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today we’re going to talk about some

really interesting information relating

to an autoimmune disease now if you have

an autoimmune condition

uh this video is going to enlighten you

on a a protocol that you may or may not

know about this information is about the

cohimbra

protocol by dr kohimbra he’s a brazilian

neurologist this is what he said

all

or nearly all

patients with autoimmune disease

have an increased

resistance

to the effects of vitamin

d now we know today

there are

thousands

of scientific peer-review studies

linking the vitamin d levels to

autoimmune diseases so in other words if

you have autoimmune disease chances are

you’re low in vitamin d but dr kohimbra

took it one step further and

found out that there’s

not just a deficiency of vitamin d

there’s a resistance to vitamin d he

noticed that in order to raise the

vitamin d levels in these patients with

autoimmune diseases it requires

much higher doses than in the average

population so for example if you’re

going to

maintain vitamin d levels in a healthy

person

you’d probably want to use 10 000 iu’s

and this is also based on quite a few

credible sources like dr michael hallock

who’s the authority in vitamin d

discusses taking

10 000 ius of vitamin d

without

any chance of toxicity versus the

medical health care system in general

recommending only 600 ius of vitamin d

per day so when you give a patient who

has autoimmune disease 10 000 ius of

vitamin d3

you may notice only a slight partial

improvement so this topic is

very very important especially since

like 50 million people in the us have

autoimmune conditions now vitamin d

is not really a vitamin

it’s a hormone it’s chemistry is very

similar to steroid hormones okay that’s

why it creates some very similar effects

to cortisol it’s a very powerful

anti-inflammatory it helps to

calm down and overactive immune system

because one of its amazing functions is

its ability to act as an immune

regulator okay so it regulates the

immune system so if your immune system

is attacking itself that’s out of

control and that’s what an autoimmune

condition is whether you have ms

lupus rheumatoid arthritis

crohn’s hashimoto’s or whatever what’s

common in all those conditions is number

one inflammation and a low vitamin d

status but my question is since there’s

so much data

on this relationship between

low vitamin d levels and autoimmune

disease why don’t the doctors recommend

this more often well i’m going to refer

you to

vitamin c in scurvy now in 1595

the world faced a serious problem with

selling ships sellers were dying there

was no cause no cure then in 1601 okay

several years later you have captain

james lancaster decided to give one

teaspoon of lemon juice daily

to a certain group of sailors

and all of those sailors did not die but

a good percentage of those who didn’t

take it died like 40

so it was known back in 1595

that

something in lemon juice

prevented scurvy which is a very serious

deadly condition then in 1753

james lind published a study on scurvy

and he concluded a sudden invisible

effect

for scurvy when you fed

these sailors oranges and lemons now you

would think this this would be

disseminated and people would accept it

and the medical profession would welcome

this great information right

not quite in fact even james lib himself

said that it wasn’t the vitamin c

primarily that was a secondary effect he

said that

scurvy was caused by moisture and you

had to keep these sailors in a dry

environment then in 1795 gilbert bain

persuaded the royal navy to give lemon

juice to sailors but it took 70 years

later

in 1865 before the intake a lemon was

finally recommended to prevent scurvy

but even that didn’t convince everyone

so he was soon discredited for about you

know 60 more years until they actually

discovered

vitamin c so vitamin c was discovered in

1932

now even during the civil war which is

1861 through 1865

7 000 union troops died of scurvy

another 45 000

troops died in directly of scurvy from

dysentery which is an infection that

affects the digestive system as well as

diarrhea i mean in 1849 when they had

the california gold rush

10 000 people died and then the irish

famine with the potato crops in 1840s

over a million people died of scurvy so

what is my point my point is it takes a

long time for the medical profession to

adopt new ideas

so with this whole vitamin d deficiency

linked to autoimmune disease it could

take

you know probably another 150 to i don’t

know 200 years before they really fully

accept this and then you have in the

meantime people that will will stick to

this conventional

wisdom

even no

there’s so many side effects because

the treatment for autoimmune disease is

mainly steroids and steroids give some

massive massive side effects and vitamin

d

does not and vitamin d works very

similar to the steroid cortisol but

without the side effect now when you’re

using higher doses of vitamin d

potentially you could get hypercalcemia

and the biggest problem with that is

kidney stones however when we talk about

the protocol next dr kohimbra came up

with a solution for this potential side

effect

but we have to realize is that it takes

high high doses of vitamin d over months

to create hypercalcemia

so vitamin d is not really a vitamin

it’s a hormone it acts like a steroid it

doesn’t have the side effects but it is

different than most hormones because

hormones have a this very specific

target

tissue they go after okay like for

example the hormone testosterone or

cortisol or other hormones or even

estrogen they go after very specific

tissues but with vitamin d which i don’t

