Much less studied until COVID, im.jsb damaged, 4years in, was pre med, totally unaware of nr/cfs until I got COVID, hear u with my heart@@joeboxter3635
I love how this dude, with all of his experience and expertise with critically ill patients, will drop videos about the most simple things we can do to improve our health and explain them in ways that are driven by data and evidence based practice. Been following you since 2017, much love and respect 👊
@@waynehiebert3801perhaps you need a trip down memory lane - go back 3 years and have a review of what Roger was promoting / defending then. - No mention of Vit D , infrared, fitness, exercise, fresh air etc etc etc then - he was too busy firstly defending experimental jabs and then trying to deny that said jabs have anything to do with global excess deaths etc etc 🙄🙄😡
The guy in the hospital who got better after going outside probably also benefited psychologically from being in the sun. It's a little harder to think you're dying when you are feeling the light of life on your skin.
It's funny isn't it, for hundreds of thousands of years we evolved to live outdoors among vegetation. Who'd have thought returning to the habitat we have evolved to thrive in would bring us good health!
I retired from a 30 year career in landscaping. Outside every day. Never got Covid / Flu despite exposure. I shared excellent health with my co-workers. In retirement, my hobby is gardening and I continue my good health. If someone could study all of us with outdoor careers / hobbies , that should surely show the benefits of light.
I recall reading that's how the 1918 flu patients were eventually treated when other measures weren't working. It was called open-air therapy. Patients and staff did much better being outside or in a porch where there was sunshine. I think Kellogg also used this method at his sanitarium in Michigan.
That patient's story was incredible and it is so powerful that I had some tears of joy. Dr. Seheult, you are such a very good doctor and care about your patients.
@@Medcram I was especially struck by his question "How long do I have to live?" In retrospect, the best answer would have been, "In one week we will know." That progression in O2 requirements must have been weighing on your mind. If you had not been there....
@@MedcramMy daughter was so grateful you were her pulmonologist at San Gogornio when she had Covid and her lung collapsed. You saved her life and she’s able to continue raising her four children. God bless you ❤
@@flagmichael It was. Nothing makes me more anxious is to see someone at the end of their "oxygen rope". We can't go much higher than 35 liters/min of 100% oxygen.
What I learned during Long Covid was the importance of light and infrared light-getting outside for the sunrise and sunset. I have done it every day since then, and at 70, I still fall to sleep right on time quickly, and sleep well until sunrise. I learned from your initial video (Light is Medicine) and my entire life has changed. I have a sleep app on my watch and I score very high every night. I have contracted COVID 19 twice since then, but quickly recovered those times. The first time was pure hell, but after 4 months, I recovered and learned so much about how to get back to health through the supplements (NAC, Vitamin D3 and K2, Super B complex and more),, fresh whole food diet even when I'm not hungry,, lots of quality protein, sauna, and the superstar (I believe) being light. Gentle exercise like Pilates and Yoga were what I did through Long Covid, and I noticed that while I had extreme fatigue, I still had enough strength after a month or so to do resistance training. I also went outside barefoot and touched the plants and trees to ground while being in the sunlight.
Great personal experience! May I ask why you continued to catch Covid? You seem to know what’s healthy, and seemingly wouldn’t want to make your long Covid worse. Did you stop wearing your mask indoors? Are you in a senior facility where spread is high? I haven’t caught it once. I can’t imagine having Covid several times, especially long Covid!
Thanks for sharing. I’ve found that when I get a video on a great topic for health, I ALWAYS go to the comments because what people share are just as important to support their experience with the science presented. Keep commenting, there is great value to us viewers.
This is so weird. I am 72. I have had all the Covid shots. But my son came home for a while and brought Covid with him. We all got it . Me the worse. I had to go to the hospital because my throat was so bad I could hardly swallow. I woke up today not feeling to great. I decided I needed to go out and sit in the sun. I felt so much better after being outside. Then I came in and saw this video. I have always opened my window and let sun and air in. Even in the winter. That is how I was raised. My grandmother, Mother and everyone before them believed in sun and fresh air. I think you were brilliant to take this man out into the light and air. I hope more studies are done too. Even though, in reality, they aren’t need. We’ve known this for a very long time. But, lots of business, pharmaceutical companies etc. would argue with that. Great video !
Good point: it appears the trials have progressed to the point of adding recommendations for getting modest amounts of sunlight when the patient's records do not contraindicate it. It sure seems to be in the "can't hurt, might help" regime.
First, while I respect everyone’s to choose, no one by now, knowing the risks of the mRNA vaccine should ever get another shot. That being said, I never got the vaccine. My husband got vaccinated and boostered. I never got Covid despite being exposed to it several times. However, my husband has had it several times. Plus, at 64, he’s someone who has neve4 been sick but now he’s on 5 PRESCRIPTION meds because of a heart issue. The cardiac nurse said she’s sure he’s vaccine injured.
When I worked as an ICU nurse, I remember asking to take my long ICU patients outside. It made such a difference- decreased ICU psychosis and anxiety among other things. It was a lot of work to transport them but it was a noticeable difference.
I have to pause this video for a while for this comment. It makes perfect sense to me now as to why our old folks soak us under the sun esp. during the morning here in the Philippines. In school, our teachers back the 90's allow us to play under the sun between 9:30 AM & 10 AM during our recess. Cheers & mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!
For a little over a month I have been working three nights a week at a 24 hour convenience store. I will be 72 years old this month, and I have been quite overweight since I retired five years ago. The job is demanding, causing me to lose 13 pounds so far with my tattletale watch recording 8000-12000 steps per day when I work. After the first week of dragging myself around the house I began taking 30-45 minute walks with my 17 yo grandson. Conversation, exercise, sunlight, scenery, balance of activity and rest, social interaction... I would never have guessed it would help _this_ much! Next month I have an appointment with my PCP; I will be interested in reviewing my blood pressure medications. My BP has been consistently low for a few weeks now. Maybe there is something to "healthy living."
Sunlight exposure is yet another reason to play more golf. Thanks Dr. S, I will make sure to let my wife know whenever she gives me “that look” whenever I want to play.
I was former president of the Battle Creek Adventist Hospital, and worked a lot on the historical material. In 2019 Dr. Kellogg had all the patients spending two hours a day in the sunlight.
@@Medcram Hippocrates prescriptions for health- massage therapy, food, hydrotherapy and heliotherapy. Western medicine, at its roots, is very wholistic. Allopathic "modern" medicine is not Western medicine at all!! Thanks for giving me something to share with friends and family.
There's so few things these days that are so clear when looking at the evidence. This is really incredible stuff that keeps being shown over and over. It's so easy and free! I'm going to tell all my friends and family about this, as well as share this with my doctor. :) Thank you!
I think the major agriculture businesses have created our current sun paranoia. No RCT'S SUPPORT IT. Considering they blame our sun (life source) for associations based on informant (usually unreliable) data. The sun is our LIFE SOURCE. AVOID IT AT YOUR PERIL. Don't burn but gradual moderate sun (direct) is BENEFICIAL. No sun has serious health implications.
