This is Why I NEVER Take Vitamin A Supplements

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I’d like to discuss some very important aspects of vitamin A um not just the positive benefits but the dark side as well vitamin A is typically known as the non-caring vitamin now what does that mean keratinization is a condition that causes skin issues so if you have an overgrowth of keratin it’s not going to be at the right moisture it’s going to be kind of dry and so this is one reason why if you have a deficiency of vitamin A or even an excess it can really affect your skin in many ways on the flip side of that vitamin A is also uh involved in the epithelial layer of the skin that is the outermost layer of your inner skin that is lining your body and so vitamin A has a lot to do with controlling what that skin turns into is it going to be normal skin cells or abnormal skin cells and when we’re talking about the inside of the body too we’re talking about the maintenance of the inner skin your inner sinuses the esophagus the digestive system and so this is why vitamin A is important for the immune system because the skin both external and internal is one of the immune barriers and so if you’re deficient in vitamin A you can actually weaken that barrier and allow pathogens to cross over vitamin A is also uh involved in the immune system specifically the What’s called the T regulatory cells and that has a lot to do with whether a person can develop an autoimmune disease or not and so there’s this associ also with a vitamin A deficiency and an autoimmune problem with the thyroid either Graves or Hashim Modo and so if someone’s deficient it can increase the risk for either one of those and also vitamin A allows iodine to be absorbed so there’s an iodine relationship between vitamin A as well and typically if you’re deficient vitamin A you’re going to have problems with night vision uh if you’re severely deficient uh you may even go blind other symptoms could include dry eyes a poor immune system skin problems and even bone issues so if a child has a deficiency of vitamin A they can have all sorts of just abnormal bone uh development also on the flip side too much of vitamin A can create symptoms that mimic a deficiency of vitamin A abnormal bone formations dry lips dry skin double vision aloe pcia oily skin peeling skin heart valve calcification which could be a big problem hyper calcemia too much calcium in the blood normally too much vitamin D will do that but vitamin A is also involved another one is inra cranial pressure so you have this headache with all this pressure in your skull now here’s what you need to know about the toxicity symptoms typically you would have to consume over 500 G of polar bear liver or the liver from a walrus or a liver from a moose which is very unlikely the most likely source is taking it from some synthetic vitamin A this is one reason why I never recommend taking vitamin A as a supplement unless it comes from a natural source it’s in a food source or it’s natural because 98% of all vitamins including vitamin A are made synthetically and I’m not just talking about the retinol version which is the active form I’m talking about the previtamin a as beta carotene that’s also sold synthetically and it comes with its own package in fact there’s some studies that shows that it can increase your risk of getting cancer of the lung especially if you’re a smoker or drink more than one glass of alcohol per day if you’re at the same time taking this beta carotene synthetically it can increase your risk of getting tumors or cancer which is crazy so this is why I’m very cautious about the synthetic vitamin A as a fortification in our Foods as well as in our vitamins it’s much better to get vitamin A from your Foods okay and that would be cod liver oil egg yolks grass-fed butter grass-fed cheese and actual liver these are excellent sources of the active form of vitamin A which is rol realize if you’re taking the inactive form beta carotene from food that’s good too you never have to worry about toxicity because it’s never going to happen because of the conversion from beta carotene to retinol is not very efficient and it takes a lot of it to convert to the active form so there’s some reports that um like you would need six times as much beta carotene to turn into one unit of retinol but there’s mixed reviews on that all you need to know is it takes a lot more beta carotene to turn into the active form of retinol but at least if it comes from a natural source you never going to have to worry about the toxicity it’s only when you get into the synthetic antioxidant beta carotene that you have to be concerned about it but if you’re getting your beta carotene from like kale or any type of dark leafy green vegetable or even carrots okay you’re not going to have to worry about toxicity But realize it takes a lot of that to convert to this active form the the other thing about vitamin A deficiencies uh number one like if someone’s not consuming a lot of of those Foods I just mentioned they could be deficient especially if they’re relying on just the precursor beta carotene but also if there’s a problem in the liver okay let’s say for example you have a fatty liver and maybe you have a gut you have belly fat and you’re not realizing that definitely means you have a fatty liver or you might have liver damage from curosis or any other type of inflammatory condition condition with the liver that means you’re not going to store as much vitamin A and so your capacity to use vitamin A from that stored vitamin A is going to be minimized and that can end up as a deficiency as well especially if you have a problem with the gallbladder let’s say you’re not producing enough bile or let’s say you had your gallbladder removed or whatever that can show up in a lack of absorption of that fat soluble nutrient from your diet and on top of all that there’s one synthetic version of vitamin A it’s in Accutane for acne I’m not sure if you ever heard about it before but it’s a synthetic vitamin A compound that has a black box warning on it of increased risk of depression suicide and psychosis yeah a synthetic vitamin A so if synthetic vitamin A creates those symptoms not to mention another big symptom called teratogenic effects which basically are birth defects so if a woman is taking acutane while she is pregnant that child could end up with birth defects and developmental problems and even infertility or a still birth so this synthetic vitamin A comes with its own problems if someone does have a toxicity of vitamin A there is U some antidotes well at least researched on animals okay so if you take more vitamin E that can help reduce the Toxic effect if you take vitamin K K1 that can reduce some of the effects as well as taking something called red yeast rice which is a common supplement that a lot of people take uh to lower their cholesterol now because of the censoring and the suppressing of the algorithms on YouTube it’s becoming more difficult to find my content 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