10/10/2026
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/discovery/i-am-really-content-and-satisfied-how-an-indian-professors-research-on-a-tiny-alga-connects-to-the-2026-medicine-nobel/articleshow/134848119.cms
Fascinating to see, the nobel prize this year for Optogenetics. How light and the body interact.
Back in 2009, I remember in Osteopathy we were learning about how the human hand has the ability to distinguish between different wavelengths of light, how the human heart has receptors that open and close in response to sound, and to focus on health and the whole organism, not just the parts.
In practical classes, we would be doing various things with our clients, and monitoring the different energetic states, light changes in the body, and various other physiological parameters, throughout an examination and treatment.
I could feel/see, changes in energetic interaction, and light, at depths of the body such as the inner organs, and spinal cord.
The accuracy of the palpation/feeling, for example when I mentioned that a client had a small spinal tumour growing at L4/5 and sent them for an MRI, was confirmed for at that level and its size.
So we can monitor changes of energy, light, and be accurate to the microscopic level in the body, with our hands and mind alone:) Awesome. The nobel prize this year looks into this field, in context of interaction with the brain. Something I have included in my practice from early on, as lights, sounds and other rythym s grab our attention and focus, and detract from health and wellness. It’s just part of the job of healing from a concussion, brain injury, psychological manipulation, or s**t advertising focused at attention triggers and coercive input.
We can localize, thoughts, patterns and their interactions in a specific context of nerves, and blood flow involved, and then relate behavioural and contextually to real time environment, past and present, and projected future. Relate that interaction back to healthy patterns that don’t compromise the wholeness of an organism, and you have the beginnings of osteopathic study.
A question about how a microscopic organism finds sunlight led to research that would eventually help scientists control the activity of nerve cells using light. More than two decades later, the work has a connection to the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - and to an Indian scientist who....