Dr. Seheult and Dr Kyle: Thank you for pouring through the latest scientific literature and presenting us with the latest research on Covid-19 therapies. What a wonderful gift from God that the sunlight (which is free) can have such a dramatic effect in helping patients so significantly. I love all your lectures; you guys make difficult content to understand so easy to grasp. The best MD teachers. God bless you both and your loved ones! ❤
I got COVID during this summer surge 3 weeks ago and while I was at home recovering I sat outside in the sun for 30 minutes and I feel that this therapy plus rest helped in my recovery journey.
I have been an ICU nurse and will always be at heart and I’m currently a family nurse practitioner… it’s important to stay professional, but intensivists and pulmonologists such as yourself are both heroes and inspirations.
@@suzanneemerson2625Because you have sun and light and fresh air exposure while you do it. Have been hanging mine out to dry all my adult life (I'm 66 years old).
Been following you since Covid and you are a doctor with integrity and passion and I appreciate doctors like you. The amount of bad experience I had, then I see there are still docs like you, who are still passionate about their patients, really thank you ❤
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Part of our mission here is to communicate using science to reach medical professionals in this way so that they are convinced as well!
Love this article! I am a bad sleeper so I’ve found an article about infrared light that helps with sleeping and it does! Also I’m very privileged to live in a house with a big garden! So we take daily walks through the garden and enjoy the fresh air! Also hanging my washing out in the sun to dry and specially my bedding, hmmmm, I always to my husband, smell the sunlight! Yes, God gave us this awesome bright light in the sky to help with diseases and lifting moods and sterilizing our clothes and bedding! Thanks dr S❤
Totally amazing. I’ve known this for quite some time. I work from home and I make sure to go outside and just a pair shorts with no shirt in my backyard and I get about 15 minutes of sun every day and I tell everyone I know to do the same, especially if they’re sick to get outside and get in the sun so you have the most skin exposure. I live in Michigan, so I also bought a red light therapy device to use in the winter. thank you for the great message.
Definitely depends on the type of window. As stated, clear glass and single pane, it sure does. If you have Low-E double or triple pane then not so much. UV for vitamin D is a different story - general need sun high in the sky and skin exposed, UV does not penetrate. Thank you Dr S!
They practically locked people in the house,then blocked off the walking trails and access to beaches ,where people could actually enjoy being outside ,in the sun..I myself when I have been sick ,crave laying in the sun,now I guess my body is telling me what I need..Thx😊
@@lindaflesch7303exactly. I worked as a Contact Tracer for my county public health during Covid. I always told people to get outside! No one was keeping them from being out in their own yard or walking down their street/road. So many thought they had to stay indoors. It was so sad.
@@lindaflesch7303maybe you weren't,but all the parks and beaches were closed in our state and this cause people to all go out in the street to walk.. causing more congestion than if we had just been allowed to go to all available parks. My street looked like a street in NY. I'll never forget it.
My wife, who spent most of her nursing career in elder care, often despaired over institutionalization of patients who were still functional. They go in alive and almost invariably do not come out alive.
I had COVID last week and sat outside in the sun for at least a couple of hours each day. The illness was not that severe (I am unvaxxed) and I recovered quickly. Who knows how it would have gone otherwise, but it felt like it helped.
that means your actually tested ?! Those tests killed me in march 2020 -- had covid when it was actually severe (so were the five gee towers going on and on), and I got worse every week with every swab they forced me to get, and I refused the vent which is why I was still alive. Covid stopped being severe in spring 2020. you'd be fine, after 2020 anyway..... I'm a nurse, and all we had to do with treat this as we always did before it had a name.....treat the symptoms with anti inflammatories, antihistamines, etc. I got nothing, and got worse from the swabs. No need to test, which is dangerous ...more than the thing itself. Just keep the d levels, up, sleep early and well, eat well with our seed oils, get sun, be joyful, be grateful, and then pop some de wormer if you think it's 'something'...but not a good idea for many reasons to stick up and back which is dark spirited. It's not a vax so can we pease stop referring it to as such? I'm not shot-up either, and never got suck since 2020, and wasn't even sick with the flu, ever, in 24 years of nursing and I should be because I have "genetic issues"....nope )
@@rdallas81 I unsubscribed when the doc started recommending the vax. Wow, what a progress! Now it turns out the sun exposure is good for us! Mystery solved! I had asymptomatic Covid three times and I was in the sun every single day.I know from childhood that the sun is the best medicine. And home made food! And exercise! NO to prescribed medications and unnecessary tests! o, yes, at 70 i am in the perfect health because I AVOID doctors.
How about trying to create policy that not only endorses light exposure, but also endorse purified air in buildings. Since covid is disabling and here to stay, it would make sense to incorporate that.
Thank you for such clear picture of how each one of us can assist in keeping healthy. You are a true leader with unwavering conviction to help humanity.
In January when I had COViD. I did everything to fight it but the game changer was placing a chair in middle of yard indirect sunlight and with all my might walking to that spot daily, sitting there 15 minutes few times though day…think that is what started to speed up my recovery.
When I had Omicron in Sept 2022, I made a point to sit out in the sun for 30 minutes in the afternoons as soon as I could (after 2 days of feeling like I had the flu). Within a couple days of afternoon sun, the illness was basically over except being tired and then loss of sense of smell. I always took D3 supplements too. Went to the doc a few weeks later, D3 came in at 62. I'm in WA State - latitude too high to get much D3 most of the year.
I'm a respiratory therapist and curious, Is this continuous exposure to the sun, or a cumulative exposure throughout the day light hours. Also any difference between sunrise vs sunset.
Not sure if you've seen this already, but I think he covers it here. ua-cam.com/video/5YV_iKnzDRg/v-deo.htmlsi=F3cXhZBrXRTi3qa_I do remember that early morning sun is the best.
I work in an ER where we board many mental health patients for weeks or months until they are admitted or have found suitable placement. There are no windows in the ED and patients aren't aloud to leave due to elopement risk. I have wondered how much that has affected their mental health.😢
My mental and physical health would be overflowing with joy, no joke! I have Xeroderma Pigmentosum and have finally got my windows blocked out. I can now function because sunlight was getting in and harming me. I could do 2 windows a month and finally finished the project. I feel so much better! I know a man who had his house built without windows because he has XP. I'm jealous of people who can tolerate sun, I just have my fun at night!
Surely they could be brought to a room even one at a time even every second day with light and windows that they could sit next to and be even watched for 15 minutes
@@yvonne3903 Too bad nothing much is open at night anymore but I go flashlight hiking and find fun, otherwise never getting out of the box would be depressing as hell.
@@yvonne3903 I had to look up SLE, so obviously I don't know anything about it. I then looked up "SLE vitamin D" because or it's effect on other autoimmune diseases. Check out how some controversial doctors utilizes vitamin D3 for MS. That's what I would do if I had any autoimmune disease. I myself aim for blood levels of 50 -- 100 ng/ml of 25(OH)D, and require 10'000 IU to get there. That's a dose for someone healthy, though.
Quit giving a “ghost” credit for killing people? “God sends rain.” (People drown.) People save people. “Praise Allaaaaah, praise god, praise Thor!” Good people are the only good gods?
@@Longstorie If “He gives us everything to stay healthy,” why did “He” give us COVID? Why did (does) he (and big daddy) DROWN so many HEALTHY people including innocent children? Please quit spreading these false myths. Teach children how to think clearly based on FACTS instead of myths?
