There is power hidden
in what I am about to eat,
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the power of the sun.
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Plants capture the sun's
rays and translate it into a
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stored form of energy
that we call carbohydrates.
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When we eat carbohydrates
our body's convert it
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and unleash the
energy in the mitochondria.
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Do you remember the mitochondria
from our first episodes?
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It's like the mitochondria
reverse the whole process
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they unpack the solar
power and transform it into
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electricity, life
force, energy, and release it
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inside of us. And what is
sad is that so many of us are
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avoiding the source of
this energy whether it's from
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the food we eat or sunlight.
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Stay out of the sun, don't
eat carbs, that's what we hear
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and it's affecting us. Its
changing our electro-magnetic
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field. We've got failing
energy, lower frequency and
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it's time to change that.
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The power of the sun
enters into our body,
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not only through the food we
eat but also through our skin.
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Sunshine hitting the
skin is converted into a very
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important
substance we call Vitamin D,
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in fact one of the
ways we can measure
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our sunshine
deficiency is by testing
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Vitamin D blood values.
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Vitamin D plays an enormous
role in keeping us healthy
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and yet Vitamin D
deficiency is reported to affect
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one billion men, women,
and children around the world.
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Approximately 40% of Americans
are Vitamin D deficient
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and if we look at
just our elderly population
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61% are Vitamin D deficient.
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One of the reasons for that
is that the skin of a person
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in their 70s produces roughly
25% of the Vitamin D3 produced
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by a person in their 20's.
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Don't think this is just
a northern latitude problem,
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60% of the Saudi Arabian
population reportedly has
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Vitamin D deficiency and over
80% adults in Pakistan, India,
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and Bangladesh have
insufficient D levels.
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It's astounding, places
like Turkey and Iran have
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major insufficiency as well.
If we're deficient in Vitamin D
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then we are more susceptible
to poor health, autoimmunity,
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disease, death. We
blame our disease on our genes
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or virus but what
about lack of sunshine?
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There's still a lot of
confusion on this topic
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so I thought I'd ask is
sunshine good or bad for us?
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That's an easy question,
it is amazingly good for you
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in so many different ways.
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Yes, sunshine is absolutely
good for us but if we spend
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too much time out there
and get sunburn, that's bad.
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Okay. We can
increase our risk of cancer.
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But, you know God gave us
sunshine as the very best way
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to build up
Vitamin D in our systems.
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Vitamin D is a very crucial
vitamin, there are many benefits
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of sunshine not related
to Vitamin D but one of the
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well-known benefits of
the sunshine is the Vitamin D
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that we get from it. And
Vitamin D is actually more
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like a hormone
than a standard vitamin.
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What's interesting about
Vitamin D is that it turns on
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literally 10% of our genes.
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Now we have these receptors
on our genes called VDR's
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that stands for Vitamin D
receptors and the Vitamin D
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binds to the receptor
and activates and turns on
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the genes and these genes play a
role in controlling inflammation
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for example in preventing
cancer cells from forming,
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and all sorts of other things
that are really important to us.
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So you're saying Vitamin
D kind of hits this receptor
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and once it's in there
it turns on the ability for
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our bodies to produce all these
wonderful compounds that will
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help us prevent cancer.
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Yes. In fact the oncologists
are realizing this now
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and so they are actually
prescribing quite a bit of
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Vitamin D for their patients
for many types of cancer.
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Wait a second, I grew up hearing
how all my sun exposure would
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cause cancer. I asked Dr. Quave
to give us some idea of what
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a good Vitamin D level is?
Sure, and a lot of times it
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depends upon the lab what
levels are considered normal
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and what levels are
not considered normal but
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generally speaking when
a person is under 30ng/dL
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that's considered insufficient
Vitamin D and most cancers
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occur between the levels of
10- 40, so you really want to
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get your levels at
least 40 and higher.
