Living beings produce “biofotones”
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All living beings, including humans, constantly emit a ghostly brightness, and seems to disappear almost like us. Monitoring this signal could someday help track forest health or even detect diseases in people.
The existence of this barely noticeable brightness has been controversial, but although it must be the result of a process called Ultraeak photons broadcast. Mitochondria and other energy producing machinery in our cells involve molecules that win and lose energy, in turn emitting the equivalent of a few photons per second per square centimeter of skin tissue …
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