I think it's about time we differentiated personal health from the medical "industry". We need to accept the "industry" for what it is. They're not there to help us, they're there to help themselves. Thank you, by the way, I'm doing a Vitamin D test today. They are available, no problem!
@Simon Broddle Well, just notice that I wasn't talking about YOU. I was talking about what HE SAID in HIS VIDEO. And you can even call a carrot a sausage. Good luck.
@Piotr Ang Unless he means certain veg and fruit, but the old 5 a day is a myth, as clearly you realise, but many don't. The dietary advice of conventional medical healthcare practitioners tends to be well wide of the mark of what we really need. Dr Campbell tends to go broader and deeper into topics than most practitioners from the allopathic field do, but he's maybe still ltd somewhat in his approach. I guess working with narrow-minded people for so may yrs has its drawbacks!
@Piotr Ang I'm unsure about your answer. These are my definitions of sugar and carbohydrates and how I live. My definitions are only relative to my organs, you make your own definitions and eat accordingly. I am height/weight proportionate, no sign of diabetes, 63 years old, test for Vitamin D, never had Covid and remain healthy, but equally importantly content and happy. 😂
I have never seen someone report good news with such a heavy heart before. Keep your chin up Dr Campbell, you have the respect of hundreds of thousands of people.
As a shift worker, my Vit D levels were very low and last year, I crossed the threshold into type 2 diabetes. Since hearing of Vit D and it's role in good health, I started taking supplements. I wish the health implications of shift working was taken more seriously by companies.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has concluded that "shiftwork that involves circadian disruption" is considered a Group 2A carcinogen and "probably carcinogenic to humans." You should look for a day shift job!
stevekitt52: I'm sympathetic to your health situation. Companies these days are undoubtedly driven by profit, the workers are expendable by all accounts, so unless a forced radical change occurs, you are very much on your own health-wise. Dr Campbell is a great source on genuine advise and Vitamin D3 is your friend, however, as he indicates, Vitamin K2 taken at the same time stops the build up of Calcium being deposited into your arteries. The body then naturally directs the calcium to your bones for strength etc. There's plenty of authentic research in the public domain to support this as fact. Apparently it's best to consult a good doctor on this, especially if you take blood thinning medications etc. Offered without prejudice. Best wishes. John
Interesting! I was considered pre-diabetic by my GP for years. I started taking vitamin D supplements at the beginning of the covid pandemic because I heard it helped the immune system. In my last three physicals my doctor congratulated me on no longer being pre-diabetic. I had not connected the vitamin d to that but it makes sense now.
@Jessica Almariri are you referring to vitamin D deficiency? if u live above 23.5° latitude. you don't get enough direct sunlight. even if u lived on the equator you'd likely still need a supplement
The pharmocrats don't want to actually fix anything or help folks get healthy, they simply want perpetual customers. It has been so inspirational, Doc, to see you slowly come to the realisation your world was not what you thought and still stoically follow the evidence to where some of us have been from the start. Thank you, and welcome to your true calling :)
You are exactly right about big pharma! It began in the medical schools with big pharma supplying the medical text books in medical schools, back in the early 1900's. We were using holistic and chiropractors until John Rockefeller came up with this brilliant idea to use pharmaceuticals & give free medical text books to the medical schools. With only one stipulation that doctor's be taught that only big pharma's PETROCHEMICAL based products could be used which caused the end of holistic medicine being used by most doctor's at the time. It was never about providing better health just using petroleum based pills and might help some people in the process but definitely no cures! The US is 4.25% of the world's population but we take 75% of all the pharmaceutical drugs. We are less healthy than most Asian countries although we have infiltrated their markets with a lot of unhealthy foods and drinks and of course push our legal drugs there too. We know herbs and organic natural foods will cure most aliments yet we have legalized drugs and our doctor's don't promote the use of herbs or true healthy foods. Our conventional medical doctors are complicit in just recommending drugs from the legal drug cartels although if they want to be a conventional doctor they have to prescribe only parmaceuticals because it's the "science!" Do you find it odd anything that is healthy always needs more scientific random controlled studies etc. etc. Why doesn't the government fund healthy foods or herbs that look promising? In a word, LOBBYIST!! We can't compete against big pharma... Funny how we started the war on cancer under the Nixon administration and cancer has skyrocketed since that time! The American cancer society, diabetes association etc are more about keeping their nonprofits in business than they are about a cure for diseases. It's all about "managed care," they would loose their funding with a cure. It's 100% about the Benjamin's. Of course it's a shame there are some very good people who mean well doctor's included but they are in a rigged system! The pandemic was a windfall for big pharma and that fact they can't be sued because the vaccines are still listed as an experimental is unbelievable!! Functional medical doctors in my opinion are the way to go, they try and find the root cause of a problem, instead of treating the symptoms like conventional docs do. I hope I shed some light to a few people with my ramblings! Thanks to "swainsongable"for initiating this conversation!
Thankyou John, this is quite staggering. I've been a big fan of vitamin D3 for decades, since I worked as a counsellor and support worker at MS Society of the ACT and became aware of the importance of vitamin D sufficiency in managing MS and the global latitudinal gradient of MS cases. However, I had no idea that it was useful in diabetes protection. I agree that populations should be tested for vitamin D levels, yet in Australia, I have found that some Dr's are reluctant to screen for vitamin D levels. In 2009/10 MS Research Australian compared taking high'ish levels of Vitamin D daily [about 6000iu per day from memory] against the pharmaceutical injection medications for MS [where injection sites are difficult to manage]. They found Vitamin D to be as good in managing the condition. Alas, we didn't get to hear much about that piece of research. I think it got ‘lost’ in the bottom draw of a filing cabinet somewhere, never to see the light of day.
I've been diagnosed with MS for almost 8 years now, and Vitamin D is a centerpiece of my managing program. It's probaby the main thing that has allowed me to get off all pharmaceutical treatments.
@MatlasX be careful of directed research there are a million reasons that could be true or false or directed to a belief, for example you could easily say the farther north ya go the colder it gets and less and less time spent out in the sun and more time hiding in house. You could argue it's food choices as it takes a high degree of knowledge and work to eat clean food in Canada, if it's in a store it's likely been tampered with or contains additives
Wait, are you saying that there are increased risk of MS based on the further you live from the equator? Do you have a link to anything regarding that?
As a Family Doc I treasure the time you take to review and methodically present and explain much of the data that is published. In reality there is not time to do it all. You have become a very trusted non-biased apolitical source. Thank you for helping to be a better and more thoughtful practitioner.
#Calluna We all know you can see our comments/questions to you, why haven't you responded!? Yet you been trollin dr john campbell chanel again recently, haven't you!? Hurry up & respond to all, calluna
@Wildlife at home Well spotted & well said. I notice clive hasn't replied to you neither. Can you please press thumsup on all my comments you can see in here;)!?
@Clive Flynn You can't explain what you think is wrong so you tell people to go watch some random channel? Why don't you just state whatever you think Back to Science claims instead of constantly telling people to go watch this random channel?
I’m a Veteran, USAF, and the Veterans Administration provides all of my health care. I have a blood test every 6 months, and Vitamin D is something they always check. They use a ng/mL with an acceptable range of 30-70. I am running about 60 ng/mL. I take 2000 units of Vitamin D daily. And as you have pointed out in previous videos, Vitamin D is helpful protection from the COVID virus.
I was diagnosed with Pre-diabetes last year and during this last year I lost 30lbs through exercise and intermittent fasting and this year my blood sugar levels were normal. I am a strong believer in intermittent fasting for lowering risk of insulin resistance. I also supplement with Vitamin D (I take anywhere from 4,000 iu to as much as 20,000iu a day). The only risk I still struggle with as a man of 55 is Cholesterol levels which started to inch up as I gained weight and started taking blood pressure medication. Vitamin D is very important and yes, it is very simple to increase our intake.
I have Diabetes Type 2 alas as well as you of course. I also have high blood pressure and cholesterol too. I used to be on insulin but then the Doctors ended it though; I am on tablets though too. I also have Vitamin D as well. Like you I am 55 now and things are difficult alas but the Doctors do know all that too I am sure of course. Thank you.
I find it absolutely remarkable is that it took till 2023 for real doctors to figure this one out. It was actually discovered in Edmonton Alberta 30 years ago. I'm not sure if the guy was an archaeologist or a geologist but he decided to study the world after a seventeen-year-old ended up with MS. After he did his research he discovered that anyone living around the equator that got more than 4,000 units of vitamin D a day didn't have diabetes and didn't have any MS. He put his son on 4,000 units a day and he never had any more attacks from MS. The original article came out in the Globe and Mail in Canada. I do believe in the early 90s. I find it extremely frustrating when egotistical doctors refuse to look at good information. As well any Inuits poor people in the Northern parts of Canada ie Nunavut Northwest Territories if they eat enough fish with vitamin D they don't have the problem either. Science needs to be moving a lot faster than the way they put her around about stuff.
I took on your advice during lockdown about taking vitamin D but didn't know about K2 until you discovered the combination much later on. I have recently been diagnosed with heart disease and peripheral vascular disease (Claudication in legs), which was undetected beforehand, and as I had always been a fit person came as a complete shock to me. Not pointing a finger at you one iota, but I understand that without the 2 combined there is a risk that the calcium formed goes to unwanted places and can form calcification, which is what has happened to me. For other peoples benefit can I ask that you stress the combined Vit D and K2 be imperative together. I have the utmost respect for you and have followed you for the past few years and will continue to do so.
@Brad cobb That worries me also...I have heart valve disease which I have been told is due to calcification in my valves. No cure given just blood thinners.
@Susie Spearing I don't think sugar was so easy to get back then, and they probably didn't know why a person was sick, and didn't know it was diabetics.
I've never been pre-diabetic but I was pre-RA and autoimmune disease. My doctor had a awakening one day during our visit and she tested by 25hydro VitD and it came back at 7! Started 50,000 units a week and six months later, my blood work was all normal and I felt much better. Tested my VitD again and I came out at 45 after six months. Still taking and will take VitD rest of my life. It's amazing. My fibro went away. Why did medicine not figure this out long ago? I also take hydroxychloroquine and it has been huge help, also! Covid about did me in in 2020 and it took the lives of two uncles and my father with shattered glass lungs.
A few years ago I had low vitamin D. My primary care doctor found it at my yearly check up. I started taking vitamins, getting more sunshine, stopped using sunscreen, lost weight by intermittent fasting, and eating sardines (which I hate). Now I’m above normal. Praise God.
I can't see the involvement of any God here, so not sure why you want to praise he, she or it. Not sure why any God would want to be 'praised' either, if he, she or it did exist (which is highly unlikely).
@Maree George Exactly. I sit in the sun mostly unclothed for about 10 min, then apply at least SPF 15, usually 30, if I’m going to remain in the sun for awhile up to 30 min. Bear in mind, it takes a little time for sunscreen to be effective; it’s not immediate. I’ll do this about three times weekly. I’m white but not light complected. Do not burn easily and currently have a moderate tan. Also, my weight is in normal range. I sweeten foods with stevia.
Couldn’t agree more! Thank you Dr. Campbell for continuing to speak the truth! I own a small direct-pay functional medicine clinic In Wisconsin and am regularly appalled at the vitamin D levels here…even at the end of summer (likely thanks to sunscreen and working indoors). We offer a vitamin D level for just $42 to anyone who wants it.
Thank you so much bringing this to light.. 🙏🏼💜 something so simple and safe. I’m a RN case manager in the states and I see this first hand daily when I talk to our patients, when I review labs with them (after their physician has done that of course). I do find that we are testing the A1C a lot more in the recent years, and in younger patients now, I’ve seen it checked in patients in their 30s -which is excellent. One thing I encourage everyone to ask from their doctors.. I encourage them to request an insulin level-this shows how resistant or sensitive our cells are to sugar/glucose.. If fasting insulin is high, it means your cells are less sensitive to the effects of that insulin and your body makes more. This is the precursor to “pre-diabetes” , so in essence it’s the pre-prediabetes marker.. “Normal” fasting insulin is under 19, some labs will have under 20. Optimal level is under 8.. ** would love to hear a chat about insulin level and insulin sensitivity/resistance Dr Campbell..🤗🤓
After a bout of covid, I started taking d3+k2 supplements around oct/nov 2022. I have yet to get sick since then, if i feel like i may be getting a sore throat or starting to get sick, i bump up the dosage. Thank you for your content Dr. Campbell. It may be safe to say that you are saving lives. i am championing the benefits of this supplement to all around me.
'Bumping up your dosage' won't help combat an infection at the time, as it takes up to a week for vitamin D to be processed by the body. More likely it is the vitamin D already in your blood that is combatting the infection by ensuring your immune system has what it requires. Vitamin D doesn't prevent infection, but ensuring that your immune system has sufficient vitamin D will help your immune system to combat infection more quickly. It's entirely normal to feel an infection coming on and then for it to go away again, as that is what happens when your immune system fights off infection. It's possible that 'bumping up your dosage' has a placebo effect, but there is no substitute for maintaining a sufficient dosage at all times and, since it is almost impossible to over dose on vitamin D, it makes sense to be on a high dose, especially if elderly or obese.
@Undetectible Foreveerr Just the recommended dosage on the bottle unless i am feeling under the weather. you can get it pretty much anywhere. They're not all equal though. Check out Dr Sam Robbins youtube channel, he offers a pretty good d3+k2 supplement in my opinion.
I have type 2. Nearly all of my mom's 1 siblings, except for two, have been diagnosed at 50. I was diagnosed last Fall. My maternal grandmother wasn't diagnosed until it was too late. My Doctor always checks for Vitamin D deficiency. I used to have it until I started drinking a lactose free milk that I like. I hadn't had any milk for a while. I was having more trouble controlling it, until I started have milk in my cereal again and now my levels are usually in the 5 to 6.4 range. Granted I usually cook my own food everyday. I rarely eat fast food. So lots of things are going on. I stopped drinking pop. Chocolate bars are difficult, but I have a chocolate chip cookies that are low carb and no added sugar that doesn't put my sugars up. I am not losing weight though due to hypothyroidism that is not controlled because I can't have the available ones because lactose is in all the ones available in my country. Lactose makes me sick. I am working on it though.
Vitamin D requires fat to be absorbed properly so take it with something fatty like milk or cheese or bacon. Be sure to include vitamin K2 to ensure that calcium is directed to the bones.
My doctor here in Canada on the other hand has been fascinated by the information he has been finding on vit D and he had all his employees D levels checked in his office and he has just sent me to be tested. We have to pay for the blood test but worth the $40. I am currently waiting on my results. He is the best doctor and keeps an open mind always.
