How Fermented Foods Carry Tomorrow’s Medicine from Yesterday’s World

Written by Sayer Ji on December 23, 2025. Posted in Current News

There’s a spoonful of raw honey sitting before you. What you’re about to taste contains something that should be impossible: living bacteria that have been reproducing, unchanged, for 80 million years

These ancient Lactobacillus kunkeei strains were already old when the last dinosaurs walked the Earth⁴.

They’ve survived ice ages, mass extinctions, and the rise of mammals, carrying within their tiny cellular bodies a form of biological memory that modern science is only beginning to understand.

As I explored in “How Raw Honey Could Save Your Microbiome (and Travel Back In Time)”, these microbial time travelers offer us a direct connection to our evolutionary past and a means to recover and cultivate into perpetuity the immense vitality and healing potential encoded within it.

This is where our story begins—not with mystical claims, but with a scientific mystery that opens into something far more profound than we imagined. How do these microbes maintain their identity across such vast stretches of time?

And more mysteriously, why does consuming them seem to activate healing potentials in our own bodies that feel less like medicine and more like… remembering?

The etymology of “remember” literally means “bring back (re-) into bodily being (-member),” and consuming foods with an ancient microbiome intact restores the body to an Edenic past still recoverable in modern times.

This linguistic truth points to something our ancestors understood intuitively: memory isn’t just mental—it’s cellular, microbial, visceral.

The Great Severance: How We Lost Our Microbial Souls

The answer to these mysteries becomes even more urgent when we consider what we’ve lost. Walk through any modern maternity ward, and you’ll witness a profound biological tragedy unfolding with each cesarean birth.

The average modern human is born through a sterile surgical procedure, immediately washed with antimicrobial soaps, and raised in environments scrubbed clean of the infinitely complex and highly intelligent and capable microbial diversity that shaped our evolution.

By the time we reach adulthood, we’re hosting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Candida overgrowths, and other opportunistic invaders instead of the ancient bacterial allies that should rightfully inhabit our bodies⁵.

We’ve traded our biological birthright for the illusion of cleanliness, and the cost is becoming terrifyingly clear in epidemic rates of autism, allergies, autoimmune conditions, and mental illness – and the rapid decline in our species’ health, especially our children, and which is only now being reversed with the rise of movements like MAHA and MEHA around the world.

To understand the magnitude of what’s at stake, we need to grasp a revolutionary truth that’s overturning our basic concept of human identity. You are not an individual. You are a holobiont—a superorganism composed of human cells and microbial cells in roughly equal numbers⁶.

In fact, genetically speaking, you are only about one percent human. The other 99 percent of the genetic material you carry belongs to the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms that call your body home⁷.

Without these “germs” and “pests,” within hours if not minutes, you would cease to exist.

As I detailed in “How the Microbiome Undermines the Ego, Vaccine Policy, and Patriarchy”, this revelation fundamentally challenges our notions of individual identity and even the patriarchal assumptions about biological inheritance.

This isn’t a metaphor or an exaggeration. It’s biological fact. And it means that without your full complement of microbial partners, you literally cannot be fully human. Consider what we now know about the holobiont’s capabilities:

• Neurotransmitter Production: Up to 95 percent of your body’s serotonin is produced by gut bacteria⁸. Without the right microbes, you cannot experience the full spectrum of human emotion.
• Immune Education: Your immune system learns through early microbial exposure what to defend against and destroy and what to tolerate⁹. Without proper teachers, it remains ignorant and reactive.
• Nutrient Synthesis: B vitamins, vitamin K, and other essential nutrients are produced by your microbial partners – even vitamin C¹⁰. Without them, you’re nutritionally incomplete regardless of diet.
• Genetic Expression: Your microbiome profoundly influences the expression of your own genes, effectively determining which version of yourself gets expressed¹¹.

The Hidden History of Humanity’s Microbial Partners

To truly appreciate what we’ve lost, we need to understand the depth of our co-evolutionary relationship with microbes. For over 99.9 percent of human history, every baby was born vaginally, immediately coated with mother’s protective microbiome.

Every child played in dirt, ate fermented foods, and lived in intimate contact with animals and nature. Every adult hosted a diverse ecosystem of thousands of microbial species, each contributing unique capabilities to the human holobiont.

