Vitamin D beats vaccines every day

[pyrangello]

Bill you should post that interview of you and that fantastic European lady who talked about d3 for an hour back in the Camelot days. That was one of your best sir.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by pyrangello (here)
Bill you should post that interview of you and that fantastic European lady who talked about d3 for an hour back in the Camelot days. That was one of your best sir.

That was Gabriele Stähler. (Yes, it's a pretty good interview.) Here's the Project Camelot page:

https://projectcamelot.org/brussels_...ober_2009.html



The video is no longer there, as YouTube deleted Camelot's entire account. But here's the audio:

https://projectcamelot.org/mediafile...e_Staehler.mp3




And here's the transcript.

https://projectcamelot.org/lang/en/g...script_en.html

[Bill Ryan]

New from Chris Martenson:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H5MqkbFt2sU

[ExomatrixTV]

• Pioneering Vitamin D researcher:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2hO7fniCbmw

Consultant Physician, medical researcher and author, Dr David Grimes conducted much original research on the essential to life Vitamin D.

[John Hilton]

Vitamin D and the Melanoma Madness - Ivor Cummins discusses Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, Cancer, Vax damage, etc.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dyG4GBqCh3Y

[Johnnycomelately]

Some more talk of evidence about what Vit D deficiency can mean. This one is about when your mom gave birth to you after (edit: 9 months after) a few months of little sunshine on her skin.

Gets technical at times, tho not rivaling YT poster Dr. John Campbell’s analyses. L = 17:22.



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“Vitamin D deficiency is an epidemic that is at an all time high because of sunscreen use, less consumption of foods full of vitamin D, and less and less time spent out of doors.

Seattle is one of the most overcast and rainy places on earth, and has also seen dramatically more active serial killers than any other place on earth, over 20% of the nation's total.

Deficiency is strongly correlated to cancer, MS, autism, anxiety, depression, behavior problems, obesity, heart disease and even some forms of genetically based psychosis.

Vitamin D is required to create both testosterone and estrogen and supplementation has been shown experimentally to increase testosterone in men by over 20%, including free testosterone.

As we age we lose about 70% of our ability to create vitamin D from sunlight. Naturally darker skin also makes much less vitamin D, and some people also have far fewer vitamin D receptors.

Vitamin D upregulates the genes that create ceruloplasmin by as much as ten times the average amount. This molecule is critical to neutralizing the ROS that drive aging and insulin resistance.

Vitamin D is strongly associated with obesity and high insulin forces D into fat cells where it becomes trapped. Over time, fasting reduces insulin and makes vitamin D more available.

Wild caught fatty fish and eggs from hens raised in sunlight have high levels of vitamin D, but farmed fish and caged hens have only 1/4 the D. Nonemulsified cod liver oil is also full of D.

While sunburn can lead to skin cancer, normal tanning has the opposite effect. UV A is very damaging to skin but makes little vit D. UV B produces much more vit D and does less damage.

10am-2pm is the only time of day that sun exposure produces adequate vitamin D levels. Human blood levels are optimal at around 50, but the dosage required for this will vary wildly.

0:00 D deficiency is linked to violence
2:00 D required to fight cancer/autoimmune
3:20 D crucial for brain development
6:05 D helps with pain + addiction
7:14 D required for ROS n antiaging

Music courtesy Karl@whitebataudio”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sBL0ucLYjQA

[onawah]

Chronic Pain Due to Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Niacinamide Can Treat It
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
May 14, 2024
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...1&rid=21094509

https://media.mercola.com/ImageServe...nction-pdf.pdf

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Chronic pain may not be a disorder of its own but a symptom of underlying mitochondrial dysfunction
Nicotinamide riboside (NR) — a form of vitamin B3 and precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) — helps relieve chronic pain in mice by improving mitochondrial function
Niacinamide, another form of vitamin B3 involved in similar cellular processes as NR, may also be useful for relieving chronic pain
Linoleic acid (LA) in vegetable and seed oils causes mitochondrial dysfunction
Lowering your intake of LA, which is common in ultraprocessed foods, is one of the most straightforward ways to improve mitochondrial health and, thus, potentially relieve chronic pain
About 21% of U.S. adults suffer from chronic pain, with new cases occurring more often than new cases of other common conditions like diabetes, depression and high blood pressure.1
Pain is considered chronic if it occurs every day or most days over a period of three months or more.

