How Energy 4 Life understands the body's energy: bioenergetics, the vitality equation, the science it builds on, and what the research on its tools shows so far.
Bioenergetics is the study of how living things make, store, and use energy. In biology, it covers how cells turn food and oxygen into usable energy, mostly inside tiny structures called mitochondria. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, uses the term more broadly. For the company, it also includes the electrical charge cells hold and the signals that tell cells how to use their energy.
Energy 4 Life sums up its view in what it calls the vitality equation, built on three parts: information, voltage, and resistance. Each has its own answer on this page (see "What is the vitality equation?"). The company's tools read and support the body's energy, and its scans are energetic assessments, not a medical diagnosis.
Conventional medicine diagnoses and treats disease, mostly through the body's chemistry: blood tests, scans, drugs, and surgery. Bioenergetics, as Energy 4 Life (E4L) practices it, looks at the body's energy and the signals that guide it, and supports the body's own ability to keep itself in balance. It doesn't diagnose or treat disease, and it works alongside medical care, never in place of it.
The two ask different questions. Conventional medicine asks which chemicals are out of balance. Bioenergetics asks whether the body has the energy and the clear signals it needs to keep itself in balance. Energy 4 Life sees the two as complementary: medicine is very good at chemistry, and bioenergetics adds a look at the energy and signals that chemistry depends on. For how the two fit together day to day, see "Can I use bioenergetics alongside my doctor's care?"
"Physics-first" is Energy 4 Life's way of stating the need to look at the body's energy and information before its chemistry. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, starts with physics questions, such as how much energy your body is producing, how much electrical charge your cells hold, and how clearly signals travel through your body. It then looks at chemistry and biology, which medicine already covers well.
The idea rests on a basic point in science: chemistry runs on physics. Every chemical reaction in a cell involves the movement of electrons and the energy that drives it. In Energy 4 Life's view, when a cell lacks energy or receives unclear signals, its chemistry can't work properly, however good the nutrients. Looking at energy first is a way to see what may be limiting the body's energy before adding more fuel.
Not exactly. Energy medicine is a broad term for practices that work with the body's energy, such as acupuncture, qigong, and Reiki, many of them based on traditional ideas. Bioenergetics began as a field of biology, the study of how cells make and use energy. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, draws on both traditions and uses technology to read and support the body's energy.
Energy 4 Life's tools build on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which Peter Fraser (the Australian researcher who built the company with Harry Massey) used to create a detailed map of how energy and information flow through the body (see "What is the body-field?"). The tools combine that map with modern biology and physics, such as the electrical charge cells hold.
The term "bioenergetics" is also used for a type of body-based psychotherapy, bioenergetic analysis, which Alexander Lowen developed in the 1950s. That is a separate field, unrelated to Energy 4 Life.
No. Scientists have studied how living things make and use energy since the early 1900s. Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, wrote in 1960 that "what drives life is thus a little electric current, kept up by the sunshine." Traditional systems such as Chinese medicine have described energy moving through the body since ancient times.
Several milestones shaped the field. In 1935, Harold Saxton Burr and F. S. C. Northrop at Yale proposed that electrical fields help organize the body's form. In 1978, Peter Mitchell won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for explaining how cells produce energy through a flow of charged particles across a membrane (see "What is membrane potential, and why does it matter for energy?"). What is newer is technology that reads and supports the body's energy outside a laboratory. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, builds that technology. Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego has studied its Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information, in the laboratory.
The vitality equation is the model Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, uses to explain what your energy depends on: Vitality = Information × Voltage ÷ Resistance. In words, vitality equals information times voltage, divided by resistance. Information is how clear your body's signals are, voltage is how much electrical charge your cells hold, and resistance is whatever drains your energy away.
Vitality rises when information gets clearer, voltage rises, and resistance falls. Harry Massey developed the equation from his own years of illness, which he came to see as three kinds of harm to his body's energy: unclear signals, low charge, and a constant drain. Energy 4 Life builds its approach and its tools around the equation, and each part has its own answer on this page.
