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

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

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.

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:

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:06:20 - How MedCram Videos got started
00:09:37 - Using evidence to make COVID-19 treatment decisions
00:12:46 - The differences in treating early vs late-stage COVID-19
00:14:40 - How doctors would've treated COVID-19 one-hundred years ago
00:18:13 - Increasing ventilation reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission
00:20:28 - Masks are virtually universally beneficial regardless of type
00:21:32 - Vitamin D and COVID-19
00:22:22 - Steroid chemical structure of vitamin D
00:23:24 - The vitamin D RDA is likely too low
00:24:23 - Vitamin D is more like a hormone than vitamin
00:26:21 - The overlap between COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency
00:30:27 - How Mendelian randomization studies helped solve the vitamin D puzzle
00:34:20 - The gene regulatory effects of vitamin D
00:35:49 - Vitamin D and the ACE2/renin-angiontensin system
00:42:00 - Daily doses of vitamin D are more effective
00:43:23 - A prescription-only form of vitamin D (calcifediol) may be best for COVID-19
00:47:06 - Skin synthesis of vitamin D from sunlight can be unreliable
00:53:43 - 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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0:00.0	Hello friends, today's guest is Dr. Roger Schwellt, a quadruple board certified physician
0:05.7	in internal pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine.
0:09.9	Because of his broad expertise, Dr. Schwell is perfectly poised to address many aspects
0:14.9	of this pandemic.
0:17.0	Not only is Dr. Schwellt a physician, he is also a skilled educator.
0:21.7	He is an associate professor and co-founder of MedCramBidios, a fabulous YouTube channel
0:26.9	with over a million subscribers that produces incredibly in-depth medical lectures.
0:31.7	In particular, they have provided excellent coverage of COVID-19 for over a year now.
0:37.1	We are lucky to have Dr. Schwellt share some of his insights with us today.
0:41.5	In this episode, we're going to talk about how our body naturally defends itself against
0:45.8	pathogens.
0:46.8	We talk about how we can support our immune system, why some people get sicker from COVID-19
0:51.9	than others.
0:53.2	How COVID-19 illness occurs in two well-defined phases and often requires fundamentally different
0:58.8	treatment protocols.
1:00.6	A remarkable overlap is emerging between COVID-19 positivity rates and groups most affected
1:05.7	by vitamin D deficiency.
1:07.9	We pour through the current vitamin D research, including a few early randomized controlled
1:11.9	trials, and discuss how Dr. Schwellt translates these new scientific findings into his COVID-19
1:17.8	patient care.
1:19.5	How much and when vitamin D is given is critical to its effect, and why to correct deficiencies,
1:25.5	one large monthly bolus might be less effective than daily or weekly doses.
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