For about 8%, the chronic pain is considered high-impact,2 meaning it limits life or work activities, demonstrating the heavy burden this condition places on those affected. Many reach for dangerous opioid drugs for relief, which suppress mitochondria3 — the last thing you want if you’re struggling with chronic pain.

Chronic Pain Is a Symptom of Mitochondrial Dysfunction
Researchers with Utrecht University in the Netherlands revealed that nicotinamide riboside (NR) — a form of vitamin B3 and precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a molecule involved in DNA repair and healthy aging — helps relieve chronic pain in mice4 by improving mitochondrial function.

“Previous research has linked chronic pain to dysfunctional mitochondria, particularly those in specialized nerve cells, called sensory neurons, which detect changes in the environment,” New Scientist reported.5

For the study, an inflammatory substance was injected into the paws of 15 mice, which led to changes in mitochondrial function, even a week later after the inflammation had resolved. The mitochondrial changes were associated with greater pain in the mice, which also had lower levels of NR in the mitochondria of their sensory neurons compared to mice that didn’t experience inflammation.6

NR plays an important role in mitochondrial function, so researchers gave the mice a high dose, which alleviated pain.

“Together these findings indicate two things: first, that inflammation can impair mitochondrial function in sensory neurons and that these impairments increase the risk of chronic pain, even after inflammation has resolved. Second, that taking nicotinamide riboside supplements may help treat this chronic pain by restoring mitochondrial function,” according to New Scientist.7

The study may help shed some light on why some people continue to experience pain even after inflammation has healed, which remains a largely unanswered question. The researchers noticed that even after the initial pain from inflammation goes away, the nerve cells involved in sensing pain still show changes in their mitochondria that disrupt the balance of certain chemicals in the cells.

However, adding the NAD+ precursor NR helped mice recover from pain, even when it was chronic. This suggests that managing mitochondria function in these nerve cells is crucial for overcoming persistent pain after inflammation.

Vitamin B3 for Chronic Pain
As noted in the blog To Extract Knowledge From Matter, which is inspired by the work of the late Ray Peat, niacinamide, another form of vitamin B3 involved in similar cellular processes as NR, may be useful for relieving chronic pain:8

“The study … is one of the first to demonstrate that chronic pain is not an organic disorder of its own, but a symptom of an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction. This not only explain why the intervention with niacinamide worked in alleviating the pain (by improving mitochondrial function), but also why treating chronic pain with opioids is about the worst intervention one could choose.

Why? Because opioids are among the most potent suppressors of mitochondria, which means that as soon as one stops taking them the chronic pain will be much worse, leading to more opioid use and so on — a vicious cycle with usually lethal outcome (overdose).”

In fact, one study found that people who use opioids tend to have fewer mitochondria in their blood. Further, being exposed to the synthetic opioid fentanyl before birth was found to change the number of mitochondria in the blood and the activity of genes related to mitochondria in the nucleus accumbens, a brain area important for feeling pleasure, in young offspring.9

To Extract Knowledge From Matter continued explaining why the featured study’s use of vitamin B3 is superior to opioids for chronic pain:10

“The niacinamide dose used in this study was on the high-side (HED [human equivalent dose] ~35mg/kg daily), but considering it was administrated only once and the pain was completely resolved, it is a low-risk intervention in such doses for humans, especially compared to opioids.

Also, there are prior animal studies showing that lower doses (HED 3mg/kg daily) taken for a few weeks can also relieve chronic pain, which lowers the risk of such intervention even more.”

Your Mitochondria Need Niacinamide
Niacinamide, also known as nicotinamide, is a form of niacin (vitamin B3) that plays a vital role in energy metabolism. It’s essential for the mitochondrial electron transport chain to function. Without it, your mitochondria cannot make energy.