In the vitality equation used by Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, information is how clearly your body's signals tell your cells what to do. Voltage is the electrical charge your cells hold across their membranes, a kind of battery that helps power the cell, bring in nutrients, and carry signals. Resistance is anything that drains your energy, such as stress and emotions, physical strain, toxins, and pathogens.
Energy 4 Life explains information with an analogy: your body runs on an operating system, like a phone. Stress, toxins, injuries, and emotions can scramble the software, even when the hardware is fine. Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information, support information. The GEM wearable, a device worn on the wrist, together with daily habits, helps with resistance.
The limiting factor is the weakest link of the vitality equation for someone at any given time. This equation is the model Energy 4 Life (E4L) (a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey) uses to explain your energy. In the company's view, whichever score (information, voltage, or resistance) is weakest, this is the area you should work on first to restore your vitality. For example, if resistance is high, adding more fuel won't help much, like putting gas in a car with the parking brake on.
The limiting factor differs from person to person and can change over time. Someone who eats well and sleeps enough may still be held back by stress or emotional strain, which is resistance. Someone else may have little to drain them but low charge in their cells, which is voltage. Energy 4 Life's scans and its practitioners look at all three parts to help decide where to start for the biggest impact on health. The scans are energetic assessments, not a medical diagnosis.
Supplements and stimulants add fuel or push the body harder, but in the view of Energy 4 Life (E4L) (a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey), low energy isn't always a fuel problem. If your body's signals are unclear or something is draining your energy, more fuel may not be used well. The company looks at those other causes too, which it calls information and resistance.
Stimulants such as caffeine work differently from supplements. Caffeine mainly blocks the brain's tiredness signal, and it also raises stress hormones such as adrenaline. That can help in the short term, but it doesn't add energy. It can leave you running on borrowed energy. Supplements can support good nutrition. Energy 4 Life's point is that fuel works best when the body's signals are clear and its energy isn't draining away.
The four energy states are In Flow, Fired Up, Borrowed Energy, and Recovering. They are how the GEM wearable, a device worn on the wrist made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), describes your energy through the day. The GEM looks at two things: are you balanced or revved up while at rest, and is your body's recovery keeping up with its energy demands?
Each state is one combination of those two answers:
To judge recovery, the GEM compares signs such as your resting heart rate, your sleep, and your heart-rate variability (the small changes in timing between heartbeats) with your own normal, not with anyone else's. Exercise on its own doesn't count as being revved up. These states are a wellness read, not a medical diagnosis, and the GEM is not a medical device.
In Energy 4 Life's usage, the body-field is the set of electrical and magnetic fields your body produces. It includes the heart's magnetic field, the electrical fields of your tissues and nerves, and the faint light your cells give off, which is also electromagnetic. Energy 4 Life (E4L), Harry Massey's bioenergetic health company, holds that these fields carry the information, or instructions, that guides your cells.
Several of these fields are well measured. The heart's electrical activity is what an ECG (electrocardiogram) records, and its magnetic field can be detected outside the body. Energy 4 Life suggests these fields are not just effects of activity, but an additional signaling network alongside chemical signaling. The fields of the body interact and influence one another through the messages (information) they carry.
The Australian researcher Peter Fraser, who named it the human body-field, mapped it from the early 1980s onward, building on the meridians, or energy channels, of Chinese medicine. His map underlies Energy 4 Life's scans, which are energetic assessments, not a medical diagnosis, and its Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information.
Besides chemicals such as hormones, cells communicate through electrical signals, passed along nerves and through direct channels between neighboring cells. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, extends this electrical picture into the fields the body generates (see "What is the body-field?"). In its model, these fields allow wireless communication between parts of the body tuned to similar frequencies, passing information from one to another so the whole body can coordinate at once.
