The Anatomy and Physiology of Prana
Melanin is so much more than just a pigment in human skin. It acts as a form of armor against toxins, heavy metals, and toxic forms of energy like radiation. And melanin also functions like a solar panel semi-conductor that connects into the sympathetic nervous system which in turn connects to the pineal gland. And then the pineal gland, the so-called "third eye" and "seat of the soul" communicates with the endocrine glands about what the melanin in our human skin senses energetically in the environment. Melanin can "smell", it can sense touch, and it senses energy beyond the visible spectrum of light with human skin acting like a giant sensory organ.Western medicine is exceptional in that anatomy (structure) is a concept that is separate and distinct from physiology (function). Indeed, physiology in western conventional medicine does not acknowledge an energy source in any form. It does not make any kind of commentary on how the human body is animated or connected to the external environment even through nutrition, a science that has been hopelessly corrupted by Big Food when it is not omitted entirely from medical school curricula.
According to conventional medicine, sunlight is toxic and a form of “radiation”, suggesting that sunlight is not just light radiating from the sun, but a source of “radioactivity”. Conventional medicine also does not acknowledge the importance of water quality in producing health in humans. The idea that water changes shape and takes on different forms that are either toxic of healing depending on trace mineral content, sunlight exposure (or lack thereof) and various other factors that have been studied and proven through in depth scientific studies at universities by established and respected professors is completely absent from medical training. Air quality and temperature and seasonal variation as variables that might impact human health is only acknowledged in regard to seasonal flu epidemics. Otherwise, the interaction of the human organism with the environment and with sources of energy that naturally surround us, is considered to be a separate problem that doesn’t usually pertain to human health except perhaps in terms of exposure to “germs” via the earth, air, water, or another human organism.
So, in this discussion, we want to bridge the gap between western conventional medicine and energy systems of healing like Ayurveda and acupunture (to name just two) and talk about human anatomy in physical, scientifically studied terms that essentially prove the validity of energy healing.
This is a big undertaking, but it interests Lydi and me, not just because we work sometimes with energy healing, but also because we work a lot with plants and nutrients. Systems of energy healing like Reiki, for example or crystal healing have validity and they do work, but only if clients understand how these systems fit into the model of medicine that’s familiar to them. As the conventional medical model of developed countries colonizes less developed areas of the world to delegitimize traditional methods of doing medicine that tend to be based on a system of energy healing, it has become more and more important to explain, in simple terms, how the energies from the environment and from other human veins can be used to cure disease. That being said, the discussion that follows is a bit technical and not as simple as we’d like just because most of the terms are not familiar to the average reader. But if you’re interested in how our bodies process energy and how systems like acupuncture relate to conventional medicine, keep reading.
The Skin and the Autonomic Nervous System: Connecting the External to the Internal Anatomical Structures of the Body
The two main neural crest-derived structures, the skin and the autonomic nervous system remain connected to each other throughout life via melanin and the melanocytes (melanin-producing cells) even after humans are fully matured. We might think about melanocytes as tiny semi-conductors. Indeed, synthetic melanin has been produced by Big Pharma for the purposes of functioning as an electrical semi-conducting substance. But natural, human melanin is also a semi-conductor that has the ability both capture and reflect different wavelengths of light.But melanin does many other things too in the human body. For example, it binds with toxic drugs and chemicals that people are exposed to in the environment including organic amines, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, to name just a few. When melanin binds to these toxic substances, studies have shown it can retain them for long periods of time. The melanin slowly releases the toxins in non-toxic concentrations.
Long-term exposure to toxins can build up to high levels in the body and be stored in the melanin-containing structures of the body, which causes degeneration of the melanocytes, ultimately disconnecting the patient from meaningful, healing connections to the environment and to other humans. As a result of toxic buildup, lesions can occur in the melanin-containing structures of the body. The areas of the body that contain melanin include the following:
- Endocrine Glands
- Pineal Gland
- Pituitary Gland
- Thyroid Gland
- Thymus Gland
- Adrenal Glands
- Pancreas
- Ovary
- Testes
- Skin and Hair
- Eyes
- Ears
- Nose
- Tongue
- Vagina
- Rectum
- Spinal meninges (tissues surrounding the spinal cord and brain)
- Bones
- Heart
- Brain
- Substantia Nigra
- Locus Coerleus
- Bronchialis
- Paranigralis
- Intracopularis
- Nervitrigemini
- Mesencephalon
- Pontis Centralis Aratis
- Tegmenti Pedennculopontis
- Parabrachnalis
- Medialis Dorsomotor
- Retroambiligualis
It’s important to note that the sensory organs are all melanin-producing structures. Also note that the endocrine glands, which are each associated with energy centers known as chakras and important meridians are also melanin-producing structures in the body.
