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hey I’m back and today I’m going to talk about an interesting case study that was

done by a Brazilian doctor working with a patient who had something called

myasthenia gravis this condition is an autoimmune disease that’s a condition

where you have any buddies or they call them autoantibodies that are against

our own tissues you can have an autoimmune disease to just about every

single thing in your body this particular autoimmune disease attacks

the junction the connection between your nerves and your muscles okay so that’s

what it is and that’s going to deplete acetylcholine so you can have a lot of

muscle problems specifically in the skeletal muscle and one of the

treatments that they normally use is steroids

autoimmune conditions produce a lot of inflammation and a steroid is an

anti-inflammatory of course the problem there’s a lot of side effects when you

take steroids the amount of vitamin D that this doctor used was between 80,000

and 120,000 international units of vitamin d3 what happened was he was able

to put this patients symptoms in remission okay so of course they don’t

ever like to say care or anything like that but in remission means that you

don’t have any of the symptoms why would this potentially work and what is a

relationship of vitamin D I’ve done other videos on this but if you have an

autoimmune condition vitamin D is definitely something that you want to

consider because vitamin D is not even necessarily a vitamin it’s hormone like

in an acts like a steroid without the side effects and the other thing that it

does is it supports something called the T regulatory cells and that’s part of

the immune system that has a really important function in preventing

autoimmune diseases the other thing that’s involved with autoimmune

conditions are viruses and other pathogens and it’s not agreed upon what

causes these conditions however there’s a lot of links and associations but

obviously it’s something that damages certain parts of the immune system and

now what happens is we have friendly-fire where your body is

attacking itself and apparently vitamin D actually supports

these cells now one of the reasons why sometimes you have to use high amounts

of vitamin D to create this effect is that let’s say for example this whole

autoimmune condition was triggered by a viral infection these viruses have

strategies of downgrading the receptor for vitamin D leaving you always

deficient and to overcome that that resistance you would have to consume

larger amounts of vitamin D and there’s a huge connection between a lot of

autoimmune conditions even MS and a vitamin D deficiency now one of the

concerns that people will have when they take this much vitamin D is this one

condition called hypercalcemia that means high calcium in the blood and what

happens is you may develop kidney stones of course the research isn’t definitive

and there’s not a lot of studies that say that’s going to happen but one of

the things that this brazilian doctor did was to mitigate this or lessen the

risk by omitting any calcium in the diet so it would tell the patient not to

consume cheese for example or take calcium supplements so if he wanted to

lower your risk for kidney stones what you would want to do is you want to

drink at least three and a half to four liters of fluid every single day because

in that way you can prevent the urine from being supersaturated where you

develop a stone the reason I created this video is basically to show you the

relationship between vitamin D and your immune system and potentially even the

possibility of keeping an autoimmune condition in remission with something

natural like vitamin D if you haven’t seen my video on MS and vitamin D I’m

gonna put it up right now check it out