@@gabrielj.daveiga2470 Similar thoughts for me. I'd love him to research and report on keto, omad, and intermittent fasting, even of a week or two, as repairs to metabolic issues and mitochondria. Do ketones produced then help or hurt such symptoms and metabolic dysfunction?
I'd love you to research and report on keto, omad(one meal per day), and intermittent fasting, even of a week or two, as repairs to metabolic issues and mitochondria. Do ketones produced then help or hurt such symptoms and metabolic dysfunction? Would an infrared space heater inside be of help indoors in the cold months?
As the days are getting shorter, less sunlight, could over-the-counter Melatonin be beneficial against fatigue from Long-Covid? And if yes, how many mg's?
I have been training for 4 years to run half marathon distance. I have never been overweight, and eat very consciously. After having covid-19 in December 2021 and having long covid for more than half of 2022, I am so relieved to watch this. Immediately after being sick I gained 30lbs with no change to diet, lifestyle or exercise level. My energy and performance level tanked to the point where I had to take a break from training. My family and friends would not take me seriously that it was triggered by having covid and I was accused of "not being honest about my carb intake" by my mother. This is so validating because I was staring to believe I was just not in control of my life or that this was the new normal of rounding the bend of 40 years of age.
Same. Could have lost a few pounds before covid but definitely was not unhealthy and actually walked every day for about 45 minutes taking hills, to getting covid in February to 20 and have long covid now still. I gained 30 pounds. I couldn't get down to the end of the block for 2 years. Started taking vitamin D felt a bit better. Worked up to walking 2 to 5 miles a day until I figured out I was doing too much because I was starting to feel worse. Backed off to 2 miles a day and cutting out all carbs and mostly eating just one meal a day and I have not, in 7 months, lost 1 oz let alone a pound, and I'm still huffing and puffing walking back home, surprised that it has not become any easier. Sick of it, especially because I have developed an autoimmune allergy condition which at one point was almost life threatening.
Yes. So it's a good point. Sometimes obesity is not because of the food intake and lack of exercise. Imagine all those 'fat' people who have to listen all their lives that they are just lazy.
Thank you Dr. I was with delta COVID and 3 months in coma in Loma Linda Hospital and after that a lot post COVID issues. Thanks a lot for your research …. You are a light in this times 🥰
I've watched all your videos in the Light as Medicine series and the amount of evidence supporting sunlight as a valuable resource for illness prevention and even treatment is astonishing. I've been openly encouraging pretty much everyone I know to go outside and get some sunlight ever since. Thank you, Doctor.
@@faikerdogan2802 Electromagnetic radiation A.K.A "light" (including the many wavelengths your *ignorant* eyes cannot perceive) has all sorts of uses in science and medicine. It certainly is not a drug (if that's what you mean by light not being "a medicine"), but it *is* an important tool for illness prevention and treatment.
I literally was sun bathing every morning till afternoon all summer until I got covid end of July 2022. I worked outside as well. Even when I had covid I laid in the sun because I’m crazy and thought it was healing. But 6 months later I still have long covid and am searching for answers. Light as medicine makes no sense.
@@Blissfulbizz There is no way to know if all that exposure to sunlight had any effect on you. Perhaps it did nothing, or perhaps it prevented you from having an even worse outcome. Whatever the case, I'm sorry you're still battling Long Covid and I wish for you to get better eventually. I will continue to get myself exposed to sunlight and to advice everyone I know to do the same because the science behind seems sound enough to me.
@@Blissfulbizz i live in the sun and am an outdoors person, I've had long Covid for 3 years now, if this was true i should have been better a long time ago!!!
I ALWAYS feel better when I spend time in the sun 🌞 It's crazy though that people were suggesting this from day one and not one person from the CDC or government mentioned the importance of that once in the last 2.5 years....
I have long-covid for more than 2 years now and entered summer twice now. Specially the first weeks of nice sunny days are extremely nice and i feel almost normal but this levels off over time. Its like producing melatonin thru sunlight is limited.
Every time I hear about "long covid", I think about my 12 year battle with longterm Lyme disease. It's a terrible thing to have fatigue, brain fog and cardiac and neurological symptoms that go on and on. Meanwhile, so many doctors (and insurance companies) were telling me it was just "post Lyme syndrome " about which they "could do nothing" and even acted hostile towards me for seeking treatment. Supplements were a big help, as was getting out in nature.
Sorry you had a 12 year battle, great that you are doing well now. Could you please share which supplements helped you? Thanks and hope you continue feeling good!
If it it wasn't just "post Lyme syndrome", what do you think it was? And if it is post-Lyme syndrome, what can anyone do for you? And if your answer is 'nothing yet', what should they tell you?
@@FomitesPost Lymes syndrome would fall under, post viral syndromes, like long haulers Covid. You may now have a form of secondary dysautonomia. See if if you can find a neurologist that works in this area. If you can’t, try to find a DO familiar with post viral syndrome & ME. myalgic Encephalomyelitis, which has much in common with post viral syndrome
There is a simple enough randomized sturdy we could do. Take a hospital with two ICU wards and in one only add NIR LEDs into the lighting mix then compare the long term health of the patients from the two wards.
Yes energy production has been the plight of a lot of Long Covid sufferers... But Covid seems to be a multi-system attacker. Ie, a lot of us have never experienced the fatigue but rather are suffering neurological symptomology throughout the body. Brain fog, anxiety, tingling, numbness, tinnitus, etc... I hope causes and treatments are also discovered for these effects of the disease.
Yes, agree with you, To this day I could feel where the Covid virus wanted to attack, dock and unfortunately intervened to this day. why I fell ill with Covid (nov 2020) (and still have symptoms today), probably due to a stressful situation, a weakened immune system. In addition, I had taken on a holiday replacement (care for the disabled). I work every day on my recovery, more attentive and aware of my body and nutrition, also vitamin D and outdoor activities. ✊✊✊
Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with a variety of diseases, so it is certainly plausible that any or all of the symptoms you described could be triggered by poorly functioning mitochondria. I wonder if any of the many supplements that are touted as benefiting mitochondrial health (or that might improve beta oxidation) could be of benefit in long COVID, given the findings of this research
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this video. I have been following you since early 2020 and your videos have given me such comfort in explaining what was happening in the pandemic. Now that I have been dealing with long covid for almost a year, this is yet another video that is giving me some sort of comfort. Thank you also for not treating your patients like they are crazy or just have "anxiety" like so many of us have experienced. I went to more doctors this year than I have in the past decade and most of them were a complete waste of my time. I'm a low income person who goes to school full time and works three jobs. I'm desperately trying to hold it together and not let long covid derail my life, but it's so hard. It's even harder when you reschedule the crazy schedule that I have to go to a doctor and are blown off or just kicked over to someone else. Thank you for being one of the good ones in a sea of bad ones that us long covid patients are experiencing. This gives me hope in the big picture.
I love your videos and often recommend them to others. Several week ago my wife who is nearly 80 came down with COVID. She was prescribed Paxlovid and was better after a few days but was very slow getting back to normal. I got her to watch some of your training videos with me and she agreed to using near IR. We got a big old quartz heater out of storage and set it on the floor near the table where she reads her newspaper. Set on low (about quarter scale) you could feel the I.R. on your skin, but it was not too hot to be comfortable. She is now about back to normal. Thank you.
As someone who has LC w/PEM or ME/CFS, which is where we are seeing this mitochondrial damage, I would advise people to be careful about encouraging exercise. If the patient has PEM, then it is important to avoid triggering it and encourage pacing. Exercise is generally a trigger and most cannot safely engage in it. So if exercise is ever encouraged it would be important to add that the patient should not push past what they can do without symptoms.
I have POTS, a form of dysautonomia, as is 'long-COVID.' I was bedridden, but have made enormous gains. I keep saying that getting outside/sunshine and getting metabolically well have been key to my healing. I used to dream of you doing the Light As Medicine lecture - then you did it! Then I wished for a mito ep. Christmas came early! Thanks so much for confirming my biases and spreading the gospel. My TLDR Rx: Fatty meat, sunshine/light hygeine and goldilocks prone/recumbant resistance and zone2 training, avoiding insulin hits, seed/veg oils, inactivity, and overreaching.
doing 30 to 50k of vit d helped me. took k2 at 450 mg and lots of watee, no problems. also makuna pryon was super helpful as tatking adaptogens at night to sleep, ashwaganda lemon balm, gaba, theanine. definitely avoid seed oils and canola as well as peanuts, and soy. Edit: Also low carbs, grains, and no sugar.
Long COVID, between the fatigue and neuro symptoms, sounds like what I experience with MS and apparently mitochondrial dysfunction is an issue in MS. Over the years I’ve found that exercise and diet make a huge difference acutely. What I eat, supplements and my activity matters and has an acute effect day to day.
What pisses me off about this advice is doctors and people don't seem to understand it's a catch 22. Long covid is extreme exhaustion. The remedy is to go outside and get more excercise. BUT, going outside and getting requires energy; which u don't have because of EXTREME EXHAUSTION. It's like telling a person paralyzed in a wheel chair the remedy is to walk it off. Not a practical remedy.
@@Usernotknown21 Perhaps the advice as it is stated is a bit crude, but if you adapt the amount of exercise to your tolerance levels, then it can be beneficial. “Exercising” needs to be understood as a spectrum from barely moving right through to high intensity. Walk 50m if that’s all you can do. But try and do it consistently. If it’s too much and you are worse off the next two days, drop the distance back.
@@Usernotknown21 I’ve been there. Sleep for a million hours. Feel better for an hour, then exhausted again. Medication changes turned that around. I can work a 12-hour day now. At the time though, I sometimes FORCED myself to exercise. Afterwords, especially the next day, I was always glad I did. Walks helped. Making it a routine was best.
