Als U naar de website zelf gaat, vindt U daar nog veel meer informatie en manieren om uw vragen beantwoorde te krijgen.
Geweldig ! Hier de video, daaronder het hele verhaal uitgeschreven, mèt afbeeldingen.
Lahore begon de Wiki 15 jaar geleden. Nu is de site 13000 pagina's groot. En er worden 13000 onderzoeken beschreven. Hij besteed 2000 uur per jaar aan de website. Dus 30.000 uur werk.
De website geeft ook NL vertaling !
(Nederlands helemaal bovenaan!)
Hier een 5 minuten durende video die een goed overzicht geeft: https://youtu.be/3aAtiOaG9cw
Quote: Een huisarts bracht àl zijn clienten naar het Vitamine D niveau van 80 ng/ml. Het patienten-bezoek daalde met 75 % !
Onderstaande video: https://youtu.be/ILTRLZU5sz0
Beste: na het avondmaal, liefst met vet er bij.
Lahore noemt de drie belangrijkste 'recepten' voor gezondheid, in volgorde van belang:
1. Goed voedsel
2. Bewegen
3. Vitamine D minstens op level 50 ng/ml.
1:26 Lahore beweert dat Vit D zelfs vaak MS kan genezen...
VitaminDWiki interview and
transcript - Lahore Jan 2022
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All 13,000 VitaminDWiki pages can be read in 100+ languages
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No consensus Vitamin D levels
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Recommendations around the world
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Vitamin D blood level can be high, but cells may not get much
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50,000 IU of Vitamin D every two weeks fights 27 health problems
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5-minute video introduction to Vitamin D
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40-150 ng of Vitamin D need to treat health problems
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Can quickly increase Vitamin D levels with loading doses
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Huge variation in response to Vitamin D between individuals
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Top Reasons for low blood response to vitamin D
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Vitamin D is the 3rd best way to improve your health (but the most
cost-effective)
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No consensus of which B vitamins are needed with high-dose Vitamin
D
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Topical Vitamin D is better than oral for some people
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18 barriers to vitamin D supplementation - all solved
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Vitamin D toxicity is extremely rare
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Many health problems are associated with low Vitamin D
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27 Health problems proven to be fought by Vitamin D
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For a healthy pregnancy and baby take Vitamin D BEFORE conception
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Need to have a good level of Vitamin D before week 8 of pregnancy
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Sex (now that I have got your attention)
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Inhale 500 IU of Vitamin D from an ultrasonic mister
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Obese need 2.5X more vitamin D to get to the same level
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Gastrointestinal problems, IBS, Colon Cancer - all helped by
Vitamin D
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Vitamin D first started helping dental problems in the 1930's
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Vitamin D TREATS health problems - Part II
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Vitamin D is one of many ways to treat COVID early
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COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos
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Immediately improve your health by taking 4 Vitamin D pills
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- - Topics not covered by Interview
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An increase in poor Vitamin D receptor may be the cause of
increased autoimmune diseases and cancers
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55 health problems associated with poor VDR
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How to increase VDR activation
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Increased risk of diseases if poor VDR
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Some diseases reduce vitamin D getting to blood or cells
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Is Toxic only if take a LOT of vitamin D for many weeks
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Many ways to increase Vitamin D
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How your doctor might allow you to take more vitamin D
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Meta-meta analysis of Vitamin D
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Huge decrease in many health problems as increase vitamin D
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Examples of huge decreases in cancer and death if >40 ng
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Simple graphs of Vitamin D needed: age, latitude, season, BMI,
etc.
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00:00:00 Introduction / Background & Disclaimer 00:00:56 Introducing Henry Lahore of the Vitamin D Wiki 00:04:21 Vitamin D Wiki - Languages & page conversion 00:05:29 Vitamin D WIki - Categories 00:08:06 Vitamin D - Is it actually worth having this conversation? 00:09:31 Vitamin D - Recommended blood level - why the variance? What to believe? 00:11:54 Vitamin D - Recommended daily intake. RDI / RDA 00:16:58 Vitamin D Deficiency - 1 in 7 Humans deficient? 00:18:06 Can you get all the Vitamin D you need from the sun? Surely? 00:21:25 Classical Vitamin D pathways - bone health, osteoporosis etc. 00:28:21 Vitamin D - How non-renal cells use Vitamin D 00:31:19 Vitamin D & Health outcomes 00:33:01 Talking to your Doctor about Vitamin D - a brick wall? 00:36:56 Bolus dosing & taking a loading dose of Vitamin D 00:41:01 Dose response to Vitamin D - why the variance? 00:45:31 When to take Vitamin D 00:47:16 Maintaining an optimal Vitamin D level 00:50:14 Consequences of keeping your level in the "summer" range all the time? 00:52:08 Cofactors of Vitamin D 00:59:38 Where does Vitamin D come from? Lambs wool grease? 01:01:09 Animals and Vitamin D - preening, licking, sun bathing? 01:02:52 Vitamin D3 vs Vitamin D2 & Mushrooms! 01:05:38 Different forms of Vitamin D (gel caps vs emulsions) 01:08:15 Topical Vitamin D3 01:09:43 Vitamin D and Genetic Polymorphisms 01:14:47 Parathyroidism & Vitamin D3 supplementation 01:16:28 Barriers to starting Vitamin D3 supplementation 01:18:41 Vitamin D3 Toxicity 01:20:43 Vitamin D3 is RAT POISON isn't it? 01:23:34 What other health problems are associated with low Vitamin D? 01:27:23 Vitamin D & Disease - Correlation or Causation? 01:35:55 Diabetes & Obesity 01:39:36 IBS & Colon Cancer 01:43:07 Vitamin D & Oral health 01:45:32 Vitamin D & Mental Health, ASD, Depression 01:49:34 Vitamin D & Sports 01:51:41 Inhaled Vitamin D3? 01:54:12 Vitamin D & COVID 19 01:58:05 Vitamin D & Winter Colds + Flu 02:03:14 Philosophical & Summary 02:16:34 Where can you get more information, take your next step?
Introduction
Craig Stewart (New Zealand) became an evangelist for high dose Vitamin D after it cured him
of cluster headaches.
Craig's YouTube Videos Vitamin D3, Cluster & Migraine
Headache - My Journey
Test your Vitamin D Level at Home Vitamin D - with Dr. Judson
Somervill
Henry Lahore started the VitaminDWiki.com a non-profit website in
2010.
It now has over 30,000 studies - 90% on Vitamin D and 10% on
co-factors and the Vitamin D receptor.
0:00:05.0 Craig: Ladies
and gentlemen, welcome back. Of course, it's Inspired Conversations with Craig,
and... Well, look, today, I'm gonna be sharing a website that I've been
visiting multiple times per week over the past six years. It's the VitaminDWiki.
There it is on screen, and I'm joined today by Mr. Henry Lahore. He is the
founder of VitaminDWiki, there he is on screen. And this video, look, I'm gonna
give you an introduction to the Wiki, and I'm gonna probe this very
knowledgeable man about some commonly asked questions around Vitamin D and
supplementation that I know will be of value to you if you're interested in
exploring literature. And we're gonna wrap up with a philosophical round-off
and a where-to from here for you, for me, for Henry and the Wiki. So Henry,
welcome to my podcast. And I've got to say thank you so much for agreeing to
come on and chat with me. Now, I'm told that you're a retired Boeing engineer.
Tell us a little bit about that for the folks at home, a little bit about
yourself and your background into the world of Vitamin D.
0:01:18.6 Henry: Sure.
My background was electronics engineering and I worked at Boeing, retired 20
years ago. I had been interested in health all my life, been following many
different nutritional supplements. I've probably tried over a hundred of them
during my life, then got started with VitaminDWiki because a person told me. He
knew I was interested in health, that Vitamin D was helping some people
with back problems. And I've had back problems most
of my life and I investigated it and found that indeed, it was helping,
tremendously. And while I was retired, I proceeded to get into studying through
Vitamin D. And about a month later, I started VitaminDWiki. And now, we've got
13,000 webpages on Vitamin D and other associated things on VitaminDWiki.
0:02:19.5 Craig: So
when did you found the Wiki? When did it all kick off?
0:02:22.7 Henry: About
2010, is the start date.
0:02:26.6 Craig: Right.
And the motivation for doing it?
0:02:32.6 Henry: I
wanted to share with other people around the world what I had learned about
Vitamin D. I had been sharing other things with some publications I made under
a rubric of Health Prints, little bits of information, pamphlets about health,
and I wanted to share things in a non-paper way that I can share it around the
world about how much people can get benefits from Vitamin D.
0:03:06.1 Craig: And
so, look, I know the Wiki is just this amazing place to find all the
information on Vitamin D. It's ranked by disease and disorder. Tell me, how
does the back-end work? Are you, like, literally spending all your time
collating studies? And how many did you say were available?
0:03:27.9 Henry: There
are 13,000 studies on the website. Most of them are available as full text, and
for about 10% of them, I expand the full text so you can see it and actually
have it translated into any of 105 languages. But a great number of them are...
The rest of them are attached there, just we'll show the abstract. It tends to
take me about an hour to three hours to extract an entire study and put it on
the web page, so I tend to not to do that. I keep it more at the 10-minute
level. I spend of the order of about 2,000 hours each year as the master of the
VitaminDWiki website.
[chuckle]
All 13,000 VitaminDWiki pages can be read in
100+ languages
0:04:22.1 Craig: And
in terms of language, you did... I mean, you know I come from New Zealand, it's
a very diverse society down this part of the world, Henry. We've got Maori and
a lot of Asian, Chinese-speaking people. Any one of those cultures can jump on
the Wiki, and view any one of those pages in their language. Is that correct?
0:04:46.4 Henry: Yep.
There's the translate button, and then you can select the languages that you
want it to go to. There, so that's the list of languages, and you just pick the
language you want. Here is an example:
And oh, Bengali, and
there it gets translated, that page to Bengali or any of the 105 different
languages. And it's done that quickly.
0:05:17.3 Craig: Yeah.
0:05:19.0 Henry: And
switch it again to some other... To Arabic, for instance.
0:05:23.8 Craig: That's
absolutely unreal in terms of connecting with a global audience. Now, you know
my background into Vitamin D, Henry, is cluster headache. Is there a mechanism
for me to just look at everything relating to cluster headache, or migraine
disorder? So, I'm not so much interested in some of the other aspects, just
headaches.
0:05:51.5 Henry: There's
about 180 categories of information, of health problems that I've gotten a lot
of information on where Vitamin D is either involved in treating it or
preventing it. And anyone can look at those 180 items, it will be shown it
later on, here in the interview.
0:06:16.4 Craig: Right.
And look, tell me how many people are flocking to the Wiki and looking over
your site?
0:06:23.9 Henry: Generally,
only about 40,000 people per month. I haven't advertised it at all. They've got
various methods of doing it, I haven't had the time to do any of the...
Advertising.
0:06:39.1 Craig: And
out of curiosity, where are those folks coming from?
0:06:44.8 Henry: Generally,
from English-speaking countries, but also, we've got some from Spain, and...
Seems as though some languages are being used from India, the Philippines, I
guess about 10% of them are from Germany. So, an assortment of places. I guess
it's of the order of about 40 countries, people that come and visit the
website, there's a top 10 of countries that are most frequent.
0:07:18.5 Craig: Yeah.
How does... Does New Zealand appear on the list? Do you notice many folks from
New Zealand coming in there?
0:07:26.0 Henry: I
have not noticed. I only look at that about once a year.
0:07:30.4 Craig: I
say that because look, it's a conversation that is coming up more and more down
here as people become aware of the effects and benefits of Vitamin D. Now,
before I start to pick your brains, Henry, you're clearly a knowledgeable guy
that's read more papers on the subject, certainly, than I have. It's a timely
reminder just to say that anything we discuss here, team, is certainly not to
be construed as medical advice, it's for your educational purposes only, and I
hope you take something of value away from it. Now, before I get started on
some of the questions I get asked all the time about Vitamin D, Henry, first,
just tell me what is all this fuss about? Why is it coming up in conversations
more and more and is it actually worth having a conversation about?
0:08:25.5 Henry: We
wouldn't be having this conversation back in the 1970s. Most people around the
world had a good level of Vitamin D and were fairly healthy relative to what's
happening now. Since that time, however, due to over 20
reasons that I've got documented on the website in detail, the
Vitamin D levels have been dropping or crashing tremendously. We'll be showing
that later on here in the interview, that the problems that... There used not
to be a need to supplement with Vitamin D, but now that people primarily are
staying indoors more and are fearful of getting Vitamin D from the sun, this is
causing a great number of other problems.
