Quantum Biology Travels Part 2
“One Body, Many Climates" - United Kingdom, El Salvador & Atlanta GA
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Wherever I go, the routine travels with me—but the expression of it morphs depending on land, light, temperature, tech, food, and the people around me.
Ever noticed how your energy, sleep, cravings—or even your mood—change when you travel?
Part 1 If you missed it
This is part 2 of my travel series, and I’m taking a more storytelling approach this time. Less textbook, more real life — but the science is still there. We’re talking light, grounding, location physics, and how I live a “quantum-informed” day in Leeds (UK), Wales, El Salvador, and Atlanta (GA).
You’ll learn:
⚡ How I use the sunrise to reset my biology after flying
🌿 What grounding really does (with peer-reviewed links)
✈️ Why jet lag is a kind of time distortion — and how to repay the “time debt”
🔥 My routine: light, movement, food, cold, and heat — adapted for each spot
📱 Why I never look at my phone first thing, and what I do instead
☕ Plus, a note on quitting coffee, hydrogen water, why I don’t use methylene blue, my funky lab result and my current 9-day fast experiment
I also reflect on how different locations — even within the same country — feel like different planets when viewed through the lens of light, magnetism, and charge.
This is for anyone who:
Wants to see how quantum biology plays out in real life—not theory.
Travels and wants to stay adapted.
Just wants to be a little weirder, healthier, and happier in the real world.
Here’s where we go:
Leeds, England UK 56th latitude – where I live and can control a lot of my environment
South Wales, UK 50th latitude– 600-year-old churches, and swims in the buff near quicksand.
Atlanta, USA 35th latitude – forest vibes, Cosmic Towser, a sauna in the yard, and why American light pollution is a sleep killer.
El Salvador 13th Latitude– tropical fruit, waterfalls, and why constant heat isn’t always healing.
Back In The USA
I do look at my statistics across all my social media, and I know that about 50% of my audience is in the US. America is a popular place to visit, and I view each state—and even areas within each state—as almost like their own country. Texas was once a country in its own right, some trivia for non-American readers.
The holiday (or vacation) habits do vary quite a bit in the UK vs the US as the Brits are the nation who go abroad the most.
It is often said that only 10% of Americans have passports, but that has not been true for more than 20 years. It's more like 40–50% now.
I have arrived in the US, so in "American mode". For the flight, I drank hydrogen water before I left and had an Axiom hydrogen tablet on the plane. I was in a fasted state for 24 hours in this photo (Day 1 of 9 as I decided to carry on the fast for as long as I can). The vaping room in Manchester Airport is open air so I could get real sunlight before my flight. I don’t use methylene blue anymore as I have found it doesn’t agree with my gut, so I looked into this and it does kill a very important Bacillus in the gut. I have nothing against MB as it can be beneficial for some people, it just never really ‘did it’ for me.
I got my friend’s son some bath ducks, but my god daughter (his brother) has laid claim to all the ducks I brought.
The Weather App & British People Always Talking About the Weather
I do look at the weather app a lot—for the UK and many other locations around the globe. I have countless times had to look up the latitude, sunrise, UVI, and sunset in pretty much all states and countries, as I speak to people and clients from all over the world daily. I need to get a handle on their location if it is a place I haven’t visited.
The humble weather app will tell you the sunrise, sunset, UVI index, and several other things like wind speed, humidity, and air quality.
The MyCircadian App has a lot more features than the weather app or D minder so I find this app to be the most helpful for circadian health.
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Why Do We Need to Know?
The sunrise is when the first rays of light come over the horizon. Even if you don’t actually see it—because of trees or buildings—the light information will still reach you. It's better if you can get the sunrise rays in your eyes, or "eat the sun" as I sometimes say, be grounded and naked (if possible). But this may not be practical where you live, especially if you have neighbours.
When you travel to a new location, it is very important to see the sunrise at the soonest opportunity to orient your brain and body to the new location on the planet. Our biology is designed for us to walk and run, so taking a plane is literally like teleportation to your biology—it becomes confused during the flight and for several days after landing. There are time distortions on more than one level. In some ways, you "stole" time to jet to a location, so you have to pay back the "time debt".
What If I Get Up Before Sunrise?
There is a period of about 40 minutes called daybreak before sunrise, where there is a lot of healthy, natural blue light from the sun, and there is enough light to potter about and get things done without turning on artificial light. You can also go outside and do some grounding.
Grounding or Earthing
The simplest way to put it: we weren’t born with shoes on. We are designed to stand on the earth or sand barefoot and be outside. It is very good for your foot mechanics to walk barefoot and not have your foot caged in a shoe all day. There are several publications on the health benefits of grounding:
There are many ways to explain what grounding is and why it’s good for us—from "gathering electrons", discharging positive charge, and being part of the "fractality" of the world.
