So there's a lot of very interesting information relating to vitamin D and cortisol, that relationship.

So let's talk about it under stress, especially chronic stress. What happens is the vitamin D gets less absorbed in your gut.

So anytime you have high stress, your vitamin D level goes down, okay?

That's one thing that happens, but there's something else as well.

The building block of Vitamin D is the same building block as the stress hormone cortisol, and that building block is cholesterol. They're both made out of cholesterol. In fact, even

Vitamin D as itself is really considered for many reasons more of a hormone than a

vitamin, especially the steroid hormones in the family of

cortisol. The chemistry of cortisol, which is the stress hormone, is very similar to

Vitamin D as well, but they're both made from cholesterol. So as you go through stress,

the cholesterol is allocated as a precursor to build more of that stress hormone and away from other things like

vitamin D. This is another reason why people end up with low vitamin D when they have

high levels of stress and very unfortunately the cortisol tends to paralyze the immune system. It lowers the white blood cell. It makes you more susceptible to getting infections, especially viral infections, not to mention compounded on top of that a low

vitamin D level that's so important with your immune system and immune protection and even

controlling an overactive immune system.

And then another interesting thing about this is when you go through a lot of stress,

a lot of times that can be the trigger of an autoimmune disease, whether it's MS, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto's, Graves

Disease, Type 1 diabetes, all of these conditions can be triggered by some type of stress.

So then once you get the autoimmune disease, what is the treatment?

The treatment is prednisone,. What is Prenner zone?

It's a synthetic form of cortisol.

So that's interesting that this stress might have triggered it,

but then now you need Prennerzone

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