photobiomodulation

13 articles
SC 3 HW 10
SC consciousness

Brain Biophotons Detected: The Human Brain Emits Light

In May 2025, researchers at the University of Calgary published a landmark paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters reporting the first detection of biophotons emitted by the living human brain from outside the skull. Using ultra-sensitive single-photon detectors cooled to near...

17 min · 2 researchers · 24 concepts
SC consciousness

Mentalism and Vibration: When Ancient Hermeticism Meets Quantum Physics

Two of the seven Hermetic principles sit at the foundation of the whole system like twin pillars holding up a temple. The first — Mentalism — says that consciousness is the fundamental substance of reality.

10 min · 7 concepts
SC consciousness

Structured Water and the Fourth Phase: The Science of Living Water

For as long as modern science has existed, water has been described as existing in three phases: solid (ice), liquid (water), and gas (vapor or steam). Every textbook, every classroom, every child who has ever boiled a kettle or made ice cubes has learned this trinity.

15 min · 1 researchers · 9 concepts
HW functional medicine

Tinnitus & Hearing Health: The Functional Approach

Tinnitus is perception without stimulus — a phantom sound that exists only in the brain. Ringing, buzzing, hissing, roaring, clicking, pulsing, whooshing.

9 min · 19 concepts
HW functional medicine

Sauna & Sweat Therapy: Detoxification Through Heat

Every culture on Earth, independently, discovered therapeutic heat. Finnish sauna.

11 min · 8 concepts
HW functional medicine

Mitochondrial Optimization Protocol

Two billion years ago, a primitive cell swallowed a bacterium. Instead of digesting it, the two formed an alliance.

10 min · 2 researchers · 18 concepts
HW functional medicine

Photobiomodulation: Red Light and Near-Infrared Therapy

Before there were supplements, before there were drugs, there was light. Every living cell evolved under the electromagnetic spectrum of the sun, and photons are not just energy — they are information.

11 min · 15 concepts
HW functional medicine

TBI & Concussion Recovery: The Functional Approach

A concussion is not a bruise on the brain. There is no bleeding, no structural damage visible on CT or standard MRI.

13 min · 20 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Color Therapy and Chromotherapy: The Emerging Science of Healing with Specific Wavelengths

The idea that different colors of light produce different effects on the body sounds like it should be either obvious or mystical, depending on your starting assumptions. If you are a physicist, it is obvious: different colors are different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, and different...

20 min · 22 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Light Fasting and Darkness Retreats: How the Absence of Light Activates the Brain's Inner Pharmacy

Every article in this collection describes what light does to the body — how photons charge mitochondria, synthesize vitamin D, set circadian clocks, release nitric oxide, and power the neurochemical pipelines of consciousness. But there is a complementary practice, known across cultures and...

20 min · 3 researchers · 36 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Photonic Medicine: How Shining Light Through the Skull Changes Brain Function

There is a treatment for traumatic brain injury, depression, Alzheimer's disease, and age-related cognitive decline that involves no drugs, no surgery, and no electrodes. It involves shining near-infrared light — invisible to the eyes, felt as mild warmth or nothing at all — onto the forehead...

19 min · 26 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Red Light Therapy and Mitochondrial Charging: How Photons Become Cellular Power

Every cell in your body runs on a currency called adenosine triphosphate — ATP. Every muscle contraction, every nerve impulse, every protein folded, every memory encoded — all of it costs ATP.

19 min · 1 researchers · 18 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

UV Light, Nitric Oxide, and the Brain: How Sunlight Improves Cognitive Function Beyond Vitamin D

There is a paradox in the sunlight-health literature that has puzzled researchers for years: populations with high sunlight exposure consistently show better cardiovascular health, lower blood pressure, reduced mortality, and improved cognitive function compared to low-sun populations. The...

20 min · 22 concepts