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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Coimbra first discovered the benefits of vitamin D when he noticed significant improvement in a patient with Parkinson’s disease and vitiligo after giving them 10,000 IU of vitamin D per day.

As Dr. Coimbra learned more about vitamin D, he began to increase his patients’ dosage while closely monitoring them for symptoms of toxicity. He found that he could prevent an increase of calcium in the urine caused by higher doses of vitamin D by asking his patients to decrease their dairy intake. Magnesium can also be taken with high doses of vitamin D to help control calcium levels and aid absorption.

People with autoimmune disorders often have polymorphisms affecting any of the nine genes that vitamin D requires for proper function. Vitamin D deficiency is also related to modern lifestyles that limit sun exposure.

In 1988, it was discovered that we have vitamin D receptors in almost every cell of the body. This triggered an increase in vitamin D research and the understanding that vitamin D was important for far more than just bone and calcium. If you have a problem with vitamin D metabolism, you could be prone to many diseases.

Dr. Coimbra explains that some health concerns must be addressed with doses of up to 600,000 IU of vitamin D. This dosage may also be helpful before surgery.

When treating people with autoimmune diseases, Dr. Coimbra gives his patients 1,000 IU of vitamin D per kilogram of body weight.

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0:00.0	Imagine world where we just had to adjust your vitamin D levels and how this could dramatically change your autoimmune disease outcome.
0:08.6	Dr. Coembrey, who's developed the Coembrey protocol.
0:11.7	He's world famous. He uses high doses of vitamin D3 to put autoimmune disease into remission.
0:18.2	I'm very happy to bring you on, doctor. Pleasure to meet you.
0:21.7	My pleasure. How did you first stumble on the connection between vitamin D and autoimmune?
0:29.5	I think it was MS. Back like 25 years ago, I was working in a hospital as a neurologist, and I saw a patient who had
0:41.6	the Parkinson's disease.
0:43.5	And I was aware that vitamin D induces neurotrophic factors in our brain.
0:50.7	So I decided that I should try to give him 10,000 units of vitamin D per day.
0:58.8	And at the same time, I could see that he had the vitiligo affecting his forehead.
1:05.1	So I gave him vitamin D trying to help him in respect of his neurological disease, trying to slow down the progression
1:16.6	of Parkinson's disease.
1:18.3	It turns out that when that patient came back, those lesions were almost disappeared.
1:25.5	I was asking him what kind of treatment he was under for Vitiligo.
1:31.5	He said nothing.
1:33.2	I just took the vitamin D that he gave me.
1:36.5	I was amazed to see that, and I was wondering what possible mechanisms.
1:42.5	Vitamin D could be involved in preventing autoimmune diseases like vitiligo.
1:50.1	We started using 10,000 units of vitamin D, and then as we learned more,
1:56.0	we could increase the doses progressively while we were checking to make sure that those
2:04.3	patients would not develop intoxication due to the doses of vitamin D.
2:11.0	Then as time went by, I was getting more and more familiar with the effects of vitamin D, and I saw that I could prevent
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