Brief Summary
This video discusses the importance of vitamin D, common reasons for deficiency, and seven lesser-known facts about vitamin D supplementation and its effects. It highlights the significance of magnesium, optimal dosing strategies, dietary sources, and potential issues with additives like corn syrup in vitamin D supplements. The video also touches on the differences between vitamin D2 and D3 and the importance of strengthening the immune system.
- Vitamin D is crucial for immune function, reducing inflammation, and supporting sleep and digestion.
- Magnesium deficiency can exacerbate side effects when taking vitamin D.
- Vitamin D3 is superior to D2 for overall health benefits.
The speaker begins by acknowledging a past lack of awareness regarding the importance of vitamins, particularly vitamin D. Over time, they gained knowledge and now consider vitamin D the most important vitamin due to its critical role in immune system function, inflammation control, and overall health. A deficiency in vitamin D can lead to various issues affecting sleep and digestion.
The speaker outlines several common reasons for vitamin D deficiency. These include gut inflammation, absence of a gallbladder, and age-related thickening of the skin, which reduces vitamin D absorption from the sun. Darker skin pigmentation (melanin) also reduces vitamin D absorption. Obesity, diabetes, and insulin resistance impair vitamin D absorption. Geographical location, particularly living at high latitudes, limits sun exposure and vitamin D production. Genetic factors and infections can also interfere with vitamin D absorption and conversion. Additional factors include fatty liver, smoking, sugar consumption, stress, statin use, low-fat diets, pollution, and excessive omega-6 fatty acids.
The speaker shares seven less common but important facts about vitamin D. Firstly, many side effects associated with vitamin D supplementation, such as fatigue, insomnia, constipation, skin rash, nausea, headache, and pain, can be attributed to magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is crucial for vitamin D to function effectively, and supplementing vitamin D can worsen an existing magnesium deficiency. Secondly, infrequent, higher doses of vitamin D may be more effective than regular daily doses. For example, taking 50,000 IU once or twice a week may be better than 10,000 IU daily. Because vitamin D is fat-soluble, it is stored in the body and released over time. Thirdly, farm-raised fish and grain-fed animals have significantly less vitamin D compared to wild-caught fish and grass-fed animals. Chickens and pigs that roam outside and are exposed to sunlight have higher vitamin D levels than those confined indoors. Fourthly, vitamin D is behind a healthy diet and exercise in terms of factors that improve your health. Fifthly, vitamin D2, which often requires a prescription, differs significantly from vitamin D3. Studies suggest that D2 can worsen multiple sclerosis (MS), while D3 can improve it. D2 does not decrease mortality, whereas D3 does, and D2 can inhibit the absorption of D3. Sixthly, brief sun exposure (e.g., 10 minutes) may only yield about 400 IU of vitamin D, which is a very low amount. Lastly, many vitamin D3 supplements contain corn syrup, so it is important to choose products without this additive.
The speaker encourages viewers to watch another video about vitamin D for more information. They also promote a free course on how to bulletproof your immune system, emphasising the importance of strengthening the immune system to better tolerate environmental factors. A link to the course is provided in the video description.
