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- How can you know if your Vitamin D is doing what you think it's doing? Many patients don't realize that they are not absorbing their vitamin D. Here's a way to increase your levels that I used with my dad.
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I live in Florida and am 65 years old. When Covid hit and I had “to stay home”, I started walking A LOT with my dog. My vitamin D levels went up to 100, and my doctor didn’t believe that I wasn’t taking supplements. She actually put an email into my record calling me a liar about my not taking supplements. Since we are military retirees we were using the military health system. I had to request a different doctor because my doctor didn’t believe that I could get so much sun that my D levels would be
high but I didn’t burn. We eat keto/ketovore. By the way, Covid didn’t affect me either.
From what I have heard going carnivore is better than any Vitamin D supplement. Lots of people supplement ans still have low levels.
Apparently you should refrain from cleaning your skin for 2 days to allow the bacteria to proliferate. This aids in vitamin D generation/absorption via skin exposed to sunlight.
Also skin colour affects the amount of time you need to expose yourself to sun.
Darker skin requires longer exposure times.
@@Infiniti25 I’m of Irish/Scottish ancestry, so I definitely absorb rays. But no burn since I went low carb.
@@vickiharris9403amazing
How long did you go out in the sun per day? I have low d for several years… my husband is active duty and the “doctor” refuses to test me … I have to pay out of pocket in town to get a test.
D is absorbed better in conjunction with Vitamin K. My D level has been around 100 for several years. I am 76. I think it was what got my wife and I through the Covid trials. No Vaccine for us.
Right on Joel ! 👍
Latest research says take separately because they complete...D in morning with Zinc for better absorption..K2 in evening.
D is working in conjunction with magnesium. And both are fat soluble.
@@nigel6862 My doctor told me to take D3 with K2 (mk-7) because I was getting kidney stones when taking D3 by itself. I take 10,000 D3 with K2 and haven't had a kidney stone since.
Hi Troy, this is also what I've found in my research. What form of magnesium do you take and what is your Vit D level? @@TroyQwert
I worked outside for 40 years and didn't know, of the hundreds of co-workers, of ONE single case of skin cancer.
Me darker skin, PE teacher and track coach, beach bum growing up Jersey shore. Me now 68, 5 basal cell cancers last 7 years. Nice high Vit D level. So there is this....
My dad spent 50 years working outdoors on our dairy farm. He’s had too many skin cancers removed to count…..all on sun exposed areas. Don’t know about his vitamin d levels but I’m assuming high since he is outside so much. My entire family has had minor skin cancers so it could also be genetic.
That's because if caught early, it can easily be burned off using liquid nitrogen.
And most people know that no one is interested in your many whines about your medical problems, and I use "your" in the global sense so most people don't whine.
@@mutteringmaledoes it make you feel better about yourself when you are a complete a-hole to complete strangers?
@@RonnieM983 Yes, when the strangers are blithering idiots who pretend to be smart. I have no pity for the stupid pretenders.
I live in Florida and am outside all day. I never use sunscreen and use no lotions or creams except for coconut oil. I truly believe all the harmful chemicals in the processed foods and sunscreens people use are what is causing the skin cancer epidemic.
I agree. I feel like people around me are stupid or something. Yah, lets spray cancer causing stuff on our skin to avoid getting cancer. Does this even make sense at all? I have heard that I don't need to worry because the sun screen can't get below the upper level of skin and yet I also hear that the chlorine in water can cause cancer if I shower with it. Someone is lying here.
What a great marketing deception scam...the sun is trying to kill us! The very thing that gave us life and sustained us for billions of years
I agree, but the worst ingredient in processed food is seed oils. Stopping consumption of all seed oils allowed me to spend much more time in the sun without burning or even getting pink. Seed oils: canola, sunflower, safflower, soya, corn, rice bran oils.
To me, the idea that the sun causes skin cancer makes about as much sense as saying oxygen causes lung cancer...
Forty years ago I realized that I was burned more by the sun tan lotion than by the sun. Stopped using that stuff, along with a plethora of Pharmaceuticals and processed food. But I still got nailed by ice cream. That danged HFCS got me.
My level is at 70. The key is adding K2 and magnesium bisglycinate.
Not always . You can have the VDR mutation like I do and never assimilate it so it goes into the bone where it needs to go . After 10 days of supplementing with vitamin D3 and K2 I developed kidney stones. Your advice is good for most people but unfortunately there are some people like myself that are just kind of screwed. This is why I tan in beds, which is why I was interested in hearing this video because it is true. The tanning beds are the only thing to raise my levels.
@@carolinelaronda4523Developing kidney stones in 10 days? Highly unlikely. Probably you already had them but did not know. What dose did you take a day? You know, that exposing your skin on sun for hour or two will produce 20k IU of D3, you would develop huge kidney stones every summer if it was vit D3 problem.
This doctor is more about selling the test kits than giving us simple & full information: Another key is taking D3 instead of the formerly much more common D2.
About 14 years ago, I had huge prescription capsules of D2, 50K units twice a week. The doctor actually accused me of not taking them b/c my blood level of vitamin D did not improve. I researched it myself, which took only a few minutes on the internet. Absolute maximum human absorption of D2 is only 30%, with most people being around only 8%, as I recall. I had to hunt around to find some D3-in-oil gel caps, and in a couple months my vit-D blood level was fine. My doctor should have known this, especially before insulting me, but as a group, doctors are almost the last people to be truly knowledgeable about nutrition, at least in the USA. (It was only in 1999 that med students began to be required to take ONE nutrition course.)
