Vitamin D Suppresses the Cytokine Storm

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about what vitamin D can do for the cytokine storm.

A cytokine storm is basically what’s really killing the majority of people who die from COVID-19. But, it’s only deadly if the person’s immune system is malfunctioning.

There is a really interesting study that compared the two countries with the highest mortality rates from COVID-19 to the countries with the lowest mortality rates from COVID-19. They looked at their vitamin D levels. They found a correlation between the higher mortality rates and low vitamin D. Not only that; they found a strong correlation between vitamin D and cytokine storm. People that had the most vitamin D did not have the cytokine storm.

Vitamin D is an immune modulator. It controls the amount of inflammation within the immune system.

A cytokine is a signaling protein that can:

• Increase the number of white blood cells

• Cause inflammation

• Suppress inflammation

• Stimulate angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels)

Just like how your immune system has strategies to fight off pathogens, pathogens have strategies to survive and counter attacks.

During a cytokine storm, there is a hyperinflammatory reaction going on that creates a lot of damage in the body.

Vitamin D may be able to help suppress cytokines. But, if your immune system is already healthy, you don’t really have to worry about anything.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito 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 what Vitamin D can actually do for something called the cytokine
0:48.0	Storm. If you're not familiar with what that is, it's basically the thing that's killing the majority of people who
0:56.8	have COVID-19, but realize that it's only going to kill someone if their immune system is malfunctioning.
1:05.2	There is a really interesting study, I'll put the link down below, it wasn't peer reviewed
1:10.4	yet, but it was from the Northwestern University, comparing two groups of countries.
1:16.8	So what they did is it compared the countries with the highest mortality rate, which means
1:21.0	the highest rate of dying from COVID-19 to the countries with the lowest mortality
1:26.8	rate which had the least effect on someone's life.
1:31.2	And then they looked at their vitamin D status and they found a really good
1:36.3	correlation between the higher mortality group and the lowest amount of
1:41.0	vitamin D versus the lowest mortality rate and the highest amount of
1:46.8	vitamin D.
1:49.0	But not only that, they found a strong correlation between vitamin D and the cytokine storm.
1:55.3	In other words, people that had the most vitamin D did not have the cytokine storm.
2:00.4	Now why is that? Because vitamin D is a immune modulator. It controls the amount of
2:06.5	inflammation within the immune system and it has a lot of other functions as well.
2:10.6	But what I want to talk about is the mechanism of this cytokine storm.
2:16.6	Now what is a cytokine? A cytokine is a signaling protein that can do several things.
2:25.0	It can increase the number of white blood cells.
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