0:09:18.5 Craig: And
you've got an amazing five-and-a-half
minute video that I have posted, you can check that out, and it
gives you just the most amazing background into the world of deficiency, and it
would lead into one of my first questions there, Henry. Vitamin D
recommendations... What blood level should we be aiming for? And I can tell
you, in New Zealand, and I'm gonna bring up New Zealand recommendations on the
screen for you folks at home, but we've got recommendations that seem very low
when you compare them to the Endocrinological Society's guidelines, and even
then, there are recommendations that differ from this. So, as an ordinary
everyday kind of bloke, how am I supposed to navigate this and where does the
truth lie?
No consensus Vitamin D levels
Nederland zegt: 25 nmol per liter, ofwel als 10 ng/ml! extreem l
Click here for more information
0:10:13.5 Henry: I
like to think of... As I'm trying to tell this to different people, I like to
think of what do other people around the world believe in a particular society,
religion, Vitamin D level, calories, alcohol, whatever. You can see the 4X
differences in what humans need. (Note Veterinarians around the world agree on
the Vitamin D needed for each species). So, here in this chart that we're
looking at, New Zealand's on the second row, along with the Institute of
Medicine, Australia, New Zealand, Nordic countries, that's... They're saying
that at 50 nanomoles or... 20 nanograms of Vitamin D is sufficient, you're in
the green region. Now, some other countries are even lower. You can be at the
30 nanomoles to be okay. The United Kingdom is even lower than that, but if you
look around at the various countries around the world and groups around the
world, you see that now, you can't get into the green level until you're about
75 nanomoles, which is 30 nanograms, or some of them say you need even higher
than that to be in a good region. I personally think it should be even higher
than that, but this is just a quick overview of... There's almost an equal
number of countries in each of those different categories, where they think the
certain level is okay.
0:11:54.5 Craig: And
so, in terms of recommended daily intake, again, down here in New Zealand, the
recommendation is between 200 and 400 international units of Vitamin D, and
maximum potency, I can tell you, if you walk into a chemist, pharmacy, is 1000
international units. Now, I think the burning question is at that kind of dose
level, is it significant enough to be able to increase your Vitamin D serum
level into the green range in that first table with the Vitamin D Council?
Recommendations around the world
Click here for more information
0:12:37.0 Henry: So,
here is a summary of chart that I had, looking at various recommendations
around the world. I don't have New Zealand here explicitly, but it shows some
of the others, and the higher up you are on the chart, some of them are at 2000
IUs and that there's some groups that say that's quite adequate. Some groups
say, "We want 4000 IUs... " Well, this is actually not adequate,...
We're referring to this as the upper maximum. So some say 2000 maximum, some
say 4,000, some say 10,000 maximum. But in all cases, it's actually the maximum
that is far, far higher than any of these, but just showing you the position
that various of the groups around the world have taken as to what is a good
level, there's probably 40 some countries that have 2000 IUs as the maximum to
take and that's all that can be sold by companies inside of that country, later
on, you'll see that there are ways of getting a much larger doses of Vitamin D
to get a good amount by buying things internationally.
0:13:52.5 Craig: Yeah,
you're right. So look, in my case Henry, it's 80 nanograms per milliliter, in
order for me not to get cluster headache attacks, and it's as simple as that
Now, if I had started off like the average Kiwi with a serum, around 24, 25
nanograms per milliliter, would taking 1000 or 2000 international units of
vitamin D get me to 80 nanograms per milliliter?
0:14:24.8 Henry: Putting
it slightly differently, I rarely see a single study on any health problem that
says 1000 IUs of vitamin D will help. 2000 IUs, it starts to help on some
problems, but things like cluster headaches, multiple sclerosis, sleep problems
and others need much, much higher doses to achieve that.
0:14:53.2 Craig: And
so, I guess then, the question becomes why, the why behind why regulate the
maximum dose that one can purchase if these lower doses aren't going to touch
or elevate your level up to around what the Vitamin D Council is now suggesting
looks like optimal. It seems like you end up taking away a person's choice to
choose what they do with their body, it seems almost ridiculous, to be fair.
0:15:26.5 Craig: What's
the risk? Why are they doing this?
0:15:31.2 Henry: [chuckle]
It's based on a problem that came up in the 1950s in the United Kingdom. They had an
outbreak with some problems and they thought was due to the vitamin D in milk
that they had recently given, and they at that point then slammed down and
said, "No vitamin D at all", and they greatly reduced how much
vitamin D people could be having. Vitamin D was given to the tune of much
higher doses, of 10,000, 20,000, 30,000 per day back in the 1930s, with
excellent help, to dental groups. There's quite a few studies of that, of
showing how the American Dental Association was strongly recommending a
good level of Vitamin D way back then. But due to that mistaken
problem in the UK, which got perpetrated as being a problem in a great number
of medical textbooks, that even up until two years ago, it was still saying
that, "Oops, you could have a toxic level of vitamin D if you have 2000
IUs". Due to that mistake that's done back in the 1950s, slowly, slowly
things are changing, but that's the problem.
0:16:50.9 Craig: Well,
the offshoot of that is I'm perplexed at the situation behind it all, but you
look at this paper from the Journal of Health Population and Nutrition, one in
seven of us are now deficient in Vitamin D and that's about a billion human
beings of the recommended daily intakes are so low, you start to get an
understanding of why we have such a high level of deficiency down here in New
Zealand, and again, I've got a link here for Kiwis that wanna have a look at
that now.
0:17:32.9 Henry: It
really depends, Craig, on what your definition of deficiency is. Yes, about one
in seven or 10 are deficient, if you have a very low level as to what you call
deficient, but if you look it up at say 30 nanograms, if you're less than 30
nanograms, then it's around about 60% of the world is deficient. If you look at
the level where you really should be and where people used to be at 50
nanograms, then it's more like 90% of the world is deficient.
0:18:06.2 Craig: Yeah,
yeah, yeah. So, one of the things that I hear all the time when people start
talking about Vitamin D is you can get all the Vitamin D that you need from the
sun, so how much is enough sun? And I prefaced that question, Henry, because I
was reading an interview article in the New Zealand Stuff news publication
looking at an increased risk of melanoma because more women are opting for
G-string style bikinis, and the skin specialist went on to say that spending
two sessions, five minutes per week is adequate for Vitamin D production. Is
that enough?
0:18:54.7 Henry: Not
nearly enough. By the way, the main problem with skin problems, skin cancer and
Vitamin D is when you go out in the sun infrequently, and then all of a sudden
you try and get a lot of Vitamin D and sun... Your skin is not used to it. If
you go at it more gradually during the year and just get more and more and more
as you would normally if, say, you were an outdoor worker, you don't have any
problems at all. My dad was a carpenter, for instance, and he would have no
skin problems whatsoever because he was gradually, as the months were going
along, getting more and more sun and that builds up your Vitamin D level in
your skin. Once the Vitamin D level in your skin is built up, it's able to deal
with having more UV coming in, and so you have paradoxically less problems as
you are more used to the sun. But people who only go out, say, on the weekend
and try to get all their Vitamin D at that particular time, that doesn't work
out too well.
0:20:03.5 Craig: So,
in terms of consistency of exposure, more so than bursts over the summer break.
0:20:15.3 Henry: Right.
Right.
0:20:18.0 Craig: Yeah.
What blood level deficient?
0:20:18.1 Henry: So, for instance... At the little chart I
have there, it kind of works out that if your target is in the lower left-hand
corner, 10 nanograms of vitamin D, then you probably... 10 minutes will be
enough for you per day during the summer. But if your target is more like 50
nanograms and you're trying to get it all from UV, or from the sun, then it's
more like 90 minutes that you have to have in order to get that 50 nanograms,
and that's per, each day... That's assuming, as I say in here, that it's a
young person, white skin, lying down in a bathing suit. We're not all that way,
of course, but...
0:21:04.1 Craig: Indeed.
My eyebrows raised when I was reading the articles, to suggest two five-minute
sessions was enough and... My mother and grandfather both died from melanoma,
so it's not a conversation or a topic that I approach lightly at all. And it
leads, I guess, onto my next question, because I'll have a lot of older folks,
my mom's age, in their 60s and 70s, that perhaps watch this video, and they're
gonna associate vitamin D with recommendations from their doctor regarding
osteoporosis, and the classically understood function of vitamin D, of course,
is and the regulation and mineralization of calcium and phosphorus. Can you
talk to us a little bit about that, including why everyone talks about calcium
and what is phosphorous and how does vitamin D kind of fit into that whole
process?
0:22:07.2 Henry: I
just noticed this morning actually, that there were 20,000 published studies in
the last decade on vitamin D in bones, so I will try to condense that down to a
30-second sound bite that, yes, indeed, it's been noticed for a long time... It
was first noticed... 1919,
I think it was, that vitamin D was given to people with rickets, that rickets
would go away. And then, only 90 years later, people came up with a consensus that
yes, vitamin D does stop rickets Well, that was the first start
there, and since then, they're noticing more and more that vitamin D allows the
body to make better use of phosphorus and calcium, and vitamin K and magnesium
and other things to build bones. Each of those things are needed, but
oftentimes, people are the most deficient in vitamin D, so there's... I think I
have 280 studies now... On the left-hand column:
Bone - Health (285+)
Breathing (403+)
Burns, wounds (30+)
0:23:36.1 Craig: And
if you could just briefly talk to the mechanism, so kind of people understand
that the sun hits the skin and right through to the kidneys and all.
0:23:45.3 Henry: Okay.
Yeah, the sun hits the skin, and the body has learned to put a type of
cholesterol in those parts of your body that will be seeing the skin. It
doesn't put it through all your body, doesn't put it on your lower bathing suit
part of your body, for instance, but it puts it very heavily on your face and
on your hands and on your feet. And so, you'll gain a lot of... When the sun
gets the UV there, it creates a vitamin D in the skin, and then, as it comes
into the skin, it comes at one of these two pathways, either... Well, the
pathway here is the skin, the topical, or also you can get vitamin D that you
can apply on your skin rather than getting it from the sun, and it works pretty
well, but then it gets processed through the body... A lot of it gets processed
through the body through many of the different cells in the body, but some of
it goes through the liver and through the kidneys. That's the classic way that
it's... Was thought of as the only way of... It was thought of 20 years ago,
that's it's being processed in the body, but now it's found that majority,
maybe 75, perhaps... Some people say 90% of it doesn't go through the kidneys
or the liver and kidneys, but it's processed locally in your muscles, etcetera.
0:25:21.8 Craig: So,
the kidneys, how does that whole process get regulated, and how do the
parathyroid glands fit into that piece?
Vitamin D blood level can be high, but cells may
not get much
0:25:37.2 Henry: The
vitamin D generated either from you taking it as a supplement or from food or
from... Topically from the sun or whatever, gets into the bloodstream, and then
the classic approach is considered is that the vitamin D then goes into the
liver. The vitamin D molecule becomes semi-activated by a portiion of a water
molecule. Then it becomes Calcidiol, which is shown right here, and that's what
you actually see in your blood test, is the amount of... The level of vitamin D
that you see coming out of the liver and seen in the blood test is shown right
there. Now, after that, it proceeds on further. It can be used right there by
the body, but some of it needs to be... Another water molecule needs to be
added on, it gets involved in these two genes, and then it becomes calcitriol,
which is the fully activated Vitamin D, which gets... Can be brought into the
cells and used by the cells.
0:27:00.1 Craig: And
so, it's either calcitriol is either made by the kidneys in the classical
pathway of regulating calcium and phosphorous, but above and beyond that, we
now know that vitamin D is not only processed by the kidneys, but many other
cells in the body, and is that kinda where the magic comes into play and is
that how it works? I mean to say that, a lot of people say, "Vitamin D is
not a vitamin, it's a hormone," so I guess the pathway that you're showing
there shows that sunlight is converted into pre-vitamin D and then taken to the
liver where a hydroxyl group is added by an enzyme, and then, that is the blood
storage form, but from there, it's not only the kidneys that will convert that
calcitriol to regulate calcium and ensuring you don't get rickets, but also,
the other cells in the body have the ability to grab hold of that storage form
of vitamin D and use it for their own requirements.
0:28:19.7 Henry: Right.
Most of the cells in the body can actually process the vitamin D as it just
originally generated at the top of this slide. In that form, it can be
processed by the cells or it can grab it right there and in the cell... This is
the description of the cell, the cell can take that and make another calcitriol
and use some of the parts of the body, the immune system uses this form of
vitamin D, and most of the... Of the parts of the body uses this form of
vitamin D, the calcitriol form of vitamin D, but all of that can be done
locally without any kidney or liver involvement whatsoever.
0:29:06.8 Craig: Right,
and that's what people... Physicians mean when they say that, the Vitamin D
receptor is evident, and not just in many cells, but in most cells
0:29:25.1 Henry: The Vitamin D receptor has been around for,
some people say 750 million years, that animal forms before they were even
having... Before they were having skeletons, were using the Vitamin D receptor,
so it's been a popular thing to have for most animals.
