Sunlight

Okay, I’m here to convince you to get some sunlight by giving you some proof of why you need it so badly!
Back in the 70’s, researcher John Ott did some studies on plants and light, and more specifically, plants and their reactions to the different color wavelengths from the sun.

John Ott was famous for his time lapsed photography of nature and in one experiment he showed under a microscope the normal movement of chloroplasts in the cells of Elodea grass. Dr Ott found that under natural sunlight, all the chloroplasts (cellular components containing chlorophyll) moved around in an orderly fashion inside the cells by following a streaming pattern.

He then took the sunlight away and filtered light through an ordinary glass that also filtered out ultraviolet light. When he did that, many of the chloroplasts dropped out of their normal streaming pattern and started to clump up in one corner of the cell. You could say, they lost their way.
More interesting is when he illuminated the cells with red filtered light. It resulted in some of them staying in their normal streaming pattern, some of them totally dropping out of pattern, and some beginning to shortcut the pattern.

Then he tried a blue filter, which allowed only the shorter wavelengths to get through the glass. Again, some of the chloroplasts remained in their normal pattern, some continued to drop out of their normal pattern but those that were shortcutting moved to a different end of the cell to begin their shortcut! Dr Ott found that when he added ultraviolet back into the light source so it now resembled sunlight, the chloroplasts began to return to their normal patterning. Wow! That’s some crazy stuff!
But it gets better.
Dr Ott decided to try his experiment on the epithelial cells of rabbit retinas (I know, not nice for the rabbits) and found out that filtering out normal light also caused abnormal cell functioning.
Blue light really did a number on them, the cells went through all sorts of contortions. A Red light filter caused the cell walls to weaken, rupture and eventually die.
So, do you get my point? That we all need sunlight on the daily? I mean, just look what could happen to your retinal cells without full spectrum light!

In Jacob Liberman’s book “Light- The Medicine of the Future” he asks the question in regards to Ott’s experiments: “Is it possible that the aspect of human behavior that causes some people to stay in an expected pattern, some to drop out of that pattern, and some to take shortcuts through the pattern is related to the light environment in which they live or their biological receptivity to specific portions of the light spectrum?”
Given the significant time people spend under artificial lighting— which lacks the balanced, nutritional qualities of sunlight—some behavioral and physiological differences among humans may, in part, stem from their exposure to and interaction with their illuminated environment.
By spending an enormous amount of time under artificial lighting, we may be getting mal-illuminated!!!

Could it be that each one of us may be uniquely deficient in one wavelength or another? For instance, I often crave the color orange and turquoise. Could I be malilluminated in these color frequencies? Could this deficiency lead to health issues? I think if you ponder what Ott discovered this may very well be true. And think about this, we only started living under artificial light around 200 years ago. Before that, we spent much of our day outdoors. We also didn’t have epidemic levels of dis-eases like obesity, diabetes, heart dis-ease.

The body needs the full visible spectrum of sunlight in the 400-700 nanometer range for optimal health and not coincidentally, those wavelengths are the most abundant wavelengths that reach the earth. And they are the only wavelengths that we can SEE. We have evolved seeing these colors/wavelengths and they are deeply ingrained into our nervous system.
We can even SEE these wavelengths of color with our fingertips! Yes, there are some Russian studies where they taught people how to identify a color with only their fingertips! How cool is that!

Personally, I think our relationship to the sun is even deeper. Researcher Michael Clarage in his 2024 TeslaTech talk encourages us to view the sun not as some glowing ball in the sky but as an extended structure. He suggests that we view the sun that we see as if it were the heart or the brain of the sun. And that we and our planet, and our solar system for that matter, are always INSIDE the sun. We live in the body of the sun. I love that!!
We should always make time in our day to interreact with this magnificent plasma envelope of love the surrounds us.

So do get out there in the sunshine, soak up some wavelengths, and make your cells happy! And remember to do the BBN numbers for Solar Energies! (pg 18, 2024 ed)
Love and hugs,
~Christine