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there’s this one food that you need to

be aware of that has the potential to

completely nullify

any help

from the top three nutrients in

supporting your immune system i’m

talking about

vitamin d help i’m talking about vitamin

c help and zinc help these three

nutrients are the nutrients that most

people take when they’re coming down

with some type of infection so they’re

very very important in helping your

immune system

i’m going to tell you the one food that

can cause a deficiency in all three of

these nutrients and

negatively affect your immune system

your immune system is dependent on these

three nutrients so let’s first talk

about vitamin d is vitamin important

with your immune system

uh yes it’s involved with every single

part of your immune system your t cells

your b cells your phagocytes the

neutrophils every single part of your

immune system has vitamin d receptors

and when someone has an inflammatory

condition called the cytokine storm

vitamin d is essential in keeping that

inflammation

regulated so vitamin d helps modulate or

regulate the immune system vitamin d

also minimizes the collateral damage

from pathogens especially viruses so

without vitamin d

you have a much longer infection

and you have a lot of other

complications all right the next one is

vitamin c right you know vitamin c is

important probably at the first sign of

a cold you might take vitamin c what

does vitamin c do to the immune system

well number one it increases the

mobility of white blood cells it makes

them more active and without vitamin c

they’re very sluggish vitamin c also

increases something called phagocytosis

that’s the ability of phagocytes to eat

up

pathogens vitamin c also helps the white

blood cells

produce their weaponry to defend against

infections and without vitamin c

the duration of your illness extends a

lot longer than it should even if you

took the amount of vitamin c in your

blood and compared it to the vitamin c

in the white blood cell the vitamin c in

the white blood cell is a hundred times

more than in the blood why because your

immune system is dependent on vitamin c

all right now what about the trace

mineral zinc is that important

it’s very very important in fact

without zinc

your thymus gland the gland that

trains your

t cells it’s like a training camp for t

cells

atrophies it shrinks zinc is vitally

important not just with the thymus gland

but for all the lymphatic tissue the

lymph nodes in general without zinc

you’re not going to have the quantity of

white blood cells and without zinc the

duration of infection goes on and on and

on when people suffer from a lot of

symptoms from

interaction with a virus for example and

they have all these complications it’s

really the immune reaction towards the

pathogen that’s creating the damage

more than the pathogen itself and it’s

these three nutrients that minimize the

collateral damage so

if you want to go through an infection

with minimal symptoms these three

nutrients are crucial all right so what

is the food that we need to avoid

if you guessed sugar you are correct now

let’s just take first vitamin c the

chemistry of vitamin c is very very

similar

to sugar okay

if you’re consuming

sugar and vitamin c at the same time the

body will always

take on the sugar before vitamin c

leaving you high and dry or deficient of

vitamin c diabetics that have this

sustained blood sugar nearly always have

a vitamin c deficiency and when you’re

deficient in vitamin c another symptom

you might get is bleeding gums fatigue

collagen

problems

but mainly it’s going to be a weakened

immune system all right what about

vitamin d

well when you’re consuming sugar

the absorption of vitamin d goes way

down

sugar

also impairs the activation

of vitamin d so if you go from inactive

vitamin d to active vitamin d you need

help from your kidney but sugar gets in

the way of that sugar interferes with

that activation of vitamin d

and the third thing that sugar does to

vitamin d is it stops the synthesis or

production of vitamin d you can’t really

produce vitamin d if there’s too much

sugar in the body this is why diabetics

are nearly always low in vitamin d and

if you consume a lot of sugar

that turns into

liver fat

and that also can inhibit the activation

and absorption of vitamin d from another

angle all right now let’s talk about

zinc

sugar

causes

excessive amount of zinc to be excreted

from your kidneys and that’s called

hyper zinguria

too much zinc in the urine that comes

from too much sugar

sugar also impairs the absorption of

zinc so this is another reason why

people that are diabetics are nearly

always deficient in zinc zinc is also

really important in supporting

the beta cell and the pancreas the cell

that makes insulin that then regulates

blood sugars and that does the same with

vitamin d as well vitamin d is very very

important in

protecting you against developing

diabetes so not only does sugar deplete

vitamin d but low vitamin d

can activate or increase your risk of

getting diabetes now when i’m talking

about sugar i’m not just talking about

sugar i’m talking about other things

that turn into sugar pretty quickly like

refined carbohydrates

refined carbohydrates like in grains are

also loaded with phytates which then can

also block

zinc

so as you can see when you’re doing too

many carbs

too many sugars your immune system is

going to greatly suffer all right so

where do you get vitamin c

the best source is sauerkraut okay

sauerkraut per cup if you get a really

good blend of sauerkraut that’s maybe

from the healthy store or the farmer’s

market or you make it yourself

per cup it’s about 700 milligrams now

the rda is only 70. so we’re getting

700 10 times more than the rda so that’s

why you want to have sauerkraut to get

your vitamin c or you can get it from

bell peppers and you can get it from

leafy greens all right vitamin d

difficult to get it from

foods you want to get it from the sun

um if it’s winter time then take it as a

supplement but like i said before

vitamin d and zinc are really really

important

if you’re a diabetic or you’re trying to

repair the damage from being a diabetic

and as far as zinc goes zinc is high in

red meat it’s also high in shellfish

and seafood

now there’s just one last thing i want

to tell you something else that can

paralyze

your immune system that is not food in

its stress

cortisol

from stress

paralyzes your immune system so the two

worst things for your immune system is

stress

and sugar on that note

i want to show you a video how you can

make your own vitamin d supplements

check it out i put it right here