Dr Roger Seheult Part 1, M.D. | LIGHT AS MEDICINE - CIRCADIAN RHYTHM, SLEEP AND METABOLIC FUNCTION

Dr. Seheult is currently an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine, and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine and Allied Health at Loma Linda University. Dr. Roger is quadruple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine. Roger currently has a practice in California where he is a critical care physician, pulmonologist, and sleep physician. He lectures across the country, is the director of a sleep lab, and is the Medical Director for a Respiratory Care Program. In 2012 he co founded MedCram, a medical education company with videos that support medical learning (and over 1.5 million YouTube Subscribers). His passion is "demystifying" medical concepts. In Part 1 of this episode, Roger talks us through the light spectrum of UV to infra-red and the importance of exposure to types of light at certain times of the day to regulate our circadian rhythm. The tricky thing is, most of us suffer from some form of circadian rhythm dysfunction due to the technology-driven modern day we live in. As a result, the cues our body takes from the external environment can become out of sync with our internal environment, causing a tremendous imbalance in many of our basic functions - the processes that aid good quality sleep, metabolic function, and almost anything else down stream of these (almost everything!). We also discuss the impacts of light on hypersomnia, sleep inertia, hunger and satiety cues, the best times of day to eat, insulin sensitivity, infra red light and oxidative stress. Tune in next week for Part 2 where we discuss more on the emerging research around red light, infra-red light, the impact of sunlight on Covid-19 surges, long covid, and some tools that may not only support in recovery from long covid, but could possibly speed up the rate at which you recover from other illnesses in the future too. Find Dr Roger's work: MedCram - https://www.medcram.com/ @medcram --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Studies mentioned in this Part 1 and 2: Autumn COVID‑19 surge dates in Europe correlated to latitudes, not to temperature‑humidity, pointing to vitamin D as contributing factor - https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... Ultraviolet A radiation and COVID-19 deaths in the USA with replication studies in England and Italy - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/e... A geographical approach to the development of hypotheses relating to Covid-19 death rates - https://www.melatonin-research.net/in... Cardiopulmonary and hematological effects of infrared LED photobiomodulation in the treatment of SARS-COV2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Insufficient Sun Exposure Has Become a Real Public Health Problem - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🤝 Join the community - we'd love to keep you updated on what we're up to, and who we're speaking to. Plus give you the forum to ask questions, share stories and challenge view points. Click subscribe and we'll endeavour to bring you the best we can, where we are, with the tools we have! 🎧 Listen to us on-the-go! https://shows.acast.com/social-wellne... 🎧 Available wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. New episode every Wednesday! Disclaimer - https://www.canva.com/design/DAF6uea0...