Niacinamide is so important because it is a precursor for NAD+, which is involved in the conversion of food to energy, maintaining DNA integrity and ensuring proper cell function. NAD+ is also a primary fuel for sirtuins, longevity proteins that become depleted with age.

Niacinamide at a dose of 50 milligrams (mg) three times per day will provide the fuel for the rate limiting enzyme for NAD+, NAMPT. Niacinamide also has potent antiobesity effects, can help prevent neurodegeneration and heart failure, and reverse leaky gut.

Niacinamide may also help prevent neurodegeneration by allowing for higher energy levels through energy metabolism in the mitochondria. “There are many studies, going back decades, demonstrating that a drop in NAD+ levels, and thus of NAD/NADH, is a common feature of virtually all neurodegenerative diseases,” writes Peat’s student Georgi Dinkov, a bioenergetic researcher.11

I recommend getting niacinamide in powder form because the lowest available dose in most supplements is 500 mg, and that will decrease NAD+ due to negative feedback on NAMPT, which is the opposite of what you’re looking for. Niacinamide will only cost you about 25 cents a month if you get it as a powder. Typically, 1/64 of a teaspoon of niacinamide powder is about 50 mg.

I also recommend taking one aspirin tablet daily. Aspirin plays a role in mitochondria function12 and also has other health benefits. Importantly, it helps increase the oxidation of glucose as fuel for your body while inhibiting the oxidation of fatty acids, specifically linoleic acid (LA). Dinkov adds:13

“Since aspirin is known to modulate autophagy (raise it when it is abnormally low and lower it when it is abnormally high) and niacinamide is a very effective NAD precursor, it is reasonable to try them in combination that should be synergistic when it comes to protecting the brain (and the entire organism) from diseases and even aging.”

Why Avoiding LA in Ultraprocessed Foods Is Important for Pain Relief
Lowering your LA is the single most important strategy you can take to not only lower reductive stress in your mitochondria but improve your overall health, including relief of chronic pain. LA is an omega-6 fat found in the vegetable oils and seed oils common in most ultraprocessed foods.

The main reason why excess LA causes disease is that it prevents your mitochondria from working well. Mitochondria produce most of your cellular energy in the form of ATP, and without ATP, your cells cannot function and repair themselves normally.

Polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) such as LA are easily damaged by oxygen in a process called oxidation,14 which triggers the creation of damaging free radicals.15 These, in turn, give rise to advanced lipoxidation end products (ALEs)16 and in the case of omega-6 fats, oxidized LA metabolites (OXLAMs).17,18

These ALEs and OXLAMs then go on to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which is a hallmark of most chronic disease. In addition to oxidation, inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction, processed seed oils can also inhibit cardiolipin, an important fat in the inner membrane of your mitochondria.

Cardiolipin is important because it influences the structure of the cristae inside your mitochondria, which is the area where energy production occurs. If cardiolipin is damaged, then the complexes will not be close enough together to form supercomplexes, and thus the mitochondrial energy production will be impaired.

Cardiolipin also works like a cellular alarm system that triggers apoptosis (cell death) by signaling caspase-3 when something goes wrong with the cell. If the cardiolipin is damaged from oxidative stress due to having too much LA, it cannot signal caspase-3, which means apoptosis does not occur.

As a result, dysfunctional cells are allowed to continue to grow, which can turn into a cancerous cell. The type of dietary fat that promotes healthy cardiolipin is omega-3 fat, and the type that destroys it is omega-6, especially LA.

The good news is that dietary changes can improve the composition of fats in your cardiolipin in a matter of weeks, or even days. So, even though it will take years to lower your total body burden of LA, you will likely notice improvements well before then.

How to Optimize Your Mitochondrial Function
To optimize your mitochondrial function, you want to avoid LA as much as possible and increase your intake of omega-3s. Primary sources of LA include seed oils used in cooking, ultraprocessed foods and restaurant foods made with seed oils, condiments, seeds and nuts, most olive oils and avocado oils (due to the high prevalence of adulteration with cheaper seed oils).