This is quite astonishing. For context, I’m an man in my early sixties. Three years ago I was pre diabetic, with a Blood Glucose test score of 6.4. I’ve been taking Vitamin D3, 2,500 iu per day, since February 2020, primarily to protect me from the worse effects of Covid. Recently I had my Vitamin D3 levels measured, I has a test result of 85. At this time, among other tests, I also had a HbA1c test done. My score had dropped down to 5.4. My GP was so impressed he rang me to congratulate me and ask me what I’d been doing to bring about this change. I told him I’d been swimming four days a week and taking Vitamin D3 daily. He seemed oblivious to the Vitamin D benefit, and said rather sceptically, “it must be the swimming that did it” I look forward to emailing him a link to your podcast this evening.
@Katydid So you changed your entire life-style and think the supplements have done anything for you? Good food and excercise are all we need to be healthy, supplements are there to make money.
I was given my warning letter for pre-diabetes last week and it stated that i should seriously consider purchasing Vitamin D3 at the strength of 4000 UI. I'm 58 and neeedless to say it was a bit of a shock for me but not totally unexpected considering i am overweight and totally unfit. Coupled with a recent stroke, i know i have to make a massive change in my lifestyle now.
Thank you Dr. Campbell for this review. You've described my situation perfectly, I am pre-diabetic and have been taking vitamin D for two years to help ward off COVID. My A1C has only gone up 0.1 points in two years, 6.2 to 6.3. With diet and exercise changes, I feel I can prevent full blown diabetes.
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As usual great information from you. I have been living with type 2 for over 13 years now and only one doctor in that time has said "we might just check your Vit D levels" and that was last year. As a result my levels were shown to be very low so I have been taking Vit D , doctor never told me about K2 which I had to learn from your videos so thank you! wish I had have known when I was pre-diabetic .
I like how these things get his dander up. "Quite annoying, really.". Thank you, Dr. Campbell, for your intense compassion for the well-being of people. You're a far more faithful public health advocate than those employed in that sector.
My brother had diabetes II for 16 years; with a septuple heart bypass in the 10th year and 80 units insulin per day. Just kept getting worse with this standard of care. I then taught him an extreme keto diet (75% fats ... mostly olive, avocado or coconut oils, 15% proteins, and 15% "roughage". By the end of the 3rd week insulin needed was 0 (zero). 2 months later his A1C was down to 5.3 compared to 6.7 for the last 16 years. His doctors proclaimed him 'cured', no longer diabetic or even pre-diabetic. Prevent a diabetic relapse mainly requires less than 25 grams sugar or refined starches per day. Re; Vit D3, he has had monthly bouts of gout for 20+ years, yet upon taking 30,000 unit vit D3, his gout attack went away in 20 minutes, and has not returned in the 4 years since, while taking 30.000 units/day. As always thank you Dr. Campbell for your continuing education on health.
I was diagnosed with T2 niddm in November of 2017 weight then was 23 stone. My GP instantly prescribed Metformin and Statins. I asked for time. By June 2018 I had lost 8 stone and was returning a normal HbA1c for a non diabetic. Fast forward to last week and my GP stating that I’m in remission from T2 diabetes after never having a high HbA1c since. I have kept the weight off. Run 40 plus half marathons, 2 trail marathons, an ultra marathon and completed several loaded challenges. I will be 56 this year. My resting HR is 54 BP 112/78 VO2 max is 43. Prior to 2017 I couldn’t walk 500m. I simply cut out all processed foods and free sugars and walked 5km per day to get my initial weight loss. I’ve also survived CV19 despite being unvaccinated and in the at risk group. Oh and I never took the statins or metformin. Exercise and diet also brought me back from the brink of suicide after a diagnosis of ptsd in 2018.
Well done. You are the type of patient that doctors love - the type who is prepared to change their lifestyle, and puts in the work to improve their health. Many won't change their lifestyle, and for them meds are the only option.
Great insight as usual from Dr. Campbell. That said, reducing caloric intake, especially carbs would also reduce the incidence of diabetes in our overfed and overweight population here in the US. I think this is very important to note as obesity is now being excused, if not celebrated in the US from the woke crowd. Yes, I also take D3 / K2 and magnesium every day.
Vitamin D maybe a factor but as a long term type 2 diabetic the thing that has saved me is the keto diet. I had out of control blood sugar and stage 4 kidney disease, and 2 years later I have lost 27kg, have stopped all diabetic meds and have fully controlled blood sugar. Three months after I started the diet my kidney specialist (nephrologist) was amazed that my kidney function had improved 25%. When you are accustomed to this diet your whole view of eating changes, intermittent fasting comes almost naturally, and I have lost the cravings for highly processed high carb foods. If you look at the average diet of most people they eat literally hundreds of grams of carb every day, this is the poison that, even with all our modern medicine, is causing millions of cases of type 2 diabetes every year. All of this leads to the economic reality, if the whole population started to eat to control or avoid diabetes, the economy would likely collapse. I would never listen to the organisation, Diabetes Australia again, if I followed their recommended diet I would be back on meds again, it’s only a half way approach with them and it makes me wonder, why exactly that is?
John you are my hero. Thank you for making the difference! I spread your words across my social network - the offline one and it makes me feel a bit better and more in control. I stopped blindly follow doctors advice as I can see how limited a lot of them are. I'm feeling great and a lot of this is due to the knowledge I gain from your channel and use in life.
Hi Dr C, I recently had a battery of investigation blood tests done, over 60 & 3 MRIs but wasn’t assessed for vitamin D levels despite previously being low. I was prescribed vitamin D at the time but was never advised to take vitamin K with then & I’ve never had a follow up to check levels. My own research, originally from the Vitamin D Council, now the Vitamin D Society contains a wealth of info. My only problem is remembering to take them! PS Great work Dr. C!
I've been taking a little over 3,000 iu since August of 2021 when I had a mild heart attack. My A1C was 6.3 I was overweight and ate a lot of drive thru food because of my job. I'm retired now, I maybe treat myself to a drive thru meal once every month or two and have lost 56 lbs. My A1C is now 5.5 and I am doing great. Thanks for this video. Keep up the had work. I wish all doctors were like you and cared more for us; the patient, than they do for keeping their job at whatever healthcare system they are working for. I had a doctor like that until I was economically forced into the "HMO" system here in the US. Now, I pretty much take care of myself unless I actually "need" a doctor. Peace and God Bless!
I’ve spread your videos to all my family and friends because of your kind ways in educating people in the best way possible . Thank You Dr. Campbell ( Boston)
Thanks again for doing this analysis John. Given your previous comments about the benefits of various vitamins, would you consider doing a series on various vitamins relate to health.
As a person who is affected by SAD I've often wondered how much that affects my physical health as well as my mental health. Taking Vit D helps me cope in the winter.
I started taking it because I was having mood swings and bouts of crying for the first time in my life at 45 years old. I'd heard it helps with emotional issues. I can say I have definitely had far fewer mood swings. As a side note, I never get serious colds, but I did a year ago, so it was most likely Covid, and was only extremely tired for two days. I had a severe headache for 4 days (before and during) and a slight amount of chest congestion and cough, but that was all. So it may have helped lighten my symptoms there, too.
Hi Dr Campbell. Years ago I was insulin resistant and my neurologist who changed to functional medicine told me to take alpha lipoid acid. After 6 months on it I was back to normal. It’s a very cheap supplement that reversed my insulin resistants.
This is interesting - when my sister was 12 years old she was diagnosed with diabetes - at the same time I had a healthcheck up to make sure I was OK and what they found is that we were terribly deficient in Vitamin D and from then on all through my childhood I had to take vitamin D every day . My parents did wonder at the time if the deficiency of D was any cause in her diabetes
I know of several ppl who developed type 1 from their childhood well visits. They received special treatment s h o t s. Later in the 90’s confirmed from these special s h o t s were the cause of their type 1 diabetes. So it could be a number of different factors, not just food intake.
As a diabetes management coach, I give you my heartfelt thanks for this video ❤️ I'm sharing with both of my diabetes support groups, which is an audience of over 90K members 👌
@Wayne McLeod 30k for each vaccinated person. Thousands a visit. Prescriptions net them gains as well. "We found that, on average, physicians who prescribed a drug received higher payments related to the drug that same year than those who didn't prescribe it. For Linzess, the value of payments was more than four times higher for providers who prescribed the drug than among those who did not. Dec 20, 2019"
As a diabetic (type 2) diagnosed in 2000 This is the FIRST time hearing about the role of vitamin D in helping prevent the disease. I only started taking D in 2021 to help prevent Covid taking 2 1000 unit gel caps daily. I wish Dr Campbell had talked about the effects of taking vitamin D for somebody who has been diabetic for a long time but its reassuring to see that I am (even if its accidental) on the right path.
I have 3 related autoimmune diseases. I started bumping my d3 up to 10,000 iu’s about 3 weeks ago and I feel very noticeably better. I can get into my wheelchair every day, even twice a day now, whereas I was forcing myself to get in once every 3 days and I was worn out after that.
Outstanding report doctor. I've been a pre-diabetic for a couple of years. Issues yes. October 2019, I was concerned about brittle bones and I understood vitamin D helped with strengthening. I check the RDA requirement for my age and weight and it indicated I could take upward of 10,000 IUs a day. All through the pandemic, I took 10K Vitamin D, plus other vitamins of course. I recently this year discovered K2 and its assistance with Calcium, and I had a blood test and it was a 43 with Vitamin D, no other indicator to know what that meant, based on your presentation, I am up near 40. That was vital for me to know. I think starting next month I am going back to 10,000 with Liposome. One other thing, I was completely insane with Sodium. I think because of the Vitamin D, I did not have a massive coronary. When I appeared at the doctor's office I was in Hypertension Critical she said her protocol was to immediately send me to the emergency room. I had no outward indication of stress but I was scared a bit. I think the first number was 199. I'm walking around every day with that number, and I am having the symptoms, the mental fog, out of breath climbing the stairs, etc., but I had no idea about my high blood pressure. When it was shown to me, I acquiesced to taking BP drugs. And to finally clean up my diet, and get salt out of my life. You want to hear something funny. I've done so well, I actually put myself in a Hypotensive Critical situation and she didn’t tell me anything about that danger. I just happen to look up what the 3 numbers mean and read low blood pressure is as dangerous as HBP. I had to then get salt in the body fast. So, I have a machine and take my BP twice a day. I stay within the limit up and down, and the fog is gone and I can walk up all the flights without taking a break, and reach my door without huffing and puffing like and train. The reason I had to go to the doctor I was getting bad symptoms, diabetic blisters, and fluid coming out of the skin, it was bad for a while, and all the time, I have no idea what is wrong and why is my body doing this. It took a long time for me to find out. I was putting garbage in my body, plain and simple. So, I know everything you said is true. The least medical authorities can do is educate those 37 million on what to look for, and if they recognize it, stop the sweets and supplement with vitamin D, and get healthy, or else. In the interest of science.
Thank you from the USA for this presentation, Doc. My wife and I had to change Doctors when we retired 13 years ago. Our new Doc puts all his PTs in D3 and a B-complex pill. Our overall health improved REMARKABLY. Example: I used to have headcolds every year, lasting pretty much throughout the Winters. Since starting on D and B, I have not had one single headcold... in 12 Winters ! On my own, I started us on K2 MK-7 180mcg several years ago and reported it to my young Doc, who had never heard of MK-7. THANK YOU to you, SIr, and to all the other Doctors who spend time making Internet presentations to advance the cause of human health and wellbeing. Blessings to you, Sir.
@Jonan my mom just retired but she was an RN for almost 50 years… She’s always telling me what vitamins to take and when to take them… Swears by tonic water, I think it’s nasty as hell but it helps when I’m sick. When you are in the room with doctors who are diagnosing things and prescribing things, for five decades you tend to pick up on a few remedies. I listen to her, she’s always right… Just saying
@yeah tbh. Yes an Educator of Nurses, but now also a global Educator of ordinary ppl who have probably studied high school biology, but now know more. His knowledge of the physiology and biochemistry of the body is absolutely correct and he uses revered articles from scientific journals to make his point. NOW WHAT WERE YOU SAYING ABOUT OUR TEACHER ? 🧐🤔
I've been taking 8000 Iu vitamin D3 and 200mcg "K" since I first discovered this channel in 2020.. I have suffered less depression, barely get a cold... I kissed and cuddled my covid ridden children and never once got it, I chose not to submit to the vaccine for my own reasons. my eldest was vaccinated. It really is a breath of fresh air to be offer honest gateways to real science in a media/money driven, distracted humanity. Thank you again! John
Vitamin D is so beneficial. I was thankful to find your channel during the pandemic. Correcting my lab level has helped with MS symptoms. Vitamin D levels should definitely be tested for everyone!
My levels have been very high over 200 for about 2 months I don't take vitamin D but I will have to grab some I kind of felt this , so thank you for this report I see my Dr this week to talk about my levels and I find you are right on in why this is going on and what we should do man oh man thank you sir !
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes around two years ago. My GP said it would be beneficial for me to take vitamin D as my levels were a bit low and that it can assist in other ways in the body. Living in Australia I just always thought the sun exposure I got was enough but it wasn't.
The information that you offered on vitamin D originally brought me to your channel in March 2020. For my family this clearer understanding of the role that quality sunlight (and the need to supplement when this sunlight is not available) plays in our health is the number one benefit that has come out of watching your channel during that period, and from the C-19 pandemic generally. When you cross reference the top pathologies associated with vitamin D deficiency (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and cancer), the top pathologies suffered in deficient populations, and the prevalence of these deficiencies/pathologies in these populations (40-85% < 20 ng/mL) the picture becomes very clear. Eradicating Vitamin D deficiency is the low hanging fruit in a healthcare crisis! It is perhaps the most shameful scandal of our time that our public health officials have ignored these basic correlations and failed to develop strategies that could safely and effectively mitigate such massive suffering on a global scale with relative ease.
My GP surgery (London) invited me for a routine health check and gave me a blood test. One of the parameters they measured was vitamin D , so I’m surprised to hear John, when you say you are not able to get your levels checked.
Quite dramatic figures. Excellent job you do in presenting these figures. I am aware since a long time ago that D3 is important, kind of the king among the vitamins. I was not aware of the efficiency to prevent DM2. However, the vast majority of DM2 cases are caused by excessive intake of added sugar and starch, carbohydrates, (Starch, that in reality turns to sugar, glucose, already when reaching the stomach. Seconds later...) and lack of exercise. My belief is that by just reducing that added sugar, combined with vitamin D, will bring a huge improvement for most pre- and fullblown DM2. Read the label, sugar is everywhere... // Thank you, great job, i am one of your dedicated viewers!!!
@Anders Norelius,To quote you, "However, the vast majority of DM2 cases are caused by excessive intake of added sugar and starch, carbohydrates, (Starch, that in reality turns to sugar, glucose, already when reaching the stomach. Seconds later...) and lack of exercise." You are absolutely correct, BRAVO!