Within a couple years of my experience, D3 capsules were widely available, and it was even being used as the supplement in milk. I'm guessing this doctor gave her father the same near-useless D2 that I was prescribed. Her failure to mention the importance of D3 vs. D2 means I cannot look upon her as trustworthy.
@@carolinelaronda4523 May i ask how did you come to know about the VDR mutation? Does a blood test finds that mutation? I want to add K2 to my diet but i worry about some hidden side effects.
@@carolinelaronda4523 The vitamin D isn't even metabolized by your liver in 10 days. It takes longer than that, and kidney stones take years to develop, so I call BS.
I live in Australia, melanoma capital of the world. I am 60 years old and as a child we spent all summer swimming at the local pool. We baked in the sun, at the start of summer our skin would blister and peel, our nose and cheeks were covered in scabs then by the end of summer we were dark tan and our skin was perfect. In those days my mum cooked everything in fat, there was no seed oil in our home and we didn’t even know what it was. We never ate out and any deserts were homemade with butter or cream, no seed oil. Now we have a population of people in their early twenties getting melanoma and that generation was brought up on seed oil. Is there a correlation between seed oil and melanoma because we definitely need sunlight for vitamin D.
Same!!
I was there, skin cancers are caused by all the shit in sun block, the only sun block we got from mum was butter to help stop the shedding of burnt skin.
can it be related to the ozone hole that probably wasn't there 60 years ago?
@@bigbang259 Is that a joke? There never was an Ozone hole.
In 2020 something worse than cancer came out Covid vaccine in Australia where you list your freedom to leave the country and people be with loved ones overseas who werre helpless and living in australia couldn’t be with there child children wife husband loved ones so cancer either kills you or live but without the vaccine you had no choice cause of living in australia 🖤💉🇦🇺lest we never ever forget 💛☀️
I take 10,000iu’s daily with K2. During covid, I was taking up to 50,000iu’s. My D levels were around 100. My doctor’s office called concerned that my levels were too high and told me to reduce my supplementation. I knew 100 is therapeutic and kept up what I was taking. I can’t remember the last time I had so much as a cold. I never got jabbed and never got Covid either
Vit d and not getting the jab has kept your immune system optimal. 50,000 for extended periods is in my opinion too much and unnecessary but hey you know your body so good on you
What happens if vit D ever became unavailable...
If I was taking that amount I think that I would go to the emergency room to find out why I need to.
@@johnwarner8569 I only did this for a couple of weeks at a time and took breaks in between, usually when I knew I had been exposed to someone who came down with the Rona. It worked 🤷🏻♀️
@@worldpeace786 I’ll get some actual vitamin D from the sun ☀️😅
There is no substitute for living a natural life and eating real food and avoiding watching television.
I haven't turned on the TV since March 10, 2020. When the news media (And I'm a member of the news media!) started blaming me for getting grandma sick, I turned it off. I only turn on my device to watch streaming services.
*You just HAD to launch a woke, leftist missile into this, didn't you?* *_Television isn't bad, the detriment or benefit depends on 2 things: 1) What a person watches and 2) what the watcher knows, understands and believes._*
@smacktard6051the advice you get from doctors today is more of a business and are more concerned about treating symptoms. You have to learn who you can trust and who you can’t. If you feel a doctors on TH-cam are only concerned with their algorithms, you would be wise to stay away and look elsewhere, but to suggest all doctors on TH-cam are not worth considering, you do yourself a great disservice.
Yeah but the problem is the average dunce, which is 99% of people, thinks that Plants are Real food. They are not.
@@joeskeptical4762a woke leftist missile? 😂Dude shut the tv off and get your hands dirty you’ll learn more than watching tv. The recommendation to turn the tv off has been said long before there was a woke.
My mother sits outside in the sunshine whenever she can. Her lower legs and arms are tanned and her Vitamin D levels are very good.
Real sunlight is way better than a tanning bed. Other wavelengths of light have incredibly
beneficial effects too. Red and infrared are especially healthy.
Great for healing and for increased energy.
Standing in bright sunlight after you wake up is better than coffee.
Tanning beds do not produce the correct wavelength! Uvb is necessary at 295 wavelength
You didn't watch the video@@billyholiday4947
@@billyholiday4947not entirely correct. Depends what kind of tanning bed. Low pressure tanning beds emit more UVB than high pressure beds that emits more UVA.
I just learned from Dr. Berg that low levels of magnesium will affect your vitamin D absorption.
Magnesium, D3, K2, Zinc all need to be in the same supplementation regime apparently according to Dr Berg if you watch enough of his videos.
Same as the Sodium Potassium pump.
There will be a ratio to adhere to.
D3 10000IU to 100ug K2.
Pretty sure you're supposed to take vitamin D3 in the morning and take vitamin K2 at night Never both at the same time
My Vit D of 10,000 IUs was excellent. I take them with FAT foods.
Sorry to hear about the struggle your father had. Amazing that tanning Salons were his answer.
@@MoDrox-hy2xxThat is bull you talking! Where you hear that from?! Taking D3, K2, Magnesium, Vitamin C, Zinc & Copper. Do research properly before you embarrassed yourself.
