vitamin d3 is required by every cell in the body and without sufficient amounts we get sick
like really sick it's estimated that half the adult population in the world is deficient of
vitamin d and you may be one of them so this is why it's so important to pay attention
to the top warning signs of a vitamin d deficiency stick around to the end of the
video because at the end we'll talk about how much vitamin d3 you should take daily
your body is designed to produce sufficient amounts of vitamin d3 your body's incredibly
smart it takes cholesterol and when sunlight directly hits the skin it converts it into
vitamin d3 but there's only one problem in today's world hardly anybody gets enough sunlight directly
hitting their skin and we don't eat the foods that are high in vitamin d3 and as a result we end up
with a deficiency and become very unhealthy for it so let's take a look at the top warning signs that
you may have a vitamin d3 deficiency the first top warning sign of a vitamin d3 deficiency is
that you're getting sick often due to a depressed immune system making you more prone to infection
now i really want to drive this point home because we have a very deceptive pharmaceutical system out
there that makes billions of dollars off of people who have vitamin d3 deficiency and are
getting sick as a result when you take vitamin d3 it activates antimicrobial peptides in the human
immune cells and as a result of that it amplifies both antiviral activity and antibacterial activity
in your body in the american journal of clinical nutrition they reported that children given
vitamin d3 in the winter were 67 percent less likely to get the flu in a three-year study
on vitamin d3 supplementation and the incidences of colds and flu subjects who supplemented with
vitamin d3 had a 70 percent reduced incidence of colds and flu compared to the group that didn't
supplement at all even more astonishing is the group that was given 2 000 ius of vitamin d3 daily
the incidence of cold and flus dropped by over 99 percent now i have yet to see data that a flu
shot can perform that well our next top sign of a vitamin d3 deficiency is inflammation and this is
something you really want to keep under control vitamin d3 is essential for controlling both
inflammation and healing in your body as we look at vitamin d3 it plays a significant
role in shutting down the chronic inflammatory process and this point is so significant because
if you have a vitamin d3 deficiency this means that you'll have more joint pain you'll experience
more muscle aches and also it will even be involved in chronic inflammatory diseases
like cancer in the journal of pain treatment topics it states helping patients overcome
their chronic musculoskeletal complaints and pain may be as simple and economical as simply having
them supplement with vitamin d3 and to speak on the importance of vitamin d3 in reducing cancer
there was a study that was published in the american cancer society journal and they reported
that vitamin d3 sensitive cancers were responsible for 257 000 deaths or 46 of all cancer deaths in
the u.s in 2007. don't underestimate the power of vitamin d3 and you may be asking why is there such
a problem with a vitamin d deficiency today when we never had these problems before well there's
multiple reasons this is one is that we don't eat like we used to there's a good chance that you're
not eating beef liver on a regular basis fish liver or maybe even drinking cod liver oil also
the use of sunscreen is a big problem people cover themselves with sunscreen and don't allow the sun
to hit their skin so they don't get the benefit of the sun and then if we were to look back at
our ancestors they spent hours outside foraging for food tending to their fields we don't do that
either and most people today are working indoors at a desk or in front of a screen so this is why
it's more important than ever before today to understand the top signs that you may have a
vitamin d deficiency our next top warning sign of a vitamin d3 deficiency is going to be insulin
resistance and weight gain research now correlates both pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes to a vitamin
d3 deficiency now to say that that's the only reason somebody would have this would be clearly
false but certainly it doesn't help overcoming these problems of insulin resistance if you have a
vitamin d3 deficiency further research correlates the accumulation of fat around the belly with a
vitamin d3 deficiency as well now i want to take a look at a sign of vitamin d3 deficiency that is
really critical for you to pay attention to because i see this all the time in clinical
practice and that is going to be an increase in forgetfulness anxiety and also depression you have
to be very cautious of any deficiency that will impact your brain health because what happens is
it changes the perception of the world around you it'll have an impact on your health on your job on
your relationships and you may not even know it and that's why it's very important to make sure
