Dr. Vanessa Edwards explains the proactive strategies people can take to stay safe, such as getting enough melatonin, practicing social distancing, and other forming other healthy habits.
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After a few seconds the words pan up the screen as a question fades in from below. The question reads: What measures should people take in the home to help keep their families safe from COVID-19?
Dr. Vanessa Edwards:
I instruct family members to open windows, to create a airflow in the home, to spray down frequently touched areas like doorknobs, light switches, handles, cabinets, things that just normally touching on a daily basis.
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Dr. Vanessa Edwards:
I want them to do that regularly. I do it once a day or twice a day, but several times a day, if a person in the home is infected. I want family members to take a proactive approach to staying healthy themselves, like, eating vegetables and fruits to keep their defense system up. So, we know that vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and enzymes are going to help keep the body's immune system optimal. I'm asking them to reduce their light exposure to cell phones, computers, TV, et cetera, 30 minutes to an hour before bedtime. And I know sometimes this can be a bit of a challenge and I do understand because I'm a night owl myself and I find myself maybe working at night or on my phone, or maybe want to just chill and watch my favorite TV show.
So, what I have is these blue light blocking glasses. So, I actually put these on 30 minutes to an hour prior to bedtime so that I can make my melatonin. So, basically, what's happening is the light going through your eyes is telling your body that, "Hey, it's still daytime. It's light outside, so it's not time for me to make melatonin. I can still make some cortisol." But when I put the blue light blocking glasses on, it tells my body it's about time to go to bed, it's time to start producing melatonin so that I can actually fall asleep and have a good night's sleep. Melatonin is a hormone that peaks about 2:00 to 3:00 AM in the morning and this melatonin has so many wonderful properties like being a great antioxidant. So, I want you to have the benefits of your melatonin. So, I want you in the bed by 11:00 PM and getting seven to nine hours of sleep.
Another thing you can do is press right about here. You can do some acupressure on yourself at night, this helps your body to make more melatonin. So, that is heart seven, you can press on that at nights before you go to bed, and that helps you to make this wonderful antioxidant, melatonin. Another thing I want you to do is drink plenty of water. Remember, we're just going back to the basics. So, the goal is drinking half your body weight in ounces a day. I need you to decrease your stress, I need you to find something that you like to do, and I want you to do those things on a regular basis. I need you to do things that are going to bring joy to your life. I know you're at home, I know things have been disrupted, but I need you to do things on purpose to help bring joy. Proverbs 17:22 says, "A joyful heart is good medicine."
Another thing I need you to do is exercise. I need you to move, and I also need you to move outside when you can. Yes, you're still doing your physical distancing, but I want you to get some sun so that you can make vitamin D. Vitamin D is also a great antioxidant, so I want that on board as well. And another thing is, I want you to monitor what you watch. Many people are watching the news day in and day out, hours after hour, after hour watching the news. I do not want you to do that. You may not think it's affecting you, but physically it is affecting you. It is increasing your cortisol levels, which increases your inflammation, which decreases your melatonin, which is a great antioxidant in your body that you need on board.
So, I want you to actually watch what you're putting in your ear gates and your eye gate, because those things are important. So, basically, what I do is I have about 15 to 20 minutes that I set aside to watch the news, see what's going on for the day, and then I'm done. I promise you, things are not going to change that much from day to day. Alrighty, social distancing. You must implement what they call social distancing, I rather call it physical distancing. But in my opinion, this really, really, really makes a difference in decreasing the spread of the virus. The reason being is that many people are actually asymptomatic, yet, they could actually be a carrier. So, they can infect people without even knowing that they have the virus.
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