Scientists speculate that melanin was designed to protect the body from harmful substances as well as from radioactivity and harmful forms of energy. When melanin binds to something toxic though, the body’s ability to absorb and process energy from the body is damaged. The electrical semi-conducting ability of melanin is hindered by toxins and negative forms of energy like nuclear radiation (including radiation therapy for cancer) as well as by toxic drugs that buildup in the melanin to specifically damage the brain and the autonomic nervous system, which is the part of the nervous system that was designed to synchronize blood flow, heart rate and rhythm, breath rate, and organ function into a harmonic experience of health.
In patients with autoimmune disease and cancer, the autonomic nervous system is often imbalanced and dysregulated which leads to global health problems that affect the whole body via endocrine dysfunction and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. But again, we have to remember that the autonomic nervous system and the skin are hard-wired together via melanocytes (the melanin-producing cells in the body). Melanocytes are naturally electrical in nature so they function very well as intermediaries between the outer layer of skin and the internal wiring of the autonomic nervous system.
Essentially, toxins and toxic energies in the environment gum up the melanin that works as an intermediary between the external environment and the internal environment of our bodies. As an intermediary, melanin does many things that we’ll talk about in time, but for now, we’re just going to focus on the idea that science has proven that melanin grabs onto toxins and toxic energies to protect the body from overexposure to these toxic things. Melanin does a slow-release of toxins into the body in an attempt to prevent overexposure to toxins, but if the melanin is overwhelmed with toxins, it loses its ability to grab more toxic things and the body must then resort to other methods of detoxification to survive. Also, melanin that is gummed up with toxins is less electrically conductive which means that the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine glands become de-synchronized, which leads to major problems in terms of human health.
The Autonomic Nervous System
The autonomic nervous system is the part of the central nervous system that deals with organ function and things like blood vessel dilation and constriction throughout the body. It is this part of the nervous system that works behind-the-scenes of our conscious experience of reality to ensure that the organs work properly and that they do what’s necessary to help us adapt to the environment, on cue, at the proper time of the day or night. The autonomic nervous system adjusts the breath pace, blood vessel dilation, constriction and blood flow, and the rhythm and strength of the heart beat and and breath, all of which are incrementally adjusted without our conscious control in an orchestrated symphony that we call “life”. If the autonomic nervous system becomes imbalance or dysregulated, an organ, tissue, or cell may experience blood supply shortages, oxygen shortages, toxic buildup and crisis as a result of high levels of acidity and a lack of necessary resources for survival. That same organ, tissue, or cell might become exhausted and sick and go into a state of dormancy (a parasympathetic play dead state) which in turn causes the patient to develop symptoms of disease.We might think about autoimmune disease, cancer, and serious infection as a specific imbalance in the autonomic nervous system that involves the melanin-producing structures in the skin, the brain, the endocrine glands (chakras) and the autonomic nerves and ganglia. This imbalance might take shape as neurological issues that impact neuromelanin-containing structures in the nigro-striatal system to produce tremors and Parkinson’s disease symptoms or symptoms of dementia. Toxins that build up in the nigro-striatal part of the brain would likely produce symptoms resembling Parkinson’s disease or Lewy Body Dementia.
Or the autonomic nervous system imbalance might take shape in the mesolimbic tract or in the noradrenergic system to produce symptoms resembling schizophrenia or other serious forms of mental illnes. Toxic buildup or negative energy exposures to a part of the sympathetic nervous system could create a wide array of different types of mental illness.
Low levels of melanin in the substantia nigra of the brain (so named because this structure contains high levels of neuromelanin) or high levels of melanin pigmentation in the locus coeruleus might cause autism-like symptoms or catatonia. And one could assume that toxic buildup in these areas of the brain could destroy melanin-producing cells which would explain why those with autism often have poor pigmentation in both the skin and in the brain. But all of these various disease states, though they are different in terms of their symptoms, are all related by the fact that they involve neuromelanin-producing structures in the body that are all directly connected to the autonomic nervous system.
The Origami of Autism: Transforming 2-Dimensional Thinking about ASD into 3-Dimensional Solutions - BUY HERE!Neuromelanin-related diseases involving the brain and the nerves, produce an array of different symptoms with colorful and varied diagnostic labels that are applied by doctors and scientists to hapless patients who feel relieved to receive a diagnosis that can be treated. Most patients have no idea that the medicine prescribed to them will worsen their symptoms and actually further overwhelm the melanin structures that are trying to protect and heal the body.