that we keep our vitamin d3 to a sufficient level and the good news it's an easy fix and we'll get
to the dosing of how much vitamin d3 is necessary to take in just a minute the next sign to look
out for that vitamin d3 deficiency is slow wound healing so if you get cuts or scrapes on your skin
and it just takes forever to heal just know that it could be the result of a vitamin d3 deficiency
another sign of a d3 deficiency that you want to watch out for especially as you age
is going to be bone loss we hear all the time that you're supposed to take calcium in order
to maintain proper bone strength and integrity but oftentimes vitamin d3 is left out and it is
equally as important now this problem of bone demineralization affects women more so than
men so make sure that as you're aging you do have sufficient amounts of vitamin d in your system the
topic of vitamin d3 is not talked about enough in fact it's even a little bit controversial
there's been times where they tried to turn into a pharmaceutical so that you couldn't just go to
your regular grocery store and pick some up now the reason for this is because obviously there's
billions of dollars to be made off of monetizing your health care problems so i want to make sure
that i arm you with the facts now dr john cannell who is the executive director of the vitamin d
council says illnesses associated with deficient vitamin d3 include cancer cardiovascular disease
diabetes and other endocrine diseases infections autoimmune disorders mental health and learning
disorders musculoskeletal disorders neurological disorders including autism and multiple sclerosis
dental cavities periodontal disease respiratory diseases skin disorders and women's health issues
such as low fertility and polycystic ovarian syndrome they go on to say evidence even suggests
that vitamin d3 is involved in the triple current childhood epidemic of autism asthma and autoimmune
diabetes not only do tenable mechanisms of action exist to explain vitamin d3's role in all three
but epidemiological evidence suggests that vitamin d3's connection to these devastating diseases is
continually growing do not underestimate the power of vitamin d3 i keep saying it i know
but we're seeing how powerful it is and how neglected this topic is by most people and now you
can really see how important it is to recognize these top warning signs of a vitamin d3 deficiency
that you must know about in the united states alone experts believe that 370 000 deaths
and 140 billion dollars in health care spending could all be avoided if proper amounts of vitamin
d3 were maintained according to one review it's estimated that 42 percent of adults in the united
states have a vitamin d3 deficiency now as you look at the different ethnic groups the numbers
will rise so for instance it's estimated that 70 of hispanics have a vitamin d3 deficiency and 82
percent of african americans have a vitamin d3 deficiency so what this tells us is that as your
skin color darkens the likelihood of your vitamin d3 deficiency goes up in order to avoid these
problems it's important to acknowledge these facts so that you can counteract against them so what in
the world can we do in order to make sure that we have adequate amounts of vitamin d3 in our body
well the first thing we can do is incorporate more vitamin d rich foods vitamin d rich foods include
mushrooms liver fatty fish and also cod liver oil which is one of the best sources another great
way to get sufficient levels of vitamin d3 in your body is to make sure that you're getting at least
30 minutes of sunlight hitting your skin every day we want to have direct sunlight without sunscreen
of course now me personally i live in a cold climate here in michigan so it is impossible for
me to get 30 minutes of direct sunlight on my skin every day and not to mention there's overcast half
the time so if i was to try to get it all from food i would have to eat a ton of vitamin d3 rich
foods which is also not happening so what i do is i actually supplement with vitamin d3 every day
without fail i'll put a link in the description to the vitamin d3 that i use it's highly absorbable
and it also comes from a really good quality source which is very important for a vitamin d3
now if you want to know if you have a sufficient amount of vitamin d3 in your body you want to get
a blood test and when you get this blood test the ideal range in which your vitamin d3 level would
be at is above 50 nanograms per milliliter as we look to how much vitamin d3 you should
take every day it gets a little bit complicated because experts are all over the board on this
topic the endocrine society recommends that you take around 2 000 ius of vitamin d3 every day
whereas dr john cannell who we've referenced multiple times in this video he's the executive
director of the vitamin d council he says between four to five thousand iu's every day me personally
i take 5000 i use a vitamin d3 only if i don't get 30 minutes of direct sunlight hitting my skin
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