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Lack of infrared is what cause the damage. mitochondria need infrared to make melatonin(remove free radicals from combustion)

Without infrared (living inside) we are in constant inflammation, especially the mitochondria

Now, how many hours of time do the elderly go outside? Get close to zero fast. There is a care center close from home. They never go outside. Also true of most of the population.

The research is solid, but it’s mostly ignored. Search medcram infrared, this doctor is trying to spread the word, so many lives could be saved.

I healed my winter eczema in a short time with a simple infrared lamp after watching a few of his videos.

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Pseudoscience.

Please explain:

- How does the indoor environment lack infrared vs outdoors, when illuminated by filament or halogen lighting.

- The relationship between inflammation (a tissue, organ or whole-organism level process) and mitochondria (a cellular organelle). In what circumstances can a mitochondrion be said to be inflamed?

I don't know that it's established. But there does appear to be some interest in the idea from a research perspective [0][1][etc.]. And for some reason physiotherapists have been using it for years for local inflammation, but I've never really bought into the idea myself, nor am I sure about the ramifications of this for systemic inflammation even if true.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31170016/ [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131272/

cheers for doing research! here's more:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24246911/

1- It’s very easy to test: put mices in environment with and without infrared, measure inflammation markers, repeat with humans, correlate markers with diseases.

2- You can measure the level of infrared in environment vs outside. I don’t know what is the power difference. Without knowing all the details, the best way is to get in the sun.

3- How does it work: infrared penetrate deep in tissues, you can test with a red light through your hand or mouth, etc, infrared go deeper than red light.

The mitochondria use infrared to synthetized melatonin that remove free radicals. This happen even inside the brain, the infrared get there. The melatonin produced at night is merely the backup plan for our body when the sun isn’t there.

There is a strong tendency to assume that what we don’t know doesn’t exist (pseudoscience) but we should do the opposite, assume that everything from the natural environment is connected to our body.

I am sure that vit-d was considered impossible before, so was most of what we understand today about our body.

Look at medcram and infrared, you will find that there is credible research around this.

> How does the indoor environment lack infrared vs outdoors, when illuminated by filament or halogen lighting.

So you really get to be in a lot of rooms illuminated by either filament or halogen lighting? I miss incandescent bulbs :(.

Maybe just watching the videos healed your condition.

> I healed my winter eczema in a short time with a simple infrared lamp

Low dose UV is used as a medically prescribed treatment for eczema, haven’t ever heard of infrared being an effective treatment. Any heat source radiates IR, so you could just use a heater.