What is the quantum biology of light and how do we apply it to our wellness? Let's get started. This is the third video in a series of five where we ask the question, how can quantum biology be applied to our health and wellness? And we are looking at the quantum biological pillars of water, of light, of sound, and frequency. This is the third video where we dive into light and how it impacts our biology. Let's get started. So we know in the body, almost every single one of our cells have circadian genes in them. In 2017, three researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work in chronobiology. They discovered that cells contain circadian genes or circadian clocks. When light hits our eyes and travels back to our retina, the melanopsin in those cells actually captures this light information and it travels to the center of our brain to the smic nucleus, and it takes note of our light environment informing our cells of the time of day.

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And that time of day dictates what our biology is doing. So as that light enters the eye and travels to our SCN in the brain, it travels then to peripheral clocks throughout the body informing them of the time of day. Because what happens is we have evolved over millennia with the sun being the primary trigger and stimulus in our environment, the rising of the sun up into noon and the setting of the sun dictates our biological rhythm in a circadian fashion, and that's what these researchers found, that almost every single cell in our body has this circadian gene network in it. When we wake up in the morning and we are introduced into the natural light of that rising sun and the rising spectrum of red light, infrared light, the visible spectrum, as the sun rises the UVA and B spectrum, this triggers a bunch of different things in our body.

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Our hormonal cascade, our inflammatory cascade. It sets up our immune system, which is also circadian driven. And because of that circadian gene in most of our cells throughout the body, it makes our cardiovascular function, our respiratory function, our digestive function, our microbiome, our immune system, our hormonal system, our inflammatory system are all circadian driven. So making sure that we're getting out during key times of that rising and setting of the sun tells our body what time it is and what it should be doing. Now, as that sun sets and lowers that darkness also influences our biology in a predictable and necessary pattern. When we have the rising of the sun, that cortisol and that backbone of pregnenolone to our hormones and our sex hormones sets up this wonderful cascade that happens during daylight hours. And as the sun sets and darkness starts to be the dominant light environment, it signals melatonin to be released.

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And this interacts with several different hormone pathways. We know that melatonin actually interacts with over 200 different pathways in the body, not just sleep, rest and repair, which are absolutely foundational to our health. But melatonin is interacting on a bunch of different levels and it signals our leptin pathway. It signals our immune system. It signals a bunch of different hormonal patterns and cascades in the body. So our light environment is crucial to our health. Not only that, but key spectrums of the light influence our body in predictable and necessary ways. Red light and infrared light are the two spectrums that have been most extensively researched, and we know that we have different options in the body, different chromophores that are able to capture that light vibratory information, and it excites our proteins, our enzymes, our melanin. Melanin is an incredible substance in the body that is able to capture, store and transmit all spectrums of the light.

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And we think of melanin in our hair, our eye color, our skin color, but melanin is throughout our internal mechanisms as well. It's in our internal organs, it's in our senses. All of our sensory organs, it's in our brain and neuro melanin, and there is this language of light happening within the body through our bio photon emission. That's an extensive field of research where our cells have been shown to emit very ultra weak levels of light, of photons. And this low level of light actually can help guide biological action. We know that our cells communicate in the infrared spectrum, so there's this immense language of light communication happening in the body from our external light environment to our internal light environment.

And it goes back to that language of frequency that we see in these pillars of quantum biology in the water that is able to capture this frequency information in the light in sound, and the frequency of fields around us. Now, this is the third video in a series of three. In the next video, we'll be diving into sound, but these are the way that I break down how we use quantum biology for health, and we know that it applies to circadian medicine, to light therapies, to sound healing frequency medicine. It applies to our intention of thought, coherence of our heart, and our ability for our body to work as a collective inside of ourselves with those around us. It's an absolutely astonishing new emerging field of study. If you like these topics, as much as I do, make sure you subscribed and stay tuned for the next video all about sound. Thank you so much for joining me.