06/04/2026
Two of my favorite hyped up catch phrases. “Science backed” and “where’s the case study”. We state that kibble is “backed by science”. Non holistic dvms state “I don’t subscribe to woo magic”, in referencing herbalism or TCM. (Guess where chemotherapy came from 😉) or “show me the case study on raw feeding”. Again time and time again I’m told “you should provide the links to the case study”. Honestly there’s 6160 followers on this page… for every person pleading for help in fb groups that I drop my website to, (with free information) maybe 5 out of 15 take the time to read it. And by the time you typed it out to scold me for not providing it, you could have found them yourself. ❤️🩹
We’ve become very demanding of people’s time. We all have a role to play in this. It took me 5 hours to write an essay yesterday for my CAHP class based off of a made up scenario. It also turned out “chefs kiss 💋” if I do say so myself 😉. Those that want more free information, then we should also support those people putting it out. The “please and thank you” game. I was sent this a few weeks ago and I was trying to figure out how to use it. Lori Kushner “chefs kiss”!
I also would like to say I do not support ai. And I’ll provide why in a screenshot in the comments. Ai is great for proofreading my horrific grammar. My question was simple. “How are you up to date on evidence if you dont have access to case studies”. I digress… again. Thank you Mrs kushner. Ps… stop using ai to feed your dogs, it also can’t diagnose or cure their cancer 😫
“When you ask me for a study, you’re asking the wrong question.
I’m not saying studies are useless.
I’m saying a study cannot show you what I’m showing you.
And I want to explain exactly why.
A study takes one thing they want to test and gives it to a group of healthy people.
People with no chronic illness, no symptoms, no labs out of range, nothing wrong.
A different group gets nothing.
Then researchers measure whether the group that received the thing did better than the group that didn’t.
The measurement depends on what they are testing.
If they are testing a sleep supplement, they measure sleep scores.
If they are testing creatine, they measure strength or cognitive performance.
If they are testing iron, they measure iron levels in the blood.
But here is what none of those measurements show.
A blood test shows what is in the blood.
It does not show what is inside the cell.
What is in the blood and what is inside the cell are not the same thing.
A substance can be in the blood and never make it into the cell.
And no blood test will ever show that.
Getting from the blood into the cell requires ATP to power the transport pumps.
It requires membrane voltage to drive movement across the cell membrane.
It requires mineral gradients across the cell membrane to be intact so those pumps can function.
If ATP output is low, the transport pumps do not run.
If membrane voltage is insufficient, the transport pumps do not run.
If mineral gradients have collapsed, the transport pumps do not run.
The substance never enters the cell.
No study measures ATP output inside the cell.
No study measures membrane voltage.
No study measures whether mineral gradients across the cell membrane are intact.
No study measures redox state — whether electrons are moving through the terrain in a stable, controlled way or whether that process is breaking down.
Not one.
Not because those things don’t matter.
Because no study is designed to measure the electrical state of the body.
The only way to measure those things directly is to go inside the cell.
A biopsy.
Nobody is doing biopsies to get general health markers.
So research takes what happened in healthy people whose terrain was already working and turns that into a recommendation for everyone.
Without ever checking whether your terrain can do the same thing.
That is where research papers miss the boat.
That is what functional medicine is built on.
Studies are run.
Results are repeated.
Recommendations are formed.
Take this → get this result.
I do not work that way.
I use AI.
Not the way functional medicine uses research.
Functional medicine finds a study and applies it.
AI can hold physics, biology, and chemistry at the same time.
AI can look across an enormous number of studies simultaneously.
AI tracks how mechanisms in one discipline connect to mechanisms in another.
That means I am not limited to what one study measured.
I am looking at how ATP, redox, minerals, membrane voltage, and signaling move together as a system across every discipline at once.
That is how I identified what studies miss.
Not isolated pathways.
The whole system.
That is Terrain Mapping™.
Let me show you what that looks like with three supplements you already think you understand.
⚡️CREATINE
WHAT FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE TELLS YOU:
Studies show creatine improves strength and supports brain function.
Those results get repeated, so the recommendation becomes: take creatine to improve energy.
But notice what just happened.
“Energy” was never defined.
It is being used to describe how someone feels — stronger, more alert, less fatigued.
No one is explaining what energy actually is in the body.
WHAT TERRAIN MAPPING™ SHOWS YOU:
Energy is ATP.
ATP is made inside the mitochondria.
If ATP is not being produced, your body does not have energy — no matter what you take.
Creatine does not create ATP.
Creatine carries a phosphate group.
When ATP gets used, it becomes ADP.
Creatine donates its phosphate back to ADP to rapidly regenerate ATP.
That is creatine’s entire job.
