Interview with Dr. Jack Kruse at Bitcoin Historic

In the sun-drenched coastal enclaves of El Salvador, where Bitcoin flows as freely as the Pacific waves, a unique fusion of health sovereignty and financial freedom is taking root. At the heart of this movement stands Dr. Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon turned quantum biologist, who has traded the fluorescent-lit operating rooms of the U.S. for the volcanic shores of this Central American nation. Kruse's journey isn't just about personal reinvention—it's a blueprint for decentralizing medicine, intertwined with El Salvador's audacious embrace of Bitcoin. From advising President Nayib Bukele on constitutional reforms to captivating Bitcoin enthusiasts at events like Bitcoin Historico, Kruse is redefining wellness as a borderless, blockchain-backed pursuit.
The Four-Legged Stool of Human Optimization
Kruse long taught that biology rests on a three-legged stool: Light, Water, and Magnetism.
In El Salvador, he has officially added the fourth leg — Bitcoin — completing what he now calls the “4-Legged Stool of Decentralized Human Thriving.”
Leg 1 – Light: the primary driver of circadian biology and mitochondrial function
Leg 2 – Water: deuterium-depleted, mineral-structured, solar-generated mitochondrial water
Leg 3 – Magnetism: telluric currents, Schumann resonance, and grounding to the Earth’s native EMF
Leg 4 – Bitcoin: the only uncensorable, thermodynamically sound money that protects time, energy, and individual sovereignty in a world of centralized control
“Bitcoin is the electric current of money,” Kruse told the Bitcoin Historico crowd in 2025. “Just as sunlight structures water in your cells, Bitcoin structures human time on this planet. Remove any one of these four legs and the stool collapses — you become a sick, poor, compliant slave. All four together? You become an antifragile, sovereign human.”
Light as Medicine
Kruse’s obsession with light began long before El Salvador, but the country’s geography turned theory into daily practice. At 13.5° north latitude, El Salvador receives some of the most consistent, high-intensity UV and infrared light on Earth with almost no seasonal variation year-round. Kruse calls this “nature’s perfect AM sun + PM red-light clinic.”
His protocols are brutally simple yet ruthlessly effective:
View sunrise barefoot on volcanic sand within the first 15 minutes of emergence (sets circadian clock via retinal melanopsin)
Full-body noon sunlight for UVB-driven vitamin D and dopamine synthesis
Sunset viewing to spike melatonin 300–500× above baseline
Zero blue light after sunset — enforced by the country’s early blackouts and Kruse’s own red-lit Ark compound
In 2024–2025, Kruse partnered with local municipalities to install red-light parks along the Costa del Sol: public beaches with 660–850 nm LED arrays powered by Bitcoin-mined geothermal energy, free for citizens to use after dark. Bloodwork from regular users shows dramatic drops in HbA1c, hs-CRP, and NNEMF-induced oxidative stress markers. “We turned a beach into the world’s largest photobiomodulation clinic,” he boasts. “And we pay for the electricity with sats.”
From Operating Table to Oasis of Freedom
Dr. Jack Kruse's epiphany came in 2007, not in a lab or lecture hall, but on a football field. At 6'2" and 357 pounds, a torn meniscus sidelined the accomplished neurosurgeon, forcing him to confront the limitations of modern medicine. What followed was a deep dive into physics, light, magnetism, and electricity—fields he argues are foundational to human biology but ignored by conventional healthcare. "Modern medicine lacks a deep understanding of how humans function in relation to the natural world," Kruse has said, critiquing a system he views as profit-driven and overly centralized.
By 2022, Kruse had relocated to El Salvador, drawn by its adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender in September 2021—a move spearheaded by Bukele that Kruse likens to Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets igniting colonial fervor. "Bitcoin's change to legal tender status in El Salvador will soon do the same for Salvadorans," he wrote in a 2022 blog post, drawing parallels between the cryptocurrency's resilience and the fight for self-mastery. Today, as CEO of the Kruse Longevity Center with outposts in the U.S. and El Salvador, Kruse practices what he calls "decentralized medicine": a patient-empowered model emphasizing circadian rhythms, sunlight exposure, and mitochondrial health over pharmaceuticals.
