Light dictates life. It was this idea that Dr Bernard Coetzee pondered over cups of tea with fellow ecologists when the possible connection between light and infectious disease clicked. “Artificial light is really interesting and it’s really scary – it’s doing things to the environment that we just don’t think about,” says Coetzee. Coetzee is a global change scientist. In … [Read more...]
Light heals at a cellular level
How our physical body is able to initiate and complete its own healing is one of its most remarkable features. Even a simple finger cut initiates responses from dozens of types of cells – the smallest units in our body – coordinated to achieve specific results, such as stopping blood loss, killing foreign bacteria and preventing infection, creating new blood capillaries, … [Read more...]
Winter solstice liberates new light
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the world, like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly … [Read more...]
Therapeutic effects of laser light
Receiving a therapeutic dose of laser light is similar to experiencing the healing effects of a tranquil day, infused with gentle, warm sunlight. Sitting in the sun, one can sometimes feel it's warm fingers caressing even your bones. I believe this is what it feels like to experience the production of Vitamin D. Laser therapy may contribute to the production of vitamin D in … [Read more...]
