I live in Florida and am 65 years old. When Covid hit and I had “to stay home”, I started walking A LOT with my dog. My vitamin D levels went up to 100, and my doctor didn’t believe that I wasn’t taking supplements. She actually put an email into my record calling me a liar about my not taking supplements. Since we are military retirees we were using the military health system. I had to request a different doctor because my doctor didn’t believe that I could get so much sun that my D levels would be high but I didn’t burn. We eat keto/ketovore. By the way, Covid didn’t affect me either.
Apparently you should refrain from cleaning your skin for 2 days to allow the bacteria to proliferate. This aids in vitamin D generation/absorption via skin exposed to sunlight. Also skin colour affects the amount of time you need to expose yourself to sun. Darker skin requires longer exposure times.
How long did you go out in the sun per day? I have low d for several years… my husband is active duty and the “doctor” refuses to test me … I have to pay out of pocket in town to get a test.
Testing Vitamin D levels is great advice! Thanks. Note: 100ng/ml is a better blood level to shoot for. Doctors are using old moldy info. Young lifeguards in Florida were tested and averaged 125ng/ml! The higher levels of D increase healing and immune function substantially. I've read 5 books on D. It's one of the most important vitamins. It's the hibernation vitamin. Way too many of us are low on D and hibernating. You may need to supplement Magnesium along with D. The increased metabolism increases nutrient use. Glad to see you're taking it with K2!
@@jimpowers9553 No. If you've got anything substantial that needs healing, 50 is really kind of low. 125 is natural for young folks getting enough sun. Thus proven safe. Higher levels of D were considered toxic not too long ago. Then vitamin K2 was discover and changed the whole picture. People with long-standing bone/join problems have kicked remodeling into gear with levels substantially above 100. Problems that did nothing for preceding multiple years with levels below 100.
D is absorbed better in conjunction with Vitamin K. My D level has been around 100 for several years. I am 76. I think it was what got my wife and I through the Covid trials. No Vaccine for us.
@@nigel6862 My doctor told me to take D3 with K2 (mk-7) because I was getting kidney stones when taking D3 by itself. I take 10,000 D3 with K2 and haven't had a kidney stone since.
This is reasonable advise. I myself need the sun not only for vitamin D but also for keeping my mood up. It does not need much but having some sun exposure in a reasonable amount can lift my energy level. Health is a holistic process. It is about balancing various risks and I myself chose that my mental health is an important factor when deciding what to do and what not to do. Especially during the pandemic one has completely misunderstood this. Locking folks into their dwellings was one of the worst decisions ever made.
directly related to mood depression and zoo i zide in veterans, not that drug corps or the FDA did THAT research. They also specifically refused to study vit D to prevent or treat covid, no money there. Saw the actual instructions re granting research
I live in Florida and am outside all day. I never use sunscreen and use no lotions or creams except for coconut oil. I truly believe all the harmful chemicals in the processed foods and sunscreens people use are what is causing the skin cancer epidemic.
I agree. I feel like people around me are stupid or something. Yah, lets spray cancer causing stuff on our skin to avoid getting cancer. Does this even make sense at all? I have heard that I don't need to worry because the sun screen can't get below the upper level of skin and yet I also hear that the chlorine in water can cause cancer if I shower with it. Someone is lying here.
I agree, but the worst ingredient in processed food is seed oils. Stopping consumption of all seed oils allowed me to spend much more time in the sun without burning or even getting pink. Seed oils: canola, sunflower, safflower, soya, corn, rice bran oils.
Forty years ago I realized that I was burned more by the sun tan lotion than by the sun. Stopped using that stuff, along with a plethora of Pharmaceuticals and processed food. But I still got nailed by ice cream. That danged HFCS got me.
I used to burn horrendously in the sunshine. The reason for this was vitamin B12 deficiency I corrected this by eating blue beef steaks. Once the B12 was at the correct level I could get natural UVB light from the sun and start to feel a lot better.
I live in Australia, melanoma capital of the world. I am 60 years old and as a child we spent all summer swimming at the local pool. We baked in the sun, at the start of summer our skin would blister and peel, our nose and cheeks were covered in scabs then by the end of summer we were dark tan and our skin was perfect. In those days my mum cooked everything in fat, there was no seed oil in our home and we didn’t even know what it was. We never ate out and any deserts were homemade with butter or cream, no seed oil. Now we have a population of people in their early twenties getting melanoma and that generation was brought up on seed oil. Is there a correlation between seed oil and melanoma because we definitely need sunlight for vitamin D.
I was there, skin cancers are caused by all the shit in sun block, the only sun block we got from mum was butter to help stop the shedding of burnt skin.
In 2020 something worse than cancer came out Covid vaccine in Australia where you list your freedom to leave the country and people be with loved ones overseas who werre helpless and living in australia couldn’t be with there child children wife husband loved ones so cancer either kills you or live but without the vaccine you had no choice cause of living in australia 🖤💉🇦🇺lest we never ever forget 💛☀️
Real sunlight is way better than a tanning bed. Other wavelengths of light have incredibly beneficial effects too. Red and infrared are especially healthy. Great for healing and for increased energy. Standing in bright sunlight after you wake up is better than coffee.
@@billyholiday4947not entirely correct. Depends what kind of tanning bed. Low pressure tanning beds emit more UVB than high pressure beds that emits more UVA.
I take 10,000iu’s daily with K2. During covid, I was taking up to 50,000iu’s. My D levels were around 100. My doctor’s office called concerned that my levels were too high and told me to reduce my supplementation. I knew 100 is therapeutic and kept up what I was taking. I can’t remember the last time I had so much as a cold. I never got jabbed and never got Covid either
Vit d and not getting the jab has kept your immune system optimal. 50,000 for extended periods is in my opinion too much and unnecessary but hey you know your body so good on you
@@johnwarner8569 I only did this for a couple of weeks at a time and took breaks in between, usually when I knew I had been exposed to someone who came down with the Rona. It worked 🤷🏻♀️
While vitamin D3 helps your body absorb more calcium, vitamin K2 helps your body transport it to your bones and teeth rather than letting it sit in your arteries and other soft tissues in your body. This not only helps to promote bone health, but it also helps to keep your heart healthy as well.
That is an interesting claim, though there can be problems with supplimenting. The body needs very little of these things and overdoing it can cause problems. In my case an excess of bone regrowth leading to femoralacetabular impingement in the hips. SInce stopping the suppliment my mobility is starting to increase back to where I was. These sorts of problems can take months to express themselves.
Not always . You can have the VDR mutation like I do and never assimilate it so it goes into the bone where it needs to go . After 10 days of supplementing with vitamin D3 and K2 I developed kidney stones. Your advice is good for most people but unfortunately there are some people like myself that are just kind of screwed. This is why I tan in beds, which is why I was interested in hearing this video because it is true. The tanning beds are the only thing to raise my levels.
@@carolinelaronda4523Developing kidney stones in 10 days? Highly unlikely. Probably you already had them but did not know. What dose did you take a day? You know, that exposing your skin on sun for hour or two will produce 20k IU of D3, you would develop huge kidney stones every summer if it was vit D3 problem.
This doctor is more about selling the test kits than giving us simple & full information: Another key is taking D3 instead of the formerly much more common D2. About 14 years ago, I had huge prescription capsules of D2, 50K units twice a week. The doctor actually accused me of not taking them b/c my blood level of vitamin D did not improve. I researched it myself, which took only a few minutes on the internet. Absolute maximum human absorption of D2 is only 30%, with most people being around only 8%, as I recall. I had to hunt around to find some D3-in-oil gel caps, and in a couple months my vit-D blood level was fine. My doctor should have known this, especially before insulting me, but as a group, doctors are almost the last people to be truly knowledgeable about nutrition, at least in the USA. (It was only in 1999 that med students began to be required to take ONE nutrition course.) Within a couple years of my experience, D3 capsules were widely available, and it was even being used as the supplement in milk. I'm guessing this doctor gave her father the same near-useless D2 that I was prescribed. Her failure to mention the importance of D3 vs. D2 means I cannot look upon her as trustworthy.
@@carolinelaronda4523 May i ask how did you come to know about the VDR mutation? Does a blood test finds that mutation? I want to add K2 to my diet but i worry about some hidden side effects.
@@carolinelaronda4523 The vitamin D isn't even metabolized by your liver in 10 days. It takes longer than that, and kidney stones take years to develop, so I call BS.
Magnesium, D3, K2, Zinc all need to be in the same supplementation regime apparently according to Dr Berg if you watch enough of his videos. Same as the Sodium Potassium pump. There will be a ratio to adhere to. D3 10000IU to 100ug K2.
My Vit D of 10,000 IUs was excellent. I take them with FAT foods. Sorry to hear about the struggle your father had. Amazing that tanning Salons were his answer.
@@MoDrox-hy2xxThat is bull you talking! Where you hear that from?! Taking D3, K2, Magnesium, Vitamin C, Zinc & Copper. Do research properly before you embarrassed yourself.
My vitamin D3 blood level was 108ng and then my doc said cut down. While also telling me that I was an Outlier because my Prostate Cancer went into remission
Excellent video and great info!!! Thanks a lot!!! You are so clear and it is so easy to understand and make the changes to get a great healthy body!!! Greetings from Argentina!☺☺
If you live in the northern hemisphere you are almost certainly short on Vit D in the winter months. I take 4000iu year round and at least a half hours sun bath all spring to fall. Even on those rare pleasant days in winter time. My health has improved dramatically since I started this.
Hi Charles, I live in Ireland and have always been a very keen cyclist. I had hormone therapy and radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 2017. During treatment I lost so much strength and until last year I still hadn't recovered. I became depressed, started losing hair in addition to remaining very weak. My oncologist dismissed my concerns and put them down to getting old. I'm 71. Finally I had a long chat with my doctor who ran a whole series of blood tests. My vitamin D level was 21. He put me on 50000iu a week of vitamin D3 for 2 months and then reduced it to 7000iu a week. Before the first 2 months were up I was feeling a lot better. My depression totally lifted, my hair thickened and I got stronger. I'm still not back to where I was but I was surprised by the change. He did a blood test 2 months ago and my vitamin D level had risen to 81. I now take 4000iu daily like yourself and feel much better than I have since before cancer treatment.
It's funny that you mention vitamin D because peer reviewed covid studies have shown that pandemic wasn't just a covid pandemic it was also a vitamin D defiency pandemic. we know that the right amount of vitamin D is crucial to the immune system.