It speeds up ATP recovery.
It does not create ATP from nothing.
So when a study shows creatine improves energy, what it is actually showing is this:
In the healthy people studied, ATP production was already running for creatine to act on.
That is not the same thing as creatine creating energy.
So you can take creatine every day and feel nothing or feel worse.
Not because creatine failed.
Because the terrain was not producing ATP at the cellular level to begin with.
The study shows the outcome in healthy people.
It does not show whether the terrain required for that outcome was working in someone who is not healthy.
⚡️MAGNESIUM
WHAT FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE TELLS YOU:
Studies show magnesium improves sleep, reduces anxiety, and supports the nervous system.
Those results are repeated across articles and practitioners, so the message becomes: take magnesium to calm your nervous system and help you sleep.
But notice what is missing.
The word “calm” is never defined.
It is used to describe how someone feels, not what is happening in the terrain.
And the study does not show what had to be working for that effect to happen.
WHAT TERRAIN MAPPING™ SHOWS YOU:
Magnesium is not a relaxation supplement.
Magnesium is a mineral — a charge carrier.
It creates and maintains electrical gradients across cell membranes.
Those gradients control whether ion channels open.
Ion channels opening and closing correctly is what allows electrical signals to fire and stop when they are supposed to.
That electrical cycling — signal on, signal off, return to baseline — is what produced what the study measured as calm and better sleep.
For magnesium to do that job, it has to get into the cell.
Getting into the cell requires ATP-dependent pumps.
Those pumps run on ATP.
If mitochondrial output is low, the pumps are slow.
Magnesium stays outside the cell.
The gradient does not get restored.
Ion channels do not gate correctly.
Signals do not complete their cycle.
Nothing changes.
If membrane voltage is already too low, magnesium cannot restore it on its own.
Voltage drives the gradient.
Without sufficient voltage, the gradient collapses regardless of how much magnesium is available.
The studies show the outcome in healthy people where the terrain was already working.
They do not show what happens when it is not.
⚡️IRON
WHAT FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE TELLS YOU:
Studies and lab ranges define iron as low, normal, or high.
Low iron is linked to anemia.
High iron is linked to overload or inflammation.
So the recommendation becomes: raise it, lower it, manage the number.
That entire approach is built from what studies and labs measure.
A number in the blood.
WHAT TERRAIN MAPPING™ SHOWS YOU:
Iron is a redox metal.
That means iron moves electrons.
Electron movement is what creates charge inside the body.
Iron does not float through the body by itself.
The body builds iron into structures called heme.
Heme is a ring that holds iron in the center so iron can move electrons safely inside enzymes.
Most of the iron in your body is inside enzymes — not blood.
Only about one percent of total body iron circulates.
The rest is inside heme enzymes, mitochondrial complexes, and muscle tissue.
This is why a blood test cannot show how well iron is functioning.
Blood can only show what is being transported — not what is being used.
For iron to enter those enzymes, the body has to build the heme ring first.
Building heme requires ATP at every step.
If ATP is low, the body cannot finish building heme — even if iron is present.
The iron has nowhere to land.
When redox is unstable, the body will not let iron switch states inside enzymes because that switching becomes unsafe.
So the terrain restricts iron.
It pulls iron out of circulation.
It stores it.
It limits how much gets absorbed.
That is not a malfunction.
That is the terrain making a precise decision: the electrical environment is not stable enough to manage iron right now, so iron does not move.
What shows up on a lab as low iron is often the terrain responding to redox instability — not a shortage of iron in your diet.
And what shows up as high ferritin is not iron overload.
Ferritin rises when the terrain is protecting itself — storing iron away from unstable pathways.
Adding more iron into that state does not fix the redox problem.
It increases reactive load in a terrain that is already restricting iron because it cannot safely handle what it already has.
The study measured a number in the blood.
It did not measure whether the terrain could build heme.
It did not measure ATP output.
It did not measure redox state.
It did not measure whether iron was landing inside any enzyme.
It could not.
That is not what studies measure.
Same pattern.
Three times.
The supplement is not the problem.
The question being asked about the supplement is the problem.
Functional medicine asks: did this change the symptom or the number?
Terrain Mapping™ asks: what has to be working in the terrain for this to work at all?
Those are not the same question.
They do not produce the same answers.
They do not produce the same results.
This is why I cannot hand you a study.
There is no study that measures ATP output, membrane voltage, redox state, and mineral gradient integrity all at once, in the same person, and tells you what that means for how the entire terrain is running.
Studies isolate.
The terrain does not work in isolation.
I built a framework using systems thinking that reads the whole terrain.
That is Terrain Mapping™.
So the next time you want to ask me for a study — ask me a better question.”
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