Thank you Doctor! This wonderful video completely reenforces everything I have known for so many years. I am 77 years young and NEVER sick. I live on 8 acres of rural property in the Sierra Mountains of Northern California, I am an arborist/tree hugger and addicted to working outside in my organic vegetable garden everyday. I do take Vitamin D3 which is important also, especially as we age.
It's hard to believe that hospitals don't usually come with a garden or park for the patients to roam around, on foot or in a wheel chair. Instead too many rot in their beds in dim light and watch television. And why doctors don't prescribe sun bathing, gym, swimming and hiking in the woods to their overweight patients with diabetes and hypertension? This works way better than all the chronic prescriptions that people receive for years and years without getting any health improvements. Responsible health insurance companies should sponsor this for their own benefit - as it saves lives and healthcare costs. When I lived in the UK, my fees for the gym and swimming club were mostly covered by the health insurance and the corporation I worked for. When I was a kid I was sent to a convalescence place for kids in the Alps in Germany after I had had whupping cough. During the 6 week stay, which was during winter, we not only "had to" play outside in the snow when the weather was good enough, but also were held to take an early afternoon nap under big blankets outside in the sun. I'm now 71, I never got Covid even though I refused to take any "boosters" after the 2 initial doses. Instead I heeded the recommendations: Vitamin D3, zinc, magnesium, vitamin C, cold showers to make you chill, and spend as much time as you can outside, bike or hike in the forest. Boost and harden your immune system, and adore the sun. There is a reason it's been a god or goddess in all ancient religions.
This whole sun exposure thing might explain why COVID rates in Africa never really spiked outside of South Africa ... sun exposure in the rest of the continent's population would have been higher than in other parts of the world where people either have shorter periods of direct sun or spend less time in the sun for other reasons. It also suggests why COVID spikes in FL in the summer, which is when Floridians are least likely to be outside and most likely to be inside to catch AC.
In Cambridge, UK we were taking Covid patients out into the sunlight during the first wave. No idea if it was a part of the trial or not. Patients on beds.
@@Medcramso, this is what I found ( I am a nurse). The reason was twofold, 1. For the families to be able to see their loved ones, there was no visits in hospital during pandemic. 2. For patients wellbeing, especially if they were already out of sedation. Also, ICU still takes patients to the garden, even when on ventilator, as long as they are stable haemodynamically. Portable ventilator. Airway trained doctors, physios and nurse. Emergency transfer equipment
@@urszulalato4351 That is simply amazing! I'd love to talk to someone about that. Please email us at the website and tell them to pass their contact along to me. You got some pretty smart people there at Cambridge (maybe relatives of Florence)!
My 82 year old dad breezes through every covid infection. He is outside every day on his bicycle 50 years straight. Yesterday he rode 75km, 3,000ft gain on his bike. Always a bit of a tan, hours out in the sun right through the pandemic. Though I'd like to know the effect of sunscreen, long sleeves and our PNW cloudy winter weather on infrared therapy.
Amazing! I and my hubby with heart failure thank you! I wondered why neither of us slept while hospitalized. Even with sleeping pills, nada! No sun. For weeks, sometimes. He has a light source, but his butt is getting outside, today. For years he hasn't slept well, lack of sun, because of skin cancer??? He can cover up, and still get the infra red he needs! I am soooooo glad I watched this. I will let you guys know for sure, if this helps!! Dr. Sheult is gonna change our sick care models!! Jeannie in Lakeport California
As always, you are a ray of sunshine! (I really couldn’t help myself!) I applaud you as a doctor committed to not just following what the pharma textbooks say, but truly looking to spend all of this extra time of your already jam-packed days to do research, practice what you preach, and be passionate enough to bring this to the masses. Thank you thank you thank you !
My sister, who worked in dermatology all her career, has admonished me all my adult life for not wearing sunscreen cream and for being an even mostly clothed sunbather. I love fresh air and water is my go to beverage. I wish all humans were able to have these god given gifts. I really appreciated this video. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
I have heard that morning and evening Sun has the most red and infra red light, it also good because there is so much less chance of Sunburn. Some cultures have an inbuilt reverence for the Sun and they spend time in the morning and evening having a small thankyou to the Sun. We are really starting to get how our whole system works, which is just amazing. Thank you for your wonderful curiosity and openness to research.
If doing sun exposure I would suggest you check the UV index every time, before you go out, this will let you know the "time to burn". You need to avoid excessive UV exposure for good health too. But this UV index changes with the seasons and with the daytime.
@@jamessmith1652 That's exactly what the UV index tells you! Here in Stockholm the UV index was 3 the first time the sun was above 45°. That was in the middle of May. It took me 3 weeks of 1 h a day exposure to get a reasonable sun burn (without any burning, of course). In the middle of August, the UV index was back down to 3 again, and that's only around noon. We don't have enough sun here in Stockholm, Sweden. Only 3 months to get any vitamin D from the sun!
Marvelous! Your infectious enthusiasm has inspired me to brave the world outside in spite of my fear of asthma flares. I can prevent them so I can enjoy a 30 minute morning visit to my land and countryside beyond. I already do the hot/cold shower routine. Thank you. And thank you and all the others out there for realizing and incorporating the practical treatments from our past. Bravo!
I will, but specific ways to communicate would be good. For a while, most of my posts about Covid were probably shadow banned on Facebook, for instance. I got no response, and I doubt many people saw them. That might not be the case anymore. 🤷
Good thing Governor Newsom of California closed all of the parks and beaches in California. You didn’t even need this study to know just being healthy increases your chance of survival to Covid. These studies amplify that knowledge with a root cause.
Thank you!!! I love your videos and have learned so much from them over the past 4 years. I was talking to a friend recently who hadn't heard of NIR, so I was trying to figure out which of your many informative videos on NIR to recommend, when I noticed that you had made this new one. I think it gives an excellent overview on NIR--and is just what I needed for my friend. Thank you for taking the time to go over this topic again.
If only all doctors cared as much as you. I have alpha one anti trypsin deficiency and found out on the internet I’m at an even higher risk of severe covid. I’m also B12 and vit D deficient. I have EPI and type 2 diabetes causing malabsorption of vitamins and nutrients. Thank you for this♥️
There are two types of sunscreens - chemical and physical. Chemical sunscreens are carcinogenic and many brands have been recalled or banned outright - google ‘banana boat cancer’. Physical sunscreen such as zinc oxide deflect sunlight and can provide better protection but at what cost? Completely blocking sunlight hinders it’s therapeutic benefits. The best thing to do is exposure during the morning before the UV index peaks. Ideal this is between 9am and 11am. For optimal absorption expose the back of the neck, chest and the arms. Sunlight is also necessary for eye health. Children who spend more time outdoors have been found to have better eyesight and less likely to require glasses. I recommend you can research further.
Roger, this was totally fascinating. I have some professional connection to bioscience, being a PhD, trained at UCSD and then as a permanent panel member at the NIH. That said, in my view this was a really important discussion, bringing together diverse findings in good research publications. There will no doubt be more to say, but given my background you have gotten the ball rolling. Thanks so much.
Many thanks for the message regarding LED light side-effects to society. Look at the likely wintertime benefits of incandescent lights: light and heat with large helpings of infrared and near infrared wavelengths. Having the right lights at the right time of year makes too much sense. I'd love to see a controlled study of wintertime use of incandescent lighting and reported health. You sir are a true credit to medicine.