Dr. John, again thank you for the information. I take a daily multivitamin supplement. At my last Doctor visit, my Dr. said I should stop taking Vitamin D, because my levels were too high. I countered with "what if I cut my dose in half"? She suggested none. My daily supplement has a small amount, so I'm still taking it. I had been taking 4,000 IU daily since nearly the beginning of Covid. I was concerned you wouldn't mention the dietary causes of Diabetes, but you did, and I'm grateful. Since May of 2020 I've been following a strict food program. I've lost about 50 pounds and my blood work shows my health has increased significantly. I wonder how many people know that the companies who produce food actually do MRI scans to see when the recipes light up our brain the most? I have little faith in the food industry. As one poster said here, the medical industry is just that, "industry". They are helping themselves, as are the food companies. They are NOT helping us. It would be interesting if you did a study on the increase of sugar in the American/UK diet, and correlation to increased Diabetes. Again, thank you for your thoughtful and thought-provoking commentaries.
My wife and i have been taking vitamin D since you discussed it during the pandemic, unfortunately my wife has difficulty taking tablets so we use a 3000 IU per day in a spray we get from H&B. It is a little dearer than in supermarkets but at least we are hopefully protecting ourselves as best we can.
Thank you so muc h for this presentation, Dr. Campbell. It's especially valuable to me as I am close with an Indian family whose mother has type 2 diabetes so her two beautiful teenage daughters are at risk; it's wonderful to have this to recommend to them along with the diatary advice which, as you noted, is more complicated to implement.
Iam from the US, told my Doctor I was getting extremely tired from 1130a to about 200p every day. I would literally almost fall asleep at my desk, needed to go to the bathroom and put cold water on my face, just to say up. He did so Blood work, I was low on Vitamin D, gave me a prescription for 2000 Unites a day. Within around 3 weeks, starting feeling better, staying awake, amazing how something so inexpensive could make such a difference. Thanks for the video, how this helps others people, also consider the importance of Iodine for the body. That also has life saving qualities, stay safe and healthy mate, God Bless.
When I told my new internist, 15 years ago, that my mom had breast cancer at age 72 she put me on Vitamin D without even checking my levels. Apparently, vitamin D is one of those things that really decrease with age bringing about many age-related illnesses.
I live in Tasmania Australia. When I got my blood test results back that I went to get it says on the printout under the vitamin d section 3 lines of text. I got the text out so I'll copy it here. "60% of Tasmanians presenting for the first time for vitamin D testing (at the end of winter) show deficiency and on average in any season of the year 44% of Tasmanians are Vitamin D deficient." My state has known this for years and during Covid I didn;t hear a peep about Supplementing Vitamin D.
Thank you so much for this information. I was diagnosed about 8 years for pre diabetes. I am 76. My mother was diagnosed with Type 2 in her late 70s. I have blood tests twice a year and so far been controlled through diet and exercise. I have taken vitamin D but not consistently. From now on I will take it daily. Thank you again Dr John.
Thank you for this information Dr. Campbell, I have had Multiple Sclerosis since at least 1999 when I was diagnosed with it. I am blessed to have minor effects from it compared to many others with it. I walk a lot and continue to be very mobile. My specialist has me on 7000 units a day of Vitamin D for a number of years and I have felt a lot perkier and energetic being on it so it has made a difference . During my lifetime the only year I never had a cold was 1996 when it was very cold and I was living in Alberta at that time. The past three years I haven't had a single cold now living in Newfoundland and still on that same dosage of Vitamin D.
My Dr recently gave me a script for 2 doses of vit D, one very high to start, and the second a more normal dose. She didn't explain why however. Thank you for your videos, I'm learning a lot. I've been back and forth on med compliance, this inspires me to at least take my vit D.
I'm relatively healthy and I went to the doctor and manually requested a blood test mainly to check my cholesterol and found out I'm in the pre-diabetes group. Had I not requested a test I would never know and most people especially men don't go to the doctor unless their arm is hanging off by the bone so I imagine lots of them may be in the same group or worse than me. But here in the US no one talks about regular checkups, except dental ones, and getting blood work is like pulling teeth.
I discovered I'm diabetic when I changed GP surgery. I also had dangerously high blood pressure which the previous GP had never detected. I guess these things were coming on over a period of time, they can't just have coincidentally happened out of the blue when I changed GP surgeries. The only symptoms I had were constant headaches which I was given painkillers for, by the previous GP. I rarely need the painkillers now.
I vouched for Vitamin D 3 BEFORE the pandemic not least after watching your channel ! I was called Mrs D 3 by my friends here in Malta trying to pull my leg. Those who did take my advice and took the vitamin and even subscribed to your channel came out much much better than those who didn't . And my diabetic husband would be worse without it as well !! SO THANK YOU DR CAMPBELL !!
Hi John, I've had type 1 diabetes for over 45 years. I'm 100% convinced that obesity is caused by the processed food diet which is high in carbohydrates. Insulin is the hormone that stores fat. Any excess carbohydrates eaten is stored as fat. A simple understanding of the metabolic pathways is all that is needed. Carbohydrate is the bodies fastest form of fuel. Problem is we eat way more than needed. The excess is stored as fat. I have often looked at what people eat and do a quick calculation of how much insulin I would need to take to cover that. Most times it would require my total daily amount of insulin to cover one meal. The body works very hard to maintain a very narrow level of sugar in the blood. This results in high insulin levels. Process food is a very upfront absorption of sugar. The body doesn't have to process it. It is already processed. This requires a high amount of insulin to maintain blood sugar levels. Insulin has a 4-6 hour window of action. After about 2 hours of this high carb meal the person is hungry. Famished!!! Craving sugar. Why? The active insulin in their body is now dropping their sugar. Faster than the stored glygogen can convert back to sugar. They eat to feed their insulin. I have watched people eat 4 or more times as much food as I do because of hunger. I'm not hungry. The only time I am hungry is when I have too much insulin on board and my sugar is low or dropping too fast. You want to loose weight start by lowering your carbs. The only people that need lots of carbs are those who are burning lots through exercise or work. The fat free diet is the biggest mistake the healthcare system ever created. It is the cause of all this obesity as the food industry followed its lead.Prediabetes can be corrected in a very short period of time by a low carb diet. Insulin resistance can be corrected by low carb. It can by exercise too but it is just matching the amount of carbs to what you really need. You can't eat too litlle carbs. Your body can get sugar from fats and protein. And your body won't make too much sugar through this process. Just some things I've learnt while titrating insulin to match my need and watching everyone arond me get fat.
Kaiser Permanente in US, with my doctor's visits in 2017 -2019 were saying take vitamin D. They were not saying K2 to go with it. The dialogue for each visit being general and other visits were saying take vitamin D. It was relentless. So my family started taking vitamin D with K2. I could go in more detail, our family has clearly benefited from taking vitamin D.
Few month ago, i finished one free education, 3 days long about vitamin D titration. IT is organized For any g.p. Or other doctors. After That, I started testing ALL my patients as routine initial research and add propper dosige as needed and re-test them after two month and adjust dosige if needed. Your video is helpful, thank you For a great effort
Dear John, in Germany there are Vitamin D tests for a reasonable price by Vitamoment. You send in 3 big blooddrops on a testplate (I don't know the right English word) and then you get your results about one week later. I regularly test my Vitamin D level in this way and the first time I did it was frightening. I really thought: why am I still alive?
Your focus on D and k2 have been truly illuminating. It would be great if you could expand your videos to cover other vitamins & supplements like C, E, Magnesium, Potassium, Iron, the B family, etc, etc. You are able to ferret out studies on these compounds that could benefit your viewers immensely. We are basically left to our own devices, given the pharmaceutical industry isn't interested in promoting anything unless they have patented it.
@LAT Yes. Have you looked up issues regarding toxicity of too much Vitamin D, which can take many years to appear. It is impossible to get too much vitamin D from the sun or food, but you can easily do yourself damage by taking it in supplement form. Taking pills is not a substitute for a healthy diet and lifestyle, and if you are leading a healthy lifestyle, you don't need to be taking loads of supplements.
@LAT I don't think anyone knows exactly how much Vitamin D we need to stay alive. There are many elderly people in their 80s or 90s that have gone their whole lives and never taken a single food supplement. A balanced diet provides what we need, if someone is deficient in Vitamin D then they will also be lacking in other vitamins, so you might as well take a supplement that contains everything and is often cheaper. Too much vitamin D is harmful and becomes toxic and builds up calcium in the blood that can go on to cause all manner of complications. Just telling people to pop a load of vitamin D is dangerous. Telling people to eat a healthy diet is safe and more effective and has a wide overall benefit. Too many people take the lazy route and pop pills and medicines and continue an unhealthy lifestyle.
@Chris Lee the 100% and RDA figure is deceptive. It is the absolute minimum required to stay alive. Aa many people are deficient in Vitamin D in the UK, taking a standard multivitamin would take up to 4 years to address vit D deficiency alone. Or you can take higher dosage to reach optimum levels quickly. It's your choice. If you're happy with multivitamins, fine. But it is rather like having a large credit card bill and only making minimum payments, it takes years to clear the deficit.
Thanks to you I started taking vitamin D back in 2020 due pandemic. Last time I checked my D3 level I had 160 nmol. I decreased my vitamin D3 to 1000 IU for maintenance.
I've been using oral sprays for vit D and B12, (I had a terminal ilium resection) and these have been bolstering both levels to the point I've been asked to reduce the vit b12 from daily to maybe every other day or so.
I used to get bronchitis 2x per year for most of my life. I was diagnosed with low vitamin D by my doctor and treated. I have not had bronchitis for over 8 yrs now. I caught COVID but it was like a light cold- no big deal. I attribute that to getting my vitamin d levels. My A1c was 4.5 even when my vitamin d was on the very low side.
Love this video ! As a nation we don’t eat enough fatty food foods / outside more and move move move move more ! Few years ago I felt terrible and lost my hair in clumps and kept going for blood tests and my doctor kept telling me it was something else I’m fine , but he find out what it is ! After 4 attempts I was sick of the results so I too. My bloody elsewhere and got to the root cause of why I was losing hair : freezing cold all the time :no energy like no other ! Iron and Vitamin D was soooooo low !!!! Got my bile working again , so could absorb vitamin d and fats from my foods . Chew chew chew chew chew your food ! Don’t drink with meals . Eat slower and sit down ! Eat more animals fats / fish / butter . Vitamin d k2 and magnesium everyday in the bath as much I could or a spray ! Game changer !
Wow! I think you're spot on. They should consider prescribing or recommending it for glucokinase (mody) a condition which is very prone to tipping into type 2 diabetes. I have this condition, I've never been overweight & I've been trying not to tip into type 2 for years. Except for a couple of occasions mostly I've succeeded. The last time my blood glucose was too high I was also feeling unwell & very achy. A blood test showed my vit D levels were extremely low. I was prescribed vit D/calcium and I couldn't believe the difference. It was wonderful to feel well again! My blood glucose levels also returned to normal and out of the type 2 range. I thought this was a consequence of feeling better, so did my GP. Your video is certainly food for thought. Thank you.
I had a doctor who prescribed vitamin D to me about six or seven years ago, and I scoffed at him. I took it, but I scoffed. Fast forward to now and I sure am glad he did and that I listened to him. I take 2000 IU a day. I tried 4000 IU and I found it to interfere with my ability to sleep, so I went back down to 2000 IU. It has definitely helped with my depression, and I guess with my immunity because I have not gotten covid. I'm American.
You also need to be taking magnesium as any of the D vitamins deplete magnesium.this is also not good for the body. And the best D vitamin is D3, don't just take a doctor's advice do the research yourself.
Even before JC was on board, I stumbled on Prof Dolores Cahill and she recommended zinc and vits D and C. I and my husband started that straight away. We added K2 mk7 6 months ago. We didn't take the recommended covid shots, and if we ever caught the virus we didn't notice. We didn't really abide by social distancing and certainly not mask wearing. My father who is 87, was worried into taking the shots, and thankfully didn't suffer any adverse side affects. He started taking the same supplements as us, and won't now take another jab either boosters or flu jabs. Imo we need to focus more on homeopathy, thats the route we're going down. I wish you all well.
I am type 2 diabetic and no longer on meds and all I can tell you is that vitamin D3 played a big part in this and I continue to take it as I’m a whole lot better when I’ve had it than when I haven’t. Take it with vitamin K2 , I take the mk7 variant of this because that takes the calcium from your soft tissue and blood and puts the calcium in the places that it’s supposed to go. Vitamin D3 & vitamin K2 taken together helps with the stiffness in the body that is caused by calcium buildup in the soft body tissue, it’s called the sunshine vitamin for a very good reason because it also raises your mood and helps with depression. I had Hodgkin’s lymphoma and the treatment along with other factors resulted in my diabetes, I was diagnosed with diabetes in the March of 2018 with diet and exercise, walking 4 miles a day and taking the vitamins and minerals that my body was lacking after the chemotherapy I lost 4 stones in weight and was off the meds by the October of that same year. The doctor and my diabetes nurse all said that I’d done amazing. I returned to work and it was a bit difficult at first but now I’m over the trauma of the whole situation because having cancer was traumatic even though I didn’t realise it at the time because it developed after the treatment and when I was diagnosed as diabetic and with the stress off now having money worries and being afraid of losing my house and my hand being forced to return to work but the vitamin D3 helped with that and I’ve now been back at work nearly 5 years. I enjoy your videos Dr John because they’re fact based evidence and you’re not some tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist and all what you said in this video resonated with me and what I personally know about vitamin D3 because of my experiences with it, I also had a chronic stiff neck and it sounded like my neck was full of gravel when I turned my head and it cured that also. It’s good stuff and people should take it but always take it with vitamin K2 / mk7 as this variant of K2 stays in the body longer and therefore works for a longer period.
@Adrian King Just wondering Adrian if I should double or triple dose because I'm on ppi's which I know stops absorption of certain vitamins and minerals?
@King I also take cod liver oil capsules for joint pain, this also helps with circulation by cleaning veins and arteries, I also take turmeric with black pepper capsules for muscle pain and inflammation and most things are linked to inflammation because inflammation is the absolute enemy of the body and it brings illnesses and conditions, also apple cider vinegar with lemon juice helps the digestive system and many things are linked to that because if the stomach isn’t acid enough you can’t absorb the vitamins and minerals from your food and supplements and therefore get problems associated with that. Sorry for going on but after cancer which left me with type 2 diabetes I had to learn how my body worked and what it needed, must be doing some good because I’ve seen the doctor once in 5 years and I don’t even bother with the Diabetes nurse anymore and if I have problems I’ll let them know instead of them pestering me all the time. Like I said before, have a look on KZclip for Dr Eric berg because he’s got good videos regarding just about anything, also doctor Alan Mandell has some good videos too, I watched one of his videos on Drinking Turmeric Milk before bedtime, it worked pretty good, here’s what I did, got a big mug, put a heaped teaspoon of Turmeric in it, quarter spoon of black pepper in there too, boiled kettle put a little hot water in and mixed to a runny paste, topped it up with full fat milk and Microwave until the top of the milk froths up, put a teaspoon of butter in and let it cool down a bit and then drink it. You can put honey or some sweetener in but I don’t because I’m Diabetic and sugar is the cause of inflammation and many other things in the body so cut the sugar out if you can this will help the inflammation which will be present because of your Arthritis and the Milk and Turmeric mixture will help your bones , you say you already take K2 so this will transport the calcium in the milk to where it needs to be. Hope this helps, Adrian. Oh, I forgot to mention that 10,000 iu’s of vitamin D3 is actually 0.25 milligrams and not 25 milligrams as I previously put in my last post so it’s not a massive amount even though it sounds like it is so you’ll be fine to increase your dose, I took 40,000 iu’s last night with 4 k2 tablets so increase your dose if you want to but work out by doing a bit at a time until you get the desired effect that you are looking for.