@@MOAB-UT It is now clear that vitamin D has important roles in addition to its classic effects on calcium and bone homeostasis. As the vitamin D receptor is expressed on immune cells (B cells, T cells and antigen presenting cells) and these immunologic cells are all are capable of synthesizing the active vitamin D metabolite, vitamin D has the capability of acting in an autocrine manner in a local immunologic milieu. Vitamin D can modulate the innate and adaptive immune responses. Deficiency in vitamin D is associated with increased autoimmunity as well as an increased susceptibility to infection. As immune cells in autoimmune diseases are responsive to the ameliorative effects of vitamin D, the beneficial effects of supplementing vitamin D deficient individuals with autoimmune disease may extend beyond the effects on bone and calcium homeostasis.
Almost every cell in your body has a receptor for vitamin D. It’s essential for many processes, including bone health, immune system function, and reducing inflammation. It also helps the body absorb calcium.
FDA approveS of a toxic chemical in the use of making Decaf Coffee. It was banned yesterday by EPA for being used as a paint stripper but FDA says- in your morning coffee- no problem. Same group said Covid does not spread on an airplane- yet, they closed down hiking trails outside...and yeah, the jab is safe they said. I do not trust them.
Actually...10 years ago I had Vitamin D in the high 20s and my doctor prescribed that same pharmaceutical 50,000 IEUs and when I went back, it didn't have an effect on my levels. Then I started taking 5,000=10,000 vitamin D mixed in coconut oil and in 6 months, my Vitamin D was over 100 and I had to cut back. So, I came to the conclusion that big pharma version wasn't effective because it wasn't liposomal.
The timing of this is perfect. I just had my Vit D levels checked yesterday. A year ago they were 15!! I started taking 5,000iu of Vit D. Now they’re 49. I’m kind of upset that my dr didn’t tell me all of the dangers of low D a year ago. I have a new dr now that I’m glad shows more concern about it.
I was told to stop taking Vitamin D because my levels are 107. I take 10,000 D3 + K2 (5k in the summer ) I went the past four years with only a few sniffles which amounted to nothing.
@@the_village_elder My level used to be 30. I used "Healthy Origins" brand of D3. My levels raised without the use of K2. I learned of the benefits of K2 (Healthy Origins brand also) later, and now use the two in combination.
@@the_village_elder My levels were at 30 and I got it up to 107. I used "Healthy Origins" brand D3. I raised my levels on D3 alone. It wasn't until later that I learned about the benefits of K2 with D3. I now take both -- "Healthy Origins" brand. I purchased mine on Amazon.
It's not just absorption, there's a two stage activation process, first in the liver and then in the kidneys. It also needs enough magnesium for it to happen properly. And vitamin K2 is needed to help calcium go to the right places, like bones and teeth, rather than vein and artery walls, etc.
It might help but is not essential - just check your levels and adjust. Taking with a fatty meal may help but if you have normal levels without special procedures, then don't worry about it.
@@nogames8982 Great! take care to get the reading glasses out to check the ingredients for industrial seed oils - they are very common in the soft-gel packaging.
I am glad to see this video. I have read a couple of articles from oncologists that stated the risk from deadly skin cancer is a lot lower than the risks from the "big" cancers (that's my paraphrase), and I have wondered if the rise in high SPF sunscreen might be contributing to the poor health we are in now. When I grew up 40 years ago, no one wore anything, and I don't even remember my grandparents getting skin cancer. I just think it is a complicated matter, and I have low vitamin D. I take supplements, but I also get some sunshine during the off peak hours.
Weird, MY grandparents got skin cancer, but only on the areas that got the most sun exposure. Edit: They were born in 1914 and 1918. So even prolonged sun exposure under a "normal", thick ozone layer can give you skin cancer. The operative word here is "prolonged". Lots of hours tending crops out in the sun, without hats or long sleeves.
The issue with skin cancer is burning which I've heard can be exaggerated by PUFAs and can also be prevented by graduating skin exposure so that burns do not occur.
Not to properly absorb D3, but to direct the increased amount of calcium that results from the D3 supplementation. It directs it away from the soft tissues and bloodstream, to the bones and teeth. K2 acts like a traffic cop for calcium. That's why it should be taken with D3.
I haven't turned on the TV since March 10, 2020. When the news media (And I'm a member of the news media!) started blaming me for getting grandma sick, I turned it off. I only turn on my device to watch streaming services.
*You just HAD to launch a woke, leftist missile into this, didn't you?* *_Television isn't bad, the detriment or benefit depends on 2 things: 1) What a person watches and 2) what the watcher knows, understands and believes._*
@smacktard6051the advice you get from doctors today is more of a business and are more concerned about treating symptoms. You have to learn who you can trust and who you can’t. If you feel a doctors on RUclips are only concerned with their algorithms, you would be wise to stay away and look elsewhere, but to suggest all doctors on RUclips are not worth considering, you do yourself a great disservice.
@@joeskeptical4762a woke leftist missile? 😂Dude shut the tv off and get your hands dirty you’ll learn more than watching tv. The recommendation to turn the tv off has been said long before there was a woke.
I did a high-dose vitamin D experiment, A-LA Jeff T Bowles. I took 25k IU daily for two months, 35k IU for three more, then 50k IU for a month. I lost 20 lbs and felt great...
@@sukiclementsroman5158Dr Berg did a video on this and basically it would take years of massive dosing. The person who you replied to, took high doses for a short time and there would be zero calcification. I take Vitamin D along with zinc, K2 and magnesium. All those additional vitamins help Vitamin D to do its job properly and to go to the right place. I hope that helps you?
@@sukiclementsroman5158I don't know. I hear a lot about that, but I also know the average deaths per year people get from vitamin D toxicity worldwide is zero...I had no problems at all...
@@jennybadl7840 She said she would rather not tell me. She was young, 18 ish; I warned her but she went ahead. I remember being young and thinking bad things only happen to other people/in newspapers/so it's not real.
My experience with doctors who are considered “experts”, my honest conclusion, I do what my body tells me not some intellectual who thinks they are smarter! And sometimes it’s a trial and error process. But I have become intuitive and sensitive to what I need personally!
You are very smart and wise! You must be your own advocate over your care..no one knows you better than you and doctors treat us all like text books and not individuals....one size fits all..smh
It takes several months of taking Vitamin D3 + K2 to raise your active vitamin D3 levels. It takes around 21 days for your body to do that and takes a lot of time.
@@fatillacing4131 I hear that the NOW brand of vitamins are some of the best and they're made in America instead of China like most of the other vitamins. Remember just a few years ago China was still putting lead paint in children's toys? Stay away from anything China related especially if you're putting it in your body
I really do enjoy your videos. Your presentation is perfect for my mindset. I don’t know how you do it, but with each episode I watch you become more attractive making your videos even easier to watch!
I used to use tanning beds when I was a teen. I’m paying the price in my 30s with all these speckles, freckles and liver spots that are now driving me crazy and ruining my once perfect skin. I wish I could go back in time and smack some sense into myself. Ruining your skin for life so you can look hot temporarily is just not a fair trade.
What I have learned so far from several articles is that UVA light causes skin cancer and other skin problem and of course dark skin quickly. UVB light is the one that make vitamin D precursor from the cholesterol under the skin. Tanning bed with UVB bulb is what you should go to, not the regular tanning bed.
Great message. I have one of those Vitamin D lamps that Michael Hollick recommends. It’s not nearly as good as a tanning bed but almost gets me through the winter. Supplemental D never felt effective.
I’m 76 and my level during Covid was 179. Taking 20k + Mg and K2. per day. I stopped having strep twice a year, along with the terrible hives that followed any virus. Covid for me was a mild case of the flu symptoms, no clot shot. I’ve since lowered to 15k per mo. I try to keep my levels above 140. Quercetin and zinc every day also. Most people think I’m in my 50s.
@@yt-qg8ui Yeah that is right down by the criminally stupid government RDI. But the commenter is a bit strange. Has a white beard and wears a wally hat and thinks that people think he's in 50s. Maybe treat everything with two grains of salt.
My Vitamin D level was in the 20s for years and I was prescribed 2000 iu for years only but nothing changed until I decided on my own to take 5000 D3 AND K2 then it went up and a year ago when my test was up to 90 in one year my doctor said whoa you have to back off, stop with the K2 and only take Vitamin D 3 times a week. I haven’t had my yearly yet but I did back down and want to see what happened, however I can tell it was detrimental to me. Thank you SO much for this video!
Actually its recommended to take 20,000 iu Vit D3 per day for all adults. Don't forget the Vit k2 as well (100 mcg per 5000 iu) which puts it out of the kidneys and into the bones.
@yt-qg8ui sometimes I take k2 with my 2000 iu vit d pill. There's some regular vit k in my multi vitamin also. I do take magnesium glysinate in the evenings
Fascinating results with Vitamin D and your Father. Great, informative video Dr Boz. I will check with the home kit and the scores we get. Thanks again. 🇨🇦💝🙏👍🇺🇸
My dad spent 50 years working outdoors on our dairy farm. He’s had too many skin cancers removed to count…..all on sun exposed areas. Don’t know about his vitamin d levels but I’m assuming high since he is outside so much. My entire family has had minor skin cancers so it could also be genetic.
That's because if caught early, it can easily be burned off using liquid nitrogen. And most people know that no one is interested in your many whines about your medical problems, and I use "your" in the global sense so most people don't whine.
What's crazy is thinking that we can help our body function better by randomly feeding it a little bit more of this and a little bit more of that in the form of supplements... as if we could just play and guess with an organism so perfect and complex that medical doctors and scientists have not even started to know yet. Your body needs to absorb what it needs in the amounts that IT needs through the right sources, not in the amounts that WE ignorantly ingest and force on it.
@@martamariotto1181 i’ve been thinking about this myself as I have several different supplements that I take, and I’m finding that if I take too many my kidneys start to act up. So I stopped taking everything and noticed that my body starts to regulate. Still, I’m concerned about what people are recommending for daily doses of vitamin D as I was also diagnosed with low D. I spoke to Chiropractor through an email blog who told me that vitamin D on its own is fine. You don’t need K2 or magnesium. He said he tests his patient’s blood and when they take the D supplement their levels go up. So now I’m even more confused. What do you do if you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol? Berberine is supposed to work well in place of a statin which can cause all kinds of side effects. It’s hard to know what to take and what not to take especially reading through a lot of reviews on Amazon but it seems supplements do work. Then there’s the whole thing of well these reviews are bought and paid for. How are we supposed to know what to do other than reading Pub Med every time we come across some new supplement? Doing nothing isn’t always good either.
Thanks for bringing this to the table Doc. I just got tested and I was Very low on Vitamin D So this video came at the RIGHT Time for , God’s Always there to Help in one way or another Blessings ❤
Would you be so kind to tell me the procedure you used to get your Vitamin D level tested ? How much did it cost ? Did you go to your Doctor ? DETAILS Please. Thanks. Good luck with your health.
