Biophotons – … no fairy tales

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Biophotons, a made-up word that comes from the Greek βίος (bios = life) and φῶς (phos = light).

Alexander Gurwitsch (October 8, 1874 - July 27, 1954), Russian biologist and physician, found in germinating onions that living cells, in his opinion, mitogenetic Emit radiation (a very weak light). He believed that this radiation could trigger cell division.

In 1954, the Italian astronomers Laura Colli and Ugo Facchini succeeded in detecting weak but constant light emissions from living plants using a large photomultiplier in single-photon counting mode.

In 1975, the German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp (May 11, 1938 - August 4, 2018) succeeded in detecting biophotons: they emit a very weak light in the range of 200 to 800 nm. His doctoral student Bernhard Ruth first experimented with cucumber and potato germs , then also with living animal cells. He found that the intensity decreased over time. If a freshly picked leaf has a high intensity, it decreases as wilting progresses.

Today his observation of the variable intensity levels of emitted biophotons is used industrially Quality determination fresh Chinese herbs are used.

Another area is photobiomodulation used in medicine as part of photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT), e.g Type 2 diabetics. Here, the sensitivity of the mitochondria to photons is used, whose non-ionizing electromagnetic (light) energy causes photochemical changes in cellular structures. In particular, the visible and near-infrared (NIR) spectrum is absorbed by the energy-producing mitochondria.

Vitamin D synthesis, which leads to a photochemical reaction through the action of sunlight on the skin cells, which ultimately forms vitamin D3, is also a photobiomodulatory process. The precise coordination of the wavelength of the light with the absorbing target cell determines its efficiency.

The effect is just as well founded polarized light or the HeNe LASER with 632.8 nm on skin cells in relation to the acceleration of the healing process or the strength of scar tissue, etc.

According to current knowledge, biophotons are not emitted by dead objects, but only by living cells. Likewise, it has not yet been proven that information can be transferred from dead materials (e.g. rock) to others, such as water, as is often done by Manufacturers of water filter systems presented in advertising brochures.