What would our economy look like if we didn't have a multi-billion dollar industry making us sick with bad food and a second multi-billion dollar industry try to fix the illnesses caused by the first?
Wow!!! Insulin resistance has its ugly hand in everything! This is my first time hearing about its affect on Vit D. My Mother passed in Nov 2017. She was not diagnosed as T2DM, although her Mother & Uncle were. My Mother suffered from HTN, Glaucoma, vertigo/Minere's dz, hair loss, Cardiovascular Dz- all conditions of insulin resistance. She had to endure pacemaker, CABG, & carotid endarterectomy procedures. She was a little frail secretary who ate like a bird & took Statins. She would not eat meat or eggs but enjoyed bread. I am a 52yof Master's Degree RD (I'm embarrassed to admit), & I did not have the knowledge to help her. What I have learned since her passing (& it was hard for me to believe at first, being brainwashed on the Dietary Guidelines), I found here watching MDs like you, Jeff Volek, Stephen Phinney, Ken Berry, & Ben Bikman.Thank you so much for this info!!!
My condolences, you and I are the same age, I cannot get my mother to eat meat either, she'll eat a couple eggs per week otherwise it's all carbs, and mostly bread type carbs as she doesn't eat much fruit or veggies in her older years; little and frail like you mom. I've been trying for many years with mom.... she simply won't change. I feel for ya on this; all her health issues are linked to her way of eating, the medical industry in aggravating, if her doc told her to eat meat she might.
@@muchasalud2011 You about exactly described my mom as well, she's 79, for her to make it another four years, I'm not sure. Sincere condolences to you and your family.
Truly true what you’re saying, I’m retired RN and we’re all indoctrinated with the SAD. If I know all these things in the past. It could have saved my sisters lives with DM ,with kidney disease. I taught them what I learned from school. And I been diabetic x 20 years, started gestational and never left me, I was injecting myself with insulin in the 9 months I was pregnant. Can you imagine that. Had I known these things… Anyways started keto almost a year ago and I know I probably have IR, which I’m trying to fight with IF and Keto. It’s working slowly I figured I was diabetic for many years hopefully this IR will be gone like now.
A+. One of the best explanation I have heard about Vitamin D3. I am on IF-OMAD/Keto style nutrition, my requirement of D3 intake is minimal now, feeling better now than 20 years ago. My BMI is around 20 from 27 and I have lots more energy. Fat, saturated fat is my friend in my diet along with eggs, fish and vegetables.
@@ghadaabbes2411 Less than 100 grams of carbohydrates per day! Is LCHF/Akins/ Banting /keto/ carnivore/Lion most are below 50 grams of carbohydrates per day.
Hands down, one of the best health videos out there. It explains so much as to how our bodies work. Even though is focused on vitamin D, it tells us a lot about the fallacy of consuming a bunch of supplements without addressing our actual health by eating actual food and improving our metabolic health. You, sir, are an excellent teacher.
It is a misleading title and unfortunate a doctor would skew facts. Yes, Vitamin D has no effect if you have sufficient amounts. But if you are deficient in D you run into a host of risk factors for diseases.
@@mypointofview1111 You have YOUR PoV and that's fine. I have mine and that's what's fine for ME. I don't need to read your comments if I don't want to. You had a chance to share your thoughts in the comments, and replying to mine to tell me to read yours is just ridiculous. I respect opinions, but put them as your own comment. I'll share mine without needing to refute others.
@@voygent If you're deficient in anything, you'll run into trouble. We agree on that. What does that have to do with my comment? I think we need to understand where to find the vitamins, minerals, hormone-like vitamins and other micro-nutrients, AND where are they most bio-available. The other side is that if we're severely metabolic unhealthy and eat too much junk, we can't try to take vitamins on the side and we won't get the full effect. Please post your comments in the community comments so you can share your PoV with everyone and have your own voice. Replying to my comments doesn't help anything.
This explains my chronic low levels at around 14 ng/ml even though I take 20000 iu once a week. I just can't get it above 20 ng/ml. 8 Weeks ago I startet an extrem Keto diet with less than 10gr. of carbs a day and my levels are at 30 ng/ml now. Nobody could explain this to me even my endocrinologist told me some BS that it's normal in some people and I shouldn't worry about it. This is absurd and reckless. Thank you very much for your great explanation. Why don't we have doctors like you here in Berlin?
Glad you recognized BS! I hold the key to chronically low vit d. I want to pass my info along to this doctor for his research. I suspected but now am sure. This should help many with low d as for as mitigation. You just gavin me the argument in which I will get my insurance company to get a CGM. I must get Medicare to acknowledge that vesides eating fat as crucial, but also knowing glucose level at lowest is essential for production of vit d activation.
What pisses me off is that my mother's geriatric doctor refuses to remove atorvastatin (lipitor) when her last lipid panel showed her LDL estimated count to be only 39. I called and told my mother to stop taking it immediately, but refuses to. Her doctor told her that she might die of a heart attack or stroke if she stops taking it. The active form of D3 requires LDL along with A, E, K, coq10, cholesterol, triglycerides, etc to be carried around in the body. Statins are the dumbest drugs in modern medicine.
As a drug technician i'm passionate working and studying drugs, but lipitor is a stupid stupid little thing and many doctors in my country agree with that! I don't know how you can convince someone to stop it against doctor's advice. Maybe see another doctor?
I've been saying it for years, and I'm an idiot, statins are stupid! Cholesterol is so important in the body. I studied anatomy in high school and couldn't understand why cholesterol was being demonized, though basic science showed it to be beyond important. This is my analogy, imagine thinking every time you see a house fire, the fire dept. shows up, and thinking, they must be starting all these fires considering they're always at the scene!?!? Cholesterol isn't the cause of clogged arteries, it's trying to fix the damage. The underlying cause is never addressed when you take a statin.
@@streetmagik3105 Amen!!! There is also the negative aspect of taking statins. They cripple us metabolically and increases risk of covid and flu bad outcome
I went back to watch this video again. I was supplimenting with oral B3 and saw a modest rise in serum levels. Blood work after I was keto for six weeks and my levels shot up nearly 30 ng/nL between 2 tests, one month in apart. Nobody is talking about the connection between insulin resistance and D3 levels. Thank you!
Great explanation. My doctor behaves like each system in my body is separate. She never told my I have metabolic syndrome. But she did suddenly inform me that I was a type 2 diabetic and my vitamin D was dangerously low 8.5. Thank God I found informative doctors like you. *I've lost weight, feel great and no longer am considered diabetic.
Excellent video on vitamin D. TY for confirming that a proper diet + exposure to sunlight + insulin sensitivity is key for absorption of vitamin D in body. Not taking a *bunch* of vitamin D supplements which my physician kept pushing me to do.
Thank you for this information. I have recently started eating carnivore after years of lots of carbs and low fat. Ironically, my concern with going carnivore was for the adverse effects it might create with my osteopenia. I can't tell you how relieved I am to learn this new way will more protect my bones. There were decades of bad eating and I don't know how quickly I will be able to strengthen my bones with carnivore, but as least you have eased my mind about making this choice.
I’m a cov id nurse and we know that the majority of those with low D3 levels suffer harshly so we give them D3 K2 and boy do they improve . Most of them have no idea they are given a protocol . The D makes all the difference along with zinc, C and more ! Be on the safe side and take your D3
I thought nurses were required to put patients on deadly pharmaceuticals like Rem~desovere, and then put them on ventil@tors in order to k!ll them faster?
honest question -- if you are giving the patients Vit D3 along with zinc C and the rest of the protocol, how do you know the effect of the D supplementation alone?
When Keto doctors disagree on which vitamins are good and/or essential, the whole health “issue” becomes extremely murky. To supplement...or not to supplement, that is the question...🧐🤨🤞
I get a daily email from the Vitamin D council. Can't remember them ever talking about high insulin blocking the production of Vit D. Learn something new every day. Thanks,
Are you familiar with the Secosteroid Hormone D private Facebook group. Jim Stephenson, Jr., the founder of the group, has the best understanding of the intricacies of Secosteroid Hormone D, compared to anyone I know. Vitamin D council was infantile compared to his group.
i think this is just a huge misunderstanding here. insulin resistance and vitamin d deficiency correlates probably very well. insulin resistance is caused by a fucked up fatty liver. the same fucked up fatty liver is then also limited in other functions like vitamin d conversion or glutathione production etc.
I take meta-analysis with a grain of salt, very easy to be in error. And as far as the effectiveness goes I don't believe it is a yes/no answer, there are degrees of function even if there is the rare person that cannot convert Vit D, this is not a reason to avoid supplementation especially in Northern climates AND DOUBLE FOR DARKER SKIN IN NORTHERN CLIMATES.
@@robertcywes2966 Robert, I just read this really great article about that subject have a look very interesting; www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-inuit-paradox
@@robertcywes2966 Traditional diet includes a lot of fish and seal livers. Eskimos And Inuit? Inuit are the people, Eskimo is a European slur, meaning eaters of raw flesh, although their diet of meat and fish, including fat, is what has allowed them to survive in a hostile climate.
I'm a certified health coach with several years of training in functional medicine and you hit the nail on the head about vitamin D! I live Houston, Texas and when the sun is out I do my best to get outside between 11am and 1pm to get 20 minutes of sunlight to as much exposed body as possible without any sunscreen except for maybe the face. I also do this after an overnight fast so insulin levels are at their lowest. My fasting insulin is very low anyways at 1-2 uIU/mL primarily because I follow a low caloric diet, very lean, and I workout daily. I contracted COVID in June and luckily I had sufficient levels of vitamin D because I really think it helped my immune system run like a fine rolex watch and my fever never exceeded 100.8 and I only had a mild cough with a lost sense of taste for 4 days. The fever persisted for 12 days and by the 13th day all my symptoms were gone! However, at age 55 I recovered very well with no lasting effects from the virus and I thank God daily because I know this virus can be deadly for some people. Sunlight is key if you live in areas where you can get enough UV rays, and make sure you take magnesium to help activate it and K2 as well. I also take 6-9mg of Boron daily and it does wonders for testosterone levels as well. At 55 years of age I have a total testosterone that averages 700-850 depending on how much sleep I get. Get out and get some sun as it will do your body good!