@@MoDrox-hy2xxmany Vit D supplements come with K2
And let's not forget to take the supplement with a fatty meal or it will be useless because Vit D is only fat-soluble.
It might help but is not essential - just check your levels and adjust. Taking with a fatty meal may help but if you have normal levels without special procedures, then don't worry about it.
thanks, taken w/ my fish oil
The one I take actually has coconut oil with it.
@@nogames8982 Great!
take care to get the reading glasses out to check the ingredients for industrial seed oils - they are very common in the soft-gel packaging.
K2 is needed to put calcium where it should be not in the heart also magnesium
You lost me when you said the supplements you were giving your dad were FDA approved so they were good quality supplements.
Yeah the FDA does not have it's best interest in people.
The FDA approved vitamin D treatment used by doctors seems to be giving an injection of 50'000 IU of vitamin D2 once a week.
A daily supplement if 5000 IU of vitamin D3, which you can get over the counter, seems to me being more sensible.
Although, her point was that her father couldn't absorb supplements, because of leaky gut.
This doesnt fit together. I don't think there's any FDA approved D3 supplement!
But, ignoring that, the idea of using UVB tanning bed isn't bad.
Although, supplements seems to work for me. But I need more than my dose of 5'400 IU. I meassured my blood level this spring to 45 bg/ml. A little lower than I expected, so I'll increse my dose to 10'000 IU this autumn, aiming for 70 ng/ml the next spring.
Its a severe discrepancy between the recommended dose of vitamin D and the blood levels they sometimes realize you should have!
My experience with doctors who are considered “experts”, my honest conclusion, I do what my body tells me not some intellectual who thinks they are smarter! And sometimes it’s a trial and error process. But I have become intuitive and sensitive to what I need personally!
I let my doctor have her way with me.
You are very smart and wise! You must be your own advocate over your care..no one knows you better than you and doctors treat us all like text books and not individuals....one size fits all..smh
same experience with doctors for me. i have more trust in myself then any doctor.
The emergency care in this country (USA) is second to none. The holistic and preventative care is non-existent.
@@oyamawapiti absolutely!
Testing Vitamin D levels is great advice! Thanks.
Note: 100ng/ml is a better blood level to shoot for. Doctors are using old moldy info.
Young lifeguards in Florida were tested and averaged 125ng/ml!
The higher levels of D increase healing and immune function substantially.
I've read 5 books on D. It's one of the most important vitamins. It's the hibernation vitamin.
Way too many of us are low on D and hibernating.
You may need to supplement Magnesium along with D. The increased metabolism increases nutrient use.
Glad to see you're taking it with K2!
I did a high-dose vitamin D experiment, A-LA Jeff T Bowles. I took 25k IU daily for two months, 35k IU for three more, then 50k IU for a month. I lost 20 lbs and felt great...
How can we discern when too much of a vitamin can cause calcification or organ damage?
@@sukiclementsroman5158Dr Berg did a video on this and basically it would take years of massive dosing. The person who you replied to, took high doses for a short time and there would be zero calcification. I take Vitamin D along with zinc, K2 and magnesium. All those additional vitamins help Vitamin D to do its job properly and to go to the right place. I hope that helps you?
speaking of high dose. You want a consistent dose. Falling levels even when it high is little better than a low level. See Reinhold Vieth.
@@sukiclementsroman5158I don't know. I hear a lot about that, but I also know the average deaths per year people get from vitamin D toxicity worldwide is zero...I had no problems at all...
50K IU daily for a month???
i,m learning that just because its fda approved dosn,t mean much other than a company can buy approval
Lol, very true.
FDA approveS of a toxic chemical in the use of making Decaf Coffee. It was banned yesterday by EPA for being used as a paint stripper but FDA says- in your morning coffee- no problem. Same group said Covid does not spread on an airplane- yet, they closed down hiking trails outside...and yeah, the jab is safe they said. I do not trust them.
Fake Doctor Association, owned and paid for by big Pharma
Mine was 108 and then my doc said cut down. While also telling me that I was an Outlier because my Prostate Cancer went into remission
LMAO he was pissed
hahahahaah yeah.......
I’m 76 and my level during Covid was 179. Taking 20k + Mg and K2. per day. I stopped having strep twice a year, along with the terrible hives that followed any virus. Covid for me was a mild case of the flu symptoms, no clot shot. I’ve since lowered to 15k per mo. I try to keep my levels above 140. Quercetin and zinc every day also. Most people think I’m in my 50s.
so, you only take 15K of vitamin d per month?
@@yt-qg8ui Yeah that is right down by the criminally stupid government RDI. But the commenter is a bit strange. Has a white beard and wears a wally hat and thinks that people think he's in 50s. Maybe treat everything with two grains of salt.
Wonderful!
Dr. Sam Bailey.
Actually...10 years ago I had Vitamin D in the high 20s and my doctor prescribed that same pharmaceutical 50,000 IEUs and when I went back, it didn't have an effect on my levels. Then I started taking 5,000=10,000 vitamin D mixed in coconut oil and in 6 months, my Vitamin D was over 100 and I had to cut back. So, I came to the conclusion that big pharma version wasn't effective because it wasn't liposomal.
How did you take vitamin d in coconut oil?
If you live in the northern hemisphere you are almost certainly short on Vit D in the winter months. I take 4000iu year round and at least a half hours sun bath all spring to fall. Even on those rare pleasant days in winter time. My health has improved dramatically since I started this.
