Posted on 03/25/2022 1:28:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Intense light activates proteins shown to protect against lung damage in mice, a discovery that could have major therapeutic implications for treating acute lung injury in humans, according to a new study.
"Acute lung injury has a mortality rate of 40%," said lead author Tobias Eckle, M.D. "No specific therapy exists, and novel treatment options are needed."
Eckle's team, which previously demonstrated that light can protect against cardiovascular disease, housed mice under intense rather than ambient light for seven days. This prompted a strong increase in the trough and peak levels of the pulmonary circadian rhythm protein - Period 2 or PER2.
If the protein was deleted in a specific lung cell known as the alveolar type 2 cell, acute lung injury was fatal. If the protein was not deleted, 85% of the mice survived. Alveolar type 2 cells have long been recognized as playing an important role during acute lung injury but have never been linked to the light regulated protein PER2.
The study also showed that intense light therapy reduced lung inflammation or improved the function of the alveolar barrier – the blood-air barrier - in lung infections. Researchers saw the same reaction when using the flavonoid, nobiletin, found in orange peel, which also enhances the amplitude of PER2.
At the same time, the researchers found that intense light stimulated production of the BPIFB1 protein, known to be anti-bacterial and secreted within the mucus membranes of the large airways. They believe this also likely plays a role in protecting the lungs.
Discovering that intense light can protect against lung damage, Eckle said, is important due to the lack of therapies currently available to treat the condition.
"If you develop lung injury there is essentially no good therapy left," he said.
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At this point the average age around here is probably about 70, so anything to get a couple of extra years is good! Outside light is cheap medicine, so are orange peels!
(Ping me when you do your gun thread! If it's artillery ping porkchop too!)
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When Trump mentioned several early treatments for Covid, including hydroxychloroquine and light, he was slammed mercilessly by the propaganda media and the big Pharma influenced medical world. Somehow they got to him about needing emergency use authorization or else not being able to get a vaccine for several years and he kept quiet about therapeutics. What an evil world big Pharma and by extension big corporate medicine is.
“I think blue light reduces melatonin production.”
That must be the reason they say not to be on your laptop/phone/etc. right before bed! I have a blue-light filter on my computer glasses for that reason.
I suggest testing light therapy with incandescent light. Turn many incandescent lights on in your room and see what you can tolerate and its effects. If would be good to eat well before that because it might increase your use of calories.
Yes.😏
I have the essential oil. A drop in the water bottle and a sniff before closing.
Now we know the real reason that Congress decided we could not have incandescent bulbs:
They are healthy!
I knew it was never about global warming.
Ha! Good thing I have a whole storage room full of them :-)
Well, alright...maybe a post on guns or mobile artillery sometime.
(I remember something about an ATV and dogs and A coyote chasing a small dog, then a big dog chasing the coyote or something, but no guns, which was lucky for the coyote.))
Me too!
A loved one survived Covid19 Delta last year thanks to monoclonal antibodies at the 11th hour on the 11th day, then a hospital staffed with excellent doctors and nurses. If the light therapy existed, can you imagine the assist to exhausted patients fighting such a battle?
bkmk
Yes. He obviously didn’t make any of his ideas up out of whole cloth. They were all discussed with him by his task force.
But his enemies warped his remarks against him.
...the essential oil...
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Which oil?
Bergamot?
Tangerine?
Sweet Orange?
Amount? Route of exposure? Frequency?
I recall someone mentioning tangerine oil against flavivirus (hemorrhagic fevers)in another thread. Was that you?
I wonder if just bending citrus peel while inhaling would deliver enough?
Just saw a recipe for grating fresh orange peel into sugar and letting it sit until the sugar *liquifies* to use as a condiment.
I carry a bottle with me and use it in water.
About three drops per 16oz bottle. I refill the bottle about four times a day. Aside from my morning pint of coffee and a cup of sleepy tea at night it is what I drink.
Was not me on hemorrhagic fevers.
And the orange zest in sugar is wonderful.
Adds a real kick of orange flavor to things.
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