The science starts with what is well measured. Nerve cells send electrical impulses, and neighboring cells pass signals through tiny channels called gap junctions. Fields act at a distance too: in the brain, the electrical fields from nerve activity can change the timing of nearby nerve cells' firing, without any direct connection. And cells read patterns. In a 1998 study in Nature, immune cells responded to the rhythm of calcium pulses inside them, and different rhythms activated different gene-controlling proteins, and so different genes. Energy 4 Life builds on these findings, extending known laws of physics (e.g., resonant communication and field interactions) to biology. It sees the heart and nervous system as broadcasters whose fields reach every cell, and each cell as a receiver that responds to signals at its own frequencies, the way a radio locks onto one station. When cells respond to the same signals, they can act together (in coherence), much as the light in a laser moves in step, unlike the scattered light of a bulb. For related research, see "What is Michael Levin's research on bioelectricity?" and "What are biophotons?"
Saying the body runs on information means your cells need instructions as well as fuel: messages about what to do and when. Nearly every cell carries the same genes, yet a liver cell and a nerve cell behave completely differently, partly because each receives different messages about which genes to use. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, calls those messages information, related to the first part of its vitality equation.
In information science, the same message can travel on different carriers, like a song that can play over radio, cable, or phone. The message always needs a carrier, but it isn't tied to any one of them. In the body, carriers include chemicals, electrical signals, fields, and light. The message is written onto its carrier as a pattern, such as a frequency or rhythm, and it only works if the receiver is set up to read it, the way a hormone affects only cells with its matching receptor. Energy 4 Life designs its Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information, to deliver a message the body can recognize, which the company calls a "software update". Infoceuticals are a wellness product, not a medicine.
Light, electricity, and magnetism are all aspects of one force of nature, electromagnetism, and the body uses each one. Electricity runs your nerves and heartbeat. Electrical activity creates magnetic fields, and the heart's field is strong enough to measure outside the body. Light, a traveling ripple of electric and magnetic fields, sets your body clock and helps your skin make vitamin D. Energy 4 Life (E4L), Harry Massey's bioenergetic health company, sees all three as carriers of the body's information.
Living things can be tuned to the patterns these carriers hold. In laboratory experiments, some membrane pumps respond to an oscillating electric field only within a particular frequency range. Migrating birds sense the Earth's magnetic field, most likely through the spin of electrons in light-sensitive proteins in their eyes, even though the field is very weak. Energy 4 Life's GEM wearable, a device worn on the wrist, delivers patterned LED light and a gentle magnetic field designed to guide biological activity in a specific direction. The body's own processes can magnify this influence, turning subtle cues into meaningful responses.
Biophotons are tiny amounts of light that living cells give off, about a thousand times too faint for the human eye to see. Scientists have measured this light from people, animals, and plants. In 2025, a team at the University of Calgary found that living mice gave off much more of it than the same mice did after death. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees this light as one of the body's information carriers.
Most scientists trace this light to the cell's normal chemistry, especially reactions involving oxygen. But the very fact of light being present gives us information about biological activity, telling surrounding cells how something is functioning and allowing them to respond in kind – i.e., no response where none is needed, or support if a signal is weak or distorted.
This is why the German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp argued for much of his career that biophotons carry signals that help coordinate cells, and one experiment found that colonies of single-celled organisms grew differently depending on whether light could pass between them. Energy 4 Life builds on Popp's work, where light is one of the ways cells pass information to one another.
Structured water is water whose molecules line up in an ordered way, usually next to a water-loving (hydrophilic) surface. In a glass of water, molecules move freely. Scientists agree that the first few layers of water molecules against a surface are more ordered than ordinary water. Energy 4 Life (E4L), Harry Massey's bioenergetic health company, describes its Infoceuticals, mineral water drops imprinted with information, as energized structured water.
At the University of Washington, Gerald Pollack's laboratory found a zone next to water-loving surfaces that pushes out particles, carries a negative charge, and grows under infrared light. He calls it the exclusion zone and interprets it as ordered water (see "What is Gerald Pollack's research on water?"). Other laboratories have reproduced the effect, though scientists still disagree about how to explain it. Energy 4 Life extends this work: in its model, structured water has an improved capacity to carry information written into it electromagnetically. It imprints this water within an electrostatic field using various light and magnetic frequencies. Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego has studied the water's effects on cells in the laboratory (see "What research has Professor Hemal Patel's team done?").
