At a conference I attended last week, I was fascinated with this diagram. . . the sun shining into the pupil, starting the cascade of hormone activity inside the brain. The sunlight stimulates the master clock in the brain via the “SCN,” the suprachiasmatic nucleus.
The presenter, Dr. Bent Formly, has three PhDs and is clearly distinguished as an expert in chemical biochemistry and biophysics. He is the author of Sex, Lies, and Menopause and Lights Out.
Dr. Formly’s presentation made me think back to the work of Dr. Doreen Virtue who teaches the importance of periodically looking into the sun and moon with the naked eye, unfiltered by auto or window glass and eye glasses.
Then today, on www.mercola.com, the following fascinating article appeared: The Power of Biological Light in Healing.
The article references the research of Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp. “Light emissions of healthy people follow a set biological rhythm for day and night and also by week and month, as though they are connected to biorhythms of the earth.”
The article reads, “However, in his studies, the light emissions from cancer patients had no such rhythms and appeared scrambled, which suggests their cells were no longer communicating properly. Likewise, according to his research, Dr. Popp found that in multiple sclerosis patients were taking in too much light, leading to a similar confusion on a cellular level. Even stress influenced people’s biophoton emissions, causing them to increase in response to the stress.”
Dr. Mercola commented on his long standing recommendation to consume a diet consisting of mostly raw food to stay optimally healthy. “This is because living raw foods contain the biophoton light energy your body needs. The more light a food is able to store, the more nutritious it is. Naturally grown fresh raw vegetables, for example, and sun-ripened fresh fruits, are rich in light energy. The capacity to store biophotons is therefore a measure of the quality of your food.”
One additional recommended source of light for the body is the 10 -15 minutes of sunlight exposure on the skin daily, which produces Vitamin D.
Well, maybe we are finally seeing the light, pun intended. : ) Seriously, the research is pointing to light’s capacity to make more energy available for healing and maintenance of optimal health.
As stated by Dr. Mercola, “I firmly believe it’s only a matter of time before the importance of light energy in your health and well-being becomes more widely recognized and applied in the field of medicine. Until then, remember that your body is not only made up of tissue, blood vessels and organs. It’s also composed of light.”
