Vitamin D: How Much Food Would You Have to Eat?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
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Vitamin D may be one of the most important vitamins, but can you get enough from food alone?
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about how much food you would have to eat to get your vitamin D requirements.
In my opinion, vitamin D is one of the most important fat-soluble vitamins out there. Vitamin D is beneficial for bone health, calcium absorption, the immune system, and to help lower inflammation.
But, there are many things that can deplete your vitamin D that go beyond not getting enough vitamin D from your food or from the sun.
A few causes of a vitamin D deficiency:
• Microbes that block the vitamin D receptor
• Stress
• Sugar
• Lowered sun exposure
• Age
• Darker skin has less conversion on the skin of vitamin D from the sun
• Poor health
• Inflammation
• Insulin resistance
The RDAs for vitamin D are 400-800 IUs, which is 10-20 micrograms. I believe those numbers are way too low. I think, at a minimum, you need 5,000 IUs per day. But, if you have health issues, you may need a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. In this video, we're going to talk about how much food that you'd have to |
| 0:46.8 | eat to get your vitamin D requirements. Now, vitamin D is, from my viewpoint, one of the most |
| 0:53.2 | important fat-siable vitamins out there, |
| 0:56.4 | not just for your bone health and calcium absorption, but for your immune system, for inflammation, |
| 1:04.9 | how it actually controls your immune system. |
| 1:07.9 | But here's the thing. |
| 1:09.6 | There are many things that deplete your vitamin D that go beyond |
| 1:15.6 | just not getting enough from your food or not getting enough from the sun. And I did a video on this |
| 1:21.5 | recently. The receptor for vitamin D called the vitamin D receptor actually gets blocked from microbes, okay? Certain viruses |
| 1:31.3 | and certain bacteria. It's very, very common. So they have a strategy to block your absorption |
| 1:37.6 | 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 |
| 1:45.4 | cut down that immune defense, they can actually survive better. Also, there's certain genetic |
| 1:51.4 | defects that a lot of people have in just simply the absorption of vitamin D. I've done some videos |
| 1:57.8 | on that. I'll put those links down below. Stress will deplete your vitamin |
| 2:02.0 | D. Consuming too many refined carbs and sugar will deplete your vitamin D. Not to mention having |
| 2:07.5 | insulin resistance, which most of the population has, will decrease your ability to absorb |
| 2:13.3 | vitamin D. Also not getting enough sun will do it. The older you get, the less vitamin D you can |
| 2:19.2 | absorb. The darker your skin, the less conversion you're going to have on the skin with vitamin D from |
| 2:23.8 | 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 |
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