Dr. Boz, thank you for being so honest about your profession, "a prescribing physician". Of course we know you are more than that today. Most physicians today are prescription for symptoms pushers, not healers.
I am sick and disabled and don't get outside much at all. We moved to North Idaho in 2016. My vitamin D was low. I began taking vitamin D and now my D levels have increased to the mid range of normal. I am very happy to say that I never get sick anymore, whereas I used to get a cold or flu twice a year at least. I am seeing to many videos telling us that vitamin D and other supplements are "bad" for me. I believe that this is nothing less than propaganda.😑
Followed your advice and went to the tanning studio ( small town in England) They have a brand new tanning bed which can be switched to only UV B light for Vitamin D (obviously no tanning when switched). Great advice, Thank you
I just love it when Dr.s think they know what they are talking about! It is very very rare if they do & she is 1 of those only telling the partial truth!
I had undiagnosed Primary Hyperparathyroidism. My D level was 16. My gp wrote me a script for 50,000 units of D2. WRONG! It hurt my joints, awful. Humans need D3 not D2. I started studying my own health & realized I had a Parathyroid problem. Don't let anyone decide what's best for your health..do your own research. I had cataracts at age 48!!! The excess calcium from the Parathyroid issues can also give you heart issues. I have 4 other siblings dealing w this disease.
D2 was found in rats. Furry and noturnal, they don't make D3 that humans use. D3 tolerance is much higher than D2. I've taken 10,000 IU D3 daily for 20 years. I added K2 mk7. My blood levels went up from 17 to 70 using grassroots health D3 blood tests. This show reminded me it's time to retest.
If your diet is low in calcium, those levels of vit d will cause hyperparathyroidism that will leach calcium from your bones and not having K2 in your system will cause the calcium to be stored in soft tissues instead of bones and teeth, hence the heart disease from calcium. But I don't disagree about the d3 vs D2.
This goes to show how much variability exists between individuals. I tested 18 ng/ml and after daily long hours of exposure to more than 3 UV index for a month, in shorts and tank top, getting a tan and all, I still only had 28 ng/ml. I have gut issues as well, so I got myself vitamin D in the form of drops. I started taking 2000 UI per day and after 3 days I got insomnia, so I figured they must be doing something. I started taking 25k once a week for 4 weeks then increased to 50k, and now I am at week 6, I take magnesium and k2 with it too. I am actually feeling better. I got mild bone pain which I believe is from the remineralization and my chest tightness is better and my energy increased. I will take your advice and re-test again. I think in the end only the test can tell us what works and what doesn't. I am glad tanning worked for your dad! Thank you for the evidence based info and the good advice.
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You will find this very same comment all over RUclips, and then a link to buy the book via Google … and then Amazon pretend they sell the book but it links to another herb book they sell. And so no one reads the book. Great job 😢
Dr. Boz, excellent presentation! I too was taking high doses of vitamin D (10,000 IU) and my vitamin D level was at 20 ng/mL. A person knowledgeable of nutritional health advised me to take my vitamin D with breakfast and to take digestive enzymes. I did this and my vitamin D shot up to 90! A bit on the high side. So, I dropped back to 5,000 IU per day with digestive enzymes. My blood level is now at 50 ng/mL. As you said, the most important thing is to get tested. What works for one person may not work for someone else. Also, I have to mention the Dr. John Campbell, on RUclips, has done some most excellent talks on Vitamin D. Vitamin D is really not a vitamin. It is a hormone, and it is essential for your immunity (think covid) and for fighting inflammation (think heart health). Doctors do not routinely test for vitamin D levels, but they should.
@@LukeSly91 I always was taking my vitamin D at breakfast. However, I did have my gallbladder removed 10 years ago. The lack of a gallbladder may have been a factor.
This is a great video! Great stuff and congrats. I am just waiting for my tests but after this video i upgraded my target range to (expressed in nmol/L) 135 to 207 :)
Great information. I'm no doctor, but I've spent a lot of time researching on RUclips and vitamin D seems to be almost the most important supplement. But I also make sure I take it with vitamin K2. I started intermittent fasting about 3 years ago and taking supplements and have been taking vitamin D consistently for about the same amount of time. 10,000 IU's a day,. If I get a decent amount of sun one day, the next day, I only take 5,000. I've noticed the last couple of Summers I can hang out with my friends by the boat on a sandbar in Sun for hours with no sunblock, except a dab on my nose and not get burned. Same thing with my girlfriend and she's very fair skinned. She was in Florida recently visiting her sister and went for walks every day and got lots of sun and never burned. I found evidence online that that is the case. Lack of vitamin D is making people shun the sun even more, because they're more quickly sensitive to it. What are your thoughts? Thanks!
You should consider COD LIVER OIL as the D3 source along with a plain synthetic D3 supplement so a combo plus the other factors for absorbing it.....The COD LIVER OIL also has Vitamin A as another fatty vitamin you'll need to offset....but generally not the E or others...Plus it also has some OMEGA 3's in the COD LIVER OIL. I use the capsules from Vitamatic....Norwegian Cod Liver Oil
@@Jode-m9ihow I’m now.? I’m all my live very healthy. I feel great. But that’s because of my lifestyle. Be active, eat healthy food, take my vitamins, have a good social life, no stress and have almost every day the sun because I’m living in Thailand.
Dr. Boz’s speculation that the storage D was being burned through would mean if the D supplements were stopped then storage D should have cratered to near zero pretty quickly. I bet it would not have. Magnesium regulates every aspect of vitamin D metabolism, so it is a great idea to get your magnesium up.
I have ordered some magnesium glycenate and plan to take it in the evening as I understand it might help with sleep so bit confused when to take Vit D + K2 as figured morning but wonder if this will miss the magnesium ingest.
Getting magnesium is easy, there shouldn't be a need to worry if you are eating a healthy and varied diet. Magnesium can be found in for example green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, legumes, nuts, seeds, and whole grains (like oats for your breakfast), but also edamame beans, beans, bananas, avocados, dark chocolate and more.
@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq It's about absorption so this is the advantage with supplements and the other issue is the soil is now so depleted it is highly likely you are not getting it from food.
@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq What is their magnesium level when no Mg has been added to the soil for 80 years? What if calcium overload is blocking their cor A absorption pathway? What if vitamin D supplements hyper-upregulates calcium to block cor A even more? Welcome to complex systems, and the Money Power Rulers know more than we do.
@@janetjacks3406 I think you are grossly exaggerating the issue of soil depletion causing less nutrients in vegetables. while it is correct that there is SOME degradation of nutrient contents in vegetables, it is not so significant. Vegetables still contains tons of vitamins and minerals. If they didn't the plants would not grow, it's actually that simple. 1-2 pounds of vegetables a day keeps the doctor away :)
Calcitriol is the most active form of VitD . It's the form they give kidney patient on dialysis. That's what I would give my dad if I'm a Dr...I would get level to 60-80 ngml
All prescriptions are D2. 50% absorbed. The liver has to activate and convert to D3 the active form. I believe MG is also important, as w as eating a fatty meal. Her dad may have had a fatty liver, caused by alcohol or NAFLD. Glad she got him in a tanning facility.
As a fair-skinned child, I burned a lot and suffered from prickly heat every summer. Sunscreens were unheard of and I paid a terrible price every summer, eventually avoiding exposure to the sun. Fast forward 40 years and within 6 months of following a ketogenic lifestyle, I am now able to spend a long time in the sun. I no longer burn and instead, I get a nice light brown tan. If my exposure is a couple of hours or less, I don't need to use sunscreen. If I know that I'll be out for several hours, I'll apply a low SPF sunscreen and that will get me through. Therefore, keto and intermittent fasting has transformed my skin's ability to deal with the sun.
@@Penelope416 to be honest, I've not done extended fasting since starting keto in 2020. I should do, as it could take me to the next level. I'm quite lazy by nature and as I succeeded with my weight loss and prediabetes, I didn't take it further. But now you've got me thinking.
@@RobCLynch Wow! Well your story is amazing. You're doing really well. Congrats on your health journey! The longest fast I've done was 72 hours. Right now I'm doing Alrernate Day Fasting and I really enjoy the benefits I get from it.
I’ve been told I fast intermittently, but in reality I just eat only when i’m actually hungry. Most people never stop eating long enough to recognize real hunger.
The problem with vitamin D3 deficiency is that nobody knows the normal level. No research so far. And no research on the horizon. Only feelings and emotions.
@@doejohn8674 , vitamin D/D3 is fat soluble, this it accumulates in liver and fat tissue, thus if it's too much of it you may be entoxicated with it, faint, die...
For those who don't convert D3 to the bodies usable form in the liver, there are forms of supplement that are the post-converted vitamin D. In Europe there is calcifidous, which is the form of vitamin D that is produced by the liver and thus bypasses the need for the body to convert D3 to the useful form as it is the useful form. Don't know if this is available in the USA.
When I wasn't taking D3, I had small bumps all over my arms, like around hair follicles, and rough elbows. After I started taking D3, it all went away, my elbows are super smooth, the bumps are gone. If I miss it a few days, they come back.
I also had small bumps on my arms and they went away after a month of regular sunbathing. Also after Covid I developed hives (and a lot of other terrible symptoms). They went away after sun exposure and I don`t need to take antigystomine anymore. I also started to take 5000 units of vitamin D a day and almost all other bad symptoms are gone. I checked my vitamin D level yesterday and it is 53ng/ml.
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AND, it heals many autoimmune conditions! Mind you, you have to be patient. It takes several months the worse off you are. Start at a minimum of 20,000 iu per day ---with the 100 mcg Vit K2 per 5,000 iu of the D3
For most of my life I never had a Vitamin D deficiency issue. When the COVID shutdowns occured of course all tanning salons closed down. They didnt open back up in this area until nearly 2022. Pre Covid I always went, usually from March to August because my body does not keep a tan. I can build a decent one so long as I go to the salon but it goes away once I stop during the fall and winter. After the COVID shutdowns I did not resume my yearly tanning bed session(this was not because of COVID fear on my part. I just got out of the habit) and in 2022 during some health screening for some other concerns my Vitamin D levels were at rock bottom levels. I was given a mega dose supplement for a month and it never really helped. I have felt fatigue, bone pain, weakness in my legs among other things since that time. Perhaps resuming my trips to the tanning salon are in order. I always used beds that were both UAB and UAV for no other reason than the thought both are better than just one. This is interesting.