The water inside your cells is crowded against proteins, membranes, and other surfaces, so it behaves differently from the water in a glass. The layers touching those surfaces are more ordered than ordinary water. Counted by molecule, more than 99 out of every 100 molecules in your body are water. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees the cell's water as one of the carriers of the body's information.
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi wrote in 1971 that "water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water." Mater is Latin for mother. He proposed that ordered water near biological surfaces could hold energy. Some researchers, including Gerald Pollack, argue that much of the cell's water is ordered and charged. Others have measured most of it behaving like ordinary water, so this is still debated. Energy 4 Life's model builds on Szent-Györgyi's idea: the ordered water near the cell's surfaces helps to receive and transmit information.
Cellular voltage is the small electrical charge every cell holds across its outer membrane, with the inside slightly negative compared with the outside. Cells build it by pumping charged particles, mainly sodium and potassium, in and out. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, treats this charge as one part of the voltage in its vitality equation; the other is the stronger charge inside each cell's mitochondria (see "What is membrane potential, and why does it matter for energy?"). In its model, a well-charged cell has the energy to do its work and repair itself.
Think of your body not as one battery but as tens of trillions of tiny ones. The charge varies by cell type. Nerve cells rest near -70 millivolts (thousandths of a volt) and muscle cells nearer -90. Many others, such as skin and liver cells, hold a weaker charge. Keeping this charge costs a lot of energy: the pump that maintains it uses about a fifth of the energy your body burns at rest, and close to half in the brain. The charge is, for instance, what lets nerves fire and muscles contract.
Membrane potential is the scientific name for the voltage across a membrane. For energy production, the most important one is inside the mitochondria, the cell's energy-making structures. Their inner membrane holds a strong charge, around 150-200 millivolts, and that charge drives the making of energy as ATP. Each cell's outer membrane holds a smaller charge too (see "What is cellular voltage?"). Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees both as part of the body's voltage.
Mitochondria use the charge across their inner membrane to make ATP, the molecule cells spend for energy. Peter Mitchell first proposed how this works in 1961, and the work won him the 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The membrane is only about five millionths of a millimeter thick, so that charge makes an electric field comparable in strength to a bolt of lightning. The cell then spends ATP to keep its outer membrane charged, so the two charges support each other. In Energy 4 Life's model, supporting the body's charge supports the energy behind everything else.
ATP, short for adenosine triphosphate, is the molecule your cells use to pay for almost everything they do, from contracting muscles to building proteins. It's often called the cell's energy currency, and most of it is made in the mitochondria. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees a steady supply of ATP as an important basis of the body's energy.
Your body doesn't store much ATP. It makes and uses roughly its own body weight in ATP every day, recycling the same small supply about a thousand times. So the body doesn't run on stored energy, like a fuel tank. It makes energy as it goes, more like a solar panel. Mitochondria make ATP with a tiny rotating molecular machine called ATP synthase, driven by the charge across their inner membrane (see "What is membrane potential, and why does it matter for energy?").
Mitochondria are tiny structures inside your cells that make most of the energy your body uses. How well they work shapes how energetic you feel. They turn food and oxygen into ATP, the cell's energy currency, and when they can't keep up with demand, the body has less energy to spend. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees mitochondria as central to the voltage part of its vitality equation.
Many things affect how well mitochondria work. Regular exercise is one of the best-proven ways to build more of them. Stress makes them work harder: in a 2023 laboratory study, human skin cells exposed to a stress hormone for weeks burned about 60% more energy. Sleep, oxygen, light, and nutrition all play a part too. In Energy 4 Life's model, tiredness often reflects how well your cells make energy and how much is being drained away. It isn't just about how long you slept. That is why the company's vitality equation looks at both voltage and resistance (see "What is the limiting factor in the vitality equation?").
Oxidative stress happens when cells make more reactive oxygen than their natural defenses can handle. Reactive oxygen is a group of unstable molecules that can damage cells. Small amounts are normal, a by-product of mitochondria making energy, and they act as useful signals. Too much, for too long, wears cells down. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees oxidative stress as a sign that cells are struggling to handle their energy cleanly.
