7 Facts about Vitamin D You Never Knew

You know , at one time I had zero awareness about the importance of vitamins and what they did on our bodies , especially vitamin d .

I've maybe heard about it .

Maybe you get it from the sun , from the foods .

I just had zero data on vitamin d and it just wasn't even on my radar .

But over time , when I gained more knowledge about vitamin d , it is the most important vitamin out of all the vitamins .

Because if you're deficient , boy , your immune system doesn't work .

You're gonna have inflammation .

You can have all sorts of issues with sleep and digestion , and the list goes on and on and on .

But they may know some of the common reasons why the majority of the population is deficient in vitamin d .

Gut inflammation , no gallbladder .

As we age , our skin becomes thicker .

We can't absorb vitamin d from the sun .

The darker the skin is , the less vitamin d absorption because of the melanin , the pigment in the skin .

The more obese someone is , the more diabetic they are , the more insulin resistance they have , the less vitamin d they're gonna absorb .

And also , where they live .

If they live at a high latitude in the north , they're not gonna get much d , and it's virtually impossible to get vitamin d from your diet .

People are also more aware that their genetics have a big play in vitamin d too .

Are many different genes that a person can have a problem with that either , makes it difficult to convert , into the active form of vitamin d or just absorb vitamin d .

And I have that problem myself .

Then you have , if a person has an infection , microbes can downgrade vitamin D receptors and block the absorption of vitamin D as their strategy to overcome your immune system .

If someone has a fatty liver or they smoke or they consume sugar or they go through stress , they're gonna absorb less vitamin d .

If they're on a statin or on a low fat diet , they're not gonna get as much vitamin d .

If there's pollution in the air or even if they're getting too many omega 6 fatty acids with the soy oil , the corn oil , the canola oil , that will block vitamin d .

But I wanna talk about 7 things that you probably have never heard of before , and they're very interesting , and they're very important to know .

Number 1 , the majority of side effects that may occur when you take vitamin D .

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And I'm gonna list them .

Fatigue , insomnia , constipation , diarrhea , skin rash , nausea , headache , pain , all could occur if you're low in magnesium .

Magnesium is such an important mineral in relationship to vitamin D .

It helps it work better .

And if you're deficient in magnesium , which a lot of people are vitamin D may give you additional issues .

So in other words , if you take more vitamin d , it can exaggerate an already deficient situation with Magnesium .

Now , of course , the side effect from very large amounts of vitamin d over many , many months potentially creating hypercalcemia could give you kidney stones , but this is very , very rare .

And this , I think , is the probably the biggest fear .

They don't realize that you'd have to take a lot more over a long period of time before you got kidney stones or hypercalcemia .

And if you're taking magnesium and other factors related to , this vitamin D like K2 , the odds of you getting hypercalcemia , too much calcium in the blood , even go even lower , But drinking a little bit more water like 2.5 liters of fluid per day can really almost eliminate the formation of kidney stones because kidney stones form when there's a super concentrated amount of this calcium in the urine .

So if your urine is so diluted , it can never be super concentrated .

Number 2 , taking , vitamin d infrequently works a little bit better than on a regular basis .

So if we compare taking 10,000 IUs of vitamin d every day as a maintenance dose , and you instead did 50,000 IUs once a week or twice a week , that might work a little better for you .

And this is good because sometimes people forget to take vitamin d and they think , is it gonna do any good if I take it a few times a week ?

And the answer is yes .

Remember , vitamin d is a fat soluble vitamin .

So when it goes in the body , it gets stored in the fat cells and it's it can be released over time .

It's not like a water soluble vitamin , like some of the B vitamins and vitamin C that you would wanna take those on a daily basis .

The next , thing that people don't realize is this , when you consume , like , farm raised fish , which , I mean , it's so so common in restaurants , and , you just need to start reading the labels .

Farm raised fish has 4 times less vitamin d as well caught fish .

Grain fed animals compared to grass fed animals have much less vitamin d .

And chickens and pigs that roam outside and that are able to get out of the barn , and they're exposed to the sun , have much more vitamin d than these , pigs and chickens that are confined to a a structure .

In fact , when a pig or a chicken doesn't get to see the daylight , they're like 3 times less vitamin d .

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Number 4 .

And this is really , really interesting .

Out of all the factors that can improve your health .

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Vitamin d is behind eating a healthy diet and exercise .

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Number 5 , vitamin d 2 , which is mainly you have to get a prescription for is very different than vitamin d 3 .

In fact , vitamin d 2 actually in some studies have worsened MS .

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Versus vitamin d 3 has greatly improved MS .

Lupus , another autoimmune disease , is not affected by d 2 , but it is with d 3 .

The studies in vitamin d 2 do not decrease mortality , but the studies with vitamin d 3 do .

And taking vitamin d 2 can actually inhibit the absorption of vitamin d 3 .

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Next point .

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Some people , when they go out and get exposure to the sun , they think that they're getting a lot of vitamin d when they're getting exposed to the sun for , like , 10 minutes .

So let's say best case scenario , you're young , you don't have any of these other barriers of absorption of vitamin d , and , you're exposing a lot of your skin to the sun for about 10 minutes , you're only gonna get 400 IUs of vitamin d .

That is very , very low amounts .

So just realize that it takes a bit more exposure to sun to get enough vitamin d .

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And last point that I think is very , very important because a lot of people take vitamin d 3 , and they don't realize that manufacturing companies are adding , corn syrup to vitamin d .

In fact , the manufacturing company that I work with in Europe basically told me with a high level of certainty , I was the only one to ask or request a vitamin d product without corn syrup .

And I would suspect a similar thing is happening in the US , but I don't know for sure .

So when you get a vitamin D product , make sure they don't add the corn syrup or the maltodextrin .

Now that you know those seven factors , I wanna take your awareness even higher .

If you haven't seen this video in vitamin d , you should check it out .

I put it up right here .