On the other hand, diseases that manifest in skin color changes (which might involve abnormal alterations in blood oxygenation levels, blood flow, bile metabolites, or the molecular weight and constituency of melanin pigments throughout the body), tend to involve a diversity of other symptoms that are different even still from the neuromelanin-related diseases. At the core of these disease that involve skin-pigmentation, though, is melanin, an energy-producing structure that also acts like a sophisticated form of body-armor. Melanin acts like a solar panel shield on the skin that can capture and use different forms of energy and convert it into electricity, chi, prana, etc. that the body uses to animate itself and to heal.
The Pineal Gland
In humans, the pineal gland plays a major role in the body’s ability to be present and properly oriented in time. The pineal gland is a melanized structure in the body and it is directly connected into both the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system via the blood supply so that it can monitor the information gathered by both of these systems of the body.PINEAL GLAND INFOGRAPHIC
The pineal gland performs the following functions in the body:
- Regulates sleep and wakefulness
- Regulates motor activity
- Regulates reproduction and fertility
- Regulates sex hormones
- Regultes growth and development
- Regulates body temperature
- Regulates blood pressure
- Regulates the immune system
- Suppresses cancer and tumor formation
- Regulates longevity and aging processes
The pineal gland is regarded as the mythical “third eye”. In scientific literature, scientists have noted that the pineal gland is related to light-sensing structures found in other animals and indeed, the pineal gland contains rod-like cells that are similar to those that sense light in the eye. The rods are the cells in the human eye that detect light and dark and shades of gray while cones are responsible for detecting color. Though the pineal gland in humans may not be directly connected to the outside world, this structure is connected to the outside world via melanin, which is connected to the sympathetic nerves. The sympathetic nervous system, in turn is connected directly to the pineal gland.
The Giant Third Eye: The Skin, the Pineal Gland, and Light Exposure
Melanin in the skin can therefore sense the exposure of light to the skin. This is rather like having light-sensing eyeballs all over our bodies. Information about the presence or abscence of light to the skin is conveyed via the sympathetic nervous system to the pineal gland.This is the science of melanin and this is why melanin is such an important focus in terms of human health. The presence of darkness triggers the pineal gland to release melatonin which causes the human body to become relaxed and ready for sleep. The melanin molecules in our human skin, in fact, regard darkness not just as the absence of light, but as an emanating energy field of its right. The absence of visible spectrum light makes it easier for human skin to detect other forms of energy that might be lurking about. In brown bats that are accustomed to using darkness and echolocation strategies to navigate their environment, exposure to darkness promotes the growth and development of melanin in the pineal gland specifically. If the brown bat is exposed to more darkness, the pigmentation of its pineal gland is intensified, suggesting that this animal becomes more adept as sensing energy that is more powerful when visible spectrum light is not interfering with it.
The pineal gland is like an orchestra conductor. It coordinates the action of the entire body in terms of time of day, seasons, and circadian rhythms via its interaction with the nervous system and hormone levels in the body that are released by endocrine glands. The pineal gland keeps the rhythm of our physiology in sync with the seasons, time of day and the time of night. If the pineal gland is not functioning properly to coordinate these two systems, the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, the orchestration of the body loses sync and timing. The rhythm of bodily activities becomes uncoordinated such that the organs do not work together. A lack of orchestration, rhythm, and sync obvious causes serious health problems to develop.
Women’s menstrual cycles are governed by the rhythms established by the pineal gland.
In the United States, calcification of the pineal gland is present in at least 40% of the population of individuals over 17 years of age because of the ubiquitous use of organophosphate insecticides and the cultivation of GMO staple food products that lack vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is the substance that prevents calcium buildup in the soft tissues of the body. When the body is deficient in vitamin K2, it becomes vulnerable to organophosphates, which buildup in the body as a result of improper calcium metabolism.
Calcification of the pineal gland causes infertility in both men and women. Serious health issues are caused by the body’s inability to sync with the natural rhythms in the surrounding environment. The body goes into a constant state of jet lag that many adults experience as depression. In children, this constant state of jet lag can manifest as autism symptoms.
While all other structures of the brain sit behind the blood-brain-barrier, the pineal gland receives blood without any kind of filtration system protecting it. This gland samples the blood to detect minute traces of hormones from the endocrine glands and then it “decides” what to communicate to other brain structures, the autonomic nervous system, and the endocrine glands in response. The pineal gland uses the information that it gathers from the blood, endocrine hormones, and autonomic nervous system (which connects directly to melanin in the skin) to tell the body when it is daytime and when it is nighttime. The pineal gland ensures that each organ of the body gets a break for a period of time each day and that the various organs are ready and fully rested when the patient is most needy for that organ’s services during the day or night.