@Ralph London At the time I had the virus I was taking two different types of zinc and I averaged about 100mg per day for the first 10 days and then I decreased to 40-60mg per day and that is what I am currently taking. I took 17 different supplements and each one had a purpose. The particular brands were Solgar and Pico Zinc by Dr. Carolyn Dean.
I have started to focus heavily on vitamin D because of Covid-19. But strangely I find it's also helping a little with my sarcoidosis symptoms. I haven't got enough cortisol and my immune system is unbalanced. The vitamin D modulates the immune system and may be reducing inflammation at the same time? I now exercise more and eat fairly good. Hope you all improve your health.
Also, if you are deficient you have to take it with vit K. Once I did that I finally had normal levels. I live in WA state and due to lack of sun it's really bad here. Eating keto also helped.
When I was a teen in the 70's I remember driving regularly past a health store with my parents and my Mom saying someone we knew works in there... and I'm thinking oh she's one of those nut jobs! and then about 10 years later "I was one of those nut jobs" LMAO! This is the century that will reverse all of the mis-information and medical mis-deeds of the 20th century, especially the crimes of Ancel Keyes and the American heart and stroke foundation!!!!!
11:11 "As long as you see some sunlight..." Depending on where you live, during fall and winter you don't see enough sunlight. And nutrition contains hardly any vitamin D, therefore supplementation is mandatory.
Really! Plus the benefits for Vitamin D come if you are deficient. Many benefits come if you are deficient and to mislead people is a shame. If you are not deficient, you won't see a benefit which is logical. So to say Vitamin D is useless is irresponsible for a doctor to say and problematic.
@@voygent He is saying low D is caused by disease rather than being the result of it. If you continue to inhale carbs and go fat free, your D3 will STAY low - not matter how much sun or supplement you get.
Right, but he's saying something different. He's saying that supplementation will not be effective unless the insulin gets controlled. Then supplementation would be effective if you live in the far north. But D is fat soluble too and stores well so if you are sunbathing during spring, summer and early fall, what's the problem?
Thank you. This was illuminating. Can we draw some conclusions about the current COVID-19 issue and those with diabetes/pre-diabetes and concurrent Vit D levels?
yes, they are pretty fucked. but the root cause is, that they do not take responsibility for their health. they simply think that the medical system is responsible - which of course is stupid as fuck.
@@stefanweilhartner4415 The medical system is responsible to actually tell people how to eat healthy and how to treat diabetes. They actually do the opposite. So how can they not feel slighted by the medical system?
@@abracadabruh1313 The medical system can't tell people how to eat healthy because they don't know. btw. that would be health care - which does not exist. there is only sick care. no one asks the doctor how to stay healthy. they did not learn that in med school
Could you please provide a reference to the claim that insulin inhibits vitamin d precursor synthesis? Most scientific literature supports the claim that vitamin d modulates insulin secretion, rather than the other way around.
It’s my understanding that most people, who have the worst symptoms of COVID-19, are deficient in D, so it is important to take Vit. D with Vit. K. I wished you addressed this. I think not addressing this, since so many docs are recommending taking D & K as a protection, is a disservice.
I appreciate your focus on insulin resistance issues, but my D level was dangerously deficient at 6ng/ml preCovid. The only change I was able to make was to take my prescribed D3, though the 5,00IU/day dosage given was only appropriate for a thin person and I needed 20,000IU/day for my obesity to get me above 50ng/ml. Once I reached that basic Tropical African evolutionary level, (maintained still today by traditional Maasai!) my severe depression and all pains disappeared and my subsequent infection with the Delta variant was nearly asymptomatic despite 5+ CovidComorbidities. Only then was I able to attack my other health issues. I've since lost 80lbs on Keto/IF, begun exercising and got my first tan after 25 years of D-DEPLETING CARBAMAZEPINE/(TEGRETOL)! Depression and pain blocked all motivation before. So, I completely disagree that D supplementation *TO A MINIMUM 50ng/ml LEVEL* is useless while still insulin resistant, since only D supplementation allowed me to finally move forward into Ketogenic weight loss and full remission of my Metabolic Syndrome!
yes... he's dangerously wrong in this video... kind of comically wrong... since he's king of calling "BULLSHIT" and most of this video is BULLSHIT and he's stayed ignorant and never changed his stance.
Need both Mk4 and Mk7 versions of K2. Most supplements have only Mk7. And many supplements are actually the K1 plant version which is very poorly converted. Same as carotinoids in plants. The body poorly converts it into vita A
@Marco Polo Could not agree more. 400 iu rdi was based on children developing rickets bowlegs during the industrial revolution. Body needs way much more than 400 iu. Skin makes 10,000 in just 15-20mins of sun uvb exposure in summer afternoon days. Anyone who says too much D3 is toxic they dont know what they are talking about
@@freecryptos Very few foods in nature contain vitamin d so compared to most foods fish and eggs are rich in vitamin d. That being said it is very hard to get your required daily amount from food alone.
I have written about "Vit D" in my columns for years, the title of my first one: "Vit D Isn't..." I did a lot of research. For the RIGHT, safe sun rays, (UVB) the arc of the sun must be above the 53rd azimuth, which why it's harder to access, the further north you are...and in some cases, never gets above it. The Navy used to print a handy sun chart that you could use to know exactly where the 'window' was in your backyard each day. In my state, it reaches the 53rd in mid-April, a narrow window that widens on each end every day till the summer solstice and then narrows again until gone around mid-Sept. I can no longer find it, but someone gave an easier way to determine it. Just look at your shadow. If it's shorter than you are, they claimed, you're 'in the window." ('long about the end of Jan/Feb, the stored Vit D is pretty much spent in my state - and SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder from lack of Vit D) - or Cabin Fever sets in. I use D3 to supplement in winter. An aside: I started Intermittent Fasting in 2019 for losing weight - goal - 15 lbs (156 to140.) It was unexpectedly easy, so I kept going until I had lost 30 lbs - to 125. The biggest bonus, I discovered that Intermittent Fasting controls healthy insulin levels. Win win... (Also, research the dangers of sunscreens. The reaction between a sunscreen that even my doctor prescribed for me - a stronger dose than the same brand I was using, to combat some pre-cancerous lesions on my forehead. It doubled the sun poisoning! I now use only the old baby oil with a few drops of iodine like we did long ago - or coconut or jojoba with iodine. I get a slow healthy tan and no sun poisoning) Anyhow - that's what works for me. We should each do our own research.) (I like Dr. Cywes!)
I like him but he's dead wrong in this Video about D... so disapoointing that he didn't do his own research... and btw... Boland was a woman... NOT a guy... and his analysis was wrong as the Vit d doses was too low in every single study he included... hence... no effect...
What do you think about vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 helping calcification in the vascular system? Won’t that combination help move the calcium back into your bones?
The problem with these "scientific studies" is they either don't carry them out for long enough or they give subjects a synthetic, rather than, the natural form. Studies are easily manipulated to find the answer you want.
Moved from the south to the north my levels depleted drastically. My husband who is from west Africa experienced the same result. We are darker complexion in an environment with less sun, currently. We eat our same diet which contains fruits and veggies and lean meats, no dairy because it causes GI issues. So there must be a correlation with environment.
Regarding your GI issues when you consume dairy, ND Donald Lepore wrote in his book "The Ultimate Healing System" that people who are not able to consume dairy without an digestive issue are low in potassium. Since we need do much potassium, 4700 mg a day, it might explain why so many people cannot tolerate dairy. 🙄
There absolutely is a correlation with your latitude. Darker skin needs a lot more sun than can often be achieved outside the equatorial regions. The high electromagnetic fields and wireless technology in many locations also causes vitamin D to not be converted.
This guy is right, a LCHF diet increases vitamin D levels vs. a HCLF diet. Here is the study : Pubmed: PMC8400948 The mean was 22.9 vs. 37.8 ng/dl (LCHF). Now granted those on the LCHF will tend to consume more animal foods and vegetables which have a higher vitamin D content, but even then the vitamin D content is so low that I don't think would explain such a large difference between the two groups. 15ng/dl difference is huge and I would assume that diet wouldn't make up for this difference unless cod liver oil was consumed for the LCHF group.
Waiting on a specific video of Hypertension/high blood pressure! It would be great! There are a lot of people blaming salt instead of sugar/refine carbs.
Having gone ketogenic, typically with 22 hours of intermittent fasting daily, my blood pressure went down from 120+/80+ while on bp meds to 97/72 while reducing bp meds in half. And I've increased my salt intake during that time in order to have what I understand to be a healthy electrolyte balance.
Actually, Vitamin-D in TOGETHER with Vitamin-K2 plus calcium and magnesium is needed to prevent osteoporosis. Vitamin-D doesn't move the calcium to the bone it's Vitamin-K2's job to do that. Vitamin-D is still needed to get uptake of calcium into the blood. Vitamin-K2 also prevents and reverses hypercalcification.
Funny he doesn’t mention K2 at all. That’s because manta doctors don’t know about it yet, was discovered recently. And he contradicted himself said that vitamins cannot be made by body yet K2 is made by body from K1 as well as both of them are available in food.
Svetlana V doesn’t the conversation from K1 to K2 happen in the colon by the microbes there? Do we have a biochemical pathway for converting k1 to k2 somewhere else?
Study is outdated by the K2 studies and if you have an insulin problem take berberine. I take a multivitamin d3 k2 berberine and fish oil. I tried to eat the orange tan coloured berberine powder. LoL. Can't get the taste out of your mouth. It's in a capsule now. A bit of choline sometimes.
