Cats and Light Therapy
My husband has always had an orange cat by his side since he exited puberty and became an adult. And every single one of those orange cats has died of a disease process involving the kidneys and dehydration. This fact was something that piqued my interest when I started learning more about quinones which are nutrient substances like vitamin K2 and coenzyme Q10. The quinones are vibrantly colorful nutrients that interact with light via the blood, melanin, or bile found in the human body.
You see, red light therapy is something that I’ve used myself and that I’ve recommended in many contexts for my clients as a natural way to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, kill pathogens, and rebalance the body’s natural processes, including immune system function. But orange cats have a lot of redness to them (the color orange is a combination of red plus yellow). The redness of their orange fur makes it hard for them to absorb the red (and yellow) spectrum of sunlight, which in turn would make it harder for them to detoxify their bodies. I suspect that in cats, it is the liver that is most affected directly by this problem with red light absorption. But the kidneys then try to take on the extra load of detoxifying whatever the liver can’t seem to purge from the body. Thus, orange cats end up with kidney problems and issues regarding hydration. Our research into this kidney-liver topic is ongoing since we currently have three orange kittens.
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Cats have melanin that colors their fur and their eyes. The color of their fur and their eyes is determined by how the melanin is configured at the molecular level. And, in turn, the color of a cat’s fur and eyes, determines how their bodies interact with the full-spectrum light of the sun. A cat with black fur, for example, would easily absorb all wavelengths of light while a cat with white fur would tend to reflect all wavelengths of light.Blue-eyed, white cats are almost always deaf and they aren’t usually as hardy as black cats. Melanin, as it turns out, not only colors the skin, the eyes, and the hair, but it’s also found in some unusual places, like in the ears where it affects hearing. Indeed, in albino humans who lack pigmentation, both hearing and eyesight are affected by the lack of melanin. So melanin, as it turns out, impacts at least two of our most important sense organs, the ears and the eyes, in both animals and humans. This is a thought-provoking fact, to say the least, especially when you start looking at the long list of autoimmune diseases that can be diagnosed by doctors who look at nothing but skin pigmentation changes to determine which disease is afflicting their patient. We should also mention here again that autistic children (who typically have very pale skin / hypopigmentation) tend to have hearing difficulties that exacerbate their already problematic sensory issues.
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Though some cat-owners resist this idea that a white cat is less healthy than a black cat, for example, it seems that black cats may, in fact, be healthier than white cats due to the configuration of the melanin in their fur and in their eyes that allows them to absorb all of the healing wavelengths of visible light. Some of the anecdotal stories I’ve heard regarding the idea that black cats are healthier than other cat colors say that the difference between black cats and other-colored cats is genetic, which is a way of saying that no one really knows why black cats seem to be more resistant to disease. But there are some compelling links in the data that can support the anecdotal reports of black cats surviving disease more easily than cats of other colors.
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Almost every cat has melanin in their tissues, even white cats with blue eyes and almost every human has melanin in their tissues as well unless the cat or the human is an “albino”. But the molecular weight of melanin in both cats and humans can be altered significantly by diet and by the presence or absence of specific nutrients in the diet. So, if you aren’t an albino, the melanin produced by your body will usually continue to be produced regardless of your diet, but the melanin will weigh more or less than it should. Melanin molecules that weigh too much may filter out healing light colors that your body needs to remove a buildup of toxic bile in the tissues. Melanin molecules that weigh too little may not be able to capture certain wavelengths of light to properly communicate with the sympathetic nervous system branch of the autonomic nervous system. So, while a deficiency of iodine may not cause you or your cat to turn into albinos, it may change the color of your skin or hair just slightly and in a manner that causes your body to be unable to absorb certain healing wavelengths of light from the sun (or from artificial light-producing tools). It can also, theoretically, make you or your cat more sensitive to certain wavelengths of light like fluorescent light that might be experienced as “toxic” by the body.
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Darker hair color, fur color, eye color, and skin color contain more melanosomes. Melanosomes are tiny, specialized organs found inside human and animal cells that produce, store, and transport melanin to where it needs to go. Melanin is a pigment that is biologically and physiologically active as a light-absorbing substance in the body. Though we’ve all been taught that melanin protects the body from sunlight, there isn’t a biology book on the planet (yet) that talks about how melanin absorbs light from the sun in order to heal the body too. All rhetoric regarding sunlight is about how the sun damages the body. Yet, conventional medicine is using light, even so-called damaging UV light, to treat autoimmune diseases like psoriasis or autoimmune hair loss at a high financial cost to patients (note that sunlight exposure is free to all). For example, PUVA (Psoralen + UVA therapy) is a conventional medicine psoriasis treatment that uses coal tar, a carcinogenic brown-black dye that improves the skin’s absorption of ultraviolet light. Psoralen is a substance that’s derived from the plant Psoralea corylifolia that makes the skin susceptible to UV light, but in conventional medicine, the psoralen has been synthetically modified which means that the body will eventually reject it as an unnatural molecule. Meanwhile, the whole plant Psoralea corylifolia contains psoralen, a substance that increases our skin’s sensitivity to sunlight, but it also contains coumaric acid, a substance that inhibits the production of melanin. The net effect of taking the whole plant Psoralea corylifolia has a different effect than using synthetic psoralen by itself to treat a disease like psoriasis and one could argue that the use of Psoralea corylifolia by itself is more powerful and less toxic than applying a cancer-causing substance like coal tar to the skin. Nonetheless, PUVA treatment is an obvious example of how light is being used to treat autoimmune disease. Clearly, Big Pharma understands and knows how to exploit different wavelengths of light and different colored dyes or pigments applied to the skin to create different health effects on the body. Given that Big Pharma knows about how light and pigment can be used to cure disease, we should be very suspicious of the sunscreen industry. Full-spectrum sunlight can heal the sick and it’s free to all.
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Because our bodies were designed to produce this substance, melanin, to capture sunlight and other light wavelengths, we can easily and cheaply use light therapy to treat all kinds of diseases and disorders at home. We can also sometimes treat our animals for disease using light too as long as we’re mindful of the problem of fur-color, which can cause certain light wavelengths to bounce off the fur, making it unable to reach the skin or underlying tissues.Read more about the PUVA therapy (an ultraviolet light therapy used in tandem with a substance from the plant psoralea) for autoimmune hair loss here.
