The Types of People That May Be Vitamin D DEFICIENT! | Dr. Steven Gundry

[Music] foreign are you one of the types of people who need more vitamin D well first of all it's important for you to know that vitamin D is one if not the most essential vitamins for good health in fact vitamin D is actually not a vitamin at all it's a hormone that has effects on almost everything that happens in you and to you interestingly enough we know that people who have the highest levels of vitamin D in their bloodstream have the longest telomeres those little end caps on chromosomes and if you like the telomere theory of longevity then long telomeres are much better for you than short telomeres and vitamin D level correlates with telomere length interestingly enough all five of the blue zones are in high sun exposure areas including my Blue Zone Loma Linda where I spent half my career as a professor the other thing that's fascinating is that vitamin D is essential to activate the differentiation of stem cells in your gut to provide gut cell lining and without vitamin D the stem cells that repopulate your gut lining which is damaged every day by all the things you eat by all the things we do by all the toxins in our food and by glyphosate the active ingredient in Roundup we are very deficient in replacing the wall of our gut and early on in my career in leaky gut I noticed that most of my patients with autoimmune diseases and leaky gut had extremely low levels of vitamin D and it wasn't until we got their vitamin D levels higher and higher and higher that they began to repair their leaky gut and their autoimmune diseases began to dissipate now unfortunately vitamin D deficiency is a common Global issue and it's safe to say that pretty much everyone can benefit from more vitamin D now that's not just me talking uh uh love tell you about the story of Professor Hollick from Boston University who was a professor of Dermatology who came out with the Bold statement that most of us should not use sunscreen and that we should expose ourselves to the Sun now for a dermatologist a tenured professor of Dermatology that's heresy and in fact for Professor Hollick was fired from his job which you can't do to a tenured professor and it spent him years in the courts to get his job back why was he fired because telling people to avoid sunscreen and to get more sun if you're a dermatologist doesn't seem like a very good idea but Dr hollick's research substantiated the fact that vitamin D and sun exposure is critical to our functioning as a human being now his research has subsequently been confirmed by the University of California San Diego which has one of the biggest research units in vitamin D and they've published papers showing that the average American should be getting nine thousand six hundred international units of vitamin D3 per day to have a safe level of vitamin D not only for health but in their studies to diminish the chance of cancer Yes you heard that right diminish the chance of cancer in fact the same study the same Center has shown that they have not seen case of vitamin D toxicity up to 40 000 international units a day now you heard that right they've seen patients taking 45 40 000 international units a day of vitamin D3 and not experiencing any vitamin D toxicity I've now been measuring vitamin D levels every three to six months in all of my patients for 25 years and I've yet to see vitamin D toxicity and you would think that I would see it because as many of you know we use a lot of vitamin D particularly in our patients with cancer and with any autoimmune disease now interestingly enough as you might imagine Studies have shown that people with darker skin pigmentation are at greater risk for vitamin D deficiency in fact a few years ago it was found that over 80 percent of black people have profoundly low levels of vitamin D now it should be obvious that melanin in our skin blocks UV light from forming vitamin D in US so that's how we convert the sun's Rays into Vitamin D so if you have dark pigmentation and more melanin it would seem obvious that you would have less vitamin D and yet knowing that we have not gotten out the word to anyone with dark-skinned brown skin that they are probably from the start vitamin D deficient even if they work outside in fact early on in my career I found that 80 percent of Southern Californians are vitamin D deficient and you go well wait a minute how in the world could that be because sadly most southern Californians are putting sunscreen on themselves or are covering up to protect ourselves from Sun and that's hurt us because of what we now know about how important vitamin D well so what can you do there's certainly sun exposure is a reasonable thing to do and I've recommended to my patients that early day and late day sun exposure for about 20 minutes at a time is certainly a good place to start now obviously you don't want to go out in midday sun and spend hours in the sun that's not what I'm saying you want to play safe with the Sun I