Researcher Sharry Edwards demonstrated that if she plays the frequency associated with the supplement, niacin, the listener’s face flushes as if he took a pill – but he only “listened” to the pill. Sounds correlate to biochemicals and biological formulas. With this perspective, researcher Edwards concluded that the body's language is numbers (of cycles of sound waves) expressed as frequencies or sounds.
Nerves communicate information to the far reaches of the body through electrical impulses. Thomas Heimburg, a Copenhagen University biology and physics researcher, said, “The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat along the nerve, but experiments find no heat.” Heimburg questioned standard thinking about inter-body communications through the nervous system.
Heimburg proposes that nerves communicate information through sound waves. This would explain how anesthesiology works, a mystery that has baffled scientists for years. Anesthetics change the melting point of nerve membranes so they can’t propagate sound. Nerves are put on “standby” and can’t report messages the brain interprets as pain.
Sound entrains our brain waves into alpha, beta, theta, and delta ranges. At specific brainwaves, our bodies produce healthy chemicals and repair our bodies. At other brain waves, one can quit smoking with greater ease. And sound can control the brain waves!
Pieces of the sonic body puzzle are constantly unraveling. In 1999, a professor at the University of Miami found that Alzheimer’s patients who listened to music increased their activities and levels of melatonin. (Melatonin regulates sleep, increases immune function, and creates a calm mood.)
Music increases endorphin release, decreasing the need for medication, according to the Austin Medical Center & Harvard University Medical School. Japanese researchers added to this idea. “Music played before anesthesia caused higher production of alpha waves (indicating deeper relaxation), decreases in the stress hormones cortisol. This boosted the immune system, reducing recovery time.”
In unsuspecting places, the impact of music can be influential. According to the research of Thomas Verny, “Music of Mozart and Vivaldi causes fetus' heart rates to stabilize, whereas rock music drove fetuses to distraction and violent kicking.”
Jeffrey Thompson, Director of the Center for Neuroacoustic Research, adds, "Since the human body is over seventy percent water and sound travels five times more efficiently through water than through air, sound stimulation directly into the body is highly efficient, especially at the cellular level - improving metabolism and possibly healing response."
Deforia Lane, PhD. (Director of University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland) verified that musical therapy boosted S-Ig A (salivary immunoglobin) levels, an immune booster.
Researcher Michael Thaut, Ph.D., who heads the Center for Biomedical Research at Colorado State University, uses music to help stroke victims. He said, “The brain's motor system uses rhythm as a timekeeper to guide and organize physical functions. Those who listen to 30 minutes of music during rehab improved their ability to walk faster and steadier.” The rhythms of music entrain the rhythms of the body, such as heart, breathing, and circulation patterns! Certain rhythms maintain health.
We are music, literally.
When in tune and harmonious, our bodies heal!