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i think you’re going to be quite blown

away

how broad

vitamin d affects

the different organs the different

tissues typically when we think about

vitamin d we think about bone

maybe the immune system but actually

you’re going to be quite surprised on

the different areas that vitamin d

affects it’s actually

quite fascinating now vitamin d

receptors are

in

almost every single cell if not every

single cell of your entire body and

because vitamin d is a fat soluble

vitamin

it penetrates the membrane and goes

right to the

center of the cell the nucleus okay so

it has

huge effects over that cell and in

reality though vitamin d is not really a

vitamin it’s a hormone and it’s been

extensively studied

just pubmed just doing a real quick

search on pubmed there’s over 64 000

studies

or reviews on vitamin d so there’s a lot

of people that looked at this vitamin

extensively and i think it’s the most

important fat soluble vitamin of any of

the other vitamins in fact three to four

percent of our genome

is influenced by vitamin d and what’s a

genome genomes are the all the genes in

your body um which are all tightly

packaged if we took your genes and

unraveled them and extended them in a

long series of like a string it would go

from here to the moon and back so we

have a lot of genes and three to four

percent of those genes are influenced by

vitamin d so check this out i’m going to

go through all the different um

tissues and body parts and tell you a

little bit about how vitamin d

influences these parts of your body

let’s start with the brain

if you’re deficient in vitamin d

you’re not going to sleep at night

vitamin d helps the circadian rhythm it

helps the sleep centers in your brain

and that center is called the super

charismatic nucleus not that you need to

know that but it’s kind of a cool word

so whether you have sleep apnea

or you just have insomnia

or you get up in the middle of the night

because you have high cortisol like a

two o’clock

vitamin d can greatly help you and i

would recommend taking vitamin e before

bed vitamin d

majorly influences the cognitive part of

your brain like the part of the brain

that helps you remember things and that

helps you concentrate i mean in

alzheimer’s parkinson’s dementia there’s

always a vitamin d deficiency and then

we have your mood your mood is greatly

influenced by vitamin d think about in

the winter what happens you have

seasonal affective disorder you have

depression why because you don’t get the

sun you don’t get the vitamin d and then

you get depressed you get the blues

you’re sad i mean think about how

important vitamin d must be to your body

if you can convert sun

through your skin and make your own

vitamin d from the cholesterol lining in

your tissue i mean you don’t need to eat

anything to get vitamin d you just need

to expose your skin

to sun so if you have anxiety or you’re

especially depressed you need to take

more vitamin d and it will definitely

raise your mood and it can also help

your memory as well all right now what

about hair if you’re deficient in

vitamin d

your hair is going to be very dry it’s

going to be brittle you’re not going to

be able to produce the numbers of hair

because the growth of hair is dependent

on vitamin d you may have early grain

you may experience hair loss during

stress that’s a certain condition or

hair loss during menopause or you may

develop an autoimmune disease alopecia

and that can cause these patches of your

hair to fall out so if you can control

the inflammation you can control the

disease and vitamin d is probably one of

the most

potent anti-inflammatories or natural

anti-inflammatories and then we have

your scalp of your hair if you’re

deficient in vitamin d you’ll be more

predisposed to getting psoriasis

and even eczema on your skin and so now

let’s just talk about the skin in

general

people that get acne are usually always

low in vitamin d it can decrease

inflammation on your skin

it can help prevent vitiligo where you

have

this whitening or a lack of pigment

on your skin people with vitiligo

are always deficient in vitamin d if

you’re low in vitamin d your risk for

getting skin cancer like melanoma goes

dramatically up all right now what about

the sinuses

yes the sinuses all have receptors for

vitamin d and then if you’re deficient

in vitamin d you can have a stuffy nose

you can have sinusitis and the reason

why the vitamin d is in the nose is to

protect you against viruses that are

coming in through the nasal passages and

so we need vitamin d for the immune

system which is the next thing we want

to talk about the thymus gland which is

right on top of the heart is the

training camp for your t-cells and uh as

you age

your thymus gland shrinks and so does

your immune system so the thymus gland

desperately needs vitamin d

to help virtually every part of your

immune system every part of the immune

system has vitamin d receptors so you

have the b cells the t cells you have

both the innate immune system which

you’re born with as well as the acquired

immune system needs vitamin d as well

vitamin d helps control the cytokine

storm it helps control certain

autoimmune diseases developing it helps

control the self-attack which is

involved in autoimmune disorders

it’s an immune modulator so it helps

buffer uh an over-reactive immune system

that’s why it’s good for allergies as

well and it also helps keep viruses in

check it decreases the risk of getting

viral infections so as far as the immune

system vitamin d is the most important

nutrient then we have the eyes right

if you’re

susceptible to getting cataracts vitamin

d can help slow down that process

