© Courtney Hunt, MD, 2026 Vibration-Sensitive Recognition and Redundant Fidelity in Mammalian Fertilization Biological recognition is often described as a classical lock-and-key process governed by molecular shape and binding affinity. However, several biological systems operate on timescales and with selectivity that exceed what steric complementarity and thermal chemistry alone can explain. In these systems, energetic compatibility and electron dynamics precede biochemical

© Courtney Hunt, MD, 2026 Transient coherence between two adult human cells as the physical origin of axis formation, developmental unity, and protection from mosaicism Human fertilization is usually described as a calcium-driven biochemical activation event. While intracellular calcium oscillations are essential for egg activation, calcium alone does not explain how a single unified organism emerges instead of a collection of partially independent cells. It also does not exp

© Courtney Hunt, MD, 2026 Abstract Quantum mechanics permits correlations between entangled systems that appear to transcend classical notions of space and time. These correlations do not allow faster-than-light signaling, energy transfer, or message transmission, yet they challenge the assumption that causal structure must be local and strictly forward-propagating at or below the speed of light. Drawing on interaction-free measurement, time-symmetric interpretations of quant

© Courtney Hunt, MD, 2026 Abstract Autophagy is widely promoted as a universal intervention for metabolic health and longevity. However, in women, fasting-induced autophagy produces heterogeneous effects on fertility and reproductive aging. This discrepancy is best explained by differences in leptin signaling and its circadian integration via hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons. This review outlines how leptin status determines whether autophagy is reparative or