The pineal gland is directly connected to the sympathetic nervous system via the superior cervical ganglia. The pineal gland acts an intelligent intermediary between the sympathetic nervous system and the following endocrine glands:
- Pituitary Gland
- Thyroid Gland
- Thymus Gland
- Adrenal Glands
- Pancreas
- Ovaries (female) or Testes (male)
Prana and the Pineal Gland
All of the endocrine glands contain melanocytes and they all produce melanin. In eastern medicinal practices such as yoga, Ayurveda, and Tibetan medicine, the endocrine glands are connected to energy centers in the body known as chakras. Each chakra is affiliated with an endocrine gland. Energy channels known as nadis travel from the base of the spine up to the crown of the head, passing through and interacting with the chakras. Prana is the energy that is said to travel through these energy channels to balance general health in the chakras, which might become blocked or overactive, stuck or imbalanced.In Hindu literature, prana is an energy source that comes from the sun. Though the ancient medical practitioners who developed the idea of chakras didn’t elaborate on the idea of melanin, we can easily connect melanin to the sympathetic nervous system which in turn connects into the pineal gland as we’ve just discussed. We can then easily see that the pineal gland communicates with the endocrine glands and the chakras to coordinate their activity. The fact that the skin contains melanin, a substance that detects energy including visible light energy from the sun as well as energies that are transmitted through darkness demonstrates that the ancient doctors in eastern medicine were correct. Sunlight is a source of prana or energy that our melanin solar panels use and detect to produce health in humans.
Dopamine as a Melanin Precursor
Most people today in developed countries are familiar with the neurotransmitter dopamine. They know that social media preys on the brains desire for a dopamine “hit”, for example. As such, dopamine has made its way into pop culture unfortunately as a neurotransmitter with a negative connotation. But dopamine doesn’t deserve this kind of bad press. Though few people actually understand how dopamine functions in the body to prevent addiction, they nonetheless understand that dopamine levels play a role in addiction and especially in social behavior. While the media has pushed the idea that dopamine somehow causes addiction, in reality, it’s a deficiency of dopamine that causes addiction and certain types of mental illness.
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Unfortunately, few people are aware of the fact that dopamine is a precursor to the production of melanin, the same stuff that colors the skin, the hair, the eyes, and certain areas of the brain and endocrine glands. This fact highlights the powerful relationship between how we feel about the world, our social behavior, our ability to control our emotions and our behaviors, and sunlight exposure (or exposure to light in general).Anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, autoimmune disease, parasite infection, or other serious illness needs to understand what dopamine is, how dopamine works, why you need plenty of dopamine and the fact that dopamine is required in the production of melanin.
Genetically modified plants (GMOs) which are, by and large, staple food items in the societies that consume them, have been genetically engineered to not produce L-tyrosine, the specific amino acid that is used by the human body in the production of dopamine. The lack of L-tyrosine in the diet is particularly relevant in this discussion about energy and human health. Replacing natural plant-foods with GMOs has lead to a widespread deficiency of L-tyrosine and thus a deficiency of dopamine. In turn, a deficiency of dopamine causes a deficiency of the two primary autonomic nervous system neurotransmitters: noradrenaline and adrenaline. And finally, if L-tyrosine is deficient, and if dopamine levels get low, melanin production is significantly impaired.
As a neurotransmitter, dopamine functions a bit like electricity in the body. Without plenty of dopamine in our neurons, we can’t make positive decisions for ourselves. Our neurons don’t fire for lack of dopamine. But dopamine itself is the starter-molecule for noradrenaline and adrenaline, the transmitting substances that are responsible for most of the functionality of the sympathetic nervous system. So, a deficiency of dopamine creates dysfunction in the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system via its downstream effects on noradrenaline and adrenaline.
Noradrenaline, after all, is the neurotransmitter that’s released by the sympathetic nervous system into the pineal gland to tell it to produce melatonin.
Summary
Obviously, this topic deserves more attention, but our goal in this article was just to connect the dots between energy in its various forms from sunlight and visible spectrum light to other forms of energy that our sensory organs can’t necessarily detect. Human skin is like a giant third eye that can detect energy that our eyes can’t see and the our ears can’t hear. This is a scientific fact. Information from the semi-conducting molecules of melanin in human skin is picked up by the sympathetic nervous system and conveyed to the brain and pineal gland to create adjustments in the general functioning of our bodies.
