Got enough Vitamin D? I bet not. Part 1/2

Got enough Vitamin D? I bet not.

85% of Americans are deficient in Vitamin D as are 95% of American seniors.

Facts:
Vitamin D is classified as a group of fat soluble phormones. The two major types are vitamin D 3 or cholecalciferol and vitamin D2 ergocalciferol. Vitamin D has been proven to influence over 2,000 of the 30,000 genes in your body.

Vitamin D Recipe:
Cholesterol often gets a bad rap in the world of layman’s nutrition so here is its moment to shine. This is how our bodies make vitamin D in a nutshell. Cholesterol (90% of our cholesterol is produced by our liver) flows through your bloodstream and sunlight’s UV B rays penetrate the thinner areas of your skin with the greatest concentration of blood vessels and begin the conversion of cholesterol into Vitamin D.

Tips:
Check your cupboard, if you are consuming any supplement with vitamin D 2, stop taking it and toss it out because it will interfere with vitamin D 3 conversion. If you are taking any supplement with D 3 that is not natural vitamin D 3, stop taking it and toss it out. Find a good sublingual natural vitamin D 3 spray.

Benefits:
Vitamin D acts as an antibiotic by increasing antimicrobial peptides. Vitamin D can be helpful in preventing colds and influenza. Vitamin D helps prevent age related DNA damage (aging) and lowers inflammatory responses helping to prevent chronic pain.
Vitamin D plays a central role and strong correlation with auto immune diseases. RA, MS, Chron’sDz, Diabetes Type 1 & 2.

Vitamin D also helps to treat or helps to prevent: Psoriasis, eczema, some types of hearing loss, some types of muscle pain, cavities, athletic performance, blindness (age related macular degeneration), reducing the risk of autism, pre eclampsia, improved fertility, depression, myopia, seizures, asthma, cystic fibrosis, migraines, depression, schizophrenia and migraines. As if that were not enough vitamin D also helps to prevent heart disease, cancer (vitamin D acts as a chemotherapy agent), diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Influenza. The #1, #2, #6, #7, and #8 most common causes of death in the USA.

The Big C … Cancer:
Cancer is one of the scariest words there is, especially when your doctor brings it up. Well, I am a doctor and this paragraph had better shed some light on the mistakes that the medical community has been making since the early 1980’s with regard to the use of sunscreen. For every one death from skin cancer due to excess UV exposure, there are 200 deaths from cancer related to insufficient UV exposure and vitamin D deficiency. Simply put, UV A contributes to skin cancer. UV B helps make vitamin D3 from cholesterol which helps prevent many cancers. Sunscreen blocks UV B not UV A. Therefore sunscreen contributes to cancer formation and vitamin D deficiency with sun exposure. Most car and home windows also block out UV B. Normal sunlight has a 20:1 ratio of UV A to UV B. Optimal vitamin D levels can cut the risk of 16 types of cancer by 30-60%. Because UV A does not cause reddening of the skin (erythema) it cannot be measured in SPF testing. UV B causes some damage to collagen but at a very much slower rate than UVA.

***Please re-read the previous paragraph until you can explain it by memory so that you can educate others especially your family and loved ones.

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Yours in health,
Dr. Christopher Pierce
Chiropractor


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