I like the discussions on vitamin D and preventing inflammation (including a recent video on importance of walking after eating). I download and watch virtually every video you put out. Thank you for doing all you do! I try to hit like each video too, as a small first step in giving thanks back for your content! Your philosophy emphasizes personal responsibility and I think out culture desperately needs that (and there is a peer reviewed paper on external locus of control sadly drastically increasing over the last several decades!)
Ditto!, Well said. Always thought provoking information and its never a 'how to'....more of a 'what if' ie. informational and inspirational not dictatorial. 🌞🥳👏
Anecdote on D and inflammation and perhaps histamine response: I was a runner for 36 years and spent much time outdoors. I suddenly stopped running and nearly 100% of my outdoor light exposure stopped. I then noticed higher “allergic” responses to foods, mosquito bites and bee stings. While I am not overweight and still maintain my 6’2” 165. I suspect I should get back outside and boost my bit D as it seems that bit D is critical to improving immunity.
I think it's really important, I suspect the reason I got acute guttate psoriasis was because I was covered all the time and not just because I had throat infection.
@@facelesstruth4961 I agree. As well our sedentary/indoors/all sun exposure is bad/too often poor diet/high stress/ obsessive anxiety-filled lifestyles, doesn’t help with bit D levels.
If you stop milk and dairy with Casein A1 with outdoor activity +D3 and probiotic suplementation, everything like alergic reactions will be HISTORY for you💪 Be safe and healthy Greetings from Macedonia👋👋
Wow! About 6 months I started taking vitamin D because I learned it can help in the fight against Covid. I also started a cardio program to burn fat, I weighed around 169 and was hoping to burn off 10 pounds if I was lucky. I have tried many times to lose weight which is what kept me around 165-170. At present I'm at 154 and have been losing weight at a steady pace even after I stopped the cardio program 6 weeks ago. I couldn't understand why this time I lost so much but was of course over the moon. This explains or could explain why such a drastic weight loss. For reference I'm 49 so weight loss isn't easy
I’m glad I discovered your channel because there was so much dismissive behavior in the American medical community regarding the work of the Irish doctors working the first wave of COVID and their observations on Vitamin D. It was appallingly clear when I started asking people I thought might know at my hospital not only do they not know but they didn’t care about anything that wasn’t being handed down by the CDC. Thanks for doing this video
I just had my labs drawn earlier this month and my vitamin d was 67 ng/dL. I was surprised. I have been seeing a functional medicine practitioner for over 6 years and my levels have always ranged between 29-41. I have been walking outside daily for almost 2 years and supplementing for ~ 6 years (increasing from 5000 to 10000 IU in the past 4 months). I guess my gut is finally healing and I’m absorbing better.
Your skin can actually become more resistant to absorbing when you spend a lot of time in the sun. So you may need to increase the time spent in the sun
@@AN-jw2oe a few other lab values have also increased in the past 6 months that I have been supplementing steadily (ie no increase in dose) hence my thinking it might be an absorption thing. Plus Rhonda Patrick mentioned values changing so much per 1000 IU and I exceeded expectations with the increase from 5000-10000IU.
@@dana102083 Sorry. I tried finding it but couldn’t. I just remember thinking that I would have to take a ton to get my serum levels up because supplementing for years with 5000 IU did very little.
This was fabulous info to know. My D was undetectable. I eat healthy but not much, fast regular and kept gaining weight ( approaching meno) felt lethargic and achy all the time for about two years until I found about my D levels. Once I stated taking the max dosage as per my Doctor, felt a diffe rence in two weeks. I didn't really know how important vitamin D was until then. So went from no pills to max D, along with K, multi vitamin and C everyday. Really appreciate this information.
I take D3 50000IU/day. I feel great. When I took my big health test the doctor think I am crazy becouse I aiming of a D vitamin level over 125ng/ml for optimal health. I also take large dosage of K2 to regulate calcium and large amount of good magnesium. All my body pain is gone and my skin never feel dry anymore.
Yes, Pain in both elbows, pain in the back and problem with my left foot. I hade a mucle dammage and my foot bends to the side sometime and I bend the foot and cant walk without pain after the damage that hapends a couple of timed a year. All problem is gone. An old mark I have for 30 years in the hand pop out. It was a smal pice of Wood. Healing wond is faster. I almost never get sick. I have been sick one time the last year. Its intressting what the body can do.