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The Anatomy and Physiology of Prana
Melanin is so much more than just a pigment in human skin. It acts as a form of armor against toxins, heavy metals, and toxic forms of energy like radiation. And melanin also functions like a solar panel semi-conductor that connects into the sympathetic nervous system which in turn connects to the pineal gland. And then the pineal gland, the so-called "third eye" and "seat of the soul" communicates with the endocrine glands about what the melanin in our human skin senses energetically in the environment. Melanin can "smell", it can sense touch, and it senses energy beyond the visible spectrum of light with human skin acting like a giant sensory organ.Western medicine is exceptional in that anatomy (structure) is a concept that is separate and distinct from physiology (function). Indeed, physiology in western conventional medicine does not acknowledge an energy source in any form. It does not make any kind of commentary on how the human body is animated or connected to the external environment even through nutrition, a science that has been hopelessly corrupted by Big Food when it is not omitted entirely from medical school curricula.
According to conventional medicine, sunlight is toxic and a form of “radiation”, suggesting that sunlight is not just light radiating from the sun, but a source of “radioactivity”. Conventional medicine also does not acknowledge the importance of water quality in producing health in humans. The idea that water changes shape and takes on different forms that are either toxic of healing depending on trace mineral content, sunlight exposure (or lack thereof) and various other factors that have been studied and proven through in depth scientific studies at universities by established and respected professors is completely absent from medical training. Air quality and temperature and seasonal variation as variables that might impact human health is only acknowledged in regard to seasonal flu epidemics. Otherwise, the interaction of the human organism with the environment and with sources of energy that naturally surround us, is considered to be a separate problem that doesn’t usually pertain to human health except perhaps in terms of exposure to “germs” via the earth, air, water, or another human organism.
So, in this discussion, we want to bridge the gap between western conventional medicine and energy systems of healing like Ayurveda and acupunture (to name just two) and talk about human anatomy in physical, scientifically studied terms that essentially prove the validity of energy healing.
This is a big undertaking, but it interests Lydi and me, not just because we work sometimes with energy healing, but also because we work a lot with plants and nutrients. Systems of energy healing like Reiki, for example or crystal healing have validity and they do work, but only if clients understand how these systems fit into the model of medicine that’s familiar to them. As the conventional medical model of developed countries colonizes less developed areas of the world to delegitimize traditional methods of doing medicine that tend to be based on a system of energy healing, it has become more and more important to explain, in simple terms, how the energies from the environment and from other human veins can be used to cure disease. That being said, the discussion that follows is a bit technical and not as simple as we’d like just because most of the terms are not familiar to the average reader. But if you’re interested in how our bodies process energy and how systems like acupuncture relate to conventional medicine, keep reading.
The Skin and the Autonomic Nervous System: Connecting the External to the Internal Anatomical Structures of the Body
The two main neural crest-derived structures, the skin and the autonomic nervous system remain connected to each other throughout life via melanin and the melanocytes (melanin-producing cells) even after humans are fully matured. We might think about melanocytes as tiny semi-conductors. Indeed, synthetic melanin has been produced by Big Pharma for the purposes of functioning as an electrical semi-conducting substance. But natural, human melanin is also a semi-conductor that has the ability both capture and reflect different wavelengths of light.But melanin does many other things too in the human body. For example, it binds with toxic drugs and chemicals that people are exposed to in the environment including organic amines, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, to name just a few. When melanin binds to these toxic substances, studies have shown it can retain them for long periods of time. The melanin slowly releases the toxins in non-toxic concentrations.
Long-term exposure to toxins can build up to high levels in the body and be stored in the melanin-containing structures of the body, which causes degeneration of the melanocytes, ultimately disconnecting the patient from meaningful, healing connections to the environment and to other humans. As a result of toxic buildup, lesions can occur in the melanin-containing structures of the body. The areas of the body that contain melanin include the following:
- Endocrine Glands
- Pineal Gland
- Pituitary Gland
- Thyroid Gland
- Thymus Gland
- Adrenal Glands
- Pancreas
- Ovary
- Testes
- Skin and Hair
- Eyes
- Ears
- Nose
- Tongue
- Vagina
- Rectum
- Spinal meninges (tissues surrounding the spinal cord and brain)
- Bones
- Heart
- Brain
- Substantia Nigra
- Locus Coerleus
- Bronchialis
- Paranigralis
- Intracopularis
- Nervitrigemini
- Mesencephalon
- Pontis Centralis Aratis
- Tegmenti Pedennculopontis
- Parabrachnalis
- Medialis Dorsomotor
- Retroambiligualis
It’s important to note that the sensory organs are all melanin-producing structures. Also note that the endocrine glands, which are each associated with energy centers known as chakras and important meridians are also melanin-producing structures in the body.
