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today let’s talk about tanning beds  can you actually get your vitamin d  

from getting a tan in your tanning bed now  before i answer that question i want to explain  

something about getting your vitamin d from  sun now the sun doesn’t shoot down vitamin  

d into your body okay what it does is it emits a  wavelength a frequency an energy that penetrates  

a certain layer of your skin and in that layer  of your skin it’s like the fourth layer down  

it triggers cholesterol to create a change  chemically into vitamin d but at that stage  

it’s only an inactive form of vitamin d3 it’s a  pre vitamin d3 so the sun’s energy interacts with  

cholesterol to make vitamin d3 now that inactive  vitamin d has to be then activated through  

two other organs the liver and especially the  kidney so if you have damage in your liver or  

kidney you’re not going to convert into the active  form if you have more pigment in your skin let’s  

say it’s darker that will block this conversion  and if you’re older that’s going to block this  

conversion if you’re overweight that can block  this conversion so there’s a lot of things  

that can inhibit you from achieving your  optimum vitamin d levels now here’s the  

important thing that you need to know now  that wavelength called uv or ultraviolet  

is not just one wavelength it’s made up of  three so it’s three different wavelengths  

the one that makes vitamin d is  uv ultraviolet b the ultraviolet  

a wavelength does not make vitamin d and that’s  the one that they use in the tanning beds  

so if you’re getting that wavelength you’re not  getting vitamin d the problem with being exposed  

to uva is it penetrates deeper it can  actually create genetic damage into the dna  

and 95 of the uv rays are this type so if it has  the ability to create genetic damage and tan your  

skin or even age your skin and it doesn’t end up  helping you increase your conversion of vitamin d  

it can increase the risk of melanomas now with the  sun you’re getting uvb you’re getting uva you’re  

getting uvc and you’re getting other things as  well but a tanning bed only has that uv a and so  

the key thing about this topic is whether you get  vitamin d or not because vitamin d is protective  

against cancer it’s anti-cancer it’s anti-melanoma  and your susceptibility of getting cancer  

and as you become deficient in vitamin d  your susceptibility of getting cancer goes  

way up so for that reason tanning beds come with  a package you might get a tan but you don’t get  

that protective vitamin d to protect you against  skin cancer and other problems now it’s very very  

difficult to get your vitamin d from food for  example three ounces of salmon this will only  

give you 447 international units of vitamin d3  three ounces of tuna only give you 154 iu’s three  

ounces of mackerel fish is 388. three ounces  of beef liver is only 42 international units  

and one egg only gives you 41 international units  and for most people that either are overweight  

have malabsorption issues have diabetes i  mean they need between 6,000 to 10,000 IUs  

every single day now i forgot to mention one  tablespoon of cod liver oil will give you 1360  

IU’s of vitamin d3’s so it gives you a lot more  than any of the other foods all right guys thanks  

for watching and i have a lot of videos on vitamin  d3 and i put some up right here check them out