@Taiwo Omotosho Interesting. Now I take K2 5mg (mk4). My calcium level was in the normal range. What I heard the optimal level is slightly over125ng/ml to get the healing effect. Yes magnesium is importent, I take 400mg 3 times/day. I hope you cure the sideaffect. If I should take K2 mk7 I probebly shuld take >250ug/day. Good luck!
Mike, there is an ios app called Dminder that shows you the when your skin can make vitamin D based on your geographic location. Even here in Spain, the sun is not high enough in the sky for 2-3 months a year for the UV-b to penetrate the ozone layer. I don’t think it is the best looking or most functional app, but it works.
I understand your disclaimer, but doctors MD ‘s. Are about the dollar, it’s a business. They never discuss vitamins . I have found you have to be your own dr . In some case MD has its uses . Just like we need a mechanic. Thank you for your insight on issues that are very helpful.
You are correct to emphasise getting your vit D level tested. In February 2021 I had my vit D level tested 4 weeks after uping my supplementation from 2000 to 4000iu. The result was 149.5 nmol/litre, at the top of the recommended range. Fast forward to jan 2022 when I was retested. My level now is in exess of 250nmol/litre and I have hypervitaminosis D. My serum calcium level is OK so hopefully I caught it in time before any damage done. I am now avoiding vit D for the next 6 months whilste my level drops.
250 nmol/litre equates to an American reading of 100 ng/ml. My testing lab reference range for NORMAL is 30 to 100 ng/ml. Some labs have a 30-80 ng/ml reference range. When you were at 150 nmol/l, you were only at 60 ng ml. I wouldn't stop taking your Vitamin D altogether. Who wants to be deficient when Covid is still with us. You need to have a minimum level of 50 ng/ml to protect against serious Covid consequences. That would be a minimum level of 125 nmol/litre for you. Just reduce your dose proportionally. I guess your doc hasn't "gotten the memo." You might want to take Vitamin K2-MK4 to make sure your calcium goes into your bones instead of your arteries or kidneys. I do. Do some more reading on Vitamin D. I understand that many of the researchers think that levels up to 150 ng/ml are safe, and possibly higher. Just get tested. Hope you do well!
Anecdotal: In 2019 I had climbed up to 500 lbs after breaking my leg, tearing both my meniscus, and then the next year breaking my back. Now I supplement with D3 twice daily, as well as a bone density supplement with calcium, zinc, and magnesium, I eat red meat, dairy, and eggs relatively regularly, and I do a ketogenic diet, and I am unvaccinated for SARS-COV2. Never got COVID, haven't even had as much as a head cold outside of allergies in the last 5 years. I am a 40 yr old male with a BMI of around 45%, morbidly obese would be accurate. Hypertension has been a problem for me and I regulate it with 20mg of Lisinopril each morning. I began an exercise program and ketogenic diet in 2020, and lost about 100 lbs, to get where I am now which is about 395 lbs. I could not lose the weight until I started taking Vitamin D3 supplements twice daily consistently. I just had bariatric two weeks ago to combat the metabolic syndrome, and the only vitamin they give you is a multivitamin, so I started today taking my D3 again. I grind it up and mix it in some Greek yogurt. Whole diet right now is yogurt, bone broth, soup, soft cheeses. I am dropping weight like crazy because of the caloric restriction, the attention to micronutrients and gut biome. Even though its only about two weeks out from surgery I feel amazing and I wish I had done this right after I broke my leg, but the insurance wouldn't cover it. Moral of the story is, my wounds from surgery healed in like four days. I was up and walking ten laps around the hospital ward every two hours starting four hours after surgery. The nurses couldn't slow me down. Good nutrition is everything. Don't poison yourselves with garbage pretending to be food, and make sure you get you D3 and Calcium and the rest of your essential vitamins and minerals through any way you can, weather its raw foods or supplements. I will be back in the gym in a week and I cant wait to get to it. Also your videos are amazing! Thank you for the content and excellent explanations. I have taken lots of health courses at college and university including mid-tier chemistry, biology, and human physiology so I understand everything you are talking about most of the time. I haven't had to look anything up yet so that means you are doing a great job explaining! Thank you!
Im far off of being over weight and all but I've always been sick and every bug there was I got it. I was always absent at school etc. Past 2 years I've been dealing with every day fevers,muscle pain,fatigue and weight gain although I havent been eating any different that usual. Turns out my vitamin D levels were 20 nmol/l. Ive been using vitamin D ampoules 25000IU once a week for a month and a half and Ive already lost 3 kg and didnt feel the need to have a nap in 3 weeks!! Had no idea that lack of one vitamin could cause so many health problems.
