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med.com welcome to another medc co9
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update and Co is on the upswing here you
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can see waste water levels across the
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United States and we are at one of the
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Peaks here that would equal any one of
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these other ones Wastewater is more
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accurate because it doesn't depend on
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the amount of testing that you're doing
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because you're looking at a sample in
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real time against some known historical
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values in terms of the United States you
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can see that the states in red are where
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it is the
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highest I will say however though that
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hospitalizations are definitely down
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compared to where they used to be when
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we were dealing with these Peaks and so
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that's good news although I am starting
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to see some people being hospitalized
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once again with SARS K2 Even in our
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intensive care units and it really
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brings up the question about longevity
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longevity is this thing that we're all
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seeking we want to live long and we want
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to live healthy but you know the enemy
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of longevity is chronic disease and the
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types of diseases that I'm talking about
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are things like heart disease diabetes
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obesity dementia inflammation in general
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long covid cancer these are the types of
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things that can sink your ability to
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have a long and fruitful life and it's
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interesting because these are the risk
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factors that put people with covid into
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the hospital and make these people
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sicker people with heart disease
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diabetes obesity they're going to have a
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harder time with SARS K2 I find it
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really interesting that chronic disease
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is actually hurting us in terms of the
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population in more than one way all of
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these diseases have something in common
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they are all emblematic of mitochondrial
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dysfunction the PowerHouse of the
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cell inside of most of your cells
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there's these little organel called
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mitochondria and they burn fuel in the
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form of glucose fats proteins to make
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energy and carbon dioxide and just like
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an engine in your car which makes
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Locomotion and needs a good cooling
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system otherwise the engine will become
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inefficient and shut down the
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mitochondria also makes heat in the form
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of something called oxidative stress now
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if that oxidative stress is out of
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control it's going to make your
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mitochondria less efficient and it's
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going to make less energy and it's going
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to cause problems and diseases and it's
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those diseases that cause mitochondrial
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dysfunction but scientists are finding
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out that melatonin is a substance that
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is made on site it's sort of like a
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cooling system and that the higher the
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levels of melatonin the less oxidative
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stress that you have in fact melatonin
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is a cooling system that allows your
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mitochondria to work more efficiently
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those of you that have been following us
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here on MC know that there's been
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exciting research that shows that there
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may be a way to actually improve
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melatonin in your cells that melatonin
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is what it's something that doesn't
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require a supply chain it's something
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that's free you just have to go outside
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and get it and I think this is really
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important especially when we talk about
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pandemics because Supply chains can be
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hurt by pandemics that's right it's Sun
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but not just any portion of the sun
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specifically red light and near infrared
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light is now being shown scientifically
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to have an effect on the mitochondria
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that it tends to produce melatonin which
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is the most powerful antioxidant
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actually in the human body it's even
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more powerful than glutathione here's an
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excerpt from a paper by Russell Ryder
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and Scott Zimmerman that was published
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in 2019 ironically one year before the
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pandemic they say here it has now been
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shown that the mitochondria produce
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melatonin in many cells in quantities
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which are orders of magnitude higher
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than it's produced in the pineal gland
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this subcellular melatonin does not
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necessarily fluctuate with our circadian
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clock or release into the circulation
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system but instead has been proposed to
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be consumed locally in response to the
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free radical density within each cell in
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particular in response to near infrared
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light exposure now this is important to
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understand because infrared light is
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something that you can't see it's beyond
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the spectrum of red just like
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ultraviolet is on the other end the high
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frequency end Beyond purple so think of
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this as a keyboard there are certain
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frequencies that you can't hear above
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the highest point and Below which the
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lowest point well this is the same sort
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of thing with infrared light we need to
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have this light be able to penetrate how
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is this going to happen the type of area
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that we're talking about is this area
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down here in the red to infrared light
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and this can penetrate solid objects
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better than this other typee of light up
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here if it doesn't it's not going to get
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to that mitochondria let me show you
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again here what I'm talking about this
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is a photograph given to me by Robert
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Fosbury who's an astrophysicist at the
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European Space Agency he's got a near
