This Could Save Your Life (1 in 4 People Have This Silent Killer Disease)

One in 4 people is infected with this silent killer disease that’s deadlier than the plague. You may even have this infection! Find out about this deadly microbial threat and how to stay healthy so you don’t become the next victim.

Today we’re going to talk about a hidden killer deadlier than the plague and you may even have this infection. It’s extremely common. In fact, one in four people have this bacterial infection and many people don’t even know that they have it. It’s a bacteria that killed more people than the plague. The plague killed 200 million people.

If we take a look at the accumulated people that this bacteria killed, it’s over 1 billion people. And each year, this bacteria kills just under 1. 3 million people. Yet, it’s not even really in the news. You don’t hear much about it, even though it is the world’s deadliest infectious disease, which kills more people than HIV and malaria combined.

And the reason I’m bringing this up is not just because it’s very common. It infects 25% of the population. That’s over 2 billion people on planet Earth. If you were infected, you would need to know this information. The somewhat good news about this particular bacteria is the great majority of this infection, 95% of it is in an inactive stage.

It’s in a dormant latent stage. So only about 5% of this bacterial infection is in the active stage. Despite that, there’s over a million people a year that die. It’s contagious. It affects the lung and it’s one of the oldest pathogens that has evolved to persist or survive in your body in a dormant state.

And so actually there’s a group of microbes in your body that can go in and out of remission and they’re called latent infections like for example herpes and epistine bar virus and cytogloirus and human papilloma virus and hepatitis B or C are all latent microbes. But the microbe that I’m going to focus on today is TB which is a microbe that gives you tuberculosis. It doesn’t actually evade your immune system. It goes into your immune system. It actually hides in the macrofase.

Now, what’s a macroofage? The macrofase is part of the immune cells that actually attack TB and they clean up bacteria and infection throughout the body. So, as soon as it engulfves it, it has certain enzymes to dissolve it, put acid into it, kill it, and dismantle it. But with TB, once the macrofase eats it, TB has a certain defense mechanism to block these powerful digestive enzymes. And so TB has this protective shield that it starts to build around it within the macrofase.

In fact, it doesn’t even kill this macroofage. What it does is it hijacks its fuel source in its mitochondria. And of course, to survive, it stays in this dormant mode. and it just waits, okay, until the timing is right before it comes out and creates damage. TB affects more people in the northern hemisphere, okay, away from the equator and more incidents in the winter than the summer.

And there’s several states or conditions that dramatically bring that microbe into an active state. If you have type two diabetes, if you have HIV, which lowers the immune barrier, when you get older, the immune system gets weaker. And and this is the most important thing, if your vitamin D is very low, that inactive or what they call latent bacteria go into an active state and start creating damage. So, if you didn’t already guess it, vitamin D actually is very low in the north compared to areas of the equator because of where the sun is. And also, of course, in the winter months, you’re going to have a lot less vitamin D because the sun is not in the location that gives you that conversion.

The other interesting thing about TB is it has a strategy of blocking the vitamin D receptor. So the more the vitamin D receptor is blocked, the less immune power that you have. And as a survival mechanism, TB knows that we need to lower your immune system to be able to persist in the body and survive. A couple other very interesting things about this. In the 80s, we had a swing up of TB outbreaks.

Now, what happened in the 80s, they started to promote what is called this sun phobia. these campaigns to tell you to stay out of the sun and wear sunscreen and sunblock because the sun’s very dangerous. That was in the 80s. And I really believe that change significantly reduced the amount of vitamin D exposure that we got from the sun. There’s research that shows that low vitamin D does increase your mortality from TB and then other research says it doesn’t.

So I started to look at the studies and differentiate what they actually did in the studies and I found something very interesting. the studies that they said that there’s no correlation between vitamin D and TB. They were using monthly doses of vitamin D3. In other words, you would just take vitamin D every month, not every day. You need way more than that 600 IUs that they say that you need for the bone health.

You need at least 6,000 to 10,000 IUs, not once a month, but every single day. Not to mention, there’s still no agreement on what normal vitamin D is. Some references say that as long as you have 20 nanogs per milliliter, you have enough. Other references say if you have 30 nanogs per milliliter, you have enough. But they’re not really taking consideration all the huge barriers that we have with vitamin D.

If you’re obese or you’re getting older, you need more vitamin D. Also, if you’re trying to create a therapeutic effect with vitamin D, you need doses much much higher because these levels that they’re talking about are really merely to prevent something like ricketetts, which is really softening of the bones in in children, which is very very different than if you have an immune problem or let’s say you have an inflammatory problem or autoimmune disease. Those particular patients need a much higher therapeutic dosage. or if you have an infection like TB that blocks your vitamin D receptors, you’re going to need a lot more than this to actually penetrate the resistance. And so depending on the condition of what’s going on with your health state that’s really going to determine what your normal should be.

So when they do the studies, they’re operating off of completely outdated information. Another really interesting thing, before the uh development of antibiotics, people went to sanatoriums. These were a place in various resorts that was exposed to sunlight where people could go to heal from TB and they would use fresh air and sun exposure. And there were some really interesting statistics on that because people going in roughly had an on average of a 70% chance of having mortality, but that went down to a 30 to 40% chance. But through the exposure to sun, vitamin D and fresh air, there is a dramatic significant improvement in that infection.

They also use cod liver oil. Cod liver also showed a significant benefit to patients with TB. So the thing that kind of really struck me is this is not really just about the pathogen being exposed to this infection. It’s really your body’s resistant to the infection and how vitamin D relates to that. Now your immune system kills off TB with this particular compound called cathalidin.

Catholicidan is a broadspectctrum antimicrobial that depends on vitamin D for its function. And based on certain studies when people had low vitamin D uh the activation from the latent inactive stage to the active stage went up by 5x. So without vitamin D, you can’t activate this powerful weapon against TB. So you’re going to need a much higher amount of vitamin D than the typical RDAs that they recommend, which I think is like 600 or 800, which is ridiculous. The other really important thing I want to emphasize is that it’s not just the vitamin D that’s helping people against infection.

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