Antiviral and immune enhancement effects of thermal therapy to overcome COVID-19
I met Kim Sun-man, a chairman of Hwaseo Yonsei Family Love Clinic and a vice chairman of the International Virus Research Alliance (IVRA), a global cooperative launched to end the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing immunity centered on thermal treatment.
Director Kim Sun-man is continuously studying various new medical technologies such as pain treatment, immunotherapy for cancer patients, functional medicine, and stem cell fields.
Q. Medieus Queen: Hello, it's an honor to meet you who is a specialist in emergency medicine. You conduct a wide range of medical care and at the same time, work for the community. You have recently served as vice chairman of the International Virus Research Alliance (IVRA). Please introduce yourself and the Hwaseo Yonsei Family Love Clinic.
A. Kim Sun-man, president of Hwaseo Yonsei Family Love Clinic (hereinafter referred to as Kim Sun-man): Since I obtained a doctor's license in 1990 and engaged in medicine, this year has been 33 years since I treat patients as a doctor. In the beginning, I worked as a public health doctor at Yeongwol Medical Center and mainly worked in the emergency room. With that experience, I majored in emergency medicine and set up an emergency center in Bundang Jesaeng Hospital as an early member from 1997 to 2003, and served as the head of the emergency center there. Now I operates Hwaseo Yonsei Family Love Clinic in Hwaseo-dong, Suwon.
Hwaseo Yonsei Family Sarang Clinic opened in its current location in 2003, and this year marks the 20th anniversary of its opening. In the early days, it mainly treated the area of internal medicine, otolaryngology, and orthopedics, but now it focuses on pain treatment, functional medicine, and chemotherapy. As it's been a while since I opened a business in one place, I'm living with the residents like a family doctor.
Q. Mr. Medieus Queen: You have recently served as vice chairman of the IVRA. Please introduce the IVRA. In addition, as you research the antiviral effect of thermal treatment, please explain to us what kind of diseases you think thermal treatment is effective for.
A. Kim Sun-man: IVRA is an organization launched with medical staff and scholars from more than 30 countries around the world with a new goal of treating COVID-19 by promoting immunity centered on thermal treatment to end the global crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 treatment using thermal treatment has been conducted for about 20 COVID-19-positive patients at Seosan Medical Center in Chungcheongnam-do, a hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients since May 2021, and obtaining successful treatment results become a starting point. In the absence of safe and effective treatment for COVID-19 patients at the beginning of the outbreak, thermal treatment is a very encouraging treatment, and we are preparing for a multinational expansion clinical trial in the future by sharing it with medical staff around the world and applying it to treatment. On December 30, 2021, specific treatment guidelines using COVID-19 diagnosis and thermal treatment were presented through the IVRA year-end general meeting. Thermo therapy has been used for various diseases since BC, and it has been widely used in the medical field since more than 100 years ago. Recently, equipment that can safely raise heart heat has been developed through technology, and its use is increasing. Thermal treatment has an excellent effect in the field of pain, and it is also used in combination treatment of cancer treatment, showing good effects. It also has excellent treatment effects for various infectious diseases, especially viruses.
Let me tell you about the antiviral effects of thermotherapy. There are countless papers on the antiviral effect of thermal therapy, and the mechanism of action for this can be suggested in two main ways. First, it's an inhibitory effect on the growth of the virus. SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus of coronavirus infection-19 (COVID-19), like most respiratory viruses, is a heat-sensitive pathogen that multiplies best at temperatures between 33 and 37 degrees Celsius and is susceptible to heat. In fact, it has been reported that thermal treatment can inhibit the growth of the virus by more than 90%, and rather than inhibiting the protein synthesis of the virus as a mechanism of action, it is known to have a therapeutic effect by inhibiting the growth of the virus by interfering with the structural maturation of the synthesized protein.
Second, it is an immune-boosting effect due to an increase in body heat through high frequency. The increase in body heat shows an antiviral effect by stimulating peripheral lymphocytes to increase the synthesis of interferon-gamma, and the activity of interferon-gamma increases by more than 4 to 16 times depending on the degree of increase in body heat. In addition, numerous laboratory studies, animal tests, and clinical trials have reported that the activity of NK cells, which play a role in removing tumor cells or virus-infected cells, increases dramatically due to increased body heat. High-frequency thermal therapy uses the properties of converting the current energy of fast vibration into thermal energy in the path when conducting a high-frequency current (a current of 100,000 Hz or more) to our body.
Q. Medieus Queen: I understand that you have been steadily acquiring new medical techniques and expanding the scope of treatment such as patient-specific functional medical treatment, university hospital-level pain treatment, and cancer immunotherapy room operation. Please tell me about the areas (direction) that you are currently researching or want to expand further in the future.
A. Kim Sun-man: I am interested in the field of stem cell therapy and have been treating stem cells through culture since 2018. In August 2020, a stem cell research and treatment company called Hystem Cell was established, and there is also a research institute in Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do. However, now that I am doing research related to viruses and anticancer drugs, I have not been able to develop any business in earnest yet, but I plan to take time to work from the second half of this year.
Q. Medieus Queen: You regularly make donations to nearby schools and senior citizens' facilities, and play as a mentor for students in need, and deliver health lectures. Why are you actively communicating with the local community as well as medical and research-related activities?
A. Kim Sun-man: The reason why the hospital is doing so well is that my medical ability is important, but local residents visit our hospital. That's why I think I should contribute even a little to the community.
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Q. Medieus Queen: Lastly, if you have any personal goals, please tell me.
