Light in Shaping Life Biophotons in Biology And

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Light in Shaping Life - Biophotons in Biology and Medicine Description:

This new handbook covers the historical development and recent state of ultra-weak photon emission or biophotons not only worldwide but also in terms of its significance within a spectrum of biological and biomedical disciplines. Designed to inform the scientific community about biophotons in relationship to biological matter and how such biophotons can be detected utilizing specialized very photon-sensitive technologies. The handbook also includes an overview of the potential benefits of such research to a better understanding of health and medicine, making it not only of value to scientists but also to medical doctors. Divided into several sections, the first part offers introductory chapters on the fields of biology leading to the biophoton field concept, with subsequent parts focusing on the detection technologies, the research to unravel biochemical and biophysical aspects of biophotons , and the recent introduction of the photon field concept in health and disease. The extensive literature references are a handy source for scientists and students seeking the basics of biophotons in a condensed form. Absolutely invaluable for biophoton scientists. The objectivess of each part: Part A - The Roots of a Field We will begin to understand both the nature of the blue print and instruction program of an organism's form- as we look at biology 300 years ago. It was then that the description of the “biology of the form” became visibly intermixed within the three strong pillars of regeneration biology, embryology, and tumor biology. In the early 20th century, a field of organization was hypothesized encompassing positional information. It evolved within the paradigm of that time obsessed with metabolism and biochemistry. However, something was lacking in the biochemical approach. Metabolism then was about energy and rates, whereas positions were addressed with scalars, vectors and boundaries. The recipe needed an accounting of the forces that mobilize the elements into patterns. At that time, the aspect of force in organization as part of science was not included in textbooks. The problem was addressed by exploring the radiation of a morphogenetic field. Part B - Birth and Growth of the Biophoton Emission and Field Concept The second part of the journey began in the early 1900's vis-à-vis a better understanding of a biological organism as a system. This perspective accepted a field of organization with properties specific to the totality of the form, not solely about the particles that make up the form. In searching for a nonmechanical/non-particle regulatory principle, an alternative principle developed: a morphogenetic field based on radiation. Although this part of the journey offers many fascinating scientific explorations, it took a long time and many developments in physics before biology definitively and internationally, in the 1970's, accepted the existence of universal ultra-weak biological radiation. At that time one could finally begin to document the richness of information from measurements of biological photon emission. The new photovoltaic and multiplier technologies connected photon emission with the biochemistry of oxygen and oxygen reactive species. However, during this part of the journey, the original interest in the informational content of radiation related to “form” was perhaps forgotten, or at least it was no longer obvious, or when present, only an issue of minor importance. Part C - Cancer: Metabolism, Biochemistry and Photon Emission The third part of the journey focuses on a separate line of research which progressed during the 1920's 1960's. It dealt with the oxygen and metabolic energy and their role in tumor formation and differentiation. During this period the glycolytic and respiratory pathways were discovered and the connection with differentiation and tumor established. The data in this period suggested that there are two kinds of energy available in life processes, the energy of fermentation (glycolytic pathway only) and a superior energy of respiration which includes functional mitochondria in the presence of oxygen. Respiratory energy creates and maintains a high differentiation of body cells. Fermentation energy can only maintain a low differentiation corresponding with increased growth. A large variety of tumors of the same tissue gave evidence of a systematic change in the biochemistry of metabolic pathways (the Molecular Correlation Concept). The replacement of respiration by fermentation corresponds with the disappearance of the high