The Sun Is A LOT More Than Just Sunlight
The sun makes more than just light; there is a constant stream of ions coming from the sun, including hydrogen, as we do live in an electric universe. The Birkeland currents stream from the sun and other celestial bodies, connecting stars, planets, and moons—so it's another aspect of "everything is connected". These currents connect Earth’s magnetosphere to the ionosphere. Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917) was ridiculed for his ideas and for saying that space was not empty.
Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), a Swedish plasma physicist, carried on Birkeland’s work and won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in magnetohydrodynamics. He discovered Alfvén waves and contributed significantly to the understanding of plasma phenomena such as aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, and magnetic storms affecting Earth’s magnetic field.
The sun also makes sound waves, which are as loud as a rock concert, but outside our hearing range—so we don’t notice them.
My point is: we evolved in all this natural light (sunlight is a phase-conjugated pump wave, something artificial lights are not), magnetism, electric fields, acoustic waves, and natural plasma that exists outdoors. This blend of electromagnetism or charge varies from location to location on Earth. Many people talk only about sunlight and grounding, not all the other "outdoor physics".
In the context of jet lag: plants know where they are on the planet because they are rooted to it and always grounded. By grounding, you are informing your brain where you are in relation to the sun. The brain always wants to know which way is up, where am I, where is my head in relation to my body, and where exactly in space are all the joints and muscles. It can compute all this for you. The closer you are to the Earth’s magnetic field, the better. Shoes are fine. Being high up or in an aeroplane means you are away from the Earth’s magnetism.
I also like to learn about the wildlife in different places, as I can relate to people who live in areas with sea snakes, alligators, scorpions, and other creatures that hide in the grass or water—ready to bite when you want to swim or ground.
Quick Summary When You Travel
See the sunrise before you leave.
Spend as much time outside before your flight.
When you arrive, find somewhere to ground.
Even better—find a place to swim outdoors, like the sea or a lake. Lucky you if you booked a beach trip.
What I Do in Different Locations
I make sure my eyes see natural light first when I wake up, not my phone, as the light information that comes from a device is similar to that of 12 noon in summer. This is very confusing for your body, and I have said many times, biology doesn’t like surprises, as a lot of our wiring is based on prediction. Your SCN is your master clock in your body, and it is located behind your eyes. I also always go outside.
Leeds, UK 55th Latitude
I can do what I want in my own house, so I control the lights, the food, the water, the electricity, and when I can go out.
I have an Axiom hydrogen machine in my home in Leeds, and I gave my Hydorfix to my parents.
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In Leeds, I have to walk 15 minutes up a hill to see the sun come up, and on this walk, there are three old churches on a ley line, so I have places I can go to meditate or do my a.m. ceremonies. There are also lots of trees and railings, so I do my mobility work, and I can stretch all important muscles, do some hanging, side bends, back bends, forward bends—so it’s basically a full-body workout. I also do the Tibetan 5 Rites. My walk is usually about 60–75 minutes. The sunrise is at 4.30 am mid midsummer so I still see that when I can. If I am very tired, then I do on occasions in mid June miss the sunrise.
Breakfast
If I am not fasting, then I have a glass of hydrogen water before breakfast, which is usually steak tartare, and then if there are plants in season that I can pick or collect from the farmers’ market, I sometimes have those. At the moment, there are plenty of tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, and carrots. I don’t eat meat with fruit, as there is a haemochromatosis SNP in my family, and I like to keep my ferritin below 50. I have a vitality shot sometimes after breakfast.
I used to have coffee, but I recently quit to do Dr Darko’s protocol, and it also makes me a bit wired and irritated now. I am doing a 9-day fast too, as suggested by Dr Darko, and I am 100 hours into the fast now. I have half written my fasting post, as this time I am experimenting with things such as compounds, different types of sauna and more to improve autophagy—so you can read all about that when I post ‘Extended Fast: 9 Days of Healing or Hell?’ in a few days
Cold
The mornings are cold or cool, and there is a lake that I like to swim in before 7.30 a.m., close to my home. I don’t go swimming in the lake when it is below 10 degrees C. I go to the gym on the way home if I am really cold, to warm up. The gym opens the back doors, lets me use the studio with the lights off, and lets me use my Bon Charge Mini.
Sauna
I have a membership to Hollins Hall, which also has a huge golf course and the hottest and best sauna in Leeds. Due to travel, I often suspend my membership, so I do not have saunas all the time. If I do, it’s two times per week, as it’s a 30-minute drive and I am not a fan of driving these days. My car is a 2010-plate Yaris with only a radio, so not bad for nnEMFs, and I always drive with the windows open and my phone off.