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In pain management I usually
shoot for at least 50 to 70 for
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our Vitamin D levels because
at that point you're getting the
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maximum benefit from Vitamin
D, you're getting the maximum
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anti-inflammatory benefit,
you're getting the maximum
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anticancer benefit,
you're getting the maximum
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immune system
benefit from the Vitamin D.
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You know for example,
like with breast cancer,
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If you get their Vitamin D level
up to 50 you can reduce the
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instances of
breast cancer by 83%.
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That's incredible.
Pretty amazing, right?
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What else can I
tell you about Vitamin D?
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Well, Vitamin D for
example decreases the ability of
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the cancer cell to metastasize,
Vitamin D also decreases
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the cancer cells to proliferate
and it even reduces the
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ability of new blood vessels
to grow into the tumor cells
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thereby making it more
difficult for the cancer
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to grow and spread.
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I know there is always a fear
about like oh, what about cancer
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skin cancer because people
who are afraid of getting cancer
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and dying. but there is actually
a lot of research that shows
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a lot of the benefits of
sunshine will not only for
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other health benefits
but it actually reduces
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your cancer risk.
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But I had one patient
probably about 15 years ago
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that was coming from a nursing
home and I was taking off
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skin cancer three or four
lesions about every three months
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and I had heard this thing
about Vitamin D and they said
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that it might affect
skin cancers especially
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and if you think about it,
we tell people to stay out of
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the sun because it burns them
okay? but sun is where you get
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the Vitamin D so you
got a conflict here, right?
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This guy started taking his
Vitamin D and after his level
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got up to about 70,
I saw him less and less
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and I went for years
without seeing him again.
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He was getting no skin cancers
and I was taking as I say
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I was probably taking 12
skin lesions off a year on him
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easily for years and so
that's when I started seeing
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maybe there's some
other stuff going on here.
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You know we have such an
aversion because sun causes
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cancer, skin cancer
which no question, it can,
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but are we...when you
use sun screen you block the
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production of Vitamin D.
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So, we're often afraid that
sunlight will trigger cancer
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but the truth is that the
sun actually can help prevent
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cancer. In fact it might help
prevent 30 dusk for each one
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caused by skin cancer.
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And there's a researcher
Dr. Geo Vannucci from Harvard
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that says...
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So, I really need to rethink
our perspective on sunlight.
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and it's important for us
to understand how beneficial
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and important it is
in so many different ways
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even for anti-cancer benefits.
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I first started measuring
Vitamin D levels when I was
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practicing in Guam and
this was about 20 years ago
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when I read a meta-analysis
study from a Harvard physician
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who showed that the levels
of Vitamin D in your blood
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correlated very strongly
with your risk of future cancer.
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Now this was based on the same
data set used tobacco exposure
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in risk of cancer,
same data sets and so I was
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like shocked at the time,
I said well that's crazy...
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He actually said that the study
supported the fact that having
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a low level of Vitamin D
in your blood actually was a
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greater risk factor for
future cancer than if you smoke.
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Now the study was not
saying it was okay to smoke
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we just need to realize
the significance of Vitamin D
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deficiency.
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And I think because Vitamin
D is part of the immune system
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If vitamin D is low, your immune
system is not working well.
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You body's not able to identify
what is the true foreign body,
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foreign compound, the
bad cell that's going bad
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that's not breaking down like it
should and what's a good cell?
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I've always heard how
sunlight causes cancer and yet
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we're hearing how it can
actually help us fight it.
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One of the ways it helps
us fight cancer is through
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Its role in
supporting the immune system.
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And there's a receptor site
for just about every cell in the
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body for Vitamin D.
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So Vitamin D does all kinds
of things but the most important
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thing it does is it
regulates the immune system.
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And so when I see a patient
and their having all kinds of
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problems, I want to know
what their Vitamin D level is.
