The Risks of Taking 10,000 IUs of Vitamin D3

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I’d like to talk about the risks of taking 10 000 IUS of vitamin D3 sounds like a lot ten thousand but is it really that much just so you know very briefly I use stand for international units okay so 10 000 international units of vitamin D is equivalent to not even one milligram not even a half a milligram it’s actually one quarter of one milligram 0. 25 milligrams which is 250 micrograms okay that’s 10 000 international units of vitamin D3 so is there a risk of taking that much I think there’s a bigger risk of not taking that much let me explain I recently found some information that literally blew me away and I think it’s going to blow you away too but first let me just give you a little Foundation of what we’re talking about the great majority of us are deficient in vitamin D now I guess the conflicting information is that the rdas of vitamin D is between 600 to 800 international units okay and now we’re talking about taking ten thousand it sounds like a huge gap but what you have to realize is that 600 to 800 IUS is based on Old research relating to preventing osteoporosis bone loss it’s not updated and correlated with all the new information related to the benefit of vitamin D for your immune system what’s even more wild is that vitamin D is not really even a vitamin it’s a hormone and it acts very similar to cortisol as an anti-inflammatory but without the side effects every cell in your body has receptors for vitamin D the functions of vitamin D are very very vast but I want this video to focus mainly on why you need as a maintenance dose 10 000 IUS it really has to do with the barriers of absorption you have a lot of things that are stopping vitamin D from going into your body right you have the sun like people don’t get enough sun or sun exposure to their skin they don’t go outside as much and if they’re going outside with a shirt on and just getting exposure to their face you’re not going to even get close to the amount that you need and also it’s almost impossible to get enough vitamin D from the foods that we eat even if you eat fatty fish and cod liver oil and egg yolks which are higher in vitamin D3 you’re still not going to reach the levels that you need then you have people that are overweight the more fat right beneath your skin the harder it is for the sun to penetrate to create the vitamin D necessary then we have metabolic syndrome okay if you have diabetes or you have insulin resistance vitamin D doesn’t go in that well um the older you are the skin becomes thicker and it’s harder to get your vitamin D the more pigment you have in other words the darker your skin the less vitamin D absorption you’re going to have and also the more problem you have with the gallbladder or the liver let’s say you have a fatty liver the less absorption of vitamin D you’re going to have because you need bile to help you absorb vitamin D from the food as well as from a supplement because it’s a fat soluble vitamin and the more kidney problems you have the less vitamin D you’re going to have as well so the way it works is you have these precursor or inactive vitamin D compounds that have to be converted to the active form of vitamin D and they go through various steps but there’s a two primary steps one through the liver and one through the kidney to eventually get this active form of vitamin D3 it then has to be absorbed in your receptors and those receptors are called vitamin D receptors and if you have an infection like a viral infection these these viruses can trick your body by downgrading The receptors and preventing you from absorbing vitamin D3 so that’s another barrier if your immune compromised or you have an immune system problem the amount of vitamin D you’re going to need is going to have to be a lot more to penetrate that resistance that the virus has strategically created for you and when they do a blood test for vitamin D they’re not testing the active form of vitamin D they’re testing the inactive form and the reason why is because if they tested the active form there’s a lot of problems with that number one being that it has a very short half-life like I think it’s uh four to six hours compared to two to three weeks for the inactive vitamin D3 and also the active form of vitamin D3 is a thousand times less than the inactive so apparently I have a lot of inactive vitamin D sitting there waiting to be converted and also when you’re deficient in the inactive version of vitamin D3 your body will then compensate and make more of the active vitamin D3 so if you tested the active vitamin D3 and it shows up normal it doesn’t really give you a lot of information so this is why the inactive form is tested but this next thing is going to blow you away okay and this relates to your genes I’ve been recently involved in a lot of research in genetics looking at um what’s called polymorphisms which are alterations in certain genes that make you more susceptible to having problems with certain illnesses but there’s three polymorphisms that are routinely tested when you do your DNA test that I need to talk about because in the last I would say several months I tested their DNA they’re mainly friends and family members and I wanted to just get experience in this topic and testing real people is a very good way to do that and check this out this is just related to vitamin D out of the 21 people that I tested 100 of them had at least one problem with vitamin D absorption in other words they had at least one genetic issue with their vitamin D which is another barrier that I don’t think is really acknowledged or even knowned it could be the next 21 people I test don’t have a problem with vitamin D but with this small sample there was 21 out of 20 when people had a problem relating to vitamin D genes in the first Gene it was called the cyp 2r1 and out of all the 21 people tested 90 of them had a problem with this Gene and 38 of that group had a major problem with that polymorphism or mutation and this Gene is one of the two steps in the conversion from the inactive to the active and occurs in the liver so in other words if you have a problem with this Gene you’re going to have a problem in converting the inactive form to the active form now let’s talk about the other two genes these other two genes were involved with Transportation like binding to a protein and transporting this vitamin D throughout your circulation and out of all 21 and the first transporter gene there was like 61 percent of the people that had a problem with that one and then with that second transporter there was like 76 of the people that had a problem with that Gene so a lot of people didn’t have a problem just with one gene it was all three genes so if we take this genetic alteration on top of all these other barriers now we can see ten thousand IUS is not going to be toxic at all in fact it’s going to be necessary to penetrate some of these big barriers that people are up against that being said how much vitamin D does create a toxicity effect well that’s still in debate but based on all the research that I looked at it would take hundreds of thousands of international units of vitamin D for months before it created a Toxic effect and that Toxic effect is primarily hypercalcemia and the risk of that problem is mainly kidney stones so just as a precautionary step if you’re drinking uh two and a half liters of fluid a day that decreases your risk big time of getting a kidney stone because you’re going to keep the urine diluted and then on top of that if you take some of the supporting nutrients that allows vitamin D absorption as well as the function of it and also factors that protect you against hypercalcemia like vitamin K2 magnesium B6 zinc then that puts you even in a safer range and one last point about getting your blood tested with vitamin D to date there’s still no c