Wales, UK 50th Latitude
Sunrise Routine
My parents live in a very rural area with low nnEMFs, and they have solar panels, but away from the house on the garage roof. They sometimes switch the Wi-Fi off at night, but the connection they have is rubbish, so the Wi-Fi signal upstairs is weak. In my home in Leeds, my Wi-Fi box is 20 years old, so it suits me fine, but my neighbours have newer, more powerful boxes. I don’t watch TV, so I don’t have a satellite. My next-door neighbour listens to my IG Lives, so she is mindful of Wi-Fi and tech overuse, and I know she doesn’t watch TV either.
It would be a 60-minute walk down the valley and over the other side to see the sunrise at my parents’ house, something I am NOT doing when the sunrise is at 4.30 a.m. Also, I have to be mindful about crashing about in my parents’ house early in the a.m., as they don’t get up until 7.30 a.m.
As my parents live very rurally, I can be naked in their back garden/back yard before they get up. I also go for a walk too around the village and through some fields.
They live opposite a 600-year-old church, so I can go and meditate in there. There was a vicar there who lived to be 109 or older, who still, according to records, didn’t look 100 at all—more like 50—Rev Edward Pritchard, and he was friends with Sir Isaac Newton, who used to visit him. The Rev Pritchard was a polymath, so Newton and he would have had discussions about the Trinity, the aether, light, gravity, and God. Sir Isaac wouldn’t come all the way from London to see him unless it was for something important and good conversation
Food
There are lots of farm shops in Wales, and my parents have always bought food from such places, and my dad has always grown a lot of vegetables. He has several apple trees, and I gave him a Duchess of Kent and a Golden Knob. I have apple trees too, and a Golden Knob, as the name is funny—but it’s a very good tree and very hardy. Both are British breeds.
My mother is a New Zealander, so is a food-forcer, as that’s a Kiwi thing. So she buys food like the Roman army are coming for any visitors, and she is a boarder (whole other story).
So I don’t cook breakfast in my parents’ house, as I don’t want to crash about and make food smells at 6 or 6.30 a.m. So I usually eat raw prawns, scallops, and salmon for breakfast. There are lots of good oysters in the UK, but traditionally they were only available in months that contained an ‘R’ letter, which seems to still be true today, so oysters aren’t available all the time. My mum loves bananas and grapes. I have explained the local and seasonal eating to her, but she thinks it’s basically bollocks. Which is fine. I don’t eat her fruit. I occasionally raid her chocolate stash, but I gave up chocolate about nine months ago, so rarely eat it.
High-polyphenol plants are generally found near the equator or hot places like Greece or Cyprus (in the case of olives). We don’t have the UV in the UK. So there are some benefits to polyphenols in high UV, but then they can be inflammatory. Dr Darko also observed this about polyphenols, as he talked about it in his podcast.
It’s up to you what you eat, BTW.
Cold
My parents live very close to the coast, so I can swim in the sea whenever I want and have a choice of beaches. The closest to me is not a sandy beach and it has quicksand. But I still go often, as it’s a 10-minute drive and it’s usually empty, so I can swim in the buff if I want.
There are jellyfish in Wales, so I sometimes encounter them, but usually only the babies, which like to spawn close to the shore. Occasionally, a Portuguese Man O’ War jellyfish is washed up—but not often—and it’s dead. I saw real live ones in Lisbon.
British beaches used to be basically full of poo, but we still went a lot as children, so I have swum in shit before. It is much better now, as there have been a lot of campaigns to clean up the beaches in the UK and stop dogs shitting all over them and pumping raw sewage into the sea too close to the coast.
Sauna
No saunas that I know of. My dad used to have a steam and sauna at the gym in a place called Fontygary, which is the most southern point of the UK in South Wales. He doesn’t go anymore. I think I will have to get him back into that routine, as there is no reason he can’t go, even if he is 82. Seniors in Finland still go for sauna, and they have very low rates of dementia.
Atlanta 35th Latitude
Sunrise Routine
When I stay in Atlanta, I have to wait until sunrise to go out, or I will wake up the whole house, as there are alarmed doors. Then I go to the back yard, and I can do my meditation and ceremony. I can’t be fully naked as there are neighbours, but Georgia is like a giant forest, so there are plenty of trees everywhere. So technically I can be naked, as I am pretty sure nobody will see—but best not.
My friend has things in the house like Cosmic Towser, but I also bring my mini Cosmic Tower and Slim Spurling harmoniser so I have a special place where I can do my meditation at sunrise outside.
Due to lots of factors, including something called 4-phase mixing that happens at sunrise and sunset, this is the best time for manifesting or ceremonies or praying, as action at a distance and all the fun stuff that involves embedding in the large array—like remote viewing or lucid dreaming—are easier to do at sunrise or sunset.