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The thing that is so important
about Vitamin D is it's not
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really a vitamin,
it's actually a hormone
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and so it's really important for
us to think about how Vitamin D
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modulates the immune system
and if we have low Vitamin D,
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for whatever reason to me
that means the immune system
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in the body is really struggling
it's using up all that Vitamin D
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trying to modulate all
the factors and the insults
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that are happening in the body.
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What does modulate mean?
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What do we mean when we say
that Vitamin D is modulating
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the immune system?
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So what Vitamin D does,
it really helps to balance
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the immune system, so if the
immune system is hyper-reactive
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it helps down-regulate it
and bring it back down to a
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even normal level. And so when
I'm thinking about modulating
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I'm thinking about your
immune system is really low
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it will help bring it
back up to where it needs to be
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if it's really high and over-
reacting, it will help bring it
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back down so modulates it
so that it balances itself out.
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In addition, we have these white
blood cells that are part of our
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non-specific defense
called natural killer cells and
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natural killer cells,
their responsibility is for
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killing virus', they kill
cancer cells, and they are
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activated by Vitamin D.
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Vitamin D is critical
for really all conditions.
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it's important for
diabetics, it's important for
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heart patients, it's important
for pretty much everybody
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but it's also really
important for minimizing our
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personal risk for
auto- immune disease.
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And one of the best
studies to showcase this fact
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was over a 10-year study
done in the nation of Finland
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that has the highest rate
per capita of Type I Diabetes
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which is a very common
unfortunately auto-immunity
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where because of some
infection or some toxic exposure
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that child or young adult,
could happen really at any age
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usually in their early
formative years will have an
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auto-immune reaction against
the beta cells of the pancreas
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completely destroying
them so now that they require
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the insulin just to
survive, just to control
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their blood sugar, so that's
a Type I diabetic which is
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very different than
the Type II diabetic.
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This study, they said basically
pregnant women and their infants
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and children up to the age
of 10 were to take an average
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2,000 units of Vitamin D
a day. So during pregnancy
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and as soon as the baby is
born taking 2,000 units a day
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that's not too much, okay,
and as indicated by that study
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and they took that same amount
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for the period of 10 years.
Those individuals that did them
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verses those that didn't
had 80% of their risk of Type I
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diabetes removed. In
other words in the country
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that has the highest
rate of Type I diabetes
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auto-immune condition,
over 80% of that illness
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was eradicated, prevented
by just simply optimizing
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Vitamin D blood levels in
those infants and youngsters.
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So we do know that Vitamin D
and low Vitamin D is associated
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with auto-immune disease
and or worsening outcomes for
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auto-immune disease and so
I'm really thinking through
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how all these pieces
play together in the Vitamin D
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as a modulator an immune
modulator so when you have
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auto-immune disease, Vitamin D
is being used up trying to help
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normalize the immune system
response so you would expect
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that you would need
more Vitamin D to help the
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immune system settle in and
know what it's supposed to do
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to modulate it.
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You know, I don't think we
realize how healing sunlight is,
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that it is one of nature's
doctors, Vitamin D is said
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to affect all body
tissue including the thyroid.
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In fact Vitamin D insufficiency
or deficiency is associated with
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increased risk of reduced
thyroid function and thyroid
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immunity. Low levels of Vitamin
D are linked with aggressiveness
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of thyroid cancer too.
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Vitamin D turns out to be
a very important supplement
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to consider for thyroid
disorders since it's been found
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to consistently help thyroid.
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In fact, the lower the
Vitamin D, the higher the chance
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of thyroid disorder.
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And the lower the Vitamin
D, the higher the levels of
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thyroid antibodies.
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Think Hashimotos.
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Perhaps nowhere more relevant
than in auto-immune diseases
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that I am involved
with so the most common...
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There are two common
auto- immune diseases that
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endocrinologists treat and
that one would be auto-immune
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thyroiditis, things
like Hashimoto's thyroiditis
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which often causes hypo-
thyroidism or Graves' Disease
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which is an auto-immune
condition causing the thyroid
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to be overactive. And
then we treat Type I diabetes
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which is also an auto-immune
process where the beta cells
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in the pancreas are under
attack by the immune system
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and killed off until where there
is no more insulin production
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from the pancreas
leading to Type I diabetes.
