Part 1 of The Voltage of Vitality Series

Believe It or Not, Most People Don’t Know They’re Stuck In Survival Mode — How to Tell?

Part 1 of the Voltage of Vitality Series
by Dr. Kat Lewis

This is what I talk about in this Blog:

What Is Fight-or-Flight & How To Know If Your In It
Healing Is Voltage
Low Voltage = Low Oxygen
What Depletes Voltage
What Restores Voltage (and Why Polarity Matters)
Why Relaxation Alone Isn’t Enough
The Unified Field
What Happens When You Meditate
Spiritual Heart Meditations
Coming Next: Blog 2 on Stem Cells

What It Means to Be in Fight-or-Flight

Most people think fight-or-flight means panic or anxiety. But many people live in a chronic state of low-grade survival mode—and don’t even know it.

Physical signs of survival mode:

Jaw, neck, or shoulder tension
Digestive issues (bloating, reflux, constipation)
Shallow breathing or breath-holding
Poor sleep (difficulty falling or staying asleep)
Blood sugar swings, fatigue, hormonal shifts
Needing caffeine to function or think
High Blood Pressure
Autoimmune
Pain in the body

Mental & emotional signs:

Racing thoughts or overthinking
Feeling overwhelmed or reactive
Irritability or emotional flatness
Feeling disconnected from yourself or others
Difficulty relaxing—even when things are “fine”
Can’t sit still, always gotta be doing something
You say things like “my meditation is when I run or ride my bike”

These are not random issues. They’re signs your nervous system is locked in sympathetic dominance—a survival state. This hidden stress response drains the body’s healing energy, disrupts your physiology, and keeps you stuck in the very symptoms you’re trying to resolve.

Healing Begins with Voltage

Dr. Jerry Tennant, MD and author of Healing is Voltage, reminds us of the fact that our cells require

-20 to -25 mV of energy to function properly
-50 millivolts to generate new cells that work
-75mV (he theorizes based on research) to regenerate tissue completely

You may not have heard of this concept before, but you’ve likely heard of pH. What most people don’t realize is that pH is actually a measure of voltage in a liquid. When you hear that your cells need -25mV, this really means they need a cellular pH of 7.35 to 7.45 to function properly.

When your body can’t generate or maintain this voltage, fewer and fewer cells work. Chronic issues set in. Organs and tissues send out stress signals. You feel inflamed, tense, tired, stiff, in pain. You can’t sleep.

Chronic disease happens when you can’t make cells that work. ~ Dr. Jerry Tennant MD

You start hearing labels like:

Blood pressure issues
High cholesterol
Autoimmune disorders
Insulin resistance
Fatty liver
Tired all the time
Can’t sleep
Adrenal fatigue
Infections
Depression

When your voltage drops, symptoms appear.

We call it aging. But it’s really the body losing its charge.

Low Voltage = Low Oxygen

As the voltage drops your cells can’t hold on to oxygen, which means they can’t make energy. Instead of producing 38 ATP per glucose molecule (normal metabolism), your cells make only 2 ATP. That’s survival-mode energy. As Dr. Tennant says, that’s like your car only getting 2 miles/gallon instead of 38 miles/gallon.

Now there isn’t enough to detox, rebuild, or maintain equilibrium. Your internal environment becomes acidic, sluggish, toxic.

Low voltage = low oxygen

What Causes Low Voltage?

Dr. Tennant outlines five primary voltage-drainers, which he refers to as the “Don’t Eat the Turtle Soup” factors:

Dental infections
Emotions that are unresolved
Toxins (environmental and internal)
Thyroid hormone deficiencies (Your T3 should ideally be 3-4, closer to 4 pg/ml)
Scars, piercings, or tattoos disrupting electrical flow

Each of these creates blockages in the body’s wiring system—your fascia and meridian circuits—making it harder for energy to flow where it’s needed.

We’ll explore these in more detail in future posts. For now, just know: if voltage can’t get to an organ, it can’t heal. Like your cell phone, if you can’t charge your cell phone, it won’t work.

This is where using a root cause functional medicine approach to get to the bottom of your health issues can make a difference. We can help you identify hidden infections, nutrient imbalances, mitochondrial dysfunction, and other causes that are silently draining your voltage and blocking regeneration.

Many everyday substances and habits steal energy from the body. Here are some of the most common:

Acidic water (tap, chlorinated, fluoridated, or most bottled water)
Carbonated beverages
Caffeinated drinks (coffee, black tea, soda)
Alcohol
Toxin laden, Over cooked and processed food (cooking removes electrons and adds heat stress)
Wind, A/C, and blow dryers (moving air strips electrons from the body)
EMFs and excessive screen time
Poor sleep habits
Lack of exercise

When Polarity Flips, Only Scalar Energy Can Restore It

Imagine every cell in your body surrounded by a soft glow—a tiny aura. That glow reflects the cell’s magnetic field strength, which is shaped by how much energy, vitality, the cell holds. When cells lose energy, they don’t just slow down—they flip polarity.

