What Is Inflammation and How to Reduce it with Vitamin D – Dr. Berg

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so let’s talk about how vitamin D can actually reduce your inflammation but the first thing we need to understand is what actually is inflammation well it’s this the immune system responds to a stimulus that is viewed as foreign or toxic to your body we call that an antigen so an antigen is something that is foreign to the body it’s a threat to the body where your immune system then has to attack it and get rid of it and dismantle it or neutralize it in the process of dealing with this foreign threat we’re gonna create inflammation and inflammation is going to mobilize our defences okay the white blood cells so inflammation is part of the defense mechanism very similar to the TV series The Game of Thrones where they had to defend the wall well in your body you have an army of cells that are constantly defending against foreign attacks so there are some incredibly sophisticated strategies in complexities within your immune system you have cells like the B lymphocytes that act as advance guards to protect certain tissues neutrophils are like kamikaze pilots that will drop certain chemical bombs to kill invading microbes then you have macrophages which basically gobble up the invaders they just they just eat them there’s no bombs of all betas will consume them and then the T lymphocytes track down and destroy the invaders and they use certain chemicals they might use hydrogen peroxide and other oxidizing agents now a fever is used as another mechanism to literally cook these microbes to kill them but with inflammation we get a blood rush to the area that can bring the immune weapon tree now with an inflammatory condition after an injury that’s slightly different your body’s not trying to kill anything off it’s trying to mobilize a joint for example to prevent motion your body will produce pain signals to tell you don’t move let this area heal there’s all sorts of reparative actions coming in there with collagen and scar tissue to help mobilize and basically repair the tissues so with information you either have an overreaction or an under reaction depending on what’s going on so one of the biggest weapons that your immune system has are inflammatory chemicals like cytokines prostaglandins and leukotrienes so these chemicals are communication messengers that help signal and trigger the white blood cell army so it can tell the immune system what type of cell should be triggered and how many should be triggered and this is a very important part because if it miscalculates or miss estimates and it has too much immune system you can create too much collateral damage and that’s exactly what happens in autoimmune diseases you have this your own immune system that’s attacking itself and destroying the entire body and then you have this other effect vascular dilation so you get swelling you get redness you get more blood flow in the area so inflammation has a purpose but the problem is if there’s too much firing or not enough firing and the collateral damage let’s get the vitamin D why is vitamin D so important vitamin D is an immune modulator okay what is a modulator that is something that modifies or control something it varies the strength of something okay so vitamin D either turns up or turns down these chemicals right here just like aspirin will inhibit and turn down prostaglandins vitamin D will do the same thing but guess what it has no side effects so whether you have inflammation from an injury or an immune reaction that has become chronic or an autoimmune condition vitamin D is one of the best approaches to take now as far as how much to take I would take minimally 20,000 I use if you’re in the chronic phase you might want to go up to 30,000 IU’s 40,000 maybe even 50,000 IU’s you have to make sure you have vitamin k2 with it as well now if you just take a look at how many people in the US alone have Rytas asthma allergies autoimmune diseases fibromyalgia and these people are not taking vitamin D because if they were they wouldn’t even have the symptom and they’re usually deficient in vitamin D it’s just completely unnecessary for them to suffer with pain inflammation because vitamin D is so powerful so if you have inflammation or you have pain or you know someone that has inflammation that’s gone on too long recommend vitamin D at least 20,000 IU’s it’d be good to have them take it with food or with a little bit of fat because it’s a fat soluble vitamin which will help them absorb vitamin D a lot better and last thing I want to say and then I’ll stop talking is that the majority of the population is deficient about a min D we don’t get outside we don’t get it from the Sun as much anymore and it’s almost impossible to get vitamin D from your food thanks for watching so if you want more knowledge on how to create a healthy body subscribe now and get daily notifications