I had a level of 47 and had autoimmune disease, depression, endometriosis and was bedridden 23 hours a day with fatigue to the point where they put me on disability. Got on vitamin D and after a month on 5000IU's, ALL symptoms got better. My level was at 242nml when my doc told my to wuit them bc of toxicity and within a month I was back to bedridden. I got back on but had to take 50.000IU's to have the depression lift. And then I set off into the sunset full of energy. I'll never stop them again.
Vitamin D3 should be taken every day. The kicker is that we also must take Magnesium, preferably Magnesium Glycinate, for our bodies to absorb and utilize the D3.
This channel sure is full of stupid advice from every direction. Congratulations for the smart holistic thinking.... Maybe one day you'll realize that you didn't create your body, it was given to us as a perfect machine if allowed to function freely, our interference has only done damage and will keep damaging it.
I regrettably confess that, having been hopelessly confused by all information and misinformation regarding best health practices, I have given up. I do the best I can, at 70, and let nature take its course. Can't worry about the "best" practices.
Mark, buy the 5,000 Vit D3 containing K2. Take minimum of 10,000 iu per day or, two of them. The lockdown over Covid was to keep people out of the sun and to FURTHER kill their health
If you want to stay healthy and enjoy life, you MUST supplement with D£ if nothing else. D3 runs the immune system, so unless you enjoy having flu, you need to protect yourself. I'm 83 and havern't had flu or a cold [or Covid] for over 24 years. I used to get flu a lot, and it's not aty all nice. I decided to learn all I could about the immune system and the first I learned is D3 ss essential, and after age fifty we lose the ability to make D3 in the skin. At 70 you're still a youngster! Take care.
This must be the light therapy I've heard about. I used to sit in the sun for twenty minutes per day, when I had stage three cancer, as part of my self prescribed treatment plan. It felt good and I believed that it was healing me. That was almost eight years ago.🌞
My vitamin D level tested at 110. So my doctor told me to quit taking it. I will not stop taking it but I did stop from seven days a week and went down to three days a week.
This not medical advice but strictly my opinion from my own experience. A level of 110 should be fine. Me personally, I would keep it in the 100 - 150 range. You might want to watch The Dr. Gundry Podcast on Vitamin D. He says the same thing!!!
@@R.M.-nt2oi I am fine with it at 100. Even 75 to 100. I don't need it higher than that. I'm gonna get retested after a few months on this dose and see how it is.
110 is perfect esp if you feel well. Remember to take the K2. This doc mayhap have invested in tanning beds- be careful esp as she not talk about the importance of K2 (yikes!) for proper absorption.
It is fascinating that supplementation wasn't working in your dad's case. However, if by 50k IU you meant a weekly bolus, that is chicken scratch for supplementation - about 7k IU/day. Our bodies can manufacture up to around 15k IU per HOUR with general exposure to full sunlight, and most international standards support up to 10k IU/day as normal supplementation for otherwise healthy individuals. I would suggest there is a missing piece here. One of the functions of PTH - parathyroid hormone or parathormone, is to regulate vitamin D levels in the blood. Therefore, it should be in an inverse relationship to 25-OH D blood levels. In my case (besides genetic markers showing I have a proclivity to poor vitamin D metabolism), my high PTH AND upper-range D showed I had enough 25-OH D for an average person, but it wasn't effective for me. By (with medical supervision) increasing D3 until my PTH was in the middle of the lower third of the reference range, I was able to put my autoimmune diseases into remission, while measuring the falling levels of the appropriate autoimmune antibodies as another marker of efficacy. This means I supplement 20k IU/day of D3 along with K2 MK7 at a cost of around $.20/day, and my blood serum level hovers around 170 ng/ml. I take a fish oil supplement at the same time as the D3 to increase absorption. However, I've been tracking my serum levels long enough to see the "normal" lab ranges bumped up a couple of times in the past 20 years or so. I expect that to trend to continue if we rely on newer data rather than ultraconservative "just enough to keep you from dying" approach which gave us the pitifully low 400 IU/day RDA.
I actually support a local tanning salon by purchasing a package of tans. Whether or not I go, I'm glad to support them and know that I can go whenever I want. Support your local tanning salon.
Seriously? You seriously have nothing better to do in your life than supporting your local tanning salon? I would invest that money into an upgrade of your head. Maybe you'll discover there's more to life than your tanning salon. Sorry but there's a limit to stupidity!!!
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I live in Florida and am 65 years old. When Covid hit and I had “to stay home”, I started walking A LOT with my dog. My vitamin D levels went up to 100, and my doctor didn’t believe that I wasn’t taking supplements. She actually put an email into my record calling me a liar about my not taking supplements. Since we are military retirees we were using the military health system. I had to request a different doctor because my doctor didn’t believe that I could get so much sun that my D levels would be
high but I didn’t burn. We eat keto/ketovore. By the way, Covid didn’t affect me either.
From what I have heard going carnivore is better than any Vitamin D supplement. Lots of people supplement ans still have low levels.
Apparently you should refrain from cleaning your skin for 2 days to allow the bacteria to proliferate. This aids in vitamin D generation/absorption via skin exposed to sunlight.
Also skin colour affects the amount of time you need to expose yourself to sun.
Darker skin requires longer exposure times.
@@Infiniti25 I’m of Irish/Scottish ancestry, so I definitely absorb rays. But no burn since I went low carb.
@@vickiharris9403amazing
How long did you go out in the sun per day? I have low d for several years… my husband is active duty and the “doctor” refuses to test me … I have to pay out of pocket in town to get a test.
Testing Vitamin D levels is great advice! Thanks.
Note: 100ng/ml is a better blood level to shoot for. Doctors are using old moldy info.
Young lifeguards in Florida were tested and averaged 125ng/ml!
The higher levels of D increase healing and immune function substantially.
I've read 5 books on D. It's one of the most important vitamins. It's the hibernation vitamin.
Way too many of us are low on D and hibernating.
You may need to supplement Magnesium along with D. The increased metabolism increases nutrient use.
Glad to see you're taking it with K2!
It is too high 50 is where you want to be
not rational from other comments.
@@jimpowers9553 75 is more like it but not rational.
@@jimpowers9553 No. If you've got anything substantial that needs healing, 50 is really kind of low.
125 is natural for young folks getting enough sun. Thus proven safe. Higher levels of D were considered toxic not too long ago. Then vitamin K2 was discover and changed the whole picture. People with long-standing bone/join problems have kicked remodeling into gear with levels substantially above 100. Problems that did nothing for preceding multiple years with levels below 100.
Could you share the names of the books?
D is absorbed better in conjunction with Vitamin K. My D level has been around 100 for several years. I am 76. I think it was what got my wife and I through the Covid trials. No Vaccine for us.
Right on Joel ! 👍
Latest research says take separately because they complete...D in morning with Zinc for better absorption..K2 in evening.
D is working in conjunction with magnesium. And both are fat soluble.
@@nigel6862 My doctor told me to take D3 with K2 (mk-7) because I was getting kidney stones when taking D3 by itself. I take 10,000 D3 with K2 and haven't had a kidney stone since.
Hi Troy, this is also what I've found in my research. What form of magnesium do you take and what is your Vit D level? @@TroyQwert
This is reasonable advise. I myself need the sun not only for vitamin D but also for keeping my mood up. It does not need much but having some sun exposure in a reasonable amount can lift my energy level. Health is a holistic process. It is about balancing various risks and I myself chose that my mental health is an important factor when deciding what to do and what not to do. Especially during the pandemic one has completely misunderstood this. Locking folks into their dwellings was one of the worst decisions ever made.
directly related to mood depression and zoo i zide in veterans, not that drug corps or the FDA did THAT research. They also specifically refused to study vit D to prevent or treat covid, no money there. Saw the actual instructions re granting research
Of course, they don't care about people.
I live in Florida and am outside all day. I never use sunscreen and use no lotions or creams except for coconut oil. I truly believe all the harmful chemicals in the processed foods and sunscreens people use are what is causing the skin cancer epidemic.
I agree. I feel like people around me are stupid or something. Yah, lets spray cancer causing stuff on our skin to avoid getting cancer. Does this even make sense at all? I have heard that I don't need to worry because the sun screen can't get below the upper level of skin and yet I also hear that the chlorine in water can cause cancer if I shower with it. Someone is lying here.
What a great marketing deception scam...the sun is trying to kill us! The very thing that gave us life and sustained us for billions of years
I agree, but the worst ingredient in processed food is seed oils. Stopping consumption of all seed oils allowed me to spend much more time in the sun without burning or even getting pink. Seed oils: canola, sunflower, safflower, soya, corn, rice bran oils.
To me, the idea that the sun causes skin cancer makes about as much sense as saying oxygen causes lung cancer...
Forty years ago I realized that I was burned more by the sun tan lotion than by the sun. Stopped using that stuff, along with a plethora of Pharmaceuticals and processed food. But I still got nailed by ice cream. That danged HFCS got me.
I used to burn horrendously in the sunshine. The reason for this was vitamin B12 deficiency I corrected this by eating blue beef steaks. Once the B12 was at the correct level I could get natural UVB light from the sun and start to feel a lot better.
BLUE BEEF STEAKS? PLEASE GIVE MORE DETAIL.
@THEROOTMATTERS, it's a rare steak.
I live in Australia, melanoma capital of the world. I am 60 years old and as a child we spent all summer swimming at the local pool. We baked in the sun, at the start of summer our skin would blister and peel, our nose and cheeks were covered in scabs then by the end of summer we were dark tan and our skin was perfect. In those days my mum cooked everything in fat, there was no seed oil in our home and we didn’t even know what it was. We never ate out and any deserts were homemade with butter or cream, no seed oil. Now we have a population of people in their early twenties getting melanoma and that generation was brought up on seed oil. Is there a correlation between seed oil and melanoma because we definitely need sunlight for vitamin D.
Same!!
I was there, skin cancers are caused by all the shit in sun block, the only sun block we got from mum was butter to help stop the shedding of burnt skin.
can it be related to the ozone hole that probably wasn't there 60 years ago?
@@bigbang259 Is that a joke? There never was an Ozone hole.
In 2020 something worse than cancer came out Covid vaccine in Australia where you list your freedom to leave the country and people be with loved ones overseas who werre helpless and living in australia couldn’t be with there child children wife husband loved ones so cancer either kills you or live but without the vaccine you had no choice cause of living in australia 🖤💉🇦🇺lest we never ever forget 💛☀️
My mother sits outside in the sunshine whenever she can. Her lower legs and arms are tanned and her Vitamin D levels are very good.
Real sunlight is way better than a tanning bed. Other wavelengths of light have incredibly
beneficial effects too. Red and infrared are especially healthy.
Great for healing and for increased energy.
Standing in bright sunlight after you wake up is better than coffee.
