>> Thankyou kate
>> > I decided to send it to the forum and this way you get it too.
>> > this confirms some of what I have been doing for a long time,,, and I
>> > see it comes from KayT... well there is some karma of gratitude been
>> > solved between us after all.
>> > till soon, get in Skype and phone me soon it is for free, find me with
>> > my name in Spain or as biosonica in Spain. it is probably my server
>> > that does not send my emails to you,, and i will find out about it.
>> > please send it to the biosonic forum,, it would be good for all and it
>> > is not me that is always sending stuff to the forum.
>> > love
>> > Marysol
>> >
>> > Kate Marks escribió:
>> >> -----Forwarded Message-----
>> >>
>> >>> From: VoiceAnalysis@...
>> >>> Sent: Mar 17, 2008 5:59 PM
>> >>> To: VoiceBio@yahoogroups.com
>> >>> Subject: [VoiceBio] University acknowledges we are beings of light
>> >>>
>> >>> Frontier science at the University of Sunderland has begun to confirm
what
>> >>> many pioneer scientists have long understood: that we are beings of light
>> >>>
>> >>> Dr Gordon Dougal recently raised eyebrows after holding aloft a helmet
and
>> >>> claiming that the light emitting from it would cure Alzheimer's disease.
This
>> >>> extraordinary claim derives from research at the University of
Sunderland, in
>> >>> North East England, showing that regular exposure to low levels of
infrared
>> >>> light-at 1072 nm, a wavelength found naturally in sunlight-can improve
learning
>> >>> ability. Low levels of infrared light, such as we receive with simple
exposure
>> >>> to the sun, can restart the brain's cognitive function among people
considered
>> >>> beyond the reach of modern medicine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Dr Dougal is the director of Virulite, a medical research company based
in
>> >>> Newton Aycliffe, in County Durham, and has pioneered a treatment approach
that
>> >>> uses a lightweight helmet that is designed to deliver this frequency of
light
>> >>> at regular intervals. He is now ready to take the concept one step
further by
>> >>> initiating trials that will use the light helmet to treat dementia
patients,
>> >>> who will be required to wear the helmet for 10 minutes each day. Dougal
got the
>> >>> idea of regenerating the brain through his work with machines that use
>> >>> infrared light to fight cold sores. The light was found to boost the
immune-system
>> >>> cells responsible for killing the herpesvirus that causes cold sores.
>> >>>
>> >>> The research into the use of light to treat cognitive decline grew out of
25
>> >>> years' worth of research on light therapy to treat seasonal affective
disorder
>> >>> (SAD), a type of depression caused by a lack of exposure to sunlight.
>> >>> Scientists first theorized that geriatric patients who are living in
institutions and
>> >>> confined to their beds probably receive little natural light and are
likely
>> >>> to be suffering from light deprivation. A study in which 10 patients were
>> >>> exposed to 10,000 lux of light for 30 minutes for five days showed that
their
>> >>> depression levels decreased significantly during this high-intensity
light therapy
>> >>> compared with lower levels of light exposure. In fact, after such
exposures,
>> >>> half of the participants no longer scored within the depressed range.
>> >>> Furthermore, they found that the more depressed the patient, according to
their
>> >>> Geriatric Depression Scale scores (GDS), the greater their improvement (J
Gerontol A
>> >>> Biol Sci Med Sci, 2001; 56: M356-60).
>> >>>
>> >>> Given these findings, scientists then wondered whether light could be
used to
>> >>> treat any psychiatric disturbances other than depression. Their theory
rested
>> >>> on two assumptions: that timed exposures to light causes changes in
circadian
>> >>> (sleep-wake) cycles; and that all diseases are subject to
chronobiological
>> >>> features-that is, cycles that correspond to sunlight.
