Make Your Own Vitamin D Supplements for Pennies

Alright .

This is pretty cool .

I'm gonna show you how to make your own vitamin d supplements using mushrooms .

Now mushrooms are normally grown in the dark , and the only light they see is some fluorescent light when they're either being , picked or processed .

And mushrooms have , very insignificant amounts of vitamin d unless you expose that mushroom to ultraviolet b light .

And there's some very cool research on exposing these mushrooms to light and boosting the vitamin d levels to levels far greater than the RDAs .

You can boost the vitamin d in mushrooms to levels of 5,000 international units to 46,000 international units and beyond .

And so in this video , I'm gonna show you exactly how to do it .

You can use oyster mushrooms , Shiitake , Mutake , or button mushrooms .

And there's other mushrooms you can use as well .

And when they did the research and exposed , mushrooms to life , they found that if you expose the gills , the little ridges underneath the cap , you get the maximum conversion to vitamin d .

Now because the button mushrooms don't have those little gills , we're gonna cut them or slice them lengthwise to expose more surface area to create a similar effect .

Now I will say that the type of vitamin d mushrooms have is vitamin d 2 .

And so it's a slightly different version of vitamin d , and it's not as bioavailable .

And it has a shorter , half life , but that's okay because you're gonna be boosting the levels of vitamin d , at a really good range .

So the amount of absorption you're gonna get is gonna be pretty good .

I'm also gonna recommend that you consume your mushrooms with some type of fat like butter , sauteing your mushrooms simply because vitamin d absorption is increased when you add a fat since vitamin d is a fat soluble vitamin .

But mushrooms have some pretty good nutrients .

It has a really good range of b vitamins .

It has selenium , zinc , copper .

It has the vitamin c complex , and it has potassium and many other nutrients .

And they're great on keto because they're low net carb .

Alright .

So this is how you're gonna do it .

You number 1 , you're gonna obtain mushrooms either from the store or finding them in the woods , or you're gonna grow them yourself like I did recently .

But I recommend the shiitake , matake , oyster , or the button mushroom .

Now in order to have this mushroom create this conversion and spike the vitamin d , you're gonna need , ultraviolet b light .

And , unfortunately , you're not gonna see much of that in the winter , or you're living in certain latitudes in parts of the world in the north .

So I'm gonna recommend that you do this during the summer months , but you can also do it in the winter using a UV light .

So if it's summer , June , July , August , so what you're gonna do is you're gonna take your mushrooms face up .

You're gonna take the stems off so the gills are pointing upward , and the cap is towards this sheet , like a cookie sheet , for example .

So you wanna take the stems out because the stems don't really give you much vitamin d , but the gills do .

So this is mainly for the shiitake , the nitake , or the oyster because the button mushroom doesn't have the gills .

If you're gonna use the button mushroom , I would slice them lengthwise .

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So you're gonna lay them down on a cookie sheet , and you're gonna put these mushrooms out in the sun , k , between 10 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock in the early evening .

That will give you 8 hours of exposure to prime sun , which is exposure to UVB radiation .

So at 6 o'clock , you're gonna take this tray back into the house .

Maybe you cover it .

You wanna make sure there's not a lot of moisture because you're trying to sun dry these mushrooms .

Then the next day , day 2 , you're gonna bring them back out in the sun and do the same procedure , expose them to this bright sun between 10 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock in the evening .

Then you're gonna bring them back to the house , and , hopefully , they're completely dried out .

The way that you know that they're dried out is you can just snap them in half , and they should be pretty crisp .

If they're still soggy , then you might need to use a dehydrator to completely dry them .

So once they're completely dry , which they normally should be out in the sun after 2 days , You wanna put them in a glass jar and seal the lid .

I also recommend putting a little bit of , just rice at the bottom , maybe about this thick , just to help you absorb the moisture because moisture reactivates the mushrooms , and we're trying to put them in a dry state to dehydrate them so they'll last up to a year .

So once you get them into this glass container , now you preserve them for a good amount of time .

But they found that if you actually keep drying these mushrooms out in the sun , day 3 , 4 , 5 , the level of vitamin e goes down dramatically .

So you only wanna do this for 2 days .

Now if it's not during the summertime , you can buy a UV light and do the same exact procedure .

But check this out .

A 100 grams , which is , like , roughly one cup of Shiitake mushrooms , can give you up to 46,000 IUs of vitamin d 2 .

I mean , that is incredible .

Now when you use a a light that has UVB radiation and you expose Shiitake mushrooms for 18 hours , now I hope you're sitting down for this , you could potentially boost the vitamin d 2 .

That's well over 200,000 IUs of vitamin d .

This is mind blowing , but that's the potential conversion if you did do that .

And let's say , for example , you didn't eat a cup .

Let's say you ate just a small amount .

That'll give you a tremendous amount of vitamin d , and you made this vitamin d in your own home .

Now if you do this procedure to button mushrooms , you'll get , a little bit less .

You'll get about 20,000 IUs .

Now in other studies , they're just using mushrooms that are not drying out .

They'll expose just fresh mushrooms in the sun for between 15 and a 120 minutes , and they'll get levels between 600 IUs to up to 5000 IUs just from a shorter period of time .

And this is without exposing the gills .

It's just putting the mushrooms out in the sun .

So the whole point and the whole concept of this is to expose mushroom to the sun or some light that has UVB radiation .

So now that you know how to make your own vitamin d 2 , the next thing is to understand fully the benefits of vitamin d .

And I put that video up right here .

Check it out .