Tanning beds do not produce the correct wavelength! Uvb is necessary at 295 wavelength
You didn't watch the video@@billyholiday4947
@@billyholiday4947not entirely correct. Depends what kind of tanning bed. Low pressure tanning beds emit more UVB than high pressure beds that emits more UVA.
If she's over 50 she won't be making D in the skin, we lose the ability as we age.
I take 10,000iu’s daily with K2. During covid, I was taking up to 50,000iu’s. My D levels were around 100. My doctor’s office called concerned that my levels were too high and told me to reduce my supplementation. I knew 100 is therapeutic and kept up what I was taking. I can’t remember the last time I had so much as a cold. I never got jabbed and never got Covid either
Vit d and not getting the jab has kept your immune system optimal. 50,000 for extended periods is in my opinion too much and unnecessary but hey you know your body so good on you
What happens if vit D ever became unavailable...
If I was taking that amount I think that I would go to the emergency room to find out why I need to.
@@johnwarner8569 I only did this for a couple of weeks at a time and took breaks in between, usually when I knew I had been exposed to someone who came down with the Rona. It worked 🤷🏻♀️
@@worldpeace786 I’ll get some actual vitamin D from the sun ☀️😅
While vitamin D3 helps your body absorb more calcium, vitamin K2 helps your body transport it to your bones and teeth rather than letting it sit in your arteries and other soft tissues in your body. This not only helps to promote bone health, but it also helps to keep your heart healthy as well.
Grain feeding rumanants and refrigeration are just two reasons we have this problem. k2 comes from bacteria in the presence of k.
Important Thank you
That is an interesting claim, though there can be problems with supplimenting. The body needs very little of these things and overdoing it can cause problems. In my case an excess of bone regrowth leading to femoralacetabular impingement in the hips. SInce stopping the suppliment my mobility is starting to increase back to where I was. These sorts of problems can take months to express themselves.
K2 MK-7 (only)
I tell this to everyone I know. K2 is amazing.
My level is at 70. The key is adding K2 and magnesium bisglycinate.
Not always . You can have the VDR mutation like I do and never assimilate it so it goes into the bone where it needs to go . After 10 days of supplementing with vitamin D3 and K2 I developed kidney stones. Your advice is good for most people but unfortunately there are some people like myself that are just kind of screwed. This is why I tan in beds, which is why I was interested in hearing this video because it is true. The tanning beds are the only thing to raise my levels.
@@carolinelaronda4523Developing kidney stones in 10 days? Highly unlikely. Probably you already had them but did not know. What dose did you take a day? You know, that exposing your skin on sun for hour or two will produce 20k IU of D3, you would develop huge kidney stones every summer if it was vit D3 problem.
This doctor is more about selling the test kits than giving us simple & full information: Another key is taking D3 instead of the formerly much more common D2.
About 14 years ago, I had huge prescription capsules of D2, 50K units twice a week. The doctor actually accused me of not taking them b/c my blood level of vitamin D did not improve. I researched it myself, which took only a few minutes on the internet. Absolute maximum human absorption of D2 is only 30%, with most people being around only 8%, as I recall. I had to hunt around to find some D3-in-oil gel caps, and in a couple months my vit-D blood level was fine. My doctor should have known this, especially before insulting me, but as a group, doctors are almost the last people to be truly knowledgeable about nutrition, at least in the USA. (It was only in 1999 that med students began to be required to take ONE nutrition course.)
Within a couple years of my experience, D3 capsules were widely available, and it was even being used as the supplement in milk. I'm guessing this doctor gave her father the same near-useless D2 that I was prescribed. Her failure to mention the importance of D3 vs. D2 means I cannot look upon her as trustworthy.
@@carolinelaronda4523 May i ask how did you come to know about the VDR mutation? Does a blood test finds that mutation? I want to add K2 to my diet but i worry about some hidden side effects.
@@carolinelaronda4523 The vitamin D isn't even metabolized by your liver in 10 days. It takes longer than that, and kidney stones take years to develop, so I call BS.
I just learned from Dr. Berg that low levels of magnesium will affect your vitamin D absorption.
Magnesium, D3, K2, Zinc all need to be in the same supplementation regime apparently according to Dr Berg if you watch enough of his videos.
Same as the Sodium Potassium pump.
There will be a ratio to adhere to.
D3 10000IU to 100ug K2.
Pretty sure you're supposed to take vitamin D3 in the morning and take vitamin K2 at night Never both at the same time
My Vit D of 10,000 IUs was excellent. I take them with FAT foods.
Sorry to hear about the struggle your father had. Amazing that tanning Salons were his answer.
@@MoDrox-hy2xxThat is bull you talking! Where you hear that from?! Taking D3, K2, Magnesium, Vitamin C, Zinc & Copper. Do research properly before you embarrassed yourself.
@@MoDrox-hy2xxmany Vit D supplements come with K2
My vitamin D3 blood level was 108ng and then my doc said cut down. While also telling me that I was an Outlier because my Prostate Cancer went into remission
LMAO he was pissed
hahahahaah yeah.......
wtf???
Never take advice from a doctor, their training is tainted by a corrupt industry.
Excellent video and great info!!! Thanks a lot!!! You are so clear and it is so easy to understand and make the changes to get a great healthy body!!! Greetings from Argentina!☺☺
If you live in the northern hemisphere you are almost certainly short on Vit D in the winter months. I take 4000iu year round and at least a half hours sun bath all spring to fall. Even on those rare pleasant days in winter time. My health has improved dramatically since I started this.
Hi Charles, I live in Ireland and have always been a very keen cyclist. I had hormone therapy and radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 2017. During treatment I lost so much strength and until last year I still hadn't recovered. I became depressed, started losing hair in addition to remaining very weak. My oncologist dismissed my concerns and put them down to getting old. I'm 71. Finally I had a long chat with my doctor who ran a whole series of blood tests. My vitamin D level was 21. He put me on 50000iu a week of vitamin D3 for 2 months and then reduced it to 7000iu a week. Before the first 2 months were up I was feeling a lot better. My depression totally lifted, my hair thickened and I got stronger. I'm still not back to where I was but I was surprised by the change. He did a blood test 2 months ago and my vitamin D level had risen to 81. I now take 4000iu daily like yourself and feel much better than I have since before cancer treatment.
Glad to hear things are looking up.Too many people are unaware of the benefits of vitamin D. @@bahoonies
Especially of you are darker skinned at all.
It's funny that you mention vitamin D because peer reviewed covid studies have shown that pandemic wasn't just a covid pandemic it was also a vitamin D defiency pandemic. we know that the right amount of vitamin D is crucial to the immune system.
Also, NEVER use mouthwash.
And what is the right amount ?
And do you take K2 with the Vitamin D3 ?
@@MOAB-UT It is now clear that vitamin D has important roles in addition to its classic effects on calcium and bone homeostasis. As the vitamin D receptor is expressed on immune cells (B cells, T cells and antigen presenting cells) and these immunologic cells are all are capable of synthesizing the active vitamin D metabolite, vitamin D has the capability of acting in an autocrine manner in a local immunologic milieu. Vitamin D can modulate the innate and adaptive immune responses. Deficiency in vitamin D is associated with increased autoimmunity as well as an increased susceptibility to infection. As immune cells in autoimmune diseases are responsive to the ameliorative effects of vitamin D, the beneficial effects of supplementing vitamin D deficient individuals with autoimmune disease may extend beyond the effects on bone and calcium homeostasis.
Almost every cell in your body has a receptor for vitamin D. It’s essential for many processes, including bone health, immune system function, and reducing inflammation. It also helps the body absorb calcium.
@@johngeraghty2757 if your 1 to 70 years old the correct amount is 15 mcg (600 IU)
i,m learning that just because its fda approved dosn,t mean much other than a company can buy approval
FDA approveS of a toxic chemical in the use of making Decaf Coffee. It was banned yesterday by EPA for being used as a paint stripper but FDA says- in your morning coffee- no problem. Same group said Covid does not spread on an airplane- yet, they closed down hiking trails outside...and yeah, the jab is safe they said. I do not trust them.
Fake Doctor Association, owned and paid for by big Pharma
Correct. Covid proved that.
FDA is not helping us!
THAT is a FALSEHOOD! Companies cannot "buy" approval. Testing under rigorous scientific conditions must be done and the data has to prove the claims.
Actually...10 years ago I had Vitamin D in the high 20s and my doctor prescribed that same pharmaceutical 50,000 IEUs and when I went back, it didn't have an effect on my levels. Then I started taking 5,000=10,000 vitamin D mixed in coconut oil and in 6 months, my Vitamin D was over 100 and I had to cut back. So, I came to the conclusion that big pharma version wasn't effective because it wasn't liposomal.
How did you take vitamin d in coconut oil?
Makes sense as it's fat soluble.
The timing of this is perfect. I just had my Vit D levels checked yesterday. A year ago they were 15!! I started taking 5,000iu of Vit D. Now they’re 49. I’m kind of upset that my dr didn’t tell me all of the dangers of low D a year ago. I have a new dr now that I’m glad shows more concern about it.
Many would rather see you after you’re sick due to the la k thereof.
I was told to stop taking Vitamin D because my levels are 107. I take 10,000 D3 + K2 (5k in the summer )
I went the past four years with only a few sniffles which amounted to nothing.
My level is 11. What brand are you taking and where can I find it?
@@the_village_elder My level used to be 30. I used "Healthy Origins" brand of D3. My levels raised without the use of K2. I learned of the benefits of K2 (Healthy Origins brand also) later, and now use the two in combination.
@@the_village_elder My levels were at 30 and I got it up to 107. I used "Healthy Origins" brand D3. I raised my levels on D3 alone. It wasn't until later that I learned about the benefits of K2 with D3. I now take both -- "Healthy Origins" brand. I purchased mine on Amazon.
It's not just absorption, there's a two stage activation process, first in the liver and then in the kidneys. It also needs enough magnesium for it to happen properly. And vitamin K2 is needed to help calcium go to the right places, like bones and teeth, rather than vein and artery walls, etc.
Yes
And let's not forget to take the supplement with a fatty meal or it will be useless because Vit D is only fat-soluble.
It might help but is not essential - just check your levels and adjust. Taking with a fatty meal may help but if you have normal levels without special procedures, then don't worry about it.
thanks, taken w/ my fish oil
The one I take actually has coconut oil with it.
@@nogames8982 Great!
take care to get the reading glasses out to check the ingredients for industrial seed oils - they are very common in the soft-gel packaging.
K2 is needed to put calcium where it should be not in the heart also magnesium
I have been using my gym's tanning bed for vit D during the winter for several years. Checked that it was full spectrum light.
If you are young enoughto benefiot from that then go for it. After 50 you lose the ability to make D from UVB.