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We have more and more evidence
that's accumulating that
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Vitamin D is important
for helping the immune system
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to maintain itself
in a balanced state.
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Vitamin D is an anti-
inflammatory, Vitamin D also
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affects auto-immunity, if
Vitamin D is low, your immune
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system is not working
well, your body's not able to
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identify what is the true
foreign body, foreign compound
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the bad cell that is going
bad that's not breaking down
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like it should.
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We need a good
working balanced immune system
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as we learned about
in a previous program,
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it can help us prevent auto-
immunity, cancer, and help us
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fight sickness such as Covid.
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You know there was a study in
Spain that showed that whenever
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a person's Vitamin D
level was over 30, no one died
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from Covid in Spain, not a
single person in the study.
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A recent meta-analysis published
in the Journal Nutrients
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in October of 2021 showed that
if you got Covid of the Delta
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variety, the worse
one that we've had so far,
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okay, but your Vitamin D level
was above 50 Nano grams per ml
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that your risk of actually
dying of that Covid experience
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was near zero. That's good
news, now I would never rely on
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Vitamin D alone to
protect me from any disease.
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Okay, but that's a simple remedy
that everybody should be taking
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advantage of and that for
most of us does require some
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supplementation unless you're
literally spending time in the
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mid-day on a regular
basis outside and you verify the
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effectiveness of that
with a blood test where your
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blood levels are above 50.
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Well, we knew that
Vitamin D was important for the
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immune system long before
Covid came along that one on the
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fascinating things that
we learned about Vitamin D
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was that if you had a Vitamin
D level in you blood of probably
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forty or higher, if you
got Covid, your chance of dying
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from Covid was dramatically
less than if you had a
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blood level of Vitamin
D of less than 30 perhaps.
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Cytokine storm it is a situation
where the immune system
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has lost control of
itself, it's been tasked with
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fighting this
infection, fighting this virus,
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quelling inflammation
in the lungs and elsewhere.
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But if the immune system doesn't
have the proper system of
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breaking or slowing itself down
it may ramp up and overproduce
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these chemicals
called cytokines.
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These are chemical messengers
that the immune system cells
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like lymphocytes produced
and put out into the bloodstream
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to affect other tissues.
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The cytokines are harmful
to tissue, they're part of the
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way that the immune system uses
to kill a cell that's infected
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with the virus. In cytokine
storm it turned out that
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that process was just
over abundant, over-exuberant
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and as a result of cytokine
storm, tissues in the lungs
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and the blood vessels were
being damaged by the body's
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own reaction to the
Covid virus infection,
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adequate Vitamin D prevented
that to a large degree.
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They found that people
that had Vitamin D levels that
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are greater than 55 which is
kind of toward the higher end
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their survival rate
from Covid is way higher.
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Vitamin D level is
directly correlated with thyroid
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so if your Vitamin D level is
low your thyroid level is low.
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In fact, they will say
in functional medicine that
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if your Vitamin D level is
below 70, your thyroid's not
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working well, it's
got to be above 70.
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That's a metabolic
endocrinologist okay,
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or functional endocrinologist,
if it's a cardiologist,
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we have several
metabolic cardiologists there,
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that's what they call
themselves, they say that the
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heart doesn't work
well below 80 for Vitamin D.
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So, thyroid's directly
correlated with Vitamin D level.
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In the periphery, the T4
has to change to T3, that's the
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active form, but to actually
absorb it you have to have
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Vitamin D to help absorb
the thyroid at the cell level
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that's why it has to
be at a certain level.
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You can have everything
else done beautifully on your
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thyroid panels but if
your Vitamin D is low,
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I'm not getting proper thyroid.
