Vitamin D Deficiency DESPITE Normal Blood Levels

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Please join me in welcoming Professor Bruce Hollis! Professor Hollis’ research has provided a new understanding of the importance of vitamin D and its full range of functions.

Vitamin D has been understood as an essential nutrient for skeletal integrity and maintaining blood calcium levels. As microbiology and research developed, researchers found that many cells that had nothing to do with the skeleton could respond to vitamin D, including cancer and immune cells.

Vitamin D exists in different forms inside the body. When you take a supplement or sunlight hits your skin, you’re dealing with the inactive form of vitamin D. It is then turned into a compound called 25-hydroxy vitamin D, the intermediate form of vitamin D that stays in the blood for weeks. This form is picked up in blood tests but isn’t easily accessible by the tissues that might need it.

The final form of vitamin D is one of the most potent hormones, 125 di-hydroxy vitamin D. Vitamin D is converted into the active form in the kidney but can also be converted inside the cells.

The vast majority of studies substantiating our information on vitamin D in the U.S. have several problems and have produced inaccurate results. There is also no agreed-upon range on “normal” vitamin D levels.

Professor Hollis has conducted research and has seen significant results using vitamin D to prevent birth complications in women in Iran, in patients with low-grade prostate cancer, and in lactation. He also explains the importance of magnesium, a key cofactor for vitamin D metabolism.

Professor Hollis wants people to understand that few physicians recommend or acknowledge the benefits of vitamin D because national organizations have yet to properly understand and recognize them.

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0:00.0	Today we're going to be talking to Professor Bruce Hollis, the pioneer in Vitamin D research.
0:06.4	You're going to find this extremely fascinating. Let's dive right in.
0:10.0	So Dr Hollis, I watch one of your videos and I literally had to put it on pause because you said something that blew me away.
0:18.4	I've never heard this before in my life and I had to spend the next eight hours trying to validate what you said which is
0:25.2	absolutely 100% true and this little piece of information will explain a lot of I think the
0:29.9	confusions that people observe when they see negative research on
0:35.3	vitamin D and a lot of other things. So that piece of information was related to
0:40.5	there's actually two different systems in the body that deal with
0:46.4	Vitamin D. There's I guess one with bone and skeleton and then there's another
0:51.8	system for everything else.
0:53.2	Can you kind of just as simple as possible, kind of explain those two systems?
0:58.9	Yeah, the first system, the one that was discovered decades ago when the Vitamin Dean was associated with
1:04.8	skeletal integrity and maintaining blood calcium levels in a strict fashion.
1:11.2	And it is very important and it has to be it has to be
1:16.8	maintained all the time. And so that system involves
1:21.2	vitamin D and parathirid hormone, kidneys, and that's basically referred
1:27.6	to as the endocrine function of vitamin D.
1:30.8	That's what everybody always identified Vitamin D with. And then as time went on,
1:37.0	molecular biology came into focus, they started finding cells that had the ability to respond to Vitamin D that had nothing
1:48.0	to do with the skeleton, the immune cells, cancer cells, the cell cells, and the list goes on and on.
1:59.0	And it turns out that that's the second system that's called the parecrin and intercrant system and that is
2:05.4	depending on how much Vitamin D can get into these cells and deactivated and then carry out in their function. I mean, just in the human body, give or take there
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