Using Sunlight to Optimize Health with Roger Seheult | AFP 48
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December 30, 2025 · 1h 12m
About this episode
The episode explores the connection between sunlight and human health, focusing on how light affects energy production in the body.
Can light really change how your body produces energy? Join Jeroen Schreel and Roger Seheult, a professor at Loma Linda University and University of California, Riverside, as they discuss the powerful connection between sunlight and human health. They unpack how infrared light affects mitochondrial function, why sunlight goes far beyond vitamin D, and how modern lifestyles may be disrupting ancient biological signals, and what you can do to restore them. These are some of the papers Roger mentioned: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09785-3 https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6540877/v1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33834487/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24697969/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39094281/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1011134422002342 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38262071/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30759251/ Don't forget to join our monthly AFP newsletter: https://applefinchpudding.ck.page #sunlight #infraredlight #mitochondria #healthscience #SciencePodcast
People in this episode
Host: Jeroen Schreel
Guest: Roger Seheult
Topics covered
- sunlight
- health
- mitochondrial function
- infrared light
- biological signals
Keywords
- sunlight
- infrared light
- mitochondria
- health science
- energy production
- biological signals
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Loma Linda University, University of California, Riverside
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