And here’s why that matters: each of your trillions of cells contributes to the electromagnetic field (the biofield) of your whole body. When enough cells lose charge and flip, your entire energy field dims. Your biofield weakens, and with it, your vitality. When enough cells of a particular organ have lost their voltage, you experience symptoms related to that organ.

Dr. Jerry Tennant suggests that once a cell’s polarity reverses, it can’t be restored by conventional energy. Only scalar energy—the non-linear, everywhere-at-once energy of the Unified Field (the seemingly empty space within and surrounding the body)—can reverse it. This energy is always there, waiting to be accessed. And it responds not through force, but through coherence.

When we deeply relax and bring our attention inward, we begin to align with this scalar field. In coherence with it, the body begins to recharge, and polarity can reverse. This is part of what happens during meditation. This is why health practitioners say, “you must be in parasympathetic mode or ‘rest and digest mode’ to heal”. Pssst….your health care professional may not know the exact mechanism of action, so if you take good notes, you can impress them—when you relax you’re plugging into the field which is supplying the necessary energy to repair!

But most people can’t access this state easily. That’s why other voltage-restoring practices are essential.

Here are additional ways to recharge the body:

Grounding (bare feet on the earth—nature is a massive electron donor)
Fresh, unprocessed food (especially raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables)
Moving water (rivers, ocean, springs; even bathing in structured water)
Time with pets (coherent heart fields naturally exchange electrons)
Exercise (muscles are piezoelectric—they generate voltage when they move)
Breathing deeply (oxygen is an electron acceptor and delivery vehicle)
Craniosacral rhythm (every pulse of cerebral spinal fluid delivers charge)
Sunlight (especially sunrise and sunset exposure, which enhances mitochondrial charge)
Humming, chanting, meditating
Infrared Sauna

The real reason deep relaxation supports healing is because it opens the door to enormous amounts of energy—from the Unified Field itself.

The Unified Field: The Real Source of Healing

According to physicist Nassim Haramein, the space all around and interpenetrating our body—may seem “empty”—but is actually full of energy, ~10⁹³ grams of energy per cubic centimeter. He says a fraction of that energy would fuel our homes, cars, cities — our world indefinitely.

When you deeply relax into the space around you, your system begins to resonate with this field. You stop scattering energy and start plugging into the most powerful regenerative force in existence.

But here’s the catch:

Most people can’t access this field easily—especially if they’re already sick, burned out, or emotionally overwhelmed.

Their systems are too incoherent, too “out of phase” to tap into this regenerative energy field.

What Really Happens When You Meditate

When you bring your attention inward, this is what begins to happen:

Your brain shifts into alpha, theta, or gamma frequencies, all signs of harmonic resonance with the field.
External distraction fades; internal awareness expands
Your attention becomes a tuning mechanism for resonance
Microtubules (the cytoskeleton of the body) inside your cells begin to organize and radiate (as described by Stuart Hameroff and Nathan Babcock)
Mitochondria shift into repair mode, producing clean, efficient energy instead of stress byproducts
Your field begins to couple with the nested toroidal structure of the Unified Field—the true fountain of youth

This isn’t mystical. It’s biological. It’s physics and I’ll talk more about this in Part 3 of this Voltage is Vitality Series.

What True Regeneration Looks Like

Physical signs of restoration:

Digestion improves
Breath deepens and slows
Sleep like a baby
Mitochondria function better
Heart rate variability (HRV) increases
Cellular repair and detoxification improve

Mental & emotional signs:

Thoughts quiet down
Mood stabilizes
Emotional awareness grows
Sense of presence deepens
A calm confidence returns
Intelligence increases
Creativity abounds

Coming Next: How to Trigger Your Own Stem Cells

In Part 2 of the Voltage of Vitality Series, we’ll explore what it means to activate your own regenerative power through voltage, pattern, and coherence with the Field—featuring insights from Dr. Becker, Dr. Tennant, Dr. Levin, and Dr. Joe Dispenza.

But if you’re ready to begin restoring your system now:
Join the next round of Spiritual Heart Meditations

What Spiritual Heart Meditations Re-awaken

These aren’t just stress-relief sessions. They are designed to help you:

Shift out of sympathetic overdrive
Reconnect with the Field through the portal of the heart
Rewire the brain and activate parasympathetic dominance
Create coherence—so your body can finally access the energy it needs to heal
Awaken the inner sensory system that allows you to perceive the deeper structure of who you truly are

This is not about escaping your body. It’s about plugging it back into its original design.