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🗓️ 30 March 2024
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Today, we’re going to look at the obesity rates in the United States. Why are there no fat people in Colorado? Areas of the US with higher Black, Latino, and American Indian populations have higher obesity rates. The elderly have higher rates of obesity as well. People with darker skin tones have more melanin, making it more difficult to absorb vitamin D. It also becomes more difficult to absorb vitamin D as you age. Chronic vitamin D deficiency can lead to obesity. The more overweight a person is, the more vitamin D they need. The characteristics of metabolic syndrome align perfectly with the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency can create inflammation, high blood glucose, high blood pressure, and insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is the driving factor behind obesity. If you have insulin resistance, you have too much insulin. Insulin is a fat-storing hormone that causes you to gain weight. Vitamin D helps keep insulin sensitive, but vitamin D doesn’t work well if you have insulin resistance. Colorado is a high-altitude state situated several thousand feet above sea level. This means it’s closer to the sun. The closer you are to the sun, the more vitamin D you’re exposed to. Vitamin D exposure in Colorado could be the most critical variable influencing people's weight.
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0:00.0 | So I have a question, why are there no overweight people in Colorado? |
0:03.7 | This video is going to solve that mystery. |
0:06.1 | And this is based on a very interesting book that presently it's not released yet, |
0:10.5 | but I got an advanced copy. |
0:11.9 | By the time you're watching this, it's probably being |
0:13.8 | released right now, so I will put a link down below. But today we're going to dissect this |
0:17.2 | mystery of why there's no fat people in Colorado. So is it that they're out exercising |
0:21.7 | all day long? |
0:22.6 | Could it be the food they're eating? |
0:24.1 | Or maybe they have more money for health foods. |
0:26.9 | And so this question puzzled the author for quite some time. |
0:32.0 | And so the first thing he did is he looked at the states where you |
0:34.2 | had the most obesity and he isolated those and he found an interesting |
0:37.9 | correlation between higher concentrations of black Americans Latinos and he also looked at the American Indian reservations. |
0:45.0 | And that's all interesting, but it gets even more interesting when you look at what is unique about that. |
0:50.0 | And there's one thing that's unique, and that has to do with the pigment on someone's skin. It's called melanin. |
0:57.3 | And melanin happens to be a natural sunblocker. In other words, the darker your skin the more protection you have |
1:07.4 | against UV radiation. Now what does UV radiation have to do with obesity? Well, UV radiation interacts with |
1:17.0 | your skin and it makes vitamin D. And it is true that if you look at the levels of vitamin D levels are low in certain populations. |
1:26.0 | And so that's very interesting, but is there any other data that aligns with this connection between |
1:32.0 | vitamin D deficiency and obesity. |
1:35.8 | There's a direct relationship. |
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