It's kind of frustrating that white folk act like we all have the same absorption levels and just need 20 minutes in sun and if we are low and get sun then there is a health issue. False. I find it irresponsible for a doctor to not address the needs for all ethnicities. If you're dark skinned, be prepared to spend 3 hours a day in midday sun, 365 days a year for life. Or supplement. I practically lived in the sun, the more sun I got the darker I got, the less D I was getting. I was shocked to learn how low my levels were. I'm extremely healthy, a walking billboard for health everyone says, lol, labs always perfection outside of vitamin D. I now take 5000IU a day. Took a couple years of 8000iu to get to 43, I was shooting to be over 50. I added vitamin K and in a month got up to 74. Now I'm happy. Have not gotten sick since my levels were in the 40s.
Are your glucose level and liver tests ok? Meaning, you are not having problems with insulin resistance. Point of this video was, that if those are a problem, it will also lower D-Vitamin levels because you can not process them well.
@MariaN Excellent share - thanks. I'm interested in what form of Vitamin K. Is it K2-MK4 or K2-MK7, or another form? Thanks, and bravo for knowing YOUR nutritional needs!
Oh boy. I started taking vitamin D last year after surgery to repair a broken kneecap per the recommendation from my orthopedic surgeon. Also, because I read from numerous sources it was vital to strengthen immunity. Not long after I started a carnivore way of eating. Now 8 months later and seeing this video im wondering if im doing more harm then good by taking it.
Yes! The conversion blockade via insulin pathway is super important, HOWEVER, many of the studies on which that meta-analysis is based measure administered Vit-D dose instead of blood level achieved. If, as you point out, Vit-D is really a steroid hormone, dose measurement is really the wrong paradigm by which to assess the efficacy of supplementation and we have good reason to be skeptical of the punchline here that Vit-D supplementation cannot be an effective intervention.
Vitamin D3 is best absorbed by also eating a little fat in with your meal when you take it. My preferred method is to have smashed avocado on toast with a little salt & pepper & some lemon thyme or lemon zest.
MyPoint ofView, “...on toast...”? I’m on the Carnivore Diet, so I’m staying away from carbs and eating fatty beef. This addresses both insulin resistance and high fat. But I do cook my steaks in avocado oil (high temp). 😊
I know that when I take K2/D3 my asthma is much better. But I don’t go out in the sun and I was born with asthma. Maybe I’m the exception. Oh and I’m also very ketovore.
another masterclass! and once again High Insulin is related.... and insulin is not even requested on standard blood tests, for some reason (that we all know) this was very well hidden untill now, thanks to the internet and to the doctors who have the guts to share this kind of information! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
My Doc. was pretty upset when I was trying to persuade him to test my fasting insulin...he cursed that nowadays everyone is a Doc. because of the internet.
@@angiesrecipes I bet he tought you had consulted "Dr .Google" hehe... but unfortunately the are a lot of people consulting into not reliable sources of information...
The key factor he mentioned is Insulin resistance which the research indicated was due to high Carbohydrate intake and poor saturated fat intake. The saturated fats result in Cholesterol which is the building block of Calciferol (vitamin D group). This is a dietary issue for example in many Asian and African populations and vegetarians. Insulin is responsponsible for the transport of glucose and fructose across the cell wall. Insulin resistance occurs when the transport fails with normal levels of insulin and glucose levels rise in the blood stream causing the cells in the pancreas to produce more insulin.
i love these theoretical discussions where the person has completely dismissed peoples experiences in favor of the facts that they want to believe. his advice not to listen to every knee jerk thing works very well for this video. when someone tells you to think think think think they have a problem and are just full of themself that's just how it is. they think think think think that they are so much smarter smarter smarter than anyone else.
His argument is factual but extremely heavily leaned to a laughable level. He is punching above his weight with the end driven argument and the "I don't care if you take vit d or not" near the end literally floored me with giggles.
Yes but, where I live their is very minimal sunlight, or I’m indoors when the sun comes out, so I then go outside and the sun’s gone in. Go figure. Can’t spend my life outdoors hoping the sun comes out! I’ll take some supplementary Vitamin D then....as you said get some sunlight...
You are one of the very few Doctors that knows about vitamins and supplements. You didnt learn all that in your 3 or 4 hours of your med school training. I am not a Doctor but I know all about vitamin D3 and I take what is considered a high dose daily along with 1200 mgs Calcium and 600 mgs of magnessium ( 2 to 1 ratio is VERY IMPORTANT) . Im in Ontario Canada and Health Canada says 1000 units of Vitamin D 3 is the largest dosage anyone should take.I have read all the studies that were used to lower the Vitamin d levels down to 1000 units and nothing was conclusive .There is in my opinion only one side effect to doing what I do and that is good health. My immune system is working the way it should be. In Canada OHIP does not pay for a Vitamin d test . I wonder why that is? I use PH paper available at any health food store for around $12 to measure my PH level and if I am over 7.0 my Vitamin d level is where it should be. PH and vitamin d levels go hand in hand. I dont worry about Cancer or any virus. In my opinion a virus is a lot tougher than Cancer cells. My heart stopped about 15 years ago and I survived and thats why I spent about 5000 hours or more doing my own research to find out how to get healthy and stay healthy. I have learned a lot and have opinions based on that such as - The sun does not cause skin cancer ( it might trigger it but thats because that person has a low PH) Dark skinned people die about 6 years earlier than whites because they cant absorb vitamin d from the sun as easily as whites. When I did my research Michigan Had the highest rate of skin cancer and not California or Florida or Nevada as one might think.The best indicator of a Virus ,Cancer or any serious illness is your PH reading. If you are under 6.0 you have a problem or are developing a problem. I think you know a lot more than I do so I am going to check out more of your videos.
Dear Dr Cywes, Thank you for a very informative videocast. I was told at my last check-up and consultation that they had discovered that I was low in vitamin D; that was last March. The year before I had stayed out of the sun for the first time in my life, and I had a cough for two months in the fall and a shoulder problem that persisted. This summer I am back in the sun and of course using sun cream, but I refuse to take a vitamin D supplement. I read where the body has enough vitamin D by being in the sun for a certain amount of time per week. I have noticed that my shoulder which has been ailing me for a very long time has finally healed up. It was a tendon or ligament that was damaged. Perhaps the vitamin D has helped it finally heal. All I know is that your videocast has made me realize that I was right not to take a supplement to get my vitamin D levels up to normal. I think the sun is there for us to have as our vitamin D source.
There are recent studies on bone health that show bone density can be improved. You might be interested in the research of Dr. Clifton Rubin of NASA. Also the Vibmore study by Dr. Belinda Beck in Australia on improving bone health.
I take a lot of supplements and my default view of each and every supplement is, "I don't know if this supplement will or will not work, or whether it may even harm me, however, my research tells me it could be beneficial, so I'm gonna take it, yet I could change my mind at a later time."
We don't have sunlight for 6 months of the year. I take 4000 in every day with 100mcg of K2. I am 65 years old allergic to eggs. I have never had a cold or flu. Had covid in 2020 but showed no symptoms. I put it down to Vit D3
I'm a 63 year old type 2 diabetic on insulin. I've had diabetes for so long I think my pancreas pooped out. My Dr started me on 5000iu of vitamin D3 about 20 years ago. My levels are in the optimal range. I cannot remember the last time I was sick with anything! It works!
D-3 also works for me because I don't get enough from the sun and when I take 50,000 IUs I feel the difference believe me. I won't live life without it.
Vitamin D3 really helps me. I don't have colds, etc when my vitamin D level is 60-70. When it was in the 30s I was sick more often. So it is good for my immune system! Good protection against the flu too. Haven't had the flu in many years. I do not take a flu shot.
In Canada dont get enough sun winters so we need to take a supplement!And now with covid 19 latest studies show benefits for infections lungs etc!Reduces infections!
I can attest to this: supplementation barely moved the needle, but when I started fixing my metabolism and working on liver health, sunlight was enough to get my D much higher than it had ever been before. I will say though that D may not be the cause, but it still may be one of a few causes. Just like you need to press the accelerator and engage 1st gear to start driving, there may be other factors that were not tested in our reductionist scientific model. Before/after supplementation studies may be the equivalent of dismissing the accelerator as useless when the car is still in neutral. So for me, I remain open to vitamin D being causal in some form. In any case, sunlight is best, for all the other benefits that come with it.
Hummm it looks like you are wearing a U of Michigan logo. We have the number one school in the country for medical training! No wonder if you’re a grad why you’re so smart!😉. Headed to the trash to throw out all the vit. D3 my doctor recommended. Thank you!
4:18 - “Vitamin D receptors are everywhere in human body.” according to that statement, maybe, the vitamin D is extremely important hormone/vitamin for our health. We can debate how to absorb better the D supplements or what not, but to say it is unnecessary “supplements” seems to me little misleading or, at least, confusing. I do agree, like any other nutrition deficiency, the Doctors should investigate why the patient’s body isn’t absorbing or producing the D-Vitamin properly, and not just say; here, take vitamin-D and make an appointment to see me a month or two. The best advice should be, if you have to take (low levels) of Vitamin-D, don’t quit but ask your Doctor if there’s an underlying condition that can be addressed to eliminate your need to continue the supplementation of Vit-D. The other hand, there are many different therapeutical, both scientifically proven and experimental ones, reasons for using V-D3 in among the Scientific 🧪 communities around the world. So, to say V-D3 supplementation categorically is unnecessary seems to be little too extreme. if you have to take V-D3 supplements, make sure you are getting enough V-K2 from your diet or get it as a supplement + take them w a meal 🥘 that has some fat.
The problem with the studies with vitamin D is because the supplementation doses are too low. In my opinion that is designed on purpose because if the doses were optimal and well combined with other nutrients we would make the pharmaceutical industry loose billions of dollars.