Try intermittent fasting ,and avoid exertion...take a lot and I mean a lot of rest. Take sunlight and calcium..it worked for me..its been 8 months since I got infected
Fall of 2021 I got Covid at age 61. It hit my lungs hard. 10 days in hospital on O2. It took 6 months for me to have a moderate level of energy and 9 before I was almost back to normal. Now I have 50 pounds to lose.
Same. Injured after second dose of moderna. Everyone I know who has long haul or is vax injured believes it’s spike toxicity. Encountering the spike is bad news. In our case, vax spike did us in. Not sure why we were susceptible while others were not. I have been ill since March 2021. I’d love for medcram to cover this topic but I understand that it’s “politically divisive”. Me? I’ll admit that I just want acknowledgement so I can get my treatments paid under insurance and/or get compensation for all the lost income, debt, and all of the money I had to pull from my retirement to pay for expensive treatments.
@@cpt_kirkwood I get ya…. It’s so frustrating to be denied… long covid clinics won’t take me because I’ve never had covid. I see a Functional Med Doc who has helped some, but after almost 2 years I still have a ways to go, constant shortness of breath. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this too! Prayers for us all.
Stumbled on your comments. My heart goes out to you both. You deserve to be heard. You deserve help and answers. I'll keep you both in my prayers. By the way I'm unvaccinated but care about people who are suffering. God bless you 💝
@@pattyg.4872 it’s wild how many people in comments are saying they are injured. I wish TH-cam channels like this one would respond to and do research on people like us. When I first got sick, I had never heard of anything like it and doctors were very sick to deny vax injury (at first). It was a long and lonely road.
Very clear and logical explanation, as usual. I am an engineer and I still got it :). We are machines, from viruses to humans, just terrribly complicated, and even more so once you add interactions and some natural selection sauce.
I’ve had long Covid since July of 2020. I also have thalassemia minor, so I am used to a certain amount of fatigue and muscle weakness. Covid amplified it significantly and added bone pain and Covid type migraines (which involve the sinuses and neck stiffness) to the mix. It’s been incredibly frustrating. Im so tired of nasty comments from healthy people who don’t understand and think I’m just being lazy or exaggerating. I’ve also experienced a lot of muscle and fat wasting. I’m trying so hard to exercise and build muscle but it’s proving to be waaaaaaay more difficult than pre-covid.
I got Covid early on and knew about “Long Covid” before anything was published ! It was going on 4 months after my infection (by that time Long Covid was being considered in the news) and I was desperate to get better.. I came across grounding/earthing after trying many things like changes in my diet .. I went to Home Depot and bought supplies to make my own grounding mat to sleep on and I sweat so bad that night but woke up feeling Amazing ! I had energy again and have been grounding every night since then !
Excellent video, and I am super impressed with your foresight regarding the importance of sunlight, and melatonin. Cellular metabolism is at the root of This is all making a lot more sense from a biochemistry perspective. One of my go-to's for taking before having COVID and then after getting COVID was Quercetin, which is an antioxidant. I am now interested in NAC as well. Thanks as always for your excellent information!
@@samuelpilon810 nadh is used for what purpose and nad+ also ! For me after heavy calories diet dysfunction my fat metabolism, when I eat it makes me dizzy for hours ? Do you know how work on?
15:52 “... sitting in front of the fire also exposes you to NIR...”. I knew the fireplaces in my house were good for something... And thanks for the great video!
You are a BLESSING to the world no wonder a lot of people complaining of low energy post COVID now I got it and thank you for making it in such a way it's understandable even to a lay person..
There are full canopy units, that look like tanning beds, that emit 810 and 660 nm light (not for tanning but for mitochondrial repair) . I have one called a Novothor. Look for one in your area and see if it helps.
Another terrific explainer video Doc! I am going to send this off to my cousin (M.D.) for viewing as he treats a lot of post COVID cases. Thanks for these important videos and hope that you are doing well!
Dr. Seheult, I've been suffering Long-Covid for months (This BTW is the 2nd time actually I've been through this) ... I am presently going to the docs here in the (SF Bay Area) and they don't know how to treat it, for brain fog they want to CT my brain and talk with a Neurologists, for the breathing thing and the exhaustion with exertion with a mild burning sensation high in the chest. I've taken a lung function test... Ugh! no fun... and need to to schedule a pulmonologist appt. And a crazy battery of blood for A1C, lipid panel, ALT, and so on... plus urine tests looking for ?? ... What they're telling me is that nobody knows what to do, and right now all they can "do" is rule out things. I think these videos are critical, they are HELPING me... I know they've really gotten me further down the road in recovery than subjecting me to what I think might be a battery of unnecessary tests... because they don't know! I would welcome a suggestion if you can offer one. Thank you SO much Dr Seheult... Of course I want to share this video with them, I doubt they will listen to your video because it came from me... I know how busy these doctors are.
I really feel for you. It’s very frustrating to have a condition that nobody knows about or what to do. I think I’m going to look into this condition more carefully because I think there are things that we can do and I suspect that many of them are common sense things like getting outside fresh air sunshine and sleep. We need to stop preventing our body what it needs to do to heal itself.
@@Medcram Doc, I will post separately on this above some resources from specialists patients can take to their doctors. This as well is something you can build on that would be so valuable to your community. Bottom line is patients must become educated and bring tools and facts to their doctors to treat them. Long Covid, it is widely believed by experts, is just a renaming of a disease the CDC has tried to write off as a psychological condition for 30 years. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. I'm following the specialty physicians and researchers in this space. Some excellent clinical tools / templates are available. Honestly a lot of testing is a waste because it won't change the treatment anyway. Enough is commonly known to occur to assume specific treatment protocols even without testing.
@@Medcram maybe this isn't the place for this, but besides sunlight and movement, I have found that another piece of the puzzle is foods. Each dynamic toward healing can be overshadowed by compromising dynamics, which is part of why healing can be so frustrating. "My" (anecdotal, observational, highly personalized) list of accessible, reliable, valuable resources for non-inflammatory dietary and life-style information: Two resources for comparing all information to: 1>>> th-cam.com/video/5YV_iKnzDRg/w-d-xo.html Dr. Roger Seheult Light as Medicine... 2 >>>th-cam.com/video/15R2pMqU2ok/w-d-xo.html Andrew Huberman, ophthalmology and neurobiology professor at Stanford; gut microbiome and brain health and overall health If advice that you view is contraindicated by information from Dr. Seheult or Andrew Huberman, give serious consideration as to whether or not the advice is reliable. Resources that I have used for guiding my diet to minimizing inflammation and auto-inflammation (mainly using the foods lists and limiting my grocery purchases to foods that these resources list): Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself - Dr William Li drwilliamli.com/ Foods To Eat On The Candida Diet www.thecandidadiet.com/foodstoeat.htm The 30-day Alzheimer's Solution - By Dean Sherzai & Ayesha Sherzai (hardcover) : Target www.target.com/p/the-30-day-alzheimer-s-solution-by-dean-sherzai-ayesha-sherzai-hardcover/-/A-80604319 The Plant Paradox Cookbook - By Steven R Gundry Md (hardcover) : Target www.target.com/p/the-plant-paradox-cookbook-by-steven-r-gundry-md-hardcover/-/A-53232020 (I use this cookbook mainly for the inspirational pictures accompanying the recipes, not as a definitive resource) If I purchase and use only foods from the food lists available here, I feel much better than when I "wander" off, in what I eat. Best wishes and blessings (vigor and vitality and propensity for life and living) to you in your pursuits of well-being and doing.
I've come across more than one source of information on the antioxidant qualities of melatonin. As well, that melatonin is not just produced in the pineal gland alone. Thank you for the information presented here in furthering my understanding in mitochondrial function, and the role of melatonin.
My friend had covid so I tested for it way back when it started. I was positive with only some tiredness and after 10 days loss of smell. I am 60. My friends all had symptomatic covid, some worse then others. I started walking outside a decade ago, 10K steps a day which takes about an hour. I'm out in the heat cold rain and snow, year round and I now believe this is why I was n9t phased by covid
Which wavelengths of NIR are needed most? Finding many narrow band choices. What about old-school incandescent red heat lamp instead of LED? And how long exposure is best? In the PNW, haven't seen or felt the sun in a month+. THANKS DR.
Watch the other videos he mentioned that he made-Light is Medicine and others. They explain in great detail. Morning sun and evening sunset have great properties of healing.
@@ssmith2162 Yes, thank you. I live at 45 degrees north latitude and the last day of sun angle above 45 degrees (minimum required to let UVB penetrate atmosphere) was the autumnal equinox. Now we have not even felt NIR heating the skin in weeks, let alone seeing the sun much. Hence my question what LED wavelengths are needed most. Amazon has 600nm and 660nm units, but LEDs only emit at a narrow band of wavelengths, not the broad NIR spectrum shown in Dr. Seheult's previous videos. Thanks
@@jeffcasey504 I suppose I would google the pricey near IR saunas and begin my research with a good company or two who have done THEIR research, and have the studies for you to peruse. If you find anything please get back here and let me know! (Lat 47)
Thanks a lot, doc! I'm dealing with long covid at the moment and try to be outside as much as possible to get that precious sunlight. Until now I didn't know that this is actually helpful for the recovery :) And it gives me more understanding of what's at the heart of long covid, not having a clue what the cause could be was getting quite tireing.
I have Mitochondrial myopathy and COVID caused me to have a major metabolic crisis. It made all my mito symptoms to get a lot worse to the point I didn't think I would make it. I have had long COVID for 8 weeks now and I am just now beginning to feel a little better.
My hypothesis is that insulin resistance impairs beta oxidation. Metabolic syndrome is clearly associated with severe covid and I suspect long covid too.
