These Vitamin D Mistakes Are Bad

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Vitamin D is the most important vitamin! It’s a fat-soluble vitamin involved in 10% of our genetics.

Vitamin D won’t work unless you have enough magnesium, the second most important nutrient. Magnesium is involved with 300 different enzymes and plays a vital role in regulating excess calcium. Magnesium glycinate supplements have the best absorption rate.

The more vitamin D you take, the more magnesium you’ll need. Some negative side effects associated with vitamin D, such as nausea, heart palpitations, muscle cramps, and headaches, are actually symptoms of a magnesium deficiency.

Don’t take vitamin D without the important cofactor, vitamin K2. Vitamin D helps you absorb calcium, but you need vitamin K2 to drive it into the bones and teeth to keep it out of the soft tissues.

Vitamin K2 is best for calcium buildup. Take 100 mcg of vitamin K2 for every 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3.

Zinc is another important cofactor that helps you convert cholesterol into vitamin D. If you’re taking 10,000 IU of vitamin D, you should also take 20 mg of zinc.

One of the biggest vitamin D mistakes is not taking enough! You need at least 6,000 to 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 every day. Vitamin D2 does not work like vitamin D3.

The vitamin D detected in the blood is not the active form. This means you could have normal blood levels of vitamin D but still have vitamin D deficiency.

Statins and steroids can inhibit your ability to make vitamin D and its ability to work in your body. The best time to get vitamin D from the sun is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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0:00.0	I'd like to discuss the common mistakes people make when they're taking vitamin D.
0:04.5	Vitamin D is the most important vitamin because it's involved in over 10% of all of our genetics.
0:11.1	It's a fat-siable vitamin, which means that it absorbs better when you consume it with fat,
0:16.4	whether it's MCT oil or olive oil or something like that.
0:20.0	The absolute most important thing to know about
0:21.6	vitamin D is that it won't work unless you have enough magnesium. The thing about magnesium,
0:26.0	it's the second most important nutrient because it's involved with 300 different enzymes.
0:32.5	Magnesium regulates excess amount of calcium that builds up in your arteries. You don't want to just take
0:38.5	any old magnesium because the one called magnesium oxide, you do not want to take that. It only
0:43.6	absorbs like 3 to 4%. And you're going to get diarrhea usually if you take more than that. A better one
0:48.8	would be magnesium glycinate. You take that in the evening. It'll help you sleep. You get like an 80% absorption.
0:55.7	If you take magnesium citrate, okay, that's fine too. The other side note I want to mention about
1:00.8	magnesium is that the more vitamin D that you take, the more magnesium is going to be required.
1:08.3	Some people that take vitamin D, they react. They get a symptom from it,
1:12.5	whether it's nausea, heart palpitations, muscle cramps, sometimes it's a headache. Realize
1:17.7	that's probably just a magnesium deficiency because the more vitamin you take without magnesium,
1:24.5	the more magnesium your body is going to have to pull from the reserves. And if you're
1:27.5	already deficient, you're going to be really deficient now, thereby giving you more symptoms,
1:32.4	which might happen more in the early morning when you wake up because that's when you have
1:36.7	the lowest amount of magnesium in the body. Other mistake that people make with vitamin D is
1:41.8	they don't take it with vitamin K2.
1:44.6	Vitamin K2 is another coal factor very, very important because think about it,
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