we've all known people who seemed ALL AGLOW - we've even felt it ourselves - ALL AGLOW - and, i, for one, have known all my life that my body's metabolism "shuts off" just like a "light switch" at about 2:00 pm every day - and now, scientists confirm all this: Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals.
(This visible light differs from the infrared radiation - an invisible form of light - that comes from body heat.)
To learn more about this faint visible light, scientists in Japan employed extraordinarily sensitive cameras capable of detecting single photons. Five healthy male volunteers in their 20s were placed bare-chested in front of the cameras in complete darkness in light-tight rooms for 20 minutes every three hours from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for three days.
The researchers found the body glow rose and fell over the day, with its lowest point at 10 a.m. and its peak at 4 p.m., dropping gradually after that. These findings suggest there is light emission linked to our body clocks, most likely due to how our metabolic rhythms fluctuate over the course of the day.
Faces glowed more than the rest of the body. This might be because faces are more tanned than the rest of the body, since they get more exposure to sunlight - the pigment behind skin color, melanin, has fluorescent components that could enhance the body's miniscule light production.
Since this faint light is linked with the body's metabolism, this finding suggests cameras that can spot the weak emissions could help spot medical conditions, said researcher Hitoshi Okamura, a circadian biologist at Kyoto University in Japan.
"If you can see the glimmer from the body's surface, you could see the whole body condition," said researcher Masaki Kobayashi, a biomedical photonics specialist at the Tohoku Institute of Technology in Sendai, Japan.
The scientists detailed their findings online July 16 in the journal PLoS ONE.
Charles Q. Choi
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8 comments:
this is very fascinating...I will need ot read about this more..would this light be our aura that some people can see?
yeah, i wonder the same thing! i'm not sure - need to investigate/research a bit - just came across this article this morning - perhaps the macgregors might have the answer? thanks for coming by - have a great day - jenean
There were some experiments of this nature noted in The Intention Experiment. What I'm wondering, if there is a connection with the Miguel Ruiz teachings. I have some books on this subject, but haven't read them yet. The Four Insights by Alberto Villoldo, PH.D - have you read this one?
yes, i remember, nancy, about intention experiment - but at the moment couldn't remember exactly the what of it all - i've not yet gotten the four insights but have heard others mention it - will put it in my amazon basket - interesting mention of ruiz also - i'm not sure either - thanks for coming by and leaving a note - always enjoy hearing from you - jenean
Fascinating article! I know my body glow def drops mid-afternoon!
Jenean, this is very interesting. I believe very much in this sort of thing. It's an amazing thing to me, what we don't know...yet.
I also believe there is a natural healing remedy for every disease, but there's more money in pharmaceutical, so it will be hard to change the elementary thinking in the minds of people.
I like the way you think.
xoxo
you know, what i would REALLY REALLY like, is to SEE my OWN GLOW - i FEEL my glow when i'm glowing - i really do FEEL it - know what i mean?
and, sixpence, yes, absolutely on natural healing remedies AND the pharmaceutical/medical INDUSTRY - and also, on the body's own healing ability/power - which chopra mentions [still again] in the spontaneous fulfillment of desire - and trish, i haven't been able to put the book down since it came the other day - so much so that my daughter keeps asking me what i did all day, and i tell her i read a lot - she has been admonishing me for not getting out and about more - and staying in reading, etc, all the time - so to get her to "change the subject" yesterday, i "went out" and drove down to get lunch and read as i was "out" - and then when i got home, i sat "outside" and read in my swing! sorry, ladies, i digress -
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