Amar Rewari, Chief of Radiation Oncology at Luminis Health, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“A Question I Didn’t Expect to Take Seriously: Does Light Change Clinical Outcomes?
I’ll be honest, if you had told me a few years ago that I’d spend an entire podcast episode discussing sunlight and infrared light as a clinical intervention, I would’ve been skeptical.
But this conversation changed that.
On a recent episode of Value Health Voices Podcast that I co-host alongside Anthony Paravati, we spoke with Roger Seheult, a pulmonary and critical care physician who has spent years studying how visible and infrared light affect mitochondrial function, metabolism, and immune response.
One case in particular stopped me in my tracks.
A critically ill, immunocompromised teenager with a life-threatening fungal pneumonia continued to worsen despite aggressive, standard-of-care treatment. Nothing was withdrawn. Nothing new was added, except prolonged exposure to natural light.
Within days, his clinical course reversed.
What makes this discussion worth having isn’t just a compelling case. It’s the growing body of randomized controlled data, including studies published in Nature Scientific Reports, showing measurable effects of infrared light on mitochondrial performance, glucose metabolism, and systemic physiology.
This isn’t about replacing medications or modern care.
It’s about asking a harder question:
Have we unintentionally designed healthcare environments that remove something biologically fundamental?
If low-risk, low-cost interventions can improve outcomes, shorten hospital stays, and reduce system strain, they deserve serious scientific and policy-level attention — not dismissal.
I’m curious how others are thinking about this.
What ‘simple’ interventions do you think modern medicine has underestimated?
Listen to the full episode.”
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