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we all know how important vitamin D is

but it’s also incredibly confusing to

know amounts that you need and does the

amount of vitamin D in your blood really

tell you what’s going on in the cells

now when you get your blood test done

with vitamin D some references give you

this normal range between 20 to 40

nanograms per milliliter other

references are between 30 and 50

nanograms per milliliter and of course

if you’re in a different part of the

world there’s different values so for

example if you have 50 nanograms per

milliliter that would be 125 Nano moles

per liter so as you can see it’s very

very confusing and especially if you

take vitamin D which is in a different

measurement altogether which is an

international units even that’s very

confusing because when we talk about

vitamin D3 one international unit equals

.025 microgram

and we talk about other things like

beta-carotene or retinol it’s in a

completely different system it doesn’t

equal what I just mentioned so it’s very

confusing even the rdas for vitamin D

for someone that’s under 70 years old is

600 IUS okay which is 15 micrograms and

the studies that validate that amount

which is extremely low were done years

ago designed to prevent rickets but that

was way before all this new information

on how Vitamin D supports the immune

system and so many other biological

systems so checking your vitamin D

levels in the blood is is all fine and

that’s that’s great but

the most important thing about vitamin D

is does it reach this cell

and it reaches the cell through the

vitamin D receptor and unfortunately you

cannot use

the blood levels of vitamin D to

determine what’s going on in your cell

simply because there’s so many problems

with the vitamin D receptor certain

viruses and other pathogens have a

mechanism a survival mechanism of

blocking your vitamin D receptor for

their survival because they know if that

vitamin D goes into that cell they’re

toast also certain cancers have a

survival mechanism of downgrading the

vitamin D receptor to make sure you

don’t get enough because of this huge

association between vitamin D and the

reduction of cancer risk I mean if you

think about even in a benign tumor you

get like a 93 absorption with that

vitamin D receptor but in a malignant

cancer the vitamin D receptor now goes

from 93 down to 56 absorption so you can

see that cancer cell tends to block the

absorption of vitamin D and about 30 of

the population has a genetic problem

with the vitamin D receptor including

myself so normal amounts of vitamin D do

not make the changes that I need so what

do we do how do we solve this problem

well number one might be a good idea to

get a genetic test to measure your

vitamin D receptor but there’s some

other simple things you can do does

vitamin D receptor diseases and problems

run in your family or do you have a

problem with those and I’m going to list

them right now but there are so many

diseases and health related conditions

that are directly related to a problem

with the vitamin D receptor so let me

just go to the list right now autoimmune

diseases and this includes Ms lupus

rheumatoid arthritis psoriasis

Hashimoto’s Ankylosing Spondylitis the

next category certain types of cancer

especially breast cancer and colon

cancer you just have to realize how

important vitamin D is for so many

things including every aspect of your

immune system that bites off cancer

normally the immune cells are supposed

to kill cancer if they haven’t enough

vitamin D but not if they don’t have

enough vitamin D certain cardiovascular

diseases are related to a problem with

the vitamin D receptor certain cognitive

diseases including Alzheimer’s

Parkinson’s are associated with a

problem with the vitamin D receptor and

we have diabetes type 1 and type 2 and

type 1 is an autoimmune disease so that

would definitely fit into that vitamin D

problem next one is metabolic syndrome

which includes high blood pressure lipid

problems high blood glucose or diabetes

next one is TB okay

tuberculosis which is a huge problem

with the vitamin D receptor in fact

years ago some of the earlier treatments

for TB was just getting out in the sun

and that would greatly help TB because

of the production of vitamin D and if

you ever have the choice between getting

your vitamin D from a pill form versus

the sun you’d be better to get it from

the Sun okay that would be the ideal

situation if you can get vitamini from

the Sun so we have TB we also have

certain viruses parasites some bacteria

Lyme’s disease definitely associated

with a vitamin D receptor issue hair

loss Crohn’s other types of GI

inflammation issues because what you

have to remember is that vitamin D is

probably one of the best natural

anti-inflammatories and then we get

respiratory infections huge association

with a vitamin D receptor probably

because there’s certain viruses involved

that tend to hijack the vitamin D

receptor and then we get asthma if a

child has asthma and you get them to be

outside in the fresh air and the sun boy

their rate of getting asthma just goes

way down food allergies okay the more

food allergies you have the more

problems you have with the vitamin D

receptor and then we get a really common

thing low back pain definitely

associated with the vitamin D Vitiligo a

situation where you have a lack of

pigment in certain places in your body

then you have osteoporosis COPD which is

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

and then even PTSD is associated with

low vitamin D probably because vitamin D

greatly helps depression all right so

beyond checking your blood which is good

to do but if you still have problems

you’re probably going to benefit from

taking more vitamin D so number one take

more vitamin D it’s that simple and you

might need 20 30 40 50 000 IUS if you

start seeing changes then we know

regardless of how much vitamin D you

have in your blood that you were

deficient in the cell because you had a

vitamin D receptor issue all right

number two take it inconsistently like

instead of taking it on a regular basis

okay you might want to take it once

every three days or once every four days

and take a good amount apparently that’s

a good strategy for certain people that

have a problem with the vitamin D

receptor even though I personally have a

problem with vitamin D I do take it

consistently each day just because it’s

easy to remember but if I had an

autoimmune disease or some of these

other problems I might take it

sporadically you can take magnesium and

that will help the vitamin D receptor

you can take zinc you can take bile

salts now bile salts are interesting

because they act

as a vitamin D receptor analog what does

that mean it means that you can trigger

the gene for vitamin D without

necessarily taking vitamin D it’s pretty

wild you can take it in the form of

tatka as well or just bile salts omega-3

has been known to increase the vitamin D

receptor vitamin K2 also helps and then

you have various uh plant chemicals that

are also really good to increase the

reception of the vitamin D receptor like

Resveratrol curcumin curcitin and

sulforaphane all of those can greatly

help and the last thing that can help

vitamin D is butyrate now what’s

butyrate that is a short chain fatty

acid that’s produced by your own

microbes okay and you can increase the

production of that if you consume

vegetables because the vegetables

provide fiber for the microbes they eat

that they convert it to butyrate and

then that can help your absorption of

vitamin D it can also help you with

insulin resistance and butyrate is a

form of a ketone so of course I would

recommend also being on the ketogenic

diet which will help insulin resistance

now the question that I always get about

vitamin D is this toxicity question

I have a very good explanation of the

true toxicity from vitamin D if you

haven’t seen this video check it out I

put it up right here