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let’s talk about vitamin D deficiency the ignored pandemic when we’re talking

about a pandemic we’re talking about a large group of the population worldwide

and I’m not sure if you knew this or not but there are over 1 billion people on

this planet that are either deficient in vitamin D or have vitamin D

insufficiency which means that they might have a subclinical or somewhat of

a deficiency but not a full-blown vitamin D deficiency but vitamin D is

such a necessity for so many biochemical reactions there’s over 200 biochemical

reactions in fact 5 percent of the genome is influenced by vitamin D it’s

not just involved with bone health and calcium metabolism it’s really important

in your immune system and that’s what I want to focus on now these four

countries are very deficient in vitamin D China India South America and the

Middle East and when a woman is pregnant and she’s not getting enough Sun or

eating the food with vitamin D or not supplementing she could become very

deficient very fast because that baby inside is just sucking the vitamin D for

growth and development also if a woman is locked 80 that can create a

deficiency unless she’s taking vitamin D or getting a lot of Sun and infants

commonly are vitamin D deficient now if you don’t have enough vitamin D very

specific things happen within the immune system the T helper cells have a

difficult time working those are the cells that would be equivalent to the

general of an army they’re involved with communication and coordination of the

entire military team also the T regulatory cells are influenced highly

with vitamin D and these cells prevent autoimmune reactions they also involved

with suppressing inflammatory responses especially in the lung there’s a

condition called cytokine storm which is involved in acute respiratory distress

syndrome which is actually killing people with a weak immune system without

vitamin D it’s very difficult to inhibit this

inappropriate immune reaction so vitamin D is regulating how much inflammation or

how little inflammation you need to overcome an infection vitamin D also can

help to inhibit the iron in certain cells because certain pathogens actually

eat the iron so vitamin D is needed to help to prevent these microbes from

getting that iron also those vitamin D receptors in a lot of immune cells

themselves and one of the purposes of the receptors to help convert the

inactive vitamin D to the active form of vitamin D now there’s another player

called the macro fashion and this mewn cell actually eats garbage and it also

eats viruses and bacteria and other microbes so vitamin D stimulates the

number of macrophages as well as the the pre macrophage which is the monocyte

turning into the macrophage and lastly vitamin D helps to make antimicrobial

weapons they’re called peptides I just wanted to show you the very important

link between having not enough vitamin D and what it potentially can do to your

immune system and the vital importance of using vitamin D as a preventative

thing as well as something you can use if someone is sick or if they have

pre-existing health problems conditions like cardiovascular disease high blood

pressure diabetes obesity all are vitamin D deficient if you have friends

or family that have these pre-existing health problems and they’re concerned

about the virus get them on vitamin D especially if they’re in a critical care

I mean right now there’s a lot of doctors that are recommending

hydroxychloroquine and zinc and an antibiotic but also add in the vitamin D

now I also want to mention how people are deficient in vitamin D as we get

older it’s very difficult to absorb item D especially in the skin because the

skin becomes thickened and so when sunlight hits our skin you just don’t

get the full capacity vitamin D version like you had when you’re in your

20s the more clothing you have the more vitamin D deficient it’s very difficult

to get vitamin D from your diet the Sun is the best way to get vitamin D but you

also have to be exposed to the Sun so wearing a bunch of clothing is not going

to help the latitude of where you live the closer you live to the equator the

more vitamin D you could potentially get people that live in the northern

hemisphere typically have lower amounts of vitamin D excluding the Nordic

countries and that is because they consume a lot of fish I mean think about

where you would get cod liver well it’s from that area of the world the more

pollution that you have the more deficient you’re going to be a vitamin D

and this would be a really good evaluation to evaluate the most polluted

areas in the world and then look at the outbreaks the infection rate and the

death rates I already know in Italy the most polluted cities have the highest

mortality situations I do know that in Rihan China it’s highly polluted ok skin

color what determines the color of skin is melanin and melanin actually protects

against UV radiation the darker your skin is the less vitamin D you’re going

to be able to absorb and then we just have the general the health of your skin

if you have very unhealthy skin then you’re not going to actually have the

capacity absorb vitamin D the more sunblock that you use the less vitamin D

now genetics yes there are genetic weaknesses that prevent you from

absorbing vitamin D and that’s what I wanted to pause and just talk about this

for a second polymorphism what are polymorphisms well

we have 63 of them and basically they’re a alteration or a variation of the

vitamin D receptor if you have an infection let’s say for example you have

this chronic infection that goes on for months and months microbes tend to

deplete you a vitamin D both because they block the vitamin E

scepter and also because your immune system is needing more vitamin D to work

so the more infections you have or the more chronic and infection is the more

vitamin D you’re going to need and then lastly if you have malabsorption for

example if you have gut damage or some inflammatory condition your gut that is

going to prevent the absorption of vitamin D if you want more information

about vitamin D I put up a video right here check it out