COVID-19: Latitude, Mortality and Vitamin D

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 7 June 2020

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Today we’re going to talk about the relationship between COVID-19, mortality, vitamin D, and latitude.

There are actually all sorts of diseases related to latitude. For example, if you live in the northern hemisphere, you have a higher risk of getting:

• Colorectal cancer

• MS

• Diabetes type 1

• Breast cancer

• Celiac disease

• Lung cancer

An interesting report states that “low population mortality from COVID-19 in countries south of latitude 35 degrees north supports vitamin D as a factor determining severity.” Nordic countries are an exception likely because they consume a lot of fatty fish and take vitamin D supplements.

Vitamin D regulates and suppresses inflammatory cytokines. Vitamin D doesn’t kill the virus, but it can help suppress cytokines, respiratory macrophages, and ARDS.

You can also see lower vitamin D levels in people who have conditions that can increase the risk of death from COVID-19, such as:

• Hypertension

• Obesity

• Diabetes

• Cardiovascular disease

Vitamin D is incredibly important to support the immune system and for suppressing inflammation in the respiratory system.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I want to talk about an interesting relationship between COVID-19 mortality, Vitamin D, and latitude. Okay, this is basically the distance from the equator.
0:56.2	There are all sorts of diseases that are related to latitude of where the person lives.
1:02.0	For example, if you live in the northern hemisphere,
1:04.6	you have a higher risk of getting colorecter cancer,
1:07.1	MS, diabetes type one, and by the way, MS, diabetes type one
1:12.1	are autoimmune, and then breast cancer risk
1:15.6	Celiac okay this is an autoimmune disease your risk of getting
1:19.8	Celiac is 5.4 times greater when you live in the northern hemisphere, which is fascinating.
1:26.7	And this could also relate to what we're going to talk about, which is Vitamin D,
1:30.0	because if you have Celiac, you have colon damage, and guess what?
1:34.0	That's where you absorb vitamin D.
1:36.0	And if it's wintertime and you don't have enough vitamin D,
1:39.0	you could be very, very deficient.
1:41.0	Even a higher risk of having lung cancer in countries that are in the northern
1:45.6	latitude.
1:46.6	This video is based on this report, which I'm going to put a link down below.
1:50.6	Low population mortality from COVID-19 in countries south of latitude 35
1:56.3	degrees north supports vitamin D as a factor determining severity. Now there's an
2:02.1	exception the Nordic countries did not show a high mortality rate and that could be because
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