The #1 BEST Nutrient for Autoimmune Conditions

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

Channel: Dr. Eric Berg DC

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Length: 13min 51sec (831 seconds)

Published: Wed May 04 2022