Seeing the light

After a torrid summer, with renewed warnings about sunlight and cancer, and the need for suncream to block out ultraviolet (UV) rays, the latest medical research suggests UV light may actually be an amazing healer. It was well known and used in the 1950s but largely discarded with the rise (and rise) of the pharmaceutical industry.

The effectiveness of UV light all has to do with the fact that light is produced in the body and is a communication system beyond chemistry and electrical signaling.

Its discovery occurred 55 years ago by Fritz-Albert Popp, a young theoretical biophysicist at the University of Marburg in Germany. He’d been illuminating benzo[a]pyrene, a polycyclic hydrocarbon known to be one of the most lethal carcinogens to humans, with ultraviolet light.

What he discovered was that benzo[a]pyrene had a crazy optical property. It absorbed the light but then changed its frequency before re-emitting it, like a CIA operative intercepting a communication signal from the enemy and jumbling it up.

Popp then performed the same test on benzo[e]pyrene, another polycyclic hydrocarbon, which is virtually identical in every way to benzo[a]pyrene save for a tiny alteration in its molecular makeup. This tiny difference in one of the compound rings was critical as it rendered benzo[e]pyrene harmless to humans. With this particular chemical, the light passed right through unaltered.

Popp tested 37 other chemicals, only some of which were known to cause cancer. Eventually he could detect carcinogenic substances based only on his test results. All of these compounds absorbed UV light and then changed its frequency. But the carcinogens reacted to light only at a specific frequency—380 nanometers (nm) in the UVA band.

Popp then encountered information about a phenomenon called “photo-repair.”

It’s very well known from biological laboratory experiments that if you blast a cell with UV light so that 99 percent of the cell, including its DNA, is destroyed, you can then almost entirely repair the damage in a single day just by illuminating the cell with the same wavelength of a very weak intensity.

Popp also knew that patients with a skin condition called xeroderma pigmentosum eventually die of skin cancer because their photo-repair system doesn’t work and so doesn’t repair solar damage. Popp was shocked to learn that photo-repair works most efficiently at 380 nm—the very same frequency the cancer-causing compounds would react to and scramble in his tests.

Popp worked out that if the carcinogens react only to this frequency, it must somehow be linked to photo-repair. If so, this would mean there must be some light in the body responsible for that mechanism.

After exhaustive testing, he discovered all living things, from the most basic single-celled plants to the most sophisticated organisms, like human beings, emitted a constant tiny current of photons—tiny particles of light. He labeled them “biophoton emissions” and believed he had uncovered the primary communication channel of living organisms: They use light as a means of signaling to themselves and to the outside world.

For more than 40 years, Popp argued that this faint radiation, rather than biochemistry, is the true driving force in orchestrating and coordinating all cellular processes in the body, and by the time of his death in 2018, the German government and more than 50 scientists around the world had come to agree with him.

Biophoton emission, Popp found, reflects the state of the body’s energy production in the mitochondria and the likelihood of suffering oxidative stress.

Popp’s pioneering work was bolstered by a Russian physicist named Konstantin Korotkov, a professor at ITMO University (the Russian National University of Informational Technology, Mechanics and Optics, formerly St Petersburg State University). Korotkov worked out that he could measure this faint light far more easily when he ran an electromagnetic field through it, which excited it hundreds of thousands of times.

He developed a gas discharge visualization (GDV) device, which used state-of-the-art optics, digitized television matrices and a powerful computer—a blend of photography, measurements of light intensity, and computerized pattern recognition. A computer program would then extrapolate from this a real-time image of the “biofield” surrounding the organism and deduce from it the state of the organism’s health.

By 2007, the GDV device was widely used as a general diagnostic tool and as a means to evaluate a patient’s progress after surgery. The Russian Ministry of Sport had begun to take notice of Korotkov and his machinery, even using it to assess the state of athletes training for the Olympics. Outside Russia, thousands of medical practitioners now use Korotkov’s machine as a medical early warning system.

Measuring light, as Korotkov recognized, is a fast track to diagnosing illness, and as we’ve now discovered, ultraviolet light at the right frequency is a curing agent. Narrowband UV light is being used in clinics around the world to eliminate pathogens of all varieties, plus fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases, shingles and herpes, chronic Lyme, and even long Covid.

All we need to do now is convince the rest of the medical establishment—so wedded to the biochemistry model of cell regulation that Popp rejected and the use of dangerous and often ineffective chemicals to treat conditions—to use light to “retune” one of our body’s most important energies.

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