Hi Charles, I live in Ireland and have always been a very keen cyclist. I had hormone therapy and radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 2017. During treatment I lost so much strength and until last year I still hadn't recovered. I became depressed, started losing hair in addition to remaining very weak. My oncologist dismissed my concerns and put them down to getting old. I'm 71. Finally I had a long chat with my doctor who ran a whole series of blood tests. My vitamin D level was 21. He put me on 50000iu a week of vitamin D3 for 2 months and then reduced it to 7000iu a week. Before the first 2 months were up I was feeling a lot better. My depression totally lifted, my hair thickened and I got stronger. I'm still not back to where I was but I was surprised by the change. He did a blood test 2 months ago and my vitamin D level had risen to 81. I now take 4000iu daily like yourself and feel much better than I have since before cancer treatment.
Glad to hear things are looking up.Too many people are unaware of the benefits of vitamin D. @@bahoonies
Especially of you are darker skinned at all.
This is reasonable advise. I myself need the sun not only for vitamin D but also for keeping my mood up. It does not need much but having some sun exposure in a reasonable amount can lift my energy level. Health is a holistic process. It is about balancing various risks and I myself chose that my mental health is an important factor when deciding what to do and what not to do. Especially during the pandemic one has completely misunderstood this. Locking folks into their dwellings was one of the worst decisions ever made.
directly related to mood depression and zoo i zide in veterans, not that drug corps or the FDA did THAT research. They also specifically refused to study vit D to prevent or treat covid, no money there. Saw the actual instructions re granting research
I have been using my gym's tanning bed for vit D during the winter for several years. Checked that it was full spectrum light.
My daughter, aged 37 developed basal cell carcinoma under her eye, years after sunbeds taken in her 20's. Be aware.
That's why you are given special glasses or foils and your eyes should be shut during tanning.
@@cjd5255
Lmaoooooo you wear those for eye protection. They didn’t say she had it in her eye.
Once again you think that but I bet it’s the food she ate
@@Kwildcat13carbs/sugar feeds cancer cells quite well.
I'm sorry for your daughter and hope she will recover soon.
How often and how long did she go to the tanning bed?
It's not just absorption, there's a two stage activation process, first in the liver and then in the kidneys. It also needs enough magnesium for it to happen properly. And vitamin K2 is needed to help calcium go to the right places, like bones and teeth, rather than vein and artery walls, etc.
It's funny that you mention vitamin D because peer reviewed covid studies have shown that pandemic wasn't just a covid pandemic it was also a vitamin D defiency pandemic. we know that the right amount of vitamin D is crucial to the immune system.
Also, NEVER use mouthwash.
And what is the right amount ?
And do you take K2 with the Vitamin D3 ?
@@UTAH100 It is now clear that vitamin D has important roles in addition to its classic effects on calcium and bone homeostasis. As the vitamin D receptor is expressed on immune cells (B cells, T cells and antigen presenting cells) and these immunologic cells are all are capable of synthesizing the active vitamin D metabolite, vitamin D has the capability of acting in an autocrine manner in a local immunologic milieu. Vitamin D can modulate the innate and adaptive immune responses. Deficiency in vitamin D is associated with increased autoimmunity as well as an increased susceptibility to infection. As immune cells in autoimmune diseases are responsive to the ameliorative effects of vitamin D, the beneficial effects of supplementing vitamin D deficient individuals with autoimmune disease may extend beyond the effects on bone and calcium homeostasis.
Almost every cell in your body has a receptor for vitamin D. It’s essential for many processes, including bone health, immune system function, and reducing inflammation. It also helps the body absorb calcium.
@@johngeraghty2757 if your 1 to 70 years old the correct amount is 15 mcg (600 IU)
Liposomal D3 and K2, done.
Which one? I think some that claim to be lipo are not....
@@fatillacing4131 I hear that the NOW brand of vitamins are some of the best and they're made in America instead of China like most of the other vitamins. Remember just a few years ago China was still putting lead paint in children's toys? Stay away from anything China related especially if you're putting it in your body
100 micrograms of K2 correct? That's what I understood from one of the doctors and I think it was Burg I will not swear to it
I take Upnourish brand, from Amazon.
@@Romans_8.38-39 Correct
I take 10, 000 in winter then drop it to 5,000 in summer. I live in western 🇨🇦 where in winter we have hardly any sunlight.
10k every day?
@@zvi91 yes, everyday have for years
10k a day in the northern countries is a very good amount. It's not toxic by any means @@zvi91
I used to burn horrendously in the sunshine. The reason for this was vitamin B12 deficiency I corrected this by eating blue beef steaks. Once the B12 was at the correct level I could get natural UVB light from the sun and start to feel a lot better.
The timing of this is perfect. I just had my Vit D levels checked yesterday. A year ago they were 15!! I started taking 5,000iu of Vit D. Now they’re 49. I’m kind of upset that my dr didn’t tell me all of the dangers of low D a year ago. I have a new dr now that I’m glad shows more concern about it.
Many would rather see you after you’re sick due to the la k thereof.
I was told to stop taking Vitamin D because my levels are 107. I take 10,000 D3 + K2 (5k in the summer )
I went the past four years with only a few sniffles which amounted to nothing.
My level is 11. What brand are you taking and where can I find it?
@@the_village_elder My level used to be 30. I used "Healthy Origins" brand of D3. My levels raised without the use of K2. I learned of the benefits of K2 (Healthy Origins brand also) later, and now use the two in combination.
