#063 Dr. Roger Seheult from MedCram on COVID-19 Vaccines, Vitamin D, and Heat Hydrotherapy
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In this episode, we discuss:
- (00:00) Introduction
- (06:20) How MedCram Videos got started
- (09:37) Using evidence to make COVID-19 treatment decisions
- (12:46) The differences in treating early vs late-stage COVID-19
- (14:40) How doctors would've treated COVID-19 one-hundred years ago
- (18:13) Increasing ventilation reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission
- (20:28) Masks are virtually universally beneficial regardless of type
- (21:32) Vitamin D and COVID-19
- (22:22) Steroid chemical structure of vitamin D
- (23:24) The vitamin D RDA is likely too low
- (24:23) Vitamin D is more like a hormone than vitamin
- (26:21) The overlap between COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency
- (30:27) How Mendelian randomization studies helped solve the vitamin D puzzle
- (34:20) The gene regulatory effects of vitamin D
- (35:49) Vitamin D and the ACE2/renin-angiontensin system
- (42:00) Daily doses of vitamin D are more effective
- (43:23) A prescription-only form of vitamin D (calcifediol) may be best for COVID-19
- (47:06) Skin synthesis of vitamin D from sunlight can be unreliable
- (53:43) The safest dose range for vitamin D
- (01:06:15) The beneficial circadian effect of early morning sunlight
- (01:07:38) Sleep deprivation impairs vital immunity
- (01:12:08) Dr. Seheult's suggestions for the best sleep
- (01:19:18) A Spanish flu era treatment boosts interferon by ten times
- (01:22:38) Why interferon is so important for the viral response
- (01:26:43) Treating the symptoms of fever during the Spanish flu harmed patients
- (01:31:58) Dr. Seheult's ongoing research of hot hydrotherapy
- (01:47:00) COVID-19 Vaccines
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