A couple questions: If this problem occurs during fat metabolism, would reducing dietary fat help the mitochondria "get ahead" of the ROS issue? (This would be a bit tricky, since I assume you would also want to prevent stored body fat from being "burned" as well. A low carb or low calorie diet might be counter-productive if it causes you to start burning more fat stores.) If long wavelength IR is useful for triggering melatonin release (synthesis?), could an artificial source work in a pinch? A heat lamp, basically. I suffer from CFS, which the medical community mostly lost interest in decades ago. I'm really hoping the focus on the new, sexy, and well funded "long covid" will accidentally result in a cure being found for those of that have long-some-*other*-virus.
All of us with immune dysregulation/autoimmunity etc etc are hanging in there as science funding finally focuses in a much bigger way on 'how to quell or prevent inflammation'. Can Not Wait, I think many are online checking on every long/covid study that rolls off the press. So many angles to inspect.
I was in nutritional ketosis throughout Covid (still am), and caught a variant eventually, but it was like a normal flu, symptoms disappeared after a few days. Academic Medicine will deny keto, but many of the therapies, Remdesivir for example, mimicked it.
I was regular joggers about 10 k a day , after getting my first vaccination for Covid I started losing my breath and I didn’t related to vaccination as I got my second shot of vaccination within few days I was losing my breath ,fatigued was not able walk few steps getting disoriented , went doctors they got all the tests and scanning done but nothing wrong I spent almost two months in bed and had about 26 hyperbaric chamber oxygen therapy it took few months and I am still 70% but I used to prior to vaccination it is 15 months. After listing this I conclude that the vaccination caused my mitochondria malfunction
This is really interesting, I put on 30lbs since having covid & it felt like it happened overnight I’ve exercised regularly all my life, I have a home gym now & train regularly never been overweight & if I did ever need to shed a few pounds I could focus & do it no problem The weight went on with no real change in my diet & now whatever I seem to do now the scales just won’t shift
Average weight gain with long covid or chronic fatigue syndrome is about 30lbs. This is because this disease has disabled you, slows your metabolism and the insomnia/sleep disturbances. The weight can only come off as you get better. Eat as healthy as you can, but don't focus on losing weight, focus on getting better.
I've been overweight all my life, dropped 20 lbs in hospital with COVID then put on 30lbs after. During the summer I'm able to exercise quite a bit-outdoor walking- and finally this year got 20 lbs off, but what a struggle! Sunlight is key!
I am sure there must be life(s) saved from all the knowledge from videos on this channel. I myself took many sunbaths this year and feel better having tan on my skin at the very least. Havent done it in like 3 years
This video helped me understand what was going on and led to me finding a possible FIX! I have started supplementing with L-Carnitine as I think that must be my issue with 4 years of blunted energy and function due to long covid. I am shook that this $13 wallgreens level supplement is totally changing my life. But that fatty acid transfer is SO important!! Might be something for others to look into if they have similar issues.
Can getting near infrared light 'indoors' during cloudy winter days up north, be accomplished with an 1100nm infrared bulb? The red-light therapy lamp I'm seeing to buy is 300 watts at 1100 nanometers.
I have no medical training so forgive my ignorance, but if the spike protein on the virus is an ACE2 trojan horse, and the immune system learns to attack that structure, is it possible the immune system also learns to attack the ACE2 protein leading to the AT-II AT-1,7 problems you described in an autoimmune fashion?
Never had Covid, but wanted to listen to this because mitochondrial dysfunction can affect any of us. I have been taking NAC and Zinc, Quercetin and Glutathione through all of this Co-vid period and possibly even before -- in very modest amounts. I also have exercised all my life and really need the sun. But now being in the northern midwest, I've had to depend on D/K supplements and melatonin in very low doses (I'm an easy sleeper). Just wondering about how to begin to think about all of this beyond covid. Thanks for the talk. It makes me feel that I've been on the right track.
I've been doing this since covid hit also. The few times I missed, I cought omicron, but had colds worse A difference, was the "fatigue" for 5 days. .along with not tasting anything
This paper was published a long time ago. At that time, the understanding of long covid was NOT mature, and, more importantly, the world was still obsessed with vaccination. I would read this paper with a grain of salt.
my dad is 70 years old and has stage four cancer, and at that time i was in the hospital taking care of him, unfortunately i got COVID the delata variant , I was thankful my dad didn't get it even though i was coughing inside the hospital room for a week with him, i was really thankful he didn't get it even though we were having him treated for his lung cancer at stage four, and last month my brother got covid and he was vaccinated 4 times already and my 75 year old mom got covid also and my dad was the one taking care of her for two weeks, inside the hospital, even thouh his cancer has already spread to his bones and thigh and other parts of the body, I am really thankful, he wasn't able to get the covid disease, thank u lord!
As the days are getting shorter, less sunlight, would over-the-counter Melatonin be beneficial against fatigue from Long-Covid? And if yes, how many mg's?
COVID PASC is also highly correlated with immune dysfunction (change in B and T cell populations, increased auto-antibodies, inflammation, activated macrophages, etc). Could an additional or alternate source of the ROS be from those processes? I bring this up as not sure intracellular melatonin would necessarily address ROS from inflammation.
Dr. Bruce Patterson and Dr Yo are saying that very same thing. They speculate that a person's unique immune profile determines the kinds of symptoms of long covid that they display.
Dear Dr, do you think that Protein S, produced by the RNA vaccines-in some people in huge quantities-maybe as well block ACE2 receptors, the same way as the native virus ?
Two questions: 1. Any experience with Urolithin-A for improving mitochondrial dysfunction from long covid? 2. What about the use of IR/NIR light panels for increasing melatonin production?
This all makes me wonder if this kind of research into long Covid may also be applicable or at least tangential to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My wife suffers from CFS, and there is so little known about the mechanics of the condition, and therefore treaments/therapies are often extremely general, lacklustre, with little hope in sight for recovery. I wonder if the same kind of tests may be able to be performed, like was shown here, to see if mitochondrial dysfunction may also be playing a significant role in CFS.
@@denisedevoto2834 same , 10 years cfs. I've tried all sorts if diets and amino acids, melatonin etc, nothing works. the big clue I think is at griffith University in Australia, they found calcium ion channel dysfunction in both me/cfs and LC.
Thank you. I am not a Dr. I am helping family and friends with Long COVID. People are so stressed they will use any “concoction” they see on Facebook. This simple mitigation is wonderful and something that is “logical” for folks to accept - Thanks Doc.
A very interesting video indeed Dr Seheult! As always. How would you propose that people in the far deep of the northern hemisphere access NIR, at this time of year? Will devices that produce this give equally good amounts of NIR?
Maybe, replace the light bulb on the ceiling of a bathroom with a 200w infrared one and use it for certain amount of time everyday ? Is there any research on this idea to treat long COVID ?
@@lingzhang2341 That is what i would like to know too. My wife struggles with her long covid, but since we live way north, it is basically no sunlight for the next coming months. And also, what is the recommendation for such a device/bulb. Watts, length of exposure, distance etc. I have seen these infra saunas, but they only emit far infra light.
I have long covid and was sweating profusely and it stunk like rust or battery acid and poop smelled like chemicals for a while. I told the doctor and he said it was probably smell dysfunction. 🙄
Interesting. Also possible you have a very keen sense of smell, like the woman who can smell Parkinsons. Might be interesting to see if you can smell it on other people.
@@jimmyobvious1651 I wish but I don’t think so. I smelled this a year in of being sick. I think I just smelled the oxidation and cell death. I got long covid. It’s a terrifying Illness.
@@sloth6247 Are you still ill? I'd be interested to see if NAC supplementation helps; it's been talked about on this channel and in articles about long covid.
@@jimmyobvious1651 i didn’t talk NAC but i did take in a lot of foods high in amino acids. I think what’s helped me the most so far is proteolytic enzymes.
Is there a positive or negative impact from long exposure to sunlight, for example, in northern latitudes during the summer? I guess I'm asking because I positively feel better on the few sunny days we have in Montana, and was wondering if time spent farther north where there are more hours of sunlight would help, or whether we need that dark "downtime" for the melatonin cycle to have an effect.
What about long covid sufferers who are struggling with sleep... how would one know if their pineal gland is producing enough melatonin? Is there any evidence of pineal gland dysfunction/damage? I've seen a recent study in the UK where they did 260 MRI's on patients who had been hospitalised with covid and had LC and were found to have had their hyperthalamus rewired... does this effect ones sleep at all?
If what you say is true does that mean that high latitudes have more long covid cases than southern latitudes (because there being more sun)? Are there any studies that looked at that?
Two-year long-covid suffer with severe fatigue and resistant hypertension living in Alaska. Superb video - helps explain why my already uncontrolled BP has gotten even higher since covid, along with greatly increased arrythmias, blood clots and poor wound healing. Given the very short and often cloudy days we have up here, is there any benefit to supplementing with melatonin during the day - if so, what dose and timing? For years I have used a slow-release formulation to help with insomnia, although the benefits have been minimal. Thank you for your wonderful work - I especially appreciate your research on the innumerable values of sunlight to health - an under researched, yet fundamental, topic
I am so sorry! My knowledge is that Melatonin does not really help sleep, and taking it can further disturb your circadian rhythm. Seems that taking Magnesium (threonate, malate and/or glycinate) with your dinner meal (take it to bowel tolerance to get a max relaxation) might really help. I hope you ARE doing the NAC 600 mg twice a day on an empty stomach, and Nattokinase is what I take to prevent clotting (check it out if not familiar - it is on an empty stomach too, anti fibrotic), and, yeah, the fellow mentioned a walk . . well , high noon if you are up for it. IF you have a friend with a 'sun porch' which is single pane glass (barebones/bring your heat lamp (ideally NIR led bulbs) and sit or stretch in there, to stay out of cold/wind, get the sun's spectrums, wear least clothing possible - be sure your eyes are facing the AK sky/sun(?) . . Anyway, for sleep I have been taking a small amount of trazadone for about 30 years . . . it is one of those old timer 'dirty drugs' that works for most. Small would be 25 to 50 mg at bedtime, depending on your weight and age. Starting small will be best. When you get your sleep act together you can quit. (Traz works best for keeping one asleep, but will also help one initiate sleep. You will need coffee in the AM - if you're not already hooked, try to override, as quitting caffeine would be good for all of us, but few ever find the will power. I am working on that one . . . ) Best of luck sorry if my ideas are old territory for you. (Am in Seattle, and understand the Winter - but in no way to the degree of your WAY Northern latitude. So, I guess I'd search your city for an outfit which rents out NIR infrared saunas by the hour . . . we have some here, I need to drop by and test. I did sit in an NIR Sauna at a homeshow exhibition a number of years ago. I was permitted to hang out for a half hour, and it had a fine stereo . . . I had not been so relaxed/feel good as a left that small cedar box - in a long, long while. Perhaps worth an investment of time to hunt down?