Most of the oxygen your mitochondria use ends up as water. A small share of electrons escape along the way and form reactive oxygen, which Professor Hemal Patel calls "molecular fire" in the documentary Beyond Medicine. In small, controlled amounts it is useful; when it spreads, it does harm. Cells keep it in check with their own antioxidant systems. Professor Patel's team at UC San Diego has measured how Energy 4 Life's Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information, affect reactive oxygen in rat heart cells in the laboratory (see "What did the 2025 EXPLORE study on Infoceuticals find?").
Resistance is anything that drains your energy. It is the third part of the vitality equation, the model Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, uses to explain energy. Drains can be physical, such as poor sleep, injury, overtraining, toxins, or lingering infections; or emotional, such as stress and feelings you keep holding in.
Think of your body as running on an energy budget. It pays first for staying alive and for anything it treats as a threat, and repair is paid for from whatever is left over. Scientists studying long-term stress have a name for the cost of staying on guard: "hypermetabolism", the body spending energy above its healthy level. In Energy 4 Life's model, lowering resistance often frees more energy than adding fuel (see "What is the limiting factor in the vitality equation?"). Alongside the GEM wearable, a device worn on the wrist, and daily habits, the company teaches GIST (Gratitude, Intention, Surrender, Trust), Harry Massey's method for the inner side of energy. The answers below cover the main drains: stress and emotions, tension and injury, and a stress response that won't switch off.
Stress and strong emotions switch on the body's stress response, which uses energy to keep you alert and ready. That helps in the short term, but when it stays switched on, it keeps drawing on that energy (see "What is the fight-or-flight response, and why doesn't it always switch off?"). Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees emotional strain as one of the biggest and least visible drains on energy.
The stress system reacts most strongly to threats to how others see us. A 2004 review of 208 laboratory studies by the psychologists Sally Dickerson and Margaret Kemeny found the largest stress-hormone responses came from situations that were both uncontrollable and involved being judged. Recovery from them was also slowest. Holding feelings in has a cost too. In a 1997 study of 180 people by James Gross and Robert Levenson, those asked to hide their emotions while watching films showed more stress activation in the heart and blood vessels, while feeling almost as bad inside. Naming a feeling helps: in Matthew Lieberman's brain-imaging research, putting a feeling into words calmed the brain's alarm center, the amygdala. In Energy 4 Life's model, energy spent holding emotions in is energy taken from more productive uses.
Tension and injury drain energy because the body has to keep paying for them. A muscle that never fully relaxes keeps burning fuel. An injury has to be repaired, and repair takes energy and oxygen, carried in by a good blood supply. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, counts these physical drains as part of resistance in its vitality equation.
When skin and other tissues are injured, they create a small electrical current of their own, and research shows that current helps guide cells to close a wound. Tissue that can't make enough energy tends to become acidic and inflamed, which is part of why low-energy tissue can feel sore. In Energy 4 Life's model, a chronically tight spot can tip into a small local energy crisis of this kind, and physical and emotional drains add up. An old injury and ongoing stress can together use more of your energy than either one alone.
The fight-or-flight response is the body's emergency system. When it senses a threat, it releases adrenaline and, more slowly, cortisol; speeds the heart; and sends energy to the muscles and brain. It's meant to switch off once the threat passes. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, sees a stress response that never fully switches off as a steady background drain on energy.
It doesn't always switch off because the same alarm responds to remembered and anticipated threats, such as a worry or a deadline, as well as to real danger. The researcher Bruce McEwen called the cumulative cost "allostatic load". Stress hormones protect the body in the short run, but over time the constant demand wears it down. Psychologist George Slavich's Social Safety Theory proposes that because rejection and isolation once raised the risk of injury and infection, the body evolved to react strongly to social threat. In Energy 4 Life's model, helping the body register that the environment is safe, and helping you notice and move through what you feel, is how the alarm settles and energy returns to rest and repair.
Heart rate variability, or HRV, is the natural variation in time between your heartbeats. A healthy heart doesn't beat like a metronome: the gaps between beats shift slightly, moment to moment. Higher HRV, compared with your own normal, generally goes with being rested and adaptable, and lower HRV with being strained or under stress. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, uses HRV as one of its windows on how well your body is recovering.