@@the_village_elder My levels were at 30 and I got it up to 107. I used "Healthy Origins" brand D3. I raised my levels on D3 alone. It wasn't until later that I learned about the benefits of K2 with D3. I now take both -- "Healthy Origins" brand. I purchased mine on Amazon.
I live in MN so I use a vitamin D light for 5 minutes every morning from October to April. It’s definitely helped for me.
Is that a red light therapy device?
Where did you buy it, and how much of a difference is it making for you?
@@Infiniti25no, it’s UVB bulbs. From a company called Sperti.
@@tigergreg8it’s from Sperti, and it keeps my Vitamin D within the optimal range during the winter.
Thanks @@MovingInMN
I am sick and disabled and don't get outside much at all. We moved to North Idaho in 2016. My vitamin D was low. I began taking vitamin D and now my D levels have increased to the mid range of normal. I am very happy to say that I never get sick anymore, whereas I used to get a cold or flu twice a year at least. I am seeing to many videos telling us that vitamin D and other supplements are "bad" for me. I believe that this is nothing less than propaganda.😑
Vitamin D3 should be taken every day. The kicker is that we also must take Magnesium, preferably Magnesium Glycinate, for our bodies to absorb and utilize the D3.
you need vitamin k2 as well as magnesium.
This channel sure is full of stupid advice from every direction.
Congratulations for the smart holistic thinking.... Maybe one day you'll realize that you didn't create your body, it was given to us as a perfect machine if allowed to function freely, our interference has only done damage and will keep damaging it.
Interesting to note there was no mention of K2 which is what the body needs to properly absorb vitamin D. Tanning bed not required.
k2 and magnesium with vitamin d.
Dr. Boz probably forgot to mention it in her haste to promote her monthly at home vitamin D test for a mere annual cost of $598.62.
True, she didn’t mention it but her product is a combination of D3 + K2.
Not to properly absorb D3, but to direct the increased amount of calcium that results from the D3 supplementation. It directs it away from the soft tissues and bloodstream, to the bones and teeth. K2 acts like a traffic cop for calcium. That's why it should be taken with D3.
Tanning bed would only make the situation worse for anyone with darker skin, as the natural sunlight would be getting to us even less. No thank you!
Vitamin D supplementation was found to be associated with decreased CENSORED BY YT
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can you give a hint for the dumb
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Fascinating results with Vitamin D and your Father. Great, informative video Dr Boz. I will check with the home kit and the scores we get. Thanks again. 🇨🇦💝🙏👍🇺🇸
I am glad to see this video. I have read a couple of articles from oncologists that stated the risk from deadly skin cancer is a lot lower than the risks from the "big" cancers (that's my paraphrase), and I have wondered if the rise in high SPF sunscreen might be contributing to the poor health we are in now. When I grew up 40 years ago, no one wore anything, and I don't even remember my grandparents getting skin cancer. I just think it is a complicated matter, and I have low vitamin D. I take supplements, but I also get some sunshine during the off peak hours.
Weird, MY grandparents got skin cancer, but only on the areas that got the most sun exposure.
Edit: They were born in 1914 and 1918. So even prolonged sun exposure under a "normal", thick ozone layer can give you skin cancer. The operative word here is "prolonged". Lots of hours tending crops out in the sun, without hats or long sleeves.
The issue with skin cancer is burning which I've heard can be exaggerated by PUFAs and can also be prevented by graduating skin exposure so that burns do not occur.
sun screens contain many carcinogens, & prevent the natural formation of vit d.
I actually support a local tanning salon by purchasing a package of tans. Whether or not I go, I'm glad to support them and know that I can go whenever I want. Support your local tanning salon.
Seriously? You seriously have nothing better to do in your life than supporting your local tanning salon? I would invest that money into an upgrade of your head. Maybe you'll discover there's more to life than your tanning salon. Sorry but there's a limit to stupidity!!!
Thank you, Dr. Bosworth!
You look great Doc! I ordered your Vit D test kit for myself and my husband. Thank you!
My Vitamin D level was in the 20s for years and I was prescribed 2000 iu for years only but nothing changed until I decided on my own to take 5000 D3 AND K2 then it went up and a year ago when my test was up to 90 in one year my doctor said whoa you have to back off, stop with the K2 and only take Vitamin D 3 times a week. I haven’t had my yearly yet but I did back down and want to see what happened, however I can tell it was detrimental to me. Thank you SO much for this video!
I just came back from the tanning salon, which I only use to raise my vitamin D levels after a diagnosed deficiency. I indeed use the less powerful machines as they do produce UVB rays.
This is what I've been looking for! Thank you.
Thank you again Dr. Boz!
Nice to see you're feeling better, Doc. Great info. I've often wondered about the benefits of sauna sun and D3.
Brilliant remedy! Makes me want to take this afternoon off and go to the beach.
Go on 😊
So frank and so helpful! Thanks for sharing. Loved what you said about testing; so true.
I had undiagnosed Primary Hyperparathyroidism. My D level was 16. My gp wrote me a script for 50,000 units of D2. WRONG! It hurt my joints, awful. Humans need D3 not D2. I started studying my own health & realized I had a Parathyroid problem. Don't let anyone decide what's best for your health..do your own research. I had cataracts at age 48!!! The excess calcium from the Parathyroid issues can also give you heart issues. I have 4 other siblings dealing w this disease.
