Huna Makia — Energy Flows Where Attention Goes

How AI and Ancient Wisdom Helped Me Clear the Fog of Long COVID

At a gas-station pump, I couldn’t remember my own ZIP code — a number I’d typed a thousand times. I had designed guidance systems at MIT and built an AI company, and Long COVID had taken the one tool I’d always relied on: my mind.

It took me nearly five years to find my way out. My brain-fog score went from a 9 out of 10 in June 2021 to a steady 3 by January 2026. Huna Makia is the map I wish someone had handed me at that pump.

Here’s the whole book in one sentence: the fog is an energy problem, and you have far more power over your energy than anyone told you. Not willpower — energy, the real physical kind your cells make every second. Grounded in the mitochondrial science of Dr. Martin Picard at Columbia, and built around a Hawaiian principle — huna makia, energy flows where attention goes — the book turns a five-year recovery into a concrete, trackable protocol anyone can follow.

The book is finished and seeking a publisher. While that’s underway, here are two sample chapters.

Read the sample chapters

Prologue: The Five Digits I Couldn’t Remember — https://hunamakia.substack.com/p/prologue-the-five-digits-i-couldnt

Chapter 3: You Are Energy — The Mitochondrial Key — https://hunamakia.substack.com/p/chapter-3-you-are-energy-the-mitochondrial

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Table of Contents

Prologue — The Five Digits I Couldn’t Remember

How to Use This Book — Your Path Out of the Fog

Part I — The Crisis: What Long COVID Did to My Brain (Chapters 1–5)

Part II — The Guiding Principle: Meeting the Mentor (Chapters 6–7)

Part III — The Tool: Finding Solutions with AI (Chapters 8–10)

Part IV — The Solution: The Recovery Protocol (Chapters 11–15)

Part V — The Return: Lessons and the Path Forward (Chapters 16–18)

Appendices — protocol summary, tracking templates, AI conversation excerpts, peer-reviewed research, questions for your doctor, and the attention audit

This is a companion page for Huna Makia: Energy Flows Where Attention Goes, a complete book currently seeking a publisher. This is one person’s recovery account, not medical advice.

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