🔦 Beyond Molecules: The Overlooked Language of Light in the Human Body

What if your body speaks not only in hormones and neurotransmitters—but also in light?

A recent review in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience by Nevoit et al. (2025) shines new light—literally—on the untapped world of biophoton signaling, a form of ultra-weak photon emission (UPE) from living cells. Once dismissed as a byproduct of metabolism, biophotons are now proposed to be essential carriers of information and coherence, helping integrate the body’s many systems in real time.

And the most astonishing part? This silent signaling network might be how the body adapts to life itself—including the chronic, subtle stressors of modern life.

📡 The Body’s Hidden Communication Network

Biology has long focused on chemical messengers:

• Hormones from glands,

• Neurotransmitters across synapses,

• Cytokines and chemokines in inflammation,

• Mitokines in mitochondrial stress signaling.

But what if these aren’t the only messengers?

Nevoit et al. suggest that biophoton signaling—via electromagnetic fields and coherent light—functions as a parallel and integrative channel, enabling:

• Instant, non-local communication between cells,

• Tissue-wide synchronization of metabolism and gene expression,

• Real-time adaptation to external and internal stressors.

This network operates through light—not metaphorically, but literally: ultra-weak photons emitted by DNA, mitochondria, and membrane biopolymers.

🧬 The Exposome and the Need for Instant Adaptation

We now know that health is shaped not only by our genes, but also by our exposome—the lifelong accumulation of:

• Environmental pollutants,

• Dietary components,

• Infections and microbiota shifts,

• Psychosocial stress,

• Electromagnetic fields,

• Sleep and circadian disruptions.

To stay healthy, the body must sense, respond to, and integrate these exposures across all systems—from immune cells to brain to muscle to liver. This requires more than slow chemical signals. It calls for a real-time, body-wide coordination system.

This is where biophotonic signaling could be critical—serving as the body’s internal "Wi-Fi" that enables cells to adapt in synchrony.

🔄 ERM: When the Network Fails Under Chronic Load

The Exposure-Related Malnutrition (ERM) framework proposes that chronic low-level exposures can slowly wear down the body’s adaptive capacity—not through frank nutrient deficiency, but through bioenergetic misallocation, oxidative stress, and incomplete resolution of metabolic strain.

From this perspective:

• If biophoton signaling helps synchronize repair, adaptation, and regeneration,

• Then disruption or incoherence in this network (due to mitochondrial damage, fascia restrictions, or metabolic overload) could contribute to systemic maladaptation.

• Over time, this leads to energy fragmentation, hormonal imbalances, and functional decline, even before disease is diagnosable.

In ERM, we don’t just lose nutrients—we lose the ability to allocate and communicate energy intelligently across the body. That’s where biophoton signaling may be both a biomarker and a mechanism of resilience.

🔬 Heat, Light, and the Forgotten Signals of Life

Every time your mitochondria make ATP, they also release:

• Heat,

• Infrared waves,

• Vibrations,

• And biophotons.

We’ve ignored these "side effects" for decades. But what if they’re not side effects at all? What if they’re how your body stays in sync?

This review calls us to revisit what we’ve considered background noise—and see it instead as the signal that keeps us alive, whole, and adaptive.

🧠 Muscles, Fascia, and the Living Electromagnetic Field

The authors highlight skeletal muscle—not just as an engine of movement—but as a quantum generator of coherence.

• Muscles contain dense mitochondrial networks, organized into a reticulum capable of synchronized energy output.

• Connective tissue and fascia act as liquid crystal semiconductors, transmitting biophotonic signals across long distances.

• Together, these structures form an electromagnetic scaffolding that supports tissue-wide adaptation.

This may explain why movement, breathing, and posture—often dismissed as “soft” interventions—can have whole-body regulatory effects.

🌐 Big Picture: Integration Is the Point

Rather than challenging classical biology, this model expands it.

It says: Yes, chemistry matters.But without coherence, chemistry becomes chaos.

Biophotons, fascia, vibration, and fields—these are not alternative explanations. They are unexplored dimensions of how our body integrates information, adapts to stress, and maintains health in an ever-changing world.

📚 Citation

Nevoit, G., Poderiene, K., Potyazhenko, M., Mintser, O., Jarusevicius, G., & Vainoras, A. (2025). The concept of biophotonic signaling in the human body and brain: rationale, problems and directions. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 19, 1597329. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2025.1597329

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