HRV reflects your autonomic nervous system, the part that runs your heartbeat, breathing, and digestion without your thinking about it. It has a "go" side and a "rest and repair" side, and HRV shows the balance between them. Large long-term population studies, such as the Framingham Heart Study, have linked lower HRV with poorer long-term health. In a year-long study of 167 adults, lower HRV at the start predicted more emotional exhaustion and burnout a year later. HRV is a sign of your body's state, not a readout of a particular emotion, and wrist devices measure it less precisely than a medical recording, especially during movement.
The GEM wearable, a device worn on the wrist, gives a general-wellness read: it uses HRV, along with resting heart rate and sleep, to show whether your recovery is keeping up (see "What are the four energy states?").
Yes. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, has supported research on its tools. Its main peer-reviewed study, meaning one checked by independent scientists before publication, appeared in 2025 in the journal EXPLORE. In that laboratory study, rat heart cells given Infoceuticals (drops of minerals imprinted with information) had more spare energy capacity and handled chemical stress better. The study was carried out by Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego.
The company's earliest studies in people date from the 2000s, including a 2009 study at Holos University. Professor Patel's team began its laboratory work in 2021, and the GEM wearable, a device worn on the wrist, was tested in a small pilot study in 2025.
Professor Hemal Patel is a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego and a Research Career Scientist with the US Department of Veterans Affairs in San Diego. He studies mitochondria, the parts of each cell that make most of its energy, and the cell's outer membrane, especially in the heart. He is a research partner of Energy 4 Life (E4L): his team has run laboratory research on its Infoceuticals.
Professor Patel has published more than 140 scientific papers, and his research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appears in Beyond Medicine, the 2026 documentary about Harry Massey, the founder of Energy 4 Life, explaining his team's research.
Since 2021, Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego has tested Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, on living cells in the laboratory. Its main result was published in the journal EXPLORE in 2025 (see "What did the 2025 EXPLORE study on Infoceuticals find?"). Energy 4 Life supplied both imprinted and non-imprinted water (the latter as a control with the same base solution), and the team designed and ran the experiments.
Before that paper, the team's earlier laboratory reports tested the water on several kinds of cells, including heart and muscle cells, and reported more mitochondria, the cell's energy-making structures, per cell under the electron microscope compared to controls. Professor Patel has also described tests in which the same information was delivered to cells by a device rather than in water, with similar results; those haven't been published yet, but the device was designed to have a similar influence to the GEM wearable device. The team's work is in cells, not people. Separately, through Versea Health, Professor Patel co-led a small pilot study of the GEM wearable in people (see "What did the GEM pilot study measure?").
The 2025 EXPLORE study, by Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego, found that rat heart cells given Infoceuticals had more spare energy capacity than untreated cells. Under chemical stress, they also made about 37% less reactive oxygen than untreated cells, a by-product that can damage cells. Cells given the same water without the imprint made about 24% less. Infoceuticals are drops of minerals imprinted with information made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey.
The study compared three groups: cells given the imprinted water, cells given the same water without the imprint, and cells given nothing. That design separated the effect of the imprint from the effect of the minerals in the water. The imprinted water raised the cells' spare energy capacity to 135% of their resting level, against 106% for untreated cells and 115% for the unimprinted water. Under a milder chemical attack, 86% of cells given the imprinted water survived, against 60% untreated and 73% with the unimprinted water. The study used five samples per group for the energy and stress tests and three for the gene analysis, in cells, not people. For the gene results, see "What did the RNA sequencing show?"
A Seahorse test measures how much oxygen living cells use, in real time, to show how well their mitochondria, the cell's energy-making structures, are working. It's named after the Agilent Seahorse analyzer, a standard laboratory instrument. Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego used it to test Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey.
During the test, the instrument adds three substances in turn: one that stops the cell making energy normally, one that makes the mitochondria run at full capacity, and one that shuts them down. Comparing the readings shows how much energy the cells use at rest, how hard they can work at maximum effort, and how much reserve they keep for when demand spikes, like a gauge on the cell's engine. In the 2025 EXPLORE study, cells given the imprinted water didn't run harder at rest; they had more in reserve.
