Case Study: Sunlight Treatment for Hospitalized COVID Patient - Outcome and Implications 

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Sunshine should be a regular therapy in nursing homes where residents rarely get outside. 😷

This practice of using sunlight to heal patients began with Florence Nightingale. She was brilliant.

In 2006, my 84 yr old Mom Was Dx with a glioblastoma, we cared for her at home. When the neurosurgeon told her she was terminal, her first words were, “this must be the hardest part of your job”. She always put others before herself. The tumor gave her lt sided stroke like weakness, she was able to talk during the numerous sz. She said the sz didn’t hurt, but she was afraid of them. She also never complained of any pain....that generation was so stoic. I had taken her outside as often as she wanted that summer. She would sit next to her roses and on those days, she said she felt better. Fresh air and sunshine are important for health. I also air my house out daily when the weather permits.

Your channel is the reason I started sitting in the sun...that I can sit in the sun, doing nothing, but still doing something very important for my health. Thank you for all your contributions to our understanding of how to rely on ourselves for our own health outcomes.💕

Thank you so much, Doctor Seheult. I have been listening to you since early 2020. I use NAC, quercetin off and on, Vitamin D3 to get my levels normal, and I get 20-30 minutes of sunlight every day the sun is out and I walk along the forest. I live on the east coast and it can get cold, but the sunlight then is even more important. Almost 4 years later I still haven't had COVID. I had to have mesenteric follicular lymphoma removed in a major procedure in 2021 and I was out in the sun as soon as possible and I recovered quickly and have no sign of reoccurence in scans two and a half years later and counting. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your gentle presence and wisdom and deep research. The Earth is much better having you on it. If only we had more physicians like you we'd have a much more compassionate and effective medical system.

I used to work at a hospital in Denmark in the 1970s. They still had an older building with a huge sun porch for the Tuberculosis patients

As I watch this video I am recovering from covid and sitting outside in the Florida sunshine. Been doing this for the duration based on following your channel from the beginning. High risk patient post paxlovid rebound. Everything you need to know about covid can be found on this channel. Thanks so much.

Those NIR vests used in the study need to be distributed to all hospitals and made available for public purchase.

I work in urgent care and been telling everyone with covid, flu etc. as an adjunctive treatment to get outside for sunlight and fresh air. I mentioned this anectode to them and they were wow'ed. Much more effective than just saying 'go outside'. Glad science is catching up to EGW.

I'm so proud of the work you are doing for your patients. I've been listening to your lectures for years. Sunshine and breath work have been foundational for my family's health.

Love this! Thank you! This goes to show a case study on lifestyle interventions can be an adjunctive integrated into medical care. I heard a lecture that claimed sunlight on your skull converted to nitric oxide and then oxygen. Also, another M.D. talks about how foods you eat especially greens convert to nitric oxide and then oxygen nourishing your endothelial tissue. He was saying you needed to eat cooked greens with a splash of vinegar. There only might be one drawback to going outdoors and that is particulate matter and excess ozone. I check air quality before going outdoors because of pollution in my area.

Incredible! This brought tears to my eyes, including the advice to "gently" educate your provider. What this points to is perhaps an even bigger problem in healthcare.

TB patients used to be taken outside everyday. Hospitals were designed for moving the whole bed directly out onto the lawn. Why have we forgotten all the basics?

I’ve been feeling sick for the past several weeks and as a result haven’t been getting much sun, but did ramp up my vitamin d, k and a few other things. But after starting to watch this I put it on pause and walked outside to enjoy 20 minutes of afternoon sunlight. I feel a bit better already (if for no other reason than just being cheered up by the light). Great presentation- the spike of deaths around the shortest daylight day of the year in the northern hemisphere is VERY compelling!

Very educational , enjoy your videos , society doesn't realize the power of the Mitochondria in our cells. It's the key to everything health related in our bodies.

I have been following all of your vids since 2020 & I remember you saying that you suspected the benefits of sunlight to combat covid19, but that you weren't sure just yet at the time. All I can say is "WOW!" doctor, you were right(I know that nothing is 100% effective for everyone, but at least you give us a fighting chance) . I will definitely share this vid with my friends & family. Thank You for all your hard work!

