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all right this is pretty cool i’m going

to show you

how to make your own vitamin d

supplements

using

mushrooms

now mushrooms are normally grown in the

dark and the only light they see is some

fluorescent light when they’re either

being

picked or processed and mushrooms have

uh very insignificant amounts of vitamin

d

unless you expose that mushroom

to

ultraviolet b

light and there’s some very cool

research

on

exposing these mushrooms to light and

boosting the vitamin d levels

to levels far greater than the rdas

you can boost the vitamin d and

mushrooms

to

levels of 5 000

international units

to 46 000

international units and beyond and so in

this video i’m going to show you exactly

how to do it you can use oyster

mushrooms

shiitake mataki

or button mushrooms and there’s other

mushrooms you can use as well and when

they did the research and exposed

mushrooms to light they found that if

you expose the gills the little ridges

underneath the cap

you get the maximum conversion to

vitamin d now because the button

mushrooms don’t have those little gills

we’re going to cut them or slice them

lengthwise to expose more surface area

to create a similar effect now i will

say that the type of vitamin d mushrooms

have is vitamin d2 and so it’s a

slightly different version of vitamin d

and it’s not as bioavailable and it has

a shorter

half-life but that’s okay because you’re

going to be boosting the levels of

vitamin d

at a really good range so the amount of

absorption you’re going to get is going

to be pretty good i’m also going to

recommend that you consume your

mushrooms with some type of fat like

butter sauteing your mushrooms simply

because vitamin d absorption is

increased when you add a fat since

vitamin d is a fat soluble vitamin but

mushrooms have some pretty good

nutrients

it has a really good range of b vitamins

it has selenium

zinc

copper

that has the vitamin c complex and it

has potassium and many other nutrients

and they’re great on keto because

they’re low net carb all right so this

is how you’re going to do it

you number one you’re going to obtain

mushrooms either from the store or

finding them in the woods or you’re

going to grow them yourself like i did

recently but i recommend them shitake

mataki oyster or the button mushroom now

in order to have this mushroom

create this conversion and spike the

vitamin d

you’re going to need

ultraviolet b

light

and unfortunately you’re not going to

see much of that in the winter or you’re

living in certain latitudes and parts of

the world in the north so i’m going to

recommend that you do this during the

summer months

but you can also do it in the winter

using a uv

light

so if it’s summer june july august

so what you’re going to do is you’re

going to take your mushrooms

face up you’re going to take the stems

off so the gills are pointing upward

and the cap is towards this sheet like a

cookie sheet for example so you want to

take the stems out because the stems

don’t really give you much vitamin d but

the gills do so this is mainly for the

shiitake the mitaki or the oyster

because the button mushroom doesn’t have

the gills if you’re going to use the

button mushroom i would slice them

lengthwise okay so you’re going to lay

them down on a cookie sheet and you’re

going to put these mushrooms out in the

sun okay

between 10 o’clock in the morning

to

six o’clock

in the early evening that will give you

eight hours of exposure to prime sun

which is exposure to uvb

radiation so at six o’clock you’re going

to take this tray back into the house

maybe you cover it you want to make sure

there’s not a lot of moisture because

you’re trying to sun dry these mushrooms

then the next day day two you’re going

to bring them back out in the sun and do

the same procedure expose them to this

bright sun between ten o’clock in the

morning to six o’clock in the evening

then you’re going to bring them back to

the house

and hopefully they’re completely dried

out the way that you know that they’re

dried out is you can just snap them in

half and they should be pretty crisp if

they’re still soggy then you might need

to use a dehydrator to completely dry

them so once they’re completely dry

which they normally should be on the sun

after two days

you want to put them in a glass jar and

seal the lid

i also recommend putting a little bit of

just rice at the bottom maybe about this

thick just to help you absorb the

moisture

because moisture reactivates the

mushrooms and we’re trying to put them

in a dry state

to dehydrate them so they’ll last up to

a year

so once you get them in this glass

container

now you preserve them for a good amount

of time but they found that if you

actually keep drying these mushrooms out

in the sun day three four five

the level of vitamin d goes down

dramatically so you only want to do this

for two days

now if it’s not during the summer time

you can buy a uv light and do the same

exact procedure but check this out

a hundred grams which is like roughly

one cup of shiitake mushrooms

can give you up to 46 000 ius of vitamin

d2

i mean that is

incredible

now when you use a

light that has uv b radiation and you

expose shiitake mushrooms for 18 hours

now i hope you’re sitting down for this

you could potentially boost the vitamin

d2

that’s well over 200 000 iu’s of vitamin

d this is mind-blowing but that’s the

potential conversion

if you did do that

and let’s say for example you didn’t eat

a cup let’s say you ate just a small

amount

that’ll give you a tremendous amount of

vitamin d

and you made this vitamin d in your own

home now if you do this procedure to

button mushrooms you’ll get a little bit

less you’ll get about 20 000 ius

now in other studies

they’re just using mushrooms that are

not drying out they’ll expose

just fresh mushrooms

in the sun

for between 15 and 120 minutes and

they’ll get levels between 600 ius to up

to 5 000 ius just from a shorter period

of time

and this is without exposing the gills

it’s just putting the mushrooms out in

the sun

so the whole point and the whole concept

of this is to expose mushroom to the sun

or some light that has uvb radiation

so now that you know how to make your

own vitamin d2

the next thing is to understand fully

the benefits of vitamin d

and i put that video up right here check

it out

you