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I’d like to talk about the risks of

taking

10 000 IUS of vitamin D3 sounds like a

lot ten thousand but is it really that

much just so you know very briefly I use

stand for international units okay so 10

000 international units of vitamin D is

equivalent to

not even one milligram not even a half a

milligram it’s actually one quarter of

one milligram 0.25 milligrams which is

250 micrograms okay that’s 10 000

international units of vitamin D3 so is

there a risk of taking that much I think

there’s a bigger risk of not taking that

much let me explain I recently found

some information that literally blew me

away and I think it’s going to blow you

away too but first let me just give you

a little Foundation of what we’re

talking about the great majority of us

are deficient in vitamin D now I guess

the conflicting information is that the

rdas

of vitamin D

is between 600 to 800 international

units okay and now we’re talking about

taking ten thousand it sounds like a

huge gap but what you have to realize is

that 600 to 800 IUS

is based on Old research relating to

preventing osteoporosis bone loss it’s

not updated and correlated with all the

new information related to the benefit

of vitamin D for your immune system

what’s even more wild is that vitamin D

is not really even a vitamin it’s a

hormone and it acts very similar to

cortisol as an anti-inflammatory but

without the side effects every cell in

your body has receptors for vitamin D

the functions of vitamin D are very very

vast but I want this video to focus

mainly on why you need as a maintenance

dose 10 000 IUS it really has to do with

the barriers of absorption you have a

lot of things that are stopping vitamin

D from going into your body right you

have the sun like people don’t get

enough sun or sun exposure to their skin

they don’t go outside as much and if

they’re going outside with a shirt on

and just getting exposure to their face

you’re not going to even get close to

the amount that you need and also it’s

almost impossible to get enough vitamin

D from the foods that we eat even if you

eat fatty fish and cod liver oil and egg

yolks which are higher in vitamin D3

you’re still not going to reach the

levels that you need then you have

people that are overweight the more fat

right beneath your skin the harder it is

for the sun to penetrate to create the

vitamin D necessary then we have

metabolic syndrome okay if you have

diabetes or you have insulin resistance

vitamin D doesn’t go in that well

um the older you are the skin becomes

thicker and it’s harder to get your

vitamin D the more pigment you have in

other words the darker your skin the

less vitamin D absorption you’re going

to have and also the more problem you

have with the gallbladder or the liver

let’s say you have a fatty liver the

less absorption of vitamin D you’re

going to have because you need bile to

help you absorb vitamin D from the food

as well as from a supplement because

it’s a fat soluble vitamin and the more

kidney problems you have the less

vitamin D you’re going to have as well

so the way it works is you have these

precursor or inactive

vitamin D compounds that have to be

converted to the active form of vitamin

D and they go through various steps but

there’s a two primary steps one through

the liver and one through the kidney to

eventually get this active form of

vitamin D3 it then has to be absorbed in

your receptors and those receptors are

called vitamin D receptors and if you

have an infection like a viral infection

these these viruses can trick your body

by downgrading The receptors and

preventing you from absorbing vitamin D3

so that’s another barrier if your immune

compromised or you have an immune system

problem the amount of vitamin D you’re

going to need is going to have to be a

lot more to penetrate that resistance

that the virus has strategically created

for you and when they do a blood test

for vitamin D they’re not testing the

active form of vitamin D they’re testing

the inactive form and the reason why is

because if they tested the active form

there’s a lot of problems with that

number one being that it has a very

short half-life like I think it’s uh

four to six hours compared to two to

three weeks for the inactive

vitamin D3 and also the active form of

vitamin D3 is a thousand times less than

the inactive so apparently I have a lot

of inactive vitamin D sitting there

waiting to be converted and also when

you’re deficient in the inactive version

of vitamin D3

your body will then compensate and make

more of the active vitamin D3 so if you

tested the active vitamin D3 and it

shows up normal it doesn’t really give

you a lot of information so this is why

the inactive form is tested but this

next thing is going to blow you away

okay and this relates to your genes

I’ve been recently involved in a lot of

research in genetics looking at um

what’s called polymorphisms which are

alterations in certain genes that make

you more susceptible to having problems

with certain illnesses but there’s three

polymorphisms that are routinely tested

when you do your DNA test that I need to

talk about because in the last I would

say several months I tested their DNA

they’re mainly friends and family

members and I wanted to just get

experience in this topic and testing

real people is a very good way to do

that and check this out this is just

related to vitamin D out of the 21

people that I tested 100 of them had at

least one problem with vitamin D

absorption in other words they had at

least one genetic issue with their

vitamin D which is another barrier that

I don’t think is really acknowledged or

even knowned it could be the next 21

people I test

don’t have a problem with vitamin D but

with this small sample there was 21 out

of 20 when people had a problem relating

to vitamin D genes in the first Gene it

was called the cyp

2r1 and out of all the 21 people tested

90 of them had a problem with this Gene

and 38 of that group had a major problem

with that polymorphism or mutation and

this Gene is one of the two steps in the

conversion from the inactive to the

active and occurs in the liver so in

other words if you have a problem with

this Gene you’re going to have a problem

in converting the inactive form to the

active form now let’s talk about the

other two genes these other two genes

were involved with Transportation like

binding to a protein and transporting

this vitamin D throughout your

circulation and out of all 21

and the first transporter gene there was

like 61 percent of the people that had a

problem with that one and then with that

second transporter there was like 76 of

the people that had a problem with that

Gene so a lot of people didn’t have a

problem just with one gene it was all

three genes so if we take this genetic

alteration on top of all these other

barriers now we can see ten thousand IUS

is not going to be toxic at all in fact

it’s going to be necessary to penetrate

some of these big barriers that people

are up against that being said how much

vitamin D does create a toxicity effect

well that’s still in debate but based on

all the research that I looked at it

would take hundreds of thousands of

international units of vitamin D for

months before it created a Toxic effect

and that Toxic effect is primarily

hypercalcemia and the risk of that

problem is mainly kidney stones so just

as a precautionary step if you’re

drinking uh two and a half liters of

fluid a day that decreases your risk big

time of getting a kidney stone because

you’re going to keep the urine diluted

and then on top of that if you take some

of the supporting nutrients that allows

vitamin D absorption as well as the

function of it and also factors that

protect you against hypercalcemia like

vitamin K2

magnesium B6 zinc then that puts you

even in a safer range and one last point

about getting your blood tested with

vitamin D

to date there’s still no consensus from

the entire medical community on what

those values should be but most doctors

is between 150 to 200 nanograms per

milliliter but again when they do a

blood test they’re looking at the

inactive vitamin D they’re not looking

at the Active vitamin D and they’re also

not looking at what happens in the

vitamin D receptor absorption into your

cells we’re not looking at that level if

you also have a genetic problem in the

vitamin D receptor or you have an

infection or some virus that’s

downgrading that vitamin D receptor or

even you have an autoimmune disease that

has this downgraded vitamin D receptor

you might need much much higher levels

of vitamin D3 than 10 000 IUS now I

created another really interesting video

on the toxicity effect and I looked at

more of the percentages based on all the

research out there of what could happen

What Kofi you need to take if you

haven’t seen this video you should check

it out it’s really interesting