This is especially important for those of us who cannot tolerate melatonin supplementation. The entire video is worth watching but if you have limited time see minute 3 to minute 10:
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Also: Vitamin D Reduces Autoimmune Diseases: New Research
You can use 2,000 Watts of halogen lights to get a lot of infrared with less heat than a heat lamp, or carefully set up mirrors outside in the winter to get 3x the sun (I've gotten a deep tan in the winter). The red dye in the water below the yellow halogen work lights is pyrex glass pans is to reduce the blue and green light that hits your body to try to reduce how hot it gets. Notice the two mirrors leaning against the chairs. It's interesting he mentions it releases melatonin. I always wondered why the lights made me sleepy.
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Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. Have you noticed any other changes as result of using your LED helmet in addition to needing less sleep?
The helmet just kind of feels good. Someone claimed it helped hair regrow. I don't have PD. I was wondering for years why I seemed to have several of the symptoms and they finally went away (although still can't sleep good and lost my smell decades ago). When I said it makes me sleepy, I was referring to 15 years ago. The effect is much less so now which could indicate my melatonin receptors are dead so PD could still be in my future. Since I'm bald and white and have studied it a lot, I know my cortex (not the area affected by PD) benefits form it even though I don't notice anything. My problem seemed to be splenda (sucralose) in coffee every morning killing gut bacteria that reduced biological availability of iron which resulted in constant state of low oxygen (that was my best guess anyway) confirmed by pulse oximeter which you recommended (it stayed low until a few months after I stopped the splenda). My sister suggest gut bacteria because she's interested in every flakey thing under the sun but I thought about it and remembered when I inspected the sucralose plant in McIntosh AL that when my contact and I walked past the cafeteria, he pointed out the huge pitcher of tea on the counter than everyone used and he joked (or bragged) they never have to put it in the refrigerator because the sucralose kills anything that tries to grow in it. All the "un-educated" (no chemistry) people yelling for decades "it's a derivative of chlorine!" (so is salt) actually had a point.
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting support of vitamin D supplementation.
I watched the first video when it first came out and added a comment below the video describing how oral melatonin is already proven to very significantly and rapidly improve Covid-19 symptoms, reduce death and prevent ARDS and I included the study links to prove it and my comment was deleted!
I told Dr. Seheult about melatonin use for Covid-19 at the same time as I started posting the same on this forum in April/May of 2020 and he said he believed me but where were the Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) to support that melatonin was effective for Covid-19. He ignored Dr. Neel's results in his patients at the time and barely ever mentioned melatonin and when he did, it was for the purpose of possibly improving sleep in his Covid-19 patients. In May 2020, there were zero RCTs to show that any drug or supplement was effective for Covid-19 that he was treating his patients with. Everything was based on what was known about Covid-19s effects in the body and speculation about what drugs might be useful. Even then, existing studies were starting to show that melatonin had many methods of action that should counter many of the deficits that Covid-19 was causing in patients and melatonin had already shown the ability to prevent ARDS.
There are now RCTs for melatonin showing that when low dose melatonin is used in conjunction with standard of care in Covid-19 patients, the combination is superior to standard of care alone and it saves lives, essentially what Dr. Neel was showing in his Covid patients in early 2020. Instead of him pointing out that oral melatonin is showing benefit in patients, he suggests that getting melatonin from the sun may be beneficial for Covid-19 patients. To that I say, there are now RCTs clearly showing the effectiveness of melatonin in Covid-19 patients and he is choosing to ignore them and instead chooses to use his platform to discuss something that has no specific RCT to support its use as adjunctive treatment for Covid-19! He asked for the RCTs as proof, but now that they are here, he ignores them??? There are already enough RCTs for melatonin for Covid-19, that they have done a meta analysis of the RCTs! I guess I should have asked Dr. Seheult how many RCTs he required before he would be able to acknowledge and share, that simple over the counter melatonin is very effective against Covid-19 even at lower dose! On the other hand, Dr. Neel's high dose regimen is even more effective! None of this seems to matter to Dr. Seheult as he continues to promote the "definite maybes" such as NAC and exposing patients to the sun, but where are those RCTs???