differentiation state resulting in the appearance of cancer cells. The question, “How may tumor cells arise and progress in vivo”? became evident as a result of a severe cell stress response resulting in fluctuations of oxygen limitation and re-oxygenation (reperfusion). The role of reactive oxygen species became known during this part of the journey. Within the advent of modern technology, and increasing knowledge of the relationship between mitochondrial functioning and glycolysis, cancer might be interpreted as a mitochondrial dysfunction. Although the link between photon emission as part of the reactive oxygen dependent processes and tumor development was more firmly established, the question whether photon emission is able to regulate the mitotic process requires an additional concept: the specific properties of an electromagnetic field. At that time, it was not part of molecular cell biology. We must now include another interface between biology and physics. Part D - From Bioelectromagnetism to the Photon Field Concept The fourth part of the journey deals with a contribution evolving from the concept of the bioelectromagnetic field and its organizational role within the living organism. From the 1930's on, it became evident that biological systems can emit electromagnetic waves and can also have sensitive physiologic responses to the entire spectral range. The organism embodies diverse interconnections of electromagnetic fields (in addition to the known diverse biochemical connections). Research data suggested a link with the mitogenetic radiation fields as well as a link that accounts for the forces that mobilize molecules of different kinds into a pattern. The “optical photon emission window” may, then, offer a view of the electromagnetic interaction field with the way a body develops and keeps its “shape” within the ceaseless shifting metabolism of material. It may even be leading the pattern development of chemical “morphogens” (which are then interpreted into body pattern by something else, such as, special genes). It was this journey at the end of the 1970's that suggested the possibility of integrating all previous scientific hypotheses resulting in the revival of the photon field concept. Part E - Improving Understanding and Application of the Photon Field Concept in Health and Disease. The last part of our journey begins in 1977. The role of the photon field in metabolic and cell biological regulation was considered, bringing expertise simultaneously from biology, chemistry and physics. The idea emerged that a biological system not only has the property of emission but also the capacity to store (or trap) photons. The trapping, as a photochemical process, may influence metabolic events. It resulted in a cell resonance cancer theory. Data supported the fact that tumor cells with a lower degree of differentiation have a high-short storage and a low long-term resonance system capacity. In biophysics, field/matter interaction studies focused on the protein and DNA levels as well as on the process of differentiation. The “optical window” provides a key to understanding the organization of living systems. It created a challenge to collaborate on the theme of photon emission from animal and human systems linking it to metabolism in health and disease. Since the late 1990's, such collaboration has resulted in novel techniques that can both estimate the human body emission pattern as well as novel procedures to analyze the language of human light. Present developments focus on the relationship to life style, health and disease. Conclusion A fundamental message of this book is that different disciplines collaborating (over a long time) have been co-creating an improved understanding of the underlying “program” (blue print, instructions and forces) that result in the formation of the -form- of a living system. The journey in -universal ultra-weak biological light- is not finished. However, the golden age may be just around the corner. To embrace it, we must set aside the old patterns and reference frames of the past, let go of rigid habits of thought that serve us no longer, and be willing to accept a permanent shake-up in our outlook regarding the photon field.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Prelude PART A - The Roots of a Field in Biology Chapter 2: Historical Developments Within the Understanding of Regeneration Chapter 3: Further Discoveries Acknowledge a Field that Guides Generation Chapter 4: Does a Field Also Guide the Development of Cancer? PART B - Birth and Growth of Biophoton Field Concept Chapter 5: Early Systems Biology and the Morphogenetic (Ultraviolet) Radiation Field Chapter 6: Biology Looks at Physics Chapter 7: The Entrance of the Photomultiplier

Chapter 8: World-wide Expansion of Photon Emission Research PART C - Cancer Metabolism, Biochemistry and Photon Emission Chapter 9: Cancer as Model to Understand Energy Metabolism in Relationship to Differentiation vs. a Dedifferentiation Switch Chapter 10: More about Glycolysis and Respiration vis-à-vis Cancer as a Model and its Relationship to Proliferation Chapter 11: Beyond Respiration: Free Radicals and Photon Emission PART D - From Bioelectromagnetism to the Photon Field Concept Chapter 12: Field Theory and Bioelectromagnetism Chapter 13: Bone: Semiconductors as Biophoton Emitters Chapter 14: Electromagnetic Fields and Life: A more Comprehensive View Chapter 15: Revival of the Photon Field Concept: Towards an Integration PART E - Improving Understanding and Application of the Photon Field Concept in Health and Disease Chapter 16: Photon Storage and Emission in Cancer Cells Chapter 17: Photon Field Aspects in the 1990's Chapter 18: Human Photon Emission in Health and Disease in the 2000's Chapter 19: Imaging Human Photon Emission Chapter 20: A Perspective: Biophotons As a Bridge Between Western and Chinese Medicine? Glossary Author index Subject index

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