KILL Cancer

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

There are many ways that vitamin D function supports cancer prevention. Vitamin D triggers a cell to commit suicide if it’s damaged. It helps regulate cell growth and has potent anti-inflammatory properties.

Vitamin D enhances almost every part of your immune system, enhances chemotherapy, and makes insulin more sensitive. It downgrades genes that cause cancer and supports the gut microbiome, which is 80% of your immune system.

In a cancer cell, inflammation and a hypoxic, acidic environment block the absorption of vitamin D. Cancer also blocks the enzymes that allow you to convert inactive vitamin D to the active form. Cancer damages the liver and kidney, two significant sites of vitamin D metabolism.

Around 80% of tumors produce a hormone similar to the parathyroid hormone, which extracts calcium from our bones. This is why hypercalcemia is a side effect of cancer. When the parathyroid hormone goes up, it lowers and inhibits vitamin D. Too much calcium in the blood also inhibits vitamin D.

There are two systems of vitamin D: one that affects bone and calcium, and the other that supports the immune system. The bone system only requires a small amount of vitamin D every two weeks, while the other requires higher amounts daily.

When dealing with cancer, consider taking around 50,000 IU of vitamin D with magnesium, vitamin K2, and zinc daily. The World Health Organization acknowledges that vitamin D has anticarcinogenic properties.

Autoimmune conditions, osteoarthritis, tuberculosis, and HIV are also associated with vitamin D deficiency.

Along with increasing vitamin D3, the following epigenetic factors can help with cancer prevention:

1. Magnesium

2. Omega-3 fatty acids

3. Resveratrol

4. Quercetin

5. Curcumin

6. Berberine

7. Intense exercise

8. Sulforaphane

9. Ginger

10. Fasting

11. Low-carb diet

12. Probiotics

13. Infrared light

14. Decreasing stress

DATA:

https://orthomolecular.activehosted.c...

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/...

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0:00.0	Cancer thrives in a low vitamin D environment. Let me explain. There's so many different mechanisms
0:06.6	on how vitamin D can reduce someone's risk for cancer. So this is really a Coucher 22 because on one
0:13.4	hand, the great importance of vitamin D to help keep you from getting cancer, but on the other hand,
0:19.5	if you get cancer, now what? That cancer is going
0:22.2	to drive your vitamin D right down to the bottom. Somehow it knows that if you have enough vitamin D,
0:27.5	it's very hard for cancer to exist. Number one, vitamin D has the ability to trigger a cell to commit
0:33.8	suicide if there's damage to that cell. Because if you think about it, what's cancer?
0:39.1	Cancer is a normal cell that converts to a cancer cell because there's some damage to it.
0:44.5	Normally what's supposed to happen if that cell is damaged is that it's supposed to commit suicide
0:49.2	and get rid of itself. Vitamin D is intimately involved doing the job, so it doesn't go into cancer. Number two,
0:56.4	vitamin D helps regulate excess out of control cell growth. The tumor cell cannot get any nutrition
1:04.6	and all our resources. It can die. Next one, vitamin D is anti-inflammatory. One of the hallmarks
1:10.4	for cancer is inflammation. Vitamin D normally is-inflammatory. One of the hallmarks for cancer is inflammation.
1:12.9	Vitamin D normally is supposed to get rid of that inflammation. So several of the things that occur
1:17.5	with tumors or cancer is number one, inflammation. Number two, a lack of oxygen. And number three,
1:24.8	an alteration in the pH. In other words, the environment where tumors
1:29.0	thrive is acid. Well, guess what? Vitamin D enhances almost every part of your immune system.
1:36.7	Vitamin D also enhances chemotherapy. And vitamin D also helps to make insulin more sensitive.
1:42.3	When people have insulin resistance, they're also greater
1:44.9	at risk for getting cancer. Vitamin D actually downgrades genes that cause cancer. And vitamin D greatly
1:50.5	supports the gut microbiome that also is like 80% of your immune system. That's what vitamin D can do.
1:56.3	Now, let's talk about what cancer does. In a cancer cell, you have inflammation, that lack of oxygen called hypoxia,
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