I then talk to my friend when I am up at sunrise—so I have a quantum buddy! I still make my hydrogen mineral water using her Axiom Hydrogen machine and then ‘do my own things with the water’
This is a piezophire, phirecrystal and Vogel crystal. I sometimes use my tensor ring too as Slim collaborated with Hans Becker, who used spectroscopic analysis system, to show that the tensor ring caused water to emit ultraviolet radiation.
The same phenomenon of UV light emission from water has been found with Vogel crystals and I am currently testing Dan Winter’s phirecrystal. I am very excited to be speaking at Dan Winter’s conference in France in October 2025.
Food
I am wary of USA produce due to the farming laws, the glyphosate, and the fact that a big proportion of fruit comes from CA and FL, which are a pretty long way from Atlanta. I do like bison, beef, and venison, so there are lots of places I can get decent grassfed meat. There is also a seafood shop 10-minute walk away, and I really like crawfish. We don’t have crawfish in the UK, but we have something similar called a crayfish, and we do have prawns (shrimp in US). In the UK, shrimp are something else—like a small prawn.
There is food everywhere in Atlanta so I constantly say ‘No’ as it would be easy to gain 30lb in 30 days in Atlanta.
This time in Atlanta I am going to JAM Stunts gym to work on my back tuck and then to learn some new tumbling or tricking skills. I have done a lot of martial arts since I was 11 so I might also have some fight choreography lessons.
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Cold & Sauna
My friend has a sauna and a cold plunge. I like the sauna, but being in Atlanta in the summer is like an outdoor sauna. I use the cold plunge, but I much prefer to swim outside, as it’s fun—I can swim for 30–90 minutes and do diving breath holds as this can be useful for CO2 tolerance and superoxide bursts. I don’t dislike the cold plunge in Atlanta, but I don’t go in for extended periods.
El Salvador 13th Latitude
The day and night cycle are about 12 hours, so the sun rises and sets pretty much the same time each day all year round. When I have gone to ES, I have been able many times to go to the beach and see the sun coming up and going down, as well as have a swim or paddle in the sea. I swam for at least 30 min each day in ES and walked to the beach and back which is 50min. I often went back to the beach for sunset.
When I have stayed in the mountains, I couldn’t see the sunrise or set, so I had to wait.
I did write about the food in ES extensivley in my previous travel blog.
I was happiest with raw beef, the raw probiotic butter (I normally don’t have dairy), raw eggs, raw fish (this is served a lot in restaurants), avocados, and carrots.
I sometimes picked mangoes or papayas, and I had a few coconut waters. The most delicious thing I have ever eaten was a chia pudding from Balance in El Tunco. If you ever go you MUST try this, even if you are carnivore!
There is a place in Tamanique Waterfalls with cold water, which is actually cold. Walking about or being in ES is like having a non-stop sauna.
Sleep In All Locations
In my home in Leeds, I sleep well as I control the variables. I like doing hydrogen inhalation before bed. In Wales, my parents got blackout or dark curtains for all rooms, and like me, they have windows open in many rooms to let the fresh air in. It is easy to sleep at my parents', as the nnEMFs are low and it is quiet, and I have had lots of great sleeps.
There is a lot of light and sound pollution in Atlanta, as well as a lot of nnEMFs. The appliance size and usage is different in the US. Despite huge fuel/energy bills in the US, people still leave lights and appliances on 24/7, whereas in the UK we turn off the lights if we can. There are still annoying street lights in the UK, but the blue light is worse in the US—and even worse in El Salvador.
I don’t like air con, and I never use it in the UK, and I do not need it at night in Atlanta, as the temperature drops a lot at night. In ES, I can either have noisy nnEMF air con on at night or be far too hot. For lots of reasons, I had bad sleep both times I went to ES.
Labs 1 of 300
I run blood tests regularly and have 100s of them as I use Quest in the USA and Medichecks and Regenerus Labs in the UK. This is just a snap shot of HDL.
This was my HDL on Jan 21st 2025 before I went to El Salvador in March 2.99 mmol/L Si Units, is the equivalent of 115.6 mg/dL if you are using USA units
The bad sleep and bad bedroom environment in ES really tanked my HDL as I have found that this lipid marker is affected by sleep as well as food. I also ate a lot less fat than I normally do in ES, but I think there were additional factors in ES that caused my HDL to drop to 50 mg/dL / 1.29 mmol/L.
If you are interested in learning more about blood tests and HTMAs then it is something that we cover in my coaching group.
Places I am going to write about in future Substacks
Vietnam
New Zealand
France
Prague Czech Republic
Tennessee
North Carolina
Alaska
Greenland
Next Substacks
‘Extended Fasts + Boosting Autophagy Hacks: 9 Days of Healing or Hell?’
‘The Role Of Water In Consciousness & Water Biophysics For Better Health’
