How Much Vitamin D Do I Need? SURPRISING

0:00so i get this question a lot how much vitamin d should we be taking on a daily basis well i

0:06think we should probably go to the experts right the vitamin d council stated that healthy adults

0:13which i'm still trying to find some healthy adults need about 2000 ius that's international units

0:20okay per day if you're getting little to no sun other experts recommend 400 to 800

0:30ius per day now here's the problem that i need your help with okay i just don't understand this

0:40when we take vitamin d it's in these units right here international units but when they measure

0:46the blood it's not in international units it's in ngs per milliliter okay

0:52so if you're deficient in your blood how do we know how much vitamin d to take because the

0:58units and supplements are ius okay so it's kind of weird i it's i don't know why they do that

1:05but if we take a look at the optimum concentration in your blood of vitamin d it should be between

1:1240 to 60 ngs per milliliter okay so if you had 20 ngs per milliliter

1:19that would be considered low right well let's convert 20 ngs per milliliter to international

1:26units per milliliter it would be 0.8 pretty small but the question is how much blood do we have

1:34because this is per milliliter not all of your blood so we have about five liters of blood in

1:42the average size person and that would give us if we do the math four thousand international units

1:50okay vitamin d so people that are deficient that have only 20 ngs per milliliter

1:58really have about 4000 international units of vitamin d which is actually greater than

2:05what is recommended there's some conflicting information here isn't there all right so just

2:11keep tracking with me here because if we take the optimum concentration which is 40 to 60 okay

2:18how much vitamin d is this in international units

2:23well if you do the calculations it's 8000 to 9000 ius that's what's normal in your blood

2:33so how are we going to get this if we're only recommending this or that that's what i just

2:40don't understand it doesn't make sense to me and on top of that i don't think you're going to

2:45absorb 100% of your supplements estimates show that you really only absorb between 60 to 80 percent

2:53that's in a healthy person of these vitamin d supplements when you take them if you're

2:58taking d3 not and so if we're only absorbing 60 to 80 percent and you took let's say 10,000 ius

3:06in one day you're really only absorbing 6000 to 8000 international units of vitamin d3

3:15which just barely make the normal amount that you need in your blood so there's a

3:22big problem here because these recommendations do not match what we really need to normalize

3:29our blood values and then on top of that if you're taking these amounts

3:33and you have a deficiency or you have other problems like inflammation

3:38or you don't have a gallbladder or you have gut damage from past antibiotics or you're older or

3:45you have insulin resistance or you are obese there are so many barriers that are going to prevent you

3:51from absorbing this vitamin d anyway what i would recommend for the average person is to take at

3:58least at least 10,000 ius every single day and on top of that get some sun if you can just to meet

4:08the minimum requirements that your body needs and another point i want to bring up is that vitamin

4:14d is the most important vitamin because it's so important for your immune system to maintain a

4:19healthy mood to keep inflammation out of your body and not to mention your bone structure your teeth

4:25so it's no wonder why the great majority of the population is deficient in vitamin d so if you're

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