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I want to talk about another very

important huge causative factor in

creating a vitamin D deficiency there

are over 1 billion people on this planet

that just don’t have enough vitamin D

and there’s many reasons for this you

know whether you don’t have enough Sun

you don’t go outside as much you’re

sitting in front of a screen all the

time and the problem with getting your

vitamin D just from foods it’s almost

impossible because the food just doesn’t

have enough vitamin D and then you have

other conditions like insulin resistance

which blocks the absorption of vitamin D

consuming a lot of sugar and refined

carbs can actually deplete vitamin D but

there’s something else going on that is

very important and I want you to know

about it vitamin D can only work if it

connects to a receptor ok so there’s

something called the vitamin D receptor

the vdr and most people think about

vitamin D regulating calcium which it

does and supporting bone health which it

does but this is a very small part of

what vitamin D really does because in

the nucleus of your cell you have a

vitamin D receptor that is responsible

for 229 genes so this receptor has the

ability to create a lot of different

effects

so a really big function of vitamin D is

immune modulation basically meaning that

it can control your immune system to a

great extent now if I were a pathogen

and I wanted to survive what I would do

as a strategy is I would interfere with

this little receptor right here because

if I could what would happen is the

defenses of the immune system would go

down and then I can actually overtake it

and actually survive and that just

happens to be one of the primary

strategies that pathogens those are

microbes that cause pathology or disease

now this strategy is called successive

infection meaning it slows down the

immune system okay check this out here

are a few microbes to interfere with the

vitamin D

scepter knockout TB huge okay lying

Borrelia burgdorferi by 50 times so it

has a capacity to shut down that

receptor for vitamin D by 50x incredible

syphilis will do it

leprosy will do it epstein-barr virus

will do it by 10 percent and by the way

90 percent of the population has

epstein-barr virus HIV will do it as

well so this is the strategy of many

microbes to take over and hijack your

cells so the question is is your vitamin

D deficiency coming from the microbe

shutting it down or do you have a

deficiency of vitamin D decreasing your

susceptibility to acquiring this microbe

which allows for these microbes to

invade so number one if you have an

infection you should be taking vitamin D

and I’m not saying that’s gonna cure you

but it’s definitely good for the short

term to actually at least give you the

more help with your immune system and

you may need to take larger amounts

because the ability for the receptor to

absorb is downgraded and I just wanted

to increase your awareness of another

reason why your vitamin D could be

lowered and check out these other videos

I have on vitamin D they’re quite

fascinating