11 Bizarre Symptoms of Vitamin D Deficiency (You NEED to Know)

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to tell you about some of the symptoms that you probably didn’t know were related to vitamin D deficiency. The most common signs that you’re vitamin D deficient include lower back pain, depression, high blood pressure, inflammation, and autoimmune diseases.

Blood tests only show you the inactive form of vitamin D and don't tell you about vitamin D at the cellular level. Instead, look out for some of the surprising signs of vitamin D deficiency.

1. Head sweating

This is typically seen in infants but can also be seen in teenagers and adults.

2. Sweating more at night

If you’re vitamin D deficient, you may sweat excessively, even if the room is cool. You might also wake up with a moist pillow.

3. Mood swings

Vitamin D controls mood regulation, so if you’re deficient, you could experience a range of moods in a short time.

4. Procrastinating

If you constantly put things off for later, you could be vitamin D deficient!

5. Panic attacks

Low vitamin D levels can cause panic attacks, so try taking high doses of vitamin D3 if you’re experiencing them.

6. Achiness

Achiness in the pelvis, lower back, hips, and upper legs is often a sign of low vitamin D.

7. Loss of muscle strength

If you have low vitamin D, you won’t have enough calcium in the muscles. Calcium allows the muscle to contract and is also involved in muscle production.

8. Stiffness

Stiffness related to vitamin D deficiency usually occurs in the knees and fingers. This is related to inflammation, weakened cartilage, and weakened collagen.

9. Chronic fatigue

Vitamin D supports your mitochondria, the energy factories of the cell. Without enough vitamin D, you can’t make energy.

10. Slowed down thinking

Vitamin D deficiency can cause diminished cognitive function.

11. Difficulty feeling satisfied

If you’re vitamin D deficient, you might not feel satisfied after eating, and you’ll have a tendency to overeat.

Consider taking around 10,000 to 20,000 IU of vitamin D3 per day, along with the cofactors magnesium, vitamin K2, zinc, and vitamin B6.

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0:00.0	Today I'm going to give you 11 really bizarre wild vitamin D deficiency symptoms.
0:05.9	Now of course most people know the usual vitamin D symptoms.
0:09.2	Lower back pain, depression, high blood pressure, inflammation, autoimmune diseases, things like that.
0:14.8	But I will guarantee you do not know these.
0:17.3	Now I'm going to break this up in two sections.
0:19.0	The first part of this video is for the person who wants just bare bones information they don't want
0:25.3	anything too tactical and then the second part of the video I'll go into those people who
0:29.7	want the science behind it the mechanism behind these symptoms and like the underlying reason why they develop in the first place.
0:36.2	You have about 25,000 genes in your body and 10% of those genes are greatly influenced by Vitamin D. Not to mention when you get your blood
0:46.1	tests with Vitamin D, they're only showing you the inactive Vitamin D. They're not showing you
0:49.9	what's happening in the cells. And so the blood levels of vitamin D do not correlate
0:54.3	very well with the vitamin D that are in your cells. It's an active suppression of
0:59.5	anything positive about vitamin D in the news, medical research because it directly competes with the top selling drugs.
1:07.3	I got up and presented this data to you know these were the top vitamin D researchers in the world all assembled there.
1:14.2	It was vicious, the attacks of how vitamin D doesn't do this, how could you say this?
1:20.3	I said I'm just presenting the data that we have assembled.
1:24.0	You're walking on guys careers that have spent their whole career doing this stuff.
1:28.0	They never conceived that this could be true.
1:31.0	So let's dive in.
1:32.0	Okay, number one, head sweating. Now typically you'll see this in infants, but you can also see it in teenagers, adults, but if you notice like a child or yourself sweating just more in the head suspect a
1:45.6	vitamin D deficiency. Number two, sweating more at night even if your
1:50.4	temperature is cool. Now this can also show up with your pillow being moist in the
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