I have a question doctor - I had covid twice. The first time it was bad it hit me in the stomach and l was very sick for over 3 weeks. Needless to say l have been feeling extremely tired since that time. The second time it was like a bad flu it took over two weeks to get better. The tiredness never left me. 6 months later after the second covid episode l felt my fingers to be swollen in the morning and pain in my elbows. I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis although l have no skin psoriasis. My question is did covid cause this condition and can this autoimmune condition be reversed?? I would appreciate your answer. Thank you
@Beastbombshell Thank you for your quick response l really appreciate your help. I am a little confused with contracting diets that l read about. Carnivores say thats the best diet to reverse diseases and the vegans or vegetarians say their diet is the best to reverse diseases. Can you see why l am confused 🤔 and my two doctors l have tell me the best thing l can do for myself is to take their medications and hope for the best. Its very sad that all the can offer me. In your opinion if you were my doctor and all my blood work is normal which diet would you recommend for me?? I need to reverse this autoimmune condition before it cripples me. Thank you
Not a doctor, but maybe I can assist. An inflammatory insult could definitely trigger this, and C19 is one such potential trigger. Another potential cause is bioaccumulation of Linoleic Acid. The half life of fats is 1-2 years, and most diets are many times our ancestral consumption of LA when compared to 150-200 years ago. Biopsies done on humans have shown upwards of 20 times the level seen in those eating ancestral diets. There's very good data on Macular degeneration, but other conditions and human studies area a bit mixed. When you understand the mechanisms, it's related to study design and quality of the data(it's bad).. but that's a different discussion. Avoidance of LA can slowly improve many inflammatory and potentially autoimmune conditions. By itself LA isn't harmful, but when it oxidizes or it's metabolites oxidize, it can be a significant inflammatory and toxic burden. These molecules are very unstable, and can even be oxidized from trauma, light, or many other compounds. In the literature they are know as OXLAM'S, and some examples are 9 and 13 HODE, which are very bad when oxidized. On a personal note I'm 5 years in of avoiding LA, and noted these benefits: • chronic pain gone • arthritis gone • sinus allergies gone • asthma gone Asthma I noticed last year in the winter, and breathing in ice cold air, which caused me no issues. I recommend finding a reputable doctor to work with and assist you.
@@Unsensitive Thank you for the information regarding LA. I am glad to hear that your conditions are improved or gone. May l ask if you are on a vegetarian diet or carnivore diet?
@@artlion_4748 you can look into an anti-inflammatory diet. Just search the web. Of course stay away from sugar probably the worst cause of inflammation. 2 of my daughters have autoimmune issue 1 is a vegan and she says that has helped her dramatically! Diet plays a big role . Wishing you good health.😊
@@artlion_4748 I'm probably animal based, but limit my intake of pork and poultry, as they are often fed a diet high in LA. I eat mostly meat, cheese, some vegetables and rice/potato. I avoid vegetable/seed oils as they are the primary source of LA. If I had to guess I'm probably about 25% carb, rest is protein & fat. Oils I use are butter, beef tallow, and a quality olive oil for any liquid oils I need. I'd never recommend vegan, but maybe lacto or ovo vegetarian can be fine if we'll formulated. They addresse the deficiency of fat soluble vitamins and nutrients in a vegan diet. Long term I'd go so far as to say limiting excess LA is the most important factor in avoiding chronic diseases.
What wavelengths are the most beneficial for the production of Melatonin in cases when there are downpouring rains/freezing temps, and looking to buy IR lights/bulbs to use indoors?
What you can do? The state of ketosis (the presence of ketone bodies) has been shown to improve mitochondrial number and health. Which mean, ketogenic diet and/or fasting is most likely the way to go...
regarding the info at about 10:00, would the ace-2 inhibitor meds for high blood pressure have a detrimental effect?? Don't know if Dr. S will still read these comments, does anyone know or could point me to an answer??? thanks so much for this wonderful info!!
Hi! Do you do consults? I have been trying to figure out my issues for 10 years. No dr or holistic dr knows what to do with me. I need to talk to someone who can break all this stuff down for me for my poor fatigued brain. I believe I have a mitochondria dysfunction tied into insulin resistance but all methods to reverse insulin resistance do not work or are impossible for me. I am unable to fast. I literally start “going down” as I call it and I have to have carbs, fat and protein to bring me back up. Why do 600 lb people on tv that have more insulin resistance than me, how are they able to fast??? I cannot! I am not super overweight. I just don’t get it. I’ve tried so many things, every single diet.
This is interesting - no mention of electric radiant heat or other IR treatment, including heat packs, or self-heat (blankets) - if this is so important? No mention of Melatonin supplementation in two dose ranges - one very low for pineal gland stimulation, and one high (5mg+) for general physiology.
I live in Seattle and would really love a solution for a way I could get these benefits in my apartment 🥺 You cannot imagine the struggle here in the north from down near San Diego..!
I’m at a very northern latitude as winter approaches. Would a space heater be a helpful source of infrared? (Not as a replacement for sun but in addition to it since sun gets scarce here)
I use lots of vitamin D3, I use a product call the happy light in winter. Both help a lot in the north where is cold and dark most of the day in winter.
@@ms-jl6dl daylight hours are pretty much my exact work hours in winter, so I'm wondering if there is something akin to a fireplace since I work indoors but don't have a fireplace. I should have been more clear with "sun is scarce". It rises at like 9 and sets at 4:30
Wow fascinating stuff. I’d be interested to know what impact using ACE2 inhibitors/blockers has if any? I remember it being a concern/then potential benefit early in the pandemic. Thank you
Given the critical role Melatonin is thought to be playing would there be potential in supplementing Melatonin at bedtime in addition to getting sun for intra-cellular Melatonin?
9:36 that paper sounds a bit esoteric, but there is some support that melatonin may be generated in the mitochondria, from serotonin. But of course now you have serotonin as a limiting factor.
When I had covid in September (I live in Pennsylvania--so not much sun) I felt like I wanted to sit outside on my patio. My daughter thought I was crazy, and said how would the sun help anything when I was wearing sweats--it was chilly out-- but I sat outside, and even fell asleep outside on our deck. I got over covid much faster than my daughter who stayed inside her house. Thanks for saying infrared light penetrates clothes. Now it makes sense.
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Would autophagy improve mitochondrial dysfunction?
"Aiders and abetters of Nuremberg Crimes are equally guilty, and have also been persecuted, convicted and executed." Francis Boyle
@@gabrielj.daveiga2470 Similar thoughts for me. I'd love him to research and report on keto, omad, and intermittent fasting, even of a week or two, as repairs to metabolic issues and mitochondria. Do ketones produced then help or hurt such symptoms and metabolic dysfunction?
I'd love you to research and report on keto, omad(one meal per day), and intermittent fasting, even of a week or two, as repairs to metabolic issues and mitochondria. Do ketones produced then help or hurt such symptoms and metabolic dysfunction? Would an infrared space heater inside be of help indoors in the cold months?
As the days are getting shorter, less sunlight, could over-the-counter Melatonin be beneficial against fatigue from Long-Covid?
And if yes, how many mg's?
I have been training for 4 years to run half marathon distance. I have never been overweight, and eat very consciously. After having covid-19 in December 2021 and having long covid for more than half of 2022, I am so relieved to watch this. Immediately after being sick I gained 30lbs with no change to diet, lifestyle or exercise level. My energy and performance level tanked to the point where I had to take a break from training. My family and friends would not take me seriously that it was triggered by having covid and I was accused of "not being honest about my carb intake" by my mother. This is so validating because I was staring to believe I was just not in control of my life or that this was the new normal of rounding the bend of 40 years of age.
And, please, find some new Friends.
Same. Could have lost a few pounds before covid but definitely was not unhealthy and actually walked every day for about 45 minutes taking hills, to getting covid in February to 20 and have long covid now still. I gained 30 pounds. I couldn't get down to the end of the block for 2 years. Started taking vitamin D felt a bit better. Worked up to walking 2 to 5 miles a day until I figured out I was doing too much because I was starting to feel worse. Backed off to 2 miles a day and cutting out all carbs and mostly eating just one meal a day and I have not, in 7 months, lost 1 oz let alone a pound, and I'm still huffing and puffing walking back home, surprised that it has not become any easier. Sick of it, especially because I have developed an autoimmune allergy condition which at one point was almost life threatening.
@@bellelacroix5938 Thanks for sharing your experience. It's helpful.
Same.
Yes. So it's a good point. Sometimes obesity is not because of the food intake and lack of exercise. Imagine all those 'fat' people who have to listen all their lives that they are just lazy.
Thank you Dr. I was with delta COVID and 3 months in coma in Loma Linda Hospital and after that a lot post COVID issues. Thanks a lot for your research …. You are a light in this times 🥰
Does this doctor work at Loma Linda? I live in San Bernardino
I've watched all your videos in the Light as Medicine series and the amount of evidence supporting sunlight as a valuable resource for illness prevention and even treatment is astonishing. I've been openly encouraging pretty much everyone I know to go outside and get some sunlight ever since. Thank you, Doctor.
Light is not a medicine stop being brain dead. But vitamin D is an essential. Sunlight is one way to get that.
