How Infrared Light Actually Affects Your Mitochondria - Hypothesis

Roger Seheult, MD of MedCram deep dives into infrared light interacting with mitochondria. (This video was recorded on September 26th, 2026) Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com/ He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. REFERENCES: Metabolism in the Solar Photon Field A physical framework for photon-assisted modulation of mitochondrial electron-transfer kinetics (bioRxiv) | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.11.744135v1.article-info Longer wavelengths in sunlight pass through the human body and have a systemic impact which improves vision (Sci Rep) | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-09785-3 Photobiomodulation Directly Benefits Primary Neurons Functionally Inactivated by Toxins (J Bio Chem) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021925820761259 Light Effect on Water Viscosity: Implication for ATP Biosynthesis (Sci Rep) | https://www.nature.com/articles/srep12029 Inhibitory modulation of cytochrome c oxidase activity with specific near-infrared light wavelengths attenuates brain ischemia/reperfusion injury (Sci Rep) | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5823933/ Solar Radiation & Photosynthetically Active Radiation (Fondriest) | https://www.fondriest.com/environmental-measurements/parameters/weather/photosynthetically-active-radiation/ How can infra-red excitation both accelerate and slow charge transfer in the same molecule? (RSC) | https://pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/9/30/6395/621727/How-can-infra-red-excitation-both-accelerate-and Differential effects of 808-nm light on electron transport chain enzymes in isolated mitochondria (Mitochondrion) | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36371074/ Photobiomodulation and Oxidative Stress: 980 nm Diode Laser Light Regulates Mitochondrial Activity and Reactive Oxygen Species Production (Oxi med) | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7952159/ Near-Infrared 808 nm Light Boosts Complex IV-Dependent Respiration (PLOS) | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078562 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser light affects transmembrane mitochondria respiratory chain complexes (Biophotonics) | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31033186/ Toward control of electron transfer in donor-acceptor molecules by bond-specific infrared excitation (Science) | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.