even like to call it a vitamin

its receptor its target is in every

single cell of the body you have

229 different genes

that are directly influenced by vitamin

d which relate to 25 000 different

functions

it is the most important vitamin simply

because

it does so many different things and so

many people are deficient in this

vitamin now this is all very interesting

but there’s something even more

interesting that i want to share with

you right now remember i mentioned the

term resistant right you’re resistant to

vitamin d

one big way someone is resistant to

vitamin d is

a problem with the vitamin d receptor

okay

and

that condition is called vitamin d

polymorphism which is an alteration in

the receptor for vitamin d so in other

words if someone has this defect in the

receptor

they’re going to be very resistant to

absorbing vitamin d they’re going to

have to take a lot more than a person

who doesn’t have this problem so to make

this simple to understand

you can look at a polymorphism as a

mutation which is some change in the

genetics now

this is very interesting okay you can

develop

a

polymorphic change

or a mutation in the gene

either through

having it inherited from your parents

or

developing it this life

from the environment spontaneously a

drug

a severe overwhelming stress

which could explain why so many people

develop autoimmune diseases after a

severe loss of a loved one or a severe

stress event or a trauma

so the more resistant you are to vitamin

d the more predisposed you are

to

getting an autoimmune disease like

diabetes type 1 and type 2

cancer bone loss

and even hives not to mention all the

other factors that cause resistance to

vitamin d like the color of your skin

the darker your skin the more difficult

it is to absorb vitamin d because the

pigment melanin blocks the uv radiation

which is kind of necessary for the

formation of vitamin d through the skin

then you have like the metabolic

syndrome or insulin resistance factor

which can block your ability to absorb

vitamin d

obesity the more fat you have the less

you’re going to absorb vitamin d then

you have age the older you are the less

you’re going to absorb vitamin d and

then of course we have the diet which is

even more difficult to get vitamin d

from the diet because there’s not many

foods that will give it to you unless

you’re consuming

fatty fish salmon cod oil things like

that and then on top of everything else

just not getting exposure to sun people

stay inside all the time they don’t get

out there to get that sun not to mention

if they do they put a bunch of sun

lotion on on their body to prevent the

uv radiation all right so all that is

very interesting but what is the

protocol that’s what i want to cover

right now now when doing this protocol

it’d be important to find a doctor that

can work with you and i’m going to show

explain why in a second

i’m going to put a link down below

of a website that you can help locate a

doctor that can work with you that knows

this protocol because you’re going to do

a test for vitamin d before you start

but you’re not going to determine the

dosage of vitamin d

by your vitamin d levels why because you

have this resistance remember so you’re

going to determine the dosage by

measuring something else and that’s

called the parathyroid hormone or what’s

called parathorma when you take vitamin

d

that suppresses the parathyroid hormone

so the more vitamin d you take that gets

absorbed the less parathyroid hormone

you’re going to have so the goal with

this whole protocol

is to drop your parathyroid hormone into

the lower level of the normal range now

if your parathyroid hormone is high that

usually means that you’re low in vitamin

d or it’s being resistant it’s just not

going in now as far as the amount of

vitamin d that someone is going to take

it could range anywhere between

40 000 ius per day

to

200 000 i use per day depending on

a couple factors one being your body

weight as well as the parathyroid

hormone so typically the rough formula

for how much vitamin d you’re going to

start with would be a thousand iu’s per

kilogram of body weight so

i weigh 185 pounds

so that means i weigh about roughly 84

kilograms which would equate to about 84

000 iu’s of vitamin d per

day now to minimize the main side effect

of this protocol okay which is kidney

stones what he recommends is avoiding

calcium okay as a supplement

as in hard water okay

as in nuts because nuts have a good

amount of calcium like in tofu or other

soy products which do have calcium and

anything related to dairy like milk

cheese yogurt etc and on top of that

you’ll drink about two and a half liters

of fluid a day so you can have the

benefits of vitamin d

without the

the one big side effect which is kidney

stones and typically he states it takes

roughly about two months

to see the changes in the blood

consistently but then over the course of

two years you’d be checking the

parathyroid about four times and making

adjustments throughout and then within

two years once you’re stabilized then

you’ll be on a maintenance type program

now again this might sound complex or

difficult etc but from my point of view

if you have an autoimmune disease

and you want to weigh out the risks and

the benefits of being on prednisone

long-term versus doing this

i think it’s a no-brainer so again i put

the information down below you can click

the link i’m not affiliated with this

doctor in any way shape or form but it’s

great information for someone that is

looking for an alternative to the

conventional treatment for autoimmune

disease now if you haven’t seen my video

on vitamin d toxicity

i put that up right here check it out

you