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infrared light source behind his hand
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and a near infrared filter in front of
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his hand actually photographing this as
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you can see these photons of light can
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actually literally pass right through
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the entire hand and you may notice
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something here there's something missing
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that you would expect to see here what
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you're missing is bone this type of
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light can actually penetrate through
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bone it's kind of like when you pull up
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to a stop sign and there's another car
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there and it's playing it's really loud
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music what you're hearing mostly is the
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low frequency sounds and that's exactly
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what infrared and red light is in the
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visual Spectrum in this case is that
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it's very low frequency light and it's
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able to penetrate through solid objects
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it can penetrate deep into your body and
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stimulate the mitochondria to make
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melatonin this is what they are actually
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finding out the other thing that's
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really interesting about this as well is
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that infrared light happens to be
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something that is reflected highly in
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grass and leaves of trees this is an
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infrared filter once again from Bob
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Fosbury showing a lot of reflectivity
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here in terms of the trees the grass
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notice that the water is very dark and
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that's going to become important because
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water seems to be the great absorber of
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infrared light so let's review again we
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got near infrared light that's coming in
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and it's penetrating through the skin
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and it's scattering going to the
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mitochondria and there it's making it
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more efficient it's cooling the engine
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down making it more efficient less
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likely to seize so we get less oxidative
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stress we get more output from the
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engine that means more ATP that's the
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energy that comes out of the
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mitochondria there's more metabolism
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occurring so higher production of carbon
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dioxide and because it's using fuel
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you're going to get lower blood glucose
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is there actually evidence for this this
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is from Glen Jeff's lab where they took
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30 students and they exposed them to 75
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G of glucose in a randomized control
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trial without them knowing on their back
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they exposed them to Red Light from 15
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minutes versus placebo just on their
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back about a 2T X 2T section and they
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found that there was a 27% reduction of
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glucose in the blood and they said wow
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what's causing this and they checked on
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those subjects for exhaled carbon
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dioxide and it was higher in in these
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subjects that had lower glucose if the
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mitochondria seems to be the place where
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this is happening the tissue in the body
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with the highest amount of mitochondria
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is the retina and that makes sense
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because there's a lot of Transportation
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there of signals going on in the retina
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it's highly metabolically active this
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goes along with the mitochondrial Theory
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of Aging which is that after about 40
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years there's about a 70% decline in ATP
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production leading to visual problems in
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the elderly well they did an experiment
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where they took elderly people and they
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exposed them in the morning to red light
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for about 3 minutes and that was enough
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to rejuvenate the mitochondria so that
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for a week there was a 177% Improvement
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in visual Acuity again this was
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published out of Glen Jeff's lab and it
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was in a randomized control trial what
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about some other data this is a great
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study that was done at Oxford where they
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took people to give blood tests and in
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the previous s days of drawing that
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blood they found that every single hour
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of increased Sun not temperature but
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sunlight led to improve insulin
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sensitivity and decreased triglycerides
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this wasn't like sun led to more
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exercise outside and that's what did it
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because it was not based on temperature
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and the things that get you outside is
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not just Sun but also temperature if you
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want to get even bigger than that this
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is a study that was done in Sweden
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published at the kolinska University
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Hospital 30,000 people 20-year followup
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massive study published in March of 2016
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and they divided these people here into
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three groups those that avoided the
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those that had moderate sun and that had
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most active sun exposure and you can see
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here that cardiovascular disease went
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down as sun exposure went up cancer
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death rates went down and other
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non-cardiovascular death went down in
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other words there was a dose response
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curve now this study was repeated again
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in the UK with 10 times the number of
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people and they found exactly the same
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results 300,000 people followup showed
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that as well so it should make sense
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that if you're getting outside and
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you're getting near infrared light that
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getting out into green spaces should do
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that because we just explained that
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green spaces reflect infrared light and
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they found this exactly the same thing
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this is the University of East Anglia in
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the UK metaanalysis of over 140 studies
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showing that the benefits of The Great
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Outdoors was that for diabetes there was
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a 28% reduction in incidents
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cardiovascular mortality dropped by 16%
