The 7 Warning Signs of a Vitamin D Deficiency - Dr. Berg

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there are actually seven warning signs of a vitamin d deficiency now recently i looked how many videos i have in vitamin d on youtube and i found out it was 326 videos so i’m sure that you’ve seen pretty much all of them but if you haven’t this video is kind of a summary of the key warning signs but what you need to realize is that a warning sign or a symptom is not the problem it is an indicator of a problem that is not the problem and i’m going to let you in on a little secret the medical profession treats indicators okay they treat the indicators and the treatment lasts for about 24 hours because if you only treat the indicators you have to keep treating them over and over and over again and the same thing happens with your garden or in farming if you have excessive weeds or pests or insects you know you might think those are the problem but they’re really not they’re an indicator that there’s something going on with your soil some condition that is not good or with the plant that is unhealthy you know there is actually a great test and i’m going to do a video on this it’s called a bricks test and it’s a very simple inexpensive test that anyone can do on their garden plants or fruit to determine on a certain scale how healthy or fertile that plant or fruit is and if that plant or fruit is above 12 it’s immune from insects insects do not touch it they don’t eat it they don’t start to destroy it insects go after plants that are dying and decaying but they don’t go after healthy fruits or plants which is very fascinating in our body it’s the same thing you’re as strong as your weak link if your system is weakened you’re very susceptible to pathogens viruses bacteria etc so it’s really important to understand and differentiate between an indicator and the real problem today we’re going to talk about the seven indicators of a vitamin d deficiency which is at the root cause of many different problems so let’s start with number one high blood pressure okay that is one indicator that your vitamin d is low in fact it’s a real common one there’s two things that i find that can help resolve hypertension one is vitamin d and number two is potassium but vitamin d is intimately involved because it can act as an ace inhibitor they use ace inhibitors for i think it’s 48 of all first line treatments for high blood pressure okay and vitamin d acts like an ace inhibitor if you’re deficient in vitamin d you’ll get arterial stiffness in fact there’s a huge correlation between people having low vitamin d and having hypertension in fact i’d be really curious if anyone who had high blood pressure didn’t have a vitamin d deficiency okay number two low back pain this is a really good indicator that you’re low in vitamin d especially if you get like achiness in your lower back in the muscles and if you have low back achiness at night when you’re trying to sleep classic vitamin d deficiency in fact vitamin d is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatories natural anti-inflammatories because it acts like a steroid it acts like prednisone but without the side effects so you could virtually have inflammation anywhere in your body not just the lower back all right number three blood sugars now this is interesting when you’re low in vitamin d you’re way more susceptible to getting insulin resistance and you’re way more likely for that insulin resistance to turn into a pre-diabetes and you’re more likely for the pre-diabetes to turn into diabetes why because vitamin d has a very important purpose of maintaining your beta cells in your pancreas the cells that control insulin all right number four virus susceptibility there’s not one aspect of your immune system that does not have receptors for vitamin d vitamin d is the most important vitamin for your immune system so if you’re low in vitamin d you’re way more susceptible to not just getting a viral infection but a bacterial infection as well and so vitamin d protects you against pathogens and it also can help to regulate excessive amounts of inflammation as in the cytokine storm in your lungs all right five autoimmune conditions i don’t think there’s any autoimmune disease out there that does not have a severe low vitamin d situation when you’re low in vitamin d you’re highly susceptible to having immune problems as well as developing an autoimmune condition and vitamin d is one of the best natural treatments for autoimmune why because it’s a powerful anti-inflammatory and think about what autoimmune conditions are autoimmune conditions are a situation where your body is attacking itself it’s an immune system that has gone rogue and you always have inflammation in fact it’s the inflammation that is causing most of the symptoms with autoimmune conditions so if you were to take higher amounts of vitamin d you know like maybe 30 40 50 ius of vitamin d every day you’d probably notice remarkable improvement in your autoimmune condition all right number six daytime sleepiness you can call this fatigue you can call this just being tired huge connection with low vitamin d now i don’t know if that’s because vitamin d is intimately involved with your sleep especially behind sleep apnea and you just feel tired vitamin d helps the cells that control the circadian waves and without enough vitamin d it can really throw off not just your circadian waves but just make you feel lethargic kind of tired all day and especially if you like have a really hard time getting up in the morning we know you need vitamin d and it’s interesting about vitamin d because sunlight actually helps increase vitamin d so i wonder if there’s a connection with that all right number seven depression is a really good indicator that you need vitamin d now why because vitamin d is needed to convert tryptophan which is an amino acid into serotonin okay serotonin is a hormone that really helps your mood and if you’re deficient you can be very depressed and you need as a requirement tryptophan for the creation of serotonin and so vitamin d is needed for this conversion and this is another point i’ll bring up for depression i don’t think there is a case of depression that does not have an underlying vitamin d deficiency now can you imagine if someone had any one of these or all of these okay the indicators are being treated with a medication how much confusion that’s going to be because one medication is going to create other side effects and you don’t know what’s causing what but unfortunately the system is set up to manage your indicators and not treat underlying causes i want to bring up another point now you could be having you know being on the sun getting enough vitamin d you could be eating foods with some vitamin d you could be taking the vitamin d supplement and still have problems for various reasons which i’m going to cover right now number one you can have which is becoming more common a genetic defect is called polymorphism if you had some genetic testing and you had a vitamin d receptor mutation that could be the reason why taking normal amounts of vitamin d is not not going to work the other thing is that the rdas for vitamin d are i think if i’m not mistaken like 600 ius which is a joke because that research has been done primarily on bone formation but not all the other things that it can do so if you’re taking 600 ius thinking you’re getting enough on top of absorption problems if you have gut inflammatory conditions or past damage from an antibiotic you’re not going to absorb vitamin d2 well if you don’t have enough liver function because your liver is fatty you’re not going to be able to produce the bile to be able to absorb vitamin d not to mention the activation of vitamin d because in our bodies we have inactive vitamin d and we have active vitamin d you need the liver and kidney to deactivate that also if you’re low in zinc or mag