I am glad to see this video. I have read a couple of articles from oncologists that stated the risk from deadly skin cancer is a lot lower than the risks from the "big" cancers (that's my paraphrase), and I have wondered if the rise in high SPF sunscreen might be contributing to the poor health we are in now. When I grew up 40 years ago, no one wore anything, and I don't even remember my grandparents getting skin cancer. I just think it is a complicated matter, and I have low vitamin D. I take supplements, but I also get some sunshine during the off peak hours.
Weird, MY grandparents got skin cancer, but only on the areas that got the most sun exposure.
Edit: They were born in 1914 and 1918. So even prolonged sun exposure under a "normal", thick ozone layer can give you skin cancer. The operative word here is "prolonged". Lots of hours tending crops out in the sun, without hats or long sleeves.
The issue with skin cancer is burning which I've heard can be exaggerated by PUFAs and can also be prevented by graduating skin exposure so that burns do not occur.
sun screens contain many carcinogens, & prevent the natural formation of vit d.
I live in MN so I use a vitamin D light for 5 minutes every morning from October to April. It’s definitely helped for me.
Is that a red light therapy device?
Where did you buy it, and how much of a difference is it making for you?
@@Infiniti25no, it’s UVB bulbs. From a company called Sperti.
@@tigergreg8it’s from Sperti, and it keeps my Vitamin D within the optimal range during the winter.
Thanks @@NatureNurtureAndNerd
Interesting to note there was no mention of K2 which is what the body needs to properly absorb vitamin D. Tanning bed not required.
k2 and magnesium with vitamin d.
Dr. Boz probably forgot to mention it in her haste to promote her monthly at home vitamin D test for a mere annual cost of $598.62.
True, she didn’t mention it but her product is a combination of D3 + K2.
Not to properly absorb D3, but to direct the increased amount of calcium that results from the D3 supplementation. It directs it away from the soft tissues and bloodstream, to the bones and teeth. K2 acts like a traffic cop for calcium. That's why it should be taken with D3.
Tanning bed would only make the situation worse for anyone with darker skin, as the natural sunlight would be getting to us even less. No thank you!
There is no substitute for living a natural life and eating real food and avoiding watching television.
I haven't turned on the TV since March 10, 2020. When the news media (And I'm a member of the news media!) started blaming me for getting grandma sick, I turned it off. I only turn on my device to watch streaming services.
*You just HAD to launch a woke, leftist missile into this, didn't you?* *_Television isn't bad, the detriment or benefit depends on 2 things: 1) What a person watches and 2) what the watcher knows, understands and believes._*
@smacktard6051the advice you get from doctors today is more of a business and are more concerned about treating symptoms. You have to learn who you can trust and who you can’t. If you feel a doctors on RUclips are only concerned with their algorithms, you would be wise to stay away and look elsewhere, but to suggest all doctors on RUclips are not worth considering, you do yourself a great disservice.
Yeah but the problem is the average dunce, which is 99% of people, thinks that Plants are Real food. They are not.
@@joeskeptical4762a woke leftist missile? 😂Dude shut the tv off and get your hands dirty you’ll learn more than watching tv. The recommendation to turn the tv off has been said long before there was a woke.
I did a high-dose vitamin D experiment, A-LA Jeff T Bowles. I took 25k IU daily for two months, 35k IU for three more, then 50k IU for a month. I lost 20 lbs and felt great...
How can we discern when too much of a vitamin can cause calcification or organ damage?
@@sukiclementsroman5158Dr Berg did a video on this and basically it would take years of massive dosing. The person who you replied to, took high doses for a short time and there would be zero calcification. I take Vitamin D along with zinc, K2 and magnesium. All those additional vitamins help Vitamin D to do its job properly and to go to the right place. I hope that helps you?
@@sukiclementsroman5158I don't know. I hear a lot about that, but I also know the average deaths per year people get from vitamin D toxicity worldwide is zero...I had no problems at all...
50K IU daily for a month???
@@gwynedd1thank you!
My daughter, aged 37 developed basal cell carcinoma under her eye, years after sunbeds taken in her 20's. Be aware.
That's why you are given special glasses or foils and your eyes should be shut during tanning.
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Lmaoooooo you wear those for eye protection. They didn’t say she had it in her eye.
@Kwildcat13carbs/sugar feeds cancer cells quite well.
I'm sorry for your daughter and hope she will recover soon.
How often and how long did she go to the tanning bed?
@@jennybadl7840 She said she would rather not tell me. She was young, 18 ish; I warned her but she went ahead. I remember being young and thinking bad things only happen to other people/in newspapers/so it's not real.
I'm so happy for your Dad's results, and passing this info on to us. Thank you.
My experience with doctors who are considered “experts”, my honest conclusion, I do what my body tells me not some intellectual who thinks they are smarter! And sometimes it’s a trial and error process. But I have become intuitive and sensitive to what I need personally!
I let my doctor have her way with me.
You are very smart and wise! You must be your own advocate over your care..no one knows you better than you and doctors treat us all like text books and not individuals....one size fits all..smh
same experience with doctors for me. i have more trust in myself then any doctor.
The emergency care in this country (USA) is second to none. The holistic and preventative care is non-existent.
@@oyamawapiti absolutely!
It takes several months of taking Vitamin D3 + K2 to raise your active vitamin D3 levels. It takes around 21 days for your body to do that and takes a lot of time.
Liposomal D3 and K2, done.
Which one? I think some that claim to be lipo are not....
@@fatillacing4131 I hear that the NOW brand of vitamins are some of the best and they're made in America instead of China like most of the other vitamins. Remember just a few years ago China was still putting lead paint in children's toys? Stay away from anything China related especially if you're putting it in your body
100 micrograms of K2 correct? That's what I understood from one of the doctors and I think it was Burg I will not swear to it
I take Upnourish brand, from Amazon.
@@Romans_8.38-39 Correct
I really do enjoy your videos. Your presentation is perfect for my mindset. I don’t know how you do it, but with each episode I watch you become more attractive making your videos even easier to watch!
Dr Boz, you are looking Radiant! 🤗 going to come back for more videos to improve my health!
I used to use tanning beds when I was a teen. I’m paying the price in my 30s with all these speckles, freckles and liver spots that are now driving me crazy and ruining my once perfect skin. I wish I could go back in time and smack some sense into myself. Ruining your skin for life so you can look hot temporarily is just not a fair trade.
You can definitely over do it
Same here. I used to work at a tanning bed. I was black. I'm paying for it now.
Dr Berg has a video on how to remove liver spots I think. Nothing is permanent really, have hope 🙏💕
Lady wants these tanning beds sold. how do we know she doesn't.
What I have learned so far from several articles is that UVA light causes skin cancer and other skin problem and of course dark skin quickly. UVB light is the one that make vitamin D precursor from the cholesterol under the skin. Tanning bed with UVB bulb is what you should go to, not the regular tanning bed.
Brilliant remedy! Makes me want to take this afternoon off and go to the beach.
Go on 😊
Very good .... shows the benefits of sun light ....
Nice video. I really enjoyed it all. Great job both of you!
Great message. I have one of those Vitamin D lamps that Michael Hollick recommends. It’s not nearly as good as a tanning bed but almost gets me through the winter. Supplemental D never felt effective.
I’m 76 and my level during Covid was 179. Taking 20k + Mg and K2. per day. I stopped having strep twice a year, along with the terrible hives that followed any virus. Covid for me was a mild case of the flu symptoms, no clot shot. I’ve since lowered to 15k per mo. I try to keep my levels above 140. Quercetin and zinc every day also. Most people think I’m in my 50s.
so, you only take 15K of vitamin d per month?
@@yt-qg8ui Yeah that is right down by the criminally stupid government RDI. But the commenter is a bit strange. Has a white beard and wears a wally hat and thinks that people think he's in 50s. Maybe treat everything with two grains of salt.
Wonderful!
Dr. Sam Bailey.
My Vitamin D level was in the 20s for years and I was prescribed 2000 iu for years only but nothing changed until I decided on my own to take 5000 D3 AND K2 then it went up and a year ago when my test was up to 90 in one year my doctor said whoa you have to back off, stop with the K2 and only take Vitamin D 3 times a week. I haven’t had my yearly yet but I did back down and want to see what happened, however I can tell it was detrimental to me. Thank you SO much for this video!
Actually its recommended to take 20,000 iu Vit D3 per day for all adults. Don't forget the Vit k2 as well (100 mcg per 5000 iu) which puts it out of the kidneys and into the bones.
I stand in front of a 12% uvb light every other day for 5 to 6 mins. Last vit d test i was in the 70s, and I don't get hardly any natural sunlight.
do you take vitamin k2 and/or magnesium?
@yt-qg8ui sometimes I take k2 with my 2000 iu vit d pill. There's some regular vit k in my multi vitamin also. I do take magnesium glysinate in the evenings
Fascinating results with Vitamin D and your Father. Great, informative video Dr Boz. I will check with the home kit and the scores we get. Thanks again. 🇨🇦💝🙏👍🇺🇸
It's lovely to watch and get advice from you.
I worked outside for 40 years and didn't know, of the hundreds of co-workers, of ONE single case of skin cancer.
My dad spent 50 years working outdoors on our dairy farm. He’s had too many skin cancers removed to count…..all on sun exposed areas. Don’t know about his vitamin d levels but I’m assuming high since he is outside so much. My entire family has had minor skin cancers so it could also be genetic.
That's because if caught early, it can easily be burned off using liquid nitrogen.
And most people know that no one is interested in your many whines about your medical problems, and I use "your" in the global sense so most people don't whine.
@@mutteringmaledoes it make you feel better about yourself when you are a complete a-hole to complete strangers?
@@RonnieM983 Yes, when the strangers are blithering idiots who pretend to be smart. I have no pity for the stupid pretenders.
You must have great copper status
Has anyone else experienced constipation from taking vitamin D supplements? I've mentioned this to a few doctors and they act like I'm crazy.
Don't forget vit k2, magnesium , and animal fats. That helps me.
Yes,if I don't take enough magnesium, also feel tired
It depletes magnesium
Magnesium helps you go.
What's crazy is thinking that we can help our body function better by randomly feeding it a little bit more of this and a little bit more of that in the form of supplements... as if we could just play and guess with an organism so perfect and complex that medical doctors and scientists have not even started to know yet. Your body needs to absorb what it needs in the amounts that IT needs through the right sources, not in the amounts that WE ignorantly ingest and force on it.
