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The Metabolic Scam: How Leptin, Light and Mitochondria Shatter the Weight Loss Lie
Leptin unlocks the truth. Everything else is noise.
This is not a diet book. It’s a biological manhunt.
You’ve been lied to about metabolism—from the gym floor to the doctor’s office.
They told you insulin was the problem. That calories in vs. calories out still mattered. That hunger was a discipline issue.
Meanwhile, your energy vanished, your fat burned out of control, your libido disappeared, and your doctor gave you another script for the symptoms.
But none of it starts with insulin. It starts with leptin—the master signal of your metabolic system. When leptin goes offline, your body stops recognizing energy, your mitochondria shut down, and your brain interprets abundance as famine.
That’s when the spiral begins. And you can’t fix it with macros, mindset, or medications.
The Metabolic Scam exposes the real reason you're tired, inflamed, anxious, overweight, infertile, and wired-but-exhausted—and why the modern health system has zero interest in fixing it.
Inside you’ll
Why calorie restriction and cardio can make you fatter, not leaner
Why sleep, sun, and circadian rhythm dictate fat loss more than your diet ever will
How EMFs, blue light, and climate-controlled comfort destroy your leptin signaling
Why shredded fitness influencers are often the most metabolically broken of all
How to reset the master switch and take your biology back from the pharmaceutical-industrial complex
This is a wake-up call for the high-performers on the verge of burnout, the chronic dieters who can’t lose fat, the biohackers who sense something deeper, and the men and women wondering why nothing seems to work anymore.
Forget the macros.
Fix the signal.
Burn the scam to the ground.
This is not a diet book. It’s a biological manhunt.
You’ve been lied to about metabolism—from the gym floor to the doctor’s office.
They told you insulin was the problem. That calories in vs. calories out still mattered. That hunger was a discipline issue.
Meanwhile, your energy vanished, your fat burned out of control, your libido disappeared, and your doctor gave you another script for the symptoms.
But none of it starts with insulin. It starts with leptin—the master signal of your metabolic system. When leptin goes offline, your body stops recognizing energy, your mitochondria shut down, and your brain interprets abundance as famine.
That’s when the spiral begins. And you can’t fix it with macros, mindset, or medications.
The Metabolic Scam exposes the real reason you're tired, inflamed, anxious, overweight, infertile, and wired-but-exhausted—and why the modern health system has zero interest in fixing it.
Inside you’ll
Why calorie restriction and cardio can make you fatter, not leaner
Why sleep, sun, and circadian rhythm dictate fat loss more than your diet ever will
How EMFs, blue light, and climate-controlled comfort destroy your leptin signaling
Why shredded fitness influencers are often the most metabolically broken of all
How to reset the master switch and take your biology back from the pharmaceutical-industrial complex
This is a wake-up call for the high-performers on the verge of burnout, the chronic dieters who can’t lose fat, the biohackers who sense something deeper, and the men and women wondering why nothing seems to work anymore.
Forget the macros.
Fix the signal.
Burn the scam to the ground.
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Published July 4, 2025
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September 24, 2025The Single Best Book on Health and Human Biology
Pretty much all of modern health and wellness knowledge is founded on standard biochemistry models. But biochemistry is only a price of the health puzzle. All biochemistry is actually founded on Biophysics but hardly anyone understands this. Dr. Hackett understands this. In fact Quantum Biophysics or Quantum Biology, or in other words - Nature - is what this book is based on, not I st status quo outdated biochemistry understanding.
Yes, this is the best book I have read about health and wellness in over thirty years of diets orthomolecular medicine, fasting, mineral balancing and protocol after protocol.
In the pursuit of optimal health and vitality over the past thirty years (I'm 54) I had become convinced that our knowledge of health, fitness, and vitality was seriously lacking and flawed. I just didn't have the verbal nomenclature to explain it properly. That is until I found Dr. Jack Kruse and his work. Uncle Jack doesn't lay things out in a systematic understandable fashion though.
This is where Dr Hackett has stepped up and helped condense and explain the new sciences of Biophysics and Quantum Biology in a manner that one can understand and make use of. This is that book.
I've read hundreds of books on health, healing, and nutrition and all of them have been lacking the foundational knowledge that is based on truth. That the sun and its light is our most important nutrient and that we ARE nature. When we live indoors under artificial light our biology whithers and vitality fades. Circadian Biology (aligning with the true rhythm of nature, the sun and earth) is the foundation of health. If you do jot know it or practice it it doesbnot matter what your diet is, how many minerals you take, or what protocol you follow, you will not thrive.
Read this book and follow Dr. Hackett's practical advice. This is the only true direction we have now. You've found what you've been searching for, even if you don't understand it yet.
Welcome to the Light Revolution and truth!