Animal foods raised on grains, such as conventional chicken and pork, are also high in LA. Another major culprit that destroys mitochondrial function is excess iron — and almost everyone has too much iron. You can learn more about the health risks of excess iron in my interview with Christy Sutton, D.C. The most effective way to lower your iron is to donate blood two to four times a year.

As mentioned, I also recommend taking 50 mg of niacinamide three times per day. It’s also helpful to make sure you’re getting all the other B vitamins, as they too are crucial for mitochondrial function, especially regular niacin, riboflavin and folate.

Oftentimes, decreased mitochondrial function is due to a deficiency in B vitamins, and that’s easy to fix with a low-dose, high-quality B complex. Usually, when this is the case, improvement can be seen — and felt — within two to three weeks. "

Sources and References
1, 2 National Institutes of Health May 16, 2023
3, 9 Front Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 18:12:737389. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.737389. eCollection 2021
4 Cell Reports Medicine November 8, 2023
5, 6, 7 New Scientist November 8, 2023
8, 10 Haidut.me February 23, 2024, Chronic pain due to mitochondrial dysfunction, niacinamide can treat it (Archived)
11, 13 Haidut.me May 11, 2023, Niacinamide may prevent neurodegeneration (Archived)
12 Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 Jan 8; 482(2): 346–351
14 Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2014;2014: 360438. doi: 10.1155/2014/360438
15 Pharmacognosy Review. 2010;4(8):118-126
16 Biochemical Journal. 1982;208(1):129-140
17 Nephrol Dialysis Transplant. 2001;16(8):1598-1606
18 Free Radical Biol Med. 1992;13:341-390

[grapevine]

Why Is No One Talking About This...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dktvNq-vCvA

(8:12)
"Why isn’t anyone talking about the root cause of autoimmune disease? Autoimmune diseases are surpassing heart disease and cancer and rapidly becoming the number 1 health problem on planet Earth! Discover the real autoimmune disease cause and find out what you can do about it."

We're all au fait with the benefits of Vitamin D3 (taken with K2) these days but never hurts to get a reminder about how beneficial it is to our immune systems. As an asthma sufferer I've been prescribed and taken predisnolone many times over the years and have always suffered alarming withdrawal symptoms months afterwards. With ageing I'm now very chary about everthing I put into my body but wish I'd been more discerning when I was younger. Nevertheless it's never too late to start taking care of our wonderful and magical bodies.

[Bill Ryan]

A small personal anecdote that might be instructive. I treated myself to a blood test a few days ago, very cheap and easy in Ecuador. (Just walk into a lab and ask them to please test X, Y and Z.)

To my astonishment, my Vitamin D levels were very low – just over 22 ng/ml. As posted earlier in the thread, one ideally needs a level of 60 or more to be safely immune to any viruses.

As I live at a high altitude and hike the mountains regularly — and take a 5000 IU Vitamin D capsule every other day! — I'd assumed my levels were all fine and strong. But it was simple to test just as routine, and I'm pleased I did.

What I'm sure happened is that with the recent long sunny record 150-day drought, when in the high mountains I'd usually have my wide-brimmed leather hat on, sunglasses all the time, and also always with my sleeves rolled down to guard against the very high UV levels.

So with all that, very little of my skin was actually ever exposed to the sun.

And a few weeks ago when the drought ended and almost every day was cloudy and wet, I'd have my sleeves still rolled down because it was so cold.

In my case here, it's super-easy to fix, as I'm boosting my daily Vitamin D supplement and I'll test my level again next month.

Moral of the story: never assume one's levels of anything are fine. And do check them regularly if it's easy and inexpensive to do so.