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0:00 you know at one time I had zero awareness about the importance of vitamins and what they did on our bodies especially vitamin D I maybe heard about it maybe you get it from the Sun from the foods I just had zero data on vitamin D and it just wasn't even on my radar but over time when I gained more knowledge about Vitamin D it is the most important vitamin out of all the vitamins because if you're deficient but your immune system doesn't work you're going to have inflammation you can have all sorts of issues with sleep and digestion and the list goes on and on and on but they may know some of the common reasons why the majority of the population is deficient in vitamin D gut inflammation no gallbladder as we
0:45 age our skin becomes thicker we can't absorb vitamin D from the Sun the darker the skin is the less vitamin D absorption because of the melanin the pigment in the skin the more obese someone is the more diabetic they are the more insulin resistance they have the less vitamin D they're going to absorb and also um where they live if they live at a high latitude in the north they're not going to get much deep and it's virtually impossible to get vitamin D from your diet people are also more aware that their genetics have a big play in vitamin D too there are many different genes that a person can have a problem with that either makes it difficult to convert into the active form of vitamin D or just absorb vitamin D and I have that problem myself then you have if a person has an infection
1:32 microbes can downgrade vitamin D receptors and block the absorption vitamin D as their strategy to overcome your immune system if someone has a fatty liver or they smoke or they consume sugar or they go through stress they're going to absorb less vitamin D if they're on a Statin or on a low-fat diet they're not going to get as much vitamin D if there's pollution in the air or even if they're getting too many omega-6 fatty acids with the soil oil the corn oil the canola oil that will block vitamin D but I want to talk about seven things that you probably have never heard of before and they're very interesting and they're very important to know number one the majority of side effects that may occur when you take vitamin D okay and
2:18 I'm going to list them fatigue insomnia constipation diarrhea skin rash nausea headache pain all could occur if you're low in magnesium magnesium is such an important mineral in relationship to Vitamin D it helps it work better and if you're deficient in magnesium which a lot of people are vitamin D may give you additional issues so in other words if you take more Vitamin D it can exaggerate an already deficient situation with magnesium now of course the side effect from very large amounts of vitamin D over many many months potentially creating hypercalcemia could give you kidney stones but this is very
3:06 very rare and this I think is the probably the biggest fear they don't realize that you'd have to take a lot more over a long period of time before you've got kidney stones or hypercalcemia and if you're taking magnesium and other factors related to this vitamin D like K2 the odds of you getting hypercalcemia too much calcium in the blood even go even lower but drinking a little bit more water like 2.5 liters of fluid per day can really almost eliminate the formation of kidney stones because kidney stones form when there's a super concentrated amount of this calcium in the urine so if your urine is so diluted it can never be super concentrated number two taking vitamin D infrequently
3:51 Works a little bit better than on a regular basis so if we compare taking 10 000 IUS of vitamin D every day as a maintenance dose and you instead did 50 000 IUS once a week or twice a week that might work a little better for you and this is good because sometimes people forget to take vitamin D and they think is it going to do any good if I take it a few times a week and the answer is yes remember vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin so when it goes in the body it gets stored in the fat cells and it's it can be released over time it's not like a water-soluble vitamin like some of the B vitamins vitamin C that you would want to take those on a daily basis the next thing that people don't realize is this when you consume like farm-raised fish
4:37 which I mean it's so so common in restaurants and uh you just need to start reading the labels farm-raised fish has four times less vitamin D as well caught fish grain-fed animals compared to grass-fed animals have much less vitamin D and chickens and pigs that roam outside and that are able to get out of the barn and they're exposed to the Sun have much more vitamin D than these pigs and chickens that are confined to a a structure in fact when a pig or a chicken doesn't get to see the daylight they're like three times less vitamin D alright number four and this is really really interesting out of all the factors that can improve
5:25 your health okay vitamin D is behind eating a healthy diet and exercise all right number five vitamin D2 which is mainly you have to get a prescription for is very different than vitamin D3 in fact vitamin D2 actually in some Studies have worsened MS okay versus vitamin D3 has greatly improved Ms lupus another autoimmune disease is not affected by D2 but it is with D3 the studies in vitamin D2 do not decrease mortality but the studies with vitamin D3 do and taking vitamin D2 can actually inhibit the absorption of vitamin D3 all right next
6:12 Point okay some people when they go out and get exposure to the sun they think that they're getting a lot of vitamin D when they're getting exposed to the Sun for like 10 minutes so let's say Best Care scenario you're young you don't have any of these other barriers of absorption vitamin D and you're exposing a lot of your skin to the Sun for about 10 minutes you're only going to get 400 I use the vitamin D that is very very low amounts so just realize that it takes a bit more exposure to Sun to get enough vitamin D alright and last point that I think is very very important because a lot of people take vitamin D3 and they don't realize that manufacturing companies are adding corn
6:59 syrup to vitamin D in fact the manufacturing company that I work with in Europe basically told me with a high level of certainty I was the only one to ask or request a vitamin D product without corn syrup and I would suspect a similar thing is happening in the U.S but I don't know for sure so when you get a vitamin D product make sure they don't add the corn syrup or the maltodextrin now that you know those seven factors I want to take your awareness even higher if you haven't seen this video in vitamin D you should check it out I put it up right here before you go real quick I have a course entitled how to bulletproof your immune system it's a free course I want you to
7:46 take it and here's why here's you here is your environment everyone is focused on this over here avoiding your environment but what about here what about strengthening your immune system that's what's missing this course will show you how to bulletproof yourself and so you can tolerate and resist your environment much better by strengthening your own immune system I put a link down in the description right down below check it out and get signed up today hey before