With the deletion of my recent comment on his video as well as him ignoring Dr. Neel's successes using melatonin in hundreds of his Covid-19 patients in early 2020 to now with over 2000 patients he has treated and his promotion of NAC and the sun as potential treatments for Covid-19 patients, without any backing RCTs as he himself said were needed before he could consider them, I have lost very significant respect for Dr. Seheult. I actually believe him, but where are the specific RCTs showing that they work? This is his standard, not mine, but apparently only when practical.
The one RCT for NAC in Covid-19 patients reached the following conclusion :
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/a...
>>> ' Conclusions: Administration of NAC in high doses did not affect the evolution of severe COVID-19. ' <<<
Compare that to this melatonin study(RCT) in severe Covid-19 patients :
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/a...
Here are two relevant quotes from the study:
>>> ' The results of this study demonstrated that oral melatonin, when added to standard of care, was more effective than standard of care alone in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19. Improved thrombosis, sepsis, and mortality rates support the adjuvant of melatonin's efficacy in mitigating this infectious disease. Given melatonin's superior performance as a cheap, highly safe, and readily available medication, it is strongly recommended that this be addressed in future studies. ' <<<
>>> ' As previously demonstrated, thrombosis and sepsis are associated with a higher mortality rate and were improved by melatonin administration. As a result, it is entirely reasonable that melatonin resulted in a lower mortality rate in COVID-19 patients. This implied that the effect of melatonin was quantified directly in this study, which found that 17.1% of in-hospital patients in the control group died compared with 1.2% of patients in the melatonin group (P < 0.001). ' <<<
As regards the use of sun exposure as a treatment for Covid-19 in an RCT, there are none. The study he has referenced was done by Dr. Reiter in 2019, prior to the existence of Covid-19!
Art
Thanks for your comment and study links!
Very impressive results for that melatonin study.
park_bear,
To be clear, I agree with your point about people who do not tolerate oral melatonin and I do agree with his point about getting melatonin from sun exposure, I do not agree with him using RCTs as the deciding factor only when it fits his agenda and I also disagree with him deleting my comments on the video, essentially hiding those very important studies I had linked to showing the efficacy of supplemental melatonin from his many viewers. What was his purpose for doing that as it tended to confirm what he was saying about melatonin in Covid patients and gave a clearer evaluation of the true value of melatonin in people with Covid-19? I also disagree with the fact that he is still ignoring the value of oral melatonin , when he should actually be discussing that point with his audience, which he has not yet done. It is the most inexpensive , safest, fast acting, readily available treatment for Covid-19 based on current studies and Dr. Neel's patient history in over 2000 Covid-19 patients. That is a discussion that he has been avoiding for way too long!
Art
Sadly that appears to be typical of MDs. It is disappointing he is no better than the rest in that regard.
In the comments to one of my posts on another site, an M.D. objected to my post not on the merits - the facts cited or the analysis - but because I was not a recognized authority. That was the end of the discussion as far as he was concerned. I do not have a link handy but that apparently is the way they are trained.
The worst case I have experienced is an M.D. recommending increasing uric acid levels. It has now been shown to make Parkinson's worse and to cause other serious illness. To date all my complaints have been ignored. I am not going to link to it but my report on that disaster is here:
healthunlocked.com/cure-par...
What was the reason he was suggesting raising your UA level?
I get that UA is a highly potent antioxidant, but it is clearly a case of more is not better!
Art
PB- new book called Drop Acid coming out. It’s based on the uric acid research of Dr. Richard Johnson. But recently I have run in to a couple papers saying that reduced uric acid is associated with PD. Leaves me confused. I will delve in to your post on it now. As always, I’m grateful for your research.
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