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Vitamin D The Sunshine Vitamin!

Who Needs it and Why?

Bill Young, Holistic Nutrition Coach

Certified Reiki Practitioner

President, Apple Health Network, Inc.

Phone: 646-961-3818 Email: [email protected]



The problem is that most people are woefully deficient in vitamin

D, especially African Americans and other non-Caucasians.

No one these days in modern America gets enough sunlight and

therefore Vitamin D. We wear clothes that cover our bodies from

the sun. We live and work indoors. Most of the population lives

north of the equator.

African Americans of course, have another distinct disadvantage,

deeply melanated skin which drastically decreases the amount of

UVB radiation that reaches the vitamin D producing layers of the

skin.

I have yet to meet an African American who has a “normal” level

of vitamin D.

It is absolutely imperative that we increase our vitamin D levels to

optimal as quickly as possible, because it has been found that low

levels of vitamin D can double your risk of dying in any particular

year.

If you do not know your vitamin D blood level, you need to get

tested ASAP!

Ask your doctor to test your blood 25(OH)D level, which is the

technical description of calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D3.

The blood levels of vit D runs from 30ng/ml to 80ng/ml. For

optimum health, including protection from cancer, you want to be

in the 50ng to 70ng range.



When I first tested my vit D, it was 27ng! Other clients of mine

had reading of 11, 7 and one sister’s level was so low, it was

undetectable!

How do you increase your vitamin D level? The ideal way is by

exposure to the sun. To do that, you must expose at least 40% of

your body to the sun. If you are Caucasian, about 20 minutes per

day will allow your body to make about 20,000 International Units

(IU) of vit D.

If you are not Caucasian, you need from 1 hour to an hour and a

half of exposure, depending on your skin shade, with the darkestskin tones requiring the longest time.

What about skin cancer from the sun?

Turns out that people with the least amount of regular exposure

to the sun are those that are most susceptible to skin cancer as

your skin builds up a protective layer of melanin over time.

Of course, this approach is not practical for most of us, living and

working in an urban environment, but just in case you were living

in a private, 2 acre gated community with a pool…

For most of us, we will have to take supplemental vit D3. The

FDA Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for vit D3 of 600iu is

obviously inadequate if you are deficient in this important

nutrient. Remember, you get 20,000 IU per day from the sun,optimally.

I take 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily and have been for 5 months.

My vit D level is now 35ng, still a long way from 50 but



measurably better than the 27 I started with.

I recommend that my clients take 5,000 to 10,000 IU daily until

you reach the goal of 50ng. Then you can cut back to a

maintenance level which will be dependent on the season of the

year, there is less sunlight in the winter, your skin color, etc.

It is vitally important that you get an adequate amount of vitamin

k along with your vit D3, so that the calcium is deposited in your

bones and not in your arteries or other soft tissue.

Note that there are several forms of vitamin K. Vitamin K1 can be

obtained from green leafy vegetables, but it only lasts a short

time in your body and is not as powerful as vitamin K2.

K2 is obtained from meats and from supplements such as

Melaquinone 7. As you know, you should only eat small amounts

of meat, and if you are chronically ill, none at all.

Also note that if you take blood thinners like cumadin or warfarin

(they are the same thing, rat poison!) or daily aspirin, you should

check with your doctor before taking vitamin K2.

While we are on the subject, there is a natural blood thinner with

none of the dangers of cumadin or daily aspirin, which eventually

destroys the lining of your stomach and causes bleeding ulcers.

It is called Nattokinase, a natural proteolytic (protein digesting)

enzyme from Japan. It has been used for decades in Japan to

thin the blood and prevent and treat strokes and heart attacks as

it eats blood clots better than TPA or any other drug. See 2nd

attachment with this lesson to get a report on Nattokinase that

you can read and share with your doctor.



Your doctor will probably not have heard of Nattokinase and will

therefore be reluctant to take you off warfarin.

Even though he/she knows it is rat poison and can kill you, it is

part of conventional medicine’s “Standard of Care,” and he/she

can be liable if s/he takes you off it and you have a

“cardiovascular event;” whereas if you die from the side effects of

warfarin, he/she is not technically liable.

I take a specially formulated professional grade of vitamin D3

with Melaquinone 7 designed for mega dosing and I highly

recommend it to you. I also have a version without theMelaquione 7, if your doctor will not let you stop taking warfarin.

Contact me for details.

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