@@faikerdogan2802 Electromagnetic radiation A.K.A "light" (including the many wavelengths your *ignorant* eyes cannot perceive) has all sorts of uses in science and medicine.
It certainly is not a drug (if that's what you mean by light not being "a medicine"), but it *is* an important tool for illness prevention and treatment.
I literally was sun bathing every morning till afternoon all summer until I got covid end of July 2022. I worked outside as well. Even when I had covid I laid in the sun because I’m crazy and thought it was healing. But 6 months later I still have long covid and am searching for answers. Light as medicine makes no sense.
@@Blissfulbizz There is no way to know if all that exposure to sunlight had any effect on you. Perhaps it did nothing, or perhaps it prevented you from having an even worse outcome.
Whatever the case, I'm sorry you're still battling Long Covid and I wish for you to get better eventually.
I will continue to get myself exposed to sunlight and to advice everyone I know to do the same because the science behind seems sound enough to me.
@@Blissfulbizz i live in the sun and am an outdoors person, I've had long Covid for 3 years now, if this was true i should have been better a long time ago!!!
I ALWAYS feel better when I spend time in the sun 🌞 It's crazy though that people were suggesting this from day one and not one person from the CDC or government mentioned the importance of that once in the last 2.5 years....
Watch Dr. John Campbell. Vitamin D3 - so necessary.
I have long-covid for more than 2 years now and entered summer twice now. Specially the first weeks of nice sunny days are extremely nice and i feel almost normal but this levels off over time. Its like producing melatonin thru sunlight is limited.
They told us to stay indoors. Idiots. (Or are they not idiots but evil?)
They didn't want any other alternatives to the vaccine.
rhymes with weevil.
Every time I hear about "long covid", I think about my 12 year battle with longterm Lyme disease. It's a terrible thing to have fatigue, brain fog and cardiac and neurological symptoms that go on and on. Meanwhile, so many doctors (and insurance companies) were telling me it was just "post Lyme syndrome " about which they "could do nothing" and even acted hostile towards me for seeking treatment. Supplements were a big help, as was getting out in nature.
Sorry you had a 12 year battle, great that you are doing well now. Could you please share which supplements helped you? Thanks and hope you continue feeling good!
@@paezro I 2nd this. Would love some help
Please share what supplements you took
If it it wasn't just "post Lyme syndrome", what do you think it was? And if it is post-Lyme syndrome, what can anyone do for you? And if your answer is 'nothing yet', what should they tell you?
@@FomitesPost Lymes syndrome would fall under, post viral syndromes, like long haulers Covid. You may now have a form of secondary dysautonomia. See if if you can find a neurologist that works in this area. If you can’t, try to find a DO familiar with post viral syndrome & ME. myalgic Encephalomyelitis, which has much in common with post viral syndrome
Many people are thinking it’s fatigue when it’s really muscular hypoxia due to endothelial damage.
Makes sense my VEGF is very high
Who says that both aren't linked????
There is a simple enough randomized sturdy we could do. Take a hospital with two ICU wards and in one only add NIR LEDs into the lighting mix then compare the long term health of the patients from the two wards.
Yes energy production has been the plight of a lot of Long Covid sufferers... But Covid seems to be a multi-system attacker. Ie, a lot of us have never experienced the fatigue but rather are suffering neurological symptomology throughout the body. Brain fog, anxiety, tingling, numbness, tinnitus, etc... I hope causes and treatments are also discovered for these effects of the disease.
Yes, agree with you, To this day I could feel where the Covid virus wanted to attack, dock and unfortunately intervened to this day.
why I fell ill with Covid (nov 2020) (and still have symptoms today), probably due to a stressful situation, a weakened immune system. In addition, I had taken on a holiday replacement (care for the disabled).
I work every day on my recovery, more attentive and aware of my body and nutrition, also vitamin D and outdoor activities. ✊✊✊
I have the same exact symptoms as you.
Same symptoms as well. I hope for more research for this soon.
You might check out Dr. Datis Kharrazian's teaching on brain autoimmunity and inflammation.
Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with a variety of diseases, so it is certainly plausible that any or all of the symptoms you described could be triggered by poorly functioning mitochondria. I wonder if any of the many supplements that are touted as benefiting mitochondrial health (or that might improve beta oxidation) could be of benefit in long COVID, given the findings of this research
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this video. I have been following you since early 2020 and your videos have given me such comfort in explaining what was happening in the pandemic. Now that I have been dealing with long covid for almost a year, this is yet another video that is giving me some sort of comfort.
Thank you also for not treating your patients like they are crazy or just have "anxiety" like so many of us have experienced. I went to more doctors this year than I have in the past decade and most of them were a complete waste of my time. I'm a low income person who goes to school full time and works three jobs. I'm desperately trying to hold it together and not let long covid derail my life, but it's so hard. It's even harder when you reschedule the crazy schedule that I have to go to a doctor and are blown off or just kicked over to someone else. Thank you for being one of the good ones in a sea of bad ones that us long covid patients are experiencing. This gives me hope in the big picture.
I love your videos and often recommend them to others.
Several week ago my wife who is nearly 80 came down with COVID.
She was prescribed Paxlovid and was better after a few days but was very slow getting back to normal.
I got her to watch some of your training videos with me and she agreed to using near IR.
We got a big old quartz heater out of storage and set it on the floor near the table where she reads her newspaper.
Set on low (about quarter scale) you could feel the I.R. on your skin, but it was not too hot to be comfortable.
She is now about back to normal.
Thank you.
As someone who has LC w/PEM or ME/CFS, which is where we are seeing this mitochondrial damage, I would advise people to be careful about encouraging exercise. If the patient has PEM, then it is important to avoid triggering it and encourage pacing. Exercise is generally a trigger and most cannot safely engage in it. So if exercise is ever encouraged it would be important to add that the patient should not push past what they can do without symptoms.
I have POTS, a form of dysautonomia, as is 'long-COVID.' I was bedridden, but have made enormous gains. I keep saying that getting outside/sunshine and getting metabolically well have been key to my healing. I used to dream of you doing the Light As Medicine lecture - then you did it! Then I wished for a mito ep. Christmas came early! Thanks so much for confirming my biases and spreading the gospel. My TLDR Rx: Fatty meat, sunshine/light hygeine and goldilocks prone/recumbant resistance and zone2 training, avoiding insulin hits, seed/veg oils, inactivity, and overreaching.
Look into thiamine deficiency.
High animal fat diet is key, at least for me. I have never felt better, and have so much energy in all my life.
What is Goldilocks prone?
@@cpt_kirkwood Goldilocks = just the right amount and kind. Prone = not upright.
doing 30 to 50k of vit d helped me. took k2 at 450 mg and lots of watee, no problems. also makuna pryon was super helpful as tatking adaptogens at night to sleep, ashwaganda lemon balm, gaba, theanine. definitely avoid seed oils and canola as well as peanuts, and soy.
Edit: Also low carbs, grains, and no sugar.
Long COVID, between the fatigue and neuro symptoms, sounds like what I experience with MS and apparently mitochondrial dysfunction is an issue in MS. Over the years I’ve found that exercise and diet make a huge difference acutely. What I eat, supplements and my activity matters and has an acute effect day to day.
What pisses me off about this advice is doctors and people don't seem to understand it's a catch 22. Long covid is extreme exhaustion. The remedy is to go outside and get more excercise. BUT, going outside and getting requires energy; which u don't have because of EXTREME EXHAUSTION. It's like telling a person paralyzed in a wheel chair the remedy is to walk it off. Not a practical remedy.
@@Usernotknown21
Perhaps the advice as it is stated is a bit crude, but if you adapt the amount of exercise to your tolerance levels, then it can be beneficial.
“Exercising” needs to be understood as a spectrum from barely moving right through to high intensity.
Walk 50m if that’s all you can do. But try and do it consistently. If it’s too much and you are worse off the next two days, drop the distance back.
@@Usernotknown21 Get someone to walk with you outside and just sit on a chair. The sun exposure will be the most important part.
It's the jab, wake up
@@Usernotknown21 I’ve been there. Sleep for a million hours. Feel better for an hour, then exhausted again. Medication changes turned that around. I can work a 12-hour day now. At the time though, I sometimes FORCED myself to exercise. Afterwords, especially the next day, I was always glad I did. Walks helped. Making it a routine was best.
Been suffering from LC for 27 months. Hopefully a solution can be found.
Try intermittent fasting ,and avoid exertion...take a lot and I mean a lot of rest. Take sunlight and calcium..it worked for me..its been 8 months since I got infected
Since Updates 61-68 MedCram, OVER 2 years ago, was on this ROS issue with COVID
Very interesting! I have LC for pretty close to 2 years at this point and it gets much better during the summer. This might be the reason. Thank you!
Tanning beds
@@drunvert This is UV light. He is talking about near infrared light.
Just the opposite for me. Summer heat puts me down.
Fall of 2021 I got Covid at age 61. It hit my lungs hard. 10 days in hospital on O2. It took 6 months for me to have a moderate level of energy and 9 before I was almost back to normal. Now I have 50 pounds to lose.
I’ve never had covid but have this issue from 2 pfizer in 01/2021. Have been diagnosed with Long Covid and ME/CFS by my Pulmonologist. Makes sense.
Same. Injured after second dose of moderna. Everyone I know who has long haul or is vax injured believes it’s spike toxicity. Encountering the spike is bad news. In our case, vax spike did us in. Not sure why we were susceptible while others were not. I have been ill since March 2021.
I’d love for medcram to cover this topic but I understand that it’s “politically divisive”. Me? I’ll admit that I just want acknowledgement so I can get my treatments paid under insurance and/or get compensation for all the lost income, debt, and all of the money I had to pull from my retirement to pay for expensive treatments.