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overall mortality decreased as well and
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they said in the paper we found that
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spending time in or living close to
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Natural green spaces is associated with
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diverse and significant health benefits
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it reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes
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cardiovascular disease premature death
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and pre-term birth and increases sleep
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duration people living Closer To Nature
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also had reduced diastolic blood
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pressure heart rate and stress in fact
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one of the really interesting things we
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found is that exposure to Green Space
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significantly reduces people's levels of
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salivary cortisol a physiological marker
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of stress the data seems to be
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overwhelming such to the point that even
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the dermatologists in August of 2024 in
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the Journal of investigative Dermatology
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are saying maybe it's time for a rethink
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that a number of societies have made
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statements recognizing that sunlight has
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beneficial effects that should be
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considered in formulating policy on
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sunlight exposure and highlighting the
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necessity of carrying out further
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research in these beneficial effects we
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should take note and I tell you I did
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take note and you're probably asking why
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is a pulmonologist just interested in
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sunlight exposure and it's because of
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what happened 3 to 4 years ago when the
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pandemic started I just did not know
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what it was that we needed to do with
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these patients so I started to study I
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started to learn started to realize that
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in fact the SARS K2 virus hit something
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called the ace2 receptor well we know
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it's a receptor but many people don't
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understand that the ace2 receptor is
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also an enzyme that is responsible for
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balancing oxidative stress in the
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mitochondria it's balancing is this in
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other words if you knock out the A2
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receptor by binding it to a SARS K2
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viral particle it's not going to be able
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to do its work and this is the same as
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heating up the engine or having your
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engine going up a hill so this is what
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happens SARS K2 comes in binds to ace2
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and you get a knock out of ace2 and so
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now you're climbing up this hill with
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this engine perhaps that's not cooling
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very well and it's going to be a
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workload to go up this hill that's
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called covid-19 well what are the things
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that can cause problems as you go up is
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when your engine is not being cooled
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that can cause steam to come out of your
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car for it to overheat and guess what
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are the diseases that we saw that were
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associated with covid-19 mortality heart
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disease diabetes obesity dementia
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inflammation cancer exactly the same
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diseases that have as its roots
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mitochondrial dysfunction one of the
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things that we saw early on and we even
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did a video on this got a lot of views
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that people with vitamin D levels that
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were high had good survival people with
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vitamin D levels that were low had low
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survival and we started to say well
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maybe it's the vitamin D we need to give
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vitamin D now look I believe in
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supplementing with vitamin D I do it
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myself I do believe that there are
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actual benefits from vitamin D and
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there's been papers that have actually
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shown this to be the case the problem is
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we're not seeing the same magnitude of
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benefits that we were seeing in terms of
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these retrospective data so we would do
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randomized control trials and we would
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show there might have been a modest
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Improvement in survival and so what I
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started to understand and started to
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hypothesize is that vitamin D is not the
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thing that's doing the heavy lifting in
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covid-19 but rather vitamin D is a
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marker for sunlight exposure that
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something else in the sun other than the
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ultraviolet B radiation making vitamin D
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is doing the heavy
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lifting so in comes this paper that was
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published in January of 2021 and it
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looked at the surge dates of covid-19 in
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the Autumn of 2020 and interestingly it
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started in Finland and it marched right
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down the continent by latitude until it
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ended up in Greece it had nothing to do
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with temperature it had nothing to do
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with humidity so these were not
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correlated it was latitude strictly
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another study that was done out of the
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University of Edinburgh this time
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looking at the United States they found
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that as you went from north to south in
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terms of latitude mortality went down
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repeated the study in England found
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exactly the same relationship repeated
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the study in Italy found exactly the
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same relationship causing them to say it
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suggests that optimizing sun exposure
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may be a possible Public Health
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intervention given that the effects
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appears independent of a vitamin D
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pathway it suggests possible new
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covid-19 therapies I also had the
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privilege of teaming up with Margaret
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scutch who has her doctorate in
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geography and we looked at the data
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across the world and we found that in
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countries where 50% of the population is
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overweight we also found a connection to
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latitude and we published that paper
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it's not just covid it's actually also
