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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. Well, hello. Today we're going to talk about vitamin D in relationship to your immune

system. Now, I had this idea that I already had this video and I searched and I couldn't find it.

There may be a video out that I just can't find that I already did, but I'm just going to do a video

specifically on the immune system. First thing you need to know is that vitamin D is intimately

connected to every single immune reaction.

In fact, the white blood cells have the ability

to make vitamin D active.

So vitamin D is very important.

In fact, viruses, as one of their strategies,

is to downgrade or turn off the vitamin D receptor.

So you can't get any more vitamin D because apparently they know that vitamin D is very, very important.

And so that's one way that they thrive.

So vitamin D deficiencies occur when there's not enough sun right in the winter. Why do you think we have the spike

of flu and other viral infections? It's because the vitamin D is low. In fact, in the pandemic of

1918, the Spanish flu, it peaked in January, which is in the winter. Now, another thing that's

interesting about the winter months, or basically between November and March, we have much

higher incidence of autoimmune diseases like lupus, MS, type 1 diabetes, rheumato arthritis, irritable bowel disease.

Why? Because vitamin D is a natural, kind of a steroid, anti-inflammatory, and so it has a key

function in reducing inflammation. When you have an autoimmune disease, the thing that really creates the damage is the

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