0:29:47.4 Craig: Yeah,
I mean I've heard other doctors and researchers, Dr. Gominak talks about how vitamin D is
indeed one of the oldest hormones on the earth and enabled our seabound
ancestors to be able to develop and migrate onto the land, and mineralized
calcium and their skeletons carried around with them, drawing on it when they
don't have any available in their diet and adding to it when they're able to,
through that regulation of sunlight and to pre-Vitamin D, Vitamin D, and then
its active forms, just... It really is an interesting background into the
subject.
0:30:32.2 Henry: Another
little factoid here is that many animals, including humans, have learned how to
store vitamin D because they can be in environments, the winter or in a rainy
season or whatever, in which they don't get vitamin D every day, so the body
has learned how to properly store that, so it makes use of it when it's
available. Kind of like the camel storing water, we store vitamin D, but we
don't get a big lump because of it.
0:31:03.7 Craig: And
so, understanding that vitamin D can be used by many of the cells in the body,
what's the benefit, Henry? I mean, most people say, "Well, who
cares?", but what is the benefit of the cell being able to use vitamin D
in terms of health outcomes?
50,000 IU of Vitamin D every two weeks fights 27
health problems
Diabetes + Heart Failure + Chronic
Pain + Depression + Autism + Breast Cancer + Colon Cancer + Prostate Cancer +
BPH (prostate) + Preeclampsia + Premature Birth + Falls + Cognitive Decline +
Respiratory Tract Infection + Influenza + Tuberculosis + Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease + Lupus + Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome + Urinary Tract
Infection + Poor Sleep + Growing Pain + Multiple Sclerosis + PMS +
Schizophrenia + Endometriosis + Smoking 27 problems
Note: Once a week also fights: COVID, Headaches, Colds,
Fibromyalgia, Asthma, Hives, Colitis etc.
0:31:27.0 Henry: There
have been a lot of randomized control trials in which people having various
health problems, half of the people were given, in this case, 50,000 IUs of
vitamin D every two weeks, and half of them were given a placebo in which there
is no Vitamin D inside of the pill whatsoever. And so this shows the 27 health
problems that have been proven to be treated, prevented or treated... I use the
word fight... By Vitamin D, and that's just under this particular amount of
vitamin D 50,000, IUs vitamin D once every two weeks.
0:32:17.0 Henry: So
on the website you can click on it and get the full details of how much of
fighting that was involved having 50,000 IUs of vitamin D.
0:32:31.7 Craig: Yeah,
I mean, looking at that list, Henry, here in New Zealand that list has got some
heavy hitters in there. I tell you, breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate
cancer, those things are gonna ring a note with people... Endometriosis is
something that is gonna strike a lot of people, and multiple sclerosis is gonna
be something I'm gonna ask you about shortly. So a lot of folks kinda watch
this and go, "Well, I'm keen to start supplementing vitamin D," and I
pretty much guarantee that some of them are gonna go and see their doctor and
discuss it, and they're gonna run into a brick wall. Tell us about... And
before we start talking about diseases specifically, why this reluctance, when
you go to see your family doctor, to even have a discussion about vitamin D?
It's really difficult. It's like the first barrier I came across back in '15.
5-minute video introduction to Vitamin D
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to see video in 5 languages
0:33:38.9 Henry: There
are many, many reasons why the doctors are reluctant to recommend vitamin D.
Later on, I'll show you some of the ways you can ask your doctor to do it, but
here is one example of a case we made a video out of, where the doctor got all
of his 2000 patients up to 80 nanograms of vitamin D, and he ran into some
problems with this, and most doctors will run into the same problem. He found
that the number of visits to his group, that's... He had 2000 people, had quite
a few doctors involved, it dropped from four visits per year down to one visit
per year because the person there with the cast, you'd still get a broken leg,
you get a big injury, but the other people that weren't feeling good, they're
gone. They are no longer coming to his office. So, he actually had to stop his
practice because he was no longer earning enough money.
0:34:43.7 Henry: Now,
most doctors aren't quite so aware that this is the problem, but that's one of
the problems that doctors have of recommending some... Okay, doctors are
focused on treating problems, they're not focused on preventing problems.
That's for human doctors. Veterinary doctors, doctors for animals, especially
on farms, they're paid to keep their patients healthy, and so they prescribe on
a per pound basis three times as much vitamin D as humans get.
0:35:24.6 Craig: That's
not the first time I've heard... I heard someone talk about veterinary
supplementation. [chuckle] Is that correct?
0:35:33.6 Henry: Yeah,
but that was one of my first information sources for vitamin D. So I have 180
categories of information on vitamin D. The very first one was veterinary,
because they appeared to be... And they still are about 10 years ahead of the
doctors for human because they are paid to keep their patients healthy. They're
rewarded.
0:35:58.0 Craig: Yeah.
I've got a question about veterinary coming up for you, Henry, but I have to
say, across literature, 80 nanograms per milliliter keeps on popping up here,
there and everywhere as a physiologically significant kind of level to achieve,
and I can tell you, once I reach 80 nanograms per milliliter, my cluster
headaches cease to be. It's absolutely amazing. So when I started, I was taking
significant amounts of vitamin D. What is the go in terms of folks that are
watching this that are keen to start supplementing, that is it enough to cruise
down to the pharmacy and pick up one of those bottles of 1000 international
units, and are they gonna reach 80 nanograms per milliliter, or what's your
view about taking higher amounts when you start supplementing vitamin D in
order to reach that level?
40-150 ng of Vitamin D need to treat
health problems
|
Vitamin D |
Treats |
|
150 ng |
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80 ng |
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|
70 ng |
Sleep * |
|
60 ng |
Breast Cancer death reduced 60% |
|
50 ng |
COVID-19 |
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40 ng |
Breast Cancer 65% lower risk |
|
30 ng |
* Evolution of experiments with patients, often also need co-factors
Can quickly increase Vitamin D levels with
loading doses
0:37:07.7 Henry: That's
the whole subject of being on a maintenance level of getting vitamin D versus
having a loading dose. First of all, the... Last week, a friend gave us a call.
She said that she had gotten COVID, and what could do, and I said, "Hey,
you just need to take 200,000 IUs of vitamin D as soon as you
can and it'll go away." Well, the only size she had was 5000 IUs, so she
went ahead and took the 40 pills that she had, and she felt really great the
next day, and has been doing very fine since then. So it's a little bit of a
problem if you are limited as to the size of pills that you have. It's quite
difficult to try to swallow a lot of pills, so I recommend people have the
5-,000 IU pills of vitamin D ahead of time to be able to handle emergencies
like that.
0:38:11.7 Henry: But
now, going back on to the subject of loading dose and
maintenance dose, you can get to the 80 nanogram level of vitamin D, provided
you have... I think it's about 7000... Between 5000 and 7000 IUs of vitamin D
on a daily basis, you'll get there in about three to four months. But if you
wanna hurry it up a bit, the body, as I'd mentioned before, has really learned
how to store quite nicely vitamin D. When it becomes available, it says,
"Oh, I'll take this in. I'll store it away," and can use it again
for... On a rainy day. And so it turns out that you can get your levels up to
80 nanograms or 100 nanograms or for something like that, if you wish, within a
few days, instead of having to wait a few months.
0:39:07.9 Craig: And
so understandably, for a person that is potentially taking 1000 international
units per day, it's a big jump, and understandably that person will be like,
"Hold on a minute, 600,000 international... 200,000 international? That's
like taking 200 of these pills. Surely, that cannot be good for you. Cannot be
safe." What do you kind of say?
0:39:30.4 Henry: Well,
let's look at it in terms of the 200,000 IUs of vitamin D that are recommended
for people having a loading dose. That's the same as if you were on a sunny
beach, trying to get a suntan on a beach for 10 days in a row, that's about how
much vitamin D you get, so it's not that awful excessive, the body is used to
being able to absorb that. Now you don't wanna start that off for your skin, as
I mentioned earlier, all at once of, "I've not been out in the sun at all.
I'm gonna be out there now for three or four hours every noontime." No,
that doesn't work out. You have to kinda gradual up, get it more gradually.
0:40:13.7 Craig: Yeah,
okay. As a parallel, in terms of a loading dose for the treatment of cluster
headache and migraine, Pete Bachelor's regimen calls for 600,000 international
units over 12 days, so 50k a day and then reduce to 10,000 international units
per day in order to maintain your level around 80 and it's worked for many
people. Now, I wanna talk about raising your levels because I've noticed some
folks elevate very quickly, and as I just said it, if I take 600,000
international units, I'm pretty much guaranteed that my level will be somewhere
between that 80 and 100 nanograms per milliliter, and I wanna tell you the
story of a friend of mine who also took 600,000 international units in November
last year, and he checked his level, it was 21 nanograms per milliliter. He was
like, "What's going on?" At any rate, I caught up with him last week
and he had decided to take 30,000 international units every day since for a
total amount of get this, 1,560,000 international units, and he rechecked his
level and it had risen to 52 nanograms per milliliter. Talk to me about this.
0:41:49.9 Craig: Yeah,
I mean some people will seem to increase quickly, some people take like
significant amounts of vitamin D and their levels gradually increase, what's
all that got to do with?
Huge variation in response to Vitamin D
between individuals
increase in
Obese due to 50,000 Vitamin D weekly
0:42:05.4 Henry: There's
two things to be discussed in there. One is that there's a huge variability,
about a four to one variability in how much vitamin D you need to get to a
certain level. So this little histogram here shows that for some people who are
obese and taking 50,000 IUs of vitamin D weekly as to how much
variation they had on how much they gained. Many of them gained like 10
nanograms, but all the ones in the pink section, they actually dropped in their
vitamin D levels. But in this other region, you can see that there's a fair
amount of range, it's generally acknowledged to be about four to one for one
person who gets 50,000 IUs of vitamin D a week will get to a certain level, but
some people will get four times as much as that. It varies tremendously between
individuals. Fortunately, getting a very high level of vitamin D is not a
problem, so it's quite good to recommend to people that they take a certain
amount of vitamin D for, say, three months, and then get the vitamin D test to
confirm that you're in the region that you thought you were expecting to get
to. A few people will have to increase it even more than they were taking
because they found that, "Whoops, I didn't get as much as I was expecting
to." Many people say, "Oh, I have got to the level I wanted to get
to," say, 80 nanograms or 50 nanograms or whatever your goal is. And then
you can drop back down to a smaller dosage on a frequent basis, so I'd say once
a week.
0:43:57.9 Craig: Yeah,
yeah. And so, sticking with my friend's situation, I had mentioned a lot of
people who would take 600,000 as a loading dose and then find that their level
was still quite low would go, "Oh, something's wrong here, I've got to
stop taking it." And not persevere through. So what you're saying is that
people that are larger than... Large, obese require more, and so that could be
a reason why his level didn't increase as fast as perhaps what, as what mine
did?
Top Reasons for low blood response to
vitamin D
There are 40+
reasons for poor blood response
Here are some of the common reasons
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Obese Elderly Poor gut |
2X more needed |
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Health problem reduces levels examples |
2X more needed |
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1.3X more needed |
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1.3X more needed |
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0:44:38.1 Henry: So during the last 10 years, I've been
documenting the reasons why people have a poor... Generally looking at poor
response, slow response is another thing again, but poor
vitamin D response, these are the ones which were the prominent ones
out of the 40, you can click on the bottom link there, you get all the details,
but being obese, being elderly or having a poor gut, you generally need about
two times more vitamin D or a gut-friendly form. If you have various health
problems like autism, anemia, diabetes, some cancers, and about 15 others, you
need about double the amount of vitamin D, and then there's magnesium... You
don't have enough magnesium or you're smoking, then you need a little bit more.
0:45:31.6 Craig: Yeah, and we'll talk about cofactors, but
that's not the first time I've seen take your vitamin D with your largest
meal, can you... Yeah, enlighten me, as to why that is?
0:45:47.7 Henry: There's
probably been 30 studies on that, but intellectually, it works out to be pretty
easy to understand, is that when you take the vitamin D orally, it gets into
your gut and into your intestine, and it's the small intestine that does the
absorbing of whatever nutrient you have, and if you think about... And then
next meal comes along, whoops, all the stuff goes out of the small intestine
and into the large intestine, and so you're no longer able to access what is
there. So if, for instance, you take the vitamin D at breakfast and then it
gets to be in your small intestine for four hours and okay, it's, "I'm
coming along, I'm getting the vitamin D out of here", but then whoops,
it's getting pushed up and here comes lunch. But for most people though, the
largest meal of the day is supper, so I'll use that as an example. There the
vitamin D gets into your small intestine after supper and kind of the intestine
gets a 12 hours to work on getting this stuff out of there, getting all the
nutrients out of there, so the largest meal of the day, or actually, the meal
in which it's the longest time until you have another meal, which is generally
considered to be supper for most people, is the best time to take vitamin D,
either before the meal or during the meal or after the meal, somewhere in that
time period.
