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Vitamin D, The Sunshine Vitamin
The Importance Of Vit. D For Your Health
It’s estimated that one billion people worldwide are deficient in Vitamin D3. Bob and Larry discussed the sunshine vitamin and its importance for your health. They identify some of the main causes of Vitamin D deficiency and what tests you need to take to find out if your D levels are low. They also share some great ways to increase Vitamin D in the body naturally, so you can bolster your immune system, express genetics accurately and increase energy.—
People will be getting out in the sun more now that the spring is here, not so much at Tropicana Field where the Rays play because it has a dome but we’re talking about Vitamin D, which is the sunshine vitamin. The spring is here. The first part of April 2021 is going to be a chance for people to be in the sun more and to be able to get more sunlight which helps to make Vitamin D. It is very important because we know that little more than 50% of the people in the United States are low in Vitamin D. We also know from studies related to COVID that 80% of the people that had to come to the hospital regarding COVID were low in Vitamin D. I remember hearing the study saying that before they had any vaccine or any way to treat it, they were found because many people that came in with bad symptoms and were doing bad had very low D levels. One of the first things they said to do is increase the D levels to build yourself up. We’ll talk later about how it helps with the immune system but first, people ask, “What kind of symptoms would I have if I was low in Vitamin D?” This is nebulous because you could have some of these symptoms and it could mean you’re low in Vitamin D, but it could also mean something else. Some of those symptoms are like having achy muscles and painful bones. I heard Vitamin D is important for bone health, so that would make sense. Also, fatigue. We’ve seen that at Boomers Forever Young. We’ve noticed the issue with fatigue. I remember a story of one woman who had called us and she was fatigued, she couldn’t leave the house. She couldn’t get up off the couch. We helped her with a lot of different nutrition products. She would not go and get her Vitamin D level checked. She was home. We kept after and kept after, and about a year later, she finally went and got it checked it was below twenty. It was way too low. I remembered she called and said, “It doesn’t seem like I’m feeling any more energy after using the product for a while.” That’s when we got on about having to get that checked and come to find. She was low. It was at that point, she agreed to start taking Vitamin D3 in pill form. Within a week’s time, she had her energy back and called us to tell us thank you. She was going out dancing with her friends that night. They’re doing a celebratory dance night. It was a girl’s night out. That was a few years ago. That hit home how important that is. Your DNA holds the code for making all your proteins. Click To Tweet It was one of the things that you don’t hear a lot. You hear about like they enrich milk with Vitamin D and they try to put Vitamin D in supplements, but what most people don’t understand is, “How do I get deficient in the first place.” A lot of that comes from, as humans, we used to spend a lot more time outside. When we spend time outside, we would get Vitamin D that naturally occurs when the skin gets hit by the sun. Now that we’ve moved to more of an inside lifestyle where most people work inside and spend more time inside with video games and TV, unfortunately, the D levels can drop. With sunscreen and things that people use to avoid getting cancer because of UV rays, it might cause more issues because you don’t get enough T3 to maybe help keep that disease from coming. It’s like a Catch 22. What do we do? How do we get our D3 up? The thing about the sunlight is when the sun hits your skin, it interacts with cholesterol that makes pre-Vitamin D, then Vitamin D, and that gets stored and then used as it’s needed. This is very good because that type of Vitamin D that you get from the sunlight is self-regulatory. You end up always having enough if you have enough sunlight, but not too much, because it will keep storing it instead of releasing it. If you’re not going to be someone that’s going to be in the sun, which is 99% of the people, you have a couple of choices. You can eat lots of food that has Vitamin D in it like macro and sardines, Cod Liver Oil. There are also plants that have Vitamin D, but it’s not Vitamin D3. Vitamin D2 is what’s in the plant sources. It’s only about one-fifth as absorbable and usable as the form that would come from animal sources. Most of the supplements are coming from animal sources, but you can get Vitamin D that’s coming from plant sources. You need to use more of it so that you ended up getting enough. That’s the whole situation that we find ourselves in here in 2021 is more than half the people are deficient because we’re not in the sun anymore. More than half of the population is not taking in enough food with Vitamin D or supplements. They ended up with these different symptoms, including one that you can be pretty sure you need to check your Vitamin D right away is if your head is always sweating, and also if you have trouble with wounds that are healing, you cut your hand, you cut your foot. You are having a hard time healing, one of the reasons could be that you’re low in Vitamin D. I’ve heard that Vitamin D is good for your brain health. It’s also good for your immune system because if you get recurring infections, it could be that the reason is you’re low in Vitamin D. Since half the people are, it’s a very good thing to check it on right away. There’s a lot of other good reasons to know your Vitamin D. Low Vitamin D can lead to a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease and also higher incidents of cancer and high blood pressure, auto-immune diseases, on and on. The whole issue of Vitamin D stimulating your genes for expression. We talked about that Vitamin D does a special role in the expression of the DNA. Your DNA holds the code for making all your proteins, which is what humans are. We’re protein-making machines but the code is in your DNA, primarily in your nucleus. It’s wrapped up and clothed in a sheath, and different stimulants will hit that sheath and splay open a spot where the portion of the gene that has the code that you need can be copied. Your RNA then copies it and comes out from the nucleus into the cell and creates the proteins. Vitamin D, after it gets converted into a hormone, it’s a steroid hormone that gets converted with your liver and your kidney, the hormone form is stimulating your genetic expression. Some studies show that it’s almost 25% of the entirety of your genetic expression comes from the steroid hormone that was once Vitamin D. If you’re having issues related to genetic expression, sometimes when people get older, they have a hard time healing. They have a hard time with the immune system, it might have a lot to do with the role that plays in expressing the DNA. That’s cool. The other thing is we know that there are certain issues with macular degeneration that look to be associated with Vitamin D.
Vitamin D: The thing about the sunlight is when the sun hits your skin, it interacts with cholesterol that makes pre-Vitamin D, then Vitamin D, and that gets stored and then used as it’s needed.

Vitamin D: The type of Vitamin D that you get from the sunlight is self-regulatory.