The Ignored Pandemic: Vitamin D Deficiency
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this podcast, I want to talk to you about vitamin D deficiency—the ignored pandemic. There are over 1 billion people in the world who struggle with vitamin D deficiency or vitamin D insufficiency.
Vitamin D is vital to over 200 biochemical reactions. In fact, 5% of the genome is influenced by vitamin D.
China, India, South America, and the Middle East are at the highest risk of vitamin D deficiency. Pregnant or breastfeeding women are also at a high risk of vitamin D deficiency.
What happens when you are vitamin D deficient?
• T-helper cells have a difficult time working
• T-regulatory cells cannot function properly
• Iron is inhibited in many cells
• Immune cells themselves require vitamin D support
• Macrophages cannot function with vitamin D
Vitamin D is essential for preventing and recovering from illness and disease. It plays a significant roll in cardiovascular health, blood pressure levels, diabetes prevention, and so much more.
If you have family members who have health problems, it’s important to get them on vitamin D—especially with COVID-19.
The best source of vitamin D is sunlight. Keep in mind that, as you get older, the body has a difficult time absorbing sunlight and creating vitamin D naturally. Clothing, living far from the equator, pollution, dark skin color, skin health, sunblock, bad genetics, infections, and malabsorption problems can all affect the amount of vitamin D you can absorb.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
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. Let's talk about vitamin D deficiency, the ignored pandemic. |
| 0:49.0 | When we're talking about a pandemic, we're talking about a large group of the population worldwide. |
| 0:56.0 | And I'm not sure if you knew this or not, but there are over 1 billion people on this |
| 1:00.8 | planet that are either deficient in Vitamin D or have Vitamin D insufficiency, |
| 1:07.8 | which means that they might have a subclinical or somewhat of a deficiency, but not a full-blown vitamin D deficiency. |
| 1:15.0 | But vitamin D is such a necessity for so many biochemical reactions. |
| 1:20.0 | There's over 200 biochemical reactions. |
| 1:22.0 | In fact, 5% of the genome is influenced by Vitamin D. It's not just |
| 1:29.2 | involved with bone health and calcium metabolism. It's really important in your immune system and that's |
| 1:35.6 | what I want to focus on. |
| 1:37.2 | Now these four countries are very deficient in vitamin D, China, India, South America, and the Middle East. |
| 1:45.0 | And when a woman is pregnant and she's not getting enough sun or eating enough food |
| 1:51.0 | with vitamin D or not supplementing, she can become very deficient, very fast, |
| 1:56.2 | because that baby inside is just sucking the vitamin D for growth and development. |
| 2:00.8 | Also, if a woman is lactating that can create a deficiency unless she's taking |
| 2:05.7 | vitamin D or getting a lot of sun. And infants commonly are vitamin D deficient. Now if you don't have |
| 2:12.0 | enough vitamin D deficient. Now if you don't have enough vitamin D, very specific things happen within the immune |
| 2:16.7 | system. |
| 2:17.7 | The T helper cells have a difficult time working. |
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