Myasthenia Gravis Remission with Vitamin D
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 29 May 2020
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Today we’re going to talk about an interesting case study that was done by a Brazilian doctor working with a patient who had myasthenia gravis.
Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is where you have what they call autoantibodies that are against your own tissues. This particular autoimmune disease attacks the connection between your nerves and your muscles. This creates a lot of muscle problems.
One of the treatments commonly used for this condition is steroids. But, unfortunately, there are a lot of side effects when you take steroids.
This doctor used between 80,000 and 120,000 IUs of vitamin D3 and was able to put this patient’s symptoms in remission.
Vitamin D is hormone-like and acts as a steroid without the side-effects. It also supports the T regulatory cells, which is a part of the immune system that helps prevent autoimmune diseases.
There is a huge connection with a lot of autoimmune diseases and vitamin D deficiency. But, one of the concerns people have with taking high doses of vitamin D is a condition called hypercalcemia. This is high calcium in the blood, which could potentially lead to kidney stones. To lessen this risk, the doctor told the patient to omit calcium from the diet. Drinking 3.5-4 liters of fluid a day could also potentially help lessen the risk of kidney stones.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
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| 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. I'm back and today I'm going to talk about an interesting case study that was |
| 0:47.2 | done by a Brazilian doctor working with a patient who had something called |
| 0:52.0 | Myastinia gravis. |
| 0:54.3 | This condition is an autoimmune disease. |
| 0:57.0 | That's a condition where you have antibodies, |
| 0:59.9 | or they call them auto antibodies, |
| 1:02.2 | that are against our own tissues. |
| 1:04.8 | You can have an autoimmune disease |
| 1:06.8 | to just about every single thing in your body. |
| 1:09.8 | This particular autoimmune disease attacks |
| 1:12.0 | the junction, the connection between your |
| 1:14.3 | nerves and your muscles. Okay so that's what it is and that's going to deplete |
| 1:18.9 | acetylcholines. You can have a lot of muscle problems specifically in the |
| 1:22.2 | skeletal muscle and one of the treatments |
| 1:24.7 | that they normally use is steroids. |
| 1:28.0 | Auto immune conditions produce a lot of inflammation and a steroid is an anti-inflammatory. Of course the problem there's a lot of side effects when you take |
| 1:36.3 | steroids the amount of vitamin D that this doctor used was between 80,000 |
| 1:41.2 | and 120,000 international units of Vitamin D. Three. What happened was he was able |
| 1:47.3 | to put this patient's symptoms in remission, okay? So of course they don't ever like to say |
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