In the quest for optimal health, we often focus on food, supplements, movement, and rest—but there’s a vital, overlooked element running through every living cell: light.
Not just sunlight on your skin. Not just vitamin D.
We’re talking about biophotons, highly coherent light emissions that may be central to the communication, regulation, and vitality of your body. Modern science is only just beginning to understand them, but the implications are profound.
🔬 What Are Biophotons?
Biophotons are light particles emitted by living cells. First discovered by Russian scientist Alexander Gurwitsch in the 1920s, and later rigorously studied by Fritz-Albert Popp, these light emissions occur in the ultraviolet to visible spectrum and are not produced by heat (non-thermal).
The intensity is measured at about 10⁻¹⁹ to 10⁻¹⁶ watts per square centimetre, and their presence is constant—and meaningful.
“All living systems emit light… and the coherence of that light is a measure of the system’s order, its health, its vitality.”
— Fritz-Albert Popp, PhD
📡 The Role of Biophotons in the Body
Research suggests that biophotons may:
- Act as messenger particles in a quantum communication system between cells
- Be involved in regulation of DNA, metabolism, immune response, and cellular repair
- Provide a measure of the body’s health, as more coherent emissions are associated with greater order and vitality
Cells may use light rather than chemicals to pass information quickly and efficiently. DNA itself is believed to store and emit photons, acting as both a receiver and broadcaster of biological information.
🧬 Popp’s experiments found that:
- Healthy organisms emit more coherent (laser-like) light
- Cancer cells emit disordered, chaotic light
- Organic foods emit stronger biophoton signals than conventionally grown or processed foods
🥩 The Destructive Impact of Meat and Processed Foods
While living foods emit measurable biophotons and contribute to cellular vitality, meat and processed foods do the opposite—they disrupt the body’s light field, congest the system, and contribute to premature degeneration.
Meat is entirely devoid of biophotons. Once an animal dies, the electromagnetic light it once held is gone. By the time it’s been slaughtered, stored, and cooked, it has become a dead substance that places enormous burden on the digestive and eliminative systems. It contributes to putrefaction in the gut, produces acidic waste, and slows down the flow of energy through the body’s natural channels.
Processed foods are even worse. Chemically altered, irradiated, preserved, and devitalised, these non-foods are engineered for shelf life, not for life-force. Not only do they lack coherent light, but their consumption interferes with the body’s self-regulating systems—contributing to inflammation, fatigue, hormonal disruption, and chronic illness.
If the body is a photonic engine, as Fritz-Albert Popp said, then living on dead food is like fuelling a fire with ash. To heal and thrive, we must return to nature’s design: fresh, raw, light-infused food grown in sunlight, and water flowing from the earth.
🌿 Food, Light & Vitality
Fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, especially those grown organically and ripened by the sun, contain measurable biophoton emissions. When we eat these foods, we are not just consuming vitamins and minerals—we are absorbing living light.
Cooking and processing destroy these photons, which aligns with the Natural Hygiene principle that living foods support life, and dead foods support degeneration.
A quote worth remembering:
“Our bodies are not just chemical factories—they are photonic engines.”
This perspective makes sense of why people often feel lighter, more energised, and mentally clearer on a diet high in raw, sun-fed foods.
🔗 Scientific Research on Biophotons
Here are key papers and sources for further exploration:
- Popp, F.A. (1979).
Biophoton emission: New evidence for coherence and DNA as the source.
Read summary here - Fels, D. (2009).
Cell communication through light.
PubMed – NCBI - Bischof, M. (2005).
Biophotons – The Light in Our Cells.
Science & Nonduality Article - Salari et al. (2015).
Biophoton emission: insights from theoretical and experimental studies.
Springer Link - Van Wijk, R. & Van Wijk, E. (2005).
Biophotons and the human body.
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology
🌞 Other Ways to Support Your Biophoton Field
Besides raw food, other ways to enhance your internal light include:
- Sunlight exposure: Especially at sunrise and sunset to entrain circadian rhythms
- Avoiding EMF pollution: Man-made frequencies can interfere with cellular coherence
- Grounding: Connecting to Earth’s electromagnetic field may stabilise energy systems
- Fasting and cleansing: Helps clear out metabolic waste that disrupts light flow
- Emotional healing: Stress, trauma, and fear can cloud the system’s inner order
🧠 Final Thought: The Body is Light
Mainstream science is beginning to catch up to what ancient traditions have long said:
We are beings of light.
Not metaphorically—but literally.
Supporting the body’s light is not a fringe idea; it is a return to biological truth. The more light we allow in—through food, thought, environment, and consciousness—the more vital, intelligent, and self-healing our bodies become.