SuperCharged Movie Panel Q&A
Harry Massey (USA)
Executive Producer, Founder @ SuperCharged Performance
Harry Massey is the Executive Producer of the new movie SuperCharged (2016) and founder and spokesperson of SuperCharged Performance. In 2002, Massey founded NES Health Limited, a company dedicated to fostering a 21st-century system of healthcare based on the integration of physics and biology, where he invented two health-related clinical technologies: the NES miHealth and NES Provision. Harry has produced two documentary movies: The Living Matrix: The New Science of Healing (2009) and Choice Point: Align Your Purpose (2011).
Sarah Turner (USA)
Director, Founder @ SuperCharged Performance
Sarah is the co-producer and director of the movie SuperCharged” and founder and spokesperson of SuperCharged Performance. Sarah began her career as a research scientist for a number of big pharma companies including 6 years at GlaxoSmithKline, where she investigated the effect of electrostatic “charge” in the human body, and how it relates to physiological function. She has also worked as a Head of Research for a bio-energetic medicine company, conducting and overseeing small-scale trials. Sarah has a degree in Nutritional Medicine and also a master ’s degree in Neuroscience & Psychophysiology of Stress.
This panel delves into how light, particularly red and infrared, drives ATP formation
Everything is about energy. Your genome will do the things it needs to do as long as you provide it mitochondria that are condensed. When they get closer together, energy flows go up.
Summary
- Red and infrared light penetrate cells to stimulate mitochondrial chromophores, releasing electrons through the photoelectric effect to produce ATP and cellular energy. - Cold exposure improves mitochondrial efficiency by shrinking respiratory proteins, bringing them closer together to facilitate faster and more effective energy flow. - Modern LED and fluorescent lights are biologically toxic because they provide excessive blue light without the balancing infrared light naturally found in sunlight. - Biological health depends on the mitochondrial state and its interaction with the environment rather than genetics, particularly concerning UV exposure and electron density. - For high-performance athletes, cyclic ketosis helps build mitochondrial density while strategic carbohydrate refeeds support glycolytic demands and glycogen replenishment.
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SuperCharged Movie Panel Q&A Asked A Radical Question: What If Health Began With Light?
At Biohacker Summit 2016 London, Harry Massey And Sarah Turner Led A Discussion That Treated Mitochondria, Sunlight And Modern Living As A Single Story
In a conference culture often crowded with supplements, gadgets and the promise of self-optimization at the push of a button, the **SuperCharged Movie Panel Q&A** at **Biohacker Summit 2016 London** cut in another direction. The session, held on **21 May 2016 in London**, brought together the film’s executive producer **Harry Massey** and director **Sarah Turner**, alongside other voices from the biohacking world, for a conversation that was less about quick fixes than about the ancient physics of being alive.
The premise was stark. Health, the panel argued, was not merely a matter of calories, willpower or even genetics in the conventional sense. It was, again and again, a question of energy: how the body harvested it, lost it, squandered it and restored it. And if that sounded abstract, the panel made it tactile. Red light on skin. Cold water on flesh. Sun through clouds. A window cracked open in a car. Dirt on the body. Oysters on a plate.
What emerged was a worldview in which mitochondria sat at the centre of modern illness and modern possibility.
A Biology Of Light
The panel returned repeatedly to one foundational claim: cellular energy is inseparable from light. In the discussion, red and infrared light were described as biologically potent, capable of penetrating tissue and interacting with mitochondrial chromophores to drive ATP production through what speakers called the photoelectric effect.
One speaker distilled it into a line that carried the simple force of a manifesto: **“Nature provides the cure when you live in a high UV environment. Red light is designed to be present one hundred percent of the time, day and night, even if our eyes are not optimized to see it.”**
The point was not poetic but practical. Light, in this framing, was not scenery. It was input. Human beings, the panel suggested, had become estranged from the full spectrum that once shaped circadian rhythm, metabolism and resilience. Artificial light, especially the blue-heavy light of LEDs and fluorescent bulbs, was cast not as convenience but as a chronic biological stressor.
Another line from the discussion sharpened the warning: **“The antidote for blue light is always in the sun. Our modern lights have a toxic effect because they lack the balance of red and infrared light that naturally occurs in the sun to keep us healthy.”**
This was the panel’s recurring contrast: sunlight as a balanced ecological signal, modern indoor light as an incomplete and distorting imitation.
Mitochondria Over Genetics
If the contemporary wellness industry often speaks in the language of genes, ancestry and inherited predisposition, this panel pushed back. Again and again, the speakers redirected attention from the nuclear genome to the mitochondria, portraying health not as a static genetic fate but as a dynamic relationship between cellular energy systems and environment.
That relationship, they argued, depended on matching biology to place, especially in relation to UV exposure. The discussion ventured into provocative territory here, suggesting that what matters most is not abstract heredity but whether one’s mitochondrial function is suited to the environmental conditions into which one was born and in which one now lives.
The claim was summarized with unusual clarity: **“You need to understand how your mitochondria interact with the environment you were born into. Everything in biology is optical signaling, and getting your light right is what keeps you healthy.”**
It was a sweeping proposition, and the panel treated it as the hidden grammar behind health outcomes that conventional medicine too often compartmentalises.
