Hey guys, Dr. Berg here in this video. We're going to talk about some uncommon facts about vitamin D.

Okay, I'm just very interested in vitamin D. So I create a video on it because I just think it's interesting

Maybe you might as well vitamin D is responsible for the absorption of calcium primarily by 20 times in your small intestine

So without vitamin D, you get a certain amount of absorption, but not near as much as if you have vitamin D

That's a lot of absorption going on there

But a lot of times people don't realize that vitamin D also increases the absorption of iron

magnesium

zinc and phosphate

So these other minerals

So it's pulling a lot of minerals because of what it's doing. It's mineralizing your bone and

Supporting the other tissues in the body with the minerals that you need, okay?

So it's kind of like a the dump truck that delivers the minerals to the right place, okay?

But vitamin D has to be activated

Through an enzyme in your liver and in your kidney

Even the sun that's coming in you don't really get vitamin D unless it's converted into the liver and the kidney

So you need the liver and kidney to convert it and make it active

So that means that if there's liver damage, kidney damage, fatty liver, cirrhosis of the liver, you're on kidney dialysis

Chance is how you're not absorbing vitamin D, okay?

It might be building up as a toxic thing, but it's not really doing its function

Also vitamin D is very important in controlling your immunity to

viruses

Especially the lung, okay? So if there's a respiratory virus

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