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So you are saying that
someone could be having symptoms
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and think hmm, I think
my thyroid is off and they
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go to the doctor, they get their
blood work and the doctor's like
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nope, your thyroid's
fine because your blood work
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is great...Absolutely. But
it still could be a thyroid
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problem because maybe
they are deficient in Vitamin D
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and that thyroid is
not reaching their cells.
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That's correct, that's
what they are telling us
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and it seems to be playing out
here in the office clinically.
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So whereas with thyroid,
the lower your Vitamin D,
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the lower the thyroid.
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With obesity, the lower the
Vitamin D, the more obesity is.
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it's just exactly inverse.
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This sunshine vitamin
is all over the place,
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I hope that you are
seeing just how valuable
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it is to multiple
parts of our health
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including our heart health.
00:21:20.04\00:21:21.94
Vitamin D is an
essential vitamin for our
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cardiovascular health, there
has been a lot of debate...
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You know I remember 15/20
years ago I was in a fellowship
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and they were just
laughing about Vitamin D saying
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you know, it's not important,
this quack has given Vitamin D
00:21:41.93\00:21:45.50
it doesn't have
nothing to do with the heart
00:21:45.53\00:21:48.50
and we know important
Vitamin D is and very essential.
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There was a study that was
published in the Journal of
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Investigative Dermatology in
January 20 that found that the
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nitric oxide that is stored...
Remember that we talked about
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the nitric oxide for
the endothelial cells.
00:22:05.69\00:22:07.79
Well this nitric oxide
that is stored in the top layer
00:22:07.82\00:22:11.89
of the skin reacts to sunlight
and causes blood vessels
00:22:11.93\00:22:17.73
to widen and the oxide
moves into the bloodstream,
00:22:17.77\00:22:21.90
that in turn lowers the
blood pressure so Vitamin D
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is essential.
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Do you know what
your Vitamin D level is?
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It's important to know, remember
we have Vitamin D receptors
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on nearly every cell of
the body so it makes sense
00:22:35.48\00:22:38.55
that it will impact a lot.
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The people back in the 30's
again they didn't have all these
00:22:40.56\00:22:44.79
labs to go by, they
were going by how they felt
00:22:44.83\00:22:47.53
and sometimes that makes
more sense than what we think
00:22:47.56\00:22:52.40
the lab test is telling us.
00:22:52.43\00:22:54.40
So it adds another
dimension to medicine as to what
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and how we treat them. In
the 30's they were treating
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rheumatoid arthritis with
200,000 International Units
00:23:04.18\00:23:09.78
of Vitamin D
daily and curing it.
00:23:09.82\00:23:11.82
Now, it's not considered Kosher
in medicine to talk about cures
00:23:11.85\00:23:17.59
but they were curing it.
The problem is they had one
00:23:17.63\00:23:21.70
or two patients that
came down with a liver problem
00:23:21.73\00:23:24.23
and because Vitamin D
is a fat soluble compound
00:23:24.27\00:23:27.67
it goes through the
liver and they decided that
00:23:27.70\00:23:30.81
it was Vitamin D
that had ruined the liver.
00:23:30.84\00:23:33.91
No double-blind studies, this
is all coming from case reports.
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So you mind sharing
just connecting the dots
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how Vitamin D would
improve rheumatoid arthritis?
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As an interesting aside here,
I had several patients where
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we actually put them on
Vitamin D at fairly high doses
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.56
because of various things and
hopefully, my older sister will
00:23:54.60\00:23:59.13
forgive me, she was
one of them because we have
00:23:59.17\00:24:01.77
rheumatoid arthritis in
our family because we have
00:24:01.80\00:24:04.71
Scottish blood, Scottish blood
has to do with those B vitamins
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.48
okay, if you are not absorbing
the B vitamins you tend to have
00:24:07.51\00:24:10.35
more of these
auto-immune problems.
