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Understanding Vitamin D: Dosage, Benefits, and Cautions Explained... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 1: connections between body, mind, and spirit, where we believe that
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  Speaker 1: true wellness arises from addressing the root causes of our
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  Speaker 1: health challenges, not just masking the symptoms. Here we dive
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  Speaker 1: deep into how holistic approaches such as advanced chiropractic care,
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  Speaker 1: personalized nutrition, and natural healing practices can transform your life.
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  Speaker 1: Now Here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. Have you ever wondered
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  Speaker 2: why some supplements they just don't have very high ridas
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  Speaker 2: if we notice anything about even like a supplement vitamin D,
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  Speaker 2: the amount seems so very small, And while twenty micrograms
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  Speaker 2: is indeed very small, I bet we could probably hardly
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  Speaker 2: even see it. Though. We look at calcium and we
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  Speaker 2: see a calcium or a pill of calcium, it's like
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  Speaker 2: six hundred milligrams. You're thinking milligrams. Wow, that seems like
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  Speaker 2: a lot. And then we look at some things like hey,
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  Speaker 2: you need you need fifty grams of protein a day.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty grams, Well, that's a lot lot. And we look
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  Speaker 2: at this and I want kind of some understanding to
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  Speaker 2: dawn on us about things that we need in massive
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  Speaker 2: quantities like protein, where we might need fifty grams, seventy
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  Speaker 2: five grams, eighty grams, one hundred grams a day depending
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  Speaker 2: on your body style and type and activity level. We
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  Speaker 2: look at calcium, which is one of the major minerals
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  Speaker 2: of the human body, and we need milligrams. Well, what's
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  Speaker 2: a milligram, Well, a thousand milligrams make one gram, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're thinking a gram of protein. Okay, one thousandth
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  Speaker 2: of that. Boh, that's not very big. And so then
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  Speaker 2: we look at vitamin D and it's now micrograms. What's
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  Speaker 2: that A thousand micrograms makes up a milligram. Well, one
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  Speaker 2: milligram is already really tiny. You're talking about a thousandth
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  Speaker 2: of that. That's crazy. And while that is very small,
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  Speaker 2: the reason is, and what when you understand it will
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  Speaker 2: make sense. Now, what's the next size down from micrograms?
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  Speaker 2: Now we get two nanograms. One thousandth of a microgram
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  Speaker 2: is one nanogram, and one peakagram is one thousandth of
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  Speaker 2: a nanogram. We're getting into substances that we would actually
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  Speaker 2: not be able to see at all. And the reason
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  Speaker 2: for that is is because hormones are in very very
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  Speaker 2: small quantities in the human body, they're very powerful and
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  Speaker 2: it takes very little. And so when we get down
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  Speaker 2: into these very small quantities, we want to start considering
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  Speaker 2: something a little different, and vitamin D is one of
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  Speaker 2: those such substances because it is a hormone. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: most medical professions that are up on current information are
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  Speaker 2: actually calling there is a group of substances called pre hormones,
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  Speaker 2: and so vitamin D being a pre hormone and one
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  Speaker 2: of fifty, we don't need much of it. And if
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  Speaker 2: you really want to get into the nitty gritty of
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  Speaker 2: the research of it, it is twenty five hydroxy vitamin
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  Speaker 2: D and that is what our liver produces. So that
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  Speaker 2: D three that we're so used to seeing in a
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  Speaker 2: pill bottle, that is what is produced in our liver. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how does our liver produce vitamin D? Well? Our skin
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  Speaker 2: has wonderful oils, or rather should have wonderful oils and cholesterol,
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  Speaker 2: and both of those together along with calcium. When the
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  Speaker 2: sun hits our skin, the oil and cholesterol become the
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  Speaker 2: vitamin D one, if you will, and then gets converted
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  Speaker 2: and now delivered to the liver, and then it gets
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  Speaker 2: converted once again to D three and then the cells
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  Speaker 2: take it up and they make other vitamin D and
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  Speaker 2: so these are all pre hormones that we use, and
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  Speaker 2: so to take a pre hormone, we want to be
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  Speaker 2: a little cautious. So just regular, you know, run of
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  Speaker 2: the mill vitamin D three that we get isn't the
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  Speaker 2: greatest in the world. It is still synthetic, but the
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  Speaker 2: body will use it. Because it is synthetic. It takes
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  Speaker 2: a bit more than just these standard eight hundred international
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  Speaker 2: units or twenty micrograms of vitamin D in order to
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  Speaker 2: you know, actually be of some value in the body.