These weren’t random associations. Over millions of years, we co-evolved specific partnerships:

• Lactobacillus species that perfectly match the pH of the human vagina, creating an acidic environment hostile to pathogens while nurturing beneficial species
• Bifidobacteria that specifically digest human milk oligosaccharides—sugars in breast milk that humans can’t digest but that feed these crucial infant microbes
• Bacteroides that help us extract nutrients from plant fibers our own enzymes can’t touch
• Psychobiotic strains that produce neurotransmitters and influence our mood and cognition

Each of these relationships represents millions of years of co-evolutionary (or, use ‘co-designed,’ if you are a Creationist) fine-tuning. When we sever these connections through C-sections, formula feeding, antibiotics, and sterile living, we’re not just losing a few bacteria.

We’re losing evolutionary/intelligently designed partnerships that define our humanity.

The Physics of Biological Memory

To understand what’s really happening when we eat temporally deep foods—and why they matter more than ever in our sterilized age—we need to explore how biological information persists across time.

In “Bridging Energy and Information: Codality in an Aetheric Framework”, I explored with my father Dr. Sungchul Ji how information and causation represent two complementary modes of interaction in nature, with codality denoting information-mediated correlations between objects via an informational field.

This isn’t just abstract physics. It has profound implications for how we understand food, health, and our connection to deep time. DNA isn’t merely a storage system for genetic information.

Research by Dr. Konstantin Meyl and others suggests it also functions as an antenna system, capable of transmitting and receiving biological information¹². When DNA unzips during replication, it creates electromagnetic vortexes—little whirlpools that may generate waves carrying the information of life itself.

But how does this explain the persistence of biological memory across millions of years? The answer may lie in what physicists call phase conjugation—a phenomenon where waves can create “time-reversed” mirrors that restore order from chaos.

When you consume that spoonful of honey containing ancient Lactobacillus strains, you’re not just introducing bacteria. You’re creating conditions for phase conjugate healing, where the ancient order encoded in these microbes can help restore your own disrupted biological patterns.

The Mechanism of Microbial Time Travel

This mechanism helps explain the “microbial time travel” phenomenon I described in my honey article. When those 80-million-year-old Lactobacillus enter your gut, several remarkable things happen:

1. Immediate Recognition: Despite millions of years of separation, your cells recognize these ancient allies. Research shows beneficial bacteria can influence gene expression in human intestinal cells within hours of colonization¹³.

2. Chemical Conversation: The bacteria begin producing metabolites—short-chain fatty acids, vitamins, neurotransmitters—that your cells have evolved to expect and utilize.

3. Genetic Dialogue: Through horizontal gene transfer, microRNAs, and extracellular vesicles, the bacteria share genetic information with your cells and other microbes¹⁴.

4. Field Effects: If Meyl’s research is correct, the bacteria’s DNA creates scalar field patterns that resonate with your own DNA, facilitating information transfer beyond mere chemistry. In fact, certain bacteria DNA and scalar field effects generated by them may pull unique energy and information out of the the morphogenetic field (aether), with profound implications to human health, consciousness, and well-being.

5. Ecological Restoration: The ancient bacteria begin rebuilding ecological niches in your gut, creating conditions that favor other beneficial species while inhibiting pathogens.

This isn’t just colonization—it’s biological remembering at the deepest level.

The Inter-Kingdom Symphony

As explored in “Leonardo da Vinci & The New Biology”, we now understand that organisms communicate across kingdom boundaries through microRNAs—small RNA molecules that can survive digestion and directly regulate gene expression in other species¹⁵.

This revelation completely transforms our understanding of nutrition.

When you eat a tomato, you’re not just consuming lycopene and vitamin C. You’re downloading tomato microRNAs that can:

• Regulate inflammation pathways in your cells
• Influence your antioxidant production
• Modify your cellular stress responses
• Even affect your gene expression patterns for hours or days

This inter-kingdom communication becomes even more profound when we consider fermented foods. Each ferment contains not just bacteria but an entire ecosystem producing bioactive compounds:

• Neurotransmitters: GABA, serotonin, dopamine produced by specific bacterial strains
• Vitamins: B12, K2, and others synthesized by microbial communities
• Regulatory RNAs: Complex networks of genetic regulators from multiple species
• Bioactive Peptides: Protein fragments with hormone-like effects
• Organic Acids: Compounds that modulate pH and cellular metabolism

A single spoonful of authentic sauerkraut contains more biological information than any pharmaceutical drug ever created.

Royal Jelly: Nature’s Epigenetic Time Machine

To truly grasp biological time manipulation, consider royal jelly—that mysterious substance that transforms an ordinary bee larva destined to live six weeks into a queen who can live six years.

As I detailed in “The Sacred Biology of Royal Jelly”, this isn’t just nutrition—it’s biological alchemy.