@@lindaflesch7303 Incandescent lights (the old hot filament type) emit the near-infrared wavelength light that likely help our health when not getting enough outside sunlight derived near-infrared light.
Thank you doc, as an RN, even though this has been my practice for myself and my family and patients, I will be using this even more so with my patients, coworkers family and friends.
I have been on the sunlight bandwagon for a while now. Why is this so controversial? I tell people about the stuff I've learned and felt and they say "I get a lot of sunlight" and continue to sit inside all day long and put on sunscreen every time they go out the door. I don't understand.
I bought a near infra red light , I've had Long Covid for 3 years , I've definitely had a modest to good recovery using my light , I'll be using it more now as I'm convinced it helps
Dr S, please, what about near infra-red light and persistent cloud cover? I live in the PNW (Seattle area) where cloudy days are more common than sunny days. So, (At least we have plenty of trees :-) )
Clouds do block NIR so its better to get outside even on those days but realize that you might need more time. It's still a lot more than you would get staying inside.
Thanks for the reminder Dr Sehuelt. I saw your 1st video on this month's ago. I will start coming out more in the AM. Also I do remember you said staring at a fire can give you this benefit also so I make a point of having a fire in our firepit as often as possible. I love watching it.
I am surprised Dr. Seheult has not had anything to say about trying the commonly available red/near IR therapy lights being sold by many companies now. Many of them are capable of producing dosages of 150 mW/cm2 or more and have been finding many therapeutic uses. If red/near IR light is the prescription, then these should be useful, right?
From here, in East Europe, Romania, thank you very much, dear colleague. The pandemic found me checking the health of automotive workers. It surprized me tremendously how little the contagiousity has been. But the workers where almost all having small farms as well. So they where well exposed to sun. In the big citys the story has been different.
My understanding is that the IR/near IR goes through clothing, so the skin can be covered. As IR/Near IR is actually heat: if you feels the warmth then you are getting the treatment.
Problem is, the pharmaceutical industry can’t make money from sunshine, so information about this simple and effective therapy of light exposure won’t see the light of day. (Pardon the pun.)
It's refreshing, some pun intended!, to listen to a Doctor who isn't totally laser focused on lining his/her pockets all the time, here we have a Doc inspiring us to take advantage of something that's FREE. I'm lucky, I moved from a perpetually grey sky country to a tropical one some time ago and walk at least 30-40 mins each day, generally either quite early or not long before dusk as it's soooo hot between 10am and 4pm, BUT, I also make a point in sitting on the South facing yard of my house for maybe 15/20 mins each day, shirtless, to get my daily dose of Vitamin D, guess I'm getting some near IR at the same time although I'm not in a green environment.
I never could understand why people were not put out in the sun during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic in 1918, the medical community noted that flu patients around the world who were housed outside in those large tents, and spent time in the sun, seemed to improve more quickly and fully.
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Why do you list long-Covid, but not CFS/ME, which is more prevalent?
Have you tested Ivermectin on patients?
@5:20 WOW this why they (Not Big Pharma) are using Near-Infrared against Dementia. Now I understand in can reach the mitochondria in the brain.
Much less studied until COVID, im.jsb damaged, 4years in, was pre med, totally unaware of nr/cfs until I got COVID, hear u with my heart@@joeboxter3635
@@moirabaggett9501 He is not a Veterinarian.
I love how this dude, with all of his experience and expertise with critically ill patients, will drop videos about the most simple things we can do to improve our health and explain them in ways that are driven by data and evidence based practice.
Been following you since 2017, much love and respect 👊
I have a shortlist of people who I trust implicitly ... Roger Seheult is at the top.
@@waynehiebert3801 100%
Agree 💯
@@waynehiebert3801perhaps you need a trip down memory lane - go back 3 years and have a review of what Roger was promoting / defending then. - No mention of Vit D , infrared, fitness, exercise, fresh air etc etc etc then - he was too busy firstly defending experimental jabs and then trying to deny that said jabs have anything to do with global excess deaths etc etc 🙄🙄😡
Bringing all the info to a lay person & making it understood is a gift, beside his medical skills.
The guy in the hospital who got better after going outside probably also benefited psychologically from being in the sun. It's a little harder to think you're dying when you are feeling the light of life on your skin.
It's funny isn't it, for hundreds of thousands of years we evolved to live outdoors among vegetation. Who'd have thought returning to the habitat we have evolved to thrive in would bring us good health!
It's cheerful😊
It provides free energy body systems love that.
I retired from a 30 year career in landscaping. Outside every day. Never got Covid / Flu despite exposure. I shared excellent health with my co-workers. In retirement, my hobby is gardening and I continue my good health. If someone could study all of us with outdoor careers / hobbies , that should surely show the benefits of light.
Remember how tuberculosis patients used to be put outside in the sun?
You can even find a photo of patients out in the sun in the middle of winter. "You're cold? Too bad, the sun is your medicine."
I thought it was because UV light kills TB so you dont have to isolate.
Additionally, methylene blue was given intravenously before the sunlight exposure. look it up
I recall reading that's how the 1918 flu patients were eventually treated when other measures weren't working. It was called open-air therapy. Patients and staff did much better being outside or in a porch where there was sunshine. I think Kellogg also used this method at his sanitarium in Michigan.
Yes, and hospitals often had something called a solarium just for that purpose.
That patient's story was incredible and it is so powerful that I had some tears of joy. Dr. Seheult, you are such a very good doctor and care about your patients.
It brings tears to my eye just remembering his story. 👍
@@Medcram I was especially struck by his question "How long do I have to live?" In retrospect, the best answer would have been, "In one week we will know." That progression in O2 requirements must have been weighing on your mind. If you had not been there....
@@MedcramMy daughter was so grateful you were her pulmonologist at San Gogornio when she had Covid and her lung collapsed. You saved her life and she’s able to continue raising her four children. God bless you ❤
@@flagmichael It was. Nothing makes me more anxious is to see someone at the end of their "oxygen rope". We can't go much higher than 35 liters/min of 100% oxygen.
@@flagmichael It was definitely weighing on my mind. Yes
What I learned during Long Covid was the importance of light and infrared light-getting outside for the sunrise and sunset. I have done it every day since then, and at 70, I still fall to sleep right on time quickly, and sleep well until sunrise. I learned from your initial video (Light is Medicine) and my entire life has changed. I have a sleep app on my watch and I score very high every night. I have contracted COVID 19 twice since then, but quickly recovered those times. The first time was pure hell, but after 4 months, I recovered and learned so much about how to get back to health through the supplements (NAC, Vitamin D3 and K2, Super B complex and more),, fresh whole food diet even when I'm not hungry,, lots of quality protein, sauna, and the superstar (I believe) being light. Gentle exercise like Pilates and Yoga were what I did through Long Covid, and I noticed that while I had extreme fatigue, I still had enough strength after a month or so to do resistance training. I also went outside barefoot and touched the plants and trees to ground while being in the sunlight.
Great personal experience! May I ask why you continued to catch Covid? You seem to know what’s healthy, and seemingly wouldn’t want to make your long Covid worse. Did you stop wearing your mask indoors? Are you in a senior facility where spread is high? I haven’t caught it once. I can’t imagine having Covid several times, especially long Covid!
COVID is a political warfare tool.
