They Don't Want You to Know

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

What causes hypertension? One of the most common causes of high blood pressure is a deficiency in this key nutrient. In this podcast, I’ll explain the connection between vitamin D deficiency and high blood pressure. Your doctors will not tell you this!

If you have high blood pressure, your doctor should always check your vitamin D levels.

Vitamin D is the most important vitamin for the inside of the arteries, yet it’s often ignored in cases of hypertension.

Ninety percent of hypertension is considered essential, which means the cause is unknown. However, I believe it's likely linked to vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is vital in supporting and protecting the endothelial layer of your arteries.

The benefits of vitamin D for your arteries include:

1. Potent anti-inflammatory effects

2. Potent antioxidant effects

3. Increased nitric oxide

Nitric oxide keeps the arteries in a state of vasodilation and relaxation. Without enough nitric oxide, the arteries become tight, and blood pressure rises. When the endothelial layer of the artery becomes dysfunctional, you no longer produce nitric oxide.

You won't absorb much calcium if you don't have enough vitamin D. This can cause your parathyroid hormone to increase to remove calcium from the bone and put it into the blood. If you are chronically low in vitamin D, the parathyroid hormone will continue to rob calcium from the bone, creating osteoporosis.

Many doctors do not recommend large doses of vitamin D in fear of vitamin D toxicity. Clinical data does not support vitamin D toxicity! Dr. Bruce Hollis, a pioneer in vitamin D research, has personally never seen a case.

Vitamin K2 can help remove calcium from the arteries and put it into the teeth and bones. Magnesium regulates excess calcium and helps to prevent cardiovascular problems.

Vitamin D protects your arteries by decreasing inflammation and supporting the vascular cells. Vitamin D, magnesium, and K2 can help prevent calcium from developing in the wrong places, helping to prevent high blood pressure. Aim for 30,000 IU of vitamin D daily if you have high blood pressure.

Dr. Bruce Hollis Interview:Your Body Is BEGGING For Vitamin D!!

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0:00.0	The number one vitamin deficiency in high blood pressure, aka hypertension, is what we're going to
0:06.7	talk about. This is not just for high blood pressure. It's for anything related to the arteries.
0:11.1	Plaquack in the arteries, calcium in the arteries. This information is so vitally important.
0:17.3	Your doctors will not tell you this because they're simply not trained, despite
0:22.2	massive evidence. If you have high blood pressure, the doctors should always check for
0:29.2	vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is the most important vitamin or the inside of the artery, yet it's
0:36.5	completely ignored. A person instead is put on
0:39.2	medication. I mean, if you look up the actual cause of hypertension, 90% of it is called essential.
0:45.3	What does that mean? It means unknown cause. I'm going to be bold and tell you that that essential
0:50.3	hypertension is a vitamin D deficiency. If we take a look at an artery. You have a very
0:56.3	thin, single cell layer of tissue called the endothelial layer. That is inside the artery,
1:04.7	just constantly reacting with things that are in the artery itself. Whether there's too much
1:09.8	sugar or junk food or whatever,
1:12.4	that little layer is going to respond and do something.
1:15.5	And if a person is deficient in vitamin D,
1:18.7	they lose massive protection against that little layer of cells.
1:23.0	And now the person is very susceptible to the start of many problems.
1:28.4	If you realize that vitamin D is one of the most potent natural substances in existence,
1:33.2	there was one study that I found that evaluated over a thousand different compounds
1:39.1	to see which one most potently affected this endothelial layer.
1:47.6	And guess what? It was vitamin D. And you're about to learn why vitamin D is so important. Number one, it's a potent anti-inflammatory. Number two,
1:52.6	it's a potent antioxidant. And number three, it directly increases something called nitric oxide.
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