Scientists speculate that melanin was designed to protect the body from harmful substances as well as from radioactivity and harmful forms of energy. When melanin binds to something toxic though, the body’s ability to absorb and process energy from the body is damaged. The electrical semi-conducting ability of melanin is hindered by toxins and negative forms of energy like nuclear radiation (including radiation therapy for cancer) as well as by toxic drugs that buildup in the melanin to specifically damage the brain and the autonomic nervous system, which is the part of the nervous system that was designed to synchronize blood flow, heart rate and rhythm, breath rate, and organ function into a harmonic experience of health.
In patients with autoimmune disease and cancer, the autonomic nervous system is often imbalanced and dysregulated which leads to global health problems that affect the whole body via endocrine dysfunction and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. But again, we have to remember that the autonomic nervous system and the skin are hard-wired together via melanocytes (the melanin-producing cells in the body). Melanocytes are naturally electrical in nature so they function very well as intermediaries between the outer layer of skin and the internal wiring of the autonomic nervous system.
Essentially, toxins and toxic energies in the environment gum up the melanin that works as an intermediary between the external environment and the internal environment of our bodies. As an intermediary, melanin does many things that we’ll talk about in time, but for now, we’re just going to focus on the idea that science has proven that melanin grabs onto toxins and toxic energies to protect the body from overexposure to these toxic things. Melanin does a slow-release of toxins into the body in an attempt to prevent overexposure to toxins, but if the melanin is overwhelmed with toxins, it loses its ability to grab more toxic things and the body must then resort to other methods of detoxification to survive. Also, melanin that is gummed up with toxins is less electrically conductive which means that the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine glands become de-synchronized, which leads to major problems in terms of human health.
The Autonomic Nervous System
The autonomic nervous system is the part of the central nervous system that deals with organ function and things like blood vessel dilation and constriction throughout the body. It is this part of the nervous system that works behind-the-scenes of our conscious experience of reality to ensure that the organs work properly and that they do what’s necessary to help us adapt to the environment, on cue, at the proper time of the day or night. The autonomic nervous system adjusts the breath pace, blood vessel dilation, constriction and blood flow, and the rhythm and strength of the heart beat and and breath, all of which are incrementally adjusted without our conscious control in an orchestrated symphony that we call “life”. If the autonomic nervous system becomes imbalance or dysregulated, an organ, tissue, or cell may experience blood supply shortages, oxygen shortages, toxic buildup and crisis as a result of high levels of acidity and a lack of necessary resources for survival. That same organ, tissue, or cell might become exhausted and sick and go into a state of dormancy (a parasympathetic play dead state) which in turn causes the patient to develop symptoms of disease.We might think about autoimmune disease, cancer, and serious infection as a specific imbalance in the autonomic nervous system that involves the melanin-producing structures in the skin, the brain, the endocrine glands (chakras) and the autonomic nerves and ganglia. This imbalance might take shape as neurological issues that impact neuromelanin-containing structures in the nigro-striatal system to produce tremors and Parkinson’s disease symptoms or symptoms of dementia. Toxins that build up in the nigro-striatal part of the brain would likely produce symptoms resembling Parkinson’s disease or Lewy Body Dementia.
Or the autonomic nervous system imbalance might take shape in the mesolimbic tract or in the noradrenergic system to produce symptoms resembling schizophrenia or other serious forms of mental illnes. Toxic buildup or negative energy exposures to a part of the sympathetic nervous system could create a wide array of different types of mental illness.
Low levels of melanin in the substantia nigra of the brain (so named because this structure contains high levels of neuromelanin) or high levels of melanin pigmentation in the locus coeruleus might cause autism-like symptoms or catatonia. And one could assume that toxic buildup in these areas of the brain could destroy melanin-producing cells which would explain why those with autism often have poor pigmentation in both the skin and in the brain. But all of these various disease states, though they are different in terms of their symptoms, are all related by the fact that they involve neuromelanin-producing structures in the body that are all directly connected to the autonomic nervous system.
Neuromelanin-related diseases involving the brain and the nerves, produce an array of different symptoms with colorful and varied diagnostic labels that are applied by doctors and scientists to hapless patients who feel relieved to receive a diagnosis that can be treated. Most patients have no idea that the medicine prescribed to them will worsen their symptoms and actually further overwhelm the melanin structures that are trying to protect and heal the body.