@@martamariotto1181 i’ve been thinking about this myself as I have several different supplements that I take, and I’m finding that if I take too many my kidneys start to act up. So I stopped taking everything and noticed that my body starts to regulate. Still, I’m concerned about what people are recommending for daily doses of vitamin D as I was also diagnosed with low D. I spoke to Chiropractor through an email blog who told me that vitamin D on its own is fine. You don’t need K2 or magnesium. He said he tests his patient’s blood and when they take the D supplement their levels go up. So now I’m even more confused. What do you do if you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol? Berberine is supposed to work well in place of a statin which can cause all kinds of side effects. It’s hard to know what to take and what not to take especially reading through a lot of reviews on Amazon but it seems supplements do work. Then there’s the whole thing of well these reviews are bought and paid for. How are we supposed to know what to do other than reading Pub Med every time we come across some new supplement? Doing nothing isn’t always good either.
Thanks for bringing this to the table Doc. I just got tested and I was Very low on Vitamin D So this video came at the RIGHT Time for , God’s Always there to Help in one way or another Blessings ❤
Would you be so kind to tell me the procedure you used to get your Vitamin D level tested ? How much did it cost ? Did you go to your Doctor ? DETAILS Please.
Thanks.
Good luck with your health.
Can you tell if your Vitamin D levels are too high ?
Dr. Boz, thank you for being so honest about your profession, "a prescribing physician". Of course we know you are more than that today. Most physicians today are prescription for symptoms pushers, not healers.
I hope your father is well. Losing parents is so hard.
I am sick and disabled and don't get outside much at all. We moved to North Idaho in 2016. My vitamin D was low. I began taking vitamin D and now my D levels have increased to the mid range of normal. I am very happy to say that I never get sick anymore, whereas I used to get a cold or flu twice a year at least. I am seeing to many videos telling us that vitamin D and other supplements are "bad" for me. I believe that this is nothing less than propaganda.😑
Vitamin D supplementation was found to be associated with decreased CENSORED BY YT
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can you give a hint for the dumb
@@Healing_Decibels of 72 illnessess... and of 78% reduction of kan -- ser
This is what I've been looking for! Thank you.
So frank and so helpful! Thanks for sharing. Loved what you said about testing; so true.
Followed your advice and went to the tanning studio ( small town in England) They have a brand new tanning bed which can be switched to only UV B light for Vitamin D (obviously no tanning when switched). Great advice, Thank you
I just love it when Dr.s think they know what they are talking about! It is very very rare if they do & she is 1 of those only telling the partial truth!
I take 10, 000 in winter then drop it to 5,000 in summer. I live in western 🇨🇦 where in winter we have hardly any sunlight.
10k every day?
@@zvi91 yes, everyday have for years
10k a day in the northern countries is a very good amount. It's not toxic by any means @@zvi91
I had undiagnosed Primary Hyperparathyroidism. My D level was 16. My gp wrote me a script for 50,000 units of D2. WRONG! It hurt my joints, awful. Humans need D3 not D2. I started studying my own health & realized I had a Parathyroid problem. Don't let anyone decide what's best for your health..do your own research. I had cataracts at age 48!!! The excess calcium from the Parathyroid issues can also give you heart issues. I have 4 other siblings dealing w this disease.
How did you find out that you had primary hyperparathyroidism?
Your doctor is an idiot... I would switch doctors
Please, I’d also like to know about hyperparathyroid. My test came back positive & yet I haven’t heard from my Dr.
D2 was found in rats. Furry and noturnal, they don't make D3 that humans use. D3 tolerance is much higher than D2.
I've taken 10,000 IU D3 daily for 20 years. I added K2 mk7. My blood levels went up from 17 to 70 using grassroots health D3 blood tests.
This show reminded me it's time to retest.
If your diet is low in calcium, those levels of vit d will cause hyperparathyroidism that will leach calcium from your bones and not having K2 in your system will cause the calcium to be stored in soft tissues instead of bones and teeth, hence the heart disease from calcium. But I don't disagree about the d3 vs D2.
This goes to show how much variability exists between individuals. I tested 18 ng/ml and after daily long hours of exposure to more than 3 UV index for a month, in shorts and tank top, getting a tan and all, I still only had 28 ng/ml. I have gut issues as well, so I got myself vitamin D in the form of drops. I started taking 2000 UI per day and after 3 days I got insomnia, so I figured they must be doing something. I started taking 25k once a week for 4 weeks then increased to 50k, and now I am at week 6, I take magnesium and k2 with it too. I am actually feeling better. I got mild bone pain which I believe is from the remineralization and my chest tightness is better and my energy increased. I will take your advice and re-test again. I think in the end only the test can tell us what works and what doesn't. I am glad tanning worked for your dad! Thank you for the evidence based info and the good advice.
The doctor looks so well I admire her... thank you for sharing ... beautiful person
Nice to see you're feeling better, Doc. Great info. I've often wondered about the benefits of sauna sun and D3.
It’s crazy no one here is talking about “the hidden herbs” by Anette Ray…
I found no information about this, what do you mean. Why no one talk about it?
"SpencerHumffray "has interest in the sale of that digital bs book. SOMEONE IS BOMBING COMMENT SECTIONS ON NATURAL HEALING VIDEOS TO PROMOTE THIS PRODUCT. F OFF
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You will find this very same comment all over RUclips, and then a link to buy the book via Google … and then Amazon pretend they sell the book but it links to another herb book they sell. And so no one reads the book. Great job 😢
Thanks, Annette! You just helped me figure out why my supplements are too wimpy.
As ever, your enthusiasm, addictive.
Dr. Boz, excellent presentation! I too was taking high doses of vitamin D (10,000 IU) and my vitamin D level was at 20 ng/mL. A person knowledgeable of nutritional health advised me to take my vitamin D with breakfast and to take digestive enzymes. I did this and my vitamin D shot up to 90! A bit on the high side. So, I dropped back to 5,000 IU per day with digestive enzymes. My blood level is now at 50 ng/mL. As you said, the most important thing is to get tested. What works for one person may not work for someone else.
Also, I have to mention the Dr. John Campbell, on RUclips, has done some most excellent talks on Vitamin D. Vitamin D is really not a vitamin. It is a hormone, and it is essential for your immunity (think covid) and for fighting inflammation (think heart health). Doctors do not routinely test for vitamin D levels, but they should.
What probably did it is taking it with your breakfast. Vitamin D is absorbed much better when taken with fat
@@LukeSly91 I always was taking my vitamin D at breakfast. However, I did have my gallbladder removed 10 years ago. The lack of a gallbladder may have been a factor.
Good girl for posting this! Great thinking. Thanks!
This is a great video! Great stuff and congrats. I am just waiting for my tests but after this video i upgraded my target range to (expressed in nmol/L) 135 to 207 :)
This Dr never heard of vitamin K2 MK-7. Incredible!
Many of responder here didn’t hear about it., you can buy D3 with MK7
Great information. I'm no doctor, but I've spent a lot of time researching on RUclips and vitamin D seems to be almost the most important supplement. But I also make sure I take it with vitamin K2.
I started intermittent fasting about 3 years ago and taking supplements and have been taking vitamin D consistently for about the same amount of time. 10,000 IU's a day,. If I get a decent amount of sun one day, the next day, I only take 5,000.
I've noticed the last couple of Summers I can hang out with my friends by the boat on a sandbar in Sun for hours with no sunblock, except a dab on my nose and not get burned.
Same thing with my girlfriend and she's very fair skinned. She was in Florida recently visiting her sister and went for walks every day and got lots of sun and never burned. I found evidence online that that is the case. Lack of vitamin D is making people shun the sun even more, because they're more quickly sensitive to it. What are your thoughts? Thanks!
You should consider COD LIVER OIL as the D3 source along with a plain synthetic D3 supplement so a combo plus the other factors for absorbing it.....The COD LIVER OIL also has Vitamin A as another fatty vitamin you'll need to offset....but generally not the E or others...Plus it also has some OMEGA 3's in the COD LIVER OIL. I use the capsules from Vitamatic....Norwegian Cod Liver Oil
I stopped taking that because no oil in concentrated form is good for insulin resistance. But ok to eat the whole food
Great idea about getting tested.
I’d like to add that low magnesium levels inhibit vitamin D absorption.
impressive how you love and care for your dad..never give up. Great result. Dont forget K2 mn7.
I take besides vitamine D3, K2 and Magnesium Glycinate also Cod Liver oil from Norway.
How are you now
@@Jode-m9ihow I’m now.?
I’m all my live very healthy. I feel great. But that’s because of my lifestyle. Be active, eat healthy food, take my vitamins, have a good social life, no stress and have almost every day the sun because I’m living in Thailand.
Dr. Boz’s speculation that the storage D was being burned through would mean if the D supplements were stopped then storage D should have cratered to near zero pretty quickly. I bet it would not have.
Magnesium regulates every aspect of vitamin D metabolism, so it is a great idea to get your magnesium up.
I have ordered some magnesium glycenate and plan to take it in the evening as I understand it might help with sleep so bit confused when to take Vit D + K2 as figured morning but wonder if this will miss the magnesium ingest.
Getting magnesium is easy, there shouldn't be a need to worry if you are eating a healthy and varied diet. Magnesium can be found in for example green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, legumes, nuts, seeds, and whole grains (like oats for your breakfast), but also edamame beans, beans, bananas, avocados, dark chocolate and more.
@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq It's about absorption so this is the advantage with supplements and the other issue is the soil is now so depleted it is highly likely you are not getting it from food.
@@CrazyGaming-ig6qq What is their magnesium level when no Mg has been added to the soil for 80 years? What if calcium overload is blocking their cor A absorption pathway? What if vitamin D supplements hyper-upregulates calcium to block cor A even more?
Welcome to complex systems, and the Money Power Rulers know more than we do.
@@janetjacks3406 I think you are grossly exaggerating the issue of soil depletion causing less nutrients in vegetables. while it is correct that there is SOME degradation of nutrient contents in vegetables, it is not so significant. Vegetables still contains tons of vitamins and minerals. If they didn't the plants would not grow, it's actually that simple. 1-2 pounds of vegetables a day keeps the doctor away :)
Hi, the real reason for this "advice" is to sell test kits
excellent, Dr Boz, thank you.
FDA approved Vit D!! - what are the chances that it was D2 and not D3.
D2 doesn't absorb so well.
I’m sure it was, I don’t think they have d3 at a crazy level like 50,000 iu but maybe I am incorrect
Calcitriol is the most active form of VitD . It's the form they give kidney patient on dialysis. That's what I would give my dad if I'm a Dr...I would get level to 60-80 ngml
I was thinking it was D2 as well.
All prescriptions are D2. 50% absorbed. The liver has to activate and convert to D3 the active form. I believe MG is also important, as w as eating a fatty meal. Her dad may have had a fatty liver, caused by alcohol or NAFLD. Glad she got him in a tanning facility.
