17/07/2025
🚨 Just published in Cells journal! 🚨
Six months ago, I fell down an ionotropic rabbit hole—and honestly, I think I'll be here for a while.
⚡ What began as a spark while developing content for my embryology course (spoiler: Ca²⁺ spirals through the embryo at the moment of fertilization) turned into a full-blown investigation into how this mighty little ion never stops moving us… until life itself stops.
This is my first published deep dive into calcium signaling (with more to come). Exploring ionotropic regulation over 14 orders of magnitude with my co-authors (calcium signaling expert, Suzanne Scarlata, and clinical anatomist, John Sharkey )has got me wondering:
Why don’t we focus on this in school⁉️
Like knowing how to regulate your nervous system, cook for your microbiome, or schedule screen time like your circadian health depends on it (because it does)—Ca²⁺ signaling belongs in the self-care starter pack.
It’s basic science, but its role is anything but basic.
Fascia friends, check this: Calcium is not just a bone mineral or a supplement aisle staple—it’s a biophysical orchestrator that coordinates everything from muscle contraction and neurotransmission to immune signaling, wound repair, fascia hydration, and cell death. It’s the switchboard operator of life.
🌀 And it’s never still 🌀
Turns out: if we truly understood how ion channels shape everything from tissue mechanics to mental states, we might rethink symptom-based medicine altogether.
We might also see health (and healing) as something more helical, more architectural, more ⚡ electric ⚡ .
Over the past decade, I’ve been humbled by how much geometry, flow, and most recently ⚡ charge ⚡ are threaded through our biological infrastructure. The body is not just structural and chemical—it’s ionic.
And if you work with fascia, movement, or embodied practices, the implications are huge.
✨ For all my fellow tensegrity nerds and fascia futurists: I am waving a calcium-powered flag. Immerse yourself in the ionotropics of fascia, and you will be transformed. It really is that simple.
Our paper explores how calcium’s unique electron configuration allows it to act as a cross-scale mediator. It's neither woo nor controversial, friends... simply basic sciences linking subcellular events to system-wide adaptation.
We also compare the role of calcium with that of magnesium and examine how these ions shape our tissue form, function, and perceived experience.
It’s a dense piece (because: Cells), but if you’re ion-curious, fascia-fixated, or just ready to read science that zooms from the molecular to the cosmological, it might land for you.
🔗 📄 Link to paper in Cells:�https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/14/14/1066
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The Electromagnetic Secret That Makes YOU One with All of Nature
Stop everything. Right now, as you read this sentence, calcium ions are orchestrating the most spectacular molecular dance in existence—and it's happening inside you.
Every thought firing through your brain, every heartbeat pulsing through your chest, every breath expanding your lungs—all of it depends on calcium ions performing an intricate choreography that follows mathematical principles discovered by ancient philosophers.
We're talking about 37 trillion cells communicating in perfect synchrony through a language written in geometric shapes that predates humankind.
Here's the revelation that will dissolve the illusion of separation between you and the living cosmos:
The same geometric forms that Plato described as the fundamental building blocks of reality are manifesting your body right now. At this very moment, uncountable cascades of calcium ions are forming spinning triangulated partnerships with proteins, creating the sacred geometries that mystics have contemplated for millennia—except these aren't abstract concepts...
They're the fundamental steps in life's cellular dance, spanning everything from fungi and trees to the entire animal kingdom.
The mind-bending truth:
Life itself is impossible without calcium signaling. Not difficult—*impossible.*
Turn off calcium signaling, and you have exactly 3-4 seconds before your heart stops, your neurons cease firing, and your muscles lock in paralysis.
Every disease you've ever heard of—cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, autoimmune disorders—they all trace back to calcium's geometric dance going wrong. Welcome to an ionotropic view of tensegrity in biology, the energetics of form and function.
⚕️ Yet here's the most shocking part: Despite controlling literally every aspect of human physiology, calcium coordination chemistry is essentially absent from the clinical years of medical education.
We're teaching doctors to treat the human body without becoming fluent in the fundamental geometric language that makes it function. It's like trying to treat a dance company's performance problems while ignoring the essential steps that make every movement possible.
What you're about to discover will change everything you think you know about how life works.
You'll learn that calcium doesn't just participate in biology—it *choreographs* it.
• That the ancient mathematical principles governing the cosmos are the same ones orchestrating your cellular communication.
• That the difference between health and disease often comes down to whether calcium ions can form the right geometric partnerships with proteins.
What you're about to discover will transform how you understand the supplements flooding your medicine cabinet.
You'll learn that magnesium and calcium aren't just nutrients to consume—they're *architectural partners* in an intricate molecular dance that builds your entire body.
• That the magnesium deficiency everyone's talking about can't be understood without grasping how these two ions work together in precise geometric relationships.
• That the difference between effective supplementation and expensive urine often comes down to whether you understand the fundamental coordination chemistry that makes these metals essential to life.
As we become inundated with the importance of magnesium supplements that we take without fully understanding the deficiency or basic mechanisms of action, do you ever wonder... what even is this stuff?
My Metabolic Mover newsletter is a plain-language primer that will set you up with foundational intel for getting to grips with these two essential ions, calcium & magnesium (the metals that move us).
You'll discover why these ions are like molecular dance partners who must coordinate their every step, why one without the other creates biological chaos, and how their geometric partnerships literally construct the scaffolding that holds your body together.
The electromagnetic secret: Calcium metal is so reactive that it literally cannot exist in pure form anywhere on Earth. It's so desperate to give up electrons that it immediately bursts into flames when exposed to moisture.
Yet this very instability—this electron-hungry restlessness—is what makes calcium ions the perfect biological messengers. They're like molecular lightning, carrying electrical information through your body at the speed of life itself.
Here's what's really going to blow your mind: Every fascial network in your body, every connective tissue matrix, every bone and muscle fiber—they're all built on tensegrity principles that emerge from calcium's coordination geometry. The same mathematical relationships that create soap bubbles and crystal formations are structuring your skeleton, your organs, your neural networks.
We're about to explore how calcium ions form geometric partnerships that literally sculpt reality from the quantum level up. How spiral waves of calcium signaling create the morphogenetic fields that shape embryos. How the most repeated molecular event in all of biology—calcium binding to proteins—follows the same geometric principles found in ancient sacred architecture.
This isn't just chemistry. This is the geometric foundation of somatics and consciousness itself.
🌀 Prepare to see life itself as the ultimate expression of sacred geometry in motion.
Check out our paper here: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/14/14/1066
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Calcium plays a major role in all cellular functions, and its regulation is important in all aspects of human health. This key role calcium plays in cell function can be traced to its unique molecular coordination geometry, which is often overlooked in understanding calcium function. In this review,...
