These Vitamin D Mistakes Are Bad

What is the correct way to take vitamin D? How much vitamin D should I take? In this video, I’ll go over some common vitamin D mistakes, cover the facts, and dispel some of the vitamin D myths you may have heard. Discover the correct way to take vitamin D.

I’d like to discuss the common mistakes people make when they’re taking vitamin D vitamin D is the most important vitamin because it’s involved in over 10% of all of our genetics it’s a fat cable vitamin which means that it absorbs better when you consume it with fat whether it’s MCT oil or olive oil or something like that the absolute most important thing to know about vitamin D is that it won’t work unless you have enough magnesium thing about magnesium it’s the second most important nutrient because it’s involved with 300 different enzymes magnesium regulates excess amount of calcium that builds up in your arteries you don’t want to just take any old magnesium because the one called magnesium oxide you do not want to take that it only absorbs like 3 to 4% and you’re going to get diarrhea usually if you take more than that a better one would be magnesium glycinate you take that in the evening it’ll help you sleep you get like an 80% absorption if you take magnesium citrate okay that’s fine too the other side I want to mention about magnesium is that the more vitamin D that you take the more magnesium is going to be required some people that take vitamin D they react they get a symptom from it whether it’s uh nausea heart palpitations muscle cramp sometimes it’s a headache realize that’s probably just a magnesium deficiency because the more vitamin D you take without magnesium the more magnesium your body’s going to have to pull from the reserves and if you’re already deficient you’re going to be really def efficient now thereby giving you more symptoms which might happen more in the early morning when you wake up because that’s when you have the lowest amount of magnesium in the body other mistake that people make with vitamin D is they don’t take it with vitamin K2 vitamin K2 is another Co Factor very very important because think about it vitamin D helps you absorb calcium in the blood right well K2 takes that calcium in the blood drives it into the bone and your teeth it keeps the calcium out of the soft tissues what type of K2 do we need the mk7 version is really good if you have a lot of calcium build up in your arteries and it’s also really good for cancer believe it or not and the amount that I would recommend would be a 100 micrograms for every 10,000 I use of vitamin D3 next point is another co-actor zinc and one of things it does is it helps you convert cholesterol into Vitamin D I would recommend if you’re taking 10,000 IUS of vitamin D3 to take like 20 milligrams of zinc zinc does a lot in fact it’s a co-actor for all sex hormones next point I want to bring up is the mistake of not taking enough vitamin D3 if you take the typical recommended amount which is between 600 to 800 iuse it’s not going to do anything you need daily vitamin D3 of at least 6,000 to 8,000 to 10,000 I use every single day and that data is not really understood by some of these researchers and so when they do studies they might give the people in the study uh vitamin D once a week or once a month or even once a year you’re not going to see a lot of great results with that on top of the fact that they don’t like to publish positive things about vitamin D that are literally free you can get from the Sun Dr Michael hollik one of the Pioneers in vitamin D research recommends 10,000 IUS every single day and he talks about this you’re not going to get any toxic effects from that Dr Bruce Hollis also personally takes 10,000 IUS of vitamin D3 every single day a big part of the medical profession scares people about taking too much vitamin D3 they talk about the Toxic effect all it takes is a little fear like that to make someone hesitant but if you look at the actual data and I’ve done a serious dive into this uh topic you would have to take hundreds of thousands of vitamin D3 every single day for months to develop a Toxic effect the point is that when we’re talking about just 10,000 I use or even up to 50,000 I use and you’re taking also the co-actors Magnesium K2 the zinc all three protect against the toxicity because it helps control calcium and just as a side note on that if you’re taking high doses of vitamin D3 and you’re drinking the water and you’re taking the co-actors one more thing you could do you could actually just avoid uh taking calcium supplements and also foods that are high in calcium like Dairy these are are all just precautionary things um if someone needs to take high doses of vitamin D3 now when I’m talking about high doses I’m really talking about maybe doses over 30 40 50,000 IUS up to 100,000 iuse per day now make note of this I didn’t say toxic doses okay I said high amounts there’s a big difference and of course I’m just giving you data to research I’m not telling you to do it check with your doctor before implementing any of the things I am mentioning another mistake that people make with vitamin D is taking vitamin D2 vitamin D2 does not even come close to working like vitamin D3 you’re going to need a lot more of D2 to achieve the effects of D3 the other important thing to do is to actually get a vitamin D test and when you get a test make sure you take your last vitamin D like 3 days before the test so that way we can get a more of an accurate blood level of vitamin D3 the vitamin D in the blood is not the active form so in other words you could have this so-called normal vitamin D level and be extremely deficient in the active form of vitamin D deep into the cells other points about vitamin D if you’re on statins if you’re on steroids both of those things are going to inhibit your ability to make vitamin D and allow vitamin D to work in your body just think about statins right that’s going to lower cholesterol where does vitamin D come from it comes from cholesterol if you’re going to get your vitamin D from the Sun realize that you’re going to get it if you expose yourself between 10 a. m. and 2: p. m. in the summer also you’re not going to get a lot of vitamin D in the early morning or the late afternoon you really have to expose a good portion of your body if you do that and everything is right you might get 10,000 IUS of vitamin D3 in maybe like 20 minutes to a half hour make sure you don’t let yourself get burned get slightly pink go in the shade and then the next day keep working on a tan a tan is really just an increase melanin that allows this pigment to then protect you against the UV another thing not to take with vitamin D3 is iron they compete if you’re going to take iron take it at a different time the other thing is sunblockers or sunscreen what happens is that most of the sunblockers will block a type of ultraviolet radiation called UVB which is the type that you need to make vitamin D but those sunscreens don’t block the UVA which is the stuff that ages your skin so here you are protecting your skin by rubbing on this uh sunscreen when it’s not filtering out the en entire spectrum of ultraviolet light it’s only blocking your ability to produce vitamin D3 unfortunately I hope you learned some of the mistakes and some of the things that you can do to correct those mistakes with vitamin D3 and if you have not seen my uh video I did when I interviewed Dr Bruce Hollis you should check that out it was fascinating and I’ll put that up right here