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so I’m going to talk about the best

prednisone alternative there’s quite a

few people taking prednisone and the

problem is when you take too much of it

it creates too many side effects so the

point sometimes where you can’t take it

at all anymore because it doesn’t work

anymore over 23 million prescriptions

are given out every single year in the

US alone so what is prednisone

prednisone is a synthetic version of our

own adrenal hormone called cortisol is a

very powerful anti-inflammatory and it’s

mainly given to people who have asthma

allergies all sorts of skin issues from

psoriasis dermatitis poison ivy pretty

much every inflammatory condition of the

skin pretty would give a person

prednisone and inflammation and I’m

talking about arthritis rheumatoid

arthritis osteoarthritis tendinitis

bursitis any of the itis is because

prednisone works on inflammation

autoimmune conditions prednisone is one

of the main medications they give for

lupus Hashimoto’s MS and it works as an

anti-inflammatory because the one of the

main destructive elements of an

autoimmune condition is inflammation so

if you can remove that you can help the

person hives okay which is inflammation

the problem is when you take prednisone

more than seven days you actually

suppress your own body’s production of

cortisol okay so it’s kind of like a

catch-22 because here you’re taking it

to create this anti-inflammatory effect

but the body then doesn’t need to make

it so it goes into sleep mode so the

actual side effects of prednisone are

basically shutting down your own adrenal

system and here are some symptoms

cataracts bone loss diabetes which

actually is interesting because the

adrenal hormones are called

glucocorticoids gluco referring to

glucose because these hormones will turn

your protein into glucose and if you

have too much glucose you raise insulin

and you can even have diabetes as a side

effect and I actually have known of

several patients who

develop diabetes after getting a series

of prednisone shots and of course weight

gain and it’ll make you fat especially

in the midsection and adrenal atrophy

where the adrenal glands basically

shrivel up and they stop working so if

you look at the adrenal glands down here

they’re controlled by the pituitary okay

and the pituitary hormones controlled by

the hypothalamus so you have this entire

pathway here starting from the

hypothalamus pituitary and adrenal is

called HPA axis so the brain is telling

the pituitary to send signals down to

release the adrenal hormones and then we

have feed a feedback loop going around

here turning this mechanism off so when

you take prednisone you basically shut

this whole thing off from this level and

so the adrenal glands just stop working

and so it’s very dangerous to take

prednisone for any period of time now I

personally had poison ivy every single

year through my 20s and even partially

into my 30s every single year I was in

the back yard or something and I got

poisoned I’d be really bad so I ended up

having to take prednisone okay for many

years so it really created some serious

damage on my own adrenals so I couldn’t

sleep had chronic fatigue syndrome I was

constantly getting sick I had massive

blood sugar problems but the cool thing

is that there’s an alternative okay a

safe alternative and it is called

vitamin d3 I mean if you think about it

vitamin D gets great results with asthma

allergies all sorts of skin problems

sima psoriasis and it’s a great

anti-inflammatory and it’s also very

beneficial for autoimmune conditions

especially MS and hives but if you think

about vitamin D can actually give you

that almost the same results as

prednisone it’s kind of like a weak

version of prednisone why because

vitamin D is not really a vitamin it’s a

steroid hormone okay it’s a very

powerful anti-inflammatory it gives you

therapeutic benefit

at higher dosages unfortunately the RDA

is just way too low and the RDAs for

vitamin D are roughly I think around 600

IU’s when you go up with vitamin d3 and

I’m talking like 30,000 IU’s you can

create some really cool effects I’m

gonna put some links down below so you

can get more information and research

this but you would want to take 20 to

30,000 IU’s of vitamin d3 as well as 300

micrograms of k 2 and this will counter

the calcium issue that can occur from

higher amounts of d3 because d3 doesn’t

really tell the calcium where to go it

just increases the absorption of calcium

into the blood by 20 X K to will take

that calcium and drive it into the bone

so if you’ve taken prednisone and now

you’re in a situation where you can’t

take anymore because it’s going to

create too many side effects you may

want to check this out right here in

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