so let's talk about COVID-19 and vitamin D now just realize that what I'm gonna
say is not meant to replace medical care I'm not making any claim that vitamin D
is going to cure this virus and I'm not going to sell you any vitamin D I just
want to increase your awareness on the importance of vitamin D for your immune
system so we know that the coronavirus attacks a weak immune system and that's
its strength and that's your weakness so what could you do to strengthen your
weakness vitamin D is one of the things that you can take because if you have a
pre-existing health problem and you already have a weakened immune system
you need to do some things to strengthen your immune system and give yourself
that added protection especially protection of your lungs now what's
interesting about vitamin D is that there's quite a few articles out there
that talk about vitamin D deficiency being a pandemic in itself with over
seventy to eighty percent of the population on this planet having either
a deficiency of vitamin D or an insufficiency of vitamin D if you're
deficient you're at risk for having dental problems you're gonna have more
inflammation in the body especially if your lower back more risk for autoimmune
conditions increasing your risk for infections cardiovascular problems
cancer diabetes type 2 bone loss neurological problems and it's also
interesting that a lot of infections involving viruses occur in the
wintertime I wonder why that is so vitamin D is critical for your immune
system it has viral killing effects vitamin D deficiency can increase your
risk of over 300 illnesses including the flu and respiratory infections like
pneumonia vitamin D deficiency increases your
susceptibility to getting infections because it impairs the immune system
will also increase your risk of something called ARDS
which is involved in this coronavirus acute respiratory distress syndrome in
fact there are studies which I'm going to put down below which
talks about all the past coronaviruses being treated with vitamin D with some
pretty good success vitamin D decreases pro-inflammatory cytokines and what does
that mean well these pro-inflammatory cytokines increase inflammation by vitamin D
inhibits these cytokines and cytokines are basically hormone communications
that signal the immune system in create different effects vitamin D also
increases the anti inflammatory cytokine 2 so it helps inflammation so you can
imagine if you are sick with the coronavirus and you have inflammation in your
lungs you're going to need some support because vitamin D acts in a similar way
to cortisol which is an anti-inflammatory but without the side
effects vitamin D has antiviral properties and it lowers the risk for
respiratory infections so take a wild guess who's at risk for a vitamin D
deficiency the obese and guess who is at risk for the coronavirus obese I wonder
if there's a connection also realize that certain viruses have strategies of
blocking your ability to absorb vitamin D because apparently they know that
vitamin D is an immune modulator which means they vitamin D helps control the
immune system now lack of Sun is one of the big causes of a vitamin D deficiency
because it's very difficult to get your vitamin D from foods
unless you're consuming salmon halibut herring cod liver oil things like that
now another interesting thing to to make note is that the great majority of
people with lung infections have a deficiency of vitamin D when you use
sunscreens you're at risk for having a vitamin D deficiency the darker the
skin the less vitamin D you can get from the Sun if you have malabsorption issues
in your gut you're not going to be able to absorb the full amount of vitamin D
so you have to take more women that are breastfeeding are using a lot of vitamin
D for their infant leaving the mother so women who are breastfeeding should
definitely take more vitamin D pregnant women are usually deficient in vitamin D
aging causes a deficiency of vitamin D so the key is staying young right in the
winter months you're at risk for having a vitamin D deficiency one simple way to
know that you're deficient vitamin D is if you have either back pain or you're
feeling like you have the blues you're a little bit down or depressed because
vitamin D can actually bring up your mood big-time
statins block cholesterol so you can't make vitamin D anymore so that's a
weakness cortisol if you're taking prednisone or some type of medication
with a cortisone cream that can lower your vitamin D if you haven't seen my
other videos on vitamin D I put them up right here check them out