A. Kim Sun-man: It is said that children who grew up in orphanages leave when they graduate from high school to enter into society receiving 5 million won per person. The 5 million won is the same amount throughout several decades. I think people should take responsibility for what they did. In the case of orphans, they didn't decide to become orphans. Therefore, society should help them become healthy members of society. But that's not the case. Politicians aren't interested in things that aren't being voted on, and the frontline administration isn't listening to them. I want to help them live safely until they become at least 25 years old (the age when our children go to the army and graduate from college) if I can afford it. And I want to give them a job through education and support them to stand on their own feet even when they go out into society. I want to help many people in need and live a valuable life.
A. Kim Sun-man, president of Hwaseo Yonsei Family Love Clinic (hereinafter referred to as Kim Sun-man): Since I obtained a doctor's license in 1990 and engaged in medicine, this year has been 33 years since I treat patients as a doctor. In the beginning, I worked as a public health doctor at Yeongwol Medical Center and mainly worked in the emergency room. With that experience, I majored in emergency medicine and set up an emergency center in Bundang Jesaeng Hospital as an early member from 1997 to 2003, and served as the head of the emergency center there. Now I operates Hwaseo Yonsei Family Love Clinic in Hwaseo-dong, Suwon.
Hwaseo Yonsei Family Sarang Clinic opened in its current location in 2003, and this year marks the 20th anniversary of its opening. In the early days, it mainly treated the area of internal medicine, otolaryngology, and orthopedics, but now it focuses on pain treatment, functional medicine, and chemotherapy. As it's been a while since I opened a business in one place, I'm living with the residents like a family doctor.
Q. Mr. Medieus Queen: You have recently served as vice chairman of the IVRA. Please introduce the IVRA. In addition, as you research the antiviral effect of thermal treatment, please explain to us what kind of diseases you think thermal treatment is effective for.
A. Kim Sun-man: IVRA is an organization launched with medical staff and scholars from more than 30 countries around the world with a new goal of treating COVID-19 by promoting immunity centered on thermal treatment to end the global crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 treatment using thermal treatment has been conducted for about 20 COVID-19-positive patients at Seosan Medical Center in Chungcheongnam-do, a hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients since May 2021, and obtaining successful treatment results become a starting point. In the absence of safe and effective treatment for COVID-19 patients at the beginning of the outbreak, thermal treatment is a very encouraging treatment, and we are preparing for a multinational expansion clinical trial in the future by sharing it with medical staff around the world and applying it to treatment. On December 30, 2021, specific treatment guidelines using COVID-19 diagnosis and thermal treatment were presented through the IVRA year-end general meeting. Thermo therapy has been used for various diseases since BC, and it has been widely used in the medical field since more than 100 years ago. Recently, equipment that can safely raise heart heat has been developed through technology, and its use is increasing. Thermal treatment has an excellent effect in the field of pain, and it is also used in combination treatment of cancer treatment, showing good effects. It also has excellent treatment effects for various infectious diseases, especially viruses.
Let me tell you about the antiviral effects of thermotherapy. There are countless papers on the antiviral effect of thermal therapy, and the mechanism of action for this can be suggested in two main ways. First, it's an inhibitory effect on the growth of the virus. SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus of coronavirus infection-19 (COVID-19), like most respiratory viruses, is a heat-sensitive pathogen that multiplies best at temperatures between 33 and 37 degrees Celsius and is susceptible to heat. In fact, it has been reported that thermal treatment can inhibit the growth of the virus by more than 90%, and rather than inhibiting the protein synthesis of the virus as a mechanism of action, it is known to have a therapeutic effect by inhibiting the growth of the virus by interfering with the structural maturation of the synthesized protein.
Second, it is an immune-boosting effect due to an increase in body heat through high frequency. The increase in body heat shows an antiviral effect by stimulating peripheral lymphocytes to increase the synthesis of interferon-gamma, and the activity of interferon-gamma increases by more than 4 to 16 times depending on the degree of increase in body heat. In addition, numerous laboratory studies, animal tests, and clinical trials have reported that the activity of NK cells, which play a role in removing tumor cells or virus-infected cells, increases dramatically due to increased body heat. High-frequency thermal therapy uses the properties of converting the current energy of fast vibration into thermal energy in the path when conducting a high-frequency current (a current of 100,000 Hz or more) to our body.
Q. Medieus Queen: I understand that you have been steadily acquiring new medical techniques and expanding the scope of treatment such as patient-specific functional medical treatment, university hospital-level pain treatment, and cancer immunotherapy room operation. Please tell me about the areas (direction) that you are currently researching or want to expand further in the future.
A. Kim Sun-man: I am interested in the field of stem cell therapy and have been treating stem cells through culture since 2018. In August 2020, a stem cell research and treatment company called Hystem Cell was established, and there is also a research institute in Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do. However, now that I am doing research related to viruses and anticancer drugs, I have not been able to develop any business in earnest yet, but I plan to take time to work from the second half of this year.
Q. Medieus Queen: You regularly make donations to nearby schools and senior citizens' facilities, and play as a mentor for students in need, and deliver health lectures. Why are you actively communicating with the local community as well as medical and research-related activities?
A. Kim Sun-man: The reason why the hospital is doing so well is that my medical ability is important, but local residents visit our hospital. That's why I think I should contribute even a little to the community.
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Q. Medieus Queen: Lastly, if you have any personal goals, please tell me.
A. Kim Sun-man: It is said that children who grew up in orphanages leave when they graduate from high school to enter into society receiving 5 million won per person. The 5 million won is the same amount throughout several decades. I think people should take responsibility for what they did. In the case of orphans, they didn't decide to become orphans. Therefore, society should help them become healthy members of society. But that's not the case. Politicians aren't interested in things that aren't being voted on, and the frontline administration isn't listening to them. I want to help them live safely until they become at least 25 years old (the age when our children go to the army and graduate from college) if I can afford it. And I want to give them a job through education and support them to stand on their own feet even when they go out into society. I want to help many people in need and live a valuable life.
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