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For decades, the brain has been considered a machine carrying electrical impulses and neurotransmitters. But if it’s more than that, what if it uses light?
Yes, the real light – Saint Faint, known as Biophoton, ultra-tiny light emissions.
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Pioneering biophysicist Fritz Albert Pop has demonstrated that living things emit small bursts of light. Using a photomultiplier tube, a highly sensitive photodetector, he showed that light appears in ultraviolet rays.
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Detection of ultrawave photon emissions has also been reported in bacteria, fungi, seed, and animal tissues.
After Popp’s discovery, biophysicists theorized that bioterror child could regulate cell function, metabolism, replication, and regeneration.
Although still being discussed, biophotons could also be used for communication.
How neurons produce light
Scientists still debate exactly how biophotons occur in the body, but general theory refers to metabolic processes involving reactive oxygen species (ROS), particularly.
ROS is a highly reactive oxygen-based molecule that can harm your cells in large quantities. However, they also play an important role in normal cellular function. When ROS interacts with certain cellular components, it returns to a more stable state, it can create “excitation” molecules that emit small flashes of light (photons called).
Mitochondria, often referred to as cell power plants, may be an important contributor to generating these prominent bursts of glow.
To understand how these excitation molecules emit light, imagine it as a miniature solar system with atoms centered around them with nuclei and surrounding electrons. When electrons absorb energy, they jump into higher orbits. When it returns to a lower orbit, it emits its extra energy in the form of light, like a small firework show inside an atom.
Modern quantum mechanics has significantly improved this “bohr model,” which states that positively charged nuclei are surrounded by negative electrons moving around the nucleus in orbits corresponding to different energy levels, but the idea of the core remains.
Neurons appear to employ a similar process, allowing these subtle faint glows, or bioterror child to be produced correctly in our own body.
The healing power of light
These optical signals may be important for healing.
When a cell is injured, some scientists believe it releases a burst of light to show distress, such as sending an SOS beacon. Think about how your body instinctively repairs a knee that has been shaved by pointing immune cells and nutrients to the damaged area. Neurons may employ similar strategies to initiate repair using light.
Some scientists suggest that bioterrorism at different wavelengths generated in the body can help activate different healing mechanisms and repair cells.
Scientists are actively investigating phototherapy as a potential treatment for conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, brain damage, and stroke. If external light helps to heal the body, it may be possible that the light we produce has similar resilience within ourselves.
The relationship between light and cellular function is not limited to healing, but rather indicates the beginning of life.
Surprisingly, scientists took actual images of what happens when eggs and sperm cells first meet. A burst of light is emitted.
Often called “zinc sparks,” this flash marks the beginning of a new life. It’s as if the cells recognize each other through light before they begin to divide.
This raises an interesting question: is Light the original language of the body?
Do we suck light from food?
If biophotons are the language our bodies use to communicate, our choices (eating, environment, thoughts, beliefs) can determine the clarity of that conversation.
Popp explained that eating “sucks light from food,” but not as a practical process of extracting and using light energy stored at a biochemical level, rather than as a specific process.
Plants capture energy from sunlight and store it in chemical bonds through photosynthesis. When you eat plants, their bonds break and reorganize within the body, releasing energy that burns the body.
Just as neurons produce light, we extract light from food. When food breaks between energy states, it moves between energy states.
POPP proposed that the energy obtained from food is fundamentally light energy. This coincides with Albert Einstein’s famous equation, E =MC² (or equals the mass of energy multiplied by the velocity of the velocity of light). So, food has a physical mass, but ultimately preserves sunlight.
Eating high-quality, highly ordered light can literally improve the body’s light energy and improve cellular communication and self-healing.
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Disclaimer: The information provided is for educational purposes only and reflects the opinions of Dr. Sina McCullough, a scientist rather than a physician. It is not intended as a replacement for guidance from healthcare providers. Always talk to your healthcare provider before changing your diet, medication or lifestyle. Use this information at your own risk.
