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you know vitamin d is a very interesting  vitamin it’s not really a vitamin it’s a hormone  

but today i want to talk about the 10th reason why  you may be deficient in vitamin d so there’s a lot  

of reasons why people are deficient vitamin d it  could be diet they’re not consuming enough fatty  

fish olive oil in fact it’s almost impossible  to get your vitamin d requirement from the diet  

you’re indoors you’re not on the sun that  could be a reason you’re getting older as  

you age your skin gets thicker and you have  less absorption of vitamin d through the skin  

it could be your skin color because the darker the  skin the more melanin in your skin which blocks uv  

light which reduces the absorption of vitamin d  and then number five obesity the more weight you  

have on your body the less vitamin d you’re going  to be able to absorb number six metabolic syndrome  

this includes diabetes high blood pressure insulin  resistance number seven inflammation if you have a  

lot of inflammation in your body you’re not going  to be able to absorb very much vitamin d number  

eight malabsorption and this also includes a lack  of bile or let’s say you had your gallbladder  

removed you’re not going to be able to absorb  vitamin d too well number nine infection when you  

have infections whether viral or bacterial that’s  going to inhibit your vitamin d absorption and  

number 10 the focus of this video is polymorphism  now what is that that is a mutation or alteration  

in the genes that control the vitamin d receptor  and there’s six known mutations or variations  

of this gene and you can get your genes  tested to see if you have any of these  

that’s in another video but if you have  polymorphism what’s happening is you have the  

vitamin d that’s supposed to be traveling through  your blood to connect to the vitamin d receptor  

the problem is we have resistance in the  receptor right now and so because vitamin d  

is like a message or communication it  won’t really matter how much vitamin d  

or how much communication is flowing through  your bloodstream it really matters if that  

communication is being received right if you  were to talk to someone who is ignoring you  

that has earplugs who alters what you’re trying  to communicate who doesn’t understand what you’re  

trying to communicate you can have vast problems  with that right well the exact same thing happens  

in the body with vitamin d if the vitamin  d receptor can’t receive that communication  

you’re going to be deficient regardless of how  much vitamin d communication that’s trying to send  

over through the blood now what’s very interesting  about this topic is that vitamin d receptors  

are located in most of your body tissue okay  so they are all over the place and this is why  

vitamin d is so so important in mineral metabolism  metabolic pathways including your immune cells  

you have vitamin d receptors in almost all of  your immune cells vitamin d and its receptors  

also involved in glucose and insulin  metabolism so if you have this defect  

in the vitamin d receptor gene all sorts of things  can happen you can get rickets that’s a vitamin d  

deficiency in children where your legs are bowed  and we have all sorts of skeletal malformations if  

you’re an adult you can get osteoporosis or like  a precursor to osteoporosis which is osteopenia  

hair loss and i’m talking about alopecia which is  an autoimmune disease that’s definitely related  

to this problem with the vitamin d receptor  susceptibility to viruses why because vitamin  

d is essential to your immune system liver  inflammation vitamin d is probably one of the  

most potent natural anti-inflammatories around  so if you don’t have enough anti-inflammatories  

the liver gets more inflamed it’s more  susceptible to inflammation and then fibrosis  

cirrhosis a fatty liver insulin resistance etc  and polymorphism is also related to the autoimmune  

diseases ms lupus hashimoto’s as in hypothyroidism  type 1 diabetes rheumatoid arthritis  

and insomnia so what can we do about this well if  we have the receptor that’s resistant to vitamin d  

well you can take higher amounts of vitamin d  that will actually help but there’s also another  

thing that’s very interesting about activating  the vitamin d receptor we have the different  

versions of vitamin d and bile salts bile salts  can activate the vitamin d and i’ve done a lot of  

videos on this and i recommend bile salts with a  lot of different conditions and that is probably  

why it’s very effective in enhancing the vitamin d  message to be able to be understood or received in  

order for the vitamin d to be more receptive and  do its various functions and this includes also  

secondary bile salts let me explain what  that is you have primary bile salts which are  

created by your liver that come down through the  bile ducts and get stored in the gallbladder but  

the secondary bile salts are made by your friendly  microbes so this gives another dynamic and another  

area to focus on because if you don’t have all the  friendly bacteria in the right amounts in order  

to make the secondary bile salts that could be  another missing link of why you might have various  

health problems so if you’re struggling with any  of the conditions that i mentioned you may want to  

take more vitamin d as well as purify bile salts  hey before you go if you’re benefiting from any of  

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