@@cpt_kirkwood I get ya…. It’s so frustrating to be denied… long covid clinics won’t take me because I’ve never had covid. I see a Functional Med Doc who has helped some, but after almost 2 years I still have a ways to go, constant shortness of breath. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this too! Prayers for us all.
Stumbled on your comments. My heart goes out to you both. You deserve to be heard. You deserve help and answers. I'll keep you both in my prayers. By the way I'm unvaccinated but care about people who are suffering. God bless you 💝
@@pattyg.4872 it’s wild how many people in comments are saying they are injured. I wish TH-cam channels like this one would respond to and do research on people like us. When I first got sick, I had never heard of anything like it and doctors were very sick to deny vax injury (at first). It was a long and lonely road.
Very clear and logical explanation, as usual. I am an engineer and I still got it :). We are machines, from viruses to humans, just terrribly complicated, and even more so once you add interactions and some natural selection sauce.
I’ve had long Covid since July of 2020. I also have thalassemia minor, so I am used to a certain amount of fatigue and muscle weakness. Covid amplified it significantly and added bone pain and Covid type migraines (which involve the sinuses and neck stiffness) to the mix. It’s been incredibly frustrating. Im so tired of nasty comments from healthy people who don’t understand and think I’m just being lazy or exaggerating. I’ve also experienced a lot of muscle and fat wasting. I’m trying so hard to exercise and build muscle but it’s proving to be waaaaaaay more difficult than pre-covid.
Im the same way, did you try any that works?
Did you lose weight from it?
@@oscararredondo9672How are you feeling now?
Right on target. I've thought mitochondrial dysfunction for almost two years.
Fabulous MedCram lecture! I am so glad to hear you cover this topic of healing from long Covid! This will help me a lot! 🤗🌅🌿
These videos are very helpful and I hope that the study's findings are taken up by the UK's NHS which is struggling to deal with long Covid.
4.5 years still suffering long covid
Please speak on fasting and mitochondrial turnover to rid the body of dysfunctional mitochondria.
Yes..I think it’s likely another key to improvement but again we need RCT,
I got Covid early on and knew about “Long Covid” before anything was published ! It was going on 4 months after my infection (by that time Long Covid was being considered in the news) and I was desperate to get better.. I came across grounding/earthing after trying many things like changes in my diet .. I went to Home Depot and bought supplies to make my own grounding mat to sleep on and I sweat so bad that night but woke up feeling Amazing ! I had energy again and have been grounding every night since then !
And how do you feel now?
Excellent video, and I am super impressed with your foresight regarding the importance of sunlight, and melatonin. Cellular metabolism is at the root of This is all making a lot more sense from a biochemistry perspective. One of my go-to's for taking before having COVID and then after getting COVID was Quercetin, which is an antioxidant. I am now interested in NAC as well. Thanks as always for your excellent information!
You should also be taking D3 with A, K2 and Omega 3. And L-Theanine with Magnesium.
NADH+ was my game changer after the one you named
Quercetin made me ill
@@samuelpilon810 nadh is used for what purpose and nad+ also ! For me after heavy calories diet dysfunction my fat metabolism, when I eat it makes me dizzy for hours ? Do you know how work on?
@Michael Christopher Nac works for that you take it with your meal
15:52 “... sitting in front of the fire also exposes you to NIR...”. I knew the fireplaces in my house were good for something... And thanks for the great video!
You are a BLESSING to the world no wonder a lot of people complaining of low energy post COVID now I got it and thank you for making it in such a way it's understandable even to a lay person..
There are full canopy units, that look like tanning beds, that emit 810 and 660 nm light (not for tanning but for mitochondrial repair) . I have one called a Novothor. Look for one in your area and see if it helps.
May I aak what it cost, and where purchased? Thanks.
Another terrific explainer video Doc! I am going to send this off to my cousin (M.D.) for viewing as he treats a lot of post COVID cases. Thanks for these important videos and hope that you are doing well!
I have had long covid but with a different virus the Epstein-Barr virus for 18 years. Let me tell you chronic fatigue syndrome is a living hell.
Thank you Dr Seheult, Your consistent brilliance sheds light and brings order to a crazy confusing world.
Thank you for your scientific analysis of Covid. It helps establish some level of confidence in at least some parts of the medical profession .
Thanks!
Dr. Seheult, I've been suffering Long-Covid for months (This BTW is the 2nd time actually I've been through this) ... I am presently going to the docs here in the (SF Bay Area) and they don't know how to treat it, for brain fog they want to CT my brain and talk with a Neurologists, for the breathing thing and the exhaustion with exertion with a mild burning sensation high in the chest. I've taken a lung function test... Ugh! no fun... and need to to schedule a pulmonologist appt. And a crazy battery of blood for A1C, lipid panel, ALT, and so on... plus urine tests looking for ?? ... What they're telling me is that nobody knows what to do, and right now all they can "do" is rule out things. I think these videos are critical, they are HELPING me... I know they've really gotten me further down the road in recovery than subjecting me to what I think might be a battery of unnecessary tests... because they don't know! I would welcome a suggestion if you can offer one. Thank you SO much Dr Seheult... Of course I want to share this video with them, I doubt they will listen to your video because it came from me... I know how busy these doctors are.
I really feel for you. It’s very frustrating to have a condition that nobody knows about or what to do. I think I’m going to look into this condition more carefully because I think there are things that we can do and I suspect that many of them are common sense things like getting outside fresh air sunshine and sleep. We need to stop preventing our body what it needs to do to heal itself.
@@Medcram Doc, I will post separately on this above some resources from specialists patients can take to their doctors. This as well is something you can build on that would be so valuable to your community. Bottom line is patients must become educated and bring tools and facts to their doctors to treat them. Long Covid, it is widely believed by experts, is just a renaming of a disease the CDC has tried to write off as a psychological condition for 30 years. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. I'm following the specialty physicians and researchers in this space. Some excellent clinical tools / templates are available. Honestly a lot of testing is a waste because it won't change the treatment anyway. Enough is commonly known to occur to assume specific treatment protocols even without testing.
@@Medcram maybe this isn't the place for this, but besides sunlight and movement, I have found that another piece of the puzzle is foods. Each dynamic toward healing can be overshadowed by compromising dynamics, which is part of why healing can be so frustrating.
"My" (anecdotal, observational, highly personalized) list of accessible, reliable, valuable resources for non-inflammatory dietary and life-style information:
Two resources for comparing all information to:
1>>> th-cam.com/video/5YV_iKnzDRg/w-d-xo.html
Dr. Roger Seheult
Light as Medicine...
2 >>>th-cam.com/video/15R2pMqU2ok/w-d-xo.html
Andrew Huberman, ophthalmology and neurobiology professor at Stanford; gut microbiome and brain health and overall health
If advice that you view is contraindicated by information from Dr. Seheult or Andrew Huberman, give serious consideration as to whether or not the advice is reliable.
Resources that I have used for guiding my diet to minimizing inflammation and auto-inflammation (mainly using the foods lists and limiting my grocery purchases to foods that these resources list):
Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself - Dr William Li
drwilliamli.com/
Foods To Eat On The Candida Diet
www.thecandidadiet.com/foodstoeat.htm
The 30-day Alzheimer's Solution - By Dean Sherzai & Ayesha Sherzai (hardcover) : Target
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The Plant Paradox Cookbook - By Steven R Gundry Md (hardcover) : Target
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If I purchase and use only foods from the food lists available here, I feel much better than when I "wander" off, in what I eat.
Best wishes and blessings (vigor and vitality and propensity for life and living) to you in your pursuits of well-being and doing.
Wow...
I wish we could discuss ROS w/ ketone metabolism in the same study?
Thank you so much Dr Seheult! Your work is priceless.
I've come across more than one source of information on the antioxidant qualities of melatonin. As well, that melatonin is not just produced in the pineal gland alone. Thank you for the information presented here in furthering my understanding in mitochondrial function, and the role of melatonin.
Another great explanatory video. Thanks Dr. Seheult!
My friend had covid so I tested for it way back when it started. I was positive with only some tiredness and after 10 days loss of smell. I am 60. My friends all had symptomatic covid, some worse then others. I started walking outside a decade ago, 10K steps a day which takes about an hour. I'm out in the heat cold rain and snow, year round and I now believe this is why I was n9t phased by covid
Which wavelengths of NIR are needed most? Finding many narrow band choices. What about old-school incandescent red heat lamp instead of LED? And how long exposure is best? In the PNW, haven't seen or felt the sun in a month+. THANKS DR.
Watch the other videos he mentioned that he made-Light is Medicine and others. They explain in great detail. Morning sun and evening sunset have great properties of healing.
@@ssmith2162 Yes, thank you. I live at 45 degrees north latitude and the last day of sun angle above 45 degrees (minimum required to let UVB penetrate atmosphere) was the autumnal equinox. Now we have not even felt NIR heating the skin in weeks, let alone seeing the sun much. Hence my question what LED wavelengths are needed most. Amazon has 600nm and 660nm units, but LEDs only emit at a narrow band of wavelengths, not the broad NIR spectrum shown in Dr. Seheult's previous videos. Thanks
@@jeffcasey504 I suppose I would google the pricey near IR saunas and begin my research with a good company or two who have done THEIR research, and have the studies for you to peruse. If you find anything please get back here and let me know! (Lat 47)
Thanks a lot, doc! I'm dealing with long covid at the moment and try to be outside as much as possible to get that precious sunlight. Until now I didn't know that this is actually helpful for the recovery :) And it gives me more understanding of what's at the heart of long covid, not having a clue what the cause could be was getting quite tireing.
I have Mitochondrial myopathy and COVID caused me to have a major metabolic crisis. It made all my mito symptoms to get a lot worse to the point I didn't think I would make it. I have had long COVID for 8 weeks now and I am just now beginning to feel a little better.
My hypothesis is that insulin resistance impairs beta oxidation. Metabolic syndrome is clearly associated with severe covid and I suspect long covid too.