0:47:17.4 Craig: You
have said before to me, Henry, that you cannot just restore the levels to an
optimum level. They must be maintained. Now, I know myself, I take 10,000
international units in order to be able to keep my level at around 80. Talk to
me about yourself, like, what do you need to take in order to stick in the
range, and what is that range that you aim to kinda stick around?
0:47:49.1 Henry: As
I had been progressing along over the last 12 years now, the vitamin D level
that I was trying to achieve, I did, and then I was reading about it, that hey,
more is better, then I tried that. And more is better, I've tried that. And so
I'm currently at 200 nanogram level of vitamin D, and that seems enough. It
feels very, very good. Anything over about 40 nanograms of vitamin D though,
you need to balance out with the cofactors, some of which I've got shown on
this screen of Omega-3 and magnesium are particularly important ones, vitamin
K2, iodine, boron are some of the, among the lesser ones that need to be
balanced out.
Vitamin D is the 3rd best way to improve your
health (but the most cost-effective)
0:48:34.8 Craig: Sorry,
Henry, I think I'm still in shock... I'm still in shock. So 200 nanograms per
milliliter, and just for any Kiwis that are watching, that's 200 times 2.5,
that's 500 nanomoles per liter, so it's a high level. What do you need to take
in terms of a daily or weekly dose to keep your level in that range, out of
curiosity?
0:49:06.1 Henry: Taking
vitamin D on an irregular basis,
not on a daily basis is the best. Got 16 studies showing that. So I actually
take 100,000 IUs of vitamin D once every four days. But I would not recommend
people to do that just by itself, you have to... At that level of taking
vitamin D, add in magnesium, as an example, occasionally I get forgetful and
not take the magnesium, I run into some difficulties, but Omega-3 and vitamin
K2 are also very essential on a long-term basis, or where long-term is you
wouldn't notice the problem of not having enough vitamin K or enough Omega for
probably two, three, four years, but then, starts to have problems like
hardening of the arteries, for instance, if you don't have the vitamin K2 in
there, if you're above about 40 nanograms.
0:50:05.6 Craig: Before
we start asking you questions about co-factors, because it's a, again, it's
another piece for people to understand, I wanna ask you a question in and an
around what is the consequence of keeping your level at a level that is the
same all year round? That is suffice to say, isn't your vitamin D level kind of
supposed to change with the seasons? So is there a consideration around being
80 nanograms in the middle of the winter, wouldn't my body internally be
thinking, "Oh, it's summertime", when in an actual fact, outside it's
winter?
0:50:46.8 Henry: I had asked myself 10 questions
about vitamin D when I started, before starting VitaminDWiki,
that was one of the questions is, should the vitamin D levels go up and down
with season? Haven't really got that one answered, but the best I can
understand is probably there wasn't the concept of season back when humans were
starting off in Africa or other places near the tropics. And then, when you had
no seasonality, then humans went on for 100,000 years or longer of not actually
having seasons to have to deal with, so maybe when you're living in a climate further
away from the sun and you've been living, your ancestors have been living there
for thousands or tens of thousands of years, maybe you should go up and down
with the season, but I haven't really gotten that one understood. I've kind of
come to the conclusion a good level all the time. Note that there is a 30%
increase in deaths from infectious diseases during the winter
0:51:54.1 Craig: Okay,
thank you. And I'm pleased to know that I'm not the only one kind of rolling
that particular question around my head.
0:52:02.2 Henry: That's
a big one.
0:52:03.4 Craig: So
I'm really interested in your comments, if you're watching this, what do you
know? Link us a paper and share your thoughts. Now cofactors,
Henry. I always... I think the first two that people talk to me about are you
must take your K when you take your D, some folks say, you need to include both
fish oil and magnesium, and I know the cluster headache regimen calls for the
inclusion of both boron and zinc. Talk to me about cofactors, what are they and
what are they doing to support vitamin D?
0:52:41.8 Henry: Let's
take magnesium for a moment. Magnesium is
involved in the processing of vitamin D at eight different locations in the
body. I was mentioning, in the liver and the kidney, that it adds the OH, to
semi-activate or fully-activate the vitamin D. Well, magnesium is a catalyst
that's involved in doing that. And if the magnesium isn't there, it doesn't get
processed as well. So overall, it works out that if you have a low level of
magnesium, you need 30% more vitamin D to get to the same level. So, that by
itself is just saying... If I just looked at that, by itself, I'd say,
"Oh, I'll just take more vitamin D, it's cheaper and easier to take than
the magnesium." But it turns out, there's a lot of other things that goes
beyond that, in terms of the importance of these other cofactors. Vitamin K, by
the way, is an interesting item that I think I've got about 130
studies on Vitamin K. Yes, I agree that Vitamin K is needed along
with vitamin D. There's some disagreement about it being needed at the same
time, because it turns out that Vitamin K and vitamin D access the same sort of
receptors in various places in the body. So the vitamin K can actually... If
done at the same time, it will block the Vitamin D somewhat. So it's best to
have it on our off day it appears to... This data is not in... Not finished up
on that particular subject.
0:54:30.5 Craig: And
Omega-3 fish oil. What's the deal?
0:54:41.4 Henry: Omega-3 is both a cofactor for vitamin D,
that is to say, it helps with the use of vitamin D in the body, but it is also
by itself a very good, helpful thing to have. Omega-3 reduces inflammation -
one of its major claims to fame. I got 350+ different studies on this - that it
greatly reduces inflammation of all kinds in the body. Vitamin D also decreases
inflammation and they work synergistically together very, very nicely on
probably 40 health problems that I've got documented.
0:55:29.8 Craig: And
the other smaller ones up on your graphic Henry, zinc, boron and I... Is the I for iodine is
it?
0:55:38.4 Henry: Yes,
it is.
0:55:39.6 Craig: And
so, can folks get what they need out of... Like I take a means multi. Is that
what we're talking about?
0:55:49.1 Henry: For
most people, the boron, zinc and iodine are not essential. They are not
essential cofactors at all. In fact, when I recommend people take vitamin D, I
say, "Hey, let's just go with vitamin D by itself, you're good to go for
six months." Even if you're taking a fair amount of vitamin D and then you
can start to get around to thinking about, let's improve the health even more
with magnesium and omega-3 and other things. And I actually rarely get around
to recommending people take the boron and zinc. Some people... Anyway, there
are other things to do with your health as this chart was showing, the exercise
and healthy foods are more important than all the other things we're talking
about.
No consensus of which B vitamins are needed with
high-dose Vitamin D
0:56:41.1 Craig: Yeah,
rate that number one and number two. Now, Stasha Gominak includes and talks at
length about a B50 or B100 complex now, and that doesn't appear in the circles
up on the screen. Just talk to me about your thoughts around vitamin B as a
complex to take alongside D.
0:57:04.4 Henry: There
are quite a few... I'm not sure where that section is right now. Oh, well.
There are quite a few groups that when they are experimenting along and seeing,
and not being constrained by randomized controlled trials and they give people
a lot of vitamin D then oh, they don't... That didn't do everything. And then
they start to stumble across and say, "Oh, some of these B vitamins seem
to be essential." There's some disagreement between the cluster headache
people and the sleep people with Dr. Gominak and Dr. Coimbra with multiple
sclerosis as to how much and what kind of B vitamins are needed. So I don't
really have a consensus there. It turns out that between all the B vitamins,
is B12 is the one that's really needed? That
may be the case, I've got about 40 different studies on B12. But sometimes B3
looks important. But just as a general sort of way, many manufacturers have
come up with the B50 and a B100. That's what they are, is actually a
combination of the B vitamins to the tune of about 50 milligrams each or 100
milligrams each and you just take that and you say, "Okay, I don't know
exactly how much I want of each of these, others take that."
0:58:41.0 Craig: Right.
0:58:41.1 Henry: And
that seems to work out pretty well for most people. It's when you get up to the
very high levels, with the cluster headaches, multiple sclerosis, etcetera,
that maybe getting a particular B vitamin is necessary, but since I've lacked
it, I haven't gotten
the consistency among the different groups as to what B vitamins are needed.
I don't have a conclusion as to what specific ones are needed.
0:59:08.6 Craig: And
I think it is an area where the literature continues to evolve, it's certainly
a fascinating aspect of vitamin D to follow and...
0:59:19.4 Henry: Yes.
0:59:21.3 Craig: Yeah,
I think it was Dr. Gominak that talks and particularly about B5 or pantothenic
acid being somewhat involved intricately in the slate process. Now, vitamin D
itself and ring number three in your graphic...
click on image for more
information
Craig: ....shear the wool. Now, someone told me a couple of weeks ago it
comes from lamb's wool grease when you buy it at the pharmacy. I'd be really
keen to hear your thoughts about how and where vitamin D comes from. The same
person that was talking to me said that if you took one lamb's fleece, it
contains enough lanolin to produce 1 million doses of vitamin D3 for human
consumption. That's just absolutely outrageous, and I imagine wouldn't cost a
lot to produce. Talk to me about how vitamin D is made and the supplement.
1:00:17.5 Henry: Vitamin
D can be made from various animal sources. The most popular one by far is
getting it from the sheep lanolin. Don't have to kill any sheep involved in
this, just shear the wool to get the vitamin D. You have to go through a fair
number of processes to do it, but you get that and then actually, what's
involved is that somewhat like the lanolin, right there isn't the vitamin D,
but after treating it and getting out the essence of the chemicals off of the
sheep, then they apply the UV just as you apply the UV in the skin, and then
that creates the vitamin D.
1:01:04.9 Craig: How
interesting.
1:01:07.1 Henry: So,
it's got some commonality with the way we do it. It turns out that cats and
dogs get the vitamin D the same way, and that's one of the reasons that cats like to lick themselves to get
the vitamin D from the fur. Likewise, you can see lots of birds that
are preening themselves, and it turns out that they are getting the vitamin D
from their feathers. They wouldn't get it otherwise.
1:01:33.1 Craig: Yeah,
I don't have any cats, Henry, but I've got two dogs. I've got a long-haired
border collie and I've noticed over the past couple of weeks, it's summer down
here... He loves to sit out in the sun and I'm thinking, "Mate, you must
be just roasting," but he's making his vitamin D, is he not?
1:01:55.6 Henry: A
few years ago, I did an experiment with a person's cat with two different
places for the cat to sit. One place had a sun lamp and the other place, with
the same amount of warmth, had a UV lamp, and it preferred sitting under the UV
lamp.
1:02:17.1 Craig: Unreal.
1:02:18.1 Henry: So,
it was... Becoming aware of that. There are other examples, another person in
New Zealand, actually, had a dog that was getting on in years, and gave it
vitamin D and it became almost like a puppy in terms of being all energetic
again.
1:02:38.0 Craig: Is
that the 17-year-old Labrador
named Beau, I think, you can read about it on your...
1:02:41.3 Henry: Yes,
that was the one. Yeah, yeah.
1:02:44.4 Craig: We'll
make sure we include that link because it's a really cool story to read and it
just gives you another avenue and angle to appreciate the subject. So, Henry,
different forms of vitamin D, D3, D2 from foods, from the sun... What's best?
And I preface, again, this question by saying, if you go to a supermarket in
New Zealand and go to buy a packet of mushrooms, they have a prominent label on
them promoting the vitamin D... There you go, there's the image up on screen.
Talk to me about this, is vitamin D2 that you'll find in mushrooms... What is
that? Why is it different to vitamin D3 and should I be eating more mushrooms?
Use Vitamin D3, not D2
1:03:28.4 Henry: Vitamin
D2, for a fair number of years when I was starting off, was looking like it
would be, should be a good as vitamin D3, but there have been now well over 50
studies that vitamin D2 is
not nearly as good as vitamin D3 for the body and isn't
absorbed as well, and doesn't provide the same kind of benefits. There are a
couple of studies that have even indicated that taking more vitamin D2
decreases your vitamin D3 levels. So, although there are quite a few people that
are going for the mushroom form of vitamin D2, it's most likely not the right
one to go for.
1:04:31.6 Craig: Right,
and so, I know if you go and see a doc New Zealand, the chances are you will
end up with cholecalciferol (vitamin D3). But in other countries, doctors may
look to prescribe vitamin D and when that script is filled at a pharmacy they
may give you D2. Now, talk to me about that. Should folks just be saying,
"Hey, I'd prefer vitamin D3 please?", or is it no biggie, or... What
are your views?
1:05:02.0 Henry: It's
a large biggie, actually. One of the other aspects of vitamin D2 is it stays in
the body for a much shorter period of time, and so you... For vitamin D2, you
have to take it on daily or, at worst, every three-day basis versus vitamin D3
can be taken every two weeks or every month. It's stored in the body far
better. The body's not used to dealing with vitamin D2, it's far more practiced
up, if you will, with dealing with vitamin D3.
1:05:35.3 Craig: And
so, sticking with, sticking with the topic of the different forms of vitamin D,
when we look at vitamin D3, there's the option of folks going for these liquid
emulsions and the dropper bottles or the gel capsules. What's the benefit of
going with either or, would be a question that I ask. Is there any difference
at all?