How did you find out that you had primary hyperparathyroidism?
Your doctor is an idiot... I would switch doctors
Please, I’d also like to know about hyperparathyroid. My test came back positive & yet I haven’t heard from my Dr.
D2 was found in rats. Furry and noturnal, they don't make D3 that humans use. D3 tolerance is much higher than D2.
I've taken 10,000 IU D3 daily for 20 years. I added K2 mk7. My blood levels went up from 17 to 70 using grassroots health D3 blood tests.
This show reminded me it's time to retest.
If your diet is low in calcium, those levels of vit d will cause hyperparathyroidism that will leach calcium from your bones and not having K2 in your system will cause the calcium to be stored in soft tissues instead of bones and teeth, hence the heart disease from calcium. But I don't disagree about the d3 vs D2.
FDA approved Vit D!! - what are the chances that it was D2 and not D3.
D2 doesn't absorb so well.
I’m sure it was, I don’t think they have d3 at a crazy level like 50,000 iu but maybe I am incorrect
Calcitriol is the most active form of VitD . It's the form they give kidney patient on dialysis. That's what I would give my dad if I'm a Dr...I would get level to 60-80 ngml
I was thinking it was D2 as well.
All prescriptions are D2. 50% absorbed. The liver has to activate and convert to D3 the active form. I believe MG is also important, as w as eating a fatty meal. Her dad may have had a fatty liver, caused by alcohol or NAFLD. Glad she got him in a tanning facility.
D3 is made in skin or as supplements. It becomes 25 OH D3 in the liver and then becomes the active hormone form 1,25 OH D3 in the kidneys.
Great information. I'm no doctor, but I've spent a lot of time researching on TH-cam and vitamin D seems to be almost the most important supplement. But I also make sure I take it with vitamin K2.
I started intermittent fasting about 3 years ago and taking supplements and have been taking vitamin D consistently for about the same amount of time. 10,000 IU's a day,. If I get a decent amount of sun one day, the next day, I only take 5,000.
I've noticed the last couple of Summers I can hang out with my friends by the boat on a sandbar in Sun for hours with no sunblock, except a dab on my nose and not get burned.
Same thing with my girlfriend and she's very fair skinned. She was in Florida recently visiting her sister and went for walks every day and got lots of sun and never burned. I found evidence online that that is the case. Lack of vitamin D is making people shun the sun even more, because they're more quickly sensitive to it. What are your thoughts? Thanks!
Nice video. I really enjoyed it all. Great job both of you!
As a 64 year old male, Im loving Dr Boz more and more everyday. Thanks for all of your advise
Wow! that some excellent info, never thought about the tanning beds, yea like Dr. Ford Brewer always says, "test, don't guess", he also recommends your vitamin D level should be 60 -80. Great info Doc, many thanks
Thanks for bringing this to the table Doc. I just got tested and I was Very low on Vitamin D So this video came at the RIGHT Time for , God’s Always there to Help in one way or another Blessings ❤
Would you be so kind to tell me the procedure you used to get your Vitamin D level tested ? How much did it cost ? Did you go to your Doctor ? DETAILS Please.
Thanks.
Good luck with your health.
Can you tell if your Vitamin D levels are too high ?
Good girl for posting this! Great thinking. Thanks!
This Dr never heard of vitamin K2 MK-7. Incredible!
Very good .... shows the benefits of sun light ....
Dr. Boz’s speculation that the storage D was being burned through would mean if the D supplements were stopped then storage D should have cratered to near zero pretty quickly. I bet it would not have.
Magnesium regulates every aspect of vitamin D metabolism, so it is a great idea to get your magnesium up.
I have ordered some magnesium glycenate and plan to take it in the evening as I understand it might help with sleep so bit confused when to take Vit D + K2 as figured morning but wonder if this will miss the magnesium ingest.
Getting magnesium is easy, there shouldn't be a need to worry if you are eating a healthy and varied diet. Magnesium can be found in for example green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, legumes, nuts, seeds, and whole grains (like oats for your breakfast), but also edamame beans, beans, bananas, avocados, dark chocolate and more.
@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq It's about absorption so this is the advantage with supplements and the other issue is the soil is now so depleted it is highly likely you are not getting it from food.
@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq What is their magnesium level when no Mg has been added to the soil for 80 years? What if calcium overload is blocking their cor A absorption pathway? What if vitamin D supplements hyper-upregulates calcium to block cor A even more?
Welcome to complex systems, and the Money Power Rulers know more than we do.
@@janetjacks3406 I think you are grossly exaggerating the issue of soil depletion causing less nutrients in vegetables. while it is correct that there is SOME degradation of nutrient contents in vegetables, it is not so significant. Vegetables still contains tons of vitamins and minerals. If they didn't the plants would not grow, it's actually that simple. 1-2 pounds of vegetables a day keeps the doctor away :)
Very good and health saving information!
You look great today. I hope your feeling better
I stand in front of a 12% uvb light every other day for 5 to 6 mins. Last vit d test i was in the 70s, and I don't get hardly any natural sunlight.
do you take vitamin k2 and/or magnesium?
@yt-qg8ui sometimes I take k2 with my 2000 iu vit d pill. There's some regular vit k in my multi vitamin also. I do take magnesium glysinate in the evenings
Has anyone else experienced constipation from taking vitamin D supplements? I've mentioned this to a few doctors and they act like I'm crazy.