vitamin d deficiencies are associated

with macular degeneration glaucoma and

especially

dry eyes now as far as the thyroid which

is located right in on your neck right

through here about two and a half inches

wide

the most common thyroid condition is

hashimoto’s like 90

of

all hypothyroid type conditions is

autoimmune it’s hashimoto’s and like i

said before vitamin d is the best

natural remedy for any autoimmune

problem at all because it drops

inflammation and if you didn’t have

inflammation

when you had any type of autoimmune

disease your complications the side

effects would be very minimal because

the side effects occur because of this

autoimmune your body is attacking itself

so hashimoto’s

and

graves disease

both autoimmune one’s a hypo once a

hyper problem with the thyroid can

greatly benefit from vitamin d all right

what about the teeth well if you’re

deficient in vitamin d you’re not going

to drive the calcium into the bone

and your teeth are bone made from

calcium and so we need vitamin d to

regulate that calcium and so

if you’re deficient

in vitamin d

as a little child or even when you’re a

baby inside your mother and you’re

deficient in this vitamin d

unfortunately you can develop all sorts

of bone malformations

later in life or even earlier in life as

problems with um the maxillary bone so

you have an overbite or an underbite or

you have um

you’re gonna need braces because your

teeth are crooked or you might have

missing teeth

but it doesn’t just affect your teeth it

affects the entire skeletal system

you’re more susceptible to getting

scoliosis which isn’t like an s-curve of

your spine or a hunchback which is

kyphosis

or an exaggerated low back curve which

is lordosis

or even flat feet

or bowed legs which is rickets so

without vitamin d

the bone is softer and it it malforms

i mean this can be devastating for a

child the way they look their confidence

and then later in life if they get

surgery

on their overbite or underbite that’s

traumatic i saw some videos recently on

that and i had a hard time watching

these

videos of literally cutting into your

your bone and removing your face and

repositioning and

screwing things back in to make sure

that the face is now symmetrical and the

bite is correct and not to mention

wearing braces for years

so all of this can be

majorly prevented

if that

mother gets enough vitamin d early on

when she’s

pregnant if she’s breastfeeding and so

hopefully that child is getting enough

vitamin d and other nutrients when

they’re developing

but you know i had this interesting

story with a patient he was a medical

doctor and he came in

not by his own accord but his wife

pretty much forced him to come in

because his symptom was hot flashes and

his wife got relief from hot flashes

coming in to see me when i was in

practice so her husband had hot flashes

uh and he came in

and uh to get help

now he was a medical doctor and what he

did is delivered babies and so i asked

him about prenatals i said now do you

recommend um like a whole food prenatal

or

or what because he said there is no

difference between synthetic and natural

they’re both the same

and i said oh okay so

where did you learn that he said well in

school this is what they taught us i

said i said is it possible that that

information is

not true is it possible

that’s false information he goes he

started looking at he goes well

i don’t think they would teach us any

false information

and i said well did you realize that

majority of synthetic vitamins out there

are produced by pharmaceutical companies

did you know that he goes no i didn’t

know that i said and is it possible that

the pharmaceutical companies

could

i don’t know influence

certain data

that is taught in medical school is it

possible

he goes uh yeah yeah it’s definitely

possible i said also the studies on

antioxidants

they always use synthetic versions of an

antioxidant and the studies show that it

increases risk for cancer taking

antioxidants but they what they don’t

focus on is the type of antioxidant

they’re not using antioxidants that are

coming from food

they’re using the synthetic versions i

mean here you are you get the study you

read this data and you go oh

antioxidants cause cancer i’m not going

to recommend it but they don’t

differentiate does it come from food

or does it come from

a lab so eventually as we were talking i

kind of got him to look at a new

viewpoint with synthetics versus natural

things and i

i think it’s the most important action

for a

woman who’s pregnant to get the right

nutrients

because if you’re just deficient in one

vitamin vitamin d

that child can end up with

major skeletal malformations later in

life and it can be totally avoided by

making sure that the diet is correct and

making sure that those nutrients are

high quality and not some synthetic

prenatal that comes from petroleum so

anyway we eventually did help him with

his hot flashes and

he started to recommend a higher quality

prenatal but the teeth are highly

influenced by vitamin d as well as

calcium

i remember even as a child growing up i

craved butter i could eat an entire

pound of butter in one sitting little

did i know

what was in that butter there was

vitamin d in there but there is also

vitamin k2 and vitamin k2 works with

vitamin d especially in the formation of

the strength of your teeth and your

bones and unfortunately i was living on

sugar and didn’t get my butter fix and i

pretty much ended up with cavities in

every single tooth in my skull but it

just goes to show you the importance of

the right nutrition as you’re developing

all right now what about the lung is

vitamin d important for the lung

