Why Are There No Fat People in Colorado

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so I have a question why are there no overweight people in Colorado this video is going to solve that mystery and this is based on a very interesting book that presently it’s not released yet but I got an advanced copy by the time you’re watching this it’s probably being released right now so I will put a link down below but today we’re going to dissect this mystery of why there’s no fat people in Colorado so is it that they’re out exercising all day long could it be the food they’re eating or maybe they have more money for health foods and so this question puzzled the author for quite some time and so the first thing he did is he looked at the states where you had the most obesity and he isolated those and he found an interesting correlation between higher concentrations of black Americans Latinos and he also looked at the American Indian reservations and that’s all interesting but it gets even more interesting when you look at what is unique about that and there’s one thing that’s unique and that has to do with the pigment on someone’s skin it’s called melanin and melanin happens to be a natural sunblocker in other words the darker your skin the more protection you have against UV radiation now what does UV radiation have to do with obesity well UV radiation interacts with your skin and it makes vitamin D and it is true that if you look at the levels of vitamin D vitamin D levels are low in certain populations and so that’s very interesting but is there any other data that aligns with this connection between vitamin D deficiency and obesity there’s a direct relationship in fact and I’m going to put the paper down below and I don’t know if this is a recent discovery or it’s been out for a long time and no one really saw it but vitamin D directly regulates the oxidation of the fat burning process in your adapost tissue and so vitamin D increases the expression of the release of fat from your fat cells vitamin D is also intimately involved in insulin in other words a vitamin D deficiency can be something that causes insulin resistance and if you have enough vitamin D it can greatly help you um in your sensitivity with insulin because insulin has a main function of fat storage and this also kind of correlates to in the winter months right when we don’t get enough Sun we don’t get enough vitamin D we have more fat storage and then in the spring and the summer uh people tend to lose more weight they come out of hibernation right could that be related to vitamin D well I think so women that are pregnant that are low in vitamin D these children later on in life when they become adults tend to be more overweight and on the obese side and then being overweight in general tends to dilute vitamin D in other words the more weight that you gain the more vitamin D you’re going to need because a lot of this vitamin D is absorbed in the fat cells and so there’s a very strong link between vitamin D and your fat cell that I didn’t even realize until reading this book I mean even look at the risk factor for metabolic syndrome okay there’s always a vitamin D deficiency what is metabolic syndrome It’s a combination of high glucose then you have high cholesterol you have high blood pressure you have abdominal fat every single one of those symptoms including insulin resistance relates to low vitamin D levels and this also could explain that when someone has high blood pressure and they take vitamin D their blood pressure tends to go lower all right getting back to the geography of United States if you take a look at uh the states that have more elderly people they are more overweight and we do know that the age of your skin has a lot to do with the absorption of vitamin D as well and so that’s another little piece of the puzzle that aligns to this idea if you look at the trends of obesity there’s also this big spike of obesity in the United States that goes up roughly around 1980 and the author points out another interesting observation in the early 80s this is when the experts or science started to tell people to stay out of the sun to start using sunblock both of these actions will block your vitamin D I was born in 1965 through the 70s I was a kid and uh I did not observe a lot of overweight people in my school growing up and we were outside all day long we were not afraid of the sun yet we were consuming a massive amount of sugar and carbohydrates but I do know like in the ’ 80s and the ’90s you started seeing more and more people that were overweight could it be this vitamin D connection well it just so happens that Colorado has the highest elevation of any state in United States so so this means you’re going to get a lot more ultraviolet radiation and you’re going to get a lot more vitamin D you’re going to get way more exposure like three to five times more if you’re higher up closer to the Sun than if even if you’re laying on the beach at sea level and so if you’re born in Colorado and you’re living in Colorado and you have this chronic exposure to more sun and more vitamin D it’s going to greatly affect your expression of how you burn fat and I think the key word is chronic exposure right it’s the it’s how long someone’s exposed to the Sun or uh getting vitamin D and in relationship to uh what happens to the metabolism I mean just as another side note I had a patient in practice who had this huge belly and every time he went down to Florida and got a lot of sun he came back I swear it it was like it was flat and he didn’t change his diet by the way and he came back and I’m like wow that’s amazing but you also have the latitude the the further your way from the equator the less UV you’re going to get as well now what about in the Appalachian Mountains you have white people who don’t have a lot of melanin but they’re obese they have a much higher um rate of obesity and they’re in the mountains now what’s interesting about these people living in the Appalachian Mountains is they’re not necessarily living on the peak they’re living in The Valleys it’s definitely not as high and there’s a lot of shadowing of these mountains so they’re living in the shadows of the mountains which would not give them more vitamin D like even vitamin D and how it affects your sleep cycles if you’re deficient in vitamin D you don’t get enough vitamin D your sleep cycles are not going to be as great in fact if you have jet leg for example and you take vitamin D it’s one of the best remedies it’ll just kind of reset that circadian rhythm and then you have sleep apnea which is usually always a vitamin D the deficiency when you give people with sleep apnea vitamin D they they tend to not snore as much they tend to sleep better and then you have this connection between vitamin D and stress and cortisol cortisol stress in general lowers vitamin D but when you take vitamin D you can also help lower cortisol which is a stress hormone which can also make you gain weight and this cortisol stress hormone can also create insulin resistance right and so if someone is vitamin D deficient and they get more inflammation inflammation can directly cause insulin resistance as well which is behind obesity and then when you dive into the data of how Vitamin D affects your mitochondria if you don’t have enough vitamin D you get a lot of oxidative stress the mitochondria doesn’t work as well and the mitochondria is the energy Factory that is behind your metabolism so this is just one of many of the Mysteries that this author talks about so I’m going to put the link down below for the book if you wanted to check it out thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video