1:06:04.5 Henry: There's
some amount of difference between it, but not nearly as large as the difference
between vitamin D3 and vitamin D2. There's some difference and it depends on
the person. Sometimes the gel cap will contain a kind of oil that makes it such that all
of the Vitamin D is not absorbed by all 30% of the population, it's less than
20% reduction in the absorption. In some cases, for infants, there used to be a
kind of, still there is, a kind of vitamin D drop that they would be given that
they'd spit back out because they found it just to be incorrect for them. And
later on, the research found out why and so that kind is generally not given
anymore. To go back on your comment about the Vitamin D2 being prescribed...
That again goes back into the '60s or so, in which Vitamin D2 was the form to
be prescribed because maybe the reason being unfortunately, is that the
companies got a lot more money out of prescribing D2 than D3. And so the whole
dog on chain got going there.
1:07:29.8 Henry: There
was a fair amount of effort through a friend of mine, actually, who got around
to talking to the various drug distribution companies in the United States and
making D3 available for the doctors to prescribe, and so now, pretty much all
of the doctors now in the United States prescribe D3, but probably in 40 or 50
countries right now around the world, if the doctor prescribes vitamin D to
you, it will be D2 it because she didn't get around to
telling all the rest of the world.
Topical Vitamin D is better than oral for
some people
1:08:12.4 Craig: [laughter]
Right, right. And look, while we are still on the subject, talk to me about
topical D3. You mentioned it earlier, and it just piqued my interest. I know my
sister's husband deals with psoriasis, he gets it quite bad. So what's is this
topical vitamin D? Never heard of it before.
1:08:37.4 Henry: Topical Vitamin D comes in various forms:
some as a liquid, some have a spray and some of them as a cream. For myself, I
used to have psoriasis on my right knee from a bicycle injury. Looked kind of
yuck but I found for myself and many other people do, if you apply the vitamin
D cream or oil to a portion of your skin where you want the skin to be
improved, whether it be psoriasis or a burn or a wart or various other odds and
ends, applying it topically, it goes into the body right there, and it appears
as though you end up just below the skin with about 100 times more
concentration of vitamin D getting there than if you had taken it orally
through your mouth, and then it finally gets around down to your knee. If you
put it directly on the spot that you want to deal with, it works far far
better.
1:09:40.3 Craig: Right.
Now, the next question is a somewhat complicated one, and I still find myself
kind of struggling to understand. I wanted to ask you, people talk about
genetic polymorphisms, and it's a big long word that sounds super complex, and
in and around the genes related to vitamin D metabolism, converting vitamin D
from the supplement form into the storage form, into the active form now, is
that something that folks should be worried about before they start taking
vitamin D? And what are they?
1:10:23.0 Henry: Actually,
some of those genes are mentioned back up here in this other screen. [chuckle]
Yes. So, the
ellipses show the various genes which can increase or decrease the amount of
Vitamin D that gets into your body. In general, they are not really large
reductions, but like for instance in that, the upper two genes there, if you
have a poor CYP2R1 or CYP27A1, if those aren't
working too well, the amount of vitamin D that you take in through your mouth
doesn't get down to your liver. And so that's one of the reasons that... I was
mentioning the lack of sunshine being one of the reasons for having too little Vitamin
D, but having a poor gene up there, ends up that your blood test isn't as high,
and the best solution for that is to take more vitamin D. Unfortunately, you'll
notice most of the ellipses are below the blood test level, so that you can get
up to and have say, a 50 nanogram level of vitamin D, but if you had a poor
vitamin D binding protein or a vitamin D receptor gene problem or some of these
others, they don't have names, just acronyms, you can end up with having not as
much vitamin D getting to your cells of your body, and that's invisible from
the vitamin D test.
1:12:01.5 Craig: So
should people be tested? Well, can you test for these gene issues and in your
experience, being in the world of vitamin D for a while, how many people might
have an issue with their genes related to their metabolism?
1:12:18.0 Henry: Approximately
30% of all people have a problem with the vitamin D receptor, that's where it
gets actually into the mitochondria inside of the genes, but it is somewhat
difficult to notice, or expensive to test, if you have those gene problems, but
it doesn't really matter if you just look at, "How do I feel" and
is... "Am I breathing better? Am I having less pain" and other...
Just getting a feeling for things will summarize all of these and make it so
they're not too consequential. There is a specific vitamin D receptor test that
you can get, it costs $30. I tested and found out that, "Oh, rats, I have
a poor vitamin D receptor." So independent of the cofactors, there are
some things which increase the vitamin D receptor, the activation of that gene,
and there are 14 of them that I have got listed currently on the webpage, that,
and those activators are increasing at about one every six months, recently,
and I'm currently taking nine of them, so that I'm kind of covering the bases
or I like to think of it as a shotgun, that I don't know which of these is
gonna particularly help. I'll do all of them.
1:13:43.5 Craig: Right.
Folks would be interested maybe to explore where they can get that test done.
Is there a link for more information on genetic vitamin D-related testing?
1:13:55.2 Henry: Yeah,
if you click on this link here for
more information, that gets you to the part on genes, and there's a large
section there on the vitamin D receptor, and that has the information on the
vitamin D receptor test, which you can also, by the way, get there's a gene
company 23andMe, that tests genes, and it, in there, it gets the vitamin D
receptor gene. It doesn't say what it's current activation is, it says what it
should be activated as, as part of the genes that you got at the time of birth.
1:14:35.7 Craig: Right,
I know folks will recognize 23andMe, I know Dr. Rhonda Patrick has
talked about that a couple of times before, so there you go. And the link will
be there. Now, I'm surprised the people that I talked to, the amount of people
that have had issues with their parathyroid glands, and in some cases, are on
thyroid hormone daily. Now, those folks, can they still take vitamin D, is
there any considerations for someone that has issues with their parathyroid
before supplementing?
1:15:18.7 Henry: I've
been down that path a little bit. I've got maybe 30 studies on the parathyroid and
thyroid operation, and it seems that that's not one of the
problem, that's not a concern about your taking vitamin D, there are a couple
of concerns of not taking vitamin D. The primary one that I'm quite aware of is
with chemotherapy, because
vitamin D enhances about a half of the chemotherapy drugs, it enhances them so
much that people can die because of it. If the doctor doesn't watch the white
blood cell level and he keeps on giving a certain level of chemotherapy. If the
person has a high level of vitamin D, that chemotherapy drug is two to three
times more potent than it would be if not, and so for most drugs, it's nice to
be, have it more potent. Chemotherapy, it's not nice to be more potent.
1:16:24.7 Craig: Right.
Okay, that's some good information. In terms of barriers, you find on folks
starting a supplement like vitamin D now, in 2015, if you had asked me about
it, I would have told you, "Just a waste of money mate, it will turn into
expensive pay. I make everything I need through eating well and
exercising," so what are kinda some of the common barriers that you find
in people?
18 barriers to vitamin D supplementation -
all solved
- Fear high cost
- Hassle of getting enough
- Think that a doctor's approval is required
- Need a vitamin D test?
(fear of needles, hassle, and cost)
- Toxicity fear
- Fear long-term consequences - to self, fetus, child
- Difficulty in swallowing pills
- Worry about forgetting to take a pill
- Might have to modify current drugs/supplements (typically none)
- Have to know enough about Vitamin D to be able to justify to
family/friends/doctor
- Concerned that others you know are not taking vitamin D
- Unsure of how much to take
- Unsure if Vitamin D will help, and not want to wait for months to find
out
- Believe that food (still) has all nutrients needed for health
- Your country does not (yet) allow sales of capsules containing
>1,000 IU of Vitamin D
- I get enough vitamin D from the sun - I am outdoors at least 10
minutes daily
1:16:57.2 Henry: There's quite a few barriers that people have
and that doctors have that are down here a little ways. Okay, here are 18
problems that people have barriers for starting vitamin D supplementation, it
turns out that all of them are really non-barriers, but you have to think
through them and how to deal with them. But like for instance, some people
think you have to get a vitamin D test. No, you don't. You don't need a vitamin
D test before starting off. It's nice to see what your body's reaction is to
the vitamin D level you have and get a test in a few months, but some people
due to the fear of the needles or hassle of getting the test or the cost will
say, "I'm not gonna go to the vitamin D at all because I'm afraid of the
test," some people are afraid of the toxicity. Anyway, there's 18 of the
things there, and I've described in detail each one of the 18 barriers.
1:18:05.5 Craig: Look,
just glancing over that list, those I hear them all the time. Particularly,
that one that says, "You don't need it, you make everything that you
need," which turns out to be not so true at all. So, it's really cool that
someone watching this is able to go through, click in and then understanding
why that's not quite the case. My next question, I guess, and topic relates to
one of those, and that's the concern around toxicity. Now, again, I preface
this question and topic by saying there are some pretty severe side effects
listed on the New Zealand government's health websites, and then around vitamin
D. I'll just read couple out, adverse effects such as headaches, stomach upset,
kidney stones, kidney failure, abnormal heart rhythms... You should only take
vitamin D as recommended and prescribed by your doctor, health navigator, ,,,
1:19:08.1] What do you say to that?
1:19:13.5 Henry: Junk.
Some of the reasons people that wanted to try the vitamin D didn't because
they're not sure whether it's gonna be helping them or not, but I've had very
good success at having the people take a loading dose of vitamin D and having
them personally feel how much better they feel in a week or two. ,They don't
have to have had cluster headaches go away to feel better. Sometimes it takes a
little while and they'll say, "Doggone, I've got a higher level of vitamin
D, now, I haven't had any colds or flus during the season." Others:
"I'm just feeling happier during the day" or "I'm more alert
during the day," or other odds and ends, and I find that people pass that
barrier of trying out a new supplement and wondering does this help or not?
Myself, I've tried out, as I said, hundreds of supplements, and I tend to give
up on a supplement if I don't feel for myself that there's some benefit in a
couple of months. So I know that some of them won't benefit me until decades
later, but that tends to be the case for many people that, after they don't
feel a benefit, they give up in a few months.
Vitamin D toxicity is extremely rare
1:20:40.7 Craig: And
so toxicity,
then, Henry... I know that some folks will even say, "Well, why would you
take vitamin D? They give it to bloody possums and rats to poison the things
now." How many people have hit the hay and passed away from vitamin D
overdoses? Is it something, you know, tell me...
1:21:04.6 Henry: In
the United States, 500 people die from aspirin overdose every year. Now,
starting with that perspective in terms of overdose, there have been zero
overdoses to the point of death due to vitamin D, zero in the last 10 years.
And in our globe. So, it is a rare, rare thing.
1:21:35.4 Craig: And
so, if that was a barrier for someone, "I'm, scared to take a higher
dose," toxicity is probably not something that you should be concerned
about. Quickly, talk to me about why are they knocking out possums and rats and
mice with vitamin D?
1:21:53.0 Well, what's the deal there?
1:21:56.8 Henry: Well,
it would knock you out too if you took an equivalent of about 10 million IUs
each meal. That's what the rats and the possums are getting, and that would be
very hard on you, you're somewhat larger than a possum or a rat. That would be
very hard on you and yes, 10 million IUs of Vitamin D on a maybe several times
a day basis or even a daily basis is a big problem. And if you look at that in
terms of IUs per kilogram of body weight, that's how it works out that, yes, at
really high doses, it does cause problems. But... By the way, that was one of
the things I had looked at many years ago, looking at 50,000 IUs of vitamin D
in a bottle, it turns out that you can consume that entire bottle in a single
day, and not have a problem. You'll feel a little off, but not enough that you
have to go to the hospital or anything. But if you took 10 of those bottles
every day, that would cause a problem.
1:23:13.0 Craig: So
I wanna talk to you about disease burden in particular, with the lens to the
things that affect my fellow New Zealanders. Now, I've said a couple of times
throughout this interview that cluster headaches, my cluster headaches were
resolved with vitamin D. I do not get them anymore. Henry, tell me what other
diseases respond to vitamin D?
Many health problems are associated with low
Vitamin D
|
Autism (138) |
Depression (228) |
Multiple
Sclerosis (370) |
1:23:38.4 Henry: So
here are... Just taken from the left-hand column of VitaminDWiki, here are the
top health problems in terms of the number of studies for each of those,
starting with autism in the upper left-hand corner at 138 studies, bone health,
285, and going on down to trauma and surgery at 300. So that gives you a little
feeling as to how well thateach has been studied. Pregnancy, turns out vitamin
D is very useful before, during and after pregnancy. 793 studies...
1:24:19.2 Craig: I
have been told women really need to watch out if they're taking vitamin D. Make
darn sure that you're taking birth control that increases fertility in both
males and females. Talk to me about that, that's really interesting.
1:24:34.7 Henry: Yeah.
