Biological systems / Modelling & visualisation

A connected view
of biological energy.

Mapping how nutrients, hormones, enzymes, and mitochondrial pathways interact—and building tools that make those relationships easier to explore.

Status: educational pathway mapping and illustrative software; not a clinical decision system.

The research interest

My biohacking work is driven by a systems question: how do fuel availability, regulatory signals, mitochondrial function, and repair processes interact? Topics explored include metabolic flexibility, fatty-acid handling, ketogenesis, ATP production, mitochondrial turnover, and inflammation resolution.

The metabolism atlas

The project developed toward a single interconnected, zoomable 11 × 17 map. It connects carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism with glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, energy production, storage, hormones, enzymes, and selected laboratory-marker groups.

Metabolism Workbench

A Python GUI package was developed to explore a network of pathway relationships with adjustable inputs and targets. Supplement inputs start at zero. The software explores hypothetical relationships; its coefficients are not validated human dose-response relationships.

A model for asking better questions

The workbench cannot determine a supplement dose that will produce a specified change in a person’s blood test or physiology. Its role is to visualise assumptions and highlight what would need evidence or measurement.

Related investigations

  • Mitochondrial biogenesis, mitophagy, and cellular energy.
  • Fuel switching, fat mobilisation, fatty-acid transport, and ketone production.
  • Iron absorption, storage, transport, and regulatory pathways.
  • Biological repair and signalling, including hair-follicle pathways.

Next milestone

Separate established pathway connections from uncertain effects, attach evidence and units to model parameters, and identify which behaviours can be compared with real data. Any future clinical application would require independent validation.

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