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  Speaker 2: So if we get a natural vitamin D from cod
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  Speaker 2: liver oil, where there's just a tiny amount in cod
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  Speaker 2: of oil, it actually is utilized well by the body
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  Speaker 2: and you don't have to do any more than that typically.
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  Speaker 2: But for those of you out there that are not
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  Speaker 2: familiar and like, I'm not gonna do codler oil. It
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  Speaker 2: smells like fish, and I would agree if you find fishy,
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  Speaker 2: fish flavored, fishy smell fish oil calld of rol, please
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  Speaker 2: do not take it. That's rancid. But for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of us are like, well, what do I do? And
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  Speaker 2: therein now lies the issue. So what does all the
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  Speaker 2: research show for vitamin D supplementation? Now, for normal daily allowance,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to recommend if you're doing a synthetic vitamin
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  Speaker 2: D in the form of a pill that you're pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure is not naturally derived, then we're going to recommend
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  Speaker 2: somewhere between that two and five thousand international units or
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  Speaker 2: basically twenty twenty five to fifty micrograms a day. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna be hard pressed to find a supplement that's
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  Speaker 2: under five thousand international units. Is that bad? No, not necessarily,
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  Speaker 2: And if you've never taken vitamin D you could probably
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  Speaker 2: do that pretty safely for a while. That's a while,
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  Speaker 2: probably six months or even a little bit longer. Now,
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  Speaker 2: ideally we would do a blood test, what is your
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  Speaker 2: vitamin D level?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Now? Interestingly enough, that's an expensive test. Why because hormones
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  Speaker 2: are always difficult to find, and so they're more expensive
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to finding them in blood. How much
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  Speaker 2: more expensive? Well, if an at lab cast of blood
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  Speaker 2: is let's say between a normal test is somewhere between
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  Speaker 2: twenty and thirty dollars, a hormone to find them is
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  Speaker 2: going to be somewhere between forty and sixty. So it's
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  Speaker 2: not like it's just astronomical, but it is more expensive
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  Speaker 2: for the lab. Now what's a doctor like me going
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  Speaker 2: to charge? Well, keep the lights on, have a computer system,
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  Speaker 2: you know, take care of patients, have a home, pay staff.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to be charging you our cost, but
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  Speaker 2: at least you know our cost. What really miss me
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  Speaker 2: is when I see ten times, fifteen times, one hundred
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  Speaker 2: times markup on blood. But that's a conversation for another time.
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  Speaker 2: And so at this point you kind of have an
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  Speaker 2: idea of now vitamin D, So what do I What
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  Speaker 2: do I do? How much do I take? What's reasonable?
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  Speaker 2: So let's say you have a fire. Okay, well we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be doing a lot more. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to walk up to your house fire with a one
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  Speaker 2: inch hose. We're going to walk up to your house
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  Speaker 2: fire with a four inch hose and maybe five of them.
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  Speaker 2: So when we do something like an autoimmune condition, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to use pretty high doses of vitamin D among
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  Speaker 2: other things to help your autoimmune condition, because the research
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  Speaker 2: is out that shows that vitamin D is excellent for
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  Speaker 2: autoimmune conditions. So what am I going to start people
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  Speaker 2: at that five thousand international units or one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty five micrograms is not far off. It's a good idea,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not going to be doing that ever alone.