The zoos learned. Quite a few learned decades ago that they become a birthing
factory if they give vitamin D to their animals, that it greatly increases
their fertility. In one of the studies, I was noticing that if you increase the
vitamin D levels to 50 nanograms for both the mother and the father, it
greatly increases their fertility. Also, we end up with much
healthier children as a result.
1:25:12.4 Craig: Before
we talk more about pregnancy, one of the things that caught my eye on that
list, multiple sclerosis... I know a couple of friends that are going down this
journey right now. Now, talk to me about... I've said again, Vitamin D really
worked very, very well for cluster headache. Are we talking about some efficacy
and help here, are we talking about remission in some cases... How far this
thing go from...
1:25:42.2 Henry: Multiple Sclerosis is one of the poster
children for vitamin D in as much as having a high dose of vitamin D, and
through a particular protocol called the Coimbra Protocol, it's now being done
by over 20,000 people around the world, they find that their multiple sclerosis
essentially completly goes away. That is to say there are many, many, many
testimonials I've got on my website, but an example of one is the person had
been a runner and then got multiple sclerosis and was in a wheelchair, barely
able to move around, got the high dose vitamin D, and she's off being a runner
again, running 10 miles a day. There are hundreds of testimonies like that.
There's also many images of brain scans of people with multiple sclerosis
showing the white areas in which the brain isn't working anymore. And then they
give them the high dose vitamin D and all the white areas go away, and they're
thinking again and operating, walking, running jogging just fine afterwards. It
has caused me to wonder about how many other diseases would get really cured by
a high amount of vitamin D.
1:27:18.0 Craig: Yeah,
and so let me ask you then, correlative or causative? I know a lot of academics
maybe watch this and go, it's all very well to say, list a whole lot of topics
and say that vitamin D is at the root of it all now, they're going to say,
correlative does not mean causation, and...
27 Health problems proven to be fought by
Vitamin D
Diabetes + Heart Failure + Chronic
Pain + Depression + Autism + Breast Cancer + Colon Cancer + Prostate Cancer +
BPH (prostate) + Preeclampsia + Premature Birth + Falls + Cognitive Decline +
Respiratory Tract Infection + Influenza + Tuberculosis + Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease + Lupus + Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome + Urinary Tract
Infection + Poor Sleep + Growing Pain + Multiple Sclerosis + PMS +
Schizophrenia + Endometriosis + Smoking 27 problems
Note: Once a week also fights: COVID, Headaches, Colds,
Fibromyalgia, Asthma, Hives, Colitis etc.
1:27:41.2 Henry: That is a very important concern. All of the
above health problems here were studied through randomized controlled trials
giving 50,000 IUs of vitamin D once every two weeks, or a placebo to hundreds
or thousands of people found the benefit in the vitamin D. That kind of
eliminates the whole problem of correlation versus causation because the
vitamin D caused that health problem to go down, to go away or decrease in
various ways, I have to look at the details of each one of them, but it's that
level... I think I've got 750 randomized controlled trials concerning vitamin
D. I also have over 500 meta-analyses, which are summaries, overviews of
randomized controlled trials on vitamin D, and they're all, or virtually all,
finding that it really helps a lot.
1:29:00.9 Craig: So,
sticking with pregnancy, you made a comment some time ago, when we were having
a talk around 6,500 IUs being a good dose for a woman that's carrying a fetus.
Is that because the fetus is sucking a bit of vitamin D out of Mum and using
that for... Just, I'm such a knobby in that area, talk to me about what you
understand about reproduction and vitamin D.
For a healthy pregnancy and baby take Vitamin D
BEFORE conception
- As of 2021 W.H.O. still incorrectly recommends ZERO vitamin D while
pregnant
1:29:36.6 Henry: I
consider reproduction to be a little different from pregnancy. Let's
concentrate on the pregnancy aspects of it. There are a whole bunch of trials
by Dr. Hollis and Dr. Wagner - they tried
different levels of vitamin and found success at 6,500 international units of
vitamin D daily for the pregnant woman. In terms of decreased health problems:
preeclampsia, stillbirths, etc, and ended up with much healthier infants.
Need to have a good level of Vitamin D before
week 8 of pregnancy
1:30:37.1 Craig: Yeah,
so my wife was born... Sorry, my stepson was born by Caesarean section, but I
have read a couple of articles on your site that talk about that aspect as
well, and that the lower the vitamin D serum, the increased risk of having a
Caesarean section.
1:31:00.9 Henry: Women
with a low level of vitamin D were 4X more likely to need a Cesarean section.
Vitamin D helps broadly across the whole lot of health problems
concerning pregnancy.
1:31:31.9 Craig: And
so, really, those questions have been focused on mums. What's vitamin D's role
in kind of fetal development and the health of your beautiful, new baby? What
are the considerations there? What are your understandings and thoughts?
1:31:50.0 Henry: The
previous chart shows the development of the fetus going from being a couple of
cells to birth. The various parts of the fetus that are developed during that
time and how vitamin D helps out during each of those different periods. For
pregnancy, you just don't add vitamin D during the third trimester. You wanna
add it actually before conception. But, as soon as possible of knowing about
the pregnancy, the adding the Vitamin D is very, very important. Loading dose is best
Sex (now that I have got your attention)
1:32:31.5 Craig: Henry,
and we're all bent upon being equal, please talk to me about my considerations
as a bloke. What does vitamin D do to my reproductive system, my testes? [laughter]
1:32:50.7 Henry: Right.
Well, it makes for much healthier swimmers and they survive better and they
work better. But I can also relate that it makes sex a lot better too.
[chuckle] It feels better. It's I think better than... I don't know. The need for Viagra is associated with low vitamin D.
1:33:14.2 Craig: And
now this next question... Look, you don't even have to answer if you don't want
to, but my mind wanders, I'm the kind of guy that thinks about things off the
beaten track. And sticking with reproduction and whatnot, your views on
sexuality. Is there any correlation? I know, for example, Dr. Waldo Stumpf
published at length regarding the brain as a sex organ. What are your views? Do
you think this may be kind of an emerging field we learn more about in the
future of vitamin D and sexuality?
1:33:52.1 Henry: Most
likely. So far, all I can see is positive indications in terms of sexuality and
vitamin D. I've seen nothing negative whatsoever and so I'm leaning to saying,
"Oh, that's probably a good thing." It turns out that the brain-blood
barrier somewhat restricts vitamin D from getting into the brain. So, some
Alzheimer's researchers said, "How can we get vitamin D into the brain?
"Oh, there was a way of getting some chemicals into the brain."
Cocaine users sniff the cocaine and it gets past the brain, blood-brain
barrier, there's a particular place through the nose nerves that the chemicals
get in. And so, they did an experiment with mice - having them inhale vitamin D
trying to see: "How can we decrease the likelihood of getting
Alzheimer's?" And they found that inhaling vitamin D works. They actually
tested the vitamin D levels in the brain of the mice. After inhaling more
vitamin D gets in. And so, they were happy and they were going off and doing
other things. That study kind of tweaked my interest and so I ended up making a
vitamin D inhaler and I have been using it myself now for the last four or five
years.
Inhale 500 IU of Vitamin D from an
ultrasonic mister
1:35:36.0 Craig: Yeah.
There's two aspects to that. And I wanna park the inhaler and I wanna park that
philosophical piece in and around the brain as a sex organ and the brain and
vitamin D 'cause I think it's very, very interesting and it can be seen from
quite a spiritual perspective. But I wanna stick with disease burden and in
particular, obesity and diabetes. Just over one in three Kiwis, Henry, are
overweight. You know, 34% of our population. And I know many watching this
wouldn't possibly mind losing a little bit of weight. Now, what are your views?
Is there a specific level or threshold where metabolism starts to get
influenced by Vitamin D? I know Dr. Judson Somerville's book talks about
weight loss and Vitamin D. What are your views?
Obese need 2.5X more vitamin D to get to the
same level
- Normal
weight Obese (50 ng = 125
nanomole) Click here to see the 2014 study
1:36:33.4 Henry: The more vitamin D you can have, the less
your risk of diabetes. That has been shown by over 100 randomized controlled trials.
The obesity, there's some other complications of the causes of obesity that
would take another whole hour to describe and in any kind of detail, but in
terms of weight loss, that's been a little bit better described. Many people are actively trying to lose weight gained
during pandemic - Vitamin D will help. Just taking vitamin D itself
doesn't really do it, but if they add exercise or if they reduce calories they
will lose an extra 10-15 pounds of weight during that time period in which they
were doing the randomized controlled trial. And most interestingly that having
the high or low goal of vitamin D allows them to keep the weight off because
that's a frequent problem that people have.the yo-yo diet problem: "I'll
go on a diet, and then I'll lose some weight." And then, "Okay, I'll
go off the diet." Whoops, all the weight comes back and sometimes even
more, but if you do that same process, go on a diet and add vitamin D and then,
when you go off the diet, you won't gain that weight back nearly as much.
1:38:14.7 Craig: And
how does diabetes kind of fit into this picture?
1:38:19.9 Henry: Unfortunately,
I don't have a mental model that I can describe as to how diabetes is involved
with vitamin D. I can't remember what's on my webpage on diabetes right now. I
don't have a good memory for all of those. However, prediabetesrisk of has
been treated by many randomized controlled trials. Diabetes has likewise been treated
in many randomized controlled trials.
1:39:23.8 Craig: And
again, there's a section on your site?
1:39:26.6 Henry: Yeah,
there's a section on the site there that's got 250 or 300 different studies
on diabetes
and vitamin D.
Gastrointestinal problems, IBS, Colon Cancer -
all helped by Vitamin D
1:39:36.6 Craig: In
terms of sticking with gastrointestinal exploring and fleshing that out...
1:39:42.2 Henry: Yeah.
1:39:43.6 Craig: I
know so many people with IBS. It's just very, very common. Colon cancer is the
second largest leading cause of cancer death in New Zealand. Above and beyond,
which I haven't told you, but I'm a niche chef of 15 years, and I can tell you
that when I started cooking, I wasn't getting the level of orders that I got
towards the end of my career, saying, staggering... "Allergic to this,
cannot have that, no this, no that, no this, no that, no... "
1:40:13.7 Henry: Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
1:40:15.5 Craig: Why
this increase, and is it related to vitamin D? Have you got literature that
people can explore on this topic?
1:40:23.9 Henry: I
have many charts of showing the huge increase in
IBS, in multiple sclerosis, in sleep problems, infertility problems, in
psoriasis, all of which have gone up, a fact... I've got a summary page of
health problems that have increased by 2X to 35X in the last 40 years,
and every single one of them are related to having a decrease in vitamin D
level. Doctors are slow at changing. An example; colon cancer, which has now
had 21,
meta-analyses, all of which have found that a higher level of vitamin D
decreased the likelihood of the person getting colon cancer or decreased the
problems of colon cancer. Unfortunately, there is a huge industry involved in
treating colon cancer, not preventing, treating, and there's been a great
reluctance by those people who are... Have studied, they are experts at being
colon cancer experts. They'll go out of business if the people get vitamin D.
People are starting to notice that Vitamin D is helping.
1:41:53.4 Henry: For
instance, on multiple sclerosis - recently i noticed that Blacks who got
multiple sclerosis, they increased the vitamin D intake. There's a 16 times increase in the amount of vitamin D that they're
getting. They elected to do it themselves. Their doctors weren't
saying it. They elected to do it because they're starting to hear about it. I'm
imagining there's sort of something similar to that in cluster headaches
happening and sleep and sort of these other things.
Vitamin D first started helping dental problems
in the 1930's
1:42:28.4 Craig: 100%...
100% because... Yeah, it is unbelievable how this whole thing is patient-led.
We know what works. It has worked for over 3000 of us cluster heads now, and so
it really is... And it's a really interesting aspect as this thing moves
forward, and it's being led by the people talking about it amongst themselves
and just increasing that awareness. And then around, one of the fascinating
topics I've followed and with great interest was learning about Weston Price.
Now, for those of you who don't know, Weston Price is probably one of the
earlier names in the early 1900s that discovered the benefits of sunshine on
oral health. Fast-forward today, you can search YouTube, and you will find, for
example, a dentist by the name of Joel Gould, a man who talks at great length
about vitamin D and oral health. What are your views about oral health? And
talk to me about fluoride?
1:43:40.7 Henry: As
I mentioned earlier, the American Dental Association was greatly promoting
vitamin D in the 1930s. Unfortunately, some people came along and pointed out
to the dentists that, "Hey, if you apply fluoride topically to your
patient's teeth, that will decrease the number of cavities". So then they
flip-flopped in about a 10-year time period, and then they're all pro-fluoride.
Unfortunately, since that turnover fluoride is incorporated in toothpaste, and
so people would be getting the fluoride that way, and it turns out it's not
nearly as beneficial for oral health as the vitamin D. Various dentists around
the world, and I'm in contact with some of them, are increasing the vitamin D
level in their patients, and they're finding that the patients are having fewer
gum problems, they're having fewer broken teeth, they're having fewer cavities,
on and on and on. Dental implants even work better. Just when they're trying to
insert a false tooth as a sort of stake in there, they find that applying a
little layer of Vitamin D to the stake before they put it in there makes it so
the implant isn't rejected nearly as much.
