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#147 - No. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences"

#147 - No. 1 Mitochondria Psychobiologist: "Mitochondria Create Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences"

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Martin Picard is a mitochondrial psychobiologist at Columbia
University who just won the inaugural $1.5 million Baszucki Prize
for a new theory of life. His radical claim: consciousness
doesn't just run on energy, it might actually be made of it,
generated inside your mitochondria rather than your brain.

Expect to learn why calling mitochondria "the powerhouse of the
cell" does them a disservice, how mitochondria might generate
consciousness rather than just power the brain that has it, why
some of history's most rigorous physicists ended up believing
consciousness is more fundamental than matter, how psychedelics
might work by reshaping the way energy is patterned through your
body, why grey hair can reverse itself within weeks of a
stressful period lifting, how a simple blood test might one day
predict whether you're about to have a good or bad trip, why "no
drug actually heals you" and what does instead, and much more.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 Trailer

0:02:00 What Actually Keeps You Alive (Not What You Think)

0:04:40 Why There's No Experience Without Energy Flow

0:07:11 Are You Conscious Because of Matter, or Despite It?

0:10:13 Why History's Greatest Physicists Became Idealists

0:17:17 The Doctor Who Watched Patients Come Back From Death

0:22:09 Don Hoffman and the Day the Beach Disappeared

0:24:12 What Actually Triggers a Near-Death Experience

0:24:51 You Are an Eddy in a River of Consciousness

0:31:59 Bernardo Kastrup's Idealism, Tested Live

0:33:34 Could We Scan Your Energy and Predict Your Mind?

0:39:37 Stop Calling Mitochondria "The Powerhouse"

0:40:03 Your Cells Are Basically Tiny GPUs

0:41:04 How Psychedelics Might Rewrite Your Energy Pattern

0:49:10 The Study Testing Whether Psilocybin Changes Your
Mitochondria

0:52:06 "It's Not the Drug That Heals You"0:52:38 A Blood Test
That Predicts Your Best (and Worst) Trip

0:57:27 The Psychedelic Paradox: Less Brain, More Experience

0:58:57 Aldous Huxley's "Reducing Valve" Theory of the Brain

1:02:03 "The Brain Is Overrated"

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GS Episodes Mentioned:

Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic
Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities:
https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk

Guest Links:

Columbia Faculty Profile:
https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/martin-picard-phd

Personal Website: https://www.martinpicard.energy/

X (Twitter): https://x.com/MitoPsychoBio

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IG2t_uMAAAAJ&hl=en

Mitochondrial Psychobiology Lab: https://www.picardlab.org