I've been saying for years that they need sun rooms in hospitals

Another excellent and informative video Doc! I am sending this off to my cousin (M.D.) and as many people as I can for viewing. Can't argue with the research related to sunlight therapy. I hope that all is well and that you & your family have a very Happy Holiday season! 👍👍🌲🌲💥💥

Very well done! I've started using a 250 watt 1962 GE red/IR heat lamp with a dimmer as it is very powerful. We used these when i was a kid in NJ to raise baby chicks. They would crowd under them on cold winter nights, and we adjusted the distance so the chicks would not get too hot. Great way to warm up as like you say, IR penetrates deep, They still sell something like these for food service, to keep meals warm while waiting for the waitress. The fact that it could have health benefits is fantastic!

Thanks for making my long covid journey so much more bearable. I pass along your video links to others all the time.

I wonder if red light/near infrared panels might me helpful where exposure to sunlight isn't available?

Thank you so much for your videos, your channel, and your reasonable and sound thinking. I appreciate your freely sharing your experience. I don't get much sunlight anymore due to chronic pain and the resulting depression. Is there some type of light source that can be purchased for someone in my situation? Thank you.

Drive to office after work-from-home several days feels so much better than staying at home all day without sunlight.

I always appreciate that you aren't afraid to embrace treatments that are simple and don't involve complex apparatus or strong medications (not that these things don't have their place, of course); I'm wondering if you have any thoughts--or might do a future video--on fasting/autophagy and viruses (specifically SARS-Cov2). As a layperson, I can't quite work out what the consensus is, if any... Thank you for your work!

Due to me seeing your videos about light as medicine, we bought a red light therapy pad/wrap. Last February, my husband got a non-Covid respiratory virus. He has asthma & diabetes and his lungs were bad and not improving for days. Then I asked him to use the red light therapy. He FINALLY started getting better right away!!! I’m a firm believer! Thank you, dr!

We'll sing in the sunshine, we'll laugh everyday..........

Yup. Worked well in the Colorado sanitoriums in the 1920's.

Great video! Thank you. I'm sharing this one with friends and family.

You saved this patients life simply by putting him in the sun. 🎉 Good job sir

It makes sense to me to boost intracellular D3 levels by supplementing in advance and during sunlight therapy.

Thank you for this wonderful video, your work, and your analysis.

I am wondering if that is what saved my life, I was in bad shape but had read about being exposed to sunlight early on , so as sick as I was I went outside every day and started to feel better everyday

That's a quick response. The typical course is a s you said that they isially keep going on for days with 100% high flow. Me neither, as an RT I discovered not see that on a patient. That's amazing! I had a lost of patients on chronic O2 Covid 19 patients.

Hello , I’m dr. Hamid Allami a general surgery specialist from Iraq I used this method of exposing patients with sever COVID-19 , low spo2 and on O2 therapy since the beginning of pandemic iin 2020 in my clinic in Baghdad and I saved thousands of patients..thanks a lot for you efforts to reveal the scientific base of such approach

Science and motivational sincere interest combined present the sunshine of solutions you discussed. Thank you for spelling out clearly this vital message. I noticed in the Philippines I was generally healthier than here in the USA...

Thank you Dr. Seheult for all of the research and explanatory videos! I followed your work during the COVID pandemic, and am delighted to know more about the benefits of full sunlight. THANK YOU!!! Laura Kozuch (not in the health care profession)

Amazon sells a FDA approved Vitamin D lamp by Sperti. It costs $599. I bought one for my 87 year old mom. She lives in Buffalo. This would be great for senior homes, especially during the winter.

FYI (those who haven't seen some of MedCram's videos on this topic), melatonin is produced by near-infrared exposure which could have been the case with this patient as he was mostly clothed during his sun exposure. Bare skin exposure is necessary for producing Vit D.