Can you share the other studies that show insulin resistance causes VitD def please? I've been looking for some but only see correlation and also the opposite correlation where they think a lack of VitD causes IR (or that VitD does not fix IR)
I had low vitamin D without insulin resistance. My A1C test was normal and my vitamin D was low. If you test low in vitamin D, this is a problem in its own right and must be corrected, in addition to any other corrections that must be made such as increasing exercise and decreasing the consumption of alcohol and sugar. Decreasing caffeine intake also helped me and I'm also taking magnesium.
Insulin resistance is bad and needs to be fixed and so are low vitamin D levels. If you are of normal weight and taking 5000 iu per day your vitamin D levels in few months will climb up to decent levels and benefit your health. To say that unless you fix insulin resistance vitamin D is useless is bad advise. Both are problems to be resolved.
No doubt to anything here, but as the mom of 5 teens, I can tell you hands down that 20k of Vit D a day cured every case of acne in the house, including serious cystic type. Now I have to ask if the unfortunate teen diet, full of carbs, was the issue all along. Getting them to eat right was a huge waste of effort and breath 🙄
My 18 year old started the Keto diet with me and one of the first results was no more cysts and her acne only gets a little noticeable at that time of the month, but considerably better then. Hoping it will totally resolve as she progresses with the new way of eating.
Well, yes and no on that. Have you ever had your level checked? Should do so annually. Otherwise you have no idea if you should take D3 supplements or not.
Unfortunately Dr. Cywes is wrong in this video... totally wrong as were the studies in the Meta Analysis he so gleefully mentions... the doses were too small to raise levels and in many of the studies... the levels were not checked and if they did.... they used 30ng as sufficient which is "BULLSHIT"... 80ng is sufficient and if you have autoimmunity to may have to overdose above that to take the autoimmunity to zero then level off down around 80ng. LEVEL is key- not dose... and a test is walk in for $30. and unless you are swigging tons of Cod Liver oil... or in the sun 12 hrs naked... you need supplements... yes sun is best and get what you can there but take the supplement to get to 80 ng..
Yes. Taking Vitamin D with vitamin K and getting plenty of sunshine is urgent. Fixing insulin resistance is so important to health. Fixed Type I diabetes with carnivore, high fat diet in one day but doubt if the insulin resistance is fixed that fast when glucose levels fall to normal and exogenous insulin is at or below 4 units per day. Welcome comments on this.
This video shows that most doctors are thick! Explains the high death rates in the West, smart arses who miss the BIG picture, I'm popping 4000 iu per day.
Eat once a day (see OMAD + Keto + IF), enhance your bile (bile salts), eat legumes to have fibers in gut (that will recycle the bile) and you will absorb well even at old ages. Stay away from fructose (all sweet fruits), carbohydrates, cereals.
I'm sorry but you NEED to supplement with Vitamin D and give yourself high normal levels of Vitamin D. If a disease such as covid19 decreases Vitamin D (correlation not causation) then you need adequate reserves otherwise you're barely normal levels of vitamin D will soon plummet very low...then you're in potential trouble. Same goes with vitamin C. Saturate yourself daily with it so you have plenty when you need it the most. Think about a water pump that runs dry, it'll overheat and break...
D3 5000, per day. ( take 50’000 per week) the best thing I ever did. My levels were on the lowest, they now in the middle! Feel so much better. Have added on K2 with the D3. No Fatty liver. I’m fortunate! . Allergic to All Fish. All seeds and nuts. Live in sunny South Africa, So get outside a lot .. Great to hear your South African accent Doctor. The USA is So Fortunate to have you! South Africa’s huge loss!
I'll preface that I am Physicist, not MD, interested in VitD and studying it for a long time. That said, your info while spot-on is in my opinion still making the traditional MD professional mistake - treating something body needs at "adequate" levels if it is not causing a disease. That is the 2nd part of the problem with VitD, official "proper level" is defined as one at which a person is not getting sick out of lack of it, ignoring that maybe we need much more than just to stay alive... My own experience is to focus on what I think are appropriate levels - over 50ng/ml and benefits that have brought to me (be it anecdotal). Since 2002, despite high exposure at University, freq domestic/international travel and conferences (and despite getting older) - I have not had a single respiratory tract infection (flu, cold,...). None. Before, under similar conditions I got it few times per year. Change in 2002?- I raised (food, Sun exp, supplements)my levels of Vit D from low 30s to 50+ ng/ml (regularly measured, ever since in 55-75ng/ml range). Does low VitD cause infections? No. It activates immune system and at these levels, for me, it apparently does it incredibly well.
Exactly... he is so so wrong in this video- pretty disappointing as he has never updated his view- and it's dangerous... the studies all used tiny doses and most never even checked levels... very very flawed research that he is touting as facts... I guess because he lives in FL he just isn't aware of the real problems...with D - no food give you enough and yes in FL - you can likely maintain if not older but level is key... not dosage.... I took 50k a day for 30 days to get mine to 80 ng and it completely stopped thyroid antibodies... which I had for 40 years and now I take NO medication... which I had also taken for 40 years... and I was keto at 15-30 carbs and great A1c always of 5.2 and fasting insulin around 5 so - no... the keto did not solve the Autoimmunity.... Vit D and some Lugaols did... so he's just wrong... and MS suffers are now treated to high levels to put MS in remission... and Dr. Joel Gould stopped his Crohns in 3 months after 34 years... so what Dr. Cywes says in this video is as he says "BULLSHIT"!!
and No low Vit D doesn't exactly cause things... but Vit D interacts with 2000 genes and when that doesn't happen.... these things happen... that wouldn't happen with adequate D of 80ng.... and the immune system would work exactly as designed and kill as needed and NEVER attack itself... that is NEVER supposed to happen and only happens when D is low and the immune system is not properly trained.. this was very obvious in Covid with the Cytokine storms in Low D people who were 80% of the hospitalized... by the pitiful 30ng as sufficient so I'm sure 100% of the people hospitalized were low... und er 80ng.
What would our economy look like if we didn't have a multi-billion dollar industry making us sick with bad food and a second multi-billion dollar industry try to fix the illnesses caused by the first?
Cheers David Vik, What about getting rid of political Government as well?
both maphuqaz in bed phuqn us all!
100%
@@knockoutrat4065 Yes back to monarchism. Rather one greedy guy instead of thousands.
@@knockoutrat4065 Well then: let's get rid of humanity all toegther! Why would you be better than anyone else?
Wow!!! Insulin resistance has its ugly hand in everything! This is my first time hearing about its affect on Vit D. My Mother passed in Nov 2017. She was not diagnosed as T2DM, although her Mother & Uncle were. My Mother suffered from HTN, Glaucoma, vertigo/Minere's dz, hair loss, Cardiovascular Dz- all conditions of insulin resistance. She had to endure pacemaker, CABG, & carotid endarterectomy procedures. She was a little frail secretary who ate like a bird & took Statins. She would not eat meat or eggs but enjoyed bread. I am a 52yof Master's Degree RD (I'm embarrassed to admit), & I did not have the knowledge to help her. What I have learned since her passing (& it was hard for me to believe at first, being brainwashed on the Dietary Guidelines), I found here watching MDs like you, Jeff Volek, Stephen Phinney, Ken Berry, & Ben Bikman.Thank you so much for this info!!!
My condolences, you and I are the same age, I cannot get my mother to eat meat either, she'll eat a couple eggs per week otherwise it's all carbs, and mostly bread type carbs as she doesn't eat much fruit or veggies in her older years; little and frail like you mom. I've been trying for many years with mom.... she simply won't change. I feel for ya on this; all her health issues are linked to her way of eating, the medical industry in aggravating, if her doc told her to eat meat she might.
@@muchasalud2011 You about exactly described my mom as well, she's 79, for her to make it another four years, I'm not sure. Sincere condolences to you and your family.
Truly true what you’re saying, I’m retired RN and we’re all indoctrinated with the SAD. If I know all these things in the past. It could have saved my sisters lives with DM ,with kidney disease. I taught them what I learned from school. And I been diabetic x 20 years, started gestational and never left me, I was injecting myself with insulin in the 9 months I was pregnant. Can you imagine that. Had I known these things… Anyways started keto almost a year ago and I know I probably have IR, which I’m trying to fight with IF and Keto. It’s working slowly I figured I was diabetic for many years hopefully this IR will be gone like now.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sharing this with my own family in hopes of helping them as this knowledge has helped me.
Yes, everything is behind insulin resistance!
D3 cleared my scary high levels of HPV in 3 months. But I do take it with fat - and K2. I've been LCHF for over 2 years.
A+. One of the best explanation I have heard about Vitamin D3. I am on IF-OMAD/Keto style nutrition, my requirement of D3 intake is minimal now, feeling better now than 20 years ago.
My BMI is around 20 from 27 and I have lots more energy. Fat, saturated fat is my friend in my diet along with eggs, fish and vegetables.
exactly. I took vit D for years and was still deficient. Till I started Keto and suddenly no more deficiency!!
What is keto please ?
@@ghadaabbes2411 low carbs diet
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Less than 100 grams of carbohydrates per day! Is LCHF/Akins/ Banting /keto/ carnivore/Lion most are below 50 grams of carbohydrates per day.
@@thalesnemo2841 Carnivore and Lion is NO carbs. Keto is 30 or below
I'm so thankful to you Dr Cywes for all the information you give us. I want to thank you because you have taught me so much.
Hands down, one of the best health videos out there. It explains so much as to how our bodies work. Even though is focused on vitamin D, it tells us a lot about the fallacy of consuming a bunch of supplements without addressing our actual health by eating actual food and improving our metabolic health. You, sir, are an excellent teacher.
Please see my other replies to this video, you get very little vitamin D from food.
It is a misleading title and unfortunate a doctor would skew facts. Yes, Vitamin D has no effect if you have sufficient amounts. But if you are deficient in D you run into a host of risk factors for diseases.