The RNA sequencing in the 2025 EXPLORE study showed that Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, changed the activity of about 1,140 genes in rat heart cells, compared with untreated cells. Of those, 717 became more active and 422 less active. The same water without the imprint changed only about 20. The study was carried out by Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego.
RNA is the working copy a cell makes of a gene when it uses it, so sequencing RNA shows which genes a cell is using, a bit like seeing which books in a library are open. The genes that changed included many that cells use to handle stress and make energy, including their responses to reactive oxygen and their use of sugar for fuel. The published paper records that the gene samples were identified only by codes until the analysis was done. The raw data is in a public database, the Gene Expression Omnibus, where any scientist can check it.
No. The placebo effect comes from a person expecting to feel better, and a cell in a dish has no expectations. It can't hope, believe, or want to please a researcher; it can only respond to what it is given. That is one reason Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, has had its Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information, tested on cells.
Cells can't believe, but the people running an experiment can be biased without meaning to be, so good cell studies guard against that too. Professor Hemal Patel has said the bottles reached his team at UC San Diego coded, with the code broken only after the experiments; the published paper records that the gene samples were coded until analysis. The comparison was with the same water without the imprint, so only the imprint differed, and the instruments produced numbers rather than judgments. What cell studies can't settle on their own is whether a result holds in people, or in other laboratories, which is why human studies and replication come next.
The 2025 EXPLORE findings are consistent with earlier, unpublished laboratory reports from Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego, but no other laboratory has yet published the same experiment. The study tested Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey.
The GEM pilot study followed 20 adults who wore the GEM wearable, a device worn on the wrist made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), for 60 days. It measured self-reported feelings of anxiousness and tiredness with standard questionnaires, along with a blood test of how the participants' mitochondria were working. It was a small observational study, meaning it watched what changed without a comparison group, and it hasn't been published in a journal.
On average, participants' questionnaire scores for anxiousness and tiredness were lower at follow-up. One blood measure of the cells' energy reserve fell over the 60 days. The researchers read that as cells that had been running in overdrive and settled toward a more efficient baseline, unlike the cell study, where more reserve was the finding. The study was led by Professor Hemal Patel (see "Who is Professor Hemal Patel?") and Sierra Simpson of Versea Health, where Professor Patel is chief scientific advisor. The manuscript names Energy 4 Life as the maker of the GEM and carries Energy 4 Life's copyright. With 20 participants, no comparison group, and fewer people completing some questionnaires, it can't show the GEM caused these changes; but the positive direction of the results is a signal for a larger controlled study. The GEM is a general-wellness device, not a medical device, and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, has supported several smaller studies in people, alongside Professor Hemal Patel's laboratory work at UC San Diego. They include a six-month study at Holos University in 2009, a comparison study of the company's earlier practitioner scanner in India, and an analysis of the company's own scan data from about 6,000 people.
The Holos University study followed 54 people for six months in 2009. It was double-blind and placebo-controlled, meaning neither participants nor researchers knew who received Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information, and who received a placebo, and it reported improvements in self-reported stress compared with placebo. It was reported as a summary, not published in a journal. The company's own data, from people with two or more scans, shows wellness scores for energy, sleep, and stress improving over repeat visits, most where starting scores were low; it is internal and uncontrolled. None of these human studies has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The main published, peer-reviewed study on the technology of Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, is the 2025 EXPLORE study by Professor Hemal Patel's team at UC San Diego, which tested Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information, on rat heart cells in the laboratory. Other research has included unpublished laboratory reports, pilot studies, and outcome studies.
The company groups its evidence in three tiers. The first is peer-reviewed and published, led today by the EXPLORE study. The second is studies in people that haven't been published, such as the GEM pilot and the 2009 Holos University study. These range from a small observational study to a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The third is laboratory and mechanism work, mostly internal reports. The research runs from cells, to a published paper, to people, and the next step in Energy 4 Life's plan is larger controlled studies in people.
