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you know if you personally have an

autoimmune disease or you know someone

who has an autoimmune disease

this video is so vitally important and I

think many times people give you advice

on what to do or even doctors or videos

tell you what to do based on maybe a

study you know you hear a study that

says well if you do this your risk for

autoimmune disease decreases by 50 or

whatever well that’s cool but I want to

know why and this video is all about why

and it’s about the pathophysiology or

the mechanism of how this disease is

created and it has everything to do with

several factors but a vitamin D

deficiency is at the heart of this

problem in fact some will say you can’t

even get an autoimmune disease unless

you first have some type of vitamin D

deficiency in the first place which is

fascinating an autoimmune disorder

involves this perfect storm various

things that must occur at the same time

a vitamin D deficiency that would be

number one number two it’s usually

triggered by maybe a virus or a bacteria

or another pathogen you can be exposed

to something weakening your immune

system like a vaccine you can also be

exposed to stress and the worse stress

is losses that’s why there’s a huge

connection between people who have

losses and then developing an autoimmune

disease and we also know a big part of

this originates in your gut because your

diet’s not right that triggered the

whole mechanism and as an additional

thing you can have a genetic

weakness or susceptibility

to autoimmune diseases in general or you

could have a genetic weakness

with either the absorption of vitamin D

or the conversion of the inactive

vitamin D to the active vitamin D which

is very applicable to me because I found

out I have that problem I have a hard

time converting the inactive vitamin D

to the active form which explains a lot

of my history of having all sorts of

inflammatory conditions but thank

goodness I know enough to keep my

lifestyle in check to prevent certain

genes from kicking in and that’s really

cool about this topic of epigenetics if

you really understand

epigenetics which I am including more

and more in my videos boy even though

you have certain genes that make you

susceptible to all these conditions you

personally can prevent all these

conditions from occurring you can keep

these genes turned off 100 percent and

all it takes is some knowledge and

that’s what this video is all about so

it’s the vitamin D deficiency that is

the most important thing in relationship

to autoimmune diseases now there are

many barriers to getting vitamin D that

go beyond just the genetic one that I

just recently found out I have if you’re

obese you’re gonna have problems

absorbing vitamin D if you have insulin

resistance okay you’re gonna have a hard

time absorbing vitamin D if your skin is

a little bit darker you’re going to need

more vitamin D to break through that

barrier and during the winter you’re not

going to get vitamin D where you’re

inside all the time it’s becoming more

and more difficult to get vitamin D not

to mention as you age your skin becomes

thicker and you don’t get enough vitamin

D alright so what is this relationship

between vitamin D and your immune system

being overactive when you think about an

autoimmune disease you think about some

crazy immune response that your body is

attacking itself it’s generating

anti-bodies that means certain immune

cells that are against your own tissue

which is insane why would your body do

that there must be some massive

confusion well when we talk about

vitamin D what’s unique about vitamin D

is that it controls your very complex

immune system it can either increase or

boost or decrease or suppress certain

parts of the immune system and when you

think about vitamin D suppressing the

immune system you might automatically

think wow I don’t want to do that

because that’s going to weaken my immune

system well just hear me out because

I’ve never met anyone who had a weakened

immune system by taking vitamin D and

you’re going to learn exactly why now to

explain this I do want to bring up some

new terms for you but I’m going to

Define them so don’t click off because

I’m getting too tactical but I think

it’s really important for you to

understand this so in an autoimmune

situation where you have this

inflammation and inflammation is the

Hallmark of autoimmune this is why the

number one selling drug on the planet is

an anti-inflammatory and that just means

a lot of people have autoimmune diseases

as well as inflammatory diseases so when

you have this immune inflammation there

are several things that are turned on

okay and the first one I want to talk

about is something called NF k b and

without getting technical this is

something that triggers a lot of

information and it’s part of the immune

system defense mechanism see

inflammation is there to help you well

in theory anyway and so anytime you have

an infection anytime you have an

autoimmune disease you have this nfkb

thing in active mode it’s always turned

on when you have an autoimmune disease

or you have a cancer cancer tends to

spread into areas of inflammation

interesting in fact one of the new

strategies for treating cancer is to

block NF KB and this nfkb is triggered

by pathogens heavy metals

stress a few other things like oxidize

LDL which is kind of like the this bad

cholesterol that kind of can invade your

arteries that’s just going to involve

inflammation and cause like the plaque

information and a clot in your arteries

but what’s interesting about that

they’re finding more and more that the

plaque in the arteries

his bio films filled with microbes so

what’s probably happening is your immune

system is trying to kill off the microbe

and that’s why it’s there now this NF KB

thing that’s creating all this

information is is coming from this big

cell called the macrophage and the

macrophage is kind of like the first

line of a defense mechanism where it’s

going around and it’s literally eating

pathogens and cancer cells and it’s also

signaling other parts of the immune

system that turn on certain defense

mechanisms and one being inflammation

and so this nfkb thing

um it’s kind of like the start of this

whole immune process right you have this

inflammation but then there’s a Cascade

of things that are going to happen next

and most of them involve more

inflammation okay I’m not sure if you’ve

ever heard of the term cytokine but I do

want to bring that up because that is

part of this inflammatory process

cytokines are signaling communication

things that are involved with

inflammation and there’s several

different cytokines that I want to talk

about because they directly relate to

the topic at hand which is vitamin D and

all autoimmune diseases and so let me

just first Define another word

interleukin inter means as a means of

communication and Lucan basically is