On the other hand, diseases that manifest in skin color changes (which might involve abnormal alterations in blood oxygenation levels, blood flow, bile metabolites, or the molecular weight and constituency of melanin pigments throughout the body), tend to involve a diversity of other symptoms that are different even still from the neuromelanin-related diseases. At the core of these disease that involve skin-pigmentation, though, is melanin, an energy-producing structure that also acts like a sophisticated form of body-armor. Melanin acts like a solar panel shield on the skin that can capture and use different forms of energy and convert it into electricity, chi, prana, etc. that the body uses to animate itself and to heal.
The Pineal Gland
In humans, the pineal gland plays a major role in the body’s ability to be present and properly oriented in time. The pineal gland is a melanized structure in the body and it is directly connected into both the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system via the blood supply so that it can monitor the information gathered by both of these systems of the body.PINEAL GLAND INFOGRAPHIC
The pineal gland performs the following functions in the body:
- Regulates sleep and wakefulness
- Regulates motor activity
- Regulates reproduction and fertility
- Regulates sex hormones
- Regultes growth and development
- Regulates body temperature
- Regulates blood pressure
- Regulates the immune system
- Suppresses cancer and tumor formation
- Regulates longevity and aging processes
The pineal gland is regarded as the mythical “third eye”. In scientific literature, scientists have noted that the pineal gland is related to light-sensing structures found in other animals and indeed, the pineal gland contains rod-like cells that are similar to those that sense light in the eye. The rods are the cells in the human eye that detect light and dark and shades of gray while cones are responsible for detecting color. Though the pineal gland in humans may not be directly connected to the outside world, this structure is connected to the outside world via melanin, which is connected to the sympathetic nerves. The sympathetic nervous system, in turn is connected directly to the pineal gland.
The Giant Third Eye: The Skin, the Pineal Gland, and Light Exposure
Melanin in the skin can therefore sense the exposure of light to the skin. This is rather like having light-sensing eyeballs all over our bodies. Information about the presence or abscence of light to the skin is conveyed via the sympathetic nervous system to the pineal gland.This is the science of melanin and this is why melanin is such an important focus in terms of human health. The presence of darkness triggers the pineal gland to release melatonin which causes the human body to become relaxed and ready for sleep. The melanin molecules in our human skin, in fact, regard darkness not just as the absence of light, but as an emanating energy field of its right. The absence of visible spectrum light makes it easier for human skin to detect other forms of energy that might be lurking about. In brown bats that are accustomed to using darkness and echolocation strategies to navigate their environment, exposure to darkness promotes the growth and development of melanin in the pineal gland specifically. If the brown bat is exposed to more darkness, the pigmentation of its pineal gland is intensified, suggesting that this animal becomes more adept as sensing energy that is more powerful when visible spectrum light is not interfering with it.
The pineal gland is like an orchestra conductor. It coordinates the action of the entire body in terms of time of day, seasons, and circadian rhythms via its interaction with the nervous system and hormone levels in the body that are released by endocrine glands. The pineal gland keeps the rhythm of our physiology in sync with the seasons, time of day and the time of night. If the pineal gland is not functioning properly to coordinate these two systems, the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, the orchestration of the body loses sync and timing. The rhythm of bodily activities becomes uncoordinated such that the organs do not work together. A lack of orchestration, rhythm, and sync obvious causes serious health problems to develop.
Women’s menstrual cycles are governed by the rhythms established by the pineal gland.
In the United States, calcification of the pineal gland is present in at least 40% of the population of individuals over 17 years of age because of the ubiquitous use of organophosphate insecticides and the cultivation of GMO staple food products that lack vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is the substance that prevents calcium buildup in the soft tissues of the body. When the body is deficient in vitamin K2, it becomes vulnerable to organophosphates, which buildup in the body as a result of improper calcium metabolism.
Calcification of the pineal gland causes infertility in both men and women. Serious health issues are caused by the body’s inability to sync with the natural rhythms in the surrounding environment. The body goes into a constant state of jet lag that many adults experience as depression. In children, this constant state of jet lag can manifest as autism symptoms.
While all other structures of the brain sit behind the blood-brain-barrier, the pineal gland receives blood without any kind of filtration system protecting it. This gland samples the blood to detect minute traces of hormones from the endocrine glands and then it “decides” what to communicate to other brain structures, the autonomic nervous system, and the endocrine glands in response. The pineal gland uses the information that it gathers from the blood, endocrine hormones, and autonomic nervous system (which connects directly to melanin in the skin) to tell the body when it is daytime and when it is nighttime. The pineal gland ensures that each organ of the body gets a break for a period of time each day and that the various organs are ready and fully rested when the patient is most needy for that organ’s services during the day or night.