Excellent! Tu, I'm I NE, so no sun in winter, looking into red light, sitting by a window w modern glass wont help🙏💕
Thanks for sharing. I’ve found that when I get a video on a great topic for health, I ALWAYS go to the comments because what people share are just as important to support their experience with the science presented. Keep commenting, there is great value to us viewers.
Sunlight, grounding, and supplements saved me as well.
The problem is there’s no ICD10 code to bill for sunlight treatment.
@@ttcc5273 That's creative!
@@ttcc5273😂😂😂
Maybe as well... imagine how much the price would go up!
This is so weird. I am 72. I have had all the Covid shots. But my son came home for a while and brought Covid with him. We all got it . Me the worse. I had to go to the hospital because my throat was so bad I could hardly swallow. I woke up today not feeling to great. I decided I needed to go out and sit in the sun. I felt so much better after being outside. Then I came in and saw this video. I have always opened my window and let sun and air in. Even in the winter. That is how I was raised. My grandmother, Mother and everyone before them believed in sun and fresh air. I think you were brilliant to take this man out into the light and air. I hope more studies are done too. Even though, in reality, they aren’t need. We’ve known this for a very long time. But, lots of business, pharmaceutical companies etc. would argue with that. Great video !
Good point: it appears the trials have progressed to the point of adding recommendations for getting modest amounts of sunlight when the patient's records do not contraindicate it. It sure seems to be in the "can't hurt, might help" regime.
indoor air pollution from heating/cooking was a big problem in the old days
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It still is as houses are so well insulated.
The vaccines damage your immunity and put you at higher risk of acquiring COVID-19. Make sure your Vitamin D level is high normal.
First, while I respect everyone’s to choose, no one by now, knowing the risks of the mRNA vaccine should ever get another shot. That being said, I never got the vaccine. My husband got vaccinated and boostered. I never got Covid despite being exposed to it several times. However, my husband has had it several times. Plus, at 64, he’s someone who has neve4 been sick but now he’s on 5 PRESCRIPTION meds because of a heart issue. The cardiac nurse said she’s sure he’s vaccine injured.
When I worked as an ICU nurse, I remember asking to take my long ICU patients outside. It made such a difference- decreased ICU psychosis and anxiety among other things. It was a lot of work to transport them but it was a noticeable difference.
I’d love to hear your stories! Please email us at medcram.com and tell them I asked you, or share them here!
I have to pause this video for a while for this comment.
It makes perfect sense to me now as to why our old folks soak us under the sun esp. during the morning here in the Philippines. In school, our teachers back the 90's allow us to play under the sun between 9:30 AM & 10 AM during our recess.
Cheers & mabuhay, from my end--the Philippines!
For a little over a month I have been working three nights a week at a 24 hour convenience store. I will be 72 years old this month, and I have been quite overweight since I retired five years ago. The job is demanding, causing me to lose 13 pounds so far with my tattletale watch recording 8000-12000 steps per day when I work. After the first week of dragging myself around the house I began taking 30-45 minute walks with my 17 yo grandson. Conversation, exercise, sunlight, scenery, balance of activity and rest, social interaction... I would never have guessed it would help _this_ much!
Next month I have an appointment with my PCP; I will be interested in reviewing my blood pressure medications. My BP has been consistently low for a few weeks now. Maybe there is something to "healthy living."
I remember being sick as a child, with a cold or tummy bug. When I sat outside in the sun I felt much better and seemed to recover quicker.
Sunlight exposure is yet another reason to play more golf. Thanks Dr. S, I will make sure to let my wife know whenever she gives me “that look” whenever I want to play.
Come play golf.
Many courses around Sunset Beach NC.
Lots of nice things here!
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Lol
Maybe she wants you to take her yo the beach or to the park? You need 20 minutes, not 5 hours. Unhappy wife doesn't mean a happy life.
@@rdallas81Yes get that daylight by playing golf and exercise by refusing the golf cart. A double whammy!!!
Been following you since dr berg had you on this channel !! Love all your content!! Thank you for making it simple to understand for us non drs.
My pleasure!
You are a gift to humanity!!!
I was former president of the Battle Creek Adventist Hospital, and worked a lot on the historical material. In 2019 Dr. Kellogg had all the patients spending two hours a day in the sunlight.
Yes he did. Also had them doing hydrotherapy.
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@@Medcram Hippocrates prescriptions for health- massage therapy, food, hydrotherapy and heliotherapy. Western medicine, at its roots, is very wholistic. Allopathic "modern" medicine is not Western medicine at all!! Thanks for giving me something to share with friends and family.
Need to get more info from you. Email Medcram and ask them to patch you through.
This video needs to be shared everywhere on Social Media. ❤
There's so few things these days that are so clear when looking at the evidence. This is really incredible stuff that keeps being shown over and over. It's so easy and free!
I'm going to tell all my friends and family about this, as well as share this with my doctor. :) Thank you!
I think the major agriculture businesses have created our current sun paranoia. No RCT'S SUPPORT IT. Considering they blame our sun (life source) for associations based on informant (usually unreliable) data. The sun is our LIFE SOURCE. AVOID IT AT YOUR PERIL. Don't burn but gradual moderate sun (direct) is BENEFICIAL. No sun has serious health implications.
Dr. Seheult and Dr Kyle:
Thank you for pouring through the latest scientific literature and presenting us with the latest research on Covid-19 therapies. What a wonderful gift from God that the sunlight (which is free) can have such a dramatic effect in helping patients so significantly. I love all your lectures; you guys make difficult content to understand so easy to grasp. The best MD teachers. God bless you both and your loved ones! ❤
I got COVID during this summer surge 3 weeks ago and while I was at home recovering I sat outside in the sun for 30 minutes and I feel that this therapy plus rest helped in my recovery journey.
I wish I had tried that.
The strain of covid going around now is milder, that helps. It took me 5 days to recover. But yes I was on vacation and got plenty of sun.
@@hectorvazquez7929 Glad you thought to do that. Hope you are feeling well now.
I have been an ICU nurse and will always be at heart and I’m currently a family nurse practitioner… it’s important to stay professional, but intensivists and pulmonologists such as yourself are both heroes and inspirations.
Dear Doctor, Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you do. And for free at that!!!
You are Welcome!
Drying clothes on a clothesline is quite heathtful. Learned that 50 years ago. Thanks Roger.
How does that help?
@@suzanneemerson2625unless the help hangs it it dont hang itself duuuuh
@@suzanneemerson2625Because you have sun and light and fresh air exposure while you do it. Have been hanging mine out to dry all my adult life (I'm 66 years old).
Been following you since Covid and you are a doctor with integrity and passion and I appreciate doctors like you. The amount of bad experience I had, then I see there are still docs like you, who are still passionate about their patients, really thank you ❤
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Part of our mission here is to communicate using science to reach medical professionals in this way so that they are convinced as well!
@@Medcram don’t be sorry, you are one of a kind doctor! I pray for your health, happiness and wealth!
Love this article! I am a bad sleeper so I’ve found an article about infrared light that helps with sleeping and it does! Also I’m very privileged to live in a house with a big garden! So we take daily walks through the garden and enjoy the fresh air! Also hanging my washing out in the sun to dry and specially my bedding, hmmmm, I always to my husband, smell the sunlight! Yes, God gave us this awesome bright light in the sky to help with diseases and lifting moods and sterilizing our clothes and bedding! Thanks dr S❤
Totally amazing. I’ve known this for quite some time. I work from home and I make sure to go outside and just a pair shorts with no shirt in my backyard and I get about 15 minutes of sun every day and I tell everyone I know to do the same, especially if they’re sick to get outside and get in the sun so you have the most skin exposure. I live in Michigan, so I also bought a red light therapy device to use in the winter. thank you for the great message.
