Why Your Fat Determines Your Vitamin D
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 9 May 2020
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I recently did a video on why vitamin D can help you lose weight. Today, we’re going to talk about the reverse of that. This is a complex subject, but I’m going to try to make it really simple.
Basically, we’re talking about how much fat you have on your body, and you’re vitamin D levels.
There are two things you need to know:
1. The fatter you are, the less vitamin D you’re going to have.
2. When you lose weight, you increase your vitamin D level.
Why do your vitamin D levels go up when you lose weight?
There is a relationship between body fat and vitamin D. A lack of vitamin D can increase weight. But, the missing piece of the puzzle is insulin and insulin resistance.
Insulin resistance causes your body to store fat and prevents fat burning. It’s also behind type 2 diabetes. Insulin causes pre-fat cells to turn into fat. Insulin and insulin resistance increase fat. The more fat you have, the more insulin and insulin resistance you’re going to have.
When you take vitamin D, you actually lower insulin and improve insulin resistance. This is why it’s so essential for people who have prediabetes, diabetes, or insulin resistance to take vitamin D.
The reason why your fat cells determine your vitamin D levels really has to do with this:
• The more fat you have, the more insulin you have. The more insulin you have, the more insulin resistance you have.
• When you lose weight, and you have less weight on your body, you’re going to have less insulin, less insulin resistance, and more vitamin D.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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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. Hey guys. I'm back and I recently did a video on why taking vitamin D can |
| 0:48.2 | help you lose weight. Today we're going to talk about the reverse of that. Your fat cells |
| 0:53.4 | actually determine your |
| 0:54.7 | vitamin D levels. Now this is a bit complex, so I'm going to attempt to make it very simple. |
| 1:00.5 | So hopefully I won't confuse you more, but I did put the link of the video down below, |
| 1:04.2 | and also it'll be at the end of this video. Okay, so what are we talking about? We're talking |
| 1:10.8 | about how much fat you have on your body |
| 1:13.4 | and your vitamin D level. So there's two things you need to know. The fatter you are, |
| 1:19.6 | the less vitamin D you're going to have. Obese people have very low vitamin D levels. |
| 1:24.5 | When you lose weight, you actually increase your vitamin D level. Okay. But why? Why does your |
| 1:31.9 | vitamin D levels go up when you lose weight? In order to understand that, we have to understand a |
| 1:36.9 | couple additional things. So there's this relationship between fat and vitamin D. The less vitamin D you |
| 1:42.4 | have, the fatter you're going to become. And the less |
| 1:45.6 | vitamin D you have can increase weight as well. And we're talking about expanding the adipocyte. |
| 1:52.0 | All right. So what's the missing piece of the puzzle? Is this little guy right here, which |
| 1:56.6 | I rarely talk about insulin or insulin resistance, right? It's insulin and insulin resistance. |
| 2:02.8 | So if you have too much insulin over a period of time, your body becomes resistant. |
| 2:06.5 | And now insulin is dysfunctional and your body starts making more and more and more of it. |
| 2:12.4 | So in other words, certain functions of insulin are not working. For example, your ability to absorb glucose, your ability |
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