I get a lot of joint pain and muscle pain, I do take d3 with k2. 4,000/100 since covid first came out on the advice of Dr John but lately not had any for about 4 months after running out but never got round to restocking, was looking at taking again maybe higher dose. Just been diagnosed with early osteoarthritis.
I’m a true redhead, and they utilize the sun and store vit D better than other hair colours. The doctor checked mine and it was 50 ~ the top of the range. My daughter is a pharmacist, and she couldn’t believe how high it was. Since the advent of “the vid” we’ve been taking vit D as well.
Thank you Sir. I am an American disabled veteran with several autoimmune issues. Thank goodness John Hopkins told me about D3 4/5 yrs ago as it related to the US V.A. Dept rheumatologist doctors from Stanford couldn’t get my Lupus for a decade under control. Vitamin D3 especially for darker skinned people should be AN immediate concern and voice as we don’t process it as lighter hues, due to melanin. My Lupus and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis has been in remission since 2018. I take up to 6000 icu to keep COVID at bay and keep my inflammatory issues and markers down/low. Thank you, Sir for your brilliance and fearlessness!
Yes, I have Sarcoidosis and have been taking 6000 IU daily since seeing Dr. Campbell's talks. My tested level is 40 ng/ml. I am obese as well so was concerned about fat sequestration, versus the contraindication of Sarcoidosis. Also, I have lost 65 pounds in the last year having cut out carbs, and my A1C levels dropped out of pre-diabetes.
The Royal Brompton Hospital which is the UK centre for sarcoid, advise no more than 800iu of Vitamin D per day. It should be kept very low and you should have the recommended Vitamin D 1.25 blood test, and a PTH blood test to check your levels
I have Sarc as well. This is the 1st time I've ever seen it mentioned in comments. I have it in my heart, lungs and liver and an associated rare, extremely painful neuropathy type condition. I'm extremely underweight. It just fell off when I had severe rxs to all the meds they through at it (roids didn't work). I'm trying very hard to stop carbs too because the pain is agonizing. Congrats, fellow Sarc warrior. It's a horribly brutal disease. Keep up the good fight 💪 💜
There is more to the D story and sarcoidosis than the one most GPs know. The caution has been that D levels would drive calcium into soft tissues, but it isn't as simple as that.
Husband and I have been taking vitamin D supplements for many years. I take 10,000 iu's a day and my level is still only 48 ng/ml. When I was first tested it was 19 ng/ml. I'm overweight so I found it interesting that you said obese people needed to take a higher dose. We do take Vitamin K2 as well. Carnivore/Keto diet has made a world of difference for me. I'm down 40 pounds and things are starting to feel much better. Thanks for all the great work you do!
@Lisa Gates Persistent, systematic and relentless application of sound principles will bring the victory. I am completely cured of Hypertension, (pre)diabetes and orthostatic hypertension. It also seems that my strength and metabolism has reverse aged like 25 years. Ph.D mathematics, NSF postdoc, IT consultant etc. etc etc (lol) God Bless you!
@WmTyndale - I do follow Dr. Eric Berg. I've been carnivore/ketovore since the end of July 2022. It's made a huge difference but I'm not quite there yet. I have been able to half the dose of Plaquenil in that time frame so I'll count that as a victory. The goal is to get off of it completely if possible. I live in the north east of the US. I get more sun in the spring/summer timeframe but it's overcast alot of the time as well.
@Lisa Gates I would recommend Dr. Eric Berg for deep insights on how to regain your health and get off the medicaments. For sunshine you only need 2 half hour periods a week depending where you live. Also there is a product Garden of Life Raw Meal that I used to bring my mother back from dementia. Most of these degenerative disease are diet linked. The food supply has been poisoned by processing, additives and poisoned farmland
I had this problem when I first started taking 10k iu. Make sure you are using a high quality D3 and k2 but you need magnesium glycinate 600-800 mg to lock the calcium in the bones after the k2 gets it out of the tissues and moves it there. It took me about a year and a half of doing the protocol to get my levels to about 60. Now in between 68-75. I take 5000iu now but with intermittent fasting I have dropped 45 lbs so far and the bone pain I used to have has diminished by 90%. Good supplements make all the difference in the world to me and that doesnt always mean more expensive.
My doctor had told me to take 4300 IUs (pretty specific) during the winter (being in the Northeast USA). I ran with it a bit where my vitamin supplement has 2000 IUs, but supplement as well with 5000 IU D3/800mcg K2/MK7 supplement. 7000 is a bit high on the D3 where 10k is considered toxic levels... but in the Northeastern USA the sky is a continual blanket of gray gloom, going outside will achieve very little Vit D natural creation. Typing this out, I see where in the Spring > Fall I'll have to find a different D3/K2 supplement of a max of maybe 2k D3 so as not to get to toxic levels.
I take 10,000 IU daily with K2. Individual requirements vary due to body weight (6ft 2" male, slightly overweight). I test every 6 months and my Vit D levels are now uniformly high (good high, not dangerous) and I'm thankful for that. According to my phone app, the first natural, sun-producing vit D of the year at my latitude (52° North) occurs, for a very short period initially, on the 3rd March.
When my dad got put on Prolia (denosumab) for osteopenia I researched bone health and vitamins and put him on Calcium + Vitamin D MK-7 with K2. I learned the K-2 was important to divert the additional calcium away from the heart and into the bones where it is needed (as you said). My dad’s Dr didn’t believe me (about the role of K2) and I’m sure thinks I am a nut. His thoughts generally were that vitamins are a waste of money. As much as I like him, I think Dr’s could be more open minded to things which do not involve writing a prescription.
I should clarify the Dr did prescribe Calcium, which is essential to take when on this drug. Just not the K2, or the MK-7 version of Vitamin D. Also he was unconcerned about the formulation of the calcium (carbonate, citrate etc) so long as some was taken.
This is crazy. I've been taking vit d for years to help moods/ depression (I have PTSD and it keeps me off antidepressants). I had gestational diabetes when pregnant and having a family history of it have a high chance of getting diabetes later in life. I resumed taking vit d after pregnancy and have passed all my yearly tests since.
I visited my doctor a few years ago asked her about getting a test done regarding Vitamin D and other test for other levels. She commented that Vitamin D isn't covered for testing because it's known everyone for the most part is low on it. She recommended taking a Vitamin D .
Thank you! Five years ago diagnosed as diabetic, congestive heart failure, previously stage 3 liver disease and renal disease. Started using app to track vitamin D from sun and supplements (D-Minder) and getting vitamin D daily. Went to a non-gmo, hormone free diet (close to Mediterranean or Alkaline vegan but eating small amounts of high quality meat). Growing much of my own food. Doing amazing: Liver numbers look great, diabetes under control (still using insulin), and kidney function is normal now.
I just got diabetes In September 2022. I just had a stroke in 2020 so I am trying to overcome that but when I found out about blindness and foot amputation I got real worried. I’m trying methods to combat diabetes. So far I’ve got an AC of 6. 2. Thanks Dr. Campbell for advising us about Itami meeting D for diabetes. I’ll start taking some soon.
My friend has been told she's got Diabetes. I'm going to tell her about tgis! Thanks for bringing our attention to this little known help we can all get before it's too late!
My Vitamin D is at a 10 😣.. I just started taking 10,000 a day of Vitamin D. Thank You for the Vitamin K info- I thought so, you validated. I am from the US and we always test Vitamin D on a regular Lab assay. Thank You Dr John !
I know this may sound bizarre to some but I got type 2 diabetes and 2 doctors recommended a carnivore diet with supplements, including vitamin D and I reversed type 2 diabetes in 7 weeks doing it. My A1C went down to 5. I did eat avocados along with it though.
For those who are thinking, "Eh, what does that have to do with me?" My husband went undiagnosed for (probably) years . . . put the foot tingling down to the hard floors he walked on every day at work. Put the weird symptoms of fatigue, weakness, etc. down to just being tired, and "getting old". Ignored it for so long a stomach ulcer nearly killed him. Please stay up on your doctor visits! It was the diabetes that ultimately caused him to succumb to c0v!d, at the end of his life. 😢
@Resist the Lizards, you might be amused to hear that, for the first time, I took a look at the web page of the American Diabetes Association tonight. Mostly they appeared to want to sell me things. Then I saw that they had recipes. Well, I'm always interested in that, having been a cook. All I can say is, "Wow." Banana pancakes was one of their recommendations. Lots of pasta dishes on there. Cookies? Really? Potatoes. Unreal... How does anyone trust an organization like that? "Here's some recipes you'll really love eating! Eat 'em up! Help keep us in business! Forever!"
I also went undiagnosed for years. I didn't find out until I was out cutting grass and thought I was having a heart attack. Went to the hospital and found out my blood sugar was over 350 (That's US, not UK measure. For some reason it's done differently here...). Yes, I chalked up the fatigue to working 70-80 hours a week in a factory with a 60lbs for 12 hours minimum lift requirement. (On one shift I lifted 15,000 lbs. Three times.) If you don't know the symptoms of diabetes it's easy to write them off as working too hard or getting old or whatever else.
Yes, a difficult problem. High sugar levels, so the obvious thing is to cut down the sugar. People with diabetes suffer from high sugar levels which is very harmful in your blood. But at the end of the day you have to choose between whether you think taking a handful of different drugs is the way to good health or improving your diet with good food and avoiding processed foods. I think people mention cutting down on foods so the body feels a little hungry at times and avoiding sugar at all costs if you think your body is not coping with it. Exercise is important too but again as we see with sports people this can be over done too. Life is a bit like walking a tightrope but listening to your body is important and then reacting to what it says and deciding whether you need a doctor or whether you can identify your bad habits. Smoking is big no no for me but it’s amazing how many believe in its good qualities And for many the pharmacy is their choice for their health as I find out when queuing up for dozens of medicines daily for other people. Personally if they relied on me they would go broke immediately.
My mother's boyfriend had undiagnosed diabetes, when he got tested his sugar level was 25+! Unfortunately a lot of damage had been done to his nerves in his hands and feet (it took burns to his feet due to a hot water bottle before he even went to the doc). Older people, especially men often don't seek advice, just to not cause a bother. Encourage anyone you know who might have diabetic symptoms to get a quick simple blood test from their doc.
(Coupon on my vid) Some symptoms of low/deficient vitamin d levels: fatigue, hair loss, dry skin, weak bones teeth and nails, thyroid problems, high blood pressure, respiratory infections that happen often, etc. Vitamin D usually isn’t included in yearly blood tests. Nearly 50% of Americans have low vitamin d levels, and many have no idea. Ask your doctor for a blood test order, and insist even if they tell you “it’s probably normal, you’re healthy.” (Like they told me when my levels were actually below 20). If they refuse, some labs will let you pay for the test without an order. If you don’t want to go to the lab in person, there are even ones they’ll send to your home like this:
I have seen what you have done here. It is a huge deal for avoiding diabetes. Vitamin D also is a huge help in avoiding another prevalent disease as of the last few years.
I thought my body would never be the same again, but you fixed it. My heartiest gratitude to you Dr Igudia for helping me cure my Hepatitis B Infection successfully.
Amazing how more and more we are “discovering” that just getting proper nutrition can fix many of our health issues but our “healthcare” intisnt interested because it doesn’t make them money. I was diagnosed diabetic and in three months with doing nothing but changing my eating completely reversed it. I am not even “pre diabetic”. My doctor couldn’t believe how drastic my change in numbers was and the first thing he asked me was “what did you do” when he walked in the room. We live in a “sickness” industry not a “wellness” industry.
My physician (who is progressive) explained to me that (at least in the U.S.), a doctor's medical training may have focused on 'fixing' problems presented by the patient, not so much on preventing chronic illness. It may not be the doctor is purposely overlooking better solutions for their patients, but that it may be a deficiency in their medical training, not staying up to date, dealing with the pressures of running their clinic, not having enough time to spend with each patient, limitations on what tests they can order due to insurance limitations, and influence of the pharmaceutical companies. Some physicians practice 'functional' medicine, which may include using food (nutrients) as medicine, as mentioned recently by John, the nutraceutical approach.
Dr Cambell your videos are so informative,i am looking into taking a vitamin D supplement with k2 along with other supplements i feel i may be deficient of particularly B vitamins,omega 3,6,9 and a good probiotic,i will look forward to more of your videos and will post the results in due course.
I think it's about time we differentiated personal health from the medical "industry". We need to accept the "industry" for what it is. They're not there to help us, they're there to help themselves. Thank you, by the way, I'm doing a Vitamin D test today. They are available, no problem!
@Piotr Ang WELL, usually there is strong correlation between the two!
@Simon Broddle Well, just notice that I wasn't talking about YOU. I was talking about what HE SAID in HIS VIDEO. And you can even call a carrot a sausage. Good luck.
@Niall O'Neill I'm not talking about "what he means", I'm talking about WHAT HE SAYS.
@Piotr Ang Unless he means certain veg and fruit, but the old 5 a day is a myth, as clearly you realise, but many don't. The dietary advice of conventional medical healthcare practitioners tends to be well wide of the mark of what we really need. Dr Campbell tends to go broader and deeper into topics than most practitioners from the allopathic field do, but he's maybe still ltd somewhat in his approach. I guess working with narrow-minded people for so may yrs has its drawbacks!
@Piotr Ang I'm unsure about your answer. These are my definitions of sugar and carbohydrates and how I live. My definitions are only relative to my organs, you make your own definitions and eat accordingly. I am height/weight proportionate, no sign of diabetes, 63 years old, test for Vitamin D, never had Covid and remain healthy, but equally importantly content and happy. 😂
I have never seen someone report good news with such a heavy heart before. Keep your chin up Dr Campbell, you have the respect of hundreds of thousands of people.
To date Dr Campbell’s honesty cannot be questioned.