1:45:12.4 Craig: How
interesting, and I recall in my interview with Judson Somerville, he mentioned
vitamin K as well, and around periodontal disease, he said, "Watch out,
the periodontists ain't gonna, won't like me much, they're gonna go out of
business as people discover vitamin K is amazing for their condition".
Speaking with Dr. Somerville, in his interview I did with him, he mentioned to
me that his practice went from one of the highest prescribers of
anti-depressants in the tri-state area to the lowest after introducing vitamin
D into their clinical practice. Now, indeed, I can tell you mental health is a
massive, massive concern. I've got a report here, Ministry of Health 2018,
mental health issues and problems on the rise, particularly amongst young
people. Now, I know vitamin D is not the whole perspective on this very
perplexing issue around mental health, but please share your thoughts with me
around mental health and vitamin D.
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1:46:20.8 Henry: Well, this table summarizes how much vitamin
D you need to deal with various problems. Rickets is at the lowest needing 30
nanograms, if you bring the child who has rickets to the 30 nanogram level,
rickets goes away. At about 40 nanograms there is a great decrease in
depression. COVID-19, fertility and psoriasis are some of the ones that are
fought quite nicely by 50 nanograms. Sleep seems need about 70, cluster
headaches needs about 80, multiple sclerosis needs about 150.
1:47:13.6 Craig: Mm-hmm...
And what do you think the mechanism is? I'm really keen to get your
perspective, and I'll just make some comments around mental health from the
perspective of some of the other researchers I've followed, and that is to say
that vitamin D is very much a signaling molecule and it is your body's
physiological way of knowing what season it is outside, and so Judson
Somerville for example, talks about folks being in a winter syndrome where
their vitamin D level is so low, that their... Physiologically, their body
believes that they are stuck in an endless winter, and so elevate them out of
that winter range. Naturally, to me, I feel really good in the summer, you
know, don't we all? We love going to the beach and we love that, that... It
just makes us feel good, and I just wondered what your views were from that
aspect.
1:48:20.9 Henry: I
think that's a good indication of how the body tells you that you're doing a
good thing. It's kind of like the cat and the dog like to get out, or the cat
particularly likes to get out in the sunshine or get some warmth and feels
good. Likewise humans. Pretty much all humans on Earth, and most religions,
kind of revere the sunshine, and there's probably, if you think about it a
little bit, there's probably some connection there between improved health and
having sunshine. For a long time when I was growing up, it was considered to be
a good sexual thing, that the person looks more sexually attractive if they had
a good suntan, and there was kind of a relationship there that, hey, if you
have a good suntan, that's an indication, you're generally looking healthier
for other reasons, than just the tan, you're looking brighter and happier, and
such.
1:49:27.9 Craig: And
more vital.
1:49:29.8 Henry: Yeah.
1:49:31.8 Craig: Vitality
of life. Talking about those that have the vitality of life amongst them, I
wanted to let you know, I had someone contact me recently whom had started
taking high dose of vitamin D, and the commentary to me, Henry, was that they
had very rapidly and very quickly increased their daily run stretch from 15
kilometers to 30 kilometers and noted with an absolute ease. They said to me,
"Craig, I'm just absolutely amazed at muscle recovery and lack of a
soreness the next day." Henry, talk to me a little bit about sport and
nutrition. There will be people... Will folks see benefits like this when they
take vitamin D?
1:50:23.2 Henry: The
table ran out of room for 50 nanogram entires. Many, many professional sports
teams and clubs around the world have come to see the benefits to their players
in terms of performing better, jumping better in basketball, running for a
longer period of time without soreness, having fewer injuries, recovering from
the injuries more quickly, all of which comes across basketball, hockey,
football, soccer, gymnastics, taekwondo, and quite a few others, have all found
that 50 nanograms helps tremendously for all of, for sports
people.
1:51:21.5 Craig: So
I sent the particular gentleman to your website, to the Wiki and he contacted
me shortly afterwards to say that he had found the papers that he was looking
for and again wanted to thank me for introducing him to the vitamin D world.
Now look, sticking with sports nutrition, shock horror, drop the mic, Henry,
talk to me about inhaled vitamin D. What the absolute hang? I've never heard of
it before. People are gonna be tearing their hair about this one, please, talk
to me about this.
1:52:00.0 Henry: There's
the inhaled vitamin D study that the Alzheimer's researchers
did with the mice to get more vitamin D into the brain, and then I, being a
connoisseur of all things vitamin D, I wondered, "what if you could...
" They had had the mice inhale vitamin D. I said, "What if I could
inhale the vitamin D?" So I proceeded to just buy some stuff on Amazon,
some nanoemulsion vitamin D, added a little bit of water to it and bought some
of inhalers/misters. I actually own 15 of them now. I've been lending them out
to people, and that it works out very nicely. One can inhale vitamin D and I've
not gotten an understanding of why, but as it says at the top here, I find that
inhaling only 500 IUs of vitamin D, a really small amount, greatly improves my
breathing ability and my ability to exercise tremendously, such that I rarely
do any form of intense exercise without inhaling vitamin D about five minutes
before the intense level.
1:53:19.1 Henry: So
it's as something simple that, you go to my website here for more details, it
gives all the details about how inhalers cost between, the mister costs between
$9 and $25, the particular model that I've seen that I really like it costs
$22. That's the one that's pictured, and it's a nice thing to do, there's no
company selling it whatsoever. But I've been hoping that that would happen, but
it hasn't.
1:53:53.4 Craig: Well,
the details are on the site, I'm sure that there's gonna be someone that knows
someone that talks about this thing, that tries it and says, "Oh my
goodness!" And so, this could be something that we hear more about in the
near future. Look, I wanted to and have so far stayed well out of the
discussion on my podcast about vitamin D and COVID-19. Now it's come to the
point Henry, I can't ignore it any longer. I've got my friends, my family,
visitors to my website, asking me about vitamin D and COVID-19. Look, it's just
become so politicized that you risk falling on one or on the other side of the
fence and offending people. My interest is purely scientific. I wanna read, I
wanna know what the literature is saying, and I know you're the kind of, you're
a details guy. Talk to me about COVID-19 and just give it to us. What is
literature saying, and where are we at?
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1:55:03.5 Henry: Yes.
Okay, there's many, many studies that have found that have less chance of
getting COVID and a better chance of surviving it if you take any of a whole
variety of different items. Ivermectin is one, vitamin D is another, omega-3 is
another, Resveratrol is another, there's quite a few different ones. I happen
to know a lot about the vitamin D part with COVID-19 and it greatly decreases
the chance of getting COVID.
And also, if you start to get COVID, take a very high dose of vitamin D. For
every person that I've recommended that to, their COVID symptoms virtually
vanish within three days. I call it emergency
vitamin D for COVID.
1:56:16.5 Craig: So,
in terms of following the literature and seeing what has been posted on PubMed
and various boards, is that information collated on the VitaminDWiki, so that
we can kind of see...
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1:56:32.1 Henry: Yes,
there's a whole section that has, I think there's 800 studies now
concerning Virus/COVID on VitaminDWiki. of which
about 600 of them are about vitamin D and the 200 other are bout some of the
other ways of preventing or fighting COVID.
1:56:53.0 Craig: Right.
And so specifically, sticking with vitamin D, that's a lot of papers for people
to kind of I guess be across. Is there any organization that is looking at all
of these papers and kind of running a current and up-to-date meta-analysis
of...
1:57:12.0 Henry: There's
quite a few. There's one particular site, shown previously, that does an
excellent review of, I think it's 23 different things that seem to be
useful for early treatment of COVID and they update their
information and it's extremely in good detail. I don't try to duplicate it at
all, but they nicely update their information in a graphic form, and I've got
it on my website that their information is updated on my page every single day.
And so if you go look at it today, it will show the
current date, whenever it is, as to what the latest information is on all of
those different ways of fighting COVID.
1:58:05.0 Craig: And
COVID-19 aside, it always bemuses me, Henry, I see news articles, and I'm gonna
put some headlines, typical headlines from New Zealand news publications that
folks will see every single winter. Look, let me read... Health authorities
brace for...
1:58:29.8 Henry: Okay,
you had shown me the headlines earlier. There are similar ones in many other
countries.
1:58:38.1 Craig: So,
can you tell me why is it that we, as humans, associate winter with
a more severe or greater outbreaks of respiratory kind of type viruses, colds,
flu, you name it, why is that happening in winter?
1:59:01.1 Henry: There
are many different proposed reasons. Most people agree that there is something
about winter that causes increased flus and colds, that's acknowledged. Now
comes the disagreement as to what the reason is, or if there is a single
reason, or are there multiple ones. Everything I've seen so far is that vitamin
D is a very significant reason for that increase in flus and colds, the lack of
vitamin D that happens when you're not out in the sun as much. Oh, by the way,
one of the indications of that is that in terms of, it's not... And so, some
people say it's the temperature, some people say it's the lack
of sunshine, some people say it's the humidity. An example, in
the Middle East, there they have such intense sunshine that they stay out of
the sun so much during the summer that that's when they get their flus and
colds. So to me, that was a good example of maybe it has to be the lack of the
UV and the vitamin D that's causing the flus and colds/ Because of the intense
summer sun, they run between a building and their car, and hit their
air-conditioned car, and then run, not just walk, run to get into their home
because it's such intense sunshine.
2:00:32.3 Craig: Right,
right. It's almost staggering if there is a correlation or indeed a causation
in and around the vitamin D serum level, how much vitamin D is in your tank
heading into winter, and if you didn't increase or elevate your level when the
sun was shining, then you're more at risk of having a bout of cold or flu over
the winter season.
2:01:06.2 Henry: Or
another example of lack of sunshine comes from multiple sclerosis om the US.
The US Army has been testing, noting the amount of multiple sclerosis they got
from the enlistees who lived in the southern part, closer to the equator in the
United States, versus far away from the equator. There used to be about a 20 to
one difference in the number of people with multiple sclerosis who were
volunteering to become soldiers. That was the case up until about 40 years ago.
Then air conditioning came along, and people in the southern part of the United
States were no longer having to get too hot in the summer because they're able
to stay inside with the air conditioning and now it's just about level in the
United States, the same amount of people volunteering to go into the
army from Florida, which is the closest to the equator versus Maine, which is
the furthest from the equator, in the United States, they have about the same
level of multiple sclerosis versus it used to be an order of magnitude
difference between the two.
2:02:21.9 Craig: Again,
New Zealanders watching this, as we kind of discussed multiple sclerosis from
incidence rates from a United States perspective, you can do a simple Google
search and reveal the data for MS incidence rates in New Zealand, and the data
is pretty starkly clear that incidence rates increase the further south you go
in New Zealand further and...
2:02:48.6 Henry: Yes.
I've got maps like that for lots of countries. Here are a few maps of increase dementia, etc at higher
latitude. That same sort of thing that happens in various places,
that differential goes away as you get more
and more air conditioning.
2:03:13.8 Craig: And
look, as we kind of move on to a summary and philosophical section A, the first
question I wanted to ask you, and again, I'm a weird dude, I think about
strange things. I've always wondered about astronauts. You've worked in the
aeronautical space before, the colonization of other planets and vitamin D, is
this something these guys are even thinking about to astronauts, for example,
that are working up the ISS supplement vitamin D. Do you know?
2:03:50.6 Henry: NASA,
for a long time with the people up at the International Space Station, gave the
people no supplements whatsoever. Then they finally got around to it, the only
supplement they gave to the astronauts was vitamin D. And then I found that
they're increasing the amount of vitamin D that they're recommending only 2,000 IU.
I went through a calculation and found it costs a LOT of money to have an
astronaut up there. The commute charge is really expensive and the supply chain
and everything else is also really expensive I made a page: NASA might save 700,000 dollars a day by giving
astronauts enough Vitamin D That was the result of a simple
little calculation about a year and a half ago, and looking at how much more
productive the astronauts would be in terms of running their science
experiments, which is kind of the reason for being up there, how much more
productive they would be in not having colds and flus and feeling better
etcetera and it was a huge, just fantastic amount of money that they could save
or increase productivity if they gave them an adequate amount of vitamin D.
2:05:20.0 Craig: And
you know the problem here on earth is not, it's not just relegated to the folks
working that science up at the International Space Station. The metaverse is
something that I'm hearing about more and more, alongside Elon Musk's
aspirations to colonize other planets. Do you think innovators of our 21st
century like Mark Zuckerberg, have considered vitamin D in their process?
Looking at the metaverse where we exist virtually with a headset on, what would
be your message to 'em?