Royal jelly works primarily through epigenetic mechanisms. The protein royalactin activates signaling pathways that alter gene expression patterns throughout the developing bee¹⁶.

What’s remarkable is that these same pathways exist in humans. When human cells are exposed to royal jelly, researchers have documented:

• Telomerase Activation: The enzyme that rebuilds chromosome caps, essentially reversing cellular aging
• Stem Cell Proliferation: Increased production and activity of regenerative cells
• Mitochondrial Biogenesis: Creation of new cellular power plants
• Epigenetic Reprogramming: Reversal of age-related gene methylation patterns

But beyond these molecular mechanisms lies a deeper truth. Royal jelly represents concentrated biological time—the queen-making potential that exists in every female bee larva, waiting to be activated.

When we consume royal jelly, we’re accessing this same potential for transformation encoded in our own cells.

The Meristem Principle: Life’s Immortality Algorithm

In “The Immortal Fractal: How Meristem Cells Reveal Life’s Scalar Blueprint”, I explored how plant meristem cells maintain perpetual embryonic potential—they can divide endlessly without aging.

This same principle appears to operate in certain microbial communities, especially those preserved in traditional ferments.

Consider a sourdough starter maintained for centuries. Unlike isolated laboratory cultures that gradually accumulate mutations and lose vitality, these traditional cultures maintain remarkable stability.

Why? Because they’re not just collections of microbes—they’re coherent biological systems exhibiting collective intelligence.

In a healthy ferment:

• Multiple species create metabolic networks more stable than any single organism
• Bacteriocins and other compounds maintain ecological balance
• Horizontal gene transfer allows rapid adaptation without losing core identity
• The community exhibits emergent properties no single species possesses

When you maintain a sourdough starter or kefir culture, you’re not just keeping bacteria alive—you’re stewarding a practically immortal biological system that exhibits the same perpetual renewal as plant meristems.

The Sacred Geometry of Fermentation

The connection between fermentation and sacred geometry isn’t metaphorical. Microbial colonies often organize themselves into precise geometric patterns—hexagons, spirals, fractals—that maximize efficiency and communication.

These patterns mirror those found throughout nature:

• The hexagonal cells of honeycomb
• The spiral of a nautilus shell
• The branching patterns of blood vessels
• The golden ratio in flower petals

As I explored in “The Immortal Fractal,” these patterns aren’t arbitrary. They represent optimal solutions to biological challenges, refined over billions of years. When we consume fermented foods, we’re ingesting these patterns—not just physically, but informationally.

The Sacred Technology of Prayer Hands

As I explored in “Your Body’s Hidden Technology: The Scalar Field Between Your Hands”, even simple practices like bringing your palms together in prayer position may create bioelectric conditions that support healing and coherence.

This becomes even more relevant when we understand the electromagnetic nature of our microbial partners.

Your body generates multiple electromagnetic fields:

• The heart’s field extends several feet beyond the body
• The brain produces complex wave patterns
• Every cell maintains an electrical potential
• Your microbiome collectively generates its own field signatures

When you create coherent bioelectric states through meditation, prayer, or other practices, you’re not just affecting your own cells. You’re creating an electromagnetic environment that:

• Supports beneficial microbes that thrive in coherent fields
• Inhibits pathogens that prefer chaotic electromagnetic environments
• Facilitates communication between your cells and your microbiome
• May enhance the scalar field effects that coordinate biological systems

The Hygiene Hypothesis Validated: The True Cost of Sterility

The “hygiene hypothesis” has evolved into the “old friends hypothesis”—the recognition that humans co-evolved with certain microorganisms essential for proper development¹⁷. The evidence is now overwhelming:

• Children raised on farms have 50% lower rates of asthma and allergies¹⁸
• Amish children, living in close contact with animals and soil, have virtually no autism¹⁹
• Each course of antibiotics in infancy increases risk of obesity, diabetes, and inflammatory bowel disease²⁰
• C-section birth correlates with 20% higher risk of asthma, 40% higher risk of immune disorders²¹

Without microbial teachers, our immune systems remain uneducated, unable to distinguish friend from foe. The result is an immune system that either overreacts (allergies, autoimmune conditions) or underreacts (chronic infections, cancer).

But the cost goes beyond physical health. The gut-brain axis means our mental health depends on our microbiome:

• Depression correlates with reduced microbial diversity²²
• Anxiety disorders show consistent microbiome disruptions²³
• Autism spectrum disorders involve significant gut dysbiosis²⁴
• Even personality traits correlate with microbiome composition²⁵

We haven’t just sanitized our environment—we’ve sanitized our souls.

This is taken from a long document, read the rest here substack.com

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