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  Speaker 2: I know that we need vitamin A in its natural
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  Speaker 2: form and vitamin K two in its natural form to
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  Speaker 2: balance vitamin D because they're all players in the calcium realm,
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  Speaker 2: calcium being one of the most important minerals for the
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  Speaker 2: human body, arguably since it alone almost outweighs all other
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  Speaker 2: minerals combined in terms of weight in the body. What
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  Speaker 2: does that mean. It means that if we added up
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  Speaker 2: all the grams of all the trace minerals and minerals
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  Speaker 2: in your body, it would all almost equal the amount
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  Speaker 2: of calcium you have in your body. Forty eight percent
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  Speaker 2: of our mineral density is calcium. That's massive. So calcium
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  Speaker 2: does some pretty important jobs and it needs some regulators.
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  Speaker 2: Vitamin D, vitamin A, and vitamin K two are those regulators.
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  Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, they're all fats. They're all fat soluble vitamins,
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  Speaker 2: and they are all considered now pre hormones, and so
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  Speaker 2: most fats, and I would arguably say all fat vitamins,
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  Speaker 2: vitamin E, vitamin F vitamin K, vitamin K two, all
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  Speaker 2: of these different vitamins that are fat soluble are indeed
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  Speaker 2: pre hormones. And so I've done podcasts on essential oils,
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  Speaker 2: and since they are oils, I am going to now
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  Speaker 2: assume that they are all pre hormones as well. That's
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  Speaker 2: why essential oils work so well. So if you've never
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  Speaker 2: heard that, you've heard it for the first time. Here
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  Speaker 2: Now vitamin D in an autoimmune condition, we are going
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  Speaker 2: to go way up, and we're going to use research
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  Speaker 2: to back that up. Most research that I see has
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  Speaker 2: done crazy things with vitamin D Dosing literally three hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand international units as a loading dose, meaning a one
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  Speaker 2: time dose anywhere from twenty five to thirty five thousand
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  Speaker 2: international units a day for up to six months, and
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  Speaker 2: they will drive their blood levels well beyond medical ranges
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  Speaker 2: of what they considered normal. Most medical labs will tell
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  Speaker 2: you somewhere between thirty or forty and one hundred is
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  Speaker 2: where they want to aim for your vitamin D levels,
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  Speaker 2: but they'll be up in the one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: two hundred, even above two hundred in the blood, which
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  Speaker 2: we have been told is very dangerous. You'll get bronzing
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  Speaker 2: of skin. You'll get all this weird stuff. And while
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  Speaker 2: I've had a couple patients that have come in that
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  Speaker 2: have been on high dose vitamin D for like ten years,
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  Speaker 2: they do indeed have skin bronzing, and I'm like, you
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  Speaker 2: need to stop. Now. They're sitting at one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifteen on a blood test. I'm thinking, you've been doing
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  Speaker 2: this way too long. Let's back off. And the moment
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  Speaker 2: that I do and start adding some things that balance
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  Speaker 2: their body, all of a sudden they feel much much better.
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  Speaker 2: High vitamin D over time, meaning long long periods of time,
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  Speaker 2: will calcify the tissues. What does that mean? It means
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  Speaker 2: like getting very stiff, having your heart calcified, having tissue calcified,
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  Speaker 2: having your blood vessels calcified. It means not good things.
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  Speaker 2: So we want to be at least cautious in very
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  Speaker 2: long term high vitamin D dosing. But you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be fine, as I read most medical literature, for a
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  Speaker 2: short period of time. But as always, it is wise
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  Speaker 2: to consult a healthcare provider that has some experience. What
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  Speaker 2: else should we be doing with you besides just doing
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  Speaker 2: high vitamin D for an autommune condition? That would be silly.
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  Speaker 2: There are many many other things that need to be
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  Speaker 2: done for that condition, but a big deal in your
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  Speaker 2: arsenal if you have an automune condition, would be that
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  Speaker 2: vitamin D. So this is why vitamin d's supplementation is
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  Speaker 2: pretty darn low because they're pre hormones. We don't want
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  Speaker 2: to willy nilly take hormones. They're very powerful, but done
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  Speaker 2: in the right way, it can be super helpful for
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  Speaker 2: many many conditions. So I hope that was helpful. Until
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  Speaker 2: next time, I'm doctor Troy, and remember there is way
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  Speaker 2: more right with you than there is wrong with you.
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  Speaker 2: It is not meant to diagnose or treat any conditions.