Podcasts Health & Fitness Medicine FoundMyFitness #063 Dr. Roger Seheult from MedCram on COVID-19 Vaccines, Vitamin D, and Heat Hydrotherapy

#063 Dr. Roger Seheult from MedCram on COVID-19 Vaccines, Vitamin D, and Heat Hydrotherapy

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 8:42 p.m.

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Dr. Roger Seheult
Dr. Roger Seheult is the co-creator of MedCram Videos. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, MedCram emerged as a beacon of insight, providing continuing coverage and perspectives in an environment almost defined by information scarcity.
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What particularly excited me about the unique opportunity of this interview is that apart from Dr. Seheult being a unique voice of public scholarship during the early days of the pandemic, he\'s also a quadruple board-certified pulmonologist with deep experience working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • (00:00)\\xa0Introduction
  • (06:20)\\xa0How MedCram Videos got started\\xa0
  • (09:37)\\xa0Using evidence to make COVID-19 treatment decisions
  • (12:46)\\xa0The differences in treating early vs late-stage COVID-19\\xa0
  • (14:40)\\xa0How doctors would\'ve treated COVID-19 one-hundred years ago
  • (18:13)\\xa0Increasing ventilation reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission\\xa0
  • (20:28)\\xa0Masks are virtually universally beneficial regardless of type
  • (21:32)\\xa0Vitamin D and COVID-19
  • (22:22)\\xa0Steroid chemical structure of vitamin D\\xa0
  • (23:24)\\xa0The vitamin D RDA is likely too low
  • (24:23)\\xa0Vitamin D is more like a hormone than vitamin
  • (26:21)\\xa0The overlap between COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency
  • (30:27)\\xa0How Mendelian randomization studies helped solve the vitamin D puzzle
  • (34:20)\\xa0The gene regulatory effects of vitamin D\\xa0
  • (35:49)\\xa0Vitamin D and the ACE2/renin-angiontensin system
  • (42:00)\\xa0Daily doses of vitamin D are more effective\\xa0
  • (43:23)\\xa0A prescription-only form of vitamin D (calcifediol) may be best for COVID-19
  • (47:06)\\xa0Skin synthesis of vitamin D from sunlight can be unreliable\\xa0
  • (53:43)\\xa0The safest dose range for vitamin D
  • (01:06:15)\\xa0The beneficial circadian effect of early morning sunlight
  • (01:07:38)\\xa0Sleep deprivation impairs vital immunity
  • (01:12:08)\\xa0Dr. Seheult\'s suggestions for the best sleep
  • (01:19:18)\\xa0A Spanish flu era treatment boosts interferon by ten times
  • (01:22:38)\\xa0Why interferon is so important for the viral response
  • (01:26:43)\\xa0Treating the symptoms of fever during the Spanish flu harmed patients
  • (01:31:58)\\xa0Dr. Seheult\'s ongoing research of hot hydrotherapy\\xa0
  • (01:47:00)\\xa0COVID-19 Vaccines

If you\\u2019re interested in learning more, you can read the full show notes.

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