(And I have a parallel story about B12, shared on this different thread)

[Mike Gorman]

Bill, I noted that you used to take 5,000 IU's every other day, from what I can gather from the researchers John Campbell refers to, 4,000 IU's per day is preferable. I also had a deficiency which found me struggling to get up out of chairs, feeling exhausted all the time and generally 'under par' - my doctor at the time ordered a blood test and as you would expect, my D3 level was not good. This has made me doubly aware of how important D3 is, I know we can overdo things, and calcium issues can be a problem, but you have to really exceed to get there. This chat might be of value if you have not caught this one, I take 4,000 IU's per day and this seems to be ideal. Cheers

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2hO7fniCbmw

[grapevine]

Good advice Mike G, I take the same as you but also take a magnesium capsule as low magnesium impedes the D3 (only learned that recently, again from Dr Eric Berg). Not sure whether I have the dose right as some are listed in mg and others in iu.

While writing many thanks to Harmony who suggrsted, a few months back, that the palpitations I experienced from supplements could be due to additives, fillers and binders. I check now that there are no preservatives if any kind and never gave it a thought before .

[Harmony]

I am so pleased that information has helped you too grapevine. Each of us may have our own sensitivities to certain ingredients. Also, I try and buy supplements in capsules rather than hard tablets because they seem to be easier to absorb, and also you can empty the capsules into a smoothy type drink and make them even more quickly available in your system too.

Posted by grapevine (here)
Good advice Mike G, I take the same as you but also take a magnesium capsule as low magnesium impedes the D3 (only learned that recently, again from Dr Eric Berg). Not sure whether I have the dose right as some are listed in mg and others in iu.

While writing many thanks to Harmony who suggrsted, a few months back, that the palpitations I experienced from supplements could be due to additives, fillers and binders. I check now that there are no preservatives if any kind and never gave it a thought before .

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
A small personal anecdote that might be instructive. I treated myself to a blood test a few days ago, very cheap and easy in Ecuador. (Just walk into a lab and ask them to please test X, Y and Z.)

To my astonishment, my Vitamin D levels were very low – just over 22 ng/ml. As posted earlier in the thread, one ideally needs a level of 60 or more to be safely immune to any viruses.

As I live at a high altitude and hike the mountains regularly — and take a 5000 IU Vitamin D capsule every other day! — I'd assumed my levels were all fine and strong. But it was simple to test just as routine, and I'm pleased I did.

What I'm sure happened is that with the recent long sunny record 150-day drought, when in the high mountains I'd usually have my wide-brimmed leather hat on, sunglasses all the time, and also always with my sleeves rolled down to guard against the very high UV levels.

So with all that, very little of my skin was actually ever exposed to the sun.

And a few weeks ago when the drought ended and almost every day was cloudy and wet, I'd have my sleeves still rolled down because it was so cold.

In my case here, it's super-easy to fix, as I'm boosting my daily Vitamin D supplement and I'll test my level again next month.

Moral of the story: never assume one's levels of anything are fine. And do check them regularly if it's easy and inexpensive to do so.

(And I have a parallel story about B12, shared on this different thread)

Realize that it takes your liver 2 to 4 WEEKS to break down the D3 into the form of vitamin D that the body utilizes. After all the vitamin D info that came out from covid, we know our vitamin D level is critical to our immune system's health. We also know that high doses (10,000 IU/day to 20,000 IU/day) are safe, but, because D3 also releases some calcium into the blood, that we must concurrently supplement vitamin K2, which takes the calcium out of our blood and deposits it on bones, instead of arterial walls. Magnesium is yet another mineral that works in synergy with vitamin D.

{edit, to add:
I think the notion of "adequate" amounts of specific vitamins is not a good way to look at dosing vitamins. Mineral dosage is a different issue - you don't do "mega-doses" of minerals, you stay within an established range - there have already been Guinea pigs that have overdosed each major and trace mineral, so we know the range. But there are a number of vitamins that have shown to be highly therapeutic in high doses, doses far beyond the US government "recommendations" or the amount in your Flintstones vitamins. Vitamin D3 tops that list.