Dr. Seheult , this is in regard to the part where ; "DC Tylenol" in the case you presented. As a Regestered Nurse of > 30 years emergency , I had 2 patients in which I requested of the ER Physician to hold off or not give the Tylenol with their blood presure in the 110 systolic range, explaining my research of how Tylenol interferes with prostaglandin in sick patients and causes hypotension . With each patient the provider dismissed my request and asked that I give the Tylenol. After giving both patients Tylenol systolic presure dropped below 90 and consequence admitted to hospital. DR. Seheult your passion for educating and giving patients is amazing and my hope is that you will have a seperate teaching video on the effects of Tylenol on sick patients and how can make them worse. Thanks to you and your staff for the dedication and care. Michael RN 🫀

We are children of light!

If the patient is that low on vitamin D and is hospitalized with Covid they need vitamin D infusion, not a day on the sun. Taking SOUND medical advice is the key to having more days in the sun. In any case, winter in the northern hemisphere doesn’t provide enough UV-B for this to work even conceptually. If you have darkly pigmented skin and live in the northern hemisphere, you should ALWAYS supplement with vitamin D.

Vitamin D production from sunlight.

Excelente como sempre. Gratidão imensa

Well, I'm not a medical professional, but I do A LOT of health researching on Dr. Google as I'm old, retired, and have Long COVID. I'm convinced. So thank you!

Dr you are brilliant..Sunlight comes directly from the Throne of God Almighty and has immense healing power.❤.❤❤

Im a livestock specialist. You guys rely on nsaids and steroids too much. You use antibiotics too late and too generally. We save these cases with waaaay less stuff by assisting the immune system with directed antibiotcs and/or antivirals to get the immune system time to function, and yes, with lots more "light as medicine". Thank you for your work and information on these situations.

Great work Dr. I wonder how a little methylene blue would add to beneficial effects of light?

This was a great success story. I have great hope that what was learned can be further studied and applied in a wider group. It will likely be a gamechanger in patient treatment. I guess just don't let the pharmas hear about it (sorry, a little sarcasm, I know they do some positive lifechanging things as well). Thanks! Dave J

I live in England, is winter sun enough? What about a lamp?

Excellent.

This point, where you talk about sunlight by country affecting Covid-19 [ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eCSe4af9Wmk.html ] , that really hits home. I remember when you originally presented this. I've been getting out in the sun as much as possible, and when the weather is bad, I sometimes even use a heat lamp.

It’s pretty well known that UV light from the sun is dependent on latitude and time of year. What about red/near red/IR radiation? Can you get an adequate dose on a cold winter day? Or should people in northern climates set up heat lamps? Any information on solar dosage by latitude and temperature?

I have a sperti UV vitamin D lamp, a 980NM infra red panel, and a couple 860nm panels. Doc: which do you think is best for what you are talking about (besides the real thing).

Thank you so much for reporting on the health benefits of sunlight! I live in the skin capital of America and wore sunscreen daily on my Northern European heritage skin. Got lots of cancers over 25 years. When I started working nights I stopped using screens and stopped getting cancers, even though I still gots lots of sun. After retiring I still have not had another cancer in seven years and my skin looks great, without screen. We had sanitariums here in the early 1900’s with a high rate of cure because of the quality of our sunshine, imagine that. Sunshine cures, and prevents, avoiding sun make you sick. Thanks again and good luck.☀️

This is brilliant!

Thank you for this video

When I posted this fact during early cov w a link to Spanish flu regarding sunlight the post was removed. I have screenshots.

😅We used the ArtemiC Rescue and ArtemiC Support combo, and it worked well for us for both short and long covid. You can find out more by typing it in. For either covid or long covid: ArtemiC Rescue is a pump spray, 5 pumps in the morning and 5 pumps at night at least a half an hour before eating. After 2 days the bottle is finished. ArtemiC Support is a pipette, 0.5ml in the morning and 0.5ml at night at least one half hour before eating. After 30 days the bottle is finished.

Theoretically, thermogenesis depend of muscular tonus and activity. If muscular tonus are decreased,capacity of thermogenesis decrease also. One symptom of rickets is low muscular tonus.(defficiency of vitD cause rickets).

hello sir,,,,could you please make a video explaining simply (propensity score matching)

Infrared is the frequency of heat transmition, you can get infrared just as well from warm shower, so I think other sun additives including UV tending frequencies must play a role. So maybe it is better to try to have more of the body exposed to sun

Very well understood

Wear sunglasses outdoors, appears I may have started to develop glaucoma because I didn't.