D3 is made in skin or as supplements. It becomes 25 OH D3 in the liver and then becomes the active hormone form 1,25 OH D3 in the kidneys.
As a fair-skinned child, I burned a lot and suffered from prickly heat every summer. Sunscreens were unheard of and I paid a terrible price every summer, eventually avoiding exposure to the sun. Fast forward 40 years and within 6 months of following a ketogenic lifestyle, I am now able to spend a long time in the sun. I no longer burn and instead, I get a nice light brown tan. If my exposure is a couple of hours or less, I don't need to use sunscreen. If I know that I'll be out for several hours, I'll apply a low SPF sunscreen and that will get me through.
Therefore, keto and intermittent fasting has transformed my skin's ability to deal with the sun.
Have you ever done extended fasting? If so, what was that like?
@@Penelope416 to be honest, I've not done extended fasting since starting keto in 2020. I should do, as it could take me to the next level. I'm quite lazy by nature and as I succeeded with my weight loss and prediabetes, I didn't take it further. But now you've got me thinking.
@@RobCLynch Wow! Well your story is amazing. You're doing really well. Congrats on your health journey!
The longest fast I've done was 72 hours. Right now I'm doing Alrernate Day Fasting and I really enjoy the benefits I get from it.
@@Penelope416 I'm very impressed and you've definitely inspired me to think about prolonged fasting. Thank you and well done.
I’ve been told I fast intermittently, but in reality I just eat only when i’m actually hungry. Most people never stop eating long enough to recognize real hunger.
The problem with vitamin D3 deficiency is that nobody knows the normal level. No research so far. And no research on the horizon. Only feelings and emotions.
There are studies with caucasian lifeguards (spending all summer in the sun) as well as Masai in Kenya.
@@doejohn8674 , vitamin D/D3 is fat soluble, this it accumulates in liver and fat tissue, thus if it's too much of it you may be entoxicated with it, faint, die...
For those who don't convert D3 to the bodies usable form in the liver, there are forms of supplement that are the post-converted vitamin D. In Europe there is calcifidous, which is the form of vitamin D that is produced by the liver and thus bypasses the need for the body to convert D3 to the useful form as it is the useful form. Don't know if this is available in the USA.
Thanks for your extremely valuable info Dr....
When I wasn't taking D3, I had small bumps all over my arms, like around hair follicles, and rough elbows. After I started taking D3, it all went away, my elbows are super smooth, the bumps are gone. If I miss it a few days, they come back.
I also had small bumps on my arms and they went away after a month of regular sunbathing. Also after Covid I developed hives (and a lot of other terrible symptoms). They went away after sun exposure and I don`t need to take antigystomine anymore. I also started to take 5000 units of vitamin D a day and almost all other bad symptoms are gone. I checked my vitamin D level yesterday and it is 53ng/ml.
As a 64 year old male, Im loving Dr Boz more and more everyday. Thanks for all of your advise
Brillant Presention .
People with VItmanD had less chance of catching Covid .
Thanks you for
A clear easy to understand Vitiman D explention .
Hi from The Emerald Isle
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Not a Trump fan, but him saying light would cure Covid was accidently right!
@@rafbarkway5280 FJB
Trump is accidentally right a lot lol.
AND, it heals many autoimmune conditions! Mind you, you have to be patient. It takes several months the worse off you are. Start at a minimum of 20,000 iu per day ---with the 100 mcg Vit K2 per 5,000 iu of the D3
love this story! ❤
For most of my life I never had a Vitamin D deficiency issue. When the COVID shutdowns occured of course all tanning salons closed down. They didnt open back up in this area until nearly 2022. Pre Covid I always went, usually from March to August because my body does not keep a tan. I can build a decent one so long as I go to the salon but it goes away once I stop during the fall and winter. After the COVID shutdowns I did not resume my yearly tanning bed session(this was not because of COVID fear on my part. I just got out of the habit) and in 2022 during some health screening for some other concerns my Vitamin D levels were at rock bottom levels. I was given a mega dose supplement for a month and it never really helped. I have felt fatigue, bone pain, weakness in my legs among other things since that time. Perhaps resuming my trips to the tanning salon are in order. I always used beds that were both UAB and UAV for no other reason than the thought both are better than just one. This is interesting.
That's the reason why you take D3 with K2-Mk7 otherwise the absorption of vitamin D is extremely low. You should also add magnesium glycanate
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I watched lots of advice which magnesium to pick. Most say Mg citrate. I bought that. Now I hear - wrong, glycinate/bisglycinate is best.
If I take vitamin D with my lunch at noon and my magnesium and vitamin K2 with my dinner, would be okay? Or do they need to be taken together ?
How much k2 and magnesium glycante to the vitamin D3. Just another question do you take B12? Thank s
How s ur experience with citrate@@TroyQwert
Outrageous pricing on the vit d test kit. What a scam.
one test from quest labs here is 64$
I don't bother with testing, vitamin D3 is cheap is all you need to know.
My vitamin D last blood test was 137, flagged as 'HIGH'. But I always wonder how they determined what is 'normal'.
I read somewhere 6:30 the reference ranges are determined by the ranges of all samples tested. Not sure what percentiles are applied to fix the range.
@anamee820 That would be different then in the UK to Australia, and from white people to black people, surely?
@@ruth.greening US only as I understood it. The ethnicity, as far as I’m aware, did not lead to the ranges being modulated accordingly.
If I recall there was a study done that showed levels up to 180 were safe
When chronic deficiency is "normal" having optimal levels is flagged as "high"
I had a level of 47 and had autoimmune disease, depression, endometriosis and was bedridden 23 hours a day with fatigue to the point where they put me on disability. Got on vitamin D and after a month on 5000IU's, ALL symptoms got better. My level was at 242nml when my doc told my to wuit them bc of toxicity and within a month I was back to bedridden. I got back on but had to take 50.000IU's to have the depression lift. And then I set off into the sunset full of energy. I'll never stop them again.
Weston A Price wrote a book about this and K2. Old book no longer in med school, but it should be
Vitamin D3 should be taken every day. The kicker is that we also must take Magnesium, preferably Magnesium Glycinate, for our bodies to absorb and utilize the D3.
you need vitamin k2 as well as magnesium.
This channel sure is full of stupid advice from every direction.
Congratulations for the smart holistic thinking.... Maybe one day you'll realize that you didn't create your body, it was given to us as a perfect machine if allowed to function freely, our interference has only done damage and will keep damaging it.
D3 can come from irradiated lanolin and D3 is used in rat poison. Think I might still stick with the Sun.
why glycinate and note citrate?
@@pmo873 Because it's more easily absorbed. Magnesium citrate can cause diarrhea.
I regrettably confess that, having been hopelessly confused by all information and misinformation regarding best health practices, I have given up. I do the best I can, at 70, and let nature take its course. Can't worry about the "best" practices.
Mark, buy the 5,000 Vit D3 containing K2. Take minimum of 10,000 iu per day or, two of them. The lockdown over Covid was to keep people out of the sun and to FURTHER kill their health
If you want to stay healthy and enjoy life, you MUST supplement with D£ if nothing else. D3 runs the immune system, so unless you enjoy having flu, you need to protect yourself. I'm 83 and havern't had flu or a cold [or Covid] for over 24 years. I used to get flu a lot, and it's not aty all nice. I decided to learn all I could about the immune system and the first I learned is D3 ss essential, and after age fifty we lose the ability to make D3 in the skin. At 70 you're still a youngster! Take care.
What about D3 + K2 ?
Better when taken separately
@@2old4allthis WHERE did you get that info from?!!
This must be the light therapy I've heard about. I used to sit in the sun for twenty minutes per day, when I had stage three cancer, as part of my self prescribed treatment plan. It felt good and I believed that it was healing me. That was almost eight years ago.🌞
My vitamin D level tested at 110. So my doctor told me to quit taking it. I will not stop taking it but I did stop from seven days a week and went down to three days a week.
This not medical advice but strictly my opinion from my own experience. A level of 110 should be fine. Me personally, I would keep it in the 100 - 150 range. You might want to watch The Dr. Gundry Podcast on Vitamin D. He says the same thing!!!
@@R.M.-nt2oi I am fine with it at 100. Even 75 to 100. I don't need it higher than that. I'm gonna get retested after a few months on this dose and see how it is.
110 is perfect esp if you feel well. Remember to take the K2. This doc mayhap have invested in tanning beds- be careful esp as she not talk about the importance of K2 (yikes!) for proper absorption.
It is fascinating that supplementation wasn't working in your dad's case. However, if by 50k IU you meant a weekly bolus, that is chicken scratch for supplementation - about 7k IU/day. Our bodies can manufacture up to around 15k IU per HOUR with general exposure to full sunlight, and most international standards support up to 10k IU/day as normal supplementation for otherwise healthy individuals.
I would suggest there is a missing piece here. One of the functions of PTH - parathyroid hormone or parathormone, is to regulate vitamin D levels in the blood. Therefore, it should be in an inverse relationship to 25-OH D blood levels. In my case (besides genetic markers showing I have a proclivity to poor vitamin D metabolism), my high PTH AND upper-range D showed I had enough 25-OH D for an average person, but it wasn't effective for me. By (with medical supervision) increasing D3 until my PTH was in the middle of the lower third of the reference range, I was able to put my autoimmune diseases into remission, while measuring the falling levels of the appropriate autoimmune antibodies as another marker of efficacy.
This means I supplement 20k IU/day of D3 along with K2 MK7 at a cost of around $.20/day, and my blood serum level hovers around 170 ng/ml. I take a fish oil supplement at the same time as the D3 to increase absorption. However, I've been tracking my serum levels long enough to see the "normal" lab ranges bumped up a couple of times in the past 20 years or so. I expect that to trend to continue if we rely on newer data rather than ultraconservative "just enough to keep you from dying" approach which gave us the pitifully low 400 IU/day RDA.
Great information. Thank you WMHinsch!
I actually support a local tanning salon by purchasing a package of tans. Whether or not I go, I'm glad to support them and know that I can go whenever I want. Support your local tanning salon.
Seriously? You seriously have nothing better to do in your life than supporting your local tanning salon? I would invest that money into an upgrade of your head. Maybe you'll discover there's more to life than your tanning salon. Sorry but there's a limit to stupidity!!!
Good video. I always appreciate anecdotal wisdom.
You look great today. I hope your feeling better
No conversation about vitamin D3 is complete without talking about how it needs vitamin K2 in order to properly do its job.
100%. D3 K2 magnesium etc
Why would you not bring up the transport mechanism which is vitamin K2? If you take D3 you must take K2