I was instantly reminded of putting my newborn daughters bassinet near a window to allow the sun to help cure her jaundice
Sadly NIR doesn't penetrate windows.
Near-infrared light passes through clear glass and will reflect off metal surfaces, including mirrors.
I think it depends on the type of glass, no? ,@@vin5388
Definitely depends on the type of window. As stated, clear glass and single pane, it sure does. If you have Low-E double or triple pane then not so much. UV for vitamin D is a different story - general need sun high in the sky and skin exposed, UV does not penetrate. Thank you Dr S!
@@vin5388 it does i cant sit by windows with lupus mine is avoid sunlight just have vitamin d
They practically locked people in the house,then blocked off the walking trails and access to beaches ,where people could actually enjoy being outside ,in the sun..I myself when I have been sick ,crave laying in the sun,now I guess my body is telling me what I need..Thx😊
What a crying shame. Best wishes from NZ.
Inconvenient Truth
We weren't locked in, I took long walks with my dogs every day.
@@lindaflesch7303exactly. I worked as a Contact Tracer for my county public health during Covid. I always told people to get outside! No one was keeping them from being out in their own yard or walking down their street/road. So many thought they had to stay indoors. It was so sad.
@@lindaflesch7303maybe you weren't,but all the parks and beaches were closed in our state and this cause people to all go out in the street to walk.. causing more congestion than if we had just been allowed to go to all available parks. My street looked like a street in NY. I'll never forget it.
This is just another reason why long hospital admissions don't support patient's recovery or long term physical and mental health.
My wife, who spent most of her nursing career in elder care, often despaired over institutionalization of patients who were still functional. They go in alive and almost invariably do not come out alive.
@@flagmichael The first causalities of the pandemic were the nursing homes.
It is so good to see a video on UA-cam that is based on proper medical science and not fads or other forms of rubbish. From an Australian doctor
These guys are our virtual medical Heroes.
I have been working as a RN in progressive/ critical care for 32 years. This is an excellent video! Excellent advice!
Your tone - even more so when replying to comments - and your approach to medical science - is one thing that will lead me back to trust. Thank you
Thank YOU!
Thank you for the update.
I had COVID last week and sat outside in the sun for at least a couple of hours each day. The illness was not that severe (I am unvaxxed) and I recovered quickly. Who knows how it would have gone otherwise, but it felt like it helped.
Same here ( the unjibby jabby joo) lots otlf sun, vitamin C, and outside air.
Have not been sick in years.
Have not missed a single day of work.
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that means your actually tested ?! Those tests killed me in march 2020 -- had covid when it was actually severe (so were the five gee towers going on and on), and I got worse every week with every swab they forced me to get, and I refused the vent which is why I was still alive. Covid stopped being severe in spring 2020. you'd be fine, after 2020 anyway..... I'm a nurse, and all we had to do with treat this as we always did before it had a name.....treat the symptoms with anti inflammatories, antihistamines, etc. I got nothing, and got worse from the swabs. No need to test, which is dangerous ...more than the thing itself. Just keep the d levels, up, sleep early and well, eat well with our seed oils, get sun, be joyful, be grateful, and then pop some de wormer if you think it's 'something'...but not a good idea for many reasons to stick up and back which is dark spirited. It's not a vax so can we pease stop referring it to as such? I'm not shot-up either, and never got suck since 2020, and wasn't even sick with the flu, ever, in 24 years of nursing and I should be because I have "genetic issues"....nope )
They told me to rest the whole time! I've been laying around today is day 7 with covid and I feel so bad! Might go in the sun tomorrow
@@shainaroark3955 Hopefully, fresh air and sunshine are helpful. Is this your first infection?
@@rdallas81 I unsubscribed when the doc started recommending the vax. Wow, what a progress! Now it turns out the sun exposure is good for us! Mystery solved! I had asymptomatic Covid three times and I was in the sun every single day.I know from childhood that the sun is the best medicine. And home made food! And exercise! NO to prescribed medications and unnecessary tests! o, yes, at 70 i am in the perfect health because I AVOID doctors.
How about trying to create policy that not only endorses light exposure, but also endorse purified air in buildings. Since covid is disabling and here to stay, it would make sense to incorporate that.
They should mandate and give money to all schools to have purified air. They should have outdoor garden classes at every elementary school.
@@5amiann wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Thank you for such clear picture of how each one of us can assist in keeping healthy. You are a true leader with unwavering conviction to help humanity.
In January when I had COViD. I did everything to fight it but the game changer was placing a chair in middle of yard indirect sunlight and with all my might walking to that spot daily, sitting there 15 minutes few times though day…think that is what started to speed up my recovery.
When I had Omicron in Sept 2022, I made a point to sit out in the sun for 30 minutes in the afternoons as soon as I could (after 2 days of feeling like I had the flu). Within a couple days of afternoon sun, the illness was basically over except being tired and then loss of sense of smell. I always took D3 supplements too. Went to the doc a few weeks later, D3 came in at 62. I'm in WA State - latitude too high to get much D3 most of the year.
I'm a respiratory therapist and curious, Is this continuous exposure to the sun, or a cumulative exposure throughout the day light hours. Also any difference between sunrise vs sunset.
Not sure if you've seen this already, but I think he covers it here. ua-cam.com/video/5YV_iKnzDRg/v-deo.htmlsi=F3cXhZBrXRTi3qa_I do remember that early morning sun is the best.
It seems that it only takes 15-20 minutes to make the switch turn on. More exposure results in less effect.
I work in an ER where we board many mental health patients for weeks or months until they are admitted or have found suitable placement. There are no windows in the ED and patients aren't aloud to leave due to elopement risk. I have wondered how much that has affected their mental health.😢
My mental and physical health would be overflowing with joy, no joke! I have Xeroderma Pigmentosum and have finally got my windows blocked out. I can now function because sunlight was getting in and harming me. I could do 2 windows a month and finally finished the project. I feel so much better! I know a man who had his house built without windows because he has XP. I'm jealous of people who can tolerate sun, I just have my fun at night!
Surely they could be brought to a room even one at a time even every second day with light and windows that they could sit next to and be even watched for 15 minutes
@@Coogi622like a vampire 😢 .
I have light sensitivity due to SLE and I also do much at night like a vampire 😊
@@yvonne3903 Too bad nothing much is open at night anymore but I go flashlight hiking and find fun, otherwise never getting out of the box would be depressing as hell.
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I had to look up SLE, so obviously I don't know anything about it.
I then looked up "SLE vitamin D" because or it's effect on other autoimmune diseases.
Check out how some controversial doctors utilizes vitamin D3 for MS. That's what I would do if I had any autoimmune disease.
I myself aim for blood levels of 50 -- 100 ng/ml of 25(OH)D, and require 10'000 IU to get there. That's a dose for someone healthy, though.
Such good information. God is so good...He has given us everything we need to stay healthy - we just need to use it
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A million Americans died of COVID
Quit giving a “ghost” credit for killing people? “God sends rain.” (People drown.) People save people. “Praise Allaaaaah, praise god, praise Thor!”