El Salvador, with its equatorial latitude and minimal light pollution, became Kruse's natural laboratory. "Volcanoes are the life force of the Earth," he mused during a 2024 real estate discovery trip, highlighting the country's geothermal energy as a metaphor for rebirth. His home, dubbed "the Ark," overlooks volcanic calderas and serves as a hub for clients seeking protocols rooted in nature's "light, water, and magnetism." Here, water isn't just a beverage—it's a quantum powerhouse, and Kruse's work on deuterium-depleted water (DDW) is transforming how Salvadorans access and harness this vital resource.
The Quantum Waters of El Salvador: Deuterium Depletion and Hydration Sovereignty
Central to Kruse's philosophy is the "three-legged stool" of light, water, and magnetism, with water as the often-overlooked conductor of life's quantum orchestra. In his view, not all water is created equal. Deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, accumulates in the body from processed foods, artificial light, and environmental toxins, gumming up the mitochondrial machinery like sand in an engine. "Deuterium is the heavier isotope of hydrogen. It has double the atomic mass," Kruse explains in his writings, noting how it increases water's viscosity, slowing biochemical reactions and accelerating aging. DDW, by contrast, is "light water"—low in deuterium, enabling smoother electron flow in cells and boosting energy production.
El Salvador's volcanic geology is a goldmine for this work. Kruse discovered DDW reservoirs deep beneath the Lempa River basin, an area long dismissed as arid. In a 2025 presentation to Bukele's administration, he challenged a weather manipulation proposal to harvest water from Honduras, instead spotlighting these subterranean sources. "A year later, no water was harvested from Honduras, but we found DDW deep below the basin where people said there was no water," Kruse recounted on X. This isn't mere hydrology; it's health infrastructure. By tapping geothermal processes that naturally distill deuterium, El Salvador can produce DDW at scale—affordable, pure, and aligned with Kruse's epi-paleo protocols.
His initiatives extend to better access for all. Through RENACER, Kruse is piloting community filtration systems using volcanic minerals to deplete deuterium locally, bypassing imported bottled water riddled with contaminants. "Mitochondrial water production is critical... Liquid water made in the mitochondrial matrix is the most wondrous chemical Nature has ever built," he emphasizes, linking solar-driven DDW production to longevity. In clinics, patients sip customized elixirs: DDW mixed with fluoride-free sea salt for mitochondrial fuel, enhancing protocols that already leverage morning sunlight to "hack time" for health. This democratizes hydration—Bitcoin payments fund wells in rural areas, ensuring even remote Salvadorans access water that supports, rather than sabotages, their biology.
Critics might call it fringe, but results are tangible: Clients report sharper cognition and reduced inflammation after weeks on DDW regimens, validated by heteroplasmy tests showing organ-specific deuterium drops. Kruse ties this to broader reforms, embedding water safety—free from fluoride and deuterium bombs like seed oils—into constitutional amendments for medical freedom.
Forging Ties with Bukele's Vision
Kruse's involvement with the Salvadoran government began organically but quickly deepened. In 2024, he emerged as an advisor to Bukele, particularly on health policy. During a podcast appearance on The Mikkel Show, Kruse revealed he presented Bukele with a 20-point decentralization roadmap, covering everything from energy sovereignty to medical freedom. "El Salvador is an oasis of decentralization," he declared, crediting Bukele's administration for creating space for innovative reforms.
A cornerstone of this collaboration is Kruse's push for constitutional amendments to enshrine medical autonomy. In March 2024, at a Palestra Society event dubbed "The Age of Light," Bukele announced the Knowledge and Technology Assets (KAT) initiative—a framework Kruse helped draft. This law aims to overhaul peer review in science, shifting from centralized journals to peer-to-peer validation using zero-knowledge proofs and Bitcoin's Layer 2 solutions. "We plan to affect the rest of the world with our decentralized healthcare rebuild plan," Kruse tweeted, tagging Bukele and RFK Jr., whose team he had briefed earlier.