Vitamins A, D, E, and K (both K1 and K2) are fat soluble (as are a few modern variants of standard vitamins, like benfotiamine as B1), so they can theoretically be over-dosed. I'm not recommending Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas amounts of vitamins, but think it is smart to look at the upper range for "safety" of Vitamin D, and check the work of current researchers, rather than Big Pharma's recommended tiny amounts that will keep a prisoner alive (and that will keep us as their clients.)

I recently went from 5000 IU (125mg) per day to 10,000 IU (250mg) per day, and I expect it will take my immunity up to Captain America's shield level.
}

[RunningDeer]

Dr. Roger Seheult, MD:

• As you get older, it's harder to make vitamin D.
• I started to look for things that boost the immune system. Things that might enhance it. Many of the patients that were coming in and doing well because they had high vitamin D levels, it might not have been just the vitamin D that was doing the heavy lifting. If you're going to supplement with dose is more than 1000 to 2000 international units, you really need to get your level checked. Anything north of Tennessee (USA) or that latitude, you're not gonna get enough vitamin D.

Increase Vitamin D: Fix Viruses & Inflammation Naturally (1:10:00)

• December 11, 2024
• The Primal Podcast

Dr. Roger Seheult, MD, explains the important role Vitamin D may have in the prevention and treatment of viruses.

Dr. Seheult's Protocols Increase Vitamin D

Dr. Seheult explains how Vitamin D works, summarizes the best available data and clinical trials on vitamin D, and discusses vitamin D dosage recommendations.

Roger Seheult, MD is Co-Founder of MedCram and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine and Assistant Prof. at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He is Quadruple Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_RnfWazjsBw

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:53 Vitamin D deficiency + prevalence

05:58 Vitamin D - the role of the body

08:05 Vitamin D and autoimmune conditions

10:05 Vitamin D helps with cancer

10:55 High dose vitamin D

15:04 Vitamin D vs vaccines for viruses

19:34 Dr. Roger Seheult's story

27:15 Tool: Vitamin D dose - how much you need

29:26 Tool: Vitamin D toxicity

30:29 Tool: How to get Vitamin D naturally

34:58 Tool: Sunscreen and vitamin D

38:14 Tool: Vitamin D3 vs vitamin D2

40:15 Dr Seheult's opinion about the vaccine

47:40 Myocarditis: Side effects from the vaccine

52:27 Spike protein

55:13 Tool: Hot & cold therapy

01:00:43 Tool: Sleep & circadian rhythms

01:07:01: Tool: Steps to boost immune system

01:12:55 Free guide to increase vitamin D; support the podcast, watch next

[grapevine]

The good news is that this is a gem of an interview and is recommended viewing for those who are concerned with their Vitamin D intake and good health in general. The first minute will grab your attention. The bad news is that it's quite a long video but also worthwhile as you can follow Dr Stasha Gominak's reasoning and makes perfect sense. It also brings back that feeling of awe about the miraculous workings of the human body

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=74F22bjBmqE

(1:24:17)
It turns out that Vitamin D3 is part of a cycle which, when complete, enables the body to carry out the necessary repairs by synthesising B vitamins when we're deeply asleep. The problem for many of us is that we don't get enough of the proper sleep and start experiencing symptoms which sends us off to the doctor. We are also uniquely individual and so it's not a case of one size fits all.

This video is the one I watched this morning (timestamp below) and which impacted me greatly, but as it was posted 7 years ago and there may have been updated information then, I've included a link to the later video, which is also much longer at 2+ hours.