Thnks4AllUdo

Please cover research on light therapy for osteoarthritis

Interesting what we rediscover. TB sanitariums always used sunshine as part of their treatments

Remember the "lawW " confining all people indoors. One has to wonder how they got away with this.

When will someone develop a truly beneficial NIR device that everyone can use? This is when I wish I were a scientist/inventor. If there is currently anything on the market you would recommend, please tell me!

Currently positive with Covid and it’s miserable. Will be sitting outside today if I can get out of bed.

Getting near a window with direct sun coming through might be an option for those who can't go outside. Near-infrared I think penetrates most windows. Why do you think cats like to curl up next to a window?

Hi Roger, whenever life gets on top of me I go to the beach. Combination of sun, water and sand will pull me out of any "funk". I know first hand of my own experience in the sun how much good it does me. My only issue is I do not have any warning from my body that I am having too much of a good thing. This is not recent for me though. I have spent my entire life getting sunlight on purpose. I suffer through the dead of winter and apart from music , have no way to "deal with the blues". For 44 years I have maximised my sun exposure and it still works. I wish I could convince others but the slip slop slap message (anti skin cancer) scares people from going out in the sun at all. I know I over do it and I hope I don't pay a price for that, but, sensible sun exposure with cold water therapy (hot on the sand, cold in the water) with UV and infrared light is the best therapy for me and encompasses your theories during Covid. The beach does it all!!!!!!

My mother told me when I was sick that I should go outside and get some sun and relayed that this is what her mother would do with her when she was young.

I’m not sure if I commented and I’m one of your prior videos but I’m a doctor Physical Therapy and I had somebody bring Covid into my house and infect me., because of my medical history and 420 use I ended up becoming a happy hypoxic. My oxygen saturations were at 80 % on room air and I was dyspneic. I could barely sit. I was weak and had no energy at all, I could not get out of bed. I used 2 watt laser therapy pads with 10 x 200mw diodes each that I had designed about 25 years previously. After a radiating all of my lung space for 30 minutes each spot the pads were placed my oxygen saturation went up to the mid to high 80s. So then I was going to go to the hospital and decided maybe I should try it again and see what happens because they don’t ha infrared therapy devices and won’t use this stuff, rather they’re gonna stick a tube straight down my throat. After the second lasering session, my oxygen saturation went up into the 90s around 92 to 94% on room air and I was no longer dyspneic and I could walk 14 feet from my bed out and back with just some shortness of breath. So getting people into the sunlight is a very weak way of getting exposure to the lung space for infrared light. In fact, using a direct source of infrared, red light would be way more intense and way more effective and that’s coming from the person who research laser therapy over 25 years ago. I have extensive experience with LED, low level, laser, therapy, cold laser, LLLT, LILT and whatever you wanna call it. I’ve used it to do all kinds of stuff in healthcare and amazing things with reversing pathology doctors can’t with drugs which is exactly what the light therapy does to the epithelial cells lining the lungs. There is a case study on the use of infrared light, and an explains the pathophysiology of the disease as well as light therapy and how it impacts that disease process flipping the switch. When I treat chronic wounds, I can arrest an infection in one visit. So light therapy should be the go to gold standard for treatment and maybe you need to get a bunch of people together and do a research study in your profession. I practice 10-20 years ahead of the research curve. While often edified with new info, it is not unlikely for me to see positive outcomes with techniques I figured out clinically when I was a kid. So please research out infrared light for Covid using laser therapy with direct stimulation of the lung spaces for 30 minutes because time matters, so does dosage, so does pulse frequency and everything else. So the pulse frequencies that you would want to use are between one and 20. Continuous is OK, but does not work as well to manipulate the physiology of the human cell. You definitely need LED class 3B diodes of 100mw or better. Also arginine, lysine, CoQ10 and others enhance outcomes as well as increasing the penetration to more than 20% with reducing the skins impedance with PEMF (Tesla’s healing energy) electrical stimulation and magnet therapy. Also PEMF may yield awesome results too. Just never tried it at the time to know. And FYI anecdotal info is what got light therapy approved for use in Europe and Russia (leaders in light therapy with a society as large as the medical administration) and research that got stuff approved for use in the US was based off of a smoking cessation study stimulating acupuncture points with a 5mw laser pointer…