Don't forget vit k2, magnesium , and animal fats. That helps me.
Yes,if I don't take enough magnesium, also feel tired
It depletes magnesium
Magnesium helps you go.
What's crazy is thinking that we can help our body function better by randomly feeding it a little bit more of this and a little bit more of that in the form of supplements... as if we could just play and guess with an organism so perfect and complex that medical doctors and scientists have not even started to know yet. Your body needs to absorb what it needs in the amounts that IT needs through the right sources, not in the amounts that WE ignorantly ingest and force on it.
@@martamariotto1181 i’ve been thinking about this myself as I have several different supplements that I take, and I’m finding that if I take too many my kidneys start to act up. So I stopped taking everything and noticed that my body starts to regulate. Still, I’m concerned about what people are recommending for daily doses of vitamin D as I was also diagnosed with low D. I spoke to Chiropractor through an email blog who told me that vitamin D on its own is fine. You don’t need K2 or magnesium. He said he tests his patient’s blood and when they take the D supplement their levels go up. So now I’m even more confused. What do you do if you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol? Berberine is supposed to work well in place of a statin which can cause all kinds of side effects. It’s hard to know what to take and what not to take especially reading through a lot of reviews on Amazon but it seems supplements do work. Then there’s the whole thing of well these reviews are bought and paid for. How are we supposed to know what to do other than reading Pub Med every time we come across some new supplement? Doing nothing isn’t always good either.
I regrettably confess that, having been hopelessly confused by all information and misinformation regarding best health practices, I have given up. I do the best I can, at 70, and let nature take its course. Can't worry about the "best" practices.
Great advice! Thanks.
As a fair-skinned child, I burned a lot and suffered from prickly heat every summer. Sunscreens were unheard of and I paid a terrible price every summer, eventually avoiding exposure to the sun. Fast forward 40 years and within 6 months of following a ketogenic lifestyle, I am now able to spend a long time in the sun. I no longer burn and instead, I get a nice light brown tan. If my exposure is a couple of hours or less, I don't need to use sunscreen. If I know that I'll be out for several hours, I'll apply a low SPF sunscreen and that will get me through.
Therefore, keto and intermittent fasting has transformed my skin's ability to deal with the sun.
Have you ever done extended fasting? If so, what was that like?
@@Penelope416 to be honest, I've not done extended fasting since starting keto in 2020. I should do, as it could take me to the next level. I'm quite lazy by nature and as I succeeded with my weight loss and prediabetes, I didn't take it further. But now you've got me thinking.
@@RobCLynch Wow! Well your story is amazing. You're doing really well. Congrats on your health journey!
The longest fast I've done was 72 hours. Right now I'm doing Alrernate Day Fasting and I really enjoy the benefits I get from it.
@@Penelope416 I'm very impressed and you've definitely inspired me to think about prolonged fasting. Thank you and well done.
I’ve been told I fast intermittently, but in reality I just eat only when i’m actually hungry. Most people never stop eating long enough to recognize real hunger.
Brillant Presention .
People with VItmanD had less chance of catching Covid .
Thanks you for
A clear easy to understand Vitiman D explention .
Hi from The Emerald Isle
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Not a Trump fan, but him saying light would cure Covid was accidently right!
@@rafbarkway5280 FJB
Trump is accidentally right a lot lol.
Excellent video, comprehensive and helpful, thank you
Thankyou for sharing such personal experience, so informative and sincere, thankyou
I take besides vitamine D3, K2 and Magnesium Glycinate also Cod Liver oil from Norway.
My vitamin D last blood test was 137, flagged as 'HIGH'. But I always wonder how they determined what is 'normal'.
I read somewhere 6:30 the reference ranges are determined by the ranges of all samples tested. Not sure what percentiles are applied to fix the range.
@anamee820 That would be different then in the UK to Australia, and from white people to black people, surely?
@@ruth.greening US only as I understood it. The ethnicity, as far as I’m aware, did not lead to the ranges being modulated accordingly.
If I recall there was a study done that showed levels up to 180 were safe
When chronic deficiency is "normal" having optimal levels is flagged as "high"
excellent, Dr Boz, thank you.
Nice job. Thank you
Hi, the real reason for this "advice" is to sell test kits
That's the reason why you take D3 with K2-Mk7 otherwise the absorption of vitamin D is extremely low. You should also add magnesium glycanate
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I watched lots of advice which magnesium to pick. Most say Mg citrate. I bought that. Now I hear - wrong, glycinate/bisglycinate is best.
If I take vitamin D with my lunch at noon and my magnesium and vitamin K2 with my dinner, would be okay? Or do they need to be taken together ?
How much k2 and magnesium glycante to the vitamin D3. Just another question do you take B12? Thank s
How s ur experience with citrate@@TroyQwert
Brilliant information. So true. Thank you
You should consider COD LIVER OIL as the D3 source along with a plain synthetic D3 supplement so a combo plus the other factors for absorbing it.....The COD LIVER OIL also has Vitamin A as another fatty vitamin you'll need to offset....but generally not the E or others...Plus it also has some OMEGA 3's in the COD LIVER OIL. I use the capsules from Vitamatic....Norwegian Cod Liver Oil
I stopped taking that because no oil in concentrated form is good for insulin resistance. But ok to eat the whole food
I was taking 10.000IU a day for some years, no clods, no flu, no C-19 (refused to be vaccinated with the experimental Gene therapy) for some 10 years and my
values were about 105 ng/ml.....!!! The doctor said this value could be toxic, (I Knew they weren't but I gave him the benefit of the doubt, as I like to experiment
and make my own conclusions) so I started taking 4.000IU a day, and this week I got the flu ..... so, started again on 10.000IU a day, period, no matter what the
doctor will say...!!!
apparently the dose should be 100iu / kg body weight 😀
I think you’re gorgeous Dr. Boz….. and super smart. Thanks for all your great educational videos.
