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In this video we're going to talk about how much food that you'd have to eat to get

your vitamin D requirements.

Vitamin D is, from my viewpoint, one of the most important fat-cibo vitamins out there,

not just for your bone health and calcium absorption, but for your immune system, for inflammation,

how it actually controls your immune system. But here's the thing, there are many things

that deplete your vitamin D that go beyond just not getting enough from your food or not getting

enough from the sun. I did a video on this recently, the receptor for vitamin D, called the

vitamin D receptor, actually gets blocked from microbes, certain viruses and certain bacteria.

It's very, very common, so they have a strategy to block your absorption of vitamin D,

so they can survive because somehow they know that vitamin D is essential for your own

immune system, so if they can cut down that immune defense, they can actually survive better.

Also, there's certain genetic defects that a lot of people have in just simply the absorption

of vitamin D. I've done some videos on that. I'll put those links down below. Stress will deplete

your vitamin D, consuming too many refined carbs and sugar will deplete your vitamin D, not

to mention having insulin resistance, which most of the population has, will decrease your ability

to absorb vitamin D. Also, not getting enough sun will do it. The older you get, the less vitamin D

you can absorb. The darker your skin, the less conversion you're going to have on the skin with

vitamin D from the sun, so you need more sun to get a certain level of vitamin D. So as you can see,

there's a lot of barriers getting vitamin D that go beyond just the diet. Now, if you look up the

RDAs for vitamin D, it says 400 to 800 international units. Well, that's 10 to 20 micrograms. I believe

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