Where can I buy lights of the right kind so that I can have them available ahead of time for covid? We are in a heavily overcast area and we have long winters. While there may be sunny days, you have to wear winter clothes and such so you won't get much sun light. I wish they sold that light jacket or vest you talked about a while back.

Sun light ... without sun screen ... stimulates the layer under the epidermis which is where Nitric Oxide is produced. (See Trust Me I'm Your Doctor BBC ... 5 or 6 years ago). Nitric Oxide opens up the cardiovascular system and activates the parasympathetic nervous system. I worked with many long-haul folks. 1. They were all chronically dehydrated. 2. They were overly busy people who were always on the go and very sympathetic nervous system types.

If we use polarization technique then sunlight can irradicate all infectious disease plus it can help elvate the soul Too

What about a sun lamp for patients that can’t move outside or countries in northern Europe and Scandinavia that don’t get much sunshine in the winter ?

Why do you expect to see elevated D-dimer levels in a patient with this condition? Is it just due to inflammatory conditions in general, or is it due to actual blood clotting caused specifically by the respiratory illness?

even if sunlight doesn't work, there's no harm or cost, so it's worth a shot

As soon as I heard of D3 and COVID and the lockdowns in Care houses I said: take all these patients to the beach naked, in the sun. Who knows I for once had a good idea...

Older windows let the Infer red light in. New windows do not.

I have a question if a person was hospitalized from COVID... And got treatment...did they gave them COVID vaccine or no...? In other words people that got COVID what medicine did they got ...and the person never took a COVID vaccine...

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Makes me wonder more now about Covid being a weapon. Who needs to be outside longer and if this group doesn’t have adequate sun exposure, bad health conditions occur.

Thank you very much! i would get sunshine daily from now on. I wonder if all the people living in blue zone or those over 100 all had higher vitamin d and other good chemicals produced from greater sun exposure ? many medical advices, like harvard website urged readers to avoid sunlight at 10am to 2pm to avoid sunburns and then after 2 paragraphs it said many Americans are not getting enough vitamin D !

The sun is just so good! Reliefs you from stress, sterilises, helps sleep, lifts your mood! The good Lord knew we need sun!! Best of all it’s freeeee!?❤

Do we have to have skin exposed to the sun for this to work?

May be , if oxigen mix are warmed at body temperature (or less) to avoid to decrease lung temperature , blood flow at lung capillary improve ?

Thank you for your content it is very informative. I have a question . Is red light benefit from LED projector say wavelength of 532nm? Or

What I want to know is, in the geography / BMI map at the 21:26 mark, why does Alaska's profile match the mainland United States rather than Canada?

Maybe we need to install a halogen bulb in rooms we spend a lot of time? Not sunlight, but has a good amount of infra-red.

If you live in a cold area, maybe a portable heater, or a jacket or vest that uses heat by batteries could help to allow outside time?

That’s crazy like when Trump said this three years ago and everyone thought he was crazy....... crazy

The sun is the most powerful source of energy we an access

Wow 😮 Big GRACIAS for this video 👏👏 How about barefoot while taking the sun??? It has benefited me greatly and I only have been doing it for a few months 5 minutes! Just 5 minutes! on a daily basis . You are right! The use of Sunshine is Not new. In Colombia, my birthland, a 3rd world country, has been using sunlight all along and for covid patients as well. Thank you again for this video God bless you all 🙏❤👏👏👏

I am convinced this is why many elderly are sick. They stay inside too much.

Would it be worth bringing sunlight into every patient's room? Windows, LEDs, fiber optics, etc?

I live somewhere where the sky is often cloudy during the winter. Something I've not been able to figure out on my own, is there a benefit to getting outside even on a cloudy day?

What if you live where there’s no sun?