Normal Vitamin D Levels Will NOT Tell the Whole Picture
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Vitamin D is important but confusing. Find out how to boost vitamin D and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We all know how important vitamin D is, but it's also incredibly confusing to know amounts |
| 0:27.6 | that you need, and does the amount of vitamin D in your blood really tell you what's going |
| 0:31.7 | on in the cells? Now, when you get your blood test done with vitamin D, some references |
| 0:38.4 | give you this normal range between 20 to 40 nanograms per milliliter. Other references |
| 0:45.8 | are between 30 and 50 nanograms per milliliter, and of course, if you're in a different |
| 0:52.1 | part of the world, there's different values. So, for example, if you have 50 nanograms |
| 0:57.5 | per milliliter, that would be 125 nanomoles per liter. So, as you can see, it's very, very |
| 1:04.8 | confusing, and especially if you take vitamin D, which is in a different measurement altogether, |
| 1:10.2 | which is in international units. Even that's very confusing because when we talk about vitamin |
| 1:14.8 | D3, one international unit equals 0.025 micrograms. And we can talk about other things like beta |
| 1:24.1 | caretene or retinol. It's in a completely different system. It doesn't equal what I just |
| 1:29.6 | mentioned. So, it's very confusing. Even the RDAs for vitamin D, for someone that's under |
| 1:37.2 | 70 years old, is 600 IUs, which is 15 micrograms. And the studies that validate that amount, |
| 1:46.9 | which is extremely low, were done years ago, designed to prevent rickets. But that was |
| 1:53.0 | way before all this new information on how vitamin D supports the immune system and so |
| 1:58.3 | many other biological systems. So, checking your vitamin D levels in the blood is all fine, |
| 2:04.3 | and that's great. But the most important thing about vitamin D is does it reach the cell? And it |
| 2:11.7 | reaches the cell through the vitamin D receptor. And unfortunately, you cannot use the blood levels |
| 2:18.8 | of vitamin D to determine what's going on in your cell. Simply because there's so many problems |
| 2:24.7 | with the vitamin D receptor. Certain viruses and other pathogens have a mechanism, a survival |
| 2:31.4 | mechanism of blocking your vitamin D receptor for their survival, because they know that that |
| 2:37.6 | vitamin D goes into that cell. They're toast. Also, certain cancers have a survival mechanism of |
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