Good advice!
My vitamin D level tested at 110. So my doctor told me to quit taking it. I will not stop taking it but I did stop from seven days a week and went down to three days a week.
This not medical advice but strictly my opinion from my own experience. A level of 110 should be fine. Me personally, I would keep it in the 100 - 150 range. You might want to watch The Dr. Gundry Podcast on Vitamin D. He says the same thing!!!
@@R.M.-nt2oi I am fine with it at 100. Even 75 to 100. I don't need it higher than that. I'm gonna get retested after a few months on this dose and see how it is.
It is fascinating that supplementation wasn't working in your dad's case. However, if by 50k IU you meant a weekly bolus, that is chicken scratch for supplementation - about 7k IU/day. Our bodies can manufacture up to around 15k IU per HOUR with general exposure to full sunlight, and most international standards support up to 10k IU/day as normal supplementation for otherwise healthy individuals.
I would suggest there is a missing piece here. One of the functions of PTH - parathyroid hormone or parathormone, is to regulate vitamin D levels in the blood. Therefore, it should be in an inverse relationship to 25-OH D blood levels. In my case (besides genetic markers showing I have a proclivity to poor vitamin D metabolism), my high PTH AND upper-range D showed I had enough 25-OH D for an average person, but it wasn't effective for me. By (with medical supervision) increasing D3 until my PTH was in the middle of the lower third of the reference range, I was able to put my autoimmune diseases into remission, while measuring the falling levels of the appropriate autoimmune antibodies as another marker of efficacy.
This means I supplement 20k IU/day of D3 along with K2 MK7 at a cost of around $.20/day, and my blood serum level hovers around 170 ng/ml. I take a fish oil supplement at the same time as the D3 to increase absorption. However, I've been tracking my serum levels long enough to see the "normal" lab ranges bumped up a couple of times in the past 20 years or so. I expect that to trend to continue if we rely on newer data rather than ultraconservative "just enough to keep you from dying" approach which gave us the pitifully low 400 IU/day RDA.
Great information. Thank you WMHinsch!
Thanks for telling people the truth
Thank you. You are awesome!
Outrageous pricing on the vit d test kit. What a scam.
one test from quest labs here is 64$
I just love it when Dr.s think they know what they are talking about! It is very very rare if they do & she is 1 of those only telling the partial truth!
Great education! Listen up folks!
Try sublingual vitamin D if not getting good results with oral preparations.
Oooooooo. Annette GOES ROGUE!😜Yeah, my D is between 85-100 these days. With that and several other things combined, I haven't had even a cold in four years. I really like being well!
Love this doc.
I hope your father is well. Losing parents is so hard.
My doctor after prescribing me 50,000 units vitamin D said it would be impossible, absolutely impossible to get enough vitamin D from sunlight. Your video undermines my faith in my physician.
it depends where you live in the world and how much sunlight you get
@@spongebobsquaretitsyes. The D Minder app helps track it according to your latitude, time of year, time of day, skin type etc
Even with optimal even equatorial exposure to sunlight, there is no way it could compensate.
If a doctors talking to me I know I went into the wrong building.
@@christheother9088🤣
I get sun whenever I can here in the high desert in SoCal at 3500 feet. I never use sunscreen and I take D3 with K2 and coconut oil
How do you take coconut oil?
✨️ Beautiful California 💕
Can't go wrong with that!
@@DdDd-pk4puHave you just tasted coconut oil straight out of the jar? It tastes wonderful, like a paradise island. Some people use it to clean teeth. "Oil pulling".
Never use sunscreen? Enjoy signs of accelerated aging 👍
WOW , who knew .
Great info , thanks
Followed your advice and went to the tanning studio ( small town in England) They have a brand new tanning bed which can be switched to only UV B light for Vitamin D (obviously no tanning when switched). Great advice, Thank you
People can use the SPERTI UVB home lamp.
Modern doctors just cannot help it! The solution is sunlight but the prescriptions says "tanning bed". When will they learn?
They will learn when they won’t get money for it anymore.
Thanks great info!👍
Been testing twice a year for four years. Current levels are 73.2 ng/ml (183nmol/L). No sign of any viral infections during the last four years.
The medical industry can't make money so testing is not easy (UK based).
This is not about health, more about wealth!
Tanning beds are illegal in Australia! Apparently you can get melanoma after only one use.
Lol
just thinking about the sun can cause cancer. also genital warts.
I believe it. The sun is natural and better probably
You spoke of prescription vitamin D. I believe that would be D2. D3 is the better choice. I also would choose the sun over tanning bed. Much more therapeutic. Sure you don't want a burn but you also will get melatonin from the sun which many believe is more beneficial than the D3. As far as D levels 100 should be our goal. JMHO. Thanks!
Very interesting. I live in Canada were we have long winters and probably lack enough exposure to sunlight to boost our D levels. During the summer months we all feel so much better.