2:06:07.2 Henry: You
can have increased productivity and health of people: no matter where they are,
whether they're shut in. healthy, not getting outdoors at all,
elderly, they're astronauts, are under the water, in the Antarctic... vitamin D
would help a tremendous number of people.: Vitamin D can help virtually
everyone.
2:06:45.0 Craig: We
talked about domesticated animals and the fact that you've got a veterinarian
section on the DWiki, which I know some folks are gonna head over and check
out. Now, I've spoken about Dr. Gominak previously and I think one of the
things she eloquently talks about is the migration, hibernation or the living
off reserves in relation to vitamin D, the sun and the animals and the
creatures that live on the earth. I think this is really interesting. Can you
just talk about the equator and those three aspects, hibernate, migrate, live
off reserves?
2:07:26.7 Henry: Dr.
Jablonski has authored many excellent studies that relate to your
question: Evolution of human skin color – Jablonski April 2021.
There is a strong, but not 100%, agreement with her conclusion.
2:08:13.2 Craig: Like
I said to you before the interview started, I just have so many people reaching
out to me here in New Zealand regarding cluster headache. It'll be something
that I look up in terms of incidence rates and maybe blog post in future about
that. But it leads me to asking you, Henry, what's the way back for us? It's
almost like... And I'm sure the viewers if they've followed and kind of grasped
the idea of why we are deficient in vitamin D, what's the way back for us as a
species? What needs to change in order for us to wake up and realize that we
are living so out of whack with nature, that we're so off course?
Philosophically speaking, doesn't this leave you with a, I guess a sense of
melancholy as to where our species is at?
2:09:13.3 Henry: It's
beyond melancholic. For quite a few years of doing VitaminDWiki, I thought,
"Oh, if they just got a little bit more proof to the doctors, they would
see that this seems to be something which is useful to do." But I've come
to the conclusion starting about four years ago that no, you need to follow the
money or see who's going to benefit from it. And if you're adding vitamin D,
the health people do not benefit from it, they will decrease in the number of
jobs that they have. One local example in Australia, near to New Zealand, they
noticed that there was a 20 times increase in the total IUs sold to Australia
over a period of 10 years. This was not due to the doctors doing it, but they
found that there was a 36% decrease in the number of osteoporosis visits after
that 20 times increase in vitamin D. We're seeing some of that happening at the
grassroots level around the world.
2:10:35.8 Henry: I
mentioned before, multiple sclerosis, the Blacks getting multiple sclerosis,
they greatly increased their vitamin D levels. Same thing happening with
Parkinson's disease. I've got it documented, that people who were getting
Parkinson's, without their doctors recommending it, by looking on the internet
and other places are saying, "Hey, this might help me," and they're taking more vitamin D. Unfortunately,
not quite enough Vitamin D to make a big improvement, but it does help them
somewhat. That's going on and on through many diseases. Look at the people or
the groups who have a strong need (impacts their lives and no standard medical
treatment). When those with a strong need learn of it, try it and benefit from
it the continue to do it. The people who don't benefit from it, the health
insurance companies, the hospitals, the doctors, many times have negative
reasons for not recommending a useful amount of vitamin D. I've kind of given
up trying to convince those groups and am focusing now more on, groups who will
benefit. One of my favorite quotes: "It is difficult to get a man to
understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding
it” - is in Do not expect a doctor to recommend a pill which will
eliminate his job (vitamin D)
2:11:48.9 Henry: And
for some people... My son, for instance, took extra vitamin D and he didn't
notice any difference, but he's also younger, and as you get older, your
vitamin D levels get down... Get worse and worse, and he wasn't having any
health problems at all, with the exception of one health problem that went
away: allergies to pollen
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dosing for the level you have set as a goal (80 ng, 60 ng, 50 ng, or whatever).
2:13:05.4 Craig: Tell
me... Sharing this information isn't without its perils. Have there been any
challenges over the years in terms of getting this information out there and
censorship?
2:13:17.6 Henry: No,
there's not been, however, there has been extreme censorship fn some of the
COVID-19 alternative treatments like Ivermectin calling it a horse dewormer is
a particularly outrageous claim because, actually 10 times as many humans get
Ivermectin as do horses.
2:13:47.1 Craig: Really
interesting, that whole topic, we're certainly not gonna... I'm not gonna wade
into that debate, but... Look, I'm really interested to hear where to from here
for the Wiki. Have you got any exciting projects or developments on the
horizon?
2:14:06.8 Henry: The
one that I had given myself a New Year's resolution for January 2020 was to get
some employers... I've got all the documentation of how much... If they gave
free vitamin D to all of their employees to offer free Vitamin D to their
employees to improve their productivity by reducing, colds. flu, back ache,
headache, etc for themselves and their families. I've got some pretty good
documentation showing that that would save quite a lot of money. But then COVID
came along and I got distracted. I'm hoping to get back to it soon.
2:15:12.6 Craig: Yeah,
best-laid plans at times. Henry recently got thrown a curveball, and it
appears, it doesn't matter where you live, none of us kinda got off lightly in
terms of the disruption to normal life. There's a ton of good videos out there
or... And interviews on vitamin D, if there was one that you would recommend to
folks, that need... That wanna watch something else, what would that be?
2:15:39.1 Henry: I've
got... My website has got a list of, I think, 100+ videos concerning vitamin D. In terms of
a very short one, I think the one we produced five or six years ago, was pretty
good. Does Less Sun mean More Disease.
It describes how you get vitamin D from the sun and the health problems
associated with having little vitamin D, etcetera.
2:16:14.6 Craig: I'm
calling that the best five and a half minute video on the internet hands-down,
it is one that you will want to share with your friends when you see it. It's
on the Wiki, it's linked on my channel, go and watch it after this. You'll thank me
later, I assure you. And finally, Henry, what would be your message to someone
that is new to this, that's watched the video, that may be dealing with one of
the conditions that we've touched on... Where to from here for that person?
2:16:56.6 Henry: Summary:
If your are going to try vitamin D start quickly replenishing your Vitamin D
levels. Too many people discontinue taking a supplement when they do not
quickly notice a benefit. Daiiy dosing nor preceded by a loading dose can
result in months to feel the benefit. By that time most people have forgotten
how they had felt.
2:18:06.8 Henry: And
then if it is, well, continue on doing that, the one pill every two weeks for a
couple of months, and then fine-tune it by getting a vitamin D test and saying,
"Oh, is it likely that I could... Okay, the vitamin D test says I'm at 30
nanograms and I should be at 50 or 80 nanograms, but I'm still feeling good, so
maybe I need more." But also, maybe to the point of, "Oh, I'm feeling
really good and yeah, I'm at a higher level of vitamin D, I don't have to
continue at this level. I can drop down a little bit."
2:18:44.6 Craig: And
so, anything that we've talked about today that you've seen, if you're watching
this, Henry has very kindly linked all of this information in one page. So, you
can go to the section where we, for example, talk about cluster headache, click
on the link and go and view the literature on the VitaminDWiki. Is there
anything you'd like to add, Henry?
2:19:10.2 Henry: Yeah,
but it would take about another 10 hours... This is sufficient. I was thinking
about all of the other things to that could be talked about, but at a certain
level, I think this deals with the main issues... What people can try for
themselves. And look up for your particular health problem, I've got 80 health
problems listed on the left-hand column.
And look at, for a particular health problem you have or that runs in your
family, and take a look and see what the studies are actually showing. Being an
engineer, I am extremely data-oriented, so I don't really like to look at
people's testimonials, or "Gee, this individual found that XX helped
them." I take very little interest in that. In fact, for a long time, and
I've taken the policy of if I come along with a single study on a particular
disease that's finding vitamin D helps, I don't put that on the website. Just
from a single study, I rarely trust the results from a single study.
2:20:25.1 Henry: There
are so many things to be right with it or wrong with it, but I generally will
start to put the study on the VitaminDWiki after I've seen five studies and at
least three of them say that vitamin D is of significant help. I'm allowing
that there will be some disagreements. Generally, rarely will it say that the
vitamin D hurts. There are one or two that they claim, I'm not too sure about
it, that the vitamin D got the problem worse, but generally it's saying,
"Hey, they gave vitamin D, but it did not help." But oftentimes I
look at them, yeah, they gave only 500 IUs of vitamin D. One of the trial added
30 IUs of vitamin D and it didn't help that particular problem, and so they
concluded vitamin D doesn't help at all.
2:21:14.1 Craig: And
so, you will not find a study like that on your site? So, you're looking...
2:21:19.1 Henry: You'll
find a couple of poor studies, just for flavoring, I throw a couple of those in
each month using a ridiculously small doses or small durations, etc. They'll
run a test in which they'll give a good amount of vitamin D, but with a trial
duration of only one month, at which point, vitamin D level will not have even
gotten up to the maintenance level that is needed, and they'll say at the end
of that one month the vitamin D didn't help with this particular problem. There
are lots of trials like that.
2:21:57.1 Craig: And
so, it's somewhat reassuring then that I know the collection you've got there
is somewhat curated and the papers have been viewed with an analytical... The
critical eye that you would expect from someone that's been an aircraft
engineer for his working life. Look Henry, as a person that knows the Wiki
inside and out, I... Bless you, Sir, for the work you are doing there. I know
it comes at a cost of time, and I also know that you've invested a lot of your
own finances in getting the message out. So, I am absolutely certain that you
will be kindly rewarded when you approach those pearly gates many, many years
from now. If you've been watching the show, like and subscribe, we'll have more
from Henry Lahore. The link's in the description. And go and visit the
VitaminDWiki... It is just a sensational... A sensational place. Henry, my good
man, thank you.
2:23:13.6 Henry: Yep.
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Dr. Arshad Afzal, voormalig faculteitslid, Umm Al Qura University, Mekka, Saoedi-Arabië
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Een bericht, wat ik liever nooit had gezien, maar het is er nu wel: Geld gaat verdwijnen. Wat nu? Nog 847 dagen bedenktijd.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
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CASH DIES IN 847 DAYS
Europe just legislated the end of financial freedom and nobody noticed.
January 2027: Every euro above €10,000 becomes illegal tender. Every Bitcoin needs government permission. Every transaction becomes a datapoint in Brussels’ surveillance grid.
This is not proposed. This is law.
340 million Europeans will wake up in a cage built from their own bank accounts.
THE KILL SHOT
The EU Anti-Money Laundering package doesn’t just track criminals. It treats every citizen as one. Starting 2027, buying a car in cash becomes a crime. Sending €1,001 in Bitcoin without state approval triggers prosecution. Anonymous wallets vanish overnight.
The Digital Euro arrives 2029. The European Central Bank spent €1.3 billion building what they call freedom. But leaked proposals cap holdings at €3,000 per person. Every purchase tracked. Every pattern analyzed. Every dissent potentially bankable.
THE LIE THEY’RE SELLING
“This stops money laundering.” Europe launders €500 billion yearly, they claim. So they’re building a panopticon for 340 million people to catch the fraction who commit crimes.
China’s digital yuan already programs money to expire, to restrict, to control. The ECB promises Europe will be different.
They promised deposit safety in Cyprus too. Then they seized accounts in 2013.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Privacy coins migrate to the shadows. Black markets replace grey ones. The state gains omniscience. You lose the right to buy bread without permission.
This isn’t about crime. It’s about power. €20 trillion flows through the eurozone. Every cent will soon require approval from Frankfurt.
The infrastructure of tyranny gets built in the name of safety. Always.
THE CLOCK IS RUNNING
847 days until your cash becomes contraband. 1,308 days until the Digital Euro launches. Zero days of mainstream coverage asking the only question that matters:
Who decides what you’re allowed to buy when money becomes permission?
The European Union just made Orwell an instruction manual.
Maar wie is Shanaka ? Kan hij het weten?
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Why now? Because dollar rails are about to eat Europe’s lunch
The EU isn’t blind. It sees USD stablecoins becoming the corporate back office: instant settlement, global liquidity, T-bill yield. That is hard to compete with.
MiCA + AMLR build a KYC perimeter to buy time for a digital euro. €10k cash cap in 2027. CDD on €1k+ through CASPs. Self-custody legal, but the on-ramps become gates. It is a soft capital control by design.
If Europe were confident, it would out-compete, not wall off. Ship euro-denominated, interest-bearing tokenized deposits with deep liquidity, SEPA-Instant integration, and open APIs. Make euro rails the best rails.
Tells to watch
• EU corporates disclosing USDC/USDT for treasury and invoicing
• Share of EU trade invoiced in USD rising while euro share slips
• Exchange delistings and stricter CASP rules pushing founders to London, Dubai, or the U.S.
• ECB confirming a retail cap for the digital euro
Falsifier
If euro stable rails achieve real depth by 2027 and become standard for B2B payments, the “wall” was a bridge. If not, the dollar internet overwhelms the euro perimeter.
Monetary walls rarely keep dollars out. They keep innovators out.
Nov 10, 2025 · 12:45 PM UTC
IK ga het lezen als ik tijd heb.
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