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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video I

want to talk about vitamin D

deficiencies and specifically when you

go get a test you want to make sure that

you always have them assess not just the

inactive version of vitamin D but the

active version of vitamin D there’s two

types and when you go to the doc or you

go to the lab to get tested rarely do

they assess the active type of vitamin D

the inactive type is the most commonly

one assessed and that’s called 25

hydroxy vitamin vitamin D the active is

125 dihydroxy vitamin D okay just make

notes of those words and just present

that to your practitioner when you get

when you want to get testing because

there’s several situations that can

occur if you have low in active vitamin

D but high active vitamin D okay because

a lot of things can influence this for

example if you have low in active and

low active that could be just because

you’re not consuming about it maybe in

your diet which is mainly mainly animal

products or if you’re vegan it come from

russians but it also comes from sun so

let’s say you how get no Sun well it’s

going to be low right because vitamin D

is a fat file vitamin it gets stored in

the body for a period of time but you

could eventually become depleted or

let’s say for example your gall bladder

is missing or you have a gall bladder

problem and you don’t have enough file

because your bile deficient now the

consequence of not having a gall bladder

or you just don’t concentrate the bile

so thereby you don’t you can’t even

digest the B vitamin D because it’s a

fat soluble vitamin so you’re always

becoming deficient because of that or

let’s say another scenario where you

have gastric bypass surgery well this is

another situation where you can have low

vitamin D because the comp compromised

digestive system something’s missing

another situation is the parathyroid the

parathyroid controls vitamin D okay it

actually activates an enzyme to convert

the inactive the active

so most problems with the parathyroid

specially a tumor in the crate thyroid

you have a lot of that hormone coming

out creating this conversion all the

time so they have high levels of calcium

and very high levels of active vitamin D

but very low inactive because it’s being

converted because the parathyroid gland

triggers an enzyme to make this

conversion so with the parathyroid

problem you’ll have low inactive but

you’ll have high active so if you don’t

know that and they only test this one

version you start consuming this vitamin

D and you don’t really need it we need

to fix the parathyroid so a lot of

things will influence these tests a

kidney function liver function if you’re

taking acid blockers for GERD or

heartburn taking medication diuretics

steroids adrenal stress autoimmune - see

he’s all these things influence your

vitamin D levels so here’s the summary

basically always check your inactive and

your active so you can compare and look

at the big picture okay thanks for

watching