>> >>>
>> >>> That living things are at the mercy of the sun was first mooted by Dr
Franz
>> >>> Halberg, at the University of Minnesota, who discovered that many
biological
>> >>> processes appear to run according to an in-built 'clock'. All living
things
>> >>> apparently respond to the same 24-hour rhythm, in tandem with the earth's
>> >>> rotation. Halberg coined the terms chronobiology'- referring to the
influence of time
>> >>> and certain periodic cycles on biological functions-and 'circadian' from
>> >>> circa = about and dia = day) rhythms to describe daily biological cycles.
He
>> >>> created the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota and
became
>> >>> known as the father of chronobiology. And, as his lab began to discover,
>> >>> chronobiology is a readymade feature of organisms-not something learned
or acquired,
>> >>> but an inherent property of life.
>> >>>
>> >>> Besides circadian rhythms, Halberg also discovered that living things
keep in
>> >>> time with many other periodic rhythms; indeed, halfweekly, weekly,
monthly
>> >>> and yearly cycles govern virtually every biological function. The human
pulse
>> >>> and blood pressure, body temperature and blood-clotting, circulation of
ly
>> >>> mphocytes, hormonal cycles and other automatic functions of the human
body all
>> >>> appear to ebb and flow according to some basic, recurring timetable.
These rhythms
>> >>> are not unique to humans, but are present throughout nature, and evident
even
>> >>> in the fossilized forms of single-celled organisms that lived millions of
>> >>> years ago.
>> >>>
>> >>> Patients with dementia are known to have disturbed circadian rhythms. A
study
>> >>> of the 24-hour circadian atterns and the sleep-wake cycles of 77
nursing-home
>> >>> patients found that the patients slept fitfully, reflected by their
irregular
>> >>> sleep- wake cycles. Many people with dementia also spend comparatively
less
>> >>> time exposed to bright light than do other people (Sleep; 1997; 20:
18-23).
>> >>>
>> >>> Patients with dementia also have chaotic sleeping habits, with more
frequent
>> >>> bouts of waking during nighttime sleep and more frequent napping during
the
>> >>> day (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 2006; 21: 945-50). Thus far, light therapy
has
>> >>> been used to treat such mental illnesses as adult
>> >>> attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bulimia nervosa and
depression related to Parkinson's
>> >>> disease, as well as to regulate disturbances in the resting and activity
cycles of
>> >>> elderly people with
>> >>> dementia (CNS Spectr, 2005; 10: 647-63;Sleep Med Rev, 2007; 11: 497-507).
>> >>> Furthermore, a review of all randomized
>> >>> controlled trials of light treatment for dementia has shown some
improvement
>> >>> in rest-activity rhythm. Other studies have shown that it can reduce
>> >>> behavioural symptoms of dementia such as agitation and sleep disturbances
(Int J
>> >>> Geriatr
>> >>> Psychiatry, 2004; 19: 516-22; Psychiatry Res,1995; 57: 7-12).
>> >>>
>> >>> Nevertheless, it's likely that individualized systems work best. One
study of
>> >>> bright-light therapy at two psychiatric hospitals and a residential care
>> >>> facility specially designed for dementia cases found considerable gender
>> >>> differences in responses. Men and women appeared to react very
differently to the
>> >>> high-intensity, lowglare lighting system installed in public areas of the
studied
>> >>> units. In particular, women registered far less depression than men in
the
>> >>> presence of morning light.
>> >>>
>> >>> It could be that light therapy serves as a corrective of the light
emitted by
>> >>> the patients. Some 30 years ago, while investigating a cure for cancer,
>> >>> German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp stumbled upon the fact that all living
things
>> >>> emit tiny packets of light, which he called 'biophoton emissions'. He
came to
>> >>> believe that living systems maintain a delicate balance
>> >>> of light, with too much or too little indicating disease. He also
uncovered
>> >>> what he called 'delayed luminescence': when light was shone on living
cells,
>> >>> the cells would take up the light and, after a time-lag, shine more
intensely.