This makes total sense, ever since my vitamin D levels dropped this winter (we get very little sun here in Belgium) I found it harder to lose the stubborn belly fat, even with diet and exercise. Also my sleep got messed up
I remember having a cold one year back when I was a sunbather and it was the first warm day of the year and I got my cold sick self in the sun and I could FEEL the sun working and my cold just evaporated. It was the most powerful medical intervention for a cold I have ever experienced. This all inspires me to get my old body in the sun again this year to help protect me from covid. Sun bathing also helped fight the arthrtis from vaccine damage 20 years ago when I got Hep B vaccinated. Sun light is more potent than supplement forms, but I can do both. I had a neighbor whose was a crazy old sunbather, wrinkled weathered deeply suntanned skinny (drinker) who died suddenly of total organ failure in his late-mid sixties, the year before covid broke out, so you do need to take care of other things and it doesn't take THAT much time in the sun. Bare minimums are best.
Alcohol causes numerous deficiencies, damages the liver. One can even be a skinny Diabetic: TOFI Thin Outside Fat Inside You don’t know what that person ate, or if they smoked. Once that dark, that person would not absorb sun as well.
@@marlenegold280 He was a non-smoking vegan. I suspect he did not drink enough water. Alcohol really dehydrates and tricks you into thinking you are consuming liquids when you are just drying out. The Supersize Me documentarian proved that fast food is even worse than alcohol. Much of potential alcohol damage can be remediated by proper hydration . . . if it is not extreme or prolonged.
@@thegratefulsteve Dehydration reduces the bodies ability to process nutrients . . . which is kinda the same thing. Dehydration is ONE of the things that alcohol DOES. Dehydration can be remediated to a certain extent by drinking water and cleansing, hydrating, fluids.
My father, a man of good shape, had issues for years with a bleeding rectum/anus. I started having a similar issue in my forties during Winter bathroom pauses. I figured it was due to the 20 or 30 lbs weight fluctuation between Summer activities and sedentary Winter. I will also point out that prior to this, I was a monster consumer of milk. However, due to some other joint issues and such, I stopped with the milk consumption. After years of experiencing a bleeding rectum/anus figuring it was an inherited due to my father's experience, I just thought it a getting older issue. My seasonal weight increase/decrease tickled my brain since my Winter appetite is ravenous compared to Summer. So, I figured I'd try a Winter season with vitamin D supplements. And let me tell you, the vitamin D supplements stopped the bleeding rectum/anus issue and my Winter appetite, although is higher than Summer, is far less than it was under no vitamin D supplement regiment. I'm not telling anyone what to do. I'm just relaying my experience.
Years ago I worked selling supplements in a health store. A woman came to buy her Vit D and explained to me at length how it had miraculously changed her life from being predominently housebound to being able to function almost 'normally' within a 6 month period of initiating Vit D supplementation. May I add I get out into sunshine at every possible moment too. So pleased it helped your condition . 👍💖
It has to do with fat intake...you need to increase healthy fat in your diet..such as Virgin olive oil, wheat germ oil, avocado oil, walnut oil, M CT OIL...etc. Or eating hemp seeds will also relieve this issue. May God bless your journey 🤗
If one is supplementing vitamin D, would you advise supplementing K2 and magnesium to offset the rise in plasma calcium levels? Some people are supper sensitive to elevated calcium levels
Mike, I'll bet many of your listeners are not obese. Thx for all you do. Conversely, those who are under weight or anorexic have problems with low vit D & osteoporosis... they don't have enough fat for conversion to active form
Thanks Mike, great video. If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion and that would be to translate many of the technical words into easily understood English. Thanks.
I have done that with purchased mushrooms for years, ie putting them in the sun prior to eating, I figure every little helps and i like that it is natural.🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
My grandparents were medical doctors, they practiced till they were really old. Their patients loved them very much. They always said that you get vitamin d only in tender morning sunlight. Is that true?? They always prescribed food and vitamins rather than allopathic medicine. There approach was very different than the new doctors . You remind me of them.Thanks.
I currently take 10,000 of vitamin D a day. My tested level was only 55 on that much D. I am overweight, and as i understand it, that interferes with absorbing vitamin D.
My Vitamin D level was 169. My Doctor freaked and told me to stop supplements. I’m getting rechecked end of month so I don’t go low. I was doing 5,000 IU with K2 plus ate 95% Carnivore.