Good people are the only good gods?
@@DM-zq8qy I will pray for your salvation. Time grows short. Repent & believe in Jesus.
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@@Longstorie If “He gives us everything to stay healthy,” why did “He” give us COVID? Why did (does) he (and big daddy) DROWN so many HEALTHY people including innocent children? Please quit spreading these false myths.
Teach children how to think clearly based on FACTS instead of myths?
Thank you Doctor! This wonderful video completely reenforces everything I have known for so many years. I am 77 years young and NEVER sick. I live on 8 acres of rural property in the Sierra Mountains of Northern California, I am an arborist/tree hugger and addicted to working outside in my organic vegetable garden everyday. I do take Vitamin D3 which is important also, especially as we age.
It's hard to believe that hospitals don't usually come with a garden or park for the patients to roam around, on foot or in a wheel chair. Instead too many rot in their beds in dim light and watch television. And why doctors don't prescribe sun bathing, gym, swimming and hiking in the woods to their overweight patients with diabetes and hypertension? This works way better than all the chronic prescriptions that people receive for years and years without getting any health improvements.
Responsible health insurance companies should sponsor this for their own benefit - as it saves lives and healthcare costs. When I lived in the UK, my fees for the gym and swimming club were mostly covered by the health insurance and the corporation I worked for. When I was a kid I was sent to a convalescence place for kids in the Alps in Germany after I had had whupping cough. During the 6 week stay, which was during winter, we not only "had to" play outside in the snow when the weather was good enough, but also were held to take an early afternoon nap under big blankets outside in the sun.
I'm now 71, I never got Covid even though I refused to take any "boosters" after the 2 initial doses. Instead I heeded the recommendations: Vitamin D3, zinc, magnesium, vitamin C, cold showers to make you chill, and spend as much time as you can outside, bike or hike in the forest. Boost and harden your immune system, and adore the sun. There is a reason it's been a god or goddess in all ancient religions.
God’s disinfectant☀️🙂☀️
This whole sun exposure thing might explain why COVID rates in Africa never really spiked outside of South Africa ... sun exposure in the rest of the continent's population would have been higher than in other parts of the world where people either have shorter periods of direct sun or spend less time in the sun for other reasons.
It also suggests why COVID spikes in FL in the summer, which is when Floridians are least likely to be outside and most likely to be inside to catch AC.
In Cambridge, UK we were taking Covid patients out into the sunlight during the first wave. No idea if it was a part of the trial or not. Patients on beds.
That’s amazing. Who decided that? Would love to know more!
@@MedcramI will try to find out and let you know
@@Medcramso, this is what I found ( I am a nurse). The reason was twofold, 1. For the families to be able to see their loved ones, there was no visits in hospital during pandemic. 2. For patients wellbeing, especially if they were already out of sedation.
Also, ICU still takes patients to the garden, even when on ventilator, as long as they are stable haemodynamically. Portable ventilator. Airway trained doctors, physios and nurse. Emergency transfer equipment
@@urszulalato4351 That is simply amazing! I'd love to talk to someone about that. Please email us at the website and tell them to pass their contact along to me. You got some pretty smart people there at Cambridge (maybe relatives of Florence)!
This is essential information and much appreciated. Go out and enjoy the green spaces and nature's light.
My 82 year old dad breezes through every covid infection. He is outside every day on his bicycle 50 years straight. Yesterday he rode 75km, 3,000ft gain on his bike. Always a bit of a tan, hours out in the sun right through the pandemic. Though I'd like to know the effect of sunscreen, long sleeves and our PNW cloudy winter weather on infrared therapy.
75km?
Remember that IR portion of light penetrates through everything including bone. IR light is what you're after, not UV.
@@Vanguardkl - 75 thousand yards. Not at all typical for an 82 year old man.
@@jrstfno - he said 75 kms which, depending on where you live, is very doable particularly if you have an e-bike👍
@@ac6084 So, we should still wear sunscreen which blocks UV. Chemical sunscreen vs mineral sunscreen, wonder if one is better than the other?
Amazing! I and my hubby with heart failure thank you! I wondered why neither of us slept while hospitalized. Even with sleeping pills, nada! No sun. For weeks, sometimes. He has a light source, but his butt is getting outside, today. For years he hasn't slept well, lack of sun, because of skin cancer??? He can cover up, and still get the infra red he needs! I am soooooo glad I watched this. I will let you guys know for sure, if this helps!! Dr. Sheult is gonna change our sick care models!! Jeannie in Lakeport California
Greetings to Lakeport!
This is wonderful information to add to my arsenal of preventative measures. Thank you! Your work is very appreciated!
Can't thank you enough for all your efforts and keeping us upto date with new findings.
Excellent review. Thanks. The pics of IR going through the hand were instructive.
That's good for me to know for the future! Thanks,
Higher level of Multiple Schlerosis in northern areas too.
Thank you so much Dr. to remind us how beneficial the morning sunlight is! 🙏🙏
God made mornings for sleeping.
Thank you so much, for stepping outside the dogma, going above and beyond to help us understand better, how to keep ourselves healthy!!
As always, you are a ray of sunshine! (I really couldn’t help myself!)
I applaud you as a doctor committed to not just following what the pharma textbooks say, but truly looking to spend all of this extra time of your already jam-packed days to do research, practice what you preach, and be passionate enough to bring this to the masses.
Thank you thank you thank you !
Thank you!
Near infrared - Near Infrared LED vs near infrared incandescent bulb - would there be a difference in efficacy?
Kudos!! Much-needed, much appreciated!
As always very informative! Thank you Dr S.
Thank you Dr Seheult for sharing this
My sister, who worked in dermatology all her career, has admonished me all my adult life for not wearing sunscreen cream and for being an even mostly clothed sunbather. I love fresh air and water is my go to beverage. I wish all humans were able to have these god given gifts. I really appreciated this video. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
My father had laugh when I arranged a seat under mango tree to improve his health.He is 79 years. My parents think me a quake.
I have heard that morning and evening Sun has the most red and infra red light, it also good because there is so much less chance of Sunburn. Some cultures have an inbuilt reverence for the Sun and they spend time in the morning and evening having a small thankyou to the Sun.
We are really starting to get how our whole system works, which is just amazing.
Thank you for your wonderful curiosity and openness to research.
Brilliant, thank you for getting this important information out!
so much appreciation for commitment and exceptionalism from this channel.
If doing sun exposure I would suggest you check the UV index every time, before you go out, this will let you know the "time to burn". You need to avoid excessive UV exposure for good health too. But this UV index changes with the seasons and with the daytime.
Problem is you need high sun and UV to get the vitamin D benefits.
@@jamessmith1652Just use D3 supplements
@@jamessmith1652 - he's still correct, we need to avoid burning.
@@jrstf what about tanning? It protects but it's also damage right?
@@jamessmith1652
That's exactly what the UV index tells you!
Here in Stockholm the UV index was 3 the first time the sun was above 45°. That was in the middle of May. It took me 3 weeks of 1 h a day exposure to get a reasonable sun burn (without any burning, of course).
In the middle of August, the UV index was back down to 3 again, and that's only around noon.
We don't have enough sun here in Stockholm, Sweden. Only 3 months to get any vitamin D from the sun!
