the cost.

The twentieth century accelerated this process to industrial speed. Processing strips nutrients. Preservation removes what’s alive. Transportation breaks the bioregional link between body and place. Ultra-processed food now comprises over 60% of the American diet. The body reads food as signal, and everything is frequency. Food that carries the nutrient profile and microbial signature of your bioregion is information. Food engineered for shelf life and craving is static. Fed but not nourished.

The gut contains 500 million neurons and produces 95% of the body’s serotonin. It operates semi-independently from the brain via the vagus nerve. Diverse gut flora correlates with psychological resilience and cognitive flexibility. Reduced diversity correlates with depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline. Processed food destroys that diversity, feeding harmful bacteria while starving beneficial ones. Gut inflammation crosses directly into brain inflammation through the vagal pathway. The second brain is part of the antenna, and we’ve been feeding it noise.

Water carries a parallel degradation. Gerald Pollack identified a fourth phase, EZ (exclusion zone) water, that carries charge, stores information, and is the form water takes inside living cells. You are 99% water by molecular count. Municipal treatment strips whatever structure exists: chlorine, fluoride, pressure. Fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland as calcite microcrystals. What every mystical tradition called the third eye calcifies over a lifetime of treated water, reducing the gland’s piezoelectric capacity and its sensitivity to subtle electromagnetic signal. Degrade the antenna, lose the frequency band it receives on.

A patient cured is a customer lost. A patient managed is recurring revenue. The Flexner Report of 1910 standardized medicine around pharmaceutical intervention and marginalized every other healing tradition, including the frequency-based approaches of Rife, Lakhovsky, and their lineage. What remained was a system optimized for symptom management.

SSRIs blunt emotional range rather than resolve depression. The entire frequency band of human feeling narrows. Useful in crisis, devastating as long-term architecture. Opioids created millions of dependencies on pain management that was manufactured as a market. Stimulants prescribed to developing brains treat attention deficit as a child’s pathology rather than an environmental one. Statins pathologize cholesterol, essential for brain function and hormone production, to sell one of the most prescribed drugs in history. Each intervention follows the same mechanical chain: narrow the emotional bandwidth, blunt the perceptual range, create pharmaceutical dependency that itself degrades the receiver further. Each effect causes the next.

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines.

Marcia Angell, former NEJM Editor-in-Chief

The body evolved in one electromagnetic environment and now operates in another. The Schumann resonance at 7.83 Hz was the baseline for millions of years. Alpha brain waves fall in this range. In a single century, we went from near-zero artificial EMF to saturation, millions of times more intense than your great-grandparents experienced.

The Schumann resonance is Earth’s electromagnetic heartbeat, the frequency the nervous system evolved in. Artificial EMF drowns it out. EMF exposure suppresses melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep and protects against cancer, so the pineal takes the hit from both the light and the fields. WiFi, cell signals, Bluetooth, smart meters: the body can’t escape the signal. Even sleep happens inside the cage.

Tesla envisioned energy harmonized with Earth’s resonance. What we got: centralized grids and an electromagnetic environment optimized for commerce. Every frequency choice is an architecture choice. The body’s vibratory capacity, its ability to receive signal beyond the narrow band of ordinary perception, degrades in direct proportion to the noise floor. Raise the noise, lose the signal.

These are engineering decisions. You don’t clean a radio antenna out of paranoia. You clean it because dirt degrades signal.

Every countermeasure is the polar complement of a specific degradation. Fasting reverses engineered craving, triggering autophagy where old proteins are recycled and damaged cells cleared. Every tradition that fasted understood this without the biochemistry. Silence reverses noise saturation. Grounding, bare skin on earth, discharges accumulated charge and restores electrical baseline. Whole foods carry information that processed food strips away: food that doesn’t have ingredients because it is an ingredient. Fermented foods (sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir) reintroduce the microbial diversity that industrial processing destroys. Water sourcing (spring water, filtered water, structured water) reduces pineal calcification and improves cellular hydration. EMF reduction (WiFi off at night, hardwiring where possible, airplane mode during sleep) creates pockets of the electromagnetic environment the body was designed for. Each prescription is movement along the same axis the degradation traveled, back toward the pole where the receiver functions.

The goal is conscious participation, not perfectionism. You can’t escape all of it, and trying creates its own pathology. But knowing what enters the system, choosing when possible, building resilience where you can’t: this is standard maintenance for a frequency instrument.

Every input channel to the body degraded in the same direction within the same century: toward reduced perceptual capacity and increased reactivity. Food, water, gut, electromagnetic environment, pharmaceutical intervention. Same direction, every channel. If degradation appears in one input, check every other. They all slope the same way.

Whether the convergence is emergent (incentive gradients selecting for extraction without coordination) or designed (specific agents engineering receiver suppression) doesn’t change the prescription. The parasitic model says something feeds on the output (the harvest). The institutional model says extraction systems converge on this result without coordination. Either way, the engineering response is identical: clean the inputs, restore the vibratory capacity. The receiver was built for signal the modern environment drowns out.

The 20th-century intensification is one phase of a longer cycle. The current counter-movement, organic farming, EMF awareness, psychedelic research, fasting protocols entering mainstream medicine, is the tide coming back. The degradation overreached, and the correction is already underway.