Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Hey guys, today we're going to talk about low cholesterol and vitamin D deficiencies

the connection between the two.

I recently had someone ask a question about vitamin D deficiencies and upon questioning

her I found that she was also on a statin so I wanted to create a whole video on that

because I think it's important to know about this.

In order to make vitamin D you need cholesterol.

Cholesterol is essential for the production of vitamin D.

So even when you get sun for example and it hits your skin, there's a chemical combination

that occurs with sun, skin, cholesterol and then the conversion to the liver and kidney

to make vitamin D.

And by the way, vitamin D, one of the functions of vitamin D is to increase the absorption

of calcium by 20 times in the small intestine.

Vitamin D also is anti-inflammatory.

It's anti-thrombotic which means it reduces clots in the body.

It also helps in vascular protection, it helps your heart, it increases HDL, it's anti-cancer.

Now here's the problem.

When people are taking statins, guess what, they're blocking all the cholesterol in the body

and they're also lowering their vitamin D and there's an interesting connection between

the main symptom of statins which is achy muscles and the main symptom of vitamin D deficiency

...