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alright guys so today I’m going to talk

about something probably on your mind

the Black Plague there’s some other

names for the Black Plague you have

Black Death the great plague or bubonic

plague they’re all the same thing

there’s some real interesting new

findings that relate to nutrition that I

want to bring up now the black plague or

Black Death was the second pandemic

event that occurred in the year thirteen

forty through the 1400s now if you look

in the history books this event was

caused by a bacteria infecting fleas

which then was spread by rats

okay throughout Europe and even Asia

however recently there was 25 skeletons

which were victims four of the black

plague in a London cemetery here’s what

they found the bones of all 25 victims

showed signs of rickets

what is rickets that is a severe vitamin

D deficiency now what’s the relationship

between vitamin D and the black plague

or an infection

well vitamin D is not really a vitamin

it’s a hormone it’s one of the most

powerful immune modulators it regulates

the immune system and if you’re

deficient it’s going to make you highly

susceptible to infections bacterial

infections viral infections systemic

infections septicemia and autoimmune

diseases in fact you will nearly always

find a vitamin D deficiency in someone

with an autoimmune condition alright so

number one they found a vitamin D

deficiency also the bone showed other

signs of malnutrition and signs of

injuries now what’s interesting about

this is it relates to another video I

did about this Spanish flu which

occurred in 1918 and if you haven’t seen

that video I put a link down below and

the reason why that’s significant is

there were 50 million people who died in

the Spanish flu and there was about 50

million people that died in this black

plague okay

because it was a pandemic event and my

question is how could just a virus

spread through the entire world and just

kill that many people it just doesn’t

make sense what came just before the

event what came right before the Spanish

flu and what came before the Black

Plague so with the Spanish flu you had

this world war one which occurred just

before the event which you had huge

shifts in the transport of food you have

the canning of food which led to

nutritional deficiencies when you can

food you decrease the zinc by 85% and

with the Spanish flu it peaked in

January which is the time of year where

you have the lowest amount of vitamin D

exposure from the Sun of the entire year

which is interesting so what happened

with the Spanish flu is we have this

malnutrition vitamin D deficiency a war

situation and then you get this

infection well with the black plague

signs of injury well that sounds like a

war to me now why would they have low

vitamin D and malnutrition now there’s

some other interesting points in 1315

there was an eruption of a volcano okay

Mount Tarawera

and the ashes from this event may have

fected the temperature around the globe

you can look this up and precipitated

the Great Famine of 1315 just 13 17

other references say it’s 1315 to 13 22

but there was a famine interesting so

now we have malnutrition and if you’re

having ashes that could potentially

affect the temperature you’re gonna have

low vitamin D levels because it’s going

to act as a barrier most of Europe was

affected this famine apparently was

caused by bad weather probably from this

event and then you had crop failure so

you have all these things that are just

stacking up to set people up for a very

low immune system now what’s interesting

is that some people think that the

bubonic plague was way in the past it

doesn’t happen right now

it does happen very rarely but it still

could happen in fact seven people in the

US every single year get the bubonic

plague

now one more interesting point about

this that may relate to this

or the topic we’re talking about but the

California brown shrimp were fed a diet

without vitamin C and within six weeks

they develop black lesions now with the

black death or black plague or bubonic

plague what happens you’re getting

necrosis of the tissue very similar to

gangrene and the tissue is turning black

that’s why they call it the black plague

well apparently when you start shrimping

and see they develop black lesions and

they call it the Black Death disease and

the bacterial counts go way up and they

get septicemia which is a severe

infection now the reason why I wanted to

bring up this whole point is to show you

the relationship between severe

infections and vitamin deficiencies

especially vitamin D especially during

the winter months to protect yourself

against viruses you really want to make

sure you get enough vitamin D now it’s

very difficult to get it from food if

not impossible and it’s equally

difficult to get it during the winter

months so you’re going to have to take

it in a supplement form and lastly just

to summarize the main point the Black

Plague and the Spanish flu are perfect

examples of how a nutritional deficiency

could potentially set you up for a

serious infection all right thanks for

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