0:00 Intro
02:29 Hundreds of Dr. Gominak’s patients, children, teenagers and young healthy females, didn’t have REM sleep.
04:42 Sleep apnea, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue were not recognized in the 1960s and 1970s, because they were not epidemic.
07:21 Vitamin D and the brain stem are major players in deep sleep.
10:03 You must be paralyzed in order to achieve the proper levels of sleep.
14:21 Why would an 8 year old have more than one sleep disorder?
16:02 There has been a major historical shift from living/working/playing outside.
17:07 Once you replace vitamin D, the body slowly changes from a vitamin D deficient body to a B deficient body.
18:08 While bears hibernate, their microbiome consumes the colonic mucus, which makes all of the B vitamins to meet the bear’s metabolic needs during hibernation. Does ours?
22:05 Why Did It Take 2 Years to Become B Deficient?
23:44 Each B vitamin has an intestinal bacterial source and a food source.
26:02 Wanted: Gut Bugs
31:39 You can fix your own bacteria with vitamin D levels above 40 and take B100 or B50 for 3 months.
32:58 The sodium linked multivitamin transport system pumps 3 vitamins, pantothenic acid, alpha lipoic acid and biotin, into our digestive system and our brain.
36:24 Dr. Gominak sees a correlation between autism and vitamin D deficiency.
38:27 The development of sexual dysmorphism and sleep.
42:34 When a child cannot get out of bed in the morning, this is may be the brain demanding that they go back to sleep to get REM.
44:03 A lack of REM sleep cheats a child of their normal development.
47:15 Children and adults normally make small subtle movements and tiny vocalizations, not talking, walking or falling out of bed.
48:27 Taking the Weston A. Price westernization theory to another level.
56:02 Breastfeeding enlarges nasal passages.
57:28 Dr. Gominak believes that vitamin D is trophic to the bacteria that we are supposed to have in our gut.
59:24 Pantothenic acid not only makes acetylcholine, it makes cortisol.
60:11 Acetylcholine is a chemical used by the vagus nerve.
01:07:46 A test result of pantothenic acid levels will parallel magnesium levels. It tells you what is in the blood, but not what is in the stores.
01:09:10 Perhaps we are completely self-healing with REM sleep.
01:12:26 Dr. Gominak’s Morning Routine
01:13:31 The ketogenic diet helps people to live longer. Being ketogenic during REM sleep helps us repair. We were probably designed to go into ketosis for at least 12 hours every night.
01:15:08 A new theory is that the tricarboxylic acid/CREB cycle, which is used when you are using fats as your energy supply, may have a different purpose. It may not be about making ATP.
0101:19:33 Dr. Gominak’s desert island herb, nutrient or supplement: Her choice is vitamin D, even on a desert island.
01:30:35 Dr. Gominak’s Elevator Pitch: We can impact our children, especially children of color. It they don’t go outside, they don’t make enough vitamin D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Qm...ntensityHealth

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
A small personal anecdote that might be instructive. I treated myself to a blood test a few days ago, very cheap and easy in Ecuador. (Just walk into a lab and ask them to please test X, Y and Z.)

To my astonishment, my Vitamin D levels were very low – just over 22 ng/ml. As posted earlier in the thread, one ideally needs a level of 60 or more to be safely immune to any viruses.

The last 10 days, I've been taking 10000 IU vitamin D a day to boost my levels. I wasn't concerned about the low test results at all as I knew I'd been shielding my skin from the sun a lot.

So I had it tested again this morning, and my levels are lower still, now down to 17 ng/ml.

Dennis explained above:

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
Realize that it takes your liver 2 to 4 WEEKS to break down the D3 into the form of vitamin D that the body utilizes. After all the vitamin D info that came out from covid, we know our vitamin D level is critical to our immune system's health. We also know that high doses (10,000 IU/day to 20,000 IU/day) are safe, but, because D3 also releases some calcium into the blood, that we must concurrently supplement vitamin K2, which takes the calcium out of our blood and deposits it on bones, instead of arterial walls. Magnesium is yet another mineral that works in synergy with vitamin D.

My mineral levels are all high and fine, and I take K2 every other day.

Could this new even lower test result be because of the 2-4 week time lag that Dennis refers to?

[Vicus]

To my astonishment, my Vitamin D levels were very low – just over 22 ng/ml. As posted earlier in the thread, one ideally needs a level of 60 or more to be safely immune to any viruses.[/QUOTE]The last 10 days, I've been taking 10000 IU vitamin D a day to boost my levels. I wasn't concerned about the low test results at all as I knew I'd been shielding my skin from the sun a lot.


