The #1 Food That STOPS Your Immune System from Working - Dr. Berg

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there’s this one food that you need to be aware of that has the potential to completely nullify any help from the top three nutrients in supporting your immune system i’m talking about vitamin d help i’m talking about vitamin c help and zinc help these three nutrients are the nutrients that most people take when they’re coming down with some type of infection so they’re very very important in helping your immune system i’m going to tell you the one food that can cause a deficiency in all three of these nutrients and negatively affect your immune system your immune system is dependent on these three nutrients so let’s first talk about vitamin d is vitamin important with your immune system uh yes it’s involved with every single part of your immune system your t cells your b cells your phagocytes the neutrophils every single part of your immune system has vitamin d receptors and when someone has an inflammatory condition called the cytokine storm vitamin d is essential in keeping that inflammation regulated so vitamin d helps modulate or regulate the immune system vitamin d also minimizes the collateral damage from pathogens especially viruses so without vitamin d you have a much longer infection and you have a lot of other complications all right the next one is vitamin c right you know vitamin c is important probably at the first sign of a cold you might take vitamin c what does vitamin c do to the immune system well number one it increases the mobility of white blood cells it makes them more active and without vitamin c they’re very sluggish vitamin c also increases something called phagocytosis that’s the ability of phagocytes to eat up pathogens vitamin c also helps the white blood cells produce their weaponry to defend against infections and without vitamin c the duration of your illness extends a lot longer than it should even if you took the amount of vitamin c in your blood and compared it to the vitamin c in the white blood cell the vitamin c in the white blood cell is a hundred times more than in the blood why because your immune system is dependent on vitamin c all right now what about the trace mineral zinc is that important it’s very very important in fact without zinc your thymus gland the gland that trains your t cells it’s like a training camp for t cells atrophies it shrinks zinc is vitally important not just with the thymus gland but for all the lymphatic tissue the lymph nodes in general without zinc you’re not going to have the quantity of white blood cells and without zinc the duration of infection goes on and on and on when people suffer from a lot of symptoms from interaction with a virus for example and they have all these complications it’s really the immune reaction towards the pathogen that’s creating the damage more than the pathogen itself and it’s these three nutrients that minimize the collateral damage so if you want to go through an infection with minimal symptoms these three nutrients are crucial all right so what is the food that we need to avoid if you guessed sugar you are correct now let’s just take first vitamin c the chemistry of vitamin c is very very similar to sugar okay if you’re consuming sugar and vitamin c at the same time the body will always take on the sugar before vitamin c leaving you high and dry or deficient of vitamin c diabetics that have this sustained blood sugar nearly always have a vitamin c deficiency and when you’re deficient in vitamin c another symptom you might get is bleeding gums fatigue collagen problems but mainly it’s going to be a weakened immune system all right what about vitamin d well when you’re consuming sugar the absorption of vitamin d goes way down sugar also impairs the activation of vitamin d so if you go from inactive vitamin d to active vitamin d you need help from your kidney but sugar gets in the way of that sugar interferes with that activation of vitamin d and the third thing that sugar does to vitamin d is it stops the synthesis or production of vitamin d you can’t really produce vitamin d if there’s too much sugar in the body this is why diabetics are nearly always low in vitamin d and if you consume a lot of sugar that turns into liver fat and that also can inhibit the activation and absorption of vitamin d from another angle all right now let’s talk about zinc sugar causes excessive amount of zinc to be excreted from your kidneys and that’s called hyper zinguria too much zinc in the urine that comes from too much sugar sugar also impairs the absorption of zinc so this is another reason why people that are diabetics are nearly always deficient in zinc zinc is also really important in supporting the beta cell and the pancreas the cell that makes insulin that then regulates blood sugars and that does the same with vitamin d as well vitamin d is very very important in protecting you against developing diabetes so not only does sugar deplete vitamin d but low vitamin d can activate or increase your risk of getting diabetes now when i’m talking about sugar i’m not just talking about sugar i’m talking about other things that turn into sugar pretty quickly like refined carbohydrates refined carbohydrates like in grains are also loaded with phytates which then can also block zinc so as you can see when you’re doing too many carbs too many sugars your immune system is going to greatly suffer all right so where do you get vitamin c the best source is sauerkraut okay sauerkraut per cup if you get a really good blend of sauerkraut that’s maybe from the healthy store or the farmer’s market or you make it yourself per cup it’s about 700 milligrams now the rda is only 70. so we’re getting 700 10 times more than the rda so that’s why you want to have sauerkraut to get your vitamin c or you can get it from bell peppers and you can get it from leafy greens all right vitamin d difficult to get it from foods you want to get it from the sun um if it’s winter time then take it as a supplement but like i said before vitamin d and zinc are really really important if you’re a diabetic or you’re trying to repair the damage from being a diabetic and as far as zinc goes zinc is high in red meat it’s also high in shellfish and seafood now there’s just one last thing i want to tell you something else that can paralyze your immune system that is not food in its stress cortisol from stress paralyzes your immune system so the two worst things for your immune system is stress and sugar on that note i want to show you a video how you can make your own vitamin d supplements check it out i put it right here