absolutely

asthma can be improved very quickly in a

child if they’re out in the sun playing

so vitamin d just helps open up the

lungs and asthma it’s great for

lung infections pneumonia bronchitis

any type of inflammatory condition in

your lung vitamin d should be at the top

of the list also vitamin d keeps viruses

in remission and is awesome for things

like copd

and even cancer of your lungs all right

now let’s shift to the muscles

i mean muscles desperately need vitamin

d if you don’t have enough vitamin d

your muscles are not going to recover

after exercise there you’re going to get

muscle cramps why because vitamin d

helps control calcium and calcium is

involved in the contraction and

relaxation of your muscles and so it

might not be an electrolyte that’s

causing your cramps it could be the

vitamin that helps you absorb one of

these electrolytes and you also need

magnesium when you take vitamin d they

both work together and magnesium is also

very important in muscle physiology so

to get rid of achy muscles or cramping

muscles or

weak muscles you need vitamin d

all right now what about your adrenal

glands i mean the main hormone on the

outer portion of your adrenal glands

which is called the cortex is cortisol

and cortisol works very similar to

vitamin d they both are powerful

anti-inflammatories they both help your

immune system

and if you have high levels of cortisol

you’re going to also need more vitamin d

so vitamin d is very very important in

the adrenal glands and helping the

adrenal glands to work

if you have high levels of cortisol

you’re going to lose vitamin d and the

demand for vitamin d goes straight up

and vertical all right now what about

the pancreas yes especially the cells

that make insulin called the eyelids of

langerhan

these beta cells

require vitamin d to make

insulin

and if you have an autoimmune disease

like in type 1 diabetes

it could have been set up or your body

can be very susceptible to getting that

condition if you’re low in vitamin d

and if you have the condition vitamin d

is very very important in keeping

inflammation

as low as possible now what about the

heart a huge association between

coronary heart disease and low vitamin d

vitamin d helps keep the inflammation

low inside your coronary arteries also

the topic on high blood pressure vitamin

d is one of the best things to drop

blood pressure if you have high blood

pressure

i will guarantee you’re low in vitamin d

and so that’s one of the big benefits

from taking vitamin d is to help you

lower your blood pressure which can then

have effects on helping decrease your

risk of getting a stroke

and also it can decrease your risk of

having

other problems with the kidney and with

the heart all right now what about your

liver well without vitamin d

your risk for insulin resistance goes

higher and so many people have insulin

resistance vitamin d helps insulin in

absorbing other nutrients as well

especially calcium there’s a high

association with low vitamin d when you

have a fatty liver and there’s

definitely a high association if you

have a if you have inflammation in your

liver as in hepatitis with low vitamin d

so if you have inflammation in any organ

especially the liver you need to be

taking more vitamin d now with the

kidney

you’re more susceptible getting stones

if you’re low in vitamin d

and the kidney is one of the last

stops for vitamin d in its conversion so

if you have any kidney damage you’re not

going to be able to convert vitamin d as

well but realize that all of your cells

have the capacity to convert into the

active form of vitamin d but the kidney

plays a big part in this conversion of

making the inactive into the active

form of vitamin d so many people have

irritable bowel syndrome they have

ulcerative colitis they have crohn’s and

diverticulitis any inflammation in the

gut can be greatly improved with vitamin

d and if that inflammation

continues it creates leaky gut so

there’s gaps in the

intestine and then you start developing

autoimmune diseases allergies

and all sorts of sensitivities to

certain things both food and

environmental if you’re low in vitamin d

your prostate could enlarge

you can have problems with the ovaries

and the testicle the other real

great thing about vitamin d it can help

your joints whether you have stiffness

pain

inflammation

you need vitamin d because vitamin d is

a natural anti-inflammatory it gets rid

of pain and it’s especially important in

all the itis like arthritis both

rheumatoid and osteo and of course i

initially mentioned the importance of

vitamin d and bone health but if you’re

deficient in vitamin d

you can have osteomalacia which is

softening of the bone that’s where the

bones can start to malform especially

early on in life then osteopenia which

is kind of like a pre-osteoporosis

and then actual osteoporosis where the

bones are becoming very very thinned and

they’re losing the density and so one

indication to know that you are

deficient in vitamin d is just to press

on your sternum okay your breastbone

here or on your shin and if you have

pain

that’s a good way to know you are

deficient because lacking vitamin d

causes bone pain and especially pain in

your lower back even myself i remember

last winter

boy i had some low back pain and then i

i remembered about vitamin d and i

started taking vitamin e and it’s

completely

gone within probably two hours so i hope

you now understand the importance

of vitamin d for virtually

every part of your body but i also now

want to introduce you to vitamin k2

which is also needed when you’re taking

vitamin d3 i put that video right here

check it out

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