For Bill...

Well, it is Summer in Ecuador now, what about just take a sun bad every day?



PS: I know, you got a too pale skin...but there is a trick...

In one of my previous life...I frequented Spanish beaches and learned this:

NONE Spaniard lay under the sun between 12-15 hours,EVER!

Best hours for you are the early hours (9-11) and the later ...

For health (not tan) 15 minutes for every side are enough.

And so avoid to become a flambéed shrimp like the rest normies North Europeans...

Of course NO Sun blockers, maybe after shower a good "after Sun" stuff et voila!

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
A small personal anecdote that might be instructive. I treated myself to a blood test a few days ago, very cheap and easy in Ecuador. (Just walk into a lab and ask them to please test X, Y and Z.)

To my astonishment, my Vitamin D levels were very low – just over 22 ng/ml. As posted earlier in the thread, one ideally needs a level of 60 or more to be safely immune to any viruses.

The last 10 days, I've been taking 10000 IU vitamin D a day to boost my levels. I wasn't concerned about the low test results at all as I knew I'd been shielding my skin from the sun a lot.

So I had it tested again this morning, and my levels are lower still, now down to 17 ng/ml.

Dennis explained above:

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
Realize that it takes your liver 2 to 4 WEEKS to break down the D3 into the form of vitamin D that the body utilizes. After all the vitamin D info that came out from covid, we know our vitamin D level is critical to our immune system's health. We also know that high doses (10,000 IU/day to 20,000 IU/day) are safe, but, because D3 also releases some calcium into the blood, that we must concurrently supplement vitamin K2, which takes the calcium out of our blood and deposits it on bones, instead of arterial walls. Magnesium is yet another mineral that works in synergy with vitamin D.

My mineral levels are all high and fine, and I take K2 every other day.

Could this new even lower test result be because of the 2-4 week time lag that Dennis refers to?

Here's a relatively quick video about vitamin D3 and the modified compound released by the liver: calcifidiol. (And, synthesized calcifidiol is a medical breakthrough, and should be on every hospital formulary, and administered to every patient, or at least every ICU patient.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HEjhUZbRZ7I

May I recommend that you take the K2 (100mcg dose of K-2 per 10,000IU of D3) every day. Otherwise, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, the calcium that will be in your blood will be deposited in your arteries and at inflamed sites. On the days you DO take K2, the calcium in your blood (which will go up every day when you take in vitamin D) will be removed from the blood and is deposited on bones - where it belongs.

Therapeutic vitamin D involves vitamin D3, magnesium, and K2 at therapeutic dosage simultaneously. (This is kind of assuming that your other minerals and vitamins are also adequate, such as zinc and vitamin B-12, which also affect the D3 absorption.)

Dr. Brian Ardis recommends 500mg+ of magnesium per day , which is double what I've been taking. I am going to double up and get closer to 500mg.


{edit} oops: the video isn't short, but the timing of D3 to calcifidiol pathway is mentioned within the first 10 minutes. Jump to just before the 7:00 mark to see a chart illustrating how quickly/slowly the D3 is converted. Looks like about 21 days to get up to around 40ng/ml, for someone starting at zero, maybe 14 days for someone starting at around 20. At 17ng/ml, you're a Petri dish.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
At 17ng/ml, you're a Petri dish.

Made me laugh! But I feel 100% fine.

Thanks for all the excellent info, and I'll double my intake of K2. All other levels are good and normal. I'm thinking my Vit D level will be up at 50+ within another 4 weeks.

Posted by Vicus (here)
Well, it is Summer in Ecuador now, what about just take a sun bath every day?

Ah no, the 6 month summer in Ecuador is July—December. The 6 month rainy season is January—June, but this time (after a record 150-day drought with super-high UV levels and gorgeous blue skies every day) the rains came early, and it's been cold, wet and gray for about a month now.

[Vicus]

OK,that's why Ecuador is called...

Argentina is the last country UNDER the Ecuator, Summer is December,January and Februar.

PS:

Check again my previous post... there is something new...