As a shift worker, my Vit D levels were very low and last year, I crossed the threshold into type 2 diabetes. Since hearing of Vit D and it's role in good health, I started taking supplements. I wish the health implications of shift working was taken more seriously by companies.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has concluded that "shiftwork that involves circadian disruption" is considered a Group 2A carcinogen and "probably carcinogenic to humans." You should look for a day shift job!
stevekitt52: I'm sympathetic to your health situation. Companies these days are undoubtedly driven by profit, the workers are expendable by all accounts, so unless a forced radical change occurs, you are very much on your own health-wise. Dr Campbell is a great source on genuine advise and Vitamin D3 is your friend, however, as he indicates, Vitamin K2 taken at the same time stops the build up of Calcium being deposited into your arteries. The body then naturally directs the calcium to your bones for strength etc. There's plenty of authentic research in the public domain to support this as fact. Apparently it's best to consult a good doctor on this, especially if you take blood thinning medications etc. Offered without prejudice.
Best wishes.
John
@Akita Japan
No I'm not young. You just need the will power to do it. The first week is very hard but then it get's easier as you go.
@Kitty BooBoo Wow congrats!, You must be young to be able to do all that.
@Tradwife UK growing pistachios, will keep that in mind. 👍
Interesting! I was considered pre-diabetic by my GP for years. I started taking vitamin D supplements at the beginning of the covid pandemic because I heard it helped the immune system. In my last three physicals my doctor congratulated me on no longer being pre-diabetic. I had not connected the vitamin d to that but it makes sense now.
@Jessica Almariri are you referring to vitamin D deficiency? if u live above 23.5° latitude. you don't get enough direct sunlight. even if u lived on the equator you'd likely still need a supplement
@dr I walk my dogs about an hour, sometimes more every day. Why am I in a deficit?
I did the same.
@Mirage Aus yes me too. altho I was always on D3. thx . keep posting here so we could compare results. I'm 69 . borderline diabetic
Thats where I am at the moment ... i stopped taking vitamin D for a while but now back on D3 and K2
The pharmocrats don't want to actually fix anything or help folks get healthy, they simply want perpetual customers. It has been so inspirational, Doc, to see you slowly come to the realisation your world was not what you thought and still stoically follow the evidence to where some of us have been from the start. Thank you, and welcome to your true calling :)
You are exactly right about big pharma! It began in the medical schools with big pharma supplying the medical text books in medical schools, back in the early 1900's. We were using holistic and chiropractors until John Rockefeller came up with this brilliant idea to use pharmaceuticals & give free medical text books to the medical schools. With only one stipulation that doctor's be taught that only big pharma's PETROCHEMICAL based products could be used which caused the end of holistic medicine being used by most doctor's at the time. It was never about providing better health just using petroleum based pills and might help some people in the process but definitely no cures! The US is 4.25% of the world's population but we take 75% of all the pharmaceutical drugs. We are less healthy than most Asian countries although we have infiltrated their markets with a lot of unhealthy foods and drinks and of course push our legal drugs there too.
We know herbs and organic natural foods will cure most aliments yet we have legalized drugs and our doctor's don't promote the use of herbs or true healthy foods. Our conventional medical doctors are complicit in just recommending drugs from the legal drug cartels although if they want to be a conventional doctor they have to prescribe only parmaceuticals because it's the "science!" Do you find it odd anything that is healthy always needs more scientific random controlled studies etc. etc. Why doesn't the government fund healthy foods or herbs that look promising? In a word, LOBBYIST!! We can't compete against big pharma...
Funny how we started the war on cancer under the Nixon administration and cancer has skyrocketed since that time! The American cancer society, diabetes association etc are more about keeping their nonprofits in business than they are about a cure for diseases. It's all about "managed care," they would loose their funding with a cure. It's 100% about the Benjamin's. Of course it's a shame there are some very good people who mean well doctor's included but they are in a rigged system!
The pandemic was a windfall for big pharma and that fact they can't be sued because the vaccines are still listed as an experimental is unbelievable!!
Functional medical doctors in my opinion are the way to go, they try and find the root cause of a problem, instead of treating the symptoms like conventional docs do. I hope I shed some light to a few people with my ramblings! Thanks to "swainsongable"for initiating this conversation!
It is amazing people cant see that its all about the money and perpetual sickness.
Perpetual customers and ever rising profits. 👍
Thankyou John, this is quite staggering. I've been a big fan of vitamin D3 for decades, since I worked as a counsellor and support worker at MS Society of the ACT and became aware of the importance of vitamin D sufficiency in managing MS and the global latitudinal gradient of MS cases. However, I had no idea that it was useful in diabetes protection. I agree that populations should be tested for vitamin D levels, yet in Australia, I have found that some Dr's are reluctant to screen for vitamin D levels. In 2009/10 MS Research Australian compared taking high'ish levels of Vitamin D daily [about 6000iu per day from memory] against the pharmaceutical injection medications for MS [where injection sites are difficult to manage]. They found Vitamin D to be as good in managing the condition. Alas, we didn't get to hear much about that piece of research. I think it got ‘lost’ in the bottom draw of a filing cabinet somewhere, never to see the light of day.
I've been diagnosed with MS for almost 8 years now, and Vitamin D is a centerpiece of my managing program. It's probaby the main thing that has allowed me to get off all pharmaceutical treatments.
@MatlasX be careful of directed research there are a million reasons that could be true or false or directed to a belief, for example you could easily say the farther north ya go the colder it gets and less and less time spent out in the sun and more time hiding in house. You could argue it's food choices as it takes a high degree of knowledge and work to eat clean food in Canada, if it's in a store it's likely been tampered with or contains additives
Wait, are you saying that there are increased risk of MS based on the further you live from the equator? Do you have a link to anything regarding that?
As a Family Doc I treasure the time you take to review and methodically present and explain much of the data that is published. In reality there is not time to do it all. You have become a very trusted non-biased apolitical source. Thank you for helping to be a better and more thoughtful practitioner.
#Calluna We all know you can see our comments/questions to you, why haven't you responded!? Yet you been trollin dr john campbell chanel again recently, haven't you!? Hurry up & respond to all, calluna
@Wildlife at home Well spotted & well said. I notice clive hasn't replied to you neither. Can you please press thumsup on all my comments you can see in here;)!?
@Clive Flynn You can't explain what you think is wrong so you tell people to go watch some random channel? Why don't you just state whatever you think Back to Science claims instead of constantly telling people to go watch this random channel?
I’m a Veteran, USAF, and the Veterans Administration provides all of my health care. I have a blood test every 6 months, and Vitamin D is something they always check.
They use a ng/mL with an acceptable range of 30-70. I am running about 60 ng/mL. I take 2000 units of Vitamin D daily.
And as you have pointed out in previous videos, Vitamin D is helpful protection from the COVID virus.
I was diagnosed with Pre-diabetes last year and during this last year I lost 30lbs through exercise and intermittent fasting and this year my blood sugar levels were normal. I am a strong believer in intermittent fasting for lowering risk of insulin resistance. I also supplement with Vitamin D (I take anywhere from 4,000 iu to as much as 20,000iu a day). The only risk I still struggle with as a man of 55 is Cholesterol levels which started to inch up as I gained weight and started taking blood pressure medication. Vitamin D is very important and yes, it is very simple to increase our intake.
If I get daily sun is that the same
@Markus Thank you there for that of course too!
For your blood pressure, study a bit into OPC (grape seed extract)
I have Diabetes Type 2 alas as well as you of course. I also have high blood pressure and cholesterol too. I used to be on insulin but then the Doctors ended it though; I am on tablets though too. I also have Vitamin D as well. Like you I am 55 now and things are difficult alas but the Doctors do know all that too I am sure of course. Thank you.
I find it absolutely remarkable is that it took till 2023 for real doctors to figure this one out. It was actually discovered in Edmonton Alberta 30 years ago. I'm not sure if the guy was an archaeologist or a geologist but he decided to study the world after a seventeen-year-old ended up with MS. After he did his research he discovered that anyone living around the equator that got more than 4,000 units of vitamin D a day didn't have diabetes and didn't have any MS. He put his son on 4,000 units a day and he never had any more attacks from MS. The original article came out in the Globe and Mail in Canada. I do believe in the early 90s. I find it extremely frustrating when egotistical doctors refuse to look at good information. As well any Inuits poor people in the Northern parts of Canada ie Nunavut Northwest Territories if they eat enough fish with vitamin D they don't have the problem either. Science needs to be moving a lot faster than the way they put her around about stuff.
I took on your advice during lockdown about taking vitamin D but didn't know about K2 until you discovered the combination much later on. I have recently been diagnosed with heart disease and peripheral vascular disease (Claudication in legs), which was undetected beforehand, and as I had always been a fit person came as a complete shock to me. Not pointing a finger at you one iota, but I understand that without the 2 combined there is a risk that the calcium formed goes to unwanted places and can form calcification, which is what has happened to me. For other peoples benefit can I ask that you stress the combined Vit D and K2 be imperative together. I have the utmost respect for you and have followed you for the past few years and will continue to do so.
@Brad cobb That worries me also...I have heart valve disease which I have been told is due to calcification in my valves. No cure given just blood thinners.
@Susie Spearing I don't think sugar was so easy to get back then, and they probably didn't know why a person was sick, and didn't know it was diabetics.
@Susie Spearing even so they still exercised more on a daily basis and they also ate real food. Our food is heavily processed
@Coastal Diva The average age of death hasn't changed in the last hundred years .
@Susie Spearing how long did people live in Victorian times and they also exercise more I’m sure
I've never been pre-diabetic but I was pre-RA and autoimmune disease. My doctor had a awakening one day during our visit and she tested by 25hydro VitD and it came back at 7! Started 50,000 units a week and six months later, my blood work was all normal and I felt much better. Tested my VitD again and I came out at 45 after six months. Still taking and will take VitD rest of my life. It's amazing. My fibro went away. Why did medicine not figure this out long ago? I also take hydroxychloroquine and it has been huge help, also! Covid about did me in in 2020 and it took the lives of two uncles and my father with shattered glass lungs.
A few years ago I had low vitamin D. My primary care doctor found it at my yearly check up. I started taking vitamins, getting more sunshine, stopped using sunscreen, lost weight by intermittent fasting, and eating sardines (which I hate). Now I’m above normal. Praise God.
I can't see the involvement of any God here, so not sure why you want to praise he, she or it. Not sure why any God would want to be 'praised' either, if he, she or it did exist (which is highly unlikely).
@Maree George Exactly. I sit in the sun mostly unclothed for about 10 min, then apply at least SPF 15, usually 30, if I’m going to remain in the sun for awhile up to 30 min. Bear in mind, it takes a little time for sunscreen to be effective; it’s not immediate. I’ll do this about three times weekly. I’m white but not light complected. Do not burn easily and currently have a moderate tan. Also, my weight is in normal range. I sweeten foods with stevia.
I eat sardines too xD
What brand sardines??
@Keith Aldersonand then there are experts who say you need the full spectrum
Couldn’t agree more! Thank you Dr. Campbell for continuing to speak the truth! I own a small direct-pay functional medicine clinic In Wisconsin and am regularly appalled at the vitamin D levels here…even at the end of summer (likely thanks to sunscreen and working indoors). We offer a vitamin D level for just $42 to anyone who wants it.
Thank you so much bringing this to light.. 🙏🏼💜
something so simple and safe. I’m a RN case manager in the states and I see this first hand daily when I talk to our patients, when I review labs with them (after their physician has done that of course).
I do find that we are testing the A1C a lot more in the recent years, and in younger patients now, I’ve seen it checked in patients in their 30s -which is excellent.
One thing I encourage everyone to ask from their doctors.. I encourage them to request an insulin level-this shows how resistant or sensitive our cells are to sugar/glucose..
If fasting insulin is high, it means your cells are less sensitive to the effects of that insulin and your body makes more. This is the precursor to “pre-diabetes” , so in essence it’s the pre-prediabetes marker..
“Normal” fasting insulin is under 19, some labs will have under 20. Optimal level is under 8..
** would love to hear a chat about insulin level and insulin sensitivity/resistance Dr Campbell..🤗🤓
After a bout of covid, I started taking d3+k2 supplements around oct/nov 2022. I have yet to get sick since then, if i feel like i may be getting a sore throat or starting to get sick, i bump up the dosage. Thank you for your content Dr. Campbell. It may be safe to say that you are saving lives. i am championing the benefits of this supplement to all around me.
@Chris Mowatt thank you for the info. Much appreciated.
'Bumping up your dosage' won't help combat an infection at the time, as it takes up to a week for vitamin D to be processed by the body. More likely it is the vitamin D already in your blood that is combatting the infection by ensuring your immune system has what it requires. Vitamin D doesn't prevent infection, but ensuring that your immune system has sufficient vitamin D will help your immune system to combat infection more quickly.
It's entirely normal to feel an infection coming on and then for it to go away again, as that is what happens when your immune system fights off infection.
It's possible that 'bumping up your dosage' has a placebo effect, but there is no substitute for maintaining a sufficient dosage at all times and, since it is almost impossible to over dose on vitamin D, it makes sense to be on a high dose, especially if elderly or obese.
@Undetectible Foreveerr Just the recommended dosage on the bottle unless i am feeling under the weather. you can get it pretty much anywhere. They're not all equal though. Check out Dr Sam Robbins youtube channel, he offers a pretty good d3+k2 supplement in my opinion.
How much do you take a day?
I have type 2. Nearly all of my mom's 1 siblings, except for two, have been diagnosed at 50. I was diagnosed last Fall. My maternal grandmother wasn't diagnosed until it was too late.
My Doctor always checks for Vitamin D deficiency. I used to have it until I started drinking a lactose free milk that I like. I hadn't had any milk for a while. I was having more trouble controlling it, until I started have milk in my cereal again and now my levels are usually in the 5 to 6.4 range. Granted I usually cook my own food everyday. I rarely eat fast food. So lots of things are going on. I stopped drinking pop. Chocolate bars are difficult, but I have a chocolate chip cookies that are low carb and no added sugar that doesn't put my sugars up. I am not losing weight though due to hypothyroidism that is not controlled because I can't have the available ones because lactose is in all the ones available in my country. Lactose makes me sick. I am working on it though.
Vitamin D requires fat to be absorbed properly so take it with something fatty like milk or cheese or bacon. Be sure to include vitamin K2 to ensure that calcium is directed to the bones.
My doctor here in Canada on the other hand has been fascinated by the information he has been finding on vit D and he had all his employees D levels checked in his office and he has just sent me to be tested. We have to pay for the blood test but worth the $40. I am currently waiting on my results. He is the best doctor and keeps an open mind always.
This is quite astonishing. For context, I’m an man in my early sixties. Three years ago I was pre diabetic, with a Blood Glucose test score of 6.4. I’ve been taking Vitamin D3, 2,500 iu per day, since February 2020, primarily to protect me from the worse effects of Covid. Recently I had my Vitamin D3 levels measured, I has a test result of 85. At this time, among other tests, I also had a HbA1c test done. My score had dropped down to 5.4. My GP was so impressed he rang me to congratulate me and ask me what I’d been doing to bring about this change. I told him I’d been swimming four days a week and taking Vitamin D3 daily. He seemed oblivious to the Vitamin D benefit, and said rather sceptically, “it must be the swimming that did it”
I look forward to emailing him a link to your podcast this evening.