coming from a leukocyte which is a white

blood cell or targeted at a leukocyte so

interleukin basically is this

communication between white blood cells

okay so that’s all you need to know

about that and so there’s many different

types of interleukins there’s like I

think there’s 50 different kinds the two

that I’m going to talk about are the

interleukin or IL 1B which very

basically and simply is recruiting other

parts of the immune system it’s like

saying hey I need more help in this

immune reaction okay so that’s what a IL

or interleukin one B does and another

one which is an interesting one which is

i l or interleukin 6. this one also

recruits more inflammation more immune

help it’s involved in something called

xeractive protein another

inflammatory protein but what’s

interesting to me about this il-6 is on

my genetic test I have a problem with

this protein okay my genetics show that

I’m a hyper responder so when I have an

immune reaction I’m going to respond a

lot worse than the average person which

is

not good but it’s good that I know what

to do about it this also explains a lot

that happened in my past like if I over

train I will end up with a lot of

inflammation if I eat poorly I will just

fill up with inflammation if I get

poison iuv I will react way more than

the average person but the cool thing

which is the whole point of this video

is that vitamin D turns this off okay it

just turns it off like a switch and

personally because I don’t convert

vitamin D I need to take vitamin D in

much higher amounts than the average

person like at least 10 to 20 000 IUS if

not a little bit more per day but of

course I don’t have any autoimmune

problems so I don’t need to take

necessarily like 40 or 50

000 I use but 10 to 20 000 I use is a

good amount for me there’s some other

things that you can do to turn off this

inflammatory process because if you have

an autoimmune disease you want to really

have a multi-approach to this problem so

omega-3 fatty acids cod liver oil it’s a

must very very important as a natural

anti-inflammatory

but

omega-6 fatty acids compete with omega-3

so if you’re just consuming omega-3

fatty acids and you’re not eliminating

the omega-6 fatty acids

it’s not going to work so you have to do

both okay this means avoiding certain

foods going to restaurants junk Foods

cooking with omega-6 fatty acids like

corn canola soy instead you could do

like olive oil cocon oil things like

that butter but make sure you do a lot

of omega-3 fatty acids here’s the um

confusion a lot of people have with

omega-3 fatty acids they think if they

just take a little bit of it it should

knock out the inflammation really fast

well if you’re deficient

in omega-3 fatty acids and your ratios

are not like a one to one okay realize

that a lot of people have like a ratio

of like 26

omega-6 to 1 omega-3 which they’re so

far out of balance it’s going to take

months if not a few years to

re-establish in your immune system in

your nervous system enough of the

omega-3 so you just need to make it part

of your new lifestyle and just include

it as a regular thing like a couple

tablespoons or if you get them in

capsules you know take a good amount of

that each day a couple other things you

can do curcumin is really important

reducing inflammation it even found

blueberries if you take a couple

blueberries a day you can actually

decrease this interleukin-6 there’s

another cytokine that I want to talk

about okay and this is a interesting

thing because it’s called a tumor

necrosis Factor basically it’s this

immune protein that that destroys tumors

okay and viruses so as soon as the virus

invades the cell boy this tumor necrosis

Factor kicks in there and in the process

there’s a lot of inflammation going on

and an autoimmune disease you have a lot

of this

tumor necrosis Factor

being generated and guess what what if

there’s no pathogen like an autoimmune

disease like the pathogen is gone you

just have this immune reaction thank

goodness vitamin D is there to actually

turn things off now the last cytokine I

want to talk about is called Cox II now

maybe you’ve heard of Cox inhibitors

like aspirin is a Cox inhibitor it turns

off this inflammatory signal in the body

and again the original reason why you

have this cox2 is to help pathogens it’s

like a defense mechanism this is why

with any reason you need Aspirin you

could very easily just do higher amounts

of vitamin D to turn it off but there’s

some other really cool things you should

know about to inhibit or stop this cox-2

reaction from happening Mitaki mushrooms

are a natural cox-2 inhibitor

omega-3 fatty acids like the cod liver

oil as another inhibitor of the Cox II

hyper foreign which is a a compound in

Saint John’s Wort inhibits Cox II in

fact

in certain studies it can work 18 times

stronger than aspirin for pain you think

of St John’s Ward to help regulate

serotonin for depression but it also has

a potent anti-pain effect but don’t

forget vitamin D if anyone has an

autoimmune disease and they’re not

taking vitamin D good amounts of it

they just simply are very unaware and

they need to watch this video if the

doctor who is treating you for

autoimmune doesn’t suggest this there is

a severe Gap in knowledge on the

relationship between vitamin D and the

immune system you should have them watch

this video now I’ve talked about vitamin

D being the off switch to a certain part

of the immune system okay there’s

another off switch to just generally

your T cells okay and your B cells okay

that’s another part of the immune system

and this is a very good thing in an

autoimmune disease because vitamin D

receptors are all over the T cells and

the B cells way more than this phagocyte

now so far I’ve talked about the

suppression of your immune system now I

want to talk about what gets activated

what gets boosted with taking vitamin D

there are three very powerful yet

ancient they go way back on the The

evolutionary track defense mechanism

these three things tend to surround the

pathogens and just poke thousands of

holes through there completely

obliterating that pathogen it’s called

catholicidin another one’s called ll-37

and the last one is called beta defensin

now these names are not important all

you need to know is it’s another part of

the immune system that gets boosted okay

I mean think about this when you take a

steroid right for autoimmune disease all

you’re doing is you’re suppressing the

entire immune system but vitamin D

selectively turns things off but it

selectively turns other things on so

it’s not going to weaken your immune

system so now you know the importance

and the significance of using vitamin D

for an autoimmune disease there’s

definitely other things to do as well if

you haven’t seen this video okay the one

on the gut health

like the thing that starts the whole

process in the first place I put that up

right here check it out