Shawn McCoy Massage Therapy

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

What is a solar flare and how does it affect us? A solar flare is a magnetic storm on the Sun, which appears to be an especially bright spot and a gaseous surface eruption such as in the above photograph. Solar flares release vast amounts of high-energy particles and gases that are tremendously hot....

11/22/2025

11/22/2025

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11/10/2025

11/10/2025

11/09/2025

Scientists from Kyoto University have found that cells can respond directly to sound waves, changing gene expression, physical behavior, and even decisions about becoming fat. Using a setup that plays pure sound tones directly into petri dishes, researchers exposed cell cultures to tones like 440 Hz (a low musical note) and 14 kHz, as well as white noise, all at intensities comparable to what tissues might experience inside the human body. After just two hours, 42 genes had already changed their activity, and after 24 hours, that number grew to 145. Many of these genes regulate mechanical stress, inflammation, tissue repair, and cell death, showing that cells interpret sound not just passively, but as a meaningful physical force.

Even more compelling, when scientists played continuous tones while coaxing stem cells into becoming fat cells, the sound suppressed fat gene activity by over 70%. Two critical fat-regulating genes, Cebpa and Pparg, were significantly reduced. The cells essentially resisted becoming fat, as if sound was reshaping their destiny. This suggests sound may influence body tissues in subtle but powerful ways.

While it’s too early to apply this research to humans or fat loss therapy, the findings give credibility to sound-based biological influence, a topic often dismissed as fringe. It opens up possibilities for future research into acoustic therapies and highlights how sound, like light or touch, might shape our biology in ways we’re only beginning to understand.

Research Paper 📄
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07969-1?fbclid=IwRlRTSAN2ZBRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHty1HAVUzbyP-XX-xbSpAMs-1OdcJ72QrrpBbBF0r36hTnCYngdHsJe9QD8i_aem_4YDg8FhVV4fKHZvreTBhpQ

11/01/2025

11/01/2025