Bioenergetics draws on the work of many scientists outside Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey. Two Nobel Prize winners laid foundations: Albert Szent-Györgyi studied energy in living cells, and Peter Mitchell explained how cells make it (see "Is bioenergetics a new idea?"). Today, Michael Levin at Tufts University studies bioelectricity, and Gerald Pollack at the University of Washington studies water. Fritz-Albert Popp studied the light cells give off (see "What are biophotons?").
Energy 4 Life draws on their published research and the research of many others pushing our boundaries of understanding in "quantum biology," or the basis of biology in the most fundamental units of energy.
The company's own map of the body's energy comes from Peter Fraser, the Australian researcher who built the company with Harry Massey (see "What is the body-field?").
Michael Levin, a biologist at Tufts University, studies how patterns of electrical voltage across tissues help tell cells what shape to build. His laboratory has shown that changing those voltage patterns, without editing the animals' genes, can make flatworms regrow with two heads and frog embryos grow eyes in unusual places. He directs the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, set up with $10 million of funding in 2016.
Levin describes these voltage patterns as a "bioelectric code" that stores the plan for the body's shape, separate from the genes. In a 2020 review, he argued that modern research supports the 1935 idea that patterns of electrical charge help organize the body's form (see "Is bioenergetics a new idea?"). Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, draws on this work. In its model, information reaches cells in several ways, including electrical and magnetic fields, light, and even sound, not through electrical patterns alone. Levin has no connection to Energy 4 Life, and his research has not tested its products.
Gerald Pollack, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, studies how water behaves next to surfaces. His laboratory found that next to water-loving surfaces, a zone forms that pushes out particles, carries a negative charge, and grows when exposed to infrared light. He calls it the exclusion zone, and in his 2013 book The Fourth Phase of Water, he argues it is a distinct, ordered state of water.
Other laboratories have reproduced the exclusion effect, and scientists still debate how to explain it. Pollack proposes that this ordered water stores energy from light and plays a large role inside living cells. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, draws on this work. In its model, structured water can carry information, which is the basis of its Infoceuticals, drops of minerals imprinted with information (see "What is structured water?"). Harry Massey interviewed Pollack for his film Supercharged. Pollack has no connection to Energy 4 Life, and his research has not tested its products.
No. A bioenergetic assessment reads the body's energy and shows which areas to focus on, but it doesn't diagnose, measure, or rule out any disease. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, makes energetic assessments, not medical diagnoses. That covers its scans, including the Bioenergetic Wellness System (BWS) its practitioners use.
A medical diagnosis comes from a doctor, using tests designed and validated to detect specific conditions. A bioenergetic assessment answers a different question: where your energy stands and what may be draining it, in the terms of Energy 4 Life's vitality equation. The BWS, for example, doesn't measure how severe or long-standing a problem is. If an assessment suggests an area to support, that is a starting point for wellness, not a medical finding.
No, and you should never stop or change a medical treatment because of a bioenergetic assessment. Bioenergetics works alongside medical treatment, never in place of it. Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, supports the body's natural processes and doesn't treat disease.
If an assessment suggests something different from what your doctor has advised, follow your doctor and talk it through with them. Energy 4 Life's products do not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Yes. You can use the tools of Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, alongside your regular medical care. It's a good idea to tell your doctor what you're using, and to check with them first if you're pregnant, have a medical condition, or take medication.
Some Energy 4 Life practitioners are themselves licensed health professionals who add bioenergetic assessment to the care they already give, and their own professional rules still apply. If you work with a practitioner, telling them about your health and any treatment you're receiving helps them to provide more personal support.
Bioenergetics can't diagnose disease, replace medical tests, or stand in for emergency or medical care, and it doesn't promise any particular outcome. The tools made by Energy 4 Life (E4L), a bioenergetic health company founded by Harry Massey, are wellness tools: they read and support the body's natural energy processes, acknowledging the body's ability to recover and strengthen when given the right support. Results vary from person to person.
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Energy 4 Life is a wellness company. Its scans are energetic assessments, not a medical diagnosis, and its products do not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. They work alongside medical care, never in place of it. Results vary from person to person.