The reforms target what Kruse sees as systemic failures exposed by the COVID-19 era: mandates, censorship, and a "DoD product" (his term for certain vaccines) that he claims has worsened health outcomes. In El Salvador, he's piloting tools like heteroplasmy ratio assessments—measuring mitochondrial dysfunction organ-by-organ—to personalize treatments. Clients receive customized reports post-consultation, emphasizing how "polarized and unpolarized light" influences aging. "Aging is not one number. Each organ tells its own story," he explains.
Bukele's Bitcoin bet amplifies these efforts. Kruse views cryptocurrency as a "global mitochondria"—a decentralized energy source mirroring cellular powerhouses. In a nation where Bitcoin remittances cut out predatory fees, health sovereignty follows suit: patients pay in sats for consultations, bypassing insurance cartels. Kruse's company, RENACER ("rebirth" in Spanish), founded in 2022 near a volcanic caldera, embodies this ethos, recycling natural resources for wellness—including DDW harvesting that powers both bodies and Bitcoin mining via geothermal energy.
Bitcoin Historico: Bridging Medicine and Money
Kruse's ideas found a receptive audience at Bitcoin Historico, a 2025 conference in El Salvador celebrating the nation's Bitcoin milestone. Amid panels on on-chain economies and circular adoption, Kruse delivered a talk weaving decentralized medicine into the Bitcoin narrative. "Bitcoin is a time machine," he told attendees, arguing that just as the protocol preserves value against inflation, biohacks like morning sunlight "hack time" for longevity. He extended this to water: "Mix deuterium-depleted water... with fluoride-free sea salt. This isn’t just hydration—it’s mitochondrial fuel."
Drawing from his keynote at BTC Prague earlier that year—"Bitcoin Time Hacks: Mastering Time for Health and Longevity"—Kruse challenged Bitcoiners to extend sovereignty beyond wallets. "As bitcoiners, we have already mastered the art of the effect of time on our money; now it's time to develop the art of making time work for our health." He spotlighted blue light's dangers (linking it to CIA experiments on apathy) and red light's restorative power, urging the crowd to "reclaim your biology" alongside your keys—starting with sourcing DDW from local volcanoes to fuel that reclamation.
The event buzzed with synergy: Kruse promoted his first endorsed food product—a nutrient-dense staple aligned with his epi-paleo principles—available in Bitcoin. Attendees, from plebs to podcasters, engaged on how blockchain could secure medical data or fund regenerative farming. One highlight? A fireside chat tying Kruse's exile from U.S. medicine to Bitcoin's promise of individual sovereignty. "From deplatformed doctors to shadowbanned dissidents," the panel description noted, "free speech is fragile—especially when it challenges narratives around health, money, and power." Discussions veered into water access: How could Bitcoin finance DDW infrastructure, turning volcanic aquifers into a national asset for health and energy?
Bitcoin Historico wasn't just talks; it was praxis. Kruse hosted live discussions at his Ark, echoing a December 2024 podcast marathon with Robert Breedlove on What is Money?, where they dissected Bitcoin as a "decentralized revolution" against AI threats and centralized healthcare.
A Call to Asymmetric Magic
Kruse's El Salvador saga is a savage rebuttal to complacency. "Where there is power, there is resistance," he tweeted in November 2025, invoking nature's quantum magic. For Bitcoiners, his message is clear: Decentralization isn't optional—it's evolutionary. In a world of fiat ovens and mRNA mandates, El Salvador offers a portal: sunlight-soaked beaches, volcano-fueled rebirth, deuterium-pure waters, and a president betting on code over kings.
Critics dismiss Kruse as fringe, but his results—clinics thriving, laws passing, aquifers unlocked—speak louder. As he prepares for more visitors in 2025, including clinician cohorts for decentralized training, one thing's certain: In Bukele's oasis, medicine and money are merging into something unbreakable. For those ready to jump, the window's open. Spears up, LFG.