Red Light and Methylene Blue | GenX Hits Menopause E23
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In Red Light and Blue, Heather geeks out with Dr. Sarah Secor-Jones — ER physician, active-duty military doctor, and founder of Lesh Lifestyle — on the one organ system nobody told us about in midlife: our mitochondria.
Dr. Sarah pulls back the curtain on why women hit a wall in our 40s and 50s, and why “clean energy” isn’t just for the power grid — it’s the actual currency of how our bodies work. The ovary alone packs 100,000 mitochondria per cell. When that engine starts to sputter, everything from fatigue to brain fog to muscle loss starts to make sense.
This is a science-forward conversation that doesn’t talk down to anyone. Methylene blue, red light therapy, CoQ10, NAD — it’s all on the table, and Dr. Sarah explains the why behind protocols you may have heard tossed around in the longevity world.
Conversations include:
- Mitochondria Are the Story The ovary holds a hundred thousand mitochondria per cell — orders of magnitude more than the liver or kidneys. Mitochondrial health is midlife women’s health.
- Methylene Blue: Clean Energy in 20 Minutes The “instantaneous” mitochondrial boost women are actually feeling, and why energy — not willpower — is what gets us back to the gym, back to the work, back to ourselves.
- The Double Mitochondrial Boost Why stacking red light therapy 20 minutes after methylene blue gives you compounded benefit — the protocol Dr. Sarah uses in clinic.
- Smarter Supplementation If you’re loading NAD without enough CoQ10 in the system, theoretically you can make things worse — oxidative stress and neurodegeneration. Stacking matters.
- Gen X Won’t Suffer In Silence Our moms suffered through this in silence. We saw what happened. We’re not doing that — and Dr. Sarah is here for it.
Listen in for an unflinching, optimistic, and very practical look at mitochondrial health in midlife — and the reason “clean energy” might just be the most important conversation women in our generation can be having right now.
About Dr. Sarah Secor-Jones
Dr. Sarah Secor-Jones, DO, CHSE, FACEP is a board-certified emergency physician, active-duty military doctor, and lifestyle medicine practitioner who founded Lesh Lifestyle in Sarasota, FL to bring functional, mitochondria-forward care to women navigating midlife. Her practice bridges the rigor of emergency medicine with the daily-practice lens of lifestyle physicians — she treats the body as a system, and she teaches her patients to do the same.
Her clinical focus on mitochondrial health, peptide therapy, red light therapy, and methylene blue protocols puts her at the front edge of midlife women’s wellness. Dr. Sarah is also the founder of Women’s Health Unfiltered, an online community where she answers the questions women didn’t feel safe asking their last doctor — bluntly, with science behind every answer.
What makes Dr. Sarah’s voice rare is the combination: an active-duty military physician who pulls shifts in the ER, who also runs a longevity-forward clinical practice, who also takes the time to explain CoQ10 vs. NAD in plain English on a podcast. She’s exactly the kind of doctor Gen X women have been looking for — and didn’t know they were allowed to find.
Learn more about Dr. Sarah's work at Lesh Lifestyle
Episode Highlights
The Powerhouse Organ
"In the ovary there is a hundred thousand mitochondria per cell… And that makes so much sense to why we would — from an overall health span perspective of women — look at mitochondrial health, for midlife women and all women in general, but like midlife, especially in our transition."
Methylene Blue, The Longevity Hero
"Methylene blue is one of those instantaneous things, right? So it's kind of like our little saving grace. It helps us get over that edge and give us back — because when we give back women energy, they actually feel like maybe working out or actually going to the gym or actually finishing work."
Dosing & Augmentation
"Methylene blue and red light both work on the mitochondria. So you actually get a double mitochondrial boost if you red light 20 minutes after you use methylene blue. Now you've just double-dosed basically your mitochondrial function."
The CoQ10 Connection
"CoQ10 is an electron transporter in the mitochondria. So let's just say you're taking a lot of NAD… If you're feeding complex one all this NAD but you're not optimizing the system in having enough CoQ10, theoretically you can make too many extra electrons that cause oxidative species and you cause neurodegeneration inflammation."
Community and Speaking Up
"I think that we just sit and suffer in silence too long. Y'all saw what happened to your moms, and you are not taking that for an answer, and that is amazing. That's exactly what we need, right? Like, oh hell no."