@@mypointofview1111 You have YOUR PoV and that's fine. I have mine and that's what's fine for ME. I don't need to read your comments if I don't want to. You had a chance to share your thoughts in the comments, and replying to mine to tell me to read yours is just ridiculous. I respect opinions, but put them as your own comment. I'll share mine without needing to refute others.
@@voygent If you're deficient in anything, you'll run into trouble. We agree on that. What does that have to do with my comment? I think we need to understand where to find the vitamins, minerals, hormone-like vitamins and other micro-nutrients, AND where are they most bio-available. The other side is that if we're severely metabolic unhealthy and eat too much junk, we can't try to take vitamins on the side and we won't get the full effect. Please post your comments in the community comments so you can share your PoV with everyone and have your own voice. Replying to my comments doesn't help anything.
This explains my chronic low levels at around 14 ng/ml even though I take 20000 iu once a week. I just can't get it above 20 ng/ml. 8 Weeks ago I startet an extrem Keto diet with less than 10gr. of carbs a day and my levels are at 30 ng/ml now. Nobody could explain this to me even my endocrinologist told me some BS that it's normal in some people and I shouldn't worry about it. This is absurd and reckless. Thank you very much for your great explanation. Why don't we have doctors like you here in Berlin?
Glad you recognized BS! I hold the key to chronically low vit d. I want to pass my info along to this doctor for his research. I suspected but now am sure. This should help many with low d as for as mitigation.
You just gavin me the argument in which I will get my insurance company to get a CGM. I must get Medicare to acknowledge that vesides eating fat as crucial, but also knowing glucose level at lowest is essential for production of vit d activation.
Might want to take D3 5000IU daily with a meal😊
@ Philipp Briese: Geht mir auch so, lag bei 8. Ich werde auch Keto versuchen. Grüße aus Hamburg!
Try 20000 a day..
this is hitting home for me more than anything why insulin spikes mean you can't lose weight. thank you.
What pisses me off is that my mother's geriatric doctor refuses to remove atorvastatin (lipitor) when her last lipid panel showed her LDL estimated count to be only 39. I called and told my mother to stop taking it immediately, but refuses to. Her doctor told her that she might die of a heart attack or stroke if she stops taking it. The active form of D3 requires LDL along with A, E, K, coq10, cholesterol, triglycerides, etc to be carried around in the body. Statins are the dumbest drugs in modern medicine.
Do not demonize statins ....they make a lot of people very wealthy!!!
As a drug technician i'm passionate working and studying drugs, but lipitor is a stupid stupid little thing and many doctors in my country agree with that! I don't know how you can convince someone to stop it against doctor's advice. Maybe see another doctor?
I've been saying it for years, and I'm an idiot, statins are stupid! Cholesterol is so important in the body. I studied anatomy in high school and couldn't understand why cholesterol was being demonized, though basic science showed it to be beyond important. This is my analogy, imagine thinking every time you see a house fire, the fire dept. shows up, and thinking, they must be starting all these fires considering they're always at the scene!?!? Cholesterol isn't the cause of clogged arteries, it's trying to fix the damage. The underlying cause is never addressed when you take a statin.
@@robertcywes2966 lol
@@streetmagik3105 Amen!!! There is also the negative aspect of taking statins. They cripple us metabolically and increases risk of covid and flu bad outcome
I went back to watch this video again. I was supplimenting with oral B3 and saw a modest rise in serum levels. Blood work after I was keto for six weeks and my levels shot up nearly 30 ng/nL between 2 tests, one month in apart. Nobody is talking about the connection between insulin resistance and D3 levels. Thank you!
This doc just reenforces my beliefs and way of thinking LCHF for life.
Ditto!
What it lchf?
Low carb high nutritional fat
Thank you and respect for speaking out with integrity - essenial timing
And yet people queuing for McDonalds while wearing masks.
u don't wear mask?
@@lm2193 That is called irony
People in the United States are the most brainwashed sheep in the world
Great explanation. My doctor behaves like each system in my body is separate. She never told my I have metabolic syndrome. But she did suddenly inform me that I was a type 2 diabetic and my vitamin D was dangerously low 8.5. Thank God I found informative doctors like you. *I've lost weight, feel great and no longer am considered diabetic.
If they acknowledged everything is connected what would happen to specialists and their specialties
@@jodyjackson5475, Especially dermatologists.
Excellent video on vitamin D. TY for confirming that a proper diet + exposure to sunlight + insulin sensitivity is key for absorption of vitamin D in body. Not taking a *bunch* of vitamin D supplements which my physician kept pushing me to do.
All I know is when I take vitamin D, my mood and motivation increase.
call it the placebo effect ...
@@frankl2770 Likely not.It means he's defficient and if you're defficient and don't have insulin resistence then you should absolutely take it.
Vitamin D acts as a steroid
Denise Hawkins - Vitamin D is a steroid
If you take vitamin d3, it is important to take K2 with it, reduce calcification of the arteries. Check the research..
Thank you for this information. I have recently started eating carnivore after years of lots of carbs and low fat. Ironically, my concern with going carnivore was for the adverse effects it might create with my osteopenia. I can't tell you how relieved I am to learn this new way will more protect my bones. There were decades of bad eating and I don't know how quickly I will be able to strengthen my bones with carnivore, but as least you have eased my mind about making this choice.
I’m a cov id nurse and we know that the majority of those with low D3 levels suffer harshly so we give them D3 K2 and boy do they improve . Most of them have no idea they are given a protocol . The D makes all the difference along with zinc, C and more ! Be on the safe side and take your D3
Facts!
Thanks for this!
I thought nurses were required to put patients on deadly pharmaceuticals like Rem~desovere, and then put them on ventil@tors in order to k!ll them faster?
honest question -- if you are giving the patients Vit D3 along with zinc C and the rest of the protocol, how do you know the effect of the D supplementation alone?
@@ladyfritz8rThey don't know. It's a crapshoot.
When Keto doctors disagree on which vitamins are good and/or essential, the whole health “issue” becomes extremely murky. To supplement...or not to supplement, that is the question...🧐🤨🤞
I get a daily email from the Vitamin D council. Can't remember them ever talking about high insulin blocking the production of Vit D. Learn something new every day. Thanks,
Are you familiar with the Secosteroid Hormone D private Facebook group. Jim Stephenson, Jr., the founder of the group, has the best understanding of the intricacies of Secosteroid Hormone D, compared to anyone I know. Vitamin D council was infantile compared to his group.
i think this is just a huge misunderstanding here. insulin resistance and vitamin d deficiency correlates probably very well. insulin resistance is caused by a fucked up fatty liver. the same fucked up fatty liver is then also limited in other functions like vitamin d conversion or glutathione production etc.
I take meta-analysis with a grain of salt, very easy to be in error.
And as far as the effectiveness goes I don't believe it is a yes/no answer, there are degrees of function even if there is the rare person that cannot convert Vit D, this is not a reason to avoid supplementation especially in Northern climates AND DOUBLE FOR DARKER SKIN IN NORTHERN CLIMATES.
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Er....eskimos and Inuits never had D issues
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@@robertcywes2966 Robert, I just read this really great article about that subject have a look very interesting; www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-inuit-paradox
@@robertcywes2966 Traditional diet includes a lot of fish and seal livers. Eskimos And Inuit? Inuit are the people, Eskimo is a European slur, meaning eaters of raw flesh, although their diet of meat and fish, including fat, is what has allowed them to survive in a hostile climate.
I'm a certified health coach with several years of training in functional medicine and you hit the nail on the head about vitamin D! I live Houston, Texas and when the sun is out I do my best to get outside between 11am and 1pm to get 20 minutes of sunlight to as much exposed body as possible without any sunscreen except for maybe the face. I also do this after an overnight fast so insulin levels are at their lowest. My fasting insulin is very low anyways at 1-2 uIU/mL primarily because I follow a low caloric diet, very lean, and I workout daily.
I contracted COVID in June and luckily I had sufficient levels of vitamin D because I really think it helped my immune system run like a fine rolex watch and my fever never exceeded 100.8 and I only had a mild cough with a lost sense of taste for 4 days. The fever persisted for 12 days and by the 13th day all my symptoms were gone! However, at age 55 I recovered very well with no lasting effects from the virus and I thank God daily because I know this virus can be deadly for some people.
Sunlight is key if you live in areas where you can get enough UV rays, and make sure you take magnesium to help activate it and K2 as well. I also take 6-9mg of Boron daily and it does wonders for testosterone levels as well. At 55 years of age I have a total testosterone that averages 700-850 depending on how much sleep I get. Get out and get some sun as it will do your body good!
Excellent. Glad u did well
@Ralph London At the time I had the virus I was taking two different types of zinc and I averaged about 100mg per day for the first 10 days and then I decreased to 40-60mg per day and that is what I am currently taking. I took 17 different supplements and each one had a purpose. The particular brands were Solgar and Pico Zinc by Dr. Carolyn Dean.
How do u measure your insulin level?
I think he said low carbohydrate and not lean, but including fat for the fat soluble nature of Vitamin D.
I just read your comment.
It sounds exactly like myself.
Brilliant minds think alike.
Have a blessed day from Albuquerque NM
I have started following you and binge watching ALL YOUR VIDEOS. You are such an amazing doctor ❤️❤️
"As long as you see some sunshine..." Guess he hasn't been in Scandinavia during the winter.
Tell that to your Viking ancestors who were strong as an ox. The modern diet is the problem, not the location where you live.
@@javarithms One can of sardines has almost a full days worth of D
Vikings ate a lot of fish 👍👌
@@TheDerek5757 Actually cod liver is the king of vitamin D! 100 g of sardine has 44% of vitamin D RDA whereas, 100 g of cod liver has 2500% of RDA.
@@javarithms Great, but I will stick with sardines, I don't like liver 🙂
@@TheDerek5757 Can't go wrong with sardines (especially smoked). I eat both. 👍
I have started to focus heavily on vitamin D because of Covid-19.