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influenza and I would suggest it's just
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about every single infectious disease
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and probably more even at the Harvard
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Kennedy School when they looked at
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influenza and they combined it with
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solar radiation data from the national
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solar radiation database and looked at
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influenza from the CDC they came to the
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same conclusion they said that we find
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that sunlight strongly protects against
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getting influenza in fact a 10% increase
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in relative sunlight decreases the
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influenza index in September or October
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by 1.1 points on a 10-point scale so
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clearly what we're looking at here is
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that sunlight is beneficial so why not
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use it in covid-19 there's a study that
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did that too in Brazil what they did was
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they looked at the specific component of
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sunlight which we believe should be
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working in the mitochondria that is
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infrared light and they took 30
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inpatients that were not sick enough to
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be in the ICU but sick enough to be
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admitted to the hospital between the
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ages of 50 to 80 they did did a
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intervention over 7 days where they
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randomized them and blinded them to
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getting 940 nanom of light that's the
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infrared Spectrum for just 15 minutes a
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day and then both groups got
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conventional therapy so what did they
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find in the group that got 940 nanom of
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infrared light for just 15 minutes a day
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what happened oxygen saturation
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Improvement went up by 99.4% in the
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intervention group versus the control
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group that was a value that was
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statistically significant there was more
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title volume the inspiratory pressure
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the expiratory pressure the respiratory
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rate the heart rate all of these were
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superior to the control group even the
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amount of white blood cells that were
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there to fight the virus actually went
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up in the near infrared group and
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actually went down in the control group
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and here's the big kicker folks these
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patients that got near infrared in a
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randomized placebo controlled fashion
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were discharged from the hospital a full
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4 day
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earlier than their counterparts here in
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the control group this was the P Del
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resistance for me and unfortunately by
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this point many patients who had come
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into the hospital were no longer coming
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in we had had the big wave and now
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things were declining in terms of
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hospitalization but I vowed that if a
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patient ever again came back into the
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hospital that I could do this type of
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treatment on I would do it but this type
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of jacket Was Made for This research
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study this is not something that you can
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go out and buy and use in a hospital and
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so just about about 6 months ago I had a
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patient that came into the hospital with
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covid-19 that he had gotten a number of
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days before but he kept getting worse on
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the day of admission to the hospital he
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required 4 lers of nasal canula that's
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something that looks like this that just
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fits under the nose and he was in the
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hospital for two days during those two
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days I wasn't called to see him because
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I was in the Intensive Care Unit and
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they only call me when patients need to
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be intubated or need Advanced Airways or
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things of that nature and during that
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time was getting all of the solid
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treatments solumedrol aiyin they even
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took my advice not to use Tylenol to
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suppress the fever but despite that his
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oxygen requirements went up to 10 L
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oxymizer finally on the day that I saw
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him which was right here I went into his
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room it was dark it was depressing he
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asked me how long he had to live we
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needed to do something differently so
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what I did was I got together with our
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respiratory therapist our charge nurse
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and we decided that we were going to get
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this guy out outside somehow because on
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the day that I saw him he was on 35 L of
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100% F2 which is a huge amount of oxygen
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despite that our respiratory therapist
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was able to put two tanks of oxygen
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together so that we could get enough
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oxygen not through just a high flow but
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also through a mask that he would wear
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at the same time to get him into a
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wheelchair and to get him outside and
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that was full light for 20 to 30 minutes
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look if 50 minutes was good for the LED
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940 NM I was going to certainly make
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sure that this gentleman was going to
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get enough light and we were going to do
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that on a daily basis this doesn't prove
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that this works this is simply showing a
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proof of concept that the data that
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seems to reflect that people improve
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with near infrared light on a number of
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scales not just on the individual but
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also on the population level it can be
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done in patients who are suffering from
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covid-19 in the hospital the very next
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day he went from 35 L of 100% oxygen
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down to just 15 l oxymizer after that he
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went down to 10 L oxymizer notice that
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the amount of time it took for him to
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Peak was about the same amount of time
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it was for him to come down he was
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decelerating in his illness quickly and
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getting better then down to 6 lers nasal
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canula four and then finally he was off
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his oxygen I've seen many patients in