The pineal gland is directly connected to the sympathetic nervous system via the superior cervical ganglia. The pineal gland acts an intelligent intermediary between the sympathetic nervous system and the following endocrine glands:
- Pituitary Gland
- Thyroid Gland
- Thymus Gland
- Adrenal Glands
- Pancreas
- Ovaries (female) or Testes (male)
Prana and the Pineal Gland
All of the endocrine glands contain melanocytes and they all produce melanin. In eastern medicinal practices such as yoga, Ayurveda, and Tibetan medicine, the endocrine glands are connected to energy centers in the body known as chakras. Each chakra is affiliated with an endocrine gland. Energy channels known as nadis travel from the base of the spine up to the crown of the head, passing through and interacting with the chakras. Prana is the energy that is said to travel through these energy channels to balance general health in the chakras, which might become blocked or overactive, stuck or imbalanced.In Hindu literature, prana is an energy source that comes from the sun. Though the ancient medical practitioners who developed the idea of chakras didn’t elaborate on the idea of melanin, we can easily connect melanin to the sympathetic nervous system which in turn connects into the pineal gland as we’ve just discussed. We can then easily see that the pineal gland communicates with the endocrine glands and the chakras to coordinate their activity. The fact that the skin contains melanin, a substance that detects energy including visible light energy from the sun as well as energies that are transmitted through darkness demonstrates that the ancient doctors in eastern medicine were correct. Sunlight is a source of prana or energy that our melanin solar panels use and detect to produce health in humans.
Dopamine as a Melanin Precursor
Most people today in developed countries are familiar with the neurotransmitter dopamine. They know that social media preys on the brains desire for a dopamine “hit”, for example. As such, dopamine has made its way into pop culture unfortunately as a neurotransmitter with a negative connotation. But dopamine doesn’t deserve this kind of bad press. Though few people actually understand how dopamine functions in the body to prevent addiction, they nonetheless understand that dopamine levels play a role in addiction and especially in social behavior. While the media has pushed the idea that dopamine somehow causes addiction, in reality, it’s a deficiency of dopamine that causes addiction and certain types of mental illness.
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Unfortunately, few people are aware of the fact that dopamine is a precursor to the production of melanin, the same stuff that colors the skin, the hair, the eyes, and certain areas of the brain and endocrine glands. This fact highlights the powerful relationship between how we feel about the world, our social behavior, our ability to control our emotions and our behaviors, and sunlight exposure (or exposure to light in general).Anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer, autoimmune disease, parasite infection, or other serious illness needs to understand what dopamine is, how dopamine works, why you need plenty of dopamine and the fact that dopamine is required in the production of melanin.
Genetically modified plants (GMOs) which are, by and large, staple food items in the societies that consume them, have been genetically engineered to not produce L-tyrosine, the specific amino acid that is used by the human body in the production of dopamine. The lack of L-tyrosine in the diet is particularly relevant in this discussion about energy and human health. Replacing natural plant-foods with GMOs has lead to a widespread deficiency of L-tyrosine and thus a deficiency of dopamine. In turn, a deficiency of dopamine causes a deficiency of the two primary autonomic nervous system neurotransmitters: noradrenaline and adrenaline. And finally, if L-tyrosine is deficient, and if dopamine levels get low, melanin production is significantly impaired.
As a neurotransmitter, dopamine functions a bit like electricity in the body. Without plenty of dopamine in our neurons, we can’t make positive decisions for ourselves. Our neurons don’t fire for lack of dopamine. But dopamine itself is the starter-molecule for noradrenaline and adrenaline, the transmitting substances that are responsible for most of the functionality of the sympathetic nervous system. So, a deficiency of dopamine creates dysfunction in the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system via its downstream effects on noradrenaline and adrenaline.
Noradrenaline, after all, is the neurotransmitter that’s released by the sympathetic nervous system into the pineal gland to tell it to produce melatonin.
Summary
Obviously, this topic deserves more attention, but our goal in this article was just to connect the dots between energy in its various forms from sunlight and visible spectrum light to other forms of energy that our sensory organs can’t necessarily detect. Human skin is like a giant third eye that can detect energy that our eyes can’t see and the our ears can’t hear. This is a scientific fact. Information from the semi-conducting molecules of melanin in human skin is picked up by the sympathetic nervous system and conveyed to the brain and pineal gland to create adjustments in the general functioning of our bodies.
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