@Peter B. That’s really sad. We all need to just take responsibility of our own health and not have to go see the doctor as often.
@Katydid So you changed your entire life-style and think the supplements have done anything for you? Good food and excercise are all we need to be healthy, supplements are there to make money.
@My Two Scents I don't drink much only in my tea and cream in my coffee.
I was given my warning letter for pre-diabetes last week and it stated that i should seriously consider purchasing Vitamin D3 at the strength of 4000 UI. I'm 58 and neeedless to say it was a bit of a shock for me but not totally unexpected considering i am overweight and totally unfit. Coupled with a recent stroke, i know i have to make a massive change in my lifestyle now.
Thank you Dr. Campbell for this review. You've described my situation perfectly, I am pre-diabetic and have been taking vitamin D for two years to help ward off COVID. My A1C has only gone up 0.1 points in two years, 6.2 to 6.3. With diet and exercise changes, I feel I can prevent full blown diabetes.
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As usual great information from you. I have been living with type 2 for over 13 years now and only one doctor in that time has said "we might just check your Vit D levels" and that was last year. As a result my levels were shown to be very low so I have been taking Vit D , doctor never told me about K2 which I had to learn from your videos so thank you! wish I had have known when I was pre-diabetic .
I like how these things get his dander up. "Quite annoying, really.". Thank you, Dr. Campbell, for your intense compassion for the well-being of people. You're a far more faithful public health advocate than those employed in that sector.
My brother had diabetes II for 16 years; with a septuple heart bypass in the 10th year and 80 units insulin per day. Just kept getting worse with this standard of care. I then taught him an extreme keto diet (75% fats ... mostly olive, avocado or coconut oils, 15% proteins, and 15% "roughage". By the end of the 3rd week insulin needed was 0 (zero). 2 months later his A1C was down to 5.3 compared to 6.7 for the last 16 years. His doctors proclaimed him 'cured', no longer diabetic or even pre-diabetic. Prevent a diabetic relapse mainly requires less than 25 grams sugar or refined starches per day. Re; Vit D3, he has had monthly bouts of gout for 20+ years, yet upon taking 30,000 unit vit D3, his gout attack went away in 20 minutes, and has not returned in the 4 years since, while taking 30.000 units/day. As always thank you Dr. Campbell for your continuing education on health.
@emsea Apparently it was caught on a blood test of AiC.
Did they measure his insulin before deciding to give insulin shots?
@wendy Either way I agree one ingredient natural wholesome foods. We need to ditch sugary junk foods and packaged trash. 👍
That is great news! Awesome to hear.
@Susan Bailey Will do…thanks Susan:)
I was diagnosed with T2 niddm in November of 2017 weight then was 23 stone. My GP instantly prescribed Metformin and Statins. I asked for time. By June 2018 I had lost 8 stone and was returning a normal HbA1c for a non diabetic. Fast forward to last week and my GP stating that I’m in remission from T2 diabetes after never having a high HbA1c since.
I have kept the weight off. Run 40 plus half marathons, 2 trail marathons, an ultra marathon and completed several loaded challenges. I will be 56 this year. My resting HR is 54 BP 112/78 VO2 max is 43. Prior to 2017 I couldn’t walk 500m.
I simply cut out all processed foods and free sugars and walked 5km per day to get my initial weight loss. I’ve also survived CV19 despite being unvaccinated and in the at risk group. Oh and I never took the statins or metformin. Exercise and diet also brought me back from the brink of suicide after a diagnosis of ptsd in 2018.
Bravo!
Well done. You are the type of patient that doctors love - the type who is prepared to change their lifestyle, and puts in the work to improve their health. Many won't change their lifestyle, and for them meds are the only option.
Great insight as usual from Dr. Campbell. That said, reducing caloric intake, especially carbs would also reduce the incidence of diabetes in our overfed and overweight population here in the US. I think this is very important to note as obesity is now being excused, if not celebrated in the US from the woke crowd.
Yes, I also take D3 / K2 and magnesium every day.
Vitamin D maybe a factor but as a long term type 2 diabetic the thing that has saved me is the keto diet. I had out of control blood sugar and stage 4 kidney disease, and 2 years later I have lost 27kg, have stopped
all diabetic meds and have fully controlled blood sugar. Three months after I started the diet my kidney
specialist (nephrologist) was amazed that my kidney function had improved 25%. When you are accustomed to this diet your whole view of eating changes, intermittent fasting comes almost naturally,
and I have lost the cravings for highly processed high carb foods. If you look at the average diet of most
people they eat literally hundreds of grams of carb every day, this is the poison that, even with all our modern medicine, is causing millions of cases of type 2 diabetes every year. All of this leads to the economic reality, if the whole population started to eat to control or avoid diabetes, the economy would
likely collapse. I would never listen to the organisation, Diabetes Australia again, if I followed their
recommended diet I would be back on meds again, it’s only a half way approach with them and it makes
me wonder, why exactly that is?
John you are my hero. Thank you for making the difference! I spread your words across my social network - the offline one and it makes me feel a bit better and more in control. I stopped blindly follow doctors advice as I can see how limited a lot of them are. I'm feeling great and a lot of this is due to the knowledge I gain from your channel and use in life.
Hi Dr C, I recently had a battery of investigation blood tests done, over 60 & 3 MRIs but wasn’t assessed for vitamin D levels despite previously being low. I was prescribed vitamin D at the time but was never advised to take vitamin K with then & I’ve never had a follow up to check levels. My own research, originally from the Vitamin D Council, now the Vitamin D Society contains a wealth of info. My only problem is remembering to take them! PS Great work Dr. C!
I've been taking a little over 3,000 iu since August of 2021 when I had a mild heart attack. My A1C was 6.3 I was overweight and ate a lot of drive thru food because of my job. I'm retired now, I maybe treat myself to a drive thru meal once every month or two and have lost 56 lbs. My A1C is now 5.5 and I am doing great. Thanks for this video. Keep up the had work. I wish all doctors were like you and cared more for us; the patient, than they do for keeping their job at whatever healthcare system they are working for. I had a doctor like that until I was economically forced into the "HMO" system here in the US. Now, I pretty much take care of myself unless I actually "need" a doctor. Peace and God Bless!
"letsgobrandon" 👍
@vulcanswork I keep up with various others, but Dr. Sten Ekberg is the absolute best, IMO.
@Julie Ann Myers yes Dr Berg is fantastic.
@Mike Boston I was 6'-5" 290 lbs.
@Evan Schock Yep. Thanks!
I’ve spread your videos to all my family and friends because of your kind ways in educating people in the best way possible . Thank You Dr. Campbell ( Boston)
Thanks again for doing this analysis John. Given your previous comments about the benefits of various vitamins, would you consider doing a series on various vitamins relate to health.
As a person who is affected by SAD I've often wondered how much that affects my physical health as well as my mental health. Taking Vit D helps me cope in the winter.
I started taking it because I was having mood swings and bouts of crying for the first time in my life at 45 years old. I'd heard it helps with emotional issues. I can say I have definitely had far fewer mood swings. As a side note, I never get serious colds, but I did a year ago, so it was most likely Covid, and was only extremely tired for two days. I had a severe headache for 4 days (before and during) and a slight amount of chest congestion and cough, but that was all. So it may have helped lighten my symptoms there, too.
Hi Dr Campbell. Years ago I was insulin resistant and my neurologist who changed to functional medicine told me to take alpha lipoid acid. After 6 months on it I was back to normal. It’s a very cheap supplement that reversed my insulin resistants.
This is interesting - when my sister was 12 years old she was diagnosed with diabetes - at the same time I had a healthcheck up to make sure I was OK and what they found is that we were terribly deficient in Vitamin D and from then on all through my childhood I had to take vitamin D every day . My parents did wonder at the time if the deficiency of D was any cause in her diabetes
I know of several ppl who developed type 1 from their childhood well visits. They received special treatment s h o t s. Later in the 90’s confirmed from these special s h o t s were the cause of their type 1 diabetes. So it could be a number of different factors, not just food intake.
Low vitamin D might possibly be a factor, but the never-ending junk food with all the carbohydrates seems to be the tipping point.
As a diabetes management coach, I give you my heartfelt thanks for this video ❤️
I'm sharing with both of my diabetes support groups, which is an audience of over 90K members 👌
@Wayne McLeod 30k for each vaccinated person. Thousands a visit. Prescriptions net them gains as well.
"We found that, on average, physicians who prescribed a drug received higher payments related to the drug that same year than those who didn't prescribe it. For Linzess, the value of payments was more than four times higher for providers who prescribed the drug than among those who did not. Dec 20, 2019"
@Ugandan Knuckles No where near the payroll of big pharma tho.
@Jo Voorhees Collins, MPH, BS, NBCHWC Is there a support group for thin skinned people that you're apart of as well?
@Ugandan Knuckles troll
As a diabetic (type 2) diagnosed in 2000 This is the FIRST time hearing about the role of vitamin D in helping prevent the disease. I only started taking D in 2021 to help prevent Covid taking 2 1000 unit gel caps daily. I wish Dr Campbell had talked about the effects of taking vitamin D for somebody who has been diabetic for a long time but its reassuring to see that I am (even if its accidental) on the right path.
I have 3 related autoimmune diseases. I started bumping my d3 up to 10,000 iu’s about 3 weeks ago and I feel very noticeably better. I can get into my wheelchair every day, even twice a day now, whereas I was forcing myself to get in once every 3 days and I was worn out after that.
thank you John for being a doze of sanity in these insane times. it is very much appreciated
Outstanding report doctor. I've been a pre-diabetic for a couple of years. Issues yes. October 2019,
I was concerned about brittle bones and I understood vitamin D helped with strengthening.
I check the RDA requirement for my age and weight and it indicated I could take upward of 10,000 IUs a day.
All through the pandemic, I took 10K Vitamin D, plus other vitamins of course. I recently this year discovered K2 and its assistance with Calcium, and I had a blood test and it was a 43 with Vitamin D, no other indicator to know what that meant, based on your presentation, I am up near 40. That was vital for me to know. I think starting next month I am going back to 10,000 with Liposome.
One other thing, I was completely insane with Sodium. I think because of the Vitamin D, I did not have a massive coronary. When I appeared at the doctor's office I was in Hypertension Critical she said her protocol was to immediately send me to the emergency room. I had no outward indication of stress but I was scared a bit. I think the first number was 199. I'm walking around every day with that number, and I am having the symptoms, the mental fog, out of breath climbing the stairs, etc., but I had no idea about my high blood pressure.
When it was shown to me, I acquiesced to taking BP drugs. And to finally clean up my diet, and get salt out of my life. You want to hear something funny. I've done so well, I actually put myself in a Hypotensive Critical situation and she didn’t tell me anything about that danger.
I just happen to look up what the 3 numbers mean and read low blood pressure is as dangerous as HBP. I had to then get salt in the body fast. So, I have a machine and take my BP twice a day. I stay within the limit up and down, and the fog is gone and I can walk up all the flights without taking a break, and reach my door without huffing and puffing like and train.
The reason I had to go to the doctor I was getting bad symptoms, diabetic blisters, and fluid coming out of the skin, it was bad for a while, and all the time, I have no idea what is wrong and why is my body doing this. It took a long time for me to find out. I was putting garbage in my body, plain and simple.
So, I know everything you said is true. The least medical authorities can do is educate those 37 million on what to look for, and if they recognize it, stop the sweets and supplement with vitamin D, and get healthy, or else.
In the interest of science.
Thank you from the USA for this presentation, Doc. My wife and I had to change Doctors when we retired 13 years ago. Our new Doc puts all his PTs in D3 and a B-complex pill. Our overall health improved REMARKABLY. Example: I used to have headcolds every year, lasting pretty much throughout the Winters. Since starting on D and B, I have not had one single headcold... in 12 Winters ! On my own, I started us on K2 MK-7 180mcg several years ago and reported it to my young Doc, who had never heard of MK-7. THANK YOU to you, SIr, and to all the other Doctors who spend time making Internet presentations to advance the cause of human health and wellbeing. Blessings to you, Sir.
@yeah tbh. Dr. Campbell has a doctorate degree in nursing. He is not a Doctor of Philosophy.
Great info. thanks!
@Jonan my mom just retired but she was an RN for almost 50 years… She’s always telling me what vitamins to take and when to take them… Swears by tonic water, I think it’s nasty as hell but it helps when I’m sick. When you are in the room with doctors who are diagnosing things and prescribing things, for five decades you tend to pick up on a few remedies. I listen to her, she’s always right… Just saying
@yeah tbh. Yes an Educator of Nurses, but now also a global Educator of ordinary ppl who have probably studied high school biology, but now know more. His knowledge of the physiology and biochemistry of the body is absolutely correct and he uses revered articles from scientific journals to make his point. NOW WHAT WERE YOU SAYING ABOUT OUR TEACHER ? 🧐🤔
I've been taking 8000 Iu vitamin D3 and 200mcg "K" since I first discovered this channel in 2020.. I have suffered less depression, barely get a cold... I kissed and cuddled my covid ridden children and never once got it, I chose not to submit to the vaccine for my own reasons. my eldest was vaccinated. It really is a breath of fresh air to be offer honest gateways to real science in a media/money driven, distracted humanity. Thank you again! John
@Jim Earl you obviously haven't watched much of his channel huh
Vitamin D is so beneficial. I was thankful to find your channel during the pandemic. Correcting my lab level has helped with MS symptoms. Vitamin D levels should definitely be tested for everyone!
My levels have been very high over 200 for about 2 months I don't take vitamin D but I will have to grab some I kind of felt this , so thank you for this report I see my Dr this week to talk about my levels and I find you are right on in why this is going on and what we should do man oh man thank you sir !
Thank you very much for caring about people and all of the time and effort that you put into your research, Kevin.
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes around two years ago. My GP said it would be beneficial for me to take vitamin D as my levels were a bit low and that it can assist in other ways in the body.
Living in Australia I just always thought the sun exposure I got was enough but it wasn't.
do you use a sun block/ sun tan lotion
The information that you offered on vitamin D originally brought me to your channel in March 2020. For my family this clearer understanding of the role that quality sunlight (and the need to supplement when this sunlight is not available) plays in our health is the number one benefit that has come out of watching your channel during that period, and from the C-19 pandemic generally.
When you cross reference the top pathologies associated with vitamin D deficiency (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and cancer), the top pathologies suffered in deficient populations, and the prevalence of these deficiencies/pathologies in these populations (40-85% < 20 ng/mL) the picture becomes very clear. Eradicating Vitamin D deficiency is the low hanging fruit in a healthcare crisis! It is perhaps the most shameful scandal of our time that our public health officials have ignored these basic correlations and failed to develop strategies that could safely and effectively mitigate such massive suffering on a global scale with relative ease.
