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You know, vitamin D is a very interesting vitamin. It's not really a vitamin. It's a hormone. But today I want to talk about the 10th reason why you may be deficient in vitamin D. So there's a lot of reasons why people are deficient vitamin D. It could be diet. They're not consuming enough fatty fish,

coddivore. In fact, it's almost impossible to get your vitamin D requirement from the diet.

You're indoors, you're not on the sun. That could be a reason. You're getting older. As you age,

your skin gets thicker and you have less absorption of vitamin D through the skin. It could be your skin color

because the darker the skin, the more melanin in your skin, which blocks UV light, which reduces

the absorption of vitamin D. And then number five, obesity. The more weight you have on your body,

the less vitamin D you're going to be able to absorb.

Number six, metabolic syndrome.

This includes diabetes, high blood pressure, insulin resistance.

Number seven, inflammation.

If you have a lot of inflammation in your body, you're not going to be able to absorb very much vitamin D.

Number eight, malabsorption.

And this also includes a lack of bile bile or let's say you had your gall

blood removed you're not going to be able to absorb vitamin D too well number nine

infection when you have infections whether viral or bacterial that's going to

inhibit your vitamin D absorption and number 10 the focus of this video is

polymorphism now what is what is that? That is a mutation

or alteration in the genes that control the vitamin D receptor. And there's six known mutations or

variations of this gene. And you can get your genes tested to see if you have any of these.

That's in another video.

But if you have polymorphism, what's happening is you have the vitamin D that's supposed to be

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