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The origin of light therapy 🔥 #infraredsauna #lighttherapy

17 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment (YouTube video) recounting early history of light therapy centered on Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s use of electric light baths at his Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium. The speaker describes Kellogg treating over 50,000 chronically ill patients, logging >200,000 sauna sessions, and publishing protocols in his 1910 book Light Therapeutics; the segment frames much of this material as forgotten history.

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I came across this guy named Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. And so you hear Kellogg, and you're, you know, the. The old me was like, whoa, that's the cornflakes guy. That's that. We wanted to lower male libido. And I was researching it was actually his brother. Yeah, so. So the Kellogg we're talking about had a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. And four years after the light bulb was invented, 1887, this guy looks at these light bulbs and he's like, oh, my goodness. We should make a sauna with this. There's something going on here. He proceeded to use his electric light bath sauna in his SPA on over 50,000 chronically ill patients. So he logs over 200,000 sauna sessions with all these patients, documents all of it, and develops very rigorous, precise protocols on how to deal with each malady. In a book he published in 1910 called Light Therapeutics, there was a huge component that was forgotten.