Photo by Alex McFarland
Peter Anthony Cowan
- Environmental Health Consultant / BCQBP.
- Independent Journalist.
- Software Engineer.
- Entrepreneur.
- Composer/Musician.
Driven by curiosity, creativity, and authenticity in the search for living energy.
Photo by Alex McFarland
Driven by curiosity, creativity, and authenticity in the search for living energy.
I'm an independent journalist covering environmental health and power — what institutions knew, when they knew it, and why they didn't act. I also write research-driven pieces exploring how environmental phenomena intersect with culture, institutions, and everyday life. My work is published at Living Energy on Substack.
In early 2026, my investigation into the San Francisco 49ers' anomalous soft-tissue injury rate — linking it to their training facility's proximity to a massive electrical substation — went viral on X, drew international media coverage, and was addressed directly by the team's general manager. The story drew on years of primary-source research into environmentally driven conditions including MCAS, EDS, and POTS — what I call diseases of the information age. With two decades of experience as a software engineer, I bring a data-driven, forensic approach to investigating the biological effects of modern infrastructure. My approach is documentary — I cover what the document trail supports, not what sources allege.
I'm not an activist. My work is about uncovering what's true and giving people the information they need to make their own decisions — informed consent in the broader sense. People are only free to choose when they actually know what they're choosing between.
My passion for understanding human health — rooted in my own health struggles and complete recovery — led me to environmental health consulting. I'm a board-certified Quantum Biology Practitioner (BCQBP) and the founder of Living Energy Wellness, where I help clients identify the environmental root causes of chronic illness through EMF consulting, light and water assessments, and personalized protocols rooted in circadian science and quantum biology. I also founded Sunlight is Life, a suite of software tools for optimizing light and solar exposure based on UV forecasting and circadian scheduling.
Outside of this work, I'm a pianist, composer, and songwriter. I toured and recorded several albums with the band Slow Gherkin. I draw inspiration from the two great forces in my life — nature and human connection.
EMF consulting, water quality analysis, light environment assessments, and personalized protocols rooted in circadian science and quantum biology — at Living Energy Wellness.
Independent research into EMF-driven conditions like MCAS, EDS, and POTS — exploring the environmental root causes of chronic illness.
Living Energy on Substack — investigating environmental health and power: what institutions knew, when they knew it, and why they didn't act. Also research-driven pieces exploring how environmental phenomena intersect with culture, institutions, and everyday life.
Featured investigation: The 49ers Substation Story — linking EMF exposure to the team's epidemic of soft-tissue injuries.
Sunlight is Life — tools for optimizing light and sun exposure, grounded in circadian science and photobiology.
More to come.
Piano compositions and autobiographical essays on the creative process and cultural commentary.
Living energy is what emerges when order arises from chaos — self-organizing systems that maintain coherence against the natural pull toward disorder, through processes that seem to defy possibility. It's life itself, understood at its most fundamental level.
At the quantum scale, our cells are light-powered biological batteries. Sunlight — particularly red and infrared wavelengths — organizes intracellular water into structured, gel-like layers that store and deliver electrical energy. Electron tunneling, quantum entanglement, and coherence drive the processes that keep us alive.
Scientists call this form of water Exclusion Zone (EZ) — a fourth phase of water with crystalline structure — a biological semiconductor of electricity. The Austrian forester Viktor Schauberger intuited something more fundamental a century earlier, observing that water in nature spirals, cools, through convection patterns, continutally revitalizing itself. He called it "living water" — not merely a substance, but a living entity with its own vitality and memory.
This leads us toward a more spiritual understanding of water as an antenna, tuned to the energy and intention around it. Schauberger himself would sit for hours in the forest, listening to streams, receiving what he called messages from the water. More recently Masaru Emoto explored how water responds to consciousness itself — holding patterns, receiving information, connecting us to source.
And then there is sound. Cymatics reveals how vibration organizes water into geometric patterns — sound made visible. The Earth itself hums at 7.83 Hz, the Schumann resonance, an electromagnetic heartbeat our nervous systems evolved alongside for hundreds of thousands of years. Music, at its deepest, is coherence: resonance building, harmonics colliding into overtones and texture, harmony resolving – beauty emerging from noise. Compression waves moving through the air and into our cells, shaping us through our water.
Living energy, then, is what emerges when light, water, sound, and electromagnetism align the physical structures in our cells – and perhaps beyond. My work explores what supports these systems and what unravels them, through research, through investigation, through clinical practice, through creation and through music.