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there’s an interesting relationship between  cortisol and vitamin d that i’m going to talk  

about today or i could also say there’s an  interesting relationship between stress and  

vitamin d as well so the first question is this  is it the vitamin d that causes low cortisol or  

is it the cortisol either too high or too low that  causes a vitamin d deficiency is it the chicken  

or the egg well i think it’s the chicken and the  egg because vitamin d is required to make adrenal  

hormones not just the adrenal hormone cortisol  but other adrenal hormones as well and so if a  

person is deficient in vitamin d which includes  the majority of the population because most  

people have a vitamin d deficiency then they’re  also going to be deficient in certain adrenal  

hormones which can then set them up for all sorts  of problems not having enough adrenal support  

to counter stress in life i mean the adrenal  hormones are all about adapting your physiology  

to the environment related to stress and if  you’re not adapting to stress you can have a  

lot of problems and this is why there are so many  diseases that are caused by stress ulcers diabetes  

increased risk for cancer autoimmune disease heart  conditions infection there are so many people that  

end up with an infection both viral and bacterial  which occurs right after a stress event because  

the stress lowers the immune system and makes you  very susceptible to getting an infection then you  

have insomnia sleep apnea it can affect your mood  put you in a state of anxiety or depression and it  

can make you gain weight because cortisol affects  the blood sugars and then we have another aspect  

of this vitamin d and cortisol are both powerful  anti-inflammatories and so how many conditions  

out there are involved with inflammation i mean  just about every single chronic health problem  

has an inflammatory factor to it and then we have  another situation where we have high cortisol  

cushing’s syndrome and low cortisol addison’s both  related to a vitamin d deficiency now if we also  

look at the immune system okay cortisol normally  suppresses the white blood cells and vitamin d  

modulates the immune system which means it  helps control it so if there is an overactive  

immune system whether you have allergies  hypersensitivities or even something severe  

like a cytokine storm and vitamin d can come  in there and help suppress the over reaction  

of the immune system and related to that vitamin d  has a very important purpose of helping to prevent  

autoimmune diseases so does cortisol because  if there’s a problem with cortisol that can  

set you up for a susceptibility to developing an  autoimmune disease as well and then we have the  

raw material that actually makes cortisol and  vitamin d comes from the same thing cholesterol  

and so if you are on a statin drug or  you’re told to go on a low-fat diet  

and you don’t have enough cholesterol to make  both vitamin d and cortisol and on top of that  

bile bile is made from cholesterol as well  so if you don’t have the raw material to  

make these you can imagine what could happen  to your immune system inflammation etc etc etc  

and so this cortisol and vitamin d relationship  is very interesting any condition that involves  

cortisol either too much or too little  i highly recommend you take vitamin d  

to help to normalize cortisol because that will  actually enhance it in fact i like looking at  

vitamin d as a natural prednisone without the  side effects in recent videos i talked about  

the 10th cause of a vitamin d deficiency which  is polymorphism which is kind of a defect in the  

vitamin d receptor and you can watch that video  i’ll put it down below but i listed all the  

different causes of a vitamin d deficiency and  i added number 11 which is stress so the more  

stress you go through the more vitamin d you’re  going to be deficient and so the bottom line is  

stress causes a vitamin d deficiency and a  vitamin d deficiency can also make you more stress  

and create a cortisol problem all right thanks  for watching and i will see you in the next video  

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