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• meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Short answer: no

  Long answer:

  In scientific terms, the glow comes from chemical reactions within our bodies. These chemical reactions besides generating energy and producing heat also produce free radicals – atoms or molecules that have a lone, isolated electron. That makes these radicals highly reactive setting off a series of energetic chemical reactions as they interact with various fats and proteins in our cells. **The glow is produced when these reactions involve fluorophores – molecules that give off photons (elementary particles of light). **

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