What is the Quantum Biology of Light - Part I (Video 2 of 9)

What is the Quantum Biology of Light?

This is the second of five blog posts in my series on the Pillars of Quantum Biology.  The Pillars of Quantum Biology include water, light, sound and frequency.

In this post we're going to be looking at how light impacts our body and how it is a fundamental pillar of how I'm defining quantum biology and quantum biological health.

In 2017, three researchers were given the Nobel Prize for their work on Chronobiology. Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rose Bash, and Michael Young are three researchers who first discovered circadian genes. Almost every single cell in our body contains these circadian genes.

What they discovered, and many others have been researching since, is how light impacts our biology, and the impact is foundational. Light is impacting almost every single organ system and biological function in the body from our neurology, our neurological function, how our brain works, our cardiovascular system, how our heart works, our respiratory system, our digestive system, how our immune system functions, how our hormonal state is set up and how our inflammatory state is balanced or in a state of imbalance.

The light in our environment plays a foundational role in our health. Those quanta of light, those photons, play a vital role in how our body functions. We have evolved over millennia on this earth with the rising and setting of the sun as our primordial influence.

For millennia, we have been aligned with this rhythm and that spectrum of light in the rising and setting of the sun that happens. The red light, infrared light, UVA, UVB, not to mention the colors that are there, that visible spectrum of violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red all impact our biology.

Now, this goes hand in hand with what research is being done on light therapies, especially in that red and infrared spectrum. We can see quite clearly that this impacts our pain, our inflammatory state, our mitochondrial function and various proteins in the body.

For example, light impacts our mitochondria. Our mitochondrial electron transport chain of four proteins and that fifth protein of the ATP synthase creates cellular energy. The fifth protein in the electron transport chain turns in response to the protons in that inner mitochondrial membrane space. The fifth protein, ATP synthase, pulls a proton into the mitochondrial matrix to produce that final molecule of ATP, the energy source of our body.

Douglas Wallace has done amazing research showing that almost all of our chronic diseases can be associated with a dip and mitochondrial function, making mitochondrial ATP production and mitichondrial health and function overall paramount for our health.

The light in our environment is so important and there are so many things in our body that react to it from melanin, to opsins, to chromophores in our body, like in the electron transport chain of the mitochondria. There are actual parts of those proteins that are able to capture that light information and use it to excite the complex and create more efficiency in our mitochondria.

And we haven't even talked about how our cells communicate via our own biophoton emission, our own light emission, and communicate in the infrared spectrum as well.

When we're talking about quantum biology for health, we have a wealth of research and evidence showing how light impacts our biology. We should be using that information to support our own health, our clients and our patients in achieving that vitality and state of health that we all deserve.

Thank you so much for joining me. 

To learn more about the Four Pillars of Quantum Biology, please enjoy these blog posts on Sound, Water, and Frequency