Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

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

Let's talk about why you're really deficient in vitamin D and why is it so hard to get

vitamin D?

Well, number one, it's very difficult if not impossible to get vitamin D from your diet,

unless you have fatty fish every single day.

So this is why we rely on the sun.

Well, let's take a look at how much vitamin D you can get from the sun.

Well, 10 minutes of the sun can provide a thousand international units, right?

Actually, a thousand international units is very tiny.

But you're only going to get this one thousand I use only if you live close to the equator.

And if you're young, the older you are, the more difficult it is to penetrate through

the skin.

Apparently, the skin becomes thicker.

And if you're not obese, the more fat you have in your body, the less penetration sun

has through your skin.

And if you have more light color skin, the darker the skin, the more the melanin, the less

vitamin D gets through the skin.

And if it's in the middle of the day and you're lying down versus standing up, if you're

standing up, the sun rays kind of get the top of your head, but they don't get the whole

body.

And of course, you have to have a healthy liver and enough bile to be able to break down

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