Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue
Learn to see your body through a different lens.
There comes a point where you begin to sense that what you are experiencing cannot be fully explained by symptoms alone. Patterns repeat, progress feels incomplete, and something deeper is asking to be understood. I’m Dr. Rue, a naturopathic physician focused on chronic illness and integrative oncology, where the work is not about chasing conditions, but about observing the terrain in which they arise.
In this space, we explore how the body adapts, how systems communicate, and how environment, metabolism, and lived experience shape what you feel day to day. The body is not random, and it is not working against you. It responds in ways that reflect its internal and external worlds. As you begin to understand those responses, your relationship with your health begins to change.
These are quiet, intentional conversations designed to bring clarity without removing complexity. If you have ever felt that your experience does not fit into a simple explanation, you are not alone. This is a place to listen more closely, to reconnect, and to begin seeing what may have been there all along.
Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue
The Frog That Changed Biology | Ep. 062
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
If life is electric, how would we know? We cannot see the current itself, yet every heartbeat, every thought, every muscle contraction, and every signal exchanged between cells depends on it. From the moment life begins until the moment it ends, electricity is never absent from the conversation.
Perhaps the more interesting question is not whether the body is electrical, but how often we overlook what has been there all along. If electricity is fundamental to life, what might become possible when we begin viewing health through that lens instead of seeing chemistry alone?
Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue
Decoding Disease with Dr. Rue
LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram | X | New Legacy Natural Medicine
In the last episode, we ended with a question. What if life itself was electrical? It's a strange question when you think about it. When most of us hear the word electricity, we picture lightning, power lines, or the outlet on the wall. We don't picture ourselves. But that question isn't new. Scientists have been asking it for more than two hundred years, and believe it or not, the story begins with a frog. I know, not exactly the dramatic opening you were expecting. But by the end of this episode, I think you'll understand why that frog changed biology forever. Our story begins in the late 1700s with an Italian physician named Luigi Galvani. Like Benjamin Franklin, Galvani wasn't trying to become famous. He was simply trying to understand how the body worked. One day, while studying a frog, something happened that made no sense. The frog wasn't alive. The tissue had already been prepared, and yet the leg suddenly twitched. Imagine seeing that for the first time. You know the animal is dead. It shouldn't move, but it just did. Most people probably would have dismissed it and moved on, although I on the other hand would have jumped out of my skin, just being honest. But Galvani could not. The question stayed with him. So he went back and repeated the experiment. Then he repeated it again. Every time he came back to the same question, why? Why would dead tissue respond like that? Galvani eventually came to a remarkable conclusion. He believed living tissue had its own form of electricity. He even gave it a name, animal electricity. Now, whether Galvani got every detail right isn't really the point. The important part is the question he asked. Could electricity exist inside living things? Suddenly, Benjamin Franklin's experiment didn't feel so far away. Franklin had shown that lightning and electricity were connected. Galvani, on the other hand, wondered if electricity could be woven into life itself. Now here's where the story takes an interesting turn. Another scientist looked at Galvani's work and said, I don't think that's what's happening. The two disagreed, and believe it or not, that disagreement ended up pushing science forward. Some of the greatest discoveries in history begin exactly that way. Not with everyone agreeing, but with someone asking, What if you're wrong? That debate would eventually lead to one of the most important inventions the world has ever seen. But it also brought scientists one step closer to answering the question we ended with in the last episode. If life really is electrical, how do we prove it? And if we prove it, what does that mean for the way we understand the human body? That's exactly where we're going next.