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Nick Lane

British biochemist and writerWikipedia

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Nov 9, 2026

Ryan AndersonHOST
64:24
Yeah.
Ryan AndersonHOST
64:24
Yeah, I've had Nick Lane and Michael Levin and I was thinking that you and Bob Fosbury and Scott should speak to them because they're so good at cross-pollinating ideas and interdisciplinary thinking and they're working on mitochondria on deep levels as biologists and chemists.
Ryan AndersonHOST
64:39
And so it would be really cool to connect all of you if you aren't already connected to them.
Glen JefferyGUEST
64:43
Well, you know, Nick Lane and I are technically in the same college.
Glen JefferyGUEST
64:47
That's
Ryan AndersonHOST
64:47
awesome.
Michael EadesGUEST
28:31
Something we absolutely want to do, you can do it by exercise, and actually you can do it by eating right, because you want to increase mitochondrial biosynthesis.
Michael EadesGUEST
28:39
We recently know that from a great paper by Nick Lane.
Michael EadesGUEST
28:41
is it's been shown that antioxidants lower the ROS leak.
Michael EadesGUEST
28:46
At the same time, they decrease the amount of mitochondrial DNA, and they decrease ATP synthesis.
Melanie ChallengerGUEST
40:48
So, and yet we are completely continuous with the environment.
Melanie ChallengerGUEST
40:54
We, you know, we are mirrors of the earth in many ways, as my colleague Nick Lane often says, you know, that we mirror the kind of chemistry of the earth that we came from.
Melanie ChallengerGUEST
41:05
We are never, we're not, you know, we are individuals, you know, we are biological individuals, but we're not independent of the rest of the living world life is an open system it requires a constant communication with the world from which we came so that's the first thing so we are you know we are Individually discontinuous and in other ways completely continuous with the cosmos, which is very beautiful.
Melanie ChallengerGUEST
41:33
I find that a very beautiful idea.
Kelly WeinersmithHOST
22:38
And that appears to have opened up a lot of options for like diversity of size and function.
Kelly WeinersmithHOST
22:44
And Nick Lane's book, The Vital Question, talks a lot about this.
Kelly WeinersmithHOST
22:48
But yeah, we would not be here without this symbiotic relationship.
Daniel WhitesonHOST
22:52
Now, clearly, we live in symbiosis with a lot of bacteria.

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Kelly WeinersmithHOST
29:41
Impossible question.
Kelly WeinersmithHOST
29:42
Yeah, hard to say.
Kelly WeinersmithHOST
29:44
But again, Nick Lane's book, The Vital Question, I think would argue that that was like, that is what you need.
Daniel WhitesonHOST
29:49
Fascinating.
Jack KruseGUEST
5:20
So this gives you this idea in the GOE that complex life could not exist without magnetism.
Jack KruseGUEST
5:28
Now, Nick Lane's books, and people who have read them, he tries to make the case that oxygen was the cause.
Jack KruseGUEST
5:35
The problem with Nick Lane's issues, he never makes the link between magnetism and oxygen.
Jack KruseGUEST
5:41
And that's really what the problem is.
Jack KruseGUEST
5:44
So under my decentralized theory, I kind of posit that the teleology of life is basically the transformation of matter inside of us.

