Glen Jeffery explains: the Science behind Mitochondrial Infra-Red (MIR)

I come from India. I have a PhD in Physics. I am a Hindu. In Hindu tradition, Sun (Surya) is a main deity. HIS chariot is drawn by seven horses representing seven colors of light. There is a ritual, called Surya-pranam, means saluting (pranam) the Sun (Surya). The practice is to wake up before the rise of the Sun, go outside and face the Sun with eyes closed and folded hands. I never practiced it myself. Now I understand the health benefit of it. I live in London and will try to practice it as much as I can. Hope my diabetes will go down and power level go up.

This explains why my husband with Parkinson’s can’t walk as soon as he goes through the front door of a Costco or Wallmart. I kept the lights off as much as possible in the house. Now I’m going on a search for the old bulbs.

Phenomenally interesting. I work in the residential building science industry. For so long, the focus has been on energy efficiency, but some of us are recognizing that the built environment needs to be healthy first, then efficient. Thank you sharing your findings.

This is quite fascinating and shocking at the same time. Well done to Glen Jeffrey for doing this research and raising this serious public health question. Thank you for showing this film and research. 15 years ago or so, I developed ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and this would have been around the time that we began to change our lighting at home to LED. Maybe just a coincidence, but I always felt better outside and especially in the summer, and the more time I am in the sun, the better I feel. Last summer I felt that I had recovered from ME/CFS, but as winter approached my health and energy divebombed again. Happily I have just purchased a red light panel, and I now plan to buy a full spectrum bulb for my main room. It will be my own experiment on myself to see if things change over time.

Thanks for feeding my rampant hypochondria. I've already ordered a therapy panel of 850 and 660nm LEDs.

More people need to hear this — especially coming from a couple of seasoned professors. Ty for this.

We should get back filament lamps reclassified as room heaters. They produce more IR than UV and visible light. Cost of lighting may go up a bit. But cost from diabetes etc. will go down.

Absolutely phenomenal presentation. It has filled a gap I had in my mind about the demonstrated effects of NIR on mitochondrial function. Brilliant stuff.

One small fact to add to discussion is that 10% of the human body weight is made up of mitochondria. There are approximately 10^17 mitochondria throughout the human body. The more biochemically active the cell, the more mitochondria. Adipose cells may have as few as 50 mitochondria. On the other end of the energetic spectrum, cardiomyocytes and neurons may have over 2,500 mitochondria. The human ovum has at least 250,000 mitochondria. The kidneys, spleen and liver are also quite high in mitochondrial density. These tissues typically have between 1,000 and 1,500 mitochondria. The only cell in the human body without mitochondria are mature red blood cells.

Not very often do I have my mind blown by a totally new idea, but this is one. And it makes total sense. This is why the Scandinavians like saunas so much. And I was studying the role of the electron transport system of the mitochondria and understanding that coenzyme Q10 was essential, but another video said that CoQ10 was formed naturally in the bloodstream by eating green vegetables and being in the sunshine.

Thank you. I wished you had touched on the role of melatonin in mitochondria as the free radical scavengers, which is produced in response to IR light. So mitochondria stay healthy because of melatonin's action.

Yes, yes, yes, very good summaries of a whole lot of extremely important 'hints' about public health... and about personal massive concerns yearning to convey to friends, relatives, and potential friends in the whole world! Chronic disease progressions are running wild, and many 'treatments' are available (even largely for free) if we convey the current science known, adequately to allow some life-style adjustments. Thank you!!

mitochondria work even better with ketones as a fuel rather than sugar.

Bravo kind sir , Finally real intelligence that i can so easily understand, Im fascinated by this subject

Excellent overview. Thank you. I have seen some videos about red light therapy that suggest there is a curve of dosage in which at some point there are detrimental effects, so I wonder if you can expand on that at some point in the future. Thank you.

It’s amazing that these scientists can look at the complex design found in cells and the different mechanisms and how they work together and then turn around and ascribe all of that to chance and evolution…

this information which makes complete sense to me as I learn more about eating for metabolic health. After years of extreme carb restriction, carnivore diet and intermittent fasting, I managed to wreck my metabolism and reduce myself to heart and kidney failure. Initially keto and carnivore produced good results eg T2 diabetes glucose control, inflammatory arthritis pain gone etc. However, I eventually couldn’t walk, think or do anything that required even minimal effort. Recent reintroduction of carbs and sunlight have been transformative in just days! I’m swimming and walking again and so grateful to people like you guys and Ray Peat for helping me to a basic understanding of ATP importance. Thank you.

excellent and clear, lovely to listen to you.

So glad I found this. Definitely sharing. Thankyou.

Amazing!❤❤❤