The #1 Vitamin Deficiency Behind Vertigo

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today we’re going to talk about how to figure out if you have this very specific type of vertigo and what to do about it and it’s called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo this is the type of vertical that will make you feel like you’re spinning okay when you’re not spinning so the word benign means not dangerous the word paroxysmal means a sudden increase of a symptom and the word positional means something related to motion of your head and vertical means feeling like you’re spinning when you’re not really spinning so in this video we’re just going to name it B ppv and this is the number one cause of dizziness and what’s normally causing this condition is a calcium Crystal that is broken off and it’s in the canals of the inner ear the ones that are controlling equilibrium and keeping things balanced so this little piece of calcium crystal is kind of floating in there and it’s interfering with the little hairs and it’s giving you this Sensation that is um not correct it’s like you’re moving when you’re not moving or you’re spinning when there’s no spinning going on so later in this video I want to talk about why this calcium is there in the first place and how to get rid of it but first let’s talk about how to figure out if you have this condition and what side it’s coming from is the problem on the left side or the problem on the right side so in this first test to determine if you have it and what side it is this is called the Dix Hall Pike test but you’re going to basically do this maybe on your bed or a table with a pillow okay and you’re going to quickly lower your body in a Supine position so you’re laying face up and you can have a pillow underneath your upper back so your head can tilt back because you want your head extended like 30 degrees backwards over the horizontal so you want this pillow underneath your shoulders so the first thing you’re going to do is you’re going to turn your head to the right about 45 degrees okay now if you truly have this bppv you will experience not just dizziness that you will experience the stigmas now that’s a condition where your eyes can move back and forth horizontal vertical or they can rotate but if you have nystigmas as well as dizziness chances are you have this condition now this does help to have someone observing you to tell you if that’s happening but maybe if there’s no one around maybe you have a a mirror and you’re looking at your eyes but just realize too before you do any of these tests check with your doctor make sure you don’t have some type of cervical spine problem where you can’t rotate your neck very much so that’s my disclaimer okay so once you’ve done this to the right side then you’ll repeat this exact same procedure looking to the left side and so you’re usually going to find one side that’s going to be involved so let’s pretend the problem is on going to the right side okay then we’re going to do the next part and this is more of a treatment so what we want to do is we want to create different motions to slowly move this little calcium Crystal out of this canal okay that’s the goal of this procedure and it’s called the Epley maneuver and you would do it on whatever side that you have this problem with okay so we’re pretending it’s the right side so first thing you’re going to do okay is you’re going to turn the head to the affected side so we’re going to turn it to the right side okay about 45 degrees and extend it about 30 degrees and you’re going to hold this position for about one minute now chances are you are going to experience symptoms when you’re doing this okay so after a minute of holding this position now you’re going to turn your head to the opposite side about 45 degrees and hold that position for one minute now what you’re doing is you’re slowly dislodging this calcium Crystal through this canal with the intention of pushing it out to the other end okay now what you’re going to do is you’re going to roll on the shoulder and maintain your chin tucked down to your shoulder and so you’re going to be looking downward at a 45 degree angle and you’re going to hold this for about 30 seconds again the reason why we’re doing this is to allow this little calcium Crystal to keep moving through the canal and the last thing you’re going to do is you’re going to sit up with your head kept rotated with your chin tucked toward the shoulder and then you’re going to slowly rotate your head back to normal now hopefully this calcium Crystal has moved out of this little canal and you feel much better this particular treatment should only be done once a day and you’re going to keep doing it until your symptoms resolve okay so what’s really Behind These calcium crystals building up that’s the next Topic in a 2020 systematic review and meta-analysis they found some really interesting association between bppb and a vitamin D deficiency in this review those people that had that condition were twice as deficient in vitamin D as the rest of the group you see vitamin D helps in the absorption of calcium and this calcium is dislodged in the lymphatic little tubes in the inner ear so obviously it didn’t get absorbed so we have a more concentrated calcium in that area and chances are this is due to a vitamin D deficiency vitamin D also helps in the transportation of calcium as well in another study I found there was a 5. 5 times more likely risk of developing bppv and yet another study I found that bppv was substantially decreased if the person took more vitamin D now in another study I found bppv was 23 times more likely to occur if someone was deficient in vitamin D 23 times that’s crazy so apparently vitamin D is the answer for this condition I will say there were some studies that did not show that this condition had any problem with vitamin D deficiency in the blood and I understand I think the reason for that is this there is a genetic component to this problem many many people have a problem with the vitamin D receptor now a person could have a situation where they have normal vitamin D in the blood but not in the tissues because of the receptor is downgraded because of some genetic mutation just because someone has a normal vitamin D level in their blood doesn’t always tell you the whole picture I mean this also relates to other things like insulin resistance when some people have insulin resistance they might have high insulin in the blood yet very low insulin in the cells this is why many symptoms of even diabetes are related to a deficiency in insulin even though they have this massive amount of insulin in the blood I mean the same thing goes with cortisol the stress hormone too a person can have this high level of cortisol in the blood yet have all the symptoms of a cortisol deficiency right I mean cortisol is supposed to get rid of inflammation why would they end up with this huge amount of inflammation when they have high amounts in the blood well now you know the problem is in the receptor so the same thing with vitamin D you can’t always go with what’s going on in the blood so what what am I recommending as a solution I’m recommending you do vitamin D and I’m also going to recommend you add vitamin K2 because vitamin K2 is also involved in transporting calcium out of soft tissue so this is what I would do instead of taking a daily dose of vitamin D3 and K2 I would do this I would take five days of that dosage and take it all at once because both of these vitamins vitamin K2 and vitamin D are fat soluble so they’ll get absorbed in the body and they’ll get slowly released when your body needs it but there’s some interesting data that shows that if you do sometimes take your vitamin D erratically or not every day consistently there’s a little bit better results so what does this mean well you would take 50 000 IUS of vitamin D3 so if you find vitamin D