@@Bevygirl Thanks for replying. I know everyone is different, so I'm always curious to hear people's negative side effects when their D is high. My 94 year old father in law had blood work and he was at 125. The Dr flipped out and told him not to take D for 6 months. His labwork showed his kidneys and liver were fine. He felt really good and hadn't been sick for over 3 years and he had severe RA. He didn't get jabbed and has never gotten Rona. He takes a multivitamin, D3/K2, Electrolytes and Emu oil. He also eats carnivorish.
Good morning, it is 9:10 a.m. Pacific time. I noticed you have a link for vitamin d3, and I do notice that you do sell vitamin D3 K2 and the only reason I looked for it is because I know about K2. From what I know about all that I don't think I would ever want to buy just a vitamin D3 by itself. Unless I did eat natto or something else that has the vitamin K2. I would love to support your work on your channel. I've been getting my d3k2 from another source. So I assume that the myoxcience is your company, I think I remember hearing you say something about that years ago.
i am obese and have severe psoriasis, since I've started taking 40 000 iu of D3 and 200ug of K2 Mk7 my life has been a lot easier and the inflammation isn't as severe as it was, I've only recently started this method and i hope it yields results, thanks for the video
@@phileas1984 Hey, it helped after about 7 days since I've started, it cleaned up my skin a bit but after about a month and a half it was the same as it was before, so it didn't really help my case longterm. I've went to the hospital dermatologist and I'm on my way to start Methotrexate one of these days.
Would it be wise to take vitd3 during a fast? I've been using metabolic mondays to better my health. More so than regular fasting. I've lost 30lbs by cycling 36hour fasts over a period of time.
It seems like IU 5.000-10.000 D3, 200 mcg Vitamin K2 and 400 til 800 mg good quality magnesium daily, is a good combo. But, ask your GP or get your levels checked. Also a 50 vitamin B complex each day is good.
Awesome thank you so much! The d3 k2 blend, that was made from lanolin and what? Been looking for a good lanolin only (mainly no fish no nut) d3 supplement. Is it organic? What is the k2 from? I used to take k2 all the time but stopped when I stopped being able to drive hours to the nearest health food store. Thanks again
I think people dismiss the actual degree of importance D3 has. The key is taking Alot to get your levels way up for optimal performance. 1 a day does nothing
I just recently got my vitamin D levels from the myoxience test. 32.2; on the low side of what is considered normal. That is with using a Sperti D lamp 3x/week. I’m now doing high D loading per Jeff Bowles with cofactors (k2, magnesium, boron, zinc, beta carotene.). I’ll check it again next year
So interesting! What is weird is that I have been supplementing our 5 kids (ages 10, 8, 7, 6, 3) with 1,000 IU vitamin D3 each every single day for the past 2 years since the beginning of the pandemic (we are in Northern California, so can’t get from sun year round) and just this month had all our vitamin D levels tested. My 8 year old daughter is the only one who is overweight and pre-diabetic, but only her levels were over 50 ng/mL, all the other kids were between 41 and 46 ng/mL. Doesn’t that go against the data, since I remember learning that obese people have more Vit D deficiency? I myself was low at 31 ng/mL, and after 2 years of 5,000 IU daily supplementation, plus K2, I am still only around 49 ng/mL. Upping to 7,000 IU as I want to get above 50/60.
I wonder if your other kids get more sun exposure during the summer? An 8 year old girl who is a Bit overweight might shy away from swimsuit season. Or perhaps she is bookish and stays inside reading during the sunnier hours?
@@VagabondAnne good hypothesis but our kids spend about the same amount of time outdoors… very strange to me. Maybe something about her body genetically makes her both have these health issues but also makes her be able to absorb the Vit D3 better? 🤷🏻♀️
My 8 year old son was taking 1000 IU daily but still below 50ng. I upped his intake to 2000iu a day now. He always get cold and runny nose but gets better fast too. So hopefully increasing it will help him not get runny nose often
@@Jhadyspeaks that is great! It is sad how mainstream medicine is so slow to respond to newer data about health and medicine. When I told my Stanford-trained pediatrician that I was trying to get my kids’ vitamin D levels up, she was concerned that over 50 would be too high! 🤦🏻♀️ and she was concerned that my supplementing them with 100mcg K2 three times a week could lead to blood thinning. Glad we have other more reliable sources of health info, I think we should ban the phrase, “ask your doctor.”