Cold As Compression, Energy As Flow
One of the more arresting ideas in the session concerned cold exposure. Here, cold was not discussed as punishment, discipline or athletic theatre. It was framed as a physical mechanism that improves mitochondrial efficiency by shrinking respiratory proteins and bringing them closer together, making energy transfer more effective.
The language was stripped of mystique. The closer those proteins sat, the panel argued, the better energy flowed. In that sense, the appeal of cold immersion was not merely hormonal bravado but structural optimisation.
This insistence on reducing complexity to a few governing principles gave the panel much of its force. Health was repeatedly brought back to charge, spacing, electron flow and environmental alignment.
The Case Against Indoor Life
The modern interior, in this account, was not neutral. It was damaging in ways most people never noticed. The panel described indoor blue light exposure as toxic, especially when stripped of the red and infrared balance naturally present in sunlight. Several hacks were offered, but they all pointed to the same larger truth: contemporary life had become biologically mismatched with the systems that evolved to sustain it.
One speaker described modifying his indoor environment with **aluminum reflectors and UVA bulbs** to restore some of what electric light lacked. Others pointed to intranasal phototherapy, in-ear light devices, infrared saunas and circadian glasses. Yet the simplest intervention was also the most old-fashioned: go outside.
Sarah Turner, identified with the film as director and founder of SuperCharged Performance, helped ground the conversation in ordinary behaviour rather than technological fantasy. As the discussion turned toward the realities of British weather and office life, one practical recommendation stood out: **“Getting outside, especially between nine and twelve for at least half an hour, is a simple and cheap biohack. Even when there are clouds, you still get a significant percentage of light coming through.”**
The line landed because it cut through the escalating complexity. Not everything required a device. Sometimes the answer was to step outdoors before lunch.
Charge, Electrons And The Fragility Of Modern Resilience
Perhaps the panel’s most insistent theme was electrical. Biological life, the speakers argued, depended on maintaining a high net negative charge, preserving electron density and protecting the cellular structures, particularly DHA-rich membranes, that support signalling and mitochondrial function.
That argument was delivered in blunt terms: **“Light only interacts with electrons, and the fewer electrons you have, the more disconnected from nature you become. The goal is to maintain a net negative charge to keep your energy flowing.”**
This became the lens through which many modern afflictions were interpreted. Blue light, microwave-emitting devices, chronic indoor living and environmental stress were all said to diminish electron availability and compromise signalling, immune regulation and vitamin D status. Even sun exposure, the panel suggested, could fail to produce the expected benefit if the body’s redox state had already been degraded.
It was an expansive, controversial frame, but also a coherent one. The body was cast not as chemistry alone but as an electrical and optical organism living in a badly designed technological habitat.
The Microbiome Beyond The Gut
The panel also ventured into the microbiome, though not in the familiar register of fermented foods and probiotic products. Here the microbiome was described as a light-mediated network, governed by quorum sensing and optical signalling. Gut health, in this telling, was inseparable from the body’s wider electromagnetic and environmental context.
There was also a plea to think beyond the intestine alone. Skin, soil and exposure to the microbial richness of the natural world were all treated as part of the same ecology. The recommendations were strikingly earthy: roll in the grass, touch dirt, use less soap, spend more time outdoors, eat ancestral foods such as oysters and other filter-feeding seafood.
For a movement often caricatured as hyper-digital, this was a reminder that some of biohacking’s deepest instincts were almost anti-modern, even pastoral.
Performance, Ketosis And Athletic Demands
Toward the end of the session, the discussion turned to physical performance. Here the panel became more conditional, less doctrinaire. Nutritional strategy, one speaker argued, should depend on the glycolytic demands of the sport, the athlete’s degree of fat adaptation and the need to restore glycogen after hard effort.
The answer offered for many high performers was **cyclic ketosis**: low carbohydrate living paired with strategic post-exercise refeeds using starches to replenish what intense activity had burned. It was a model presented not as ideology but as adaptation, tuned to energy systems rather than dietary tribalism.
In that, too, the panel remained consistent. Whether talking about light, cold, food or training, the real subject was always energy flow.
A Film, A Panel And A Mood Of Restlessness
What made the **SuperCharged Movie Panel Q&A** compelling at **Biohacker Summit 2016 London** was not simply the content, though there was plenty of that. It was the mood underneath it: a deep dissatisfaction with the way modern life had narrowed health into isolated metrics while ignoring the conditions under which the human body actually evolved.
Harry Massey, whose background as executive producer and founder of SuperCharged Performance anchored the event, and Sarah Turner, whose scientific training gave the film’s premise an additional layer of credibility, were part of a conversation that sought to redraw the map. Their panel suggested that the future of health might require looking backward as much as forward: toward sunlight, cold, darkness, soil, water and the rhythms technology had obscured.
At its best, the session did what strong public conversations do. It made the familiar seem newly strange. Light was no longer background. It was medicine, signal, threat and cure. The indoors became suspect. The sky became therapeutic. Mitochondria became destiny’s negotiators.
And by the time the discussion closed, what lingered was not just a set of hacks, but a harder and more unsettling proposition: perhaps the crisis of modern health had begun long before diagnosis, in the quiet, daily severing of the bond between human biology and the natural world that once powered it.
Part of Biohacker Summit 2016 London