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now the question today is can vitamin deficiencies  actually cause serious disease now you wouldn’t  

ever connect a vitamin deficiency with a  serious disease but there are quite a few  

diseases that stem from nutrient deficiencies  now they’re called classical deficiencies  

so you have the classical scurvy which is a  vitamin c deficiency rickets vitamin d deficiency  

osteomalacia which is also a vitamin d deficiency  which most of the time occurs when you get a  

little bit older beriberi which is a b1 deficiency  pellegra which is a vitamin b3 deficiency so those  

are the classical deficiencies that are you’ll see  in many many different textbooks you also have sub  

clinical deficiencies which don’t really show  up physically yet they’re brewing in the oven  

and eventually they create problems down the road  and you may notice some symptoms but it’s hard to  

recognize unless you understand the link between  nutrient deficiencies and their manifestation now  

a lot of these deficiencies start in the  fetus especially if you’re not breastfed  

and you’re consuming infant formula there’s  some really really important nutrients that  

a pregnant woman and someone who’s breastfeeding  must get in the diet enough zinc vitamin d  

folate iodine omega-3 fatty acids these are vital  if you’re deficient in iodine first of all you’re  

going to be have a stunted growth secondly  you’re going to have a lower intelligence  

so it can create a lot of issues and so if your  mother is deficient in folate you can end up with  

what’s called a neural tube defect which means  part of your spinal column is not closing properly  

so your spinal cord is literally being exposed  and it’s not protected and vitamin d is really  

important in maintaining the structure of your  skeletal system as well as the tone of the muscles  

so if you’re deficient in vitamin d you could  have things like scoliosis flat feet kyphosis  

which is hunchback lordosis which is an excessive  low back curve as well as a lot of dental problems  

in your maxillary bone and in your jaw and it’s  interesting because if you look up information  

on classical deficiencies they’ll tell you that  they’re rare because of the fortification of foods  

where we added synthetic vitamins but let’s go  down the list and talk about each one a vitamin  

c deficiency severe scurvy fatigue bleeding  gums that’s gingivitis loss of connective tissue  

rickets that is low vitamin d your  legs start bowing out your bones  

start to malform like i’ve already mentioned  you have a lot of muscle weakness and cramps  

then we get to beriberi which is a vitamin b1  deficiency now a severe b1 deficiency can create  

some serious disease dementia loss of memory  neuropathy nerve damage you get brain atrophy  

your brain actually shrinks when you don’t have a  certain nutrient all these vitamins are cofactors  

they’re helper compounds to allow the chemistry in  your body to work right and so if you’re missing  

one of these cofactors it has profound effects  down the road osteomalacia that’s basically  

soft bones this happens mainly when you get older  but it also could occur when you’re young as well  

with this you there’s pain in the legs you have  weakness in the muscles you have weakness in the  

lower back so how many people have low back pain  and they don’t realize it could be a subclinical  

osteomalacia or a vitamin d deficiency pellegra  they call it the four d’s it’s a b3 deficiency  

diarrhea dermatitis dementia and death  and then we have night blind this vitamin  

a vitamin a is very very important if you  don’t have enough you can literally go blind  

then you have heart attacks if you have a  severe vitamin e deficiency your heart can  

go into a cramp it can cause angina and you can  have a heart attack now a couple things i want to  

mention that are a little more interesting  than what i just talked about number one  

a lot of these deficiencies occur when you consume  refined foods okay because especially vitamin e  

b3 b1 vitamin c and even a vitamin d deficiency  could be created when you’re consuming refined  

foods consuming refined foods as in refined  carbohydrates then lead to insulin resistance and  

your ability to absorb these nutrients goes way  down but this is what i really want to talk about  

these are the causes of these effects these  are the symptoms these are the causes right but  

when you look up a lot of these symptoms they’re  classified as a disease or a cause of something  

and when you’re researching a lot of things  like bleeding gums as in gingivitis if you  

look to the cause of that you don’t even see  vitamin c on the list it’s not even there and  

so they they say well it’s a condition it leads  to excessive bleeding and you should brush your  

teeth more or dental floss your teeth but they  don’t get into the nutritional causative factors  

let’s say for example you looked up dementia it  doesn’t even mention b1 at all or even neuropathy  

it doesn’t even talk about b1 or let’s take  dermatitis vitamin b3 is not even on the radar and  

even when we get to heart attacks which by the way  this should be on the other side of this as being  

the symptom of low vitamin e look at heart attacks  they’ll talk about you know smoking not enough  

exercise eating fatty foods etc etc but what about  this vitamin e so there’s a big disconnect between  

the nutrient deficiency effects to all of their  symptoms which then are classified as a disease  

and it’s very confusing and you know when you  treat symptoms and you don’t really know the true  

cause you never really get rid of the problem now  if you have not seen my video on the most nutrient  

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