Nature’s cycles are always coupled. We cannot solely focus on the benefits of sunlight without also giving our proper respects to the darkness that is bestowed on us nightly. They are both equally important when it comes to health and the human body. But to understand why, we must first distinguish “morning light” from “sunrise.”
Our bodies contain biological semiconductors. Robert Becker demonstrated semiconductor properties in bone (see The Body Electric for more on this). Jack Kruse extends this semiconductor model throughout cellular biology. These materials in and around our cells can move electrical charge, and their electrical behavior is influenced by things like light and temperature. When charge moves in one direction, we have a direct, or DC, electric current. This means that our bodies aren’t just chemical; they’re electrical, too.
I talked previously about time, how light gives our bodies time information and syncs our bodies to the appropriate time. It also gives us time. Meaning, the more energy from light our cells have stored, the more time, theoretically, we could have on this earth. Without time in our bodies, we lose health. This is because, without time, dysfunction in our internal timekeeping systems occurs. Simply put, health is marked by the abundance of time.
The sun gives off photons that interact with our tissues. Photons of different wavelengths carry different amounts of energy. This matters because our biological semiconductors respond differently depending on the wavelength and energy of light received. When photons of sufficient energy from sunlight interact with our semiconductors, they cause the electrons in our cells to behave and move differently. This interaction between light and electrons is called the “photoelectric effect,” and the resulting movement of charge can create an electric current.
We must also consider that the spectrum coming off the sun continues to change as the sun moves through the sky. This is what causes the photon environment of sunrise to be unlike any other time of day. In order to give our semiconductors the proper input for proper timekeeping in our bodies, we cannot miss the beginning part of this light sequence. It is a signal that is simply not interchangeable with light later in the morning. If you get outside during the morning and expect to receive the same signal as viewing sunrise, you’ve missed the mark.
Overall, we must give our biological semiconductors the light information they need, at the correct time, to initiate and support the appropriate electrical and biological processes throughout the day. This is why getting light throughout the day is also very important. The spectrum changes to give our bodies the ever-changing messages they need to run best.
The daytime electrical state of our cells changes with the changing solar spectrum, which is what eventually leads us to night, where we experience darkness. And this is where darkness becomes just as important as light.
But let’s pause right here, because with all of that in mind, it becomes easier to see that some of the greatest costs to human health have come disguised as the conveniences of our modern world. Working 9 to 5 in an office building with little to no natural light signaling. Sending kids off to school for 7+ hours a day, where they spend many hours under artificial light with little opportunity to build their redox potential for their future selves and future generations to come.
Those facts might hit harder for some people than others. But if you take the time to really learn, you’ll realize that you have two options: you can sit and rot in denial, or you can do something about it.
How I’ve structured my day, and the realizations I’ve had about life in our modernized world, have slowly morphed over time the more I’ve learned about the effects of light, water, and magnetism on the body. It’s not something that happened overnight. It truly is a health journey, and I encourage you to start. Start asking questions. Start analyzing how you could do things differently throughout your day.
For me, it started with never missing a sunrise. It started with simply taking a light break and getting outside at solar noon. It started with being intentional about when we eat our meals and opening doors and windows when we are inside. Overall, it’s changed what my family prioritizes and what we choose to intentionally avoid. It’s changed where we spend our money and where we don’t.
So I challenge you to start down this journey. Because even when things seem impossible to change in the moment, with time, you will realize they are not. You simply must start.
But remember where we started. The sun is only half of the story. Because just as our bodies respond to the appearance and changing spectrum of sunlight throughout the day, they also respond when that light disappears (and spoiler alert, it goes far past sleep and melatonin).
Nature never gave us endless daylight. It gave us a cycle: light and darkness. If we want to understand what living in sync with that cycle really means, we have to learn to respect both.
But I’ll save darkness for next time.
Further Reading
For those interested in diving deeper into the concepts discussed in this post, see the following articles by Dr. Jack Kruse:
- TIME #12: Is Adrenal Fatigue Due to an Altered Spectrum of Light?
- TIME #8: Psoriasis and the Photoelectric Effect
- TIME #16: Time Subtraction = Loss of the Spinning ATPase
- Tensegrity #2: Cortisol = Power of AM Sunlight
- TIME #3: Can a Chart Tell You Something About Time?
- TIME #5: How Is Time Created?
- TIME #7: The Photoelectric Effect
John 1:4 “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
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