"Quantum Physicists have now come to the conclusion that more than 90% of our human anatomy is composed of star dust particles. These [photon] particles are called biophotons. .... Light appears to be a fundamental part of our being. It’s hard-coded into our very bodies to function directly with, and through – light. Further more, the fact that we can affect light with our intentions (thoughts) alone are amazing!  "We are Light Beings!!!""  El-Bey: Humans made of light 2015

Biophotons may be detected with photomultipliers or by means of an ultra low noise CCD camera to produce an image, using an exposure time of typically 15 minutes for plant materials. Photomultiplier tubes have also been used to measure biophoton emissions from fish eggs, and some applications have measured biophotons from animals and humans.  Biophoton measurements

Illness Occurs When Biophoton Emissions are Out of Sync:

The purpose of these biophotons is much more important than many have realized. It turns out they may very well be in control of virtually every biochemical reaction that occurs in your body — including supporting your body’s ability to heal, communicate between cells, prevent diseases and infections and attain optimal wellbeing. Medicine in the past and still today has ignored using biophotons as a therapy and disease prevention.

Popp specifically focused on biophotonics and evolved the theory of Biophotinics [electromagnetic vibrations]. The theory states that when we are more stressed, we leak light, meaning the number of biophotons increase. When we are in a more relaxed state, our bodies keep fewer photon lights. We feel better.

Research by Popp also showed that the light emissions of healthy people follow a set biological rhythm for day and night and also by week and month, and appear to be connected to biorhythms of the earth. Exposure to sunlight for about half an hour each day sends sunlight photons to the skin that collects and the body eventually synthesizies hormone D; much like photosynthesis in plants. Hormone D is involved in over 300 functions of the body. This is an example of how the suns rays, transporting photons to the body skin, make essential chemical substances that help humans survive. 

Popp discovered that benzo[a]pyrene (the cancer producing molecule) absorbed the UV light, then re-emitted it at a completely different frequency -- it was a light "scrambler". The benzo[e]pyrene (harmless to humans), allowed the UV light to pass through it unaltered.  An odd property of these compounds was that each of the carcinogens reacted only to light at a specific frequency -- 380 nm (nanometres) in the ultra-violet range. A compound at this frequency of 380 nm must cause cancer because it permanently blocks this light and scrambles it, so photorepair can't work anymore. Using a photon of 380 nm again clears this scrambling and restores the equilibrium in the cell that was cancerous.

Popp showed that the light emissions of healthy people follow a set biological rhythm for day and night and also by week and month, as they are also connected through the pineal gland to biorhythms of the earth. Indeed, although we know very little about the pineal gland and how it affects the body, it may well be that the pineal gland may be involved in photon activities on a very large scale.

Popp studied biophotons on cancer patients. He found that light emissions from cancer patients had no such biological rhythms and appeared scrambled, which suggests that their cells were no longer communicating properly. Likewise, according to his research, Popp found that, in multiple sclerosis, patients were taking in too much light, leading to a similar confusion on a cellular level. Even stress influenced people’s biophoton emissions, causing them to increase in response to the stress.  Biophoton Research

It’s known, too, that cancer-causing chemicals alter one's body biophoton emissions, interrupting cellular communications, while certain substances help restore them. Popp found mistletoe to be one such substance that appeared to restore the biophoton emissions of tumor cells to a normal level.

Interestingly, even conventional medicine confirmed that mistletoe extract does appear to have a beneficial effect on cancer, with one study published in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine showing that mean survival rates nearly doubled among breast cancer patients who received mistletoe extract.

Dr. Pjotr Garjajev, who did pioneering work to unscramble the DNA code, claims that this photon communication is not something that happens only inside the individual cells or between one cell and another. He claims organisms use this "light" to "talk" to other organisms and suggested that this could explain telepathy and ESP. It was like human beings already had their own wireless internet based on our DNA.

Popp proved that light in your body is stored by, and emitted from, your DNA. "The DNA inside each cell vibrates at a frequency of several billion hertz. The vibration is created through the coil-like contraction and extension of your DNA — which occurs several billion times per second — and every time it contracts, it squeezes out one single biophoton; a light particle. That photon contains all the information on everything going on in your DNA at that moment. One single biophoton can carry more than four megabytes of information, and relays this information to other biophotons that it crosses in the biophoton field outside your body."   Mercola: Power of light to heal 2010  

Photons also regulate the activity of your metabolic enzymes but details of this information are sketchy. 

Photorepair: 

Photons switch on the body's processes like an orchestra conductor bringing each individual instrument into the collective sound. At different frequencies, they perform different functions. Popp found that molecules in the cells responded to certain frequencies, and that a range of vibrations from the photons caused a variety of frequencies in other molecules of the body. Biophoton Research

It is well known from biological laboratory experiments that if you blast a cell with UV light so that 99 per cent of the cell, including its DNA, is destroyed, you can almost entirely repair the damage in a single day just by illuminating the cell with the same wavelength at a much weaker intensity. To this day, scientists don't understand this phenomenon, called photorepair, but no one has disputed it.

Photorepair works most efficiently at a frequency of 380 namometers [nm] -- the same frequency that the cancer-causing compounds react to and become scrambled. This was where Popp made his logical leap. If the carcinogens only react to this frequency, it must somehow be linked to photorepair. If so, this would mean that there must be some kind of light in the body responsible for cell repair. A compound must cause cancer because it permanently blocks this light and scrambles it, so photorepair can't work anymore.