00:24:10.38\00:24:11.71
At any rate, she had heard
this lecture and she decided
00:24:11.75\00:24:16.89
that she was going to
start taking Vitamin D
00:24:16.92\00:24:19.59
and so she started taking
50,000 International Units daily
00:24:19.62\00:24:25.33
and eight months later
she was still on that dose,
00:24:25.36\00:24:29.26
her arthritis was totally
gone, she was feeling wonderful
00:24:29.30\00:24:35.20
her husband who is an
Orthopedist at Mayo Clinic
00:24:35.24\00:24:38.81
back east where they live
said hey don't you think you
00:24:38.84\00:24:42.41
ought to test your level you
know it is toxic, she tested it
00:24:42.44\00:24:46.08
and her level was 675.
00:24:46.11\00:24:48.08
Now I don't want to
say everybody can do that,
00:24:48.12\00:24:51.45
she was feeling fantastic
when I told her you can probably
00:24:51.49\00:24:55.16
back down now that
you are up that high,
00:24:55.19\00:24:56.99
she didn't want to
because she felt so good.
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There are many benefits
of sunshine not related to
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Vitamin D but you know
one of the well-known benefits
00:25:02.80\00:25:06.20
of sunshine is the
Vitamin D that we get from it.
00:25:06.23\00:25:09.07
And Vitamin D is actually
more like a hormone than
00:25:09.10\00:25:14.84
a standard vitamin and what's
interesting about Vitamin D
00:25:14.88\00:25:19.91
is that it turns on
literally 10% of our genes.
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We have these receptors
on our genes called VDR's
00:25:24.62\00:25:29.22
that stands for Vitamin D
receptors and the Vitamin D
00:25:29.26\00:25:33.40
binds to the receptor
and it activates and turns on
00:25:33.43\00:25:36.36
the genes, and these
genes play a role in controlling
00:25:36.40\00:25:41.67
inflammation for example,
in preventing cancer cells
00:25:41.70\00:25:46.47
from forming and all
sorts of other things that are
00:25:46.51\00:25:51.01
really important to us.
00:25:51.05\00:25:52.38
Did you hear that?
This is potentially
00:25:52.41\00:25:56.35
life-altering information.
Insufficient Vitamin D
00:25:56.38\00:26:00.69
could be giving loose
reign to the inflammatory gene
00:26:00.72\00:26:04.09
and it's running
wild in our bodies.
00:26:04.13\00:26:06.53
To help us understand it,
I asked him to say it again.
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So, other ways that Vitamin D
can be helpful specifically for
00:26:10.47\00:26:16.60
people with chronic pain
are number one is, it reduces
00:26:16.64\00:26:20.84
inflammation, we actually
have a gene that codes for
00:26:20.88\00:26:28.15
inflammation and there
is a Vitamin D receptor
00:26:28.18\00:26:32.55
attached to that gene and if
we don't have enough Vitamin D
00:26:32.59\00:26:36.93
the Vitamin D doesn't bind
to that receptor and we have
00:26:36.96\00:26:41.80
uncontrolled inflammation.
00:26:41.83\00:26:43.16
So low Vitamin D
can ramp up pain?
00:26:43.20\00:26:46.57
Yes, the descending pain pathway
is actually what we call a
00:26:46.60\00:26:53.58
serotonergic pathway and
when we're low in serotonin
00:26:53.61\00:26:58.28
we're unable to activate
that pathway as well and
00:26:58.31\00:27:02.02
tone down the pain.
00:27:02.05\00:27:03.39
Sunshine is medicine, this
is not to say that you shouldn't
00:27:03.42\00:27:07.72
listen to your Dermatologist,
we need to think this through,
00:27:07.76\00:27:10.63
how can we have
smart sun exposure?
00:27:10.66\00:27:12.59
There's a whole other aspect
of sunlight that we will be
00:27:12.63\00:27:15.36
looking at in our next
episode of Made For Health.
00:27:15.40\00:27:18.37
I hope you join us.
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