haven't used sunscreen in over 20 years and yet I spend a great deal of time out in the sun how do I accomplish that well before the days of sunscreen my parents were pretty smart and allowed us to gradually increase our time in the Sun and we would get 15 20 minutes in the Sun and work our way up we would build a what was called a sun callus we would tan and has that tanning increase we would spend more time out in the sun and that's still a reasonable way to do it but we're much too eager to get into the sun so one of the things I do is eat my sunscreen I take time to release vitamin C so that I constantly have vitamin C in my skin I take polyphenols which have been shown and I eat polyphenols like olive oil polyphenols increase the repair and blockage of UV light there are even products that are made from ferns that have been effectively shown to block UV light absorption in the skin now why shouldn't you use sunscreen well besides the obvious effect that we need sunlight most of these sunscreens contain hormone disrupting compounds that have now been shown to be absorbed directly through our skin that produce some really bad estrogen-like effects in boys and girls and adults if you've got to use sunscreen please use a zinc or titanium-based sunscreen that doesn't have all these other ingredients now doesn't the Sun cause wrinkles well interestingly enough sunlight can damage collagen and collagen can break but collagen can be re-knit together with vitamin C one of the interesting things about smokers and smokers as most of us know have a lot of wrinkles smokers the oxidative stress of tobacco smoke uses up all the vitamin C in smokers and so there's no vitamin C left to re-knit the collagen breaks that occur from sun exposure and interestingly enough as I've written in my books one of the reasons smokers get a typical type of blockages in their coronary arteries is that it's caused by the collagen breaking in flexible areas in coronaries that doesn't get repaired with vitamin C so eating your vitamin C in the form of timed release vitamin C is one of the smartest ways to protect yourself from sun damage and let's take a tip from Sophia Loren who always attributed her great skin to consuming huge amounts of olive oil and using olive oil on her skin the benefits of olive oil on your skin when you're out in the sun or after your sun will really go a long way at making you tolerate son okay so how do you get vitamin D vitamin D is easy to purchase vitamin D in general comes in 1000 international units 2 000 international units 5 000 international units there are now 10 000 international units and there's even fifty thousand international units uh right now the University of California San Diego says the average American should take 9 600 international units a day I certainly find that's true in my practice uh I take 10 000 international units a day I have for the last few years for obvious reasons as a defense against viral illnesses mushrooms contain a good amount of vitamin D now I personally believe that most people taking vitamin D should also supplement with vitamin K2 vitamin K2 is very different than vitamin K1 vitamin K1 is props clotting Factor formation in US vitamin K2 on the other hand takes the calcium that we eat and the calcium that could potentially deposit in our coronary arteries and deposits it into bones and in my patients with osteopenia osteoporosis vitamin K2 is a major part of our regimen now the good news is you don't need much vitamin K2 100 micrograms will usually do it if you want to take more it's not harmful but the combination of higher vitamin d and vitamin K2 is a win-win now can vitamin D bother you I have some women who swear that vitamin D makes their stomach queasy and even gives them diarrhea if you are one of those rare people and I have you as my patients I'd like you to try a sublingual form of vitamin D vitamin D Drops interestingly enough I don't find the drops as effective in elevating vitamin D levels but it does seem to ward off those few instances where vitamin D seems to give you queasy stomach lastly I've seen a couple of women not men who they swear that vitamin D gives them palpitations skipped heartbeats and we've done the experiment where we've lowered their vitamin D and their palpitations got better is that a placebo effect I don't know but their vitamin D levels in their blood really didn't change very much so if you're one of those rare people who notice either the queasy stomach or palpitations skipped heartbeats then consider lowering your vitamin D dose or trying it under your tongue but in general most of us should be taking somewhere between five thousand and ten thousand international units of vitamin D3 and you'll be in great shape going forward I think you're going to love this one in fact studies after studies show that people who donate blood on a regular basis live seven years longer than people who don't donate blood

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Published: Tue Dec 20 2022