In 1950, Western researchers found that cells could be killed in darkness with ultraviolet radiation, kept shielded from visible light for twenty-four hours or longer, and then if radiated with visible light, the cells would start reviving by hundreds of thousands even though they had been clinically dead. Specifically, every cell emits mitogenetic radiation twice in the ultraviolet range: when it is born and when it dies. The UV photon emitted at death contains the exact virtual state pattern of the condition of the cell at death. The healthy cells are bombarded with death messages from those that are dying, and this diffuses the death pattern throughout the healthy culture, eventually kindling into the same death pattern there. Popp: Magnetic fields interacting with organisms 2000  Biophoton Research

Popp showed this with an experiment using onions that UV light that causes onions to communicate with each other. He showed that cancer tumors reacted to high intensity levels of UV light in the range of 380 nanometers. By using a method called photo repair he illuminated cells with a weaker intensity of UV light, causing the DNA to undergo rapid healing. It is only when UV light is at a lower intensity level that the healing of DNA occurs.

With the help of a lab assistant, Dr. Popp built a machine called the “photomultiplier” which measures weak photon emissions that stimulate healing. While measuring these photons in humans, he discovered that the cells of the body have biological rhythms of 7, 14, 32, 80 and 270 days respectively. These numbers all readily divided into 7. It also showed that people who had these disturbed biological rhythms were cancer patients. His research also showed that stress triggered an increase in biophotons, while good health triggered fewer biophotons. It is no surprise that foods highest in biophotons are also used as natural cancer cures, especially when you eat them within 3 hours after being picked from the ground or tree. Dr. Gabriel Cousens states that people who eat a junk food diet register 1,000 or less biophotons in their systems, whereas people eating a fresh raw food diet have 83,000 or more biophotons in their bodies.

Authors Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose suggested that EEG rhythms (brain waves) also derive photons from deeper level microtubule vibrations, and that from a practical standpoint, treating brain microtubule vibrations could benefit a host of mental, neurological, and cognitive conditions.  Biophoton Research  Hameroff: Biophotons in nerves & brain 1996

If you examine a neuron, you will see that there are many hollow tubes surrounding the nerve axon. These microtubules were thought of as a kind of scaffold to support the nerve fiber. But they are now getting a second look as the possible architecture of our consciousness. The particular characteristics of microtubules that make them suitable for quantum effects include their crystal-like lattice structure, hollow inner core, organization of cell function and capacity for information processing. According to the researchers, their size appears perfectly designed to transmit photons in the UV range.

A recent commentary published in the Journal Investigacion Clinica titled “Evidence about the power of intention” addressed this connection: Intention is defined as a directed thought to perform a determined action. Thoughts targeted to an end can affect inanimate objects and practically all living things from unicellular organisms to human beings. The emission of light particles (biophotons) seems to be the mechanism through which an intention produces its effects. The intention to heal, as well as the beliefs of the sick person on the efficacy of the healing, influences and promote his healing. Now we may be able to better understand how healing takes place with positive thinking and placebo patients healing.

The placebo effect is the power of intent and biophotons could also help us understand the placebo effect of self healing. Medical doctor Lisa Rankin, who validated that the body heals itself, found that many placebo patients, given sugar pills or salt water as a substitute for the real drugs [referred to as placebo], believed that they would heal in spite of not knowing that they got placebos. They had positive healing effects, often better than those of patients given medications or surgery.  Placebo persons believed that they will be healed. Their belief gave them the faith that they could get well and this stimulated the mental-mind-brain to react and change the chemistry of the body. There is no doubt that photons were involved in this healing process. Rankin: Body heals itself 2013

Biophoton emissions will vary according to the functional state of the organism. If a disease such as cancer affects certain cells, then the cells under attack will radiate a different photonic signature than healthy cells of the same type. Cancer cells and healthy cells of the same type, for instance, can be discriminated by typical differences in biophoton emission. In this way biophotons can be a noninvasive tool for assessing the state of health or vitality. Applications can extend far into other areas like testing food and water quality, checking for chemical or electromagnetic contamination. Biophysicists in many European and Asian countries are currently engaged in such research.  Biophoton Research

Skeptics, having read this far, may still be in disbelief about biophotons, that these are linked to the body and assume that it is not functional or safe at this time. Here is an example that such skeptics are behind the times.

The theory behind biophoton therapy is based on the work of Dr. Franz Morell and has been expanded by the work of Doctors L.C. Vincent and F.A. Popp, who theorized that light can affect the electromagnetic oscillation, or waves of the body and regulate enzyme activity.  Biophoton Research

Biophoton therapy is the application of light to particular areas of the skin for healing purposes. The light, or photons, that are emitted by sunlight are absorbed by the skin's photoreceptors and then travel through the body's nervous system to the brain, where they help regulate what is referred to as our human bio-energy. By stimulating certain areas of the body with specific quantities of light, biophoton therapy can help reduce pain as well as aid in various healing processes throughout the body.  Biophoton Research Biophoton light therapy vastly improves emotional, mental and physical health.

Many therapists are now practicing some form of biophton therapy. For example, Biophoton therapist Sandra Levarek, Certified Chiren® Practitioner in Biontology,™ has been a full-time practicing biophoton therapist in Sedona, Arizona, since 2012. This biophoton light therapy vastly improves one's emotional,  mental and physical health. The Chiren® instrument developed by Johan Boswinkel allows the therapists to tune into their clients and measure where the biophotons are emitting chaotic light. With this information a therapist can correct the chaotic light in order to give control back to the clients’ own health.  Kamp: Practicing biophoton therapy