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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

VITAMIN D IS WORTHLESS

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to share some important information about vitamin D. The VITAL study, which involved 26,000 people, concluded that vitamin D supplementation is essentially worthless. The study found that vitamin D supplementation did not reduce the risk of cancer, major cardiovascular events, stroke, or cardiovascular death.


In this study, they used the same trial protocols used in drug trials. One group received vitamin D, and the other received a placebo. We naturally have vitamin D in our systems from our diet and the sun, but no baseline vitamin D was determined in this study. Everyone in the study, including the placebo group, was permitted to take up to 800 IU of vitamin D per day.


Furthermore, the VITAL study measured vitamin D in the blood, which is the inactive form. This is the reservoir of vitamin D that supports the skeletal system and calcium regulation, but this was not tested for.


Vitamin D is involved in another system that supports the immune system, prevents cancer, is anti-inflammatory, prevents diabetes, and prevents dementia. The active form of vitamin D found in the cells is not measurable in the blood.


The VITAL study claimed to give the study group a high dose of vitamin D, but they only used 2,000 IU!


Dr. Hollis mentions a Townsend letter that references 6 papers that show the promising benefits of vitamin D:

• Decreases autoimmune disease by 22%

• Decreases the incidence of advanced cancer

• The more vitamin D in your blood, the lower the risk of cancer

• Reduces autism

• Reduces asthma

• Decreases adverse outcomes in pregnancy


Although the VITAL study essentially deemed vitamin D as worthless, there’s plenty of research showing that vitamin D can reduce breast cancer, tooth decay, depression, skin disorders, prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and colon cancer.


Research has also shown the surprising benefits of sunlight—the best source of vitamin D. Sun exposure can significantly reduce your risk of breast cancer, decrease blood pressure, and increase serotonin by up to 80%.


DATA:

https://www.townsendletter.com/e-lett...

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0:00.0

So I guess this is the end of Vitamin D research.

0:04.0

There is some research done called the Vital Study that involved 26,000 people

0:09.0

and they have found conclusively that Vitamin D supplementation is basically worthless. So they don't

0:14.4

want to waste any more money in doing research in vitamin D because this is the

0:17.4

last nail in the coffin for vitamin D research. So I guess I can stop doing Vitamin D video since I have like over a

0:25.4

hundred right now. Probably just have to delete them. So let me share the

0:29.2

quick summary of what the study found. Vitamin D supplementation did not reduce the risk of cancer, didn't

0:35.5

reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events, stroke, or cardiovascular death.

0:41.1

So this data I'm going to share with you came from a recommendation from

0:44.9

Dr Bruce Hollis who is the pioneer of Vitamin D research and he sent me a fascinating

0:51.6

summary of this study and some of the holes in the study.

0:56.8

In this study, they used the same trial protocols as they used in drugs.

1:02.1

Let's say, for example, I'm going to study statin drugs okay and I'm

1:06.4

going to take two groups in one group I'm going to give them a statin drug and the

1:10.1

other group I'm not going to give them a statin I'm going to give them a placebo and

1:14.8

then we're going to compare what this drug did right now normally we don't have

1:19.2

any statin drugs in our bloodstream naturally.

1:23.2

And if you're taking the placebo, you're not going to get the statin.

1:27.0

Vitamin D is a little bit different because we naturally get vitamin D from our diet, from the sun.

1:34.7

So there was no baseline vitamin D tested during the study.

1:39.0

They might have tested it, but they didn't give us the data.

1:41.5

So why is that important to get a baseline? Well let's say for example

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