Thank you Dr. Seheult. These study /experiential videos are so important. So grateful for your dedication to true health.
Before c19 we used to wheel my grandmother out into the sunshine. Wish the staff cared more
Marvelous! Your infectious enthusiasm has inspired me to brave the world outside in spite of my fear of asthma flares. I can prevent them so I can enjoy a 30 minute morning visit to my land and countryside beyond. I already do the hot/cold shower routine. Thank you. And thank you and all the others out there for realizing and incorporating the practical treatments from our past. Bravo!
I love this video! Thank you! Please let us know how we can help.
Spread the word
I will, but specific ways to communicate would be good. For a while, most of my posts about Covid were probably shadow banned on Facebook, for instance. I got no response, and I doubt many people saw them. That might not be the case anymore. 🤷
@@helenreich713 Perhaps use terms like "evidenced based". I'm not sure.
Wow,love your lectures,so informative and easy to understand!
T q so much Dr Seheult. This information is very precious.
Good thing Governor Newsom of California closed all of the parks and beaches in California. You didn’t even need this study to know just being healthy increases your chance of survival to Covid. These studies amplify that knowledge with a root cause.
They just didn't know any better
@@lindaflesch7303I totally agree. But any doctor could have told him that outdoors is where to be.
@@lindaflesch7303 All you had to do is see how they handled the 1917 pandemic.
Thank you!!! I love your videos and have learned so much from them over the past 4 years. I was talking to a friend recently who hadn't heard of NIR, so I was trying to figure out which of your many informative videos on NIR to recommend, when I noticed that you had made this new one. I think it gives an excellent overview on NIR--and is just what I needed for my friend. Thank you for taking the time to go over this topic again.
You are so welcome!
If only all doctors cared as much as you. I have alpha one anti trypsin deficiency and found out on the internet I’m at an even higher risk of severe covid. I’m also B12 and vit D deficient. I have EPI and type 2 diabetes causing malabsorption of vitamins and nutrients. Thank you for this♥️
Please make sure to see if you need infusions to protect your lungs and make sure to have your liver checked as well!
Gonna try that infrared light hack. Thanks, Doc
So, what about sunscreen? How do we balance getting enough sun on our skin and yet avoiding skin cancer and premature aging of the skin?
There are two types of sunscreens - chemical and physical. Chemical sunscreens are carcinogenic and many brands have been recalled or banned outright - google ‘banana boat cancer’. Physical sunscreen such as zinc oxide deflect sunlight and can provide better protection but at what cost? Completely blocking sunlight hinders it’s therapeutic benefits. The best thing to do is exposure during the morning before the UV index peaks. Ideal this is between 9am and 11am. For optimal absorption expose the back of the neck, chest and the arms. Sunlight is also necessary for eye health. Children who spend more time outdoors have been found to have better eyesight and less likely to require glasses. I recommend you can research further.
sunscreen is poison....chemicals!
Cover up and limit your time in full sun...
Roger, this was totally fascinating. I have some professional connection to bioscience, being a PhD, trained at UCSD and then as a permanent panel member at the NIH. That said, in my view this was a really important discussion, bringing together diverse findings in good research publications. There will no doubt be more to say, but given my background you have gotten the ball rolling. Thanks so much.
Yes. I understand from prof Glen Jeffrey at UCL that there about 30-40 labs world wide working on photobiomodulation and mitochondria. Exciting.
Infrared saunas? Would they have same effects and benefits as the sun?
Thanks. Very useful to know.
Many thanks for the message regarding LED light side-effects to society. Look at the likely wintertime benefits of incandescent lights: light and heat with large helpings of infrared and near infrared wavelengths. Having the right lights at the right time of year makes too much sense. I'd love to see a controlled study of wintertime use of incandescent lighting and reported health. You sir are a true credit to medicine.
What is good to use? I missed this podcast
@@lindaflesch7303 Incandescent lights (the old hot filament type) emit the near-infrared wavelength light that likely help our health when not getting enough outside sunlight derived near-infrared light.
Thank you doc, as an RN, even though this has been my practice for myself and my family and patients, I will be using this even more so with my patients, coworkers family and friends.
I have been on the sunlight bandwagon for a while now. Why is this so controversial? I tell people about the stuff I've learned and felt and they say "I get a lot of sunlight" and continue to sit inside all day long and put on sunscreen every time they go out the door. I don't understand.
I bought a near infra red light , I've had Long Covid for 3 years , I've definitely had a modest to good recovery using my light , I'll be using it more now as I'm convinced it helps
Dr S, please, what about near infra-red light and persistent cloud cover? I live in the PNW (Seattle area) where cloudy days are more common than sunny days. So, (At least we have plenty of trees :-) )
Clouds do block NIR so its better to get outside even on those days but realize that you might need more time. It's still a lot more than you would get staying inside.
Thanks for the reminder Dr Sehuelt. I saw your 1st video on this month's ago. I will start coming out more in the AM. Also I do remember you said staring at a fire can give you this benefit also so I make a point of having a fire in our firepit as often as possible. I love watching it.
immediately went outside and soaked in the sun for 20 minutes
The first time I realized all this I had exactly the same impulse!
I didn’t need a study to know this information. Geesh how do people not know this instinctively.
Our instincts about such things are terribly unreliable.
I am surprised Dr. Seheult has not had anything to say about trying the commonly available red/near IR therapy lights being sold by many companies now. Many of them are capable of producing dosages of 150 mW/cm2 or more and have been finding many therapeutic uses. If red/near IR light is the prescription, then these should be useful, right?
I believe he did a video on lights
From here, in East Europe, Romania, thank you very much, dear colleague. The pandemic found me checking the health of automotive workers. It surprized me tremendously how little the contagiousity has been. But the workers where almost all having small farms as well. So they where well exposed to sun. In the big citys the story has been different.
Exactly.
Wow! So great. Question: How much of one's skin needs to be exposed? Just head? Arms? Or more? Thank you.
My understanding is that the IR/near IR goes through clothing, so the skin can be covered. As IR/Near IR is actually heat: if you feels the warmth then you are getting the treatment.
The best areas for optimal absorption of sunlight are the back of the neck, arms and chest.
once again, the correct information right when it needed, exhalent presentation.
Exactly why the sun is being blocked?
Your information makes so much sense. Thank you.
Problem is, the pharmaceutical industry can’t make money from sunshine, so information about this simple and effective therapy of light exposure won’t see the light of day. (Pardon the pun.)
Thank you for bringing up this awareness
It's refreshing, some pun intended!, to listen to a Doctor who isn't totally laser focused on lining his/her pockets all the time, here we have a Doc inspiring us to take advantage of something that's FREE. I'm lucky, I moved from a perpetually grey sky country to a tropical one some time ago and walk at least 30-40 mins each day, generally either quite early or not long before dusk as it's soooo hot between 10am and 4pm, BUT, I also make a point in sitting on the South facing yard of my house for maybe 15/20 mins each day, shirtless, to get my daily dose of Vitamin D, guess I'm getting some near IR at the same time although I'm not in a green environment.
Excellent, thank you ! 🙏🏼
I never could understand why people were not put out in the sun during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic in 1918, the medical community noted that flu patients around the world who were housed outside in those large tents, and spent time in the sun, seemed to improve more quickly and fully.