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So today we’re going to talk about vitamin d in calcium it’s actually quite interesting this symptoms of a vitamin d deficiency are very similar to a calcium deficiency so let’s just kind of go through vitamin d first if you’re deficient in vitamin d you can have chronic low back pain you can be actually at bone pain or pain anywhere in the body but a lot of times
It’s in the lower back in fact that’s one of the first symptoms if your calcium deficient you can also have achy muscles and achy joints as well next one is muscle weakness that’s that could be coming from a vitamin d deficiency as well muscle spasm okay in a calcium deficiency you could have muscle cramps in the cat’s in the feet but not having enough vitamin
D can cause the calcium deficiency because one of the functions of vitamin d is to increase the absorption of calcium by 20 times okay in the small intestine okay nonspecific pain so it could be like fibromyalgia or some weird pain but it’s hard to identify that maybe migrates and changes daytime drowsiness so let’s say during the day you’re driving or you’re
Just doing work and you just want to take a nap but you know you’re not tired okay it could be your vitamin d levels also mood changes too that happens in the winter because you’re not getting enough sun high blood pressure that’s more of a long term about amedy deficiency because without vitamin d your arteries get stiff okay and then low immunity so you can
Have a respiratory infection now when you’re sick maybe your mother or your grandmother told you to consume cod liver oil or you might have heard that before cod liver oil is loaded with vitamin d and vitamin a really good for the immune system so as soon as you start getting sick you should take that but vitamin d it’s intimately involved in immune system and
It actually even acts like a hormone as well okay sweaty head so let’s say for example you have an infant that just is sweating excessively in the head or a small child give them some vitamin d structural problems and kids or even babies i’m not sure if you’ve ever heard of a condition called rickets the most common cause of rickets is a vitamin d deficiency but
You can also develop it from not having enough calcium so in rickets you have soft bones so you increase the risk of getting scoliosis your knees become bowed or knock-kneed you have a lot of structural problems in the teeth all sorts of issues with that okay now in calcium we have aches tingling in the lips the mouth the feet in the hands and this can also mimic
A b1 deficiency as well because you can have peripheral neuropathy so you get muscle cramps bruising okay you see that in the lower part of the body in the extremities like in your in your legs fatigue which is similar to this right here throat spasm so you have this chronic cough or irritation in your your vocal cords okay then you have tetany which is a little
Twitch underneath the eye or the arm or even any large muscle can actually twitch because of low calcium also one point about calcium is that you need a certain ph for calcium to be mobilized so if your stomach is too alkaline not only are you going to have acid reflux you’re gonna have the appearance of calcium deficiencies because you can’t mobilize calcium that
Well you can’t absorb calcium and other minerals that well so if you don’t have the right ph in your stomach you’re not going to absorb minerals so sometimes it’s difficult to know do you need vitamin d or you or do you need calcium most people do not need extra calcium and i don’t recommend you take extra calcium i recommend you get your calcium from food unless
You have osteopenia or osteoporosis because a lot of times people are just taking way too much of this in a pill form and it’s creating a problem i would imagine most people have too much calcium it’s just not mobilized enough but what they really need is vitamin d to release this right here through the body now yes you can get your calcium from dairy like cheese
And things like that but you can also get it from leafy greens like kale spinach well the problem with spinach even though it has calcium it has oxalates which actually bind the calcium so you’d have to either steam it or cook the spinach then consume it to get the calcium but i would recommend you get your calcium from other greens i put a link down below for
More information about a good sources of calcium now if you have a problem with your kidney you won’t be able to absorb calcium that well i already talked about not having enough in the diet and also not having enough stomach acid and you can also have a parathyroid problem this usually occurs if you have your thyroid removed because the parathyroid glands there’s
Four of them that are attached to your thyroid so many times when they take out the thyroid they remove the parathyroid and now you have a calcium issue there’s other reasons but they’re rare emf electromagnetic frequency okay it’s coming from the cellphones and the wi-fi when you’re supposed to emf it drives a calcium inside and you have all sorts of issues so
Again there’s a lot of different causes to problems with calcium and when you have too much intracellular calcium you also can at the same time have a calcium deficiency because the calcium is unavailable to you it’s locked up inside the cell where it should not be and that’s why even doctors will give something called calcium channel blockers to lower blood
Pressure because there’s too much intracellular calcium okay glucose so if you’re consuming a high carbohydrate diet you can have low calcium from that a lot of people have insulin resistance which actually then could increase the insulin and also create a problem with the calcium and lastly you can it be dis deficient in magnesium and again magnesium and calcium
Work together without enough magnesium it’s going to be hard to balance out the calcium and this comes from leafy greens how do you become deficient in vitamin d well no sun it’s winter you don’t consume fats let’s say you’re in a low-fat diet well guess what you get your vitamin d from fats fatty fish liver or egg yolks but you can also get it from mushrooms
As well now one of the best sources of vitamin d from a food base is cod liver oil now if you actually are missing a gallbladder or have a gallbladder problem or a fatty liver or a problem with the liver you won’t be able to absorb vitamin d as well because you need the bile produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder to be able to absorb and breakdown
And utilize this right here so no gall bladder problem with liver low vitamin d level so you have to take more to create the same effect or take it with purified bile salts and also by the way i have a vitamin d supplement and the reason why i created one is because i wanted something that had vitamin k2 in the right ratios vitamin k2 works with vitamin d3 to
Transport calcium in the right place but i recently added another ingredient which is called purified bile salts to increase dramatically the absorption of both d3 and k2 so i put a link down below for more data on there so if you don’t get enough sun you’re gonna be low in vitamin d low fat diet low vitamin d stress high cortisol can block bottom indeed gastric
Bypass vitamin d problem a colon issue let’s say you have irritable bowel syndrome or some type of scar tissue in your colon it’s gonna be hard to observe vitamin d if you’ve taken too many sun blockers well you’re not going to get vitamin d so the relationship between vitamin d and calcium is interesting the symptoms cross over you have to look at the big picture
Most the time people just need more of this and not this alright thanks for watching so to prevent me from running at a content i have a new survey i want to find out what you are interested in so please fill it out the links down below
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Is It a Vitamin D3 OR Calcium Deficiency? – Dr.Berg By Dr. Eric Berg DC
