Scientists from Israel make a compelling case that Vitamin D should be a major part of the conversation when it comes to preventing severe COVID-19 and respiratory infections.

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Most convincing study to date 
4:25 Strange trend in science
5:11 Vitamin D and your immune system 
5:38 Various studies show it's protective 
5:45 Vitamin D lowers background inflammation
7:00 Vitamin D receptor and NFKB, TNF-alpha and IL-6
8:31 Sunscreen is being recommended often, worsening deficiency 
9:35 People over 60 need to consider vitamin D supplementation 
9:50 WATCH: This table tells the story!!  
11:30 Majority of patients with mild disease had sufficient Vitamin D3 levels
12:41 Super-majority of critically ill patients were deficient in vitamin D
13:07 Pre-infection levels of Vitamin D were assessed in this stuy

Shawn Baker, MD discusses the science behind why you NEED to build muscle as you age and easy ways to stay strong and prevent muscle loss with nutrition and exercise. 

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Show Notes

0:00 Intro
02:25 Mike recommends a carnivore diet to his clients with autoimmunity, and they are getting great results. 
03:19 Autoimmune disease is becoming more prevalent. Immune modulating drugs can sometimes help. If they work, they tend to wear off. They suppress the immune system. They can have some acute side effects. 
04:30 Mental health is improved with a carnivore diet. Systemic inflammation, reduced with this diet, also affects your brain, affecting mood and cognition. 
06:45 We have fewer cows in the world than we did 50 years ago, but cows are blamed for greenhouse gas increases. Red meat consumption has gone down 30 to 40% in the US over the past 50 years, yet diseases become more prevalent. Our obesity rate is almost 45%. 
08:33 Meat is an essential part of the diet. 
08:35 Efficiency of producing beef can be improved with improved nutrition, genetics, and animal healthcare. The US has 90 million head of cattle and produces more beef than anywhere in the world. Brazil has 250 million head of cattle, yet it produces less beef than the US. 
09:09 Meat production can be increased through vertical integrated pasturing, pasturing multiple grazing animals together. This could double or triple our output and improve our environmental footprint.
10:29 There are 4 major meat packers in the US. They control 85% of the beef supply. They suppress cattle prices to the ranchers and high cut the prices at the retail end. 
11:25 Algae supplements for cattle can almost completely suppress their methane emissions. 
11:35 USDA approved facilities are too expensive for ranchers to set up. Work directly with a local rancher. 
17:11 Meat is a health food. It is a superior food to most other food in the supermarket. 
24:15 An alternative to the Coronary Calcium Score is and AI driven dye contrast study, which also measures soft plaque.   A calcium score is recommended at about age 40 to 45, taken every 3 to 5 years. 
28:15 The baseline of health is sleep, exercise and nutrition. 
29:40 Resistance training is one of the most powerful levers you can pull, with regard to longevity, functional longevity, disease resistance, and metabolic capacity. Continue to challenge yourself. You can put on muscle at any age. 
31:30 Resistance training gives objective progress feedback and health feedback. Lifting high volume heavy weight it is aerobic and anaerobic. 
36:22 Dr. Baker pushes himself to failure several times a week in several sets in 5 to 20 reps. Super heavy weights raise the risk of injury.  
42:52 Try to do some sort of exercise/movement every day. Avoid sedentary behaviors. 
44:20 Surgical masks protect surgeons from flying body fluids produced from surgery, not viruses or bacteria. Surgical masks are not worn to protect the patient.
 48:35 Carnivore Diet Study (observational) found: Weight loss, feeling better, reduced or eliminated symptoms, 94% of diabetics were able to get off their insulin, and 84% were able to get off all oral medications, including metformin. 
57:25 It is very hard to get funding for a study on meat.  Most funding is provided by industry to those studies that will be favorable to them.

New research suggests Vitamin D influences the structure and function of fat cells and may even impact how much body fat is stored and released to be burned as energy.

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----------------------Show Notes----------------

0:00 Intro
00:26 Vitamin D is sequestered in fat tissue.
00:30 Vitamin D influences your metabolism
00:58 Vitamin D insufficiency causes a dysregulation within your fat cells,
01:30 vitamin D cutaneous synthesis.
02:25 Vitamin D in adipose (fat) tissue affects,
02:40 When you are overweight and obese, your fat cells become necrotic, and they can die.
03:22 The active form of vitamin D
04:30 Vitamin D exerts significant effects on the formation of fat cells (adipogenesis).
05:00 Sufficient levels active metabolites of vitamin D suppress the accelerated adipogenesis, shown in animal and cellular models.
06:00 Vitamin D2 VS vitamin D3
07:00 Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) is acquired from your food or sun exposure. Food sources are fatty fish, dairy, ruminants, the flesh/skin of vertebrae animals, egg yolks and dietary supplements.
08:10 Vitamin D5, sitocalciferol, is derived from an Ayurvedic herb called Rauwolfia serpentina.
09:05 Your liver is responsible for hydroxylating pre-vitamin D into the somewhat active form, calcidiol. This is what is measured in your blood, 25-hydroxy vitamin D.
09:20 Either your fat cells or your kidney further hydroxylates it into 125-dihydroxy vitamin D, calcitriol, is the active form.
09:55 The conversion from 25-hydroxy vitamin D to the 125 dihydroxy vitamin D is down regulated In fat cells, particularly in overweight people.
12:09 Vitamin D activates the vitamin D receptor. Generally, vitamins are cofactors. Vitamin D receptor is found in your fat tissue, kidney, muscle, and bone. When it is activated, it effects your immune system, calcium homeostasis and binding and many inflammatory pathways.
12:55 The vitamin D receptor impacts lipolysis, the release of lipids from your fat cells for energy.
13:18 Your fat tissues store between 35 and 75% of your total body levels of vitamin D.
13:46 People who have diabetes or insulin resistance or are obese, there is less fat cell turnover, which releases vitamin D that was stored in fat cells. So less vitamin D is released to the resto of the body.
14:00 Vitamin d deficiency is 35 to 40% higher in overweight or obese people, or diabetics.
14:30 Vitamin D impacts many functions within the fat cell, including the upregulation of fat cell creation.
15:08 Lipid accumulation decreases with increasing calcitriol (125-dihydroxy vitamin D) dosages.
15:40 Fat cell inflammation is mediated by leptin.
16:40 Chronic activation of immune system cells can trigger inflammation in obesity related pathogenesis in which insulin resistance is involved.
17:03 Nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B) transcription factor triggers inflammatory cascades within your cells. Vitamin D can inhibit this NF-kappa B activation.
17:30 Overweight or obese individuals have a higher prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency.
18:00 Dosing of supplemental vitamin D should be based upon body fat and health status.
18:23 Vitamin D impacts calcium metabolism. The balance of calcium affects apoptosis, preprogrammed cell death.
19:35 Serum vitamin D levels
20:00 Exercise helps to promote fat cell health and metabolism. It can mobilize fat cell lipids. Flux of fat cells is healthy. Fasting also promotes a healthy churn of your fat tissue.
22:00 With supplemental vitamin D, there are reductions in fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1C, and increases in triglycerides, improving metabolic health.

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