Professor Stefan Koelsch — a neuroscientist at the University of Bergen with training from the Max Planck Institute and Harvard Medical School — ran one of the most rigorous studies ever conducted on sound and the human body. In a double-blind, r...
bioacoustics
Bioacoustics & DNA
The effect of sound frequencies on biological systems and genetic material
He sent His word and healed them (Psalm 107:20)
Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at UCLA, conducted a study that may be the most remarkable evidence of sound changing the body at the cellular level. She took 39 people and randomly assigned them to either chant a sacred mantra (the sound...
Your immune system responds to sound. Multiple studies show that listening to or making music significantly changes immune markers in your body. Group drumming increased natural killer cell activity — the cells that fight viruses and cancer. Choir ...
Listening to music doesn't just make you feel different — it changes which genes are active in your body. A University of Helsinki study found that just 20 minutes of listening to classical music altered the expression of 45 genes in the listeners'...
Your cells can 'hear.' A 2022 systematic review confirmed that when scientists play sound through ordinary speakers at living cells, the cells respond — they move faster, multiply more, and develop better. Cells sense sound through tiny channels in...
Scientists at Kyoto University discovered that sound waves can actually change which genes are active in your cells. Just 1-2 hours of certain sounds suppressed some genes by up to 40%! Different types of sound waves (smooth sine waves vs. sharp squa...
The bacteria in your gut — trillions of them — respond to sound. A study published in Scientific Reports found that mice exposed to music had nearly double the beneficial Lactobacillus bacteria (47% vs 28% in controls). Even more striking: mice e...
Dr. James Gimzewski discovered that living cells actually make sound! Using an atomic force microscope, he found that yeast cells vibrate at around 1000 Hz - a high-pitched sound. Even more interesting, sick cells and healthy cells make different sou...