Pretty much all of modern health and wellness knowledge is founded on standard biochemistry models. But biochemistry is only a price of the health puzzle. All biochemistry is actually founded on Biophysics but hardly anyone understands this. Dr. Hackett understands this. In fact Quantum Biophysics or Quantum Biology, or in other words - Nature - is what this book is based on, not I st status quo outdated biochemistry understanding.
Yes, this is the best book I have read about health and wellness in over thirty years of diets orthomolecular medicine, fasting, mineral balancing and protocol after protocol.
In the pursuit of optimal health and vitality over the past thirty years (I'm 54) I had become convinced that our knowledge of health, fitness, and vitality was seriously lacking and flawed. I just didn't have the verbal nomenclature to explain it properly. That is until I found Dr. Jack Kruse and his work. Uncle Jack doesn't lay things out in a systematic understandable fashion though.
This is where Dr Hackett has stepped up and helped condense and explain the new sciences of Biophysics and Quantum Biology in a manner that one can understand and make use of. This is that book.
I've read hundreds of books on health, healing, and nutrition and all of them have been lacking the foundational knowledge that is based on truth. That the sun and its light is our most important nutrient and that we ARE nature. When we live indoors under artificial light our biology whithers and vitality fades. Circadian Biology (aligning with the true rhythm of nature, the sun and earth) is the foundation of health. If you do jot know it or practice it it doesbnot matter what your diet is, how many minerals you take, or what protocol you follow, you will not thrive.
Read this book and follow Dr. Hackett's practical advice. This is the only true direction we have now. You've found what you've been searching for, even if you don't understand it yet.
Welcome to the Light Revolution and truth!
October 1, 2025
Overview: A wide-ranging manifesto that centers leptin as the master signal of metabolism and argues that modern lifestyle factors (light, EMFs, circadian disruption) and mitochondrial dysfunction, more than insulin or calories, explain chronic fatigue, weight regain, and metabolic collapse.
What this book gets right
- It highlights important and under-discussed topics: circadian rhythm, environmental exposures, mitochondrial health, and the lived reality of people stuck in chronic low-energy states.
- The writing is energetic and provocative, which can spur readers to re-evaluate simple assumptions about sleep, light, and lifestyle medicine.
Why we finished it but can’t recommend it for clinical use
- The book places leptin at the center of every metabolic problem in a way that overstates a single mechanism and underplays well-established, practical levers we use clinically.
- Its leptin-first framing leads to reductive thinking: once we get someone’s insulin under control and lower their inflammation, leptin almost always recalibrates on its own, which is why we don’t teach leptin as a primary target.
- Important concepts are mixed with speculative links and sweeping causal claims, which makes the narrative feel less like careful synthesis and more like a polemic.
- Because of the interpretive leaps and occasional overclaiming, this is not a book we would hand to someone we’re helping with medical or psychological issues; its prescriptions could distract from the practical, evidence-aligned steps that reliably help patients.
Final takeaway: The Metabolic Scam opens a useful conversation about non-diet factors that shape metabolism, but its leptin-centered absolutism and rhetorical certainty undermine its clinical utility. Treat the ideas as provocative prompts for further inquiry rather than a how-to guide for patient care.
*Thanks to Microsoft Copilot for helping us craft this review*
What this book gets right
- It highlights important and under-discussed topics: circadian rhythm, environmental exposures, mitochondrial health, and the lived reality of people stuck in chronic low-energy states.
- The writing is energetic and provocative, which can spur readers to re-evaluate simple assumptions about sleep, light, and lifestyle medicine.
Why we finished it but can’t recommend it for clinical use
- The book places leptin at the center of every metabolic problem in a way that overstates a single mechanism and underplays well-established, practical levers we use clinically.
- Its leptin-first framing leads to reductive thinking: once we get someone’s insulin under control and lower their inflammation, leptin almost always recalibrates on its own, which is why we don’t teach leptin as a primary target.
- Important concepts are mixed with speculative links and sweeping causal claims, which makes the narrative feel less like careful synthesis and more like a polemic.
- Because of the interpretive leaps and occasional overclaiming, this is not a book we would hand to someone we’re helping with medical or psychological issues; its prescriptions could distract from the practical, evidence-aligned steps that reliably help patients.
Final takeaway: The Metabolic Scam opens a useful conversation about non-diet factors that shape metabolism, but its leptin-centered absolutism and rhetorical certainty undermine its clinical utility. Treat the ideas as provocative prompts for further inquiry rather than a how-to guide for patient care.
*Thanks to Microsoft Copilot for helping us craft this review*
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December 23, 2025
A Good way to take care of your health
Worth your time reading this wonderful take care of your health and ignore all unwanted misinformation seen every where. Esp. Beware of centralized modern health racket.
Worth your time reading this wonderful take care of your health and ignore all unwanted misinformation seen every where. Esp. Beware of centralized modern health racket.
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