A couple questions:
If this problem occurs during fat metabolism, would reducing dietary fat help the mitochondria "get ahead" of the ROS issue? (This would be a bit tricky, since I assume you would also want to prevent stored body fat from being "burned" as well. A low carb or low calorie diet might be counter-productive if it causes you to start burning more fat stores.)
If long wavelength IR is useful for triggering melatonin release (synthesis?), could an artificial source work in a pinch? A heat lamp, basically.
I suffer from CFS, which the medical community mostly lost interest in decades ago. I'm really hoping the focus on the new, sexy, and well funded "long covid" will accidentally result in a cure being found for those of that have long-some-*other*-virus.
All of us with immune dysregulation/autoimmunity etc etc are hanging in there as science funding finally focuses in a much bigger way on 'how to quell or prevent inflammation'. Can Not Wait, I think many are online checking on every long/covid study that rolls off the press. So many angles to inspect.
I was in nutritional ketosis throughout Covid (still am), and caught a variant eventually, but it was like a normal flu, symptoms disappeared after a few days. Academic Medicine will deny keto, but many of the therapies, Remdesivir for example, mimicked it.
I was regular joggers about 10 k a day , after getting my first vaccination for Covid I started losing my breath and I didn’t related to vaccination as I got my second shot of vaccination within few days I was losing my breath ,fatigued was not able walk few steps getting disoriented , went doctors they got all the tests and scanning done but nothing wrong I spent almost two months in bed and had about 26 hyperbaric chamber oxygen therapy it took few months and I am still 70% but I used to prior to vaccination it is 15 months. After listing this I conclude that the vaccination caused my mitochondria malfunction
Well done for seeing the elephant in the room. Everyone else must be blind! 😎
What about using Red Light Therapy panels as a treatment for regions without a lot of sunlight or lower temps?
Why not?, but it has to be NIR, near infrared, not those black panels
I've had long covid since the first Sars outbreak in 2004. One hundred percent disabled since.
This is really interesting, I put on 30lbs since having covid & it felt like it happened overnight
I’ve exercised regularly all my life, I have a home gym now & train regularly never been overweight & if I did ever need to shed a few pounds I could focus & do it no problem
The weight went on with no real change in my diet & now whatever I seem to do now the scales just won’t shift
ask your doctor first but look into intermittent fasting, weight comes off pretty easily. but please check with your doctor.
Average weight gain with long covid or chronic fatigue syndrome is about 30lbs. This is because this disease has disabled you, slows your metabolism and the insomnia/sleep disturbances. The weight can only come off as you get better. Eat as healthy as you can, but don't focus on losing weight, focus on getting better.
Same
I've been overweight all my life, dropped 20 lbs in hospital with COVID then put on 30lbs after. During the summer I'm able to exercise quite a bit-outdoor walking- and finally this year got 20 lbs off, but what a struggle! Sunlight is key!
I lost 30 and can’t gain it back.
I am sure there must be life(s) saved from all the knowledge from videos on this channel. I myself took many sunbaths this year and feel better having tan on my skin at the very least. Havent done it in like 3 years
Would love some kind of estimate for exactly how much solar NIR exposure is needed to produce benefit.
This video helped me understand what was going on and led to me finding a possible FIX! I have started supplementing with L-Carnitine as I think that must be my issue with 4 years of blunted energy and function due to long covid. I am shook that this $13 wallgreens level supplement is totally changing my life. But that fatty acid transfer is SO important!! Might be something for others to look into if they have similar issues.
Thank you for these insights. Excellent work.
Can getting near infrared light 'indoors' during cloudy winter days up north, be accomplished with an 1100nm infrared bulb? The red-light therapy lamp I'm seeing to buy is 300 watts at 1100 nanometers.
I have no medical training so forgive my ignorance, but if the spike protein on the virus is an ACE2 trojan horse, and the immune system learns to attack that structure, is it possible the immune system also learns to attack the ACE2 protein leading to the AT-II AT-1,7 problems you described in an autoimmune fashion?
I've had long Covid and now I've got Twitching In my right eye terrible leg pain in both legs. I have a lot of fatigue.
Interesting research, thanks! Looking forward for more video on subject.
Never had Covid, but wanted to listen to this because mitochondrial dysfunction can affect any of us. I have been taking NAC and Zinc, Quercetin and Glutathione through all of this Co-vid period and possibly even before -- in very modest amounts. I also have exercised all my life and really need the sun. But now being in the northern midwest, I've had to depend on D/K supplements and melatonin in very low doses (I'm an easy sleeper). Just wondering about how to begin to think about all of this beyond covid. Thanks for the talk. It makes me feel that I've been on the right track.
I've been doing this
since covid hit also.
The few times I missed, I cought omicron, but had colds worse
A difference, was the "fatigue" for 5 days.
.along with not tasting anything
I began taking bile salts to digest fat better. I'm chronically ill similar to LC - POTS/EDS/MCAS + ENS
This paper was published a long time ago. At that time, the understanding of long covid was NOT mature, and, more importantly, the world was still obsessed with vaccination. I would read this paper with a grain of salt.
my dad is 70 years old and has stage four cancer, and at that time i was in the hospital taking care of him, unfortunately i got COVID the delata variant , I was thankful my dad didn't get it even though i was coughing inside the hospital room for a week with him, i was really thankful he didn't get it even though we were having him treated for his lung cancer at stage four, and last month my brother got covid and he was vaccinated 4 times already and my 75 year old mom got covid also and my dad was the one taking care of her for two weeks, inside the hospital, even thouh his cancer has already spread to his bones and thigh and other parts of the body, I am really thankful, he wasn't able to get the covid disease, thank u lord!
As the days are getting shorter, less sunlight, would over-the-counter Melatonin be beneficial against fatigue from Long-Covid?
And if yes, how many mg's?
COVID PASC is also highly correlated with immune dysfunction (change in B and T cell populations, increased auto-antibodies, inflammation, activated macrophages, etc). Could an additional or alternate source of the ROS be from those processes? I bring this up as not sure intracellular melatonin would necessarily address ROS from inflammation.
Would love a RCT
Dr. Bruce Patterson and Dr Yo are saying that very same thing. They speculate that a person's unique immune profile determines the kinds of symptoms of long covid that they display.
Dear Dr, do you think that Protein S, produced by the RNA vaccines-in some people in huge quantities-maybe as well block ACE2 receptors, the same way as the native virus ?
Two questions:
1. Any experience with Urolithin-A for improving mitochondrial dysfunction from long covid?
2. What about the use of IR/NIR light panels for increasing melatonin production?
This all makes me wonder if this kind of research into long Covid may also be applicable or at least tangential to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My wife suffers from CFS, and there is so little known about the mechanics of the condition, and therefore treaments/therapies are often extremely general, lacklustre, with little hope in sight for recovery.
I wonder if the same kind of tests may be able to be performed, like was shown here, to see if mitochondrial dysfunction may also be playing a significant role in CFS.
I have CFS and am following all this research on Long Covid very carefully.
@@denisedevoto2834 same , 10 years cfs. I've tried all sorts if diets and amino acids, melatonin etc, nothing works. the big clue I think is at griffith University in Australia, they found calcium ion channel dysfunction in both me/cfs and LC.
Thank you. I am not a Dr. I am helping family and friends with Long COVID. People are so stressed they will use any “concoction” they see on Facebook. This simple mitigation is wonderful and something that is “logical” for folks to accept - Thanks Doc.
Fascinating. Thanks for making this!
A very interesting video indeed Dr Seheult! As always. How would you propose that people in the far deep of the northern hemisphere access NIR, at this time of year? Will devices that produce this give equally good amounts of NIR?
Maybe, replace the light bulb on the ceiling of a bathroom with a 200w infrared one and use it for certain amount of time everyday ? Is there any research on this idea to treat long COVID ?
@@lingzhang2341 That is what i would like to know too. My wife struggles with her long covid, but since we live way north, it is basically no sunlight for the next coming months. And also, what is the recommendation for such a device/bulb. Watts, length of exposure, distance etc. I have seen these infra saunas, but they only emit far infra light.
I have long covid and was sweating profusely and it stunk like rust or battery acid and poop smelled like chemicals for a while. I told the doctor and he said it was probably smell dysfunction. 🙄
Interesting. Also possible you have a very keen sense of smell, like the woman who can smell Parkinsons. Might be interesting to see if you can smell it on other people.
@@jimmyobvious1651 I wish but I don’t think so. I smelled this a year in of being sick. I think I just smelled the oxidation and cell death. I got long covid. It’s a terrifying Illness.
@@sloth6247 Are you still ill? I'd be interested to see if NAC supplementation helps; it's been talked about on this channel and in articles about long covid.
@@jimmyobvious1651 i didn’t talk NAC but i did take in a lot of foods high in amino acids. I think what’s helped me the most so far is proteolytic enzymes.
Is there a positive or negative impact from long exposure to sunlight, for example, in northern latitudes during the summer? I guess I'm asking because I positively feel better on the few sunny days we have in Montana, and was wondering if time spent farther north where there are more hours of sunlight would help, or whether we need that dark "downtime" for the melatonin cycle to have an effect.
What about long covid sufferers who are struggling with sleep... how would one know if their pineal gland is producing enough melatonin? Is there any evidence of pineal gland dysfunction/damage? I've seen a recent study in the UK where they did 260 MRI's on patients who had been hospitalised with covid and had LC and were found to have had their hyperthalamus rewired... does this effect ones sleep at all?
Infrared lights useful? Cloudy in winter months here.
Could be. Studies have showed effects.
@@Medcram Thanks.
Can you supplement being outside with additionally doing something such as an infrared sauna or infrared lamp? Especially in the winter months?
If what you say is true does that mean that high latitudes have more long covid cases than southern latitudes (because there being more sun)? Are there any studies that looked at that?
Which could easily relate simply to Vit D made by the skin, among a whole host of other factors.