But strangely I find it's also helping a little with my sarcoidosis symptoms. I haven't got enough cortisol and my immune system is unbalanced.
The vitamin D modulates the immune system and may be reducing inflammation at the same time?
I now exercise more and eat fairly good.
Hope you all improve your health.
Make sure to balance with K and E
Vit K tells the liberated (by D) calcium/minerals where to go (not the soft tissue)
Vitamin D is effective against Covid from the studies I've seen.
Sceptical. You are 100% right. ❤❤❤
Also, if you are deficient you have to take it with vit K. Once I did that I finally had normal levels. I live in WA state and due to lack of sun it's really bad here. Eating keto also helped.
Wish I would have known this 30 years ago.
Better late than never :-)
Yeah, but would we have believed it?
Dr C, you referenced a previous video where you talked about supplements. Which video, please?
th-cam.com/video/MENBk7dAi10/w-d-xo.html
When I was a teen in the 70's I remember driving regularly past a health store with my parents and my Mom saying someone we knew works in there... and I'm thinking oh she's one of those nut jobs!
and then about 10 years later "I was one of those nut jobs" LMAO!
This is the century that will reverse all of the mis-information and medical mis-deeds of the 20th century, especially the crimes of Ancel Keyes and the American heart and stroke foundation!!!!!
11:11 "As long as you see some sunlight..."
Depending on where you live, during fall and winter you don't see enough sunlight. And nutrition contains hardly any vitamin D, therefore supplementation is mandatory.
Really! Plus the benefits for Vitamin D come if you are deficient. Many benefits come if you are deficient and to mislead people is a shame. If you are not deficient, you won't see a benefit which is logical. So to say Vitamin D is useless is irresponsible for a doctor to say and problematic.
@@voygent u didnt understand
@@voygent He is saying low D is caused by disease rather than being the result of it. If you continue to inhale carbs and go fat free, your D3 will STAY low - not matter how much sun or supplement you get.
Right, but he's saying something different. He's saying that supplementation will not be effective unless the insulin gets controlled. Then supplementation would be effective if you live in the far north. But D is fat soluble too and stores well so if you are sunbathing during spring, summer and early fall, what's the problem?
@@zeppelinmexicanoThe problem is that the storage capacity is too small. Chances are you are deficient before winter even begins!
Thank you. This was illuminating. Can we draw some conclusions about the current COVID-19 issue and those with diabetes/pre-diabetes and concurrent Vit D levels?
Yup
Watch all Dr. Cywes videos outdoors in the sun :)
yes, they are pretty fucked. but the root cause is, that they do not take responsibility for their health.
they simply think that the medical system is responsible - which of course is stupid as fuck.
@@stefanweilhartner4415 The medical system is responsible to actually tell people how to eat healthy and how to treat diabetes. They actually do the opposite. So how can they not feel slighted by the medical system?
@@abracadabruh1313 The medical system can't tell people how to eat healthy because they don't know. btw. that would be health care - which does not exist. there is only sick care. no one asks the doctor how to stay healthy. they did not learn that in med school
"Think! Think! Empower yourself with knowledge!" Beautifully said!
Yeah but a lot of experts support D3 supplementation since our sun exposure isn't enough by itself
Could you please provide a reference to the claim that insulin inhibits vitamin d precursor synthesis? Most scientific literature supports the claim that vitamin d modulates insulin secretion, rather than the other way around.
Yes, I have always been confused about that too.
It’s my understanding that most people, who have the worst symptoms of COVID-19, are deficient in D, so it is important to take Vit. D with Vit. K. I wished you addressed this. I think not addressing this, since so many docs are recommending taking D & K as a protection, is a disservice.
Excellent explanation as always. Doc - try and use a reference chart or two in your videos ... please!
I appreciate your focus on insulin resistance issues, but my D level was dangerously deficient at 6ng/ml preCovid. The only change I was able to make was to take my prescribed D3, though the 5,00IU/day dosage given was only appropriate for a thin person and I needed 20,000IU/day for my obesity to get me above 50ng/ml. Once I reached that basic Tropical African evolutionary level, (maintained still today by traditional Maasai!) my severe depression and all pains disappeared and my subsequent infection with the Delta variant was nearly asymptomatic despite 5+ CovidComorbidities.
Only then was I able to attack my other health issues. I've since lost 80lbs on Keto/IF, begun exercising and got my first tan after 25 years of D-DEPLETING CARBAMAZEPINE/(TEGRETOL)! Depression and pain blocked all motivation before.
So, I completely disagree that D supplementation *TO A MINIMUM 50ng/ml LEVEL* is useless while still insulin resistant, since only D supplementation allowed me to finally move forward into Ketogenic weight loss and full remission of my Metabolic Syndrome!
yes... he's dangerously wrong in this video... kind of comically wrong... since he's king of calling "BULLSHIT" and most of this video is BULLSHIT and he's stayed ignorant and never changed his stance.
What a pity u did not mentioned the role of K2 with vitamin D.
Need both Mk4 and Mk7 versions of K2. Most supplements have only Mk7. And many supplements are actually the K1 plant version which is very poorly converted. Same as carotinoids in plants. The body poorly converts it into vita A
@Marco Polo Could not agree more. 400 iu rdi was based on children developing rickets bowlegs during the industrial revolution. Body needs way much more than 400 iu. Skin makes 10,000 in just 15-20mins of sun uvb exposure in summer afternoon days. Anyone who says too much D3 is toxic they dont know what they are talking about
What a pity a fraud doctor like this idiot is making TH-cam videos lying to people. "Fish and eggs are rich in Vitamin D" - BS!!
@@freecryptos Very few foods in nature contain vitamin d so compared to most foods fish and eggs are rich in vitamin d. That being said it is very hard to get your required daily amount from food alone.
You need him to help you do your research?
Excellent information. Thanks 🙏
I have written about "Vit D" in my columns for years, the title of my first one: "Vit D Isn't..." I did a lot of research. For the RIGHT, safe sun rays, (UVB) the arc of the sun must be above the 53rd azimuth, which why it's harder to access, the further north you are...and in some cases, never gets above it. The Navy used to print a handy sun chart that you could use to know exactly where the 'window' was in your backyard each day. In my state, it reaches the 53rd in mid-April, a narrow window that widens on each end every day till the summer solstice and then narrows again until gone around mid-Sept. I can no longer find it, but someone gave an easier way to determine it. Just look at your shadow. If it's shorter than you are, they claimed, you're 'in the window." ('long about the end of Jan/Feb, the stored Vit D is pretty much spent in my state - and SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder from lack of Vit D) - or Cabin Fever sets in. I use D3 to supplement in winter. An aside: I started Intermittent Fasting in 2019 for losing weight - goal - 15 lbs (156 to140.) It was unexpectedly easy, so I kept going until I had lost 30 lbs - to 125. The biggest bonus, I discovered that Intermittent Fasting controls healthy insulin levels. Win win... (Also, research the dangers of sunscreens. The reaction between a sunscreen that even my doctor prescribed for me - a stronger dose than the same brand I was using, to combat some pre-cancerous lesions on my forehead. It doubled the sun poisoning! I now use only the old baby oil with a few drops of iodine like we did long ago - or coconut or jojoba with iodine. I get a slow healthy tan and no sun poisoning) Anyhow - that's what works for me. We should each do our own research.) (I like Dr. Cywes!)
I like him but he's dead wrong in this Video about D... so disapoointing that he didn't do his own research... and btw... Boland was a woman... NOT a guy... and his analysis was wrong as the Vit d doses was too low in every single study he included... hence... no effect...
Yes, it helps.
Thank you so much, Doctor Cywes.
What do you think about vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 helping calcification in the vascular system? Won’t that combination help move the calcium back into your bones?
You absolutely blow my mind.
Actually Vit D3 should always be taken with K2. When combined they absolutely reverse osteoporosis.
The problem with these "scientific studies" is they either don't carry them out for long enough or they give subjects a synthetic, rather than, the natural form. Studies are easily manipulated to find the answer you want.
Also, was rda (or above) of magnesium given to the subjects during the trial? If not, the study was essential useless
Moved from the south to the north my levels depleted drastically. My husband who is from west Africa experienced the same result. We are darker complexion in an environment with less sun, currently. We eat our same diet which contains fruits and veggies and lean meats, no dairy because it causes GI issues. So there must be a correlation with environment.
Regarding your GI issues when you consume dairy, ND Donald Lepore wrote in his book "The Ultimate Healing System" that people who are not able to consume dairy without an digestive issue are low in potassium. Since we need do much potassium, 4700 mg a day, it might explain why so many people cannot tolerate dairy. 🙄
There absolutely is a correlation with your latitude. Darker skin needs a lot more sun than can often be achieved outside the equatorial regions. The high electromagnetic fields and wireless technology in many locations also causes vitamin D to not be converted.
@@Lots3say it my husband's culture not to consume dairy. Never had and issue until moving here
This guy is right, a LCHF diet increases vitamin D levels vs. a HCLF diet. Here is the study :
Pubmed: PMC8400948
The mean was 22.9 vs. 37.8 ng/dl (LCHF). Now granted those on the LCHF will tend to consume more animal foods and vegetables which have a higher vitamin D content, but even then the vitamin D content is so low that I don't think would explain such a large difference between the two groups. 15ng/dl difference is huge and I would assume that diet wouldn't make up for this difference unless cod liver oil was consumed for the LCHF group.
Waiting on a specific video of Hypertension/high blood pressure! It would be great! There are a lot of people blaming salt instead of sugar/refine carbs.
Coming!
You are one of the few that gets it.
Having gone ketogenic, typically with 22 hours of intermittent fasting daily, my blood pressure went down from 120+/80+ while on bp meds to 97/72 while reducing bp meds in half. And I've increased my salt intake during that time in order to have what I understand to be a healthy electrolyte balance.