@Keith Alderson thank you
@Hitogokochi It's much much harder to avoid fats in animal products. So take those!?
My GP surgery (London) invited me for a routine health check and gave me a blood test. One of the parameters they measured was vitamin D , so I’m surprised to hear John, when you say you are not able to get your levels checked.
Quite dramatic figures. Excellent job you do in presenting these figures. I am aware since a long time ago that D3 is important, kind of the king among the vitamins. I was not aware of the efficiency to prevent DM2. However, the vast majority of DM2 cases are caused by excessive intake of added sugar and starch, carbohydrates, (Starch, that in reality turns to sugar, glucose, already when reaching the stomach. Seconds later...) and lack of exercise. My belief is that by just reducing that added sugar, combined with vitamin D, will bring a huge improvement for most pre- and fullblown DM2. Read the label, sugar is everywhere... // Thank you, great job, i am one of your dedicated viewers!!!
@Anders Norelius,To quote you, "However, the vast majority of DM2 cases are caused by excessive intake of added sugar and starch, carbohydrates, (Starch, that in reality turns to sugar, glucose, already when reaching the stomach. Seconds later...) and lack of exercise." You are absolutely correct, BRAVO!
I agree! Keto, Ketovore, or Carnivore REALLY WORK!!! Lost over 55 pounds so far! I won’t be stopped! This works!!!
Dr. John, again thank you for the information. I take a daily multivitamin supplement. At my last Doctor visit, my Dr. said I should stop taking Vitamin D, because my levels were too high. I countered with "what if I cut my dose in half"? She suggested none. My daily supplement has a small amount, so I'm still taking it. I had been taking 4,000 IU daily since nearly the beginning of Covid.
I was concerned you wouldn't mention the dietary causes of Diabetes, but you did, and I'm grateful. Since May of 2020 I've been following a strict food program. I've lost about 50 pounds and my blood work shows my health has increased significantly. I wonder how many people know that the companies who produce food actually do MRI scans to see when the recipes light up our brain the most? I have little faith in the food industry. As one poster said here, the medical industry is just that, "industry". They are helping themselves, as are the food companies. They are NOT helping us. It would be interesting if you did a study on the increase of sugar in the American/UK diet, and correlation to increased Diabetes. Again, thank you for your thoughtful and thought-provoking commentaries.
My wife and i have been taking vitamin D since you discussed it during the pandemic, unfortunately my wife has difficulty taking tablets so we use a 3000 IU per day in a spray we get from H&B. It is a little dearer than in supermarkets but at least we are hopefully protecting ourselves as best we can.
Thank you so muc h for this presentation, Dr. Campbell. It's especially valuable to me as I am close with an Indian family whose mother has type 2 diabetes so her two beautiful teenage daughters are at risk; it's wonderful to have this to recommend to them along with the diatary advice which, as you noted, is more complicated to implement.
Iam from the US, told my Doctor I was getting extremely tired from 1130a to about 200p every day. I would literally almost fall asleep at my desk, needed to go to the bathroom and put cold water on my face, just to say up. He did so Blood work, I was low on Vitamin D, gave me a prescription for 2000 Unites a day. Within around 3 weeks, starting feeling better, staying awake, amazing how something so inexpensive could make such a difference. Thanks for the video, how this helps others people, also consider the importance of Iodine for the body. That also has life saving qualities, stay safe and healthy mate, God Bless.
When I told my new internist, 15 years ago, that my mom had breast cancer at age 72 she put me on Vitamin D without even checking my levels. Apparently, vitamin D is one of those things that really decrease with age bringing about many age-related illnesses.
I live in Tasmania Australia.
When I got my blood test results back that I went to get it says on the printout under the vitamin d section 3 lines of text.
I got the text out so I'll copy it here.
"60% of Tasmanians presenting for the first time for vitamin D testing (at the end of winter) show deficiency and on average in any season of the year 44% of Tasmanians are Vitamin D deficient."
My state has known this for years and during Covid I didn;t hear a peep about Supplementing Vitamin D.
Thank you so much for this information. I was diagnosed about 8 years for pre diabetes. I am 76. My mother was diagnosed with Type 2 in her late 70s. I have blood tests twice a year and so far been controlled through diet and exercise. I have taken vitamin D but not consistently. From now on I will take it daily. Thank you again Dr John.
Thanks for watching send ⤴️ a direct message right away, I'll love to hear your thoughts on it and for more enlightenment..!!!
Thank you for this information Dr. Campbell, I have had Multiple Sclerosis since at least 1999 when I was diagnosed with it. I am blessed to have minor effects from it compared to many others with it. I walk a lot and continue to be very mobile. My specialist has me on 7000 units a day of Vitamin D for a number of years and I have felt a lot perkier and energetic being on it so it has made a difference . During my lifetime the only year I never had a cold was 1996 when it was very cold and I was living in Alberta at that time. The past three years I haven't had a single cold now living in Newfoundland and still on that same dosage of Vitamin D.
Roy Swank ?
My Dr recently gave me a script for 2 doses of vit D, one very high to start, and the second a more normal dose. She didn't explain why however. Thank you for your videos, I'm learning a lot. I've been back and forth on med compliance, this inspires me to at least take my vit D.
I'm relatively healthy and I went to the doctor and manually requested a blood test mainly to check my cholesterol and found out I'm in the pre-diabetes group. Had I not requested a test I would never know and most people especially men don't go to the doctor unless their arm is hanging off by the bone so I imagine lots of them may be in the same group or worse than me. But here in the US no one talks about regular checkups, except dental ones, and getting blood work is like pulling teeth.
I discovered I'm diabetic when I changed GP surgery. I also had dangerously high blood pressure which the previous GP had never detected. I guess these things were coming on over a period of time, they can't just have coincidentally happened out of the blue when I changed GP surgeries. The only symptoms I had were constant headaches which I was given painkillers for, by the previous GP. I rarely need the painkillers now.
I vouched for Vitamin D 3 BEFORE the pandemic not least after watching your channel !
I was called Mrs D 3 by my friends here in Malta trying to pull my leg.
Those who did take my advice and took the vitamin and even subscribed to your channel came out much much better than those who didn't .
And my diabetic husband would be worse without it as well !! SO THANK YOU DR CAMPBELL !!
Some people have reversed type2 with keto and intermittent fasting.
@They don't like it up em Thanks, I watched it :) .
Hi John, I've had type 1 diabetes for over 45 years. I'm 100% convinced that obesity is caused by the processed food diet which is high in carbohydrates. Insulin is the hormone that stores fat. Any excess carbohydrates eaten is stored as fat. A simple understanding of the metabolic pathways is all that is needed. Carbohydrate is the bodies fastest form of fuel. Problem is we eat way more than needed. The excess is stored as fat. I have often looked at what people eat and do a quick calculation of how much insulin I would need to take to cover that. Most times it would require my total daily amount of insulin to cover one meal. The body works very hard to maintain a very narrow level of sugar in the blood. This results in high insulin levels. Process food is a very upfront absorption of sugar. The body doesn't have to process it. It is already processed. This requires a high amount of insulin to maintain blood sugar levels. Insulin has a 4-6 hour window of action. After about 2 hours of this high carb meal the person is hungry. Famished!!! Craving sugar. Why? The active insulin in their body is now dropping their sugar. Faster than the stored glygogen can convert back to sugar. They eat to feed their insulin. I have watched people eat 4 or more times as much food as I do because of hunger. I'm not hungry. The only time I am hungry is when I have too much insulin on board and my sugar is low or dropping too fast. You want to loose weight start by lowering your carbs. The only people that need lots of carbs are those who are burning lots through exercise or work. The fat free diet is the biggest mistake the healthcare system ever created. It is the cause of all this obesity as the food industry followed its lead.Prediabetes can be corrected in a very short period of time by a low carb diet. Insulin resistance can be corrected by low carb. It can by exercise too but it is just matching the amount of carbs to what you really need. You can't eat too litlle carbs. Your body can get sugar from fats and protein. And your body won't make too much sugar through this process. Just some things I've learnt while titrating insulin to match my need and watching everyone arond me get fat.
So true
Kaiser Permanente in US, with my doctor's visits in 2017 -2019 were saying take vitamin D. They were not saying K2 to go with it. The dialogue for each visit being general and other visits were saying take vitamin D. It was relentless. So my family started taking vitamin D with K2. I could go in more detail, our family has clearly benefited from taking vitamin D.
Hi Dr.Campbell, do you have any thoughts on COQ 10 being useful regarding improving A1C and pre diabetes issues?
Few month ago, i finished one free education, 3 days long about vitamin D titration. IT is organized For any g.p. Or other doctors. After That, I started testing ALL my patients as routine initial research and add propper dosige as needed and re-test them after two month and adjust dosige if needed. Your video is helpful, thank you For a great effort
Dear John,
in Germany there are Vitamin D tests for a reasonable price by Vitamoment. You send in 3 big blooddrops on a testplate (I don't know the right English word) and then you get your results about one week later. I regularly test my Vitamin D level in this way and the first time I did it was frightening. I really thought: why am I still alive?
Your focus on D and k2 have been truly illuminating.
It would be great if you could expand your videos to cover other vitamins & supplements like C, E, Magnesium, Potassium, Iron, the B family, etc, etc.
You are able to ferret out studies on these compounds that could benefit your viewers immensely. We are basically left to our own devices, given the pharmaceutical industry isn't interested in promoting anything unless they have patented it.
@Chris Lee I take less than Dr John says he takes . Go pick a scrap with him. You're beyond argumentative.
@LAT Yes. Have you looked up issues regarding toxicity of too much Vitamin D, which can take many years to appear. It is impossible to get too much vitamin D from the sun or food, but you can easily do yourself damage by taking it in supplement form. Taking pills is not a substitute for a healthy diet and lifestyle, and if you are leading a healthy lifestyle, you don't need to be taking loads of supplements.
@Chris Lee did you actually watch the video here by John?
@LAT I don't think anyone knows exactly how much Vitamin D we need to stay alive. There are many elderly people in their 80s or 90s that have gone their whole lives and never taken a single food supplement. A balanced diet provides what we need, if someone is deficient in Vitamin D then they will also be lacking in other vitamins, so you might as well take a supplement that contains everything and is often cheaper. Too much vitamin D is harmful and becomes toxic and builds up calcium in the blood that can go on to cause all manner of complications. Just telling people to pop a load of vitamin D is dangerous. Telling people to eat a healthy diet is safe and more effective and has a wide overall benefit. Too many people take the lazy route and pop pills and medicines and continue an unhealthy lifestyle.
@Chris Lee the 100% and RDA figure is deceptive. It is the absolute minimum required to stay alive. Aa many people are deficient in Vitamin D in the UK, taking a standard multivitamin would take up to 4 years to address vit D deficiency alone. Or you can take higher dosage to reach optimum levels quickly. It's your choice. If you're happy with multivitamins, fine. But it is rather like having a large credit card bill and only making minimum payments, it takes years to clear the deficit.
Thanks to you I started taking vitamin D back in 2020 due pandemic. Last time I checked my D3 level I had 160 nmol. I decreased my vitamin D3 to 1000 IU for maintenance.
I've been using oral sprays for vit D and B12, (I had a terminal ilium resection) and these have been bolstering both levels to the point I've been asked to reduce the vit b12 from daily to maybe every other day or so.
I used to get bronchitis 2x per year for most of my life. I was diagnosed with low vitamin D by my doctor and treated. I have not had bronchitis for over 8 yrs now. I caught COVID but it was like a light cold- no big deal. I attribute that to getting my vitamin d levels. My A1c was 4.5 even when my vitamin d was on the very low side.
Love this video !
As a nation we don’t eat enough fatty food foods / outside more and move move move move more !
Few years ago I felt terrible and lost my hair in clumps and kept going for blood tests and my doctor kept telling me it was something else I’m fine , but he find out what it is !
After 4 attempts I was sick of the results so I too. My bloody elsewhere and got to the root cause of why I was losing hair : freezing cold all the time :no energy like no other !
Iron and Vitamin D was soooooo low !!!!
Got my bile working again , so could absorb vitamin d and fats from my foods .
Chew chew chew chew chew your food ! Don’t drink with meals . Eat slower and sit down ! Eat more animals fats / fish / butter .
Vitamin d k2 and magnesium everyday in the bath as much I could or a spray !
Game changer !
Wow! I think you're spot on. They should consider prescribing or recommending it for glucokinase (mody) a condition which is very prone to tipping into type 2 diabetes. I have this condition, I've never been overweight & I've been trying not to tip into type 2 for years. Except for a couple of occasions mostly I've succeeded. The last time my blood glucose was too high I was also feeling unwell & very achy. A blood test showed my vit D levels were extremely low. I was prescribed vit D/calcium and I couldn't believe the difference. It was wonderful to feel well again! My blood glucose levels also returned to normal and out of the type 2 range. I thought this was a consequence of feeling better, so did my GP. Your video is certainly food for thought. Thank you.
I had a doctor who prescribed vitamin D to me about six or seven years ago, and I scoffed at him. I took it, but I scoffed. Fast forward to now and I sure am glad he did and that I listened to him. I take 2000 IU a day. I tried 4000 IU and I found it to interfere with my ability to sleep, so I went back down to 2000 IU. It has definitely helped with my depression, and I guess with my immunity because I have not gotten covid. I'm American.
Look up Thorne research, vitamin D 3/K 2 in olive oil . It has the fat needed and the k2. Magnesium is also a must.
2K to 4K isn't a big deal. Try to get your veggies as it's something else than the small change in dosage. Good luck!
@ODevil That's right, vitamin D3 should be taken with some fat/oil. It is a fat-soluble vitamin.
You also need to be taking magnesium as any of the D vitamins deplete magnesium.this is also not good for the body. And the best D vitamin is D3, don't just take a doctor's advice do the research yourself.
Even before JC was on board, I stumbled on Prof Dolores Cahill and she recommended zinc and vits D and C. I and my husband started that straight away. We added K2 mk7 6 months ago. We didn't take the recommended covid shots, and if we ever caught the virus we didn't notice. We didn't really abide by social distancing and certainly not mask wearing. My father who is 87, was worried into taking the shots, and thankfully didn't suffer any adverse side affects. He started taking the same supplements as us, and won't now take another jab either boosters or flu jabs. Imo we need to focus more on homeopathy, thats the route we're going down. I wish you all well.
