After a torrid summer, with renewed warnings about UV sunlight and cancer, and the need for suncream to block out ultraviolet (UV) rays, the latest medical treatments suggest that UV light may actually be an amazing healer.
This 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 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, who’d been illuminating benzo[a]pyrene, a polycyclic hydrocarbon, which is 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 re-emitted it at a completely different frequency, like some 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 the substance unaltered.
Popp performed his test on 37 other chemicals, some cancer-causing, some not. After a while, it got so that he could predict which substances could cause cancer. In every instance, the compounds that were carcinogenic took the UV light, absorbed it, and changed the frequency. But each of the carcinogens reacted only to the light at a specific frequency – 380 nanometers.
Popp then came across information about a phenomenon called ‘photo-repair.’
It is very well known from biological laboratory experiments that if you can blast a cell with UV light so that 99 per cent of the cell, including its DNA, is destroyed, you can 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 nanometers – the very same frequency the cancer-causing compounds would react to and scramble.
Popp worked out that if the carcinogens only react to this frequency, it must somehow be linked to photo-repair. If so, this would mean that there must be some light in the body responsible for that mechanism.
After exhaustive testing, Popp discovered all living things, from the most basic of single-celled plants to the most sophisticated of organisms like human beings, emitted a constant tiny current of photons – tiny particles of light. He labeled them ‘biophoton emissions’ and believed that he had uncovered the primary communication channel of a living organism – that it used light as a means of signalling to itself 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 Popp’s death in 2018, the German government and more than 50 scientists around the world had come to agree with him.
Popp’s pioneering work was bolstered by a Russian physicist named Konstantin Korotkov, a professor at what’s now called ITMO University (the Russian National University of Informational Technology, Mechanics and Optics, formerly St Petersburg State University) after working 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 and made it far easier to measure.
He developed a Gas Discharge Visualization (GDV) device, which made use of 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 diagnosis 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 machines as a medical early warning system.
Measuring light, as Korotkov recognized, is a fast track to diagnosing illness, and we now discover, ultraviolet light at the right frequency is a curing agent.
A narrow band of UV light is being used in clinics around the world to eliminate pathogens of all varieties, plus fibromyalgia, autautoimmune diseases, shingles and herpes, chronic Lyme and even long Covid. It’s been successfully used to heal psoriasis and tuberculosis, even T cell lymphoma, and it appears to have a positive effect on cholesterol levels.
But what about the sun’s UV light? According to many practitioners like California naturopath Brian Cox, sensible sun exposure – short-term exposure during morning hours, avoiding the midday sun – is essential for our health. And what causes cancer is not the sun per se, but cellular mutation from a lack of vitamin D, which we don’t get enough of if we always slather ourselves in sunblocks.
All we need to do now is convince the rest of the medical establishment – so wedded to the use of dangerous and often ineffective chemicals to treat conditions – to use light to ‘retune’ one of our body’s most important energies.