Two-year long-covid suffer with severe fatigue and resistant hypertension living in Alaska. Superb video - helps explain why my already uncontrolled BP has gotten even higher since covid, along with greatly increased arrythmias, blood clots and poor wound healing. Given the very short and often cloudy days we have up here, is there any benefit to supplementing with melatonin during the day - if so, what dose and timing? For years I have used a slow-release formulation to help with insomnia, although the benefits have been minimal. Thank you for your wonderful work - I especially appreciate your research on the innumerable values of sunlight to health - an under researched, yet fundamental, topic
I would start by spending an hour outside a day. Perhaps an hour long walk.
I am so sorry! My knowledge is that Melatonin does not really help sleep, and taking it can further disturb your circadian rhythm. Seems that taking Magnesium (threonate, malate and/or glycinate) with your dinner meal (take it to bowel tolerance to get a max relaxation) might really help.
I hope you ARE doing the NAC 600 mg twice a day on an empty stomach, and Nattokinase is what I take to prevent clotting (check it out if not familiar - it is on an empty stomach too, anti fibrotic), and, yeah, the fellow mentioned a walk . . well , high noon if you are up for it.
IF you have a friend with a 'sun porch' which is single pane glass (barebones/bring your heat lamp (ideally NIR led bulbs) and sit or stretch in there, to stay out of cold/wind, get the sun's spectrums, wear least clothing possible - be sure your eyes are facing the AK sky/sun(?) . .
Anyway, for sleep I have been taking a small amount of trazadone for about 30 years . . . it is one of those old timer 'dirty drugs' that works for most. Small would be 25 to 50 mg at bedtime, depending on your weight and age. Starting small will be best. When you get your sleep act together you can quit. (Traz works best for keeping one asleep, but will also help one initiate sleep. You will need coffee in the AM - if you're not already hooked, try to override, as quitting caffeine would be good for all of us, but few ever find the will power. I am working on that one . . . )
Best of luck sorry if my ideas are old territory for you. (Am in Seattle, and understand the Winter - but in no way to the degree of your WAY Northern latitude. So, I guess I'd search your city for an outfit which rents out NIR infrared saunas by the hour . . . we have some here, I need to drop by and test.
I did sit in an NIR Sauna at a homeshow exhibition a number of years ago. I was permitted to hang out for a half hour, and it had a fine stereo . . . I had not been so relaxed/feel good as a left that small cedar box - in a long, long while.
Perhaps worth an investment of time to hunt down?
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I have a question doctor - I had covid twice.
The first time it was bad it hit me in the stomach and l was very sick for over 3 weeks. Needless to say l have been feeling extremely tired since that time. The second time it was like a bad flu it took over two weeks to get better. The tiredness never left me. 6 months later after the second covid episode l felt my fingers to be swollen in the morning and pain in my elbows. I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis although l have no skin psoriasis.
My question is did covid cause this condition and can this autoimmune condition be reversed??
I would appreciate your answer.
Thank you
@Beastbombshell
Thank you for your quick response l really appreciate your help.
I am a little confused with contracting diets that l read about.
Carnivores say thats the best diet to reverse diseases and the vegans or vegetarians say their diet is the best to reverse diseases. Can you see why l am confused 🤔 and my two doctors l have tell me the best thing l can do for myself is to take their medications and hope for the best.
Its very sad that all the can offer me.
In your opinion if you were my doctor and all my blood work is normal which diet would you recommend for me??
I need to reverse this autoimmune condition before it cripples me.
Thank you
Not a doctor, but maybe I can assist.
An inflammatory insult could definitely trigger this, and C19 is one such potential trigger.
Another potential cause is bioaccumulation of Linoleic Acid.
The half life of fats is 1-2 years, and most diets are many times our ancestral consumption of LA when compared to 150-200 years ago. Biopsies done on humans have shown upwards of 20 times the level seen in those eating ancestral diets.
There's very good data on Macular degeneration, but other conditions and human studies area a bit mixed. When you understand the mechanisms, it's related to study design and quality of the data(it's bad).. but that's a different discussion.
Avoidance of LA can slowly improve many inflammatory and potentially autoimmune conditions.
By itself LA isn't harmful, but when it oxidizes or it's metabolites oxidize, it can be a significant inflammatory and toxic burden. These molecules are very unstable, and can even be oxidized from trauma, light, or many other compounds.
In the literature they are know as OXLAM'S, and some examples are 9 and 13 HODE, which are very bad when oxidized.
On a personal note I'm 5 years in of avoiding LA, and noted these benefits:
• chronic pain gone
• arthritis gone
• sinus allergies gone
• asthma gone
Asthma I noticed last year in the winter, and breathing in ice cold air, which caused me no issues.
I recommend finding a reputable doctor to work with and assist you.
@@Unsensitive Thank you for the information regarding LA.
I am glad to hear that your conditions are improved or gone.
May l ask if you are on a vegetarian diet or carnivore diet?
@@artlion_4748 you can look into an anti-inflammatory diet. Just search the web. Of course stay away from sugar probably the worst cause of inflammation. 2 of my daughters have autoimmune issue 1 is a vegan and she says that has helped her dramatically! Diet plays a big role . Wishing you good health.😊
@@artlion_4748 I'm probably animal based, but limit my intake of pork and poultry, as they are often fed a diet high in LA.
I eat mostly meat, cheese, some vegetables and rice/potato. I avoid vegetable/seed oils as they are the primary source of LA.
If I had to guess I'm probably about 25% carb, rest is protein & fat.
Oils I use are butter, beef tallow, and a quality olive oil for any liquid oils I need.
I'd never recommend vegan, but maybe lacto or ovo vegetarian can be fine if we'll formulated. They addresse the deficiency of fat soluble vitamins and nutrients in a vegan diet.
Long term I'd go so far as to say limiting excess LA is the most important factor in avoiding chronic diseases.
What wavelengths are the most beneficial for the production of Melatonin in cases when there are downpouring rains/freezing temps, and looking to buy IR lights/bulbs to use indoors?
What you can do? The state of ketosis (the presence of ketone bodies) has been shown to improve mitochondrial number and health.
Which mean, ketogenic diet and/or fasting is most likely the way to go...
regarding the info at about 10:00, would the ace-2 inhibitor meds for high blood pressure have a detrimental effect?? Don't know if Dr. S will still read these comments, does anyone know or could point me to an answer??? thanks so much for this wonderful info!!
Hi! Do you do consults? I have been trying to figure out my issues for 10 years. No dr or holistic dr knows what to do with me. I need to talk to someone who can break all this stuff down for me for my poor fatigued brain. I believe I have a mitochondria dysfunction tied into insulin resistance but all methods to reverse insulin resistance do not work or are impossible for me. I am unable to fast. I literally start “going down” as I call it and I have to have carbs, fat and protein to bring me back up. Why do 600 lb people on tv that have more insulin resistance than me, how are they able to fast??? I cannot! I am not super overweight. I just don’t get it. I’ve tried so many things, every single diet.
This is interesting - no mention of electric radiant heat or other IR treatment, including heat packs, or self-heat (blankets) - if this is so important?
No mention of Melatonin supplementation in two dose ranges - one very low for pineal gland stimulation, and one high (5mg+) for general physiology.
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What about people that take HBP medicine that inhibits ACE ?
I live in Seattle and would really love a solution for a way I could get these benefits in my apartment 🥺
You cannot imagine the struggle here in the north from down near San Diego..!
Double up on vitamin D3/K2 supplements
@@kathleenking47 I take a combo D3/K2 every morning 🤗 I worry doubling up on D3 or D3/K2 might mess with other vitamin absorption ?
persisting tremors symptoms years after an initial infection SARS 2 , a condition known as Long COVID. mistaken as essential tremors
This video makes fasting even more sense now. Fasting causes mitochondrial repair. In just beginning my fast today.
Great information!
I’m at a very northern latitude as winter approaches. Would a space heater be a helpful source of infrared? (Not as a replacement for sun but in addition to it since sun gets scarce here)
I use lots of vitamin D3, I use a product call the happy light in winter. Both help a lot in the north where is cold and dark most of the day in winter.
You don't need a sunny weather to get IR radiation. It goes through clouds and clothes. Just get outside in daylight hours.
@@ms-jl6dlYes, that's true but sometimes is too cold which is why I do what I do.
@@ms-jl6dl daylight hours are pretty much my exact work hours in winter, so I'm wondering if there is something akin to a fireplace since I work indoors but don't have a fireplace. I should have been more clear with "sun is scarce". It rises at like 9 and sets at 4:30
What about carnitine supplementation?
Would an infrared lamp also work?
exactly my question
Wow fascinating stuff. I’d be interested to know what impact using ACE2 inhibitors/blockers has if any? I remember it being a concern/then potential benefit early in the pandemic. Thank you
Good question! (for Dr. Schuelte, vid on this idea?)
Nicorrette gum is amazing for my lomg haulers.
If Sars 2 switches one's metabolism to sugar burning vs fats, would that suggest that sugars are what yhe virus is using to proliferate in some way?
Given the critical role Melatonin is thought to be playing would there be potential in supplementing Melatonin at bedtime in addition to getting sun for intra-cellular Melatonin?
My question exactly.
as an addition yes, but sun works in another way
9:36 that paper sounds a bit esoteric, but there is some support that melatonin may be generated in the mitochondria, from serotonin. But of course now you have serotonin as a limiting factor.
what about using Near-infrared (NIR) lightbulbs indoors during the day as well?
Could work.
When I had covid in September (I live in Pennsylvania--so not much sun) I felt like I wanted to sit outside on my patio. My daughter thought I was crazy, and said how would the sun help anything when I was wearing sweats--it was chilly out-- but I sat outside, and even fell asleep outside on our deck. I got over covid much faster than my daughter who stayed inside her house. Thanks for saying infrared light penetrates clothes. Now it makes sense.
i need to listen to this 3 times.