First time this has ever made sense to me.!
Actually, Vitamin-D in TOGETHER with Vitamin-K2 plus calcium and magnesium is needed to prevent osteoporosis. Vitamin-D doesn't move the calcium to the bone it's Vitamin-K2's job to do that. Vitamin-D is still needed to get uptake of calcium into the blood. Vitamin-K2 also prevents and reverses hypercalcification.
I have been taking 3000 mg, vitamin C powder in capsules and higher doses of vitamin D for over 35 years daily and don't get colds or flu
Funny he doesn’t mention K2 at all. That’s because manta doctors don’t know about it yet, was discovered recently. And he contradicted himself said that vitamins cannot be made by body yet K2 is made by body from K1 as well as both of them are available in food.
@@geraldarnoult me too. Never had the flu in my life
Svetlana V doesn’t the conversation from K1 to K2 happen in the colon by the microbes there? Do we have a biochemical pathway for converting k1 to k2 somewhere else?
Study is outdated by the K2 studies and if you have an insulin problem take berberine. I take a multivitamin d3 k2 berberine and fish oil. I tried to eat the orange tan coloured berberine powder. LoL. Can't get the taste out of your mouth. It's in a capsule now. A bit of choline sometimes.
This did help. Thank you.
It's kind of frustrating that white folk act like we all have the same absorption levels and just need 20 minutes in sun and if we are low and get sun then there is a health issue. False. I find it irresponsible for a doctor to not address the needs for all ethnicities. If you're dark skinned, be prepared to spend 3 hours a day in midday sun, 365 days a year for life. Or supplement. I practically lived in the sun, the more sun I got the darker I got, the less D I was getting. I was shocked to learn how low my levels were. I'm extremely healthy, a walking billboard for health everyone says, lol, labs always perfection outside of vitamin D. I now take 5000IU a day. Took a couple years of 8000iu to get to 43, I was shooting to be over 50. I added vitamin K and in a month got up to 74. Now I'm happy. Have not gotten sick since my levels were in the 40s.
You should join the vitamin D Telegram group
It's not all white folks, and there are a lot of white doctors sounding this alarm.
th-cam.com/video/_fIMkigtnk4/w-d-xo.html
Are your glucose level and liver tests ok? Meaning, you are not having problems with insulin resistance. Point of this video was, that if those are a problem, it will also lower D-Vitamin levels because you can not process them well.
@@timogronroos4642 Serious claims require serious evidence. Cite the literature
@MariaN
Excellent share - thanks. I'm interested in what form of Vitamin K. Is it K2-MK4 or K2-MK7, or another form? Thanks, and bravo for knowing YOUR nutritional needs!
Oh boy. I started taking vitamin D last year after surgery to repair a broken kneecap per the recommendation from my orthopedic surgeon. Also, because I read from numerous sources it was vital to strengthen immunity. Not long after I started a carnivore way of eating. Now 8 months later and seeing this video im wondering if im doing more harm then good by taking it.
No harm..
"your bones cannot increase their calcium levels"... not true lol
Another excellent video, you make so easy to understand
Thank God we have doctors like you.
Yes! The conversion blockade via insulin pathway is super important, HOWEVER, many of the studies on which that meta-analysis is based measure administered Vit-D dose instead of blood level achieved. If, as you point out, Vit-D is really a steroid hormone, dose measurement is really the wrong paradigm by which to assess the efficacy of supplementation and we have good reason to be skeptical of the punchline here that Vit-D supplementation cannot be an effective intervention.
I used to have low D even with supplements but now that I eat carnivore my levels are optimal with only sunlight.
Vitamin D3 is best absorbed by also eating a little fat in with your meal when you take it. My preferred method is to have smashed avocado on toast with a little salt & pepper & some lemon thyme or lemon zest.
Thank you for sharing that information is very helpful
D3 also needs k2.
MyPoint ofView, “...on toast...”? I’m on the Carnivore Diet, so I’m staying away from carbs and eating fatty beef. This addresses both insulin resistance and high fat. But I do cook my steaks in avocado oil (high temp). 😊
I know that when I take K2/D3 my asthma is much better. But I don’t go out in the sun and I was born with asthma. Maybe I’m the exception. Oh and I’m also very ketovore.
another masterclass! and once again High Insulin is related.... and insulin is not even requested on standard blood tests, for some reason (that we all know) this was very well hidden untill now, thanks to the internet and to the doctors who have the guts to share this kind of information! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
My Doc. was pretty upset when I was trying to persuade him to test my fasting insulin...he cursed that nowadays everyone is a Doc. because of the internet.
@@angiesrecipes I bet he tought you had consulted "Dr .Google" hehe... but unfortunately the are a lot of people consulting into not reliable sources of information...
They don’t test for fasting insulin in UK. Unless maybe privatly. Same as CAC score.
@@angiesrecipes My doctor was they same, trying to force me to take Metformin. I changed doctors faster than lightining. Lol.
The key factor he mentioned is Insulin resistance which the research indicated was due to high Carbohydrate intake and poor saturated fat intake. The saturated fats result in Cholesterol which is the building block of Calciferol (vitamin D group). This is a dietary issue for example in many Asian and African populations and vegetarians.
Insulin is responsponsible for the transport of glucose and fructose across the cell wall. Insulin resistance occurs when the transport fails with normal levels of insulin and glucose levels rise in the blood stream causing the cells in the pancreas to produce more insulin.
i love these theoretical discussions where the person has completely dismissed peoples experiences in favor of the facts that they want to believe. his advice not to listen to every knee jerk thing works very well for this video. when someone tells you to think think think think they have a problem and are just full of themself that's just how it is. they think think think think that they are so much smarter smarter smarter than anyone else.
His argument is factual but extremely heavily leaned to a laughable level. He is punching above his weight with the end driven argument and the "I don't care if you take vit d or not" near the end literally floored me with giggles.
Yes but, where I live their is very minimal sunlight, or I’m indoors when the sun comes out, so I then go outside and the sun’s gone in. Go figure. Can’t spend my life outdoors hoping the sun comes out! I’ll take some supplementary Vitamin D then....as you said get some sunlight...
You are one of the very few Doctors that knows about vitamins and supplements. You didnt learn all that in your 3 or 4 hours of your med school training. I am not a Doctor but I know all about vitamin D3 and I take what is considered a high dose daily along with 1200 mgs Calcium and 600 mgs of magnessium ( 2 to 1 ratio is VERY IMPORTANT) . Im in Ontario Canada and Health Canada says 1000 units of Vitamin D 3 is the largest dosage anyone should take.I have read all the studies that were used to lower the Vitamin d levels down to 1000 units and nothing was conclusive .There is in my opinion only one side effect to doing what I do and that is good health. My immune system is working the way it should be. In Canada OHIP does not pay for a Vitamin d test . I wonder why that is? I use PH paper available at any health food store for around $12 to measure my PH level and if I am over 7.0 my Vitamin d level is where it should be. PH and vitamin d levels go hand in hand. I dont worry about Cancer or any virus. In my opinion a virus is a lot tougher than Cancer cells. My heart stopped about 15 years ago and I survived and thats why I spent about 5000 hours or more doing my own research to find out how to get healthy and stay healthy. I have learned a lot and have opinions based on that such as - The sun does not cause skin cancer ( it might trigger it but thats because that person has a low PH) Dark skinned people die about 6 years earlier than whites because they cant absorb vitamin d from the sun as easily as whites. When I did my research Michigan Had the highest rate of skin cancer and not California or Florida or Nevada as one might think.The best indicator of a Virus ,Cancer or any serious illness is your PH reading. If you are under 6.0 you have a problem or are developing a problem. I think you know a lot more than I do so I am going to check out more of your videos.
Ron, regarding the dosage, I think you will find the following video enlightening: th-cam.com/video/QrU1yrmNIqc/w-d-xo.html
Dear Dr Cywes, Thank you for a very informative videocast. I was told at my last check-up and consultation that they had discovered that I was low in vitamin D; that was last March. The year before I had stayed out of the sun for the first time in my life, and I had a cough for two months in the fall and a shoulder problem that persisted. This summer I am back in the sun and of course using sun cream, but I refuse to take a vitamin D supplement. I read where the body has enough vitamin D by being in the sun for a certain amount of time per week. I have noticed that my shoulder which has been ailing me for a very long time has finally healed up. It was a tendon or ligament that was damaged. Perhaps the vitamin D has helped it finally heal. All I know is that your videocast has made me realize that I was right not to take a supplement to get my vitamin D levels up to normal. I think the sun is there for us to have as our vitamin D source.
There are recent studies on bone health that show bone density can be improved. You might be interested in the research of Dr. Clifton Rubin of NASA. Also the Vibmore study by Dr. Belinda Beck in Australia on improving bone health.
That explains why my vitamin D was severely low ( 6 ) even though I was out in the sun everyday all day ! Now I'm low carb mostly carnivore .
Wow....very helpful information doc !! Thank you ! ❤️
I take a lot of supplements and my default view of each and every supplement is, "I don't know if this supplement will or will not work, or whether it may even harm me, however, my research tells me it could be beneficial, so I'm gonna take it, yet I could change my mind at a later time."
We don't have sunlight for 6 months of the year. I take 4000 in every day with 100mcg of K2. I am 65 years old allergic to eggs. I have never had a cold or flu. Had covid in 2020 but showed no symptoms. I put it down to Vit D3
I'm a 63 year old type 2 diabetic on insulin. I've had diabetes for so long I think my pancreas pooped out. My Dr started me on 5000iu of vitamin D3 about 20 years ago. My levels are in the optimal range. I cannot remember the last time I was sick with anything! It works!
Why not get rid of ur Diabetes?
D-3 also works for me because I don't get enough from the sun and when I take 50,000 IUs I feel the difference believe me. I won't live life without it.