31 MINS LATER

Jack KruseGUEST
36:24
That's how the process works.
Jack KruseGUEST
36:26
And...
Jack KruseGUEST
36:27
When you realize that the respiratory chain is the key to this story, any of the voltage chains on the IMM that goes away from that 30 million volt charge that Nick Lane has talked about in his books, this alters the local nuclear reorganization energy.
Kriben GovenderHOST
42:58
I mean, so how do you think...
Kriben GovenderHOST
43:01
these different microbes interact with the mitochondria because mitochondria, according to your work and Nick Laid and others, have an archaea sort of origin story.
Kriben GovenderHOST
43:13
So is there a communication between the bacteria and these ancient archaea that live within ourselves?
Jack KruseGUEST
43:19
Yeah, there's no question.
Jack KruseGUEST
43:57
580 million years ago, the Cambrian explosion comes, and what happens? In the fossil record, we have 32 phyla show up overnight.
Jack KruseGUEST
44:06
That breaks every law that Darwin ever said.
Jack KruseGUEST
44:10
So then what you have to do, because you're going after big-time dogma, you have to say, okay, what was the difference between the Cambrian time And before it, well, what's before it is a big, big, big area that Nick Lane talked about in his book, the great oxygenation event.
Jack KruseGUEST
44:31
Nick Lane blamed everything on oxygen.
Nathan SilesGUEST
66:52
It's now essential.
Nathan SilesGUEST
66:54
And what we did, me, Nick and Ryan, so Nick's a chiropractor, Ryan's a psychotherapist, and we came together, we're all from Australia.
Nathan SilesGUEST
67:01
We decided these separate fields needed to be connected.
Nathan SilesGUEST
67:04
Functional movement, biomechanics, psycho-spiritual nourishment, spirituality, psychology, and then biophysics, biochemistry, biology, they all need to come together into a unified framework of total health.
Nathan SilesGUEST
68:06
We don't have to go to the most incredible sports athletes and trainers to be able to learn how to move like an Olympian does in the water on the land however we don't have to go to the optimal biophysical place where there's zero people population density of none like i went to the solomon islands an island with two residents i think there was a couple that was the only residents on the whole island we grabbed fish straight out of the water cooked them on a flame we did all those things like yeah you can do these things but they are extreme they're not accessible to people they're not interwoven into something that people can bring into their daily life And so what we did at Biotra is we set out all the principles that everyone set before us.
Nathan SilesGUEST
68:50
All the great, great people, Ram Dass, all these great spiritual teachers, Ryan took all that whole body of work and applied it to a single practice that then wove in all of the functional movement experts from Paul Cech, who forwarded the book.
Nathan SilesGUEST
69:04
And a bunch of other guys, and I went through all of Gerald Pollack, who also wrote a forward to the book, and Jack Cruz and Nick Lane and Doug Wallace and all these guys, Robert O'Becker, all their work.
Nathan SilesGUEST
69:16
And I put all of that plus all of our own spin on this, all of our own work with our thousands and thousands of patients that we've worked with individually and together.
Mike BelkowskiHOST
5:04
And just look at some of the researchers involved.
Mike BelkowskiHOST
5:06
We have Martin Picard, who I've been following for years, but he's become very popular in the last four to six months because I think he was on, was it Andrew Huberman or was it Joe Rogan? But regardless, so we have Martin Picard, we have Nick Lane, who is another very popular author in the mitochondrial sphere, if you will.
Mike BelkowskiHOST
5:29
So both of those guys, plus others, are researchers involved in this paper.
Mike BelkowskiHOST
5:34
And the basic proposition is that mitochondria may provide one of the missing biological links connecting psychological experience, physiological stress, metabolism, cognition, emotion, and behavior.
Nathan SilesGUEST
5:09
That's when I discovered Gerald Pollack.
Nathan SilesGUEST
5:12
That's when I discovered Alexander Wunsch, Nick Lane, Doug Wallace, all these experts.
Nathan SilesGUEST
5:16
And I started researching into every single one of them.
Nathan SilesGUEST
5:19
Eventually later on over the next two to three years, I ended up subscribing to all of their private communities and newsletters.

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Nathan SilesGUEST
75:29
We've had Paul Cech and Gerald Pollack, the two geniuses, endorse the book.
Nathan SilesGUEST
75:33
They wrote forwards for it and they're happy to, they were really happy to read it and share it and love it.
Nathan SilesGUEST
75:39
And so we're standing on the shoulders of such giants, including Dr. Cruz, including Alexander Wunsch and Gerald Pollack and Doug Wallace and Nick Lane, all these amazing researchers.
Nathan SilesGUEST
75:50
We've been able to bring a lot of their knowledge to life and bring it into a practical 30 minute practice.
Planet PetersonHOST
8:24
And, you know, like Richard Dawkins is extremely famous, but, you know, he's not a chemist or anything like this.
Planet PetersonHOST
8:31
I've read one origin of life book by Nick Lane.
Planet PetersonHOST
8:34
I think his name is called Transformer.
Planet PetersonHOST
8:36
And it all went over my head.

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