@@AN-jw2oe I rarely take my kids to the Doctor. Probably once every 2 years just to stablish relationship because the school needs me to write down Primary care Physician. But every time I take them, the doctor said the kids are very healthy and well taken care off. But since covid, I have the doctor do blood work now to check vit d level and iron since anemia run in our family. Other that than, I was blessed with healthy kids but I spent a lot of time in the kitchen making healthy meals. Our Primacy physician is not a fan of supplementing with vitamins but after the blood work result, he recommend i would up my son's iron and vit d lol. I think he does not like me spending money on vitamins but wants us to get vitamins through food. SOmetimes, we just have to supplement esp on D.
Interesting that fat accumulation (eating fruits in the summer) might require excess/plentiful vitamin D (from the sun). Perhaps we are understanding all the detailed mechanisms that bring us full circle to appreciated evolutionary/paleo principles. My guess is that not only vitamin D sufficiency is required, but other sunshine metabolites as well.
10 bucks a month? i got a liquid which is providing 2000 IU per drop and contains 600 drops with the recommendation to use 1 per day max. it cost 20 bucks, aka .. 20 bucks in 1 2/3 years (recommended max usage 6months after opening so it's ment for families)
I’d love for you to cover the active form of Vit D (125) rather than the Vit D stores. I’ve recently heard that vitamin d levels typically measured are not necessarily indicative of overall Vit D levels depending on how much the body is calling for at any given time and many different factors. I’m trying to learn all I can because I have just learned that vitamins D3 is a trigger for rosacea and also has an affect on androgens. So, my rosacea is out of control and my acne is too. I recently stopped Vit D due to forgetting to bring it with me on a trip and my face peeled and cleared up in a week’s time. I get home, resume the vit D, and within 2 days my skin is back into an acne and rosacea flare. On the 3rd night of taking my Vit D again I held it in my hand and thought… “i wasn’t taking this for a week and my face was clear” So again I cut out my D3 and my skin calming down again.
Additional info: I am not overweight, I exercise daily, I eat a healthy diet with minimal processed foods, no fast foods, very little alcohol. I eat mostly wild game and Alaska salmon, but of course fruits and veggies are commercially bought. I live in Alaska where I would expect to vit D deficient so I was taking 5000IU D3 with K2.
Vitamin D is not a vitamin. It is a hormone. Every cell in the body has a receptor for it. My DNA SNP results indicated I had defective receptors. Although I live in Hawaii, I am at a disadvantage making my own D. However, the angle of the sun anywhere must be correct for skin to manufacture. Easiest way to know time of day is if my shadow is SHORTER than my height. Also, sunlight must hit large amounts of skin directly. Not through clothing or glass (windows).
Thanks Mike, I'm curious how joint injury affects inflammation. I feel great in the summer, I am a stone mason in the North East and I get lots of sun in the summer. I take D supplement in winter, but I am now going to double my intake to 8K. I have inflammation in fingers of one hand, showed up in January.
I love your channel and especially your stance regarding the vaccine and mandates. You stood your ground and I very much respect that given the current environment. However just a gentle point that when you say please consult your doctor, understand that 43 million Americans don’t have any healthcare at all. This means access to a doctor isn’t the most obvious thing for them. I would love for you to address that in your videos and what should people do when they’re faced with minimal or no healthcare.
great video. could you please talk about vitamin k in relation to vitamin d? there are some claims that if vitamin d is taken without vitamin k that the calcium could be redirected to places like the arteries and less wanted areas but if taken with vitamin k that it will direct it to places like bones and where it wants to go... making people question whether they should even take vitamin d if they dont have any vitamin k on hand.
I did everything to lose weight but nothing helped i never dropped any weight with diet exercise and what so ever so i got disappointed and stopped exercise as i had always been very achy and extremely tired after exercise. My dad told me to get my vitamin D levels check as i was over weight and not losing any fat. I found out i am extremely deficient so i took vitamin D and didnt do any exercise or physical activity specially to lose weight as i never dropped any weight with that and was disappointed. 3 months of taking vitamin D someone mentioned that i looked alot lean and suggested me to check my weight. I checked and was 8 kgs down without even trying first time in life i am just amazed to see the benefits of taking vitamin D in improving sleep , energy levels and good mood.
All bloodwork is good except my fasting blood sugar...usually over 130 or less. Menopausal, doing 3 days weights and 2 days 30 min cardio HIIT, keto 5-6 days week, still can't lose weight Just seem to be gaining. Went from 135 to 148. Been on Cpap sin Oct for better sleep. Female 54, 148lbs. 5'2". Also on Vit D and magnesium 10,000iu in am. Zinc at night 30mg. Vit D was 73ng. Advice appreciated.