Vitamin D3 really helps me. I don't have colds, etc when my vitamin D level is 60-70. When it was in the 30s I was sick more often. So it is good for my immune system! Good protection against the flu too. Haven't had the flu in many years. I do not take a flu shot.
In Canada dont get enough sun winters so we need to take a supplement!And now with covid 19 latest studies show benefits for infections lungs etc!Reduces infections!
Traditional Inuits dont have D deficiency
This makes sense, but I live in dark and cloudy northern clime. Eat eggs a d fish and supplements too.
good stuff brother
DR CYVES, Kindly link the 2014 study/meta analysis in THE LANCET you are referring to in the description or here.
I can attest to this: supplementation barely moved the needle, but when I started fixing my metabolism and working on liver health, sunlight was enough to get my D much higher than it had ever been before. I will say though that D may not be the cause, but it still may be one of a few causes. Just like you need to press the accelerator and engage 1st gear to start driving, there may be other factors that were not tested in our reductionist scientific model. Before/after supplementation studies may be the equivalent of dismissing the accelerator as useless when the car is still in neutral. So for me, I remain open to vitamin D being causal in some form. In any case, sunlight is best, for all the other benefits that come with it.
K
How much did you supplement with?
Hummm it looks like you are wearing a U of Michigan logo. We have the number one school in the country for medical training! No wonder if you’re a grad why you’re so smart!😉. Headed to the trash to throw out all the vit. D3 my doctor recommended. Thank you!
4:18 - “Vitamin D receptors are everywhere in human body.” according to that statement, maybe, the vitamin D is extremely important hormone/vitamin for our health. We can debate how to absorb better the D supplements or what not, but to say it is unnecessary “supplements” seems to me little misleading or, at least, confusing. I do agree, like any other nutrition deficiency, the Doctors should investigate why the patient’s body isn’t absorbing or producing the D-Vitamin properly, and not just say; here, take vitamin-D and make an appointment to see me a month or two.
The best advice should be, if you have to take (low levels) of Vitamin-D, don’t quit but ask your Doctor if there’s an underlying condition that can be addressed to eliminate your need to continue the supplementation of Vit-D.
The other hand, there are many different therapeutical, both scientifically proven and experimental ones, reasons for using V-D3 in among the Scientific 🧪 communities around the world. So, to say V-D3 supplementation categorically is unnecessary seems to be little too extreme.
if you have to take V-D3 supplements, make sure you are getting enough V-K2 from your diet or get it as a supplement + take them w a meal 🥘 that has some fat.
This is the problem with doctors and you yourself have to educate yourself to make better informed decisions. He even knows it 🤣.
The problem with the studies with vitamin D is because the supplementation doses are too low.
In my opinion that is designed on purpose because if the doses were optimal and well combined with other nutrients we would make the pharmaceutical industry loose billions of dollars.
Makes sense in my case. Love your voice 💯
Can you share the other studies that show insulin resistance causes VitD def please?
I've been looking for some but only see correlation and also the opposite correlation where they think a lack of VitD causes IR (or that VitD does not fix IR)
I had low vitamin D without insulin resistance. My A1C test was normal and my vitamin D was low. If you test low in vitamin D, this is a problem in its own right and must be corrected, in addition to any other corrections that must be made such as increasing exercise and decreasing the consumption of alcohol and sugar. Decreasing caffeine intake also helped me and I'm also taking magnesium.
Did you test for Insulin Resistance??? your A1C can be "normal" and you can be insuline resistance for many years before you show high blod sugar.
Does someone actually now what enzyme reaction insulin blocks that inhibits Calcitriol production? I couldn't google it...
Thank you so much for a straight-forward explanation. This makes a lot of sense to me.
Insulin resistance is bad and needs to be fixed and so are low vitamin D levels. If you are of normal weight and taking 5000 iu per day your vitamin D levels in few months will climb up to decent levels and benefit your health. To say that unless you fix insulin resistance vitamin D is useless is bad advise. Both are problems to be resolved.
No doubt to anything here, but as the mom of 5 teens, I can tell you hands down that 20k of Vit D a day cured every case of acne in the house, including serious cystic type. Now I have to ask if the unfortunate teen diet, full of carbs, was the issue all along. Getting them to eat right was a huge waste of effort and breath 🙄
My 18 year old started the Keto diet with me and one of the first results was no more cysts and her acne only gets a little noticeable at that time of the month, but considerably better then. Hoping it will totally resolve as she progresses with the new way of eating.
Thank goodness I have been HFLC for 5 years now. Better late than never.
You just validated my choice of not wasting precious money on vitamin D3 supplement for years.
Thank you.
Well, yes and no on that. Have you ever had your level checked? Should do so annually. Otherwise you have no idea if you should take D3 supplements or not.
Unfortunately Dr. Cywes is wrong in this video... totally wrong as were the studies in the Meta Analysis he so gleefully mentions... the doses were too small to raise levels and in many of the studies... the levels were not checked and if they did.... they used 30ng as sufficient which is "BULLSHIT"... 80ng is sufficient and if you have autoimmunity to may have to overdose above that to take the autoimmunity to zero then level off down around 80ng. LEVEL is key- not dose... and a test is walk in for $30. and unless you are swigging tons of Cod Liver oil... or in the sun 12 hrs naked... you need supplements... yes sun is best and get what you can there but take the supplement to get to 80 ng..
wow thank you. now i undrstend better this topic, thank you
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Yes. Taking Vitamin D with vitamin K and getting plenty of sunshine is urgent. Fixing insulin resistance is so important to health. Fixed Type I diabetes with carnivore, high fat diet in one day but doubt if the insulin resistance is fixed that fast when glucose levels fall to normal and exogenous insulin is at or below 4 units per day. Welcome comments on this.
Please go watch Dr. John Campbell's videos on Vitamin D3 and COVID-19. He does a daily COVID-19 update.
This video shows that most doctors are thick! Explains the high death rates in the West, smart arses who miss the BIG picture, I'm popping 4000 iu per day.
This is the first Dr who said you can get enough D through diet. Every other video the Drs have said you cant.
It's great to see the insulin thief brought to justice!
I believe 4000 units of Vit D3 has kept me safe from COVID for the last three years.
He forgets or does not know that people slow their processing of Vit D as they age ...
Which is why we need to take higher doses as we get older.
@@mypointofview1111 And fatter.
@Marco Polo MK7 is the better option than K2.
@Marco Polo thank you.
Eat once a day (see OMAD + Keto + IF), enhance your bile (bile salts), eat legumes to have fibers in gut (that will recycle the bile) and you will absorb well even at old ages.
Stay away from fructose (all sweet fruits), carbohydrates, cereals.
I'm sorry but you NEED to supplement with Vitamin D and give yourself high normal levels of Vitamin D. If a disease such as covid19 decreases Vitamin D (correlation not causation) then you need adequate reserves otherwise you're barely normal levels of vitamin D will soon plummet very low...then you're in potential trouble.
Same goes with vitamin C. Saturate yourself daily with it so you have plenty when you need it the most.
Think about a water pump that runs dry, it'll overheat and break...
D3 5000, per day. ( take 50’000 per week) the best thing I ever did. My levels were on the lowest, they now in the middle! Feel so much better. Have added on K2 with the D3. No Fatty liver. I’m fortunate! . Allergic to All Fish. All seeds and nuts. Live in sunny South Africa, So get outside a lot .. Great to hear your South African accent Doctor. The USA is So Fortunate to have you! South Africa’s huge loss!
You contradict what doc says. It seems causal by you.
Very well explained
I'll preface that I am Physicist, not MD, interested in VitD and studying it for a long time. That said, your info while spot-on is in my opinion still making the traditional MD professional mistake - treating something body needs at "adequate" levels if it is not causing a disease. That is the 2nd part of the problem with VitD, official "proper level" is defined as one at which a person is not getting sick out of lack of it, ignoring that maybe we need much more than just to stay alive... My own experience is to focus on what I think are appropriate levels - over 50ng/ml and benefits that have brought to me (be it anecdotal). Since 2002, despite high exposure at University, freq domestic/international travel and conferences (and despite getting older) - I have not had a single respiratory tract infection (flu, cold,...). None. Before, under similar conditions I got it few times per year. Change in 2002?- I raised (food, Sun exp, supplements)my levels of Vit D from low 30s to 50+ ng/ml (regularly measured, ever since in 55-75ng/ml range). Does low VitD cause infections? No. It activates immune system and at these levels, for me, it apparently does it incredibly well.
Exactly... he is so so wrong in this video- pretty disappointing as he has never updated his view- and it's dangerous... the studies all used tiny doses and most never even checked levels... very very flawed research that he is touting as facts... I guess because he lives in FL he just isn't aware of the real problems...with D - no food give you enough and yes in FL - you can likely maintain if not older but level is key... not dosage.... I took 50k a day for 30 days to get mine to 80 ng and it completely stopped thyroid antibodies... which I had for 40 years and now I take NO medication... which I had also taken for 40 years... and I was keto at 15-30 carbs and great A1c always of 5.2 and fasting insulin around 5 so - no... the keto did not solve the Autoimmunity.... Vit D and some Lugaols did... so he's just wrong... and MS suffers are now treated to high levels to put MS in remission... and Dr. Joel Gould stopped his Crohns in 3 months after 34 years... so what Dr. Cywes says in this video is as he says "BULLSHIT"!!
and No low Vit D doesn't exactly cause things... but Vit D interacts with 2000 genes and when that doesn't happen.... these things happen... that wouldn't happen with adequate D of 80ng.... and the immune system would work exactly as designed and kill as needed and NEVER attack itself... that is NEVER supposed to happen and only happens when D is low and the immune system is not properly trained.. this was very obvious in Covid with the Cytokine storms in Low D people who were 80% of the hospitalized... by the pitiful 30ng as sufficient so I'm sure 100% of the people hospitalized were low... und
er 80ng.
So basically, hi carbs ruins everything.