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the Intensive Care Unit who have been on
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oxygen and I'll tell you this patient in
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my mind seems to stand out as one that
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was getting off their oxygen the fastest
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Again full light 20 to 30 minutes each
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day just once a day here's an actual
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photograph of what happened this was the
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first day that he went out there I got
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permission to take his picture this is
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his daughter here this is our
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respiratory therapist this is our charge
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nurse amazing and we could see this
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really amazing stuff and so I thought in
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my mind that I've just discovered a
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brand new treatment for covid-19
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sunlight seems to help so much but then
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I was reminded of what people back in
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the 1800s had said there's certainly one
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thing that you cannot criticize the
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people in the 1800s who were healthc
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care providers especially and that was
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their sense of observation that was
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something that they had a keen sense
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about especially people like Florence
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Nightingale who despite the fact that
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she had two parents that were very well
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off she decided to take the Hard Road
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and to live a life of service to her
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fellow countrymen people who were dying
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and injured in the Crimean War and this
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is what she says in terms of what her
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observations were she says of all the
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remedies I have used or seen in use I
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can find but one thing that I can call
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remedial for the whole disease and that
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is a profuse supply of fresh air second
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only to Fresh Air however I should be
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inclined to rank light in importance for
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the sick direct sunlight not only
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daylight is necessary for a speedy
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recovery another notable Health reformer
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about 20 years later said the feeble one
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should press out into the sunshine as
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earnestly and naturally as do the Shaded
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plants and Vines the pale and sickly
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grain blade that is struggled up out of
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the cold of early spring puts out the
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natural and healthy deep green after
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enjoying for a few days the health and
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life-giving Rays of the sun go out into
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the light and warmth of the Glorious Sun
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you pale and sickly ones and cheer with
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vegetation its life-giving Health
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dealing power many of you have heard me
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talk about this many times but I think
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it was worthwhile today to sit down and
00:20:52
review quickly the data and why it is
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that we decide to do this we are living
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in a Time right now where covid-19 is
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surging but I believe we have the
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knowledge and we have the tools to do
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something about it and what should we do
00:21:07
about it there are a number of things
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first of all at the individual level
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these are things that we can take to
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heart I would highly recommend that we
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all each of us get outside 20 minutes
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more than we would normally be expecting
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to do so I think it's going to have a
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tremendous benefit on our health and I
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think we should do it in the morning if
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it's possible because it's been shown to
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have very beneficial circadian cognitive
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and mood stabilizing qualities number
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two our employers people that employ
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people if you want to have the best
00:21:39
productivity and the best health the
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least sick time then you should know
00:21:43
that your employees need a lot of
00:21:45
natural light breaks outside breaks
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often if they can making sure that
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people are not tied up in their offices
00:21:52
because while there may be a short-term
00:21:54
benefit to production in the long term
00:21:56
there's going to be more turnover and
00:21:58
that's going to cost the company what
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about Healthcare maintenance
00:22:01
organizations if they truly understood
00:22:04
and grasp this remember that Healthcare
00:22:06
maintenance organizations hmos Managed
00:22:08
Care Medicare Advantage all of these are
00:22:10
institutions where they are basically
00:22:13
paying healthare providers a flat rate
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and it's up to the healthc care
00:22:17
institution to make sure that those
00:22:19
dollars are stretched that preventative
00:22:22
medicine is number one and imagine what
00:22:24
we could do to chronic disease in this
00:22:26
country if we just started an approach
00:22:28
just one approach out of many that could
00:22:31
also be done where we start to say we
00:22:33
need to get more natural light we need
00:22:35
to get outside more that's especially
00:22:38
important in a time and space where we
00:22:40
are now increasingly under the lamp of
00:22:43
LED lights which have no infrared light
00:22:45
coming out of them and also inside
00:22:47
buildings that have windows that are
00:22:49
specifically designed to block infrared
00:22:52
light hospitals hospitals used to be
00:22:55
designed over a 100 years ago with the
00:22:57
patient in mind in terms of getting
00:22:59
better in terms of healing making sure
00:23:02
that those patients had large Windows
00:23:04
making sure that those patients had
00:23:05
access to Fresh Air now hospitals are
00:23:08
designed for economy and for delivering
00:23:11
the current standard of health care for
00:23:13
the cheapest amount of dollars because
00:23:15
of the financial structure which
00:23:17
actually incentivizes getting better
00:23:20
quickly and spending the least amount of
00:23:22
money possible on patients I think there
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are a number of Health Care Systems that
00:23:26
if they truly understand the powerful
00:23:29
benefits of sunlight and natural light
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on the health of their clients they
00:23:33
would start to look at architecture and
00:23:36
policies that get patients outside I am
00:23:38
pursuing that in terms of getting
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patients outside into the sunlight the
00:23:42
lighting industry we've just talked
00:23:44
about that if the lighting industry knew
00:23:46
that perhaps there could be some
00:23:49
downsides to producing only light in the
00:23:51
visible spectrum and no light outside of
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that visible spectrum I think that they
00:23:56
might decide that there is is a market
00:23:59
for that such type of light and again
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number six if governments understood
00:24:03
this and we told our governments that we
00:24:05
were interested in that that might be
00:24:07
something that would carry a little bit
00:24:09
more weight as it is in this country in
00:24:11
the United States where I am we have
00:24:13
bans on selling incandescent light bulbs
00:24:16
now we see all these LED lights and
00:24:18
we're wondering now whether or not there
00:24:21
is good scientific data to show that
00:24:24
these lights may not be the best for our
00:24:26
health and I think there's more data
00:24:27
very short that's going to be coming out
00:24:29
on that topic there is a CO surge
00:24:33
occurring but let's look at the bright
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side literally it's happening in the
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months of the year where we have the
00:24:38
most amount of sunlight instead of
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hiding inside as a recluse away from the
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sun we should make a point of getting
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outside for at least 15 to 20 minutes a
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