>> >>> Popp considered this to be a corrective effect. Also, in this instance,
when a
>> >>> living system was bombarded with too much light, it
>> >>> rejected the excess.
>> >>>
>> >>> Popp has studied these biolight emissions for many years at the
International
>> >>> Institute of Biophysics in Neuss, Germany. During this time, he has
>> >>> discovered that all of the thousands of chemical reactions in the body
that control
>> >>> each molecule
>> >>> at every moment are regulated and coordinated by low-level ultraviolet
(UV)
>> >>> light (380 nm). Light, in a sense, is the messenger that is communicating
the
>> >>> cells' reactions to each other.
>> >>>
>> >>> Popp's more recent investigations concern changes in light production
>> >>> following medical treatment. In one, medicated ointment was applied to a
spot on a
>> >>> patient's arm. In another, in a patient with psoriasis affecting both
arms, Popp
>> >>> applied the standard treatment for psoriasis, shining a UV lamp on both
>> >>> psoriatic and healthy parts of one arm for five minutes.
>> >>> After a few minutes in both these tests, Popp then measured the biophoton
>> >>> emissions from the treated parts of the arm as well as those from various
>> >>> untreated parts of the body. Using exacting equipment- devices that count
light
>> >>> emissions
>> >>> photon by photon-they discovered something remarkable. If emissions from
one
>> >>> part of the body either increased or decreased, so did those from the
other
>> >>> parts of the body.
>> >>>
>> >>> In his first such experiment, Popp found a large change in the light
>> >>> emissions not only from where he'd applied the ointment, but also from
distant parts
>> >>> of the body. What's more, the size of the changes correlated across the
entire
>> >>> body; even from those parts where no ointment had been applied, Popp
>> >>> recorded the same increase in light as from where the medicine had been
applied. In
>> >>> the psoriatic patient after receving the UV therapy, the light emissions
>> >>> roughly quadrupled from both healthy and psoriatic areas of skin, again
regardless
>> >>> of whether or not they'd been exposed to UV rays. An hour later, all
parts of
>> >>> the body-treated or untreated, healthy or unhealthy-had reverted to
identical
>> >>> light emissions, although the healthy regions of skin showed twice the
amount
>> >>> of delayed luminescence as did unhealthy regions. This may be because
healthy
>> >>> skin didn't 'need' the light and so 'got rid' of it, whereas the
psoriatic
>> >>> regions did need it and so retained it.
>> >>>
>> >>> Popp believes that he has uncovered a new channel of communications
within
>> >>> the body that uses light as a means of instantaneous, 'non-local',
signalling to
>> >>> the rest of the organism. Popp's research takes us one step closer to
>> >>> understanding how our body communicates with itself as well as with the
rest of the
>> >>> universe. Parts of the body tell each other the state of things through
tiny
>> >>> notes of light. His findings also suggest why the tools of modern
medicine so
>> >>> often have blunderbuss effects. Even if a treatment is well-targeted,
such a
>> >>> non-local communications system will cause it to have a global effect on
the
>> >>> living organism.
>> >>>
>> >>> Although light is being explored for healing wounds and other skin
>> >>> conditions, and for pain relief, light research is still in its infancy.
Each wavelength
>> >>> and frequency appears to create a different reaction, so it's important
to
>> >>> tread carefully at this
>> >>> preliminary stage.
>> >>>
>> >>> Indeed, even light can have sideeffects. Patients may experience
hypomania (a
>> >>> state between euphoria and a manic 'high') or hyperactivation of the
>> >>> autonomic nervous system, especially early in the treatment (CNS Spectr,
2005; 10:
>> >>> 647-63). Nevertheless, this is the first evidence that the signalling and
>> >>> exchange of photons constantly carried on between living things is not
just a means
>> >>> of communication. As we are truly beings of light, we may also be able to
>> >>> correct our own
>> >>> light when it goes awry.
>> >>>
>> >>> Lynne McTaggart
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Kate Marks
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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