I am type 2 diabetic and no longer on meds and all I can tell you is that vitamin D3 played a big part in this and I continue to take it as I’m a whole lot better when I’ve had it than when I haven’t. Take it with vitamin K2 , I take the mk7 variant of this because that takes the calcium from your soft tissue and blood and puts the calcium in the places that it’s supposed to go. Vitamin D3 & vitamin K2 taken together helps with the stiffness in the body that is caused by calcium buildup in the soft body tissue, it’s called the sunshine vitamin for a very good reason because it also raises your mood and helps with depression. I had Hodgkin’s lymphoma and the treatment along with other factors resulted in my diabetes, I was diagnosed with diabetes in the March of 2018 with diet and exercise, walking 4 miles a day and taking the vitamins and minerals that my body was lacking after the chemotherapy I lost 4 stones in weight and was off the meds by the October of that same year. The doctor and my diabetes nurse all said that I’d done amazing. I returned to work and it was a bit difficult at first but now I’m over the trauma of the whole situation because having cancer was traumatic even though I didn’t realise it at the time because it developed after the treatment and when I was diagnosed as diabetic and with the stress off now having money worries and being afraid of losing my house and my hand being forced to return to work but the vitamin D3 helped with that and I’ve now been back at work nearly 5 years. I enjoy your videos Dr John because they’re fact based evidence and you’re not some tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist and all what you said in this video resonated with me and what I personally know about vitamin D3 because of my experiences with it, I also had a chronic stiff neck and it sounded like my neck was full of gravel when I turned my head and it cured that also. It’s good stuff and people should take it but always take it with vitamin K2 / mk7 as this variant of K2 stays in the body longer and therefore works for a longer period.
@Adrian King Just wondering Adrian if I should double or triple dose because I'm on ppi's which I know stops absorption of certain vitamins and minerals?
@King no worries buddy, glad to help 👍
@Adrian King Thanks for all that info Adrian much appreciated, and I will also check out them videos 👍
@King I also take cod liver oil capsules for joint pain, this also helps with circulation by cleaning veins and arteries, I also take turmeric with black pepper capsules for muscle pain and inflammation and most things are linked to inflammation because inflammation is the absolute enemy of the body and it brings illnesses and conditions, also apple cider vinegar with lemon juice helps the digestive system and many things are linked to that because if the stomach isn’t acid enough you can’t absorb the vitamins and minerals from your food and supplements and therefore get problems associated with that. Sorry for going on but after cancer which left me with type 2 diabetes I had to learn how my body worked and what it needed, must be doing some good because I’ve seen the doctor once in 5 years and I don’t even bother with the Diabetes nurse anymore and if I have problems I’ll let them know instead of them pestering me all the time. Like I said before, have a look on KZclip for Dr Eric berg because he’s got good videos regarding just about anything, also doctor Alan Mandell has some good videos too, I watched one of his videos on Drinking Turmeric Milk before bedtime, it worked pretty good, here’s what I did, got a big mug, put a heaped teaspoon of Turmeric in it, quarter spoon of black pepper in there too, boiled kettle put a little hot water in and mixed to a runny paste, topped it up with full fat milk and Microwave until the top of the milk froths up, put a teaspoon of butter in and let it cool down a bit and then drink it. You can put honey or some sweetener in but I don’t because I’m Diabetic and sugar is the cause of inflammation and many other things in the body so cut the sugar out if you can this will help the inflammation which will be present because of your Arthritis and the Milk and Turmeric mixture will help your bones , you say you already take K2 so this will transport the calcium in the milk to where it needs to be. Hope this helps, Adrian. Oh, I forgot to mention that 10,000 iu’s of vitamin D3 is actually 0.25 milligrams and not 25 milligrams as I previously put in my last post so it’s not a massive amount even though it sounds like it is so you’ll be fine to increase your dose, I took 40,000 iu’s last night with 4 k2 tablets so increase your dose if you want to but work out by doing a bit at a time until you get the desired effect that you are looking for.
I get a lot of joint pain and muscle pain, I do take d3 with k2. 4,000/100 since covid first came out on the advice of Dr John but lately not had any for about 4 months after running out but never got round to restocking, was looking at taking again maybe higher dose. Just been diagnosed with early osteoarthritis.
I’m a true redhead, and they utilize the sun and store vit D better than other hair colours. The doctor checked mine and it was 50 ~ the top of the range. My daughter is a pharmacist, and she couldn’t believe how high it was. Since the advent of “the vid” we’ve been taking vit D as well.
Thank you Sir. I am an American disabled veteran with several autoimmune issues. Thank goodness John Hopkins told me about D3 4/5 yrs ago as it related to the US V.A. Dept rheumatologist doctors from Stanford couldn’t get my Lupus for a decade under control. Vitamin D3 especially for darker skinned people should be AN immediate concern and voice as we don’t process it as lighter hues, due to melanin.
My Lupus and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis has been in remission since 2018. I take up to 6000 icu to keep COVID at bay and keep my inflammatory issues and markers down/low.
Thank you, Sir for your brilliance and fearlessness!
Yes, I have Sarcoidosis and have been taking 6000 IU daily since seeing Dr. Campbell's talks. My tested level is 40 ng/ml. I am obese as well so was concerned about fat sequestration, versus the contraindication of Sarcoidosis. Also, I have lost 65 pounds in the last year having cut out carbs, and my A1C levels dropped out of pre-diabetes.
The Royal Brompton Hospital which is the UK centre for sarcoid, advise no more than 800iu of Vitamin D per day. It should be kept very low and you should have the recommended Vitamin D 1.25 blood test, and a PTH blood test to check your levels
I have Sarc as well. This is the 1st time I've ever seen it mentioned in comments. I have it in my heart, lungs and liver and an associated rare, extremely painful neuropathy type condition. I'm extremely underweight. It just fell off when I had severe rxs to all the meds they through at it (roids didn't work). I'm trying very hard to stop carbs too because the pain is agonizing. Congrats, fellow Sarc warrior. It's a horribly brutal disease. Keep up the good fight 💪 💜
Well done on cutting the carbs!
There is more to the D story and sarcoidosis than the one most GPs know. The caution has been that D levels would drive calcium into soft tissues, but it isn't as simple as that.
Husband and I have been taking vitamin D supplements for many years. I take 10,000 iu's a day and my level is still only 48 ng/ml. When I was first tested it was 19 ng/ml. I'm overweight so I found it interesting that you said obese people needed to take a higher dose. We do take Vitamin K2 as well. Carnivore/Keto diet has made a world of difference for me. I'm down 40 pounds and things are starting to feel much better. Thanks for all the great work you do!
@Lisa Gates Persistent, systematic and relentless application of sound principles will bring the victory. I am completely cured of Hypertension, (pre)diabetes and orthostatic hypertension. It also seems that my strength and metabolism has reverse aged like 25 years. Ph.D mathematics, NSF postdoc, IT consultant etc. etc etc (lol) God Bless you!
@WmTyndale - I do follow Dr. Eric Berg. I've been carnivore/ketovore since the end of July 2022. It's made a huge difference but I'm not quite there yet. I have been able to half the dose of Plaquenil in that time frame so I'll count that as a victory. The goal is to get off of it completely if possible. I live in the north east of the US. I get more sun in the spring/summer timeframe but it's overcast alot of the time as well.
@Lisa Gates I would recommend Dr. Eric Berg for deep insights on how to regain your health and get off the medicaments. For sunshine you only need 2 half hour periods a week depending where you live. Also there is a product Garden of Life Raw Meal that I used to bring my mother back from dementia. Most of these degenerative disease are diet linked. The food supply has been poisoned by processing, additives and poisoned farmland
I had this problem when I first started taking 10k iu. Make sure you are using a high quality D3 and k2 but you need magnesium glycinate 600-800 mg to lock the calcium in the bones after the k2 gets it out of the tissues and moves it there. It took me about a year and a half of doing the protocol to get my levels to about 60. Now in between 68-75. I take 5000iu now but with intermittent fasting I have dropped 45 lbs so far and the bone pain I used to have has diminished by 90%. Good supplements make all the difference in the world to me and that doesnt always mean more expensive.
@WmTyndale - Unfortunately I also have Rheumatoid Arthritis and am taking Plaquenil so I have to watch myself in the sun.
My doctor had told me to take 4300 IUs (pretty specific) during the winter (being in the Northeast USA). I ran with it a bit where my vitamin supplement has 2000 IUs, but supplement as well with 5000 IU D3/800mcg K2/MK7 supplement. 7000 is a bit high on the D3 where 10k is considered toxic levels... but in the Northeastern USA the sky is a continual blanket of gray gloom, going outside will achieve very little Vit D natural creation. Typing this out, I see where in the Spring > Fall I'll have to find a different D3/K2 supplement of a max of maybe 2k D3 so as not to get to toxic levels.
I take 10,000 IU daily with K2. Individual requirements vary due to body weight (6ft 2" male, slightly overweight). I test every 6 months and my Vit D levels are now uniformly high (good high, not dangerous) and I'm thankful for that. According to my phone app, the first natural, sun-producing vit D of the year at my latitude (52° North) occurs, for a very short period initially, on the 3rd March.
When my dad got put on Prolia (denosumab) for osteopenia I researched bone health and vitamins and put him on Calcium + Vitamin D MK-7 with K2. I learned the K-2 was important to divert the additional calcium away from the heart and into the bones where it is needed (as you said).
My dad’s Dr didn’t believe me (about the role of K2) and I’m sure thinks I am a nut. His thoughts generally were that vitamins are a waste of money. As much as I like him, I think Dr’s could be more open minded to things which do not involve writing a prescription.
I should clarify the Dr did prescribe Calcium, which is essential to take when on this drug.
Just not the K2, or the MK-7 version of Vitamin D.
Also he was unconcerned about the formulation of the calcium (carbonate, citrate etc) so long as some was taken.
This is crazy. I've been taking vit d for years to help moods/ depression (I have PTSD and it keeps me off antidepressants). I had gestational diabetes when pregnant and having a family history of it have a high chance of getting diabetes later in life. I resumed taking vit d after pregnancy and have passed all my yearly tests since.
I visited my doctor a few years ago asked her about getting a test done regarding Vitamin D and other test for other levels. She commented that Vitamin D isn't covered for testing because it's known everyone for the most part is low on it. She recommended taking a Vitamin D .
Thank you! Five years ago diagnosed as diabetic, congestive heart failure, previously stage 3 liver disease and renal disease. Started using app to track vitamin D from sun and supplements (D-Minder) and getting vitamin D daily. Went to a non-gmo, hormone free diet (close to Mediterranean or Alkaline vegan but eating small amounts of high quality meat). Growing much of my own food.
Doing amazing: Liver numbers look great, diabetes under control (still using insulin), and kidney function is normal now.
Wow!!
I just got diabetes In September 2022. I just had a stroke in 2020 so I am trying to overcome that but when I found out about blindness and foot amputation I got real worried. I’m trying methods to combat diabetes. So far I’ve got an AC of 6. 2. Thanks Dr. Campbell for advising us about Itami meeting D for diabetes. I’ll start taking some soon.
I don’t know what I would have done without your help. Thank you so much for curing my diabetes with your herbs Dr Igudia
My friend has been told she's got Diabetes. I'm going to tell her about tgis! Thanks for bringing our attention to this little known help we can all get before it's too late!
My Vitamin D is at a 10 😣.. I just started taking 10,000 a day of Vitamin D. Thank You for the Vitamin K info- I thought so, you validated. I am from the US and we always test Vitamin D on a regular Lab assay. Thank You Dr John !
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I know this may sound bizarre to some but I got type 2 diabetes and 2 doctors recommended a carnivore diet with supplements, including vitamin D and I reversed type 2 diabetes in 7 weeks doing it. My A1C went down to 5. I did eat avocados along with it though.
For those who are thinking, "Eh, what does that have to do with me?"
My husband went undiagnosed for (probably) years . . . put the foot tingling down to the hard floors he walked on every day at work. Put the weird symptoms of fatigue, weakness, etc. down to just being tired, and "getting old".
Ignored it for so long a stomach ulcer nearly killed him.
Please stay up on your doctor visits! It was the diabetes that ultimately caused him to succumb to c0v!d, at the end of his life. 😢
@Resist the Lizards, you might be amused to hear that, for the first time, I took a look at the web page of the American Diabetes Association tonight.
Mostly they appeared to want to sell me things. Then I saw that they had recipes. Well, I'm always interested in that, having been a cook.
All I can say is, "Wow."
Banana pancakes was one of their recommendations. Lots of pasta dishes on there. Cookies? Really? Potatoes.
Unreal... How does anyone trust an organization like that?
"Here's some recipes you'll really love eating! Eat 'em up! Help keep us in business! Forever!"
I also went undiagnosed for years. I didn't find out until I was out cutting grass and thought I was having a heart attack. Went to the hospital and found out my blood sugar was over 350 (That's US, not UK measure. For some reason it's done differently here...).
Yes, I chalked up the fatigue to working 70-80 hours a week in a factory with a 60lbs for 12 hours minimum lift requirement. (On one shift I lifted 15,000 lbs. Three times.)
If you don't know the symptoms of diabetes it's easy to write them off as working too hard or getting old or whatever else.
Yes, a difficult problem. High sugar levels, so the obvious thing is to cut down the sugar. People with diabetes suffer from high sugar levels which is very harmful in your blood.
But at the end of the day you have to choose between whether you think taking a handful of different drugs is the way to good health or improving your diet with good food and avoiding processed foods.
I think people mention cutting down on foods so the body feels a little hungry at times and avoiding sugar at all costs if you think your body is not coping with it.
Exercise is important too but again as we see with sports people this can be over done too.
Life is a bit like walking a tightrope but listening to your body is important and then reacting to what it says and deciding whether you need a doctor or whether you can identify your bad habits.
Smoking is big no no for me but it’s amazing how many believe in its good qualities
And for many the pharmacy is their choice for their health as I find out when queuing up for dozens of medicines daily for other people.
Personally if they relied on me they would go broke immediately.
My mother's boyfriend had undiagnosed diabetes, when he got tested his sugar level was 25+!
Unfortunately a lot of damage had been done to his nerves in his hands and feet (it took burns to his feet due to a hot water bottle before he even went to the doc).
Older people, especially men often don't seek advice, just to not cause a bother. Encourage anyone you know who might have diabetic symptoms to get a quick simple blood test from their doc.
(Coupon on my vid) Some symptoms of low/deficient vitamin d levels: fatigue, hair loss, dry skin, weak bones teeth and nails, thyroid problems, high blood pressure, respiratory infections that happen often, etc. Vitamin D usually isn’t included in yearly blood tests. Nearly 50% of Americans have low vitamin d levels, and many have no idea. Ask your doctor for a blood test order, and insist even if they tell you “it’s probably normal, you’re healthy.” (Like they told me when my levels were actually below 20). If they refuse, some labs will let you pay for the test without an order. If you don’t want to go to the lab in person, there are even ones they’ll send to your home like this:
I have seen what you have done here. It is a huge deal for avoiding diabetes. Vitamin D also is a huge help in avoiding another prevalent disease as of the last few years.
Thank you for this excellent posting, and for all your posts, Dr. Campbell. You are so very much appreciated. 💗
I thought my body would never be the same again, but you fixed it. My heartiest gratitude to you Dr Igudia for helping me cure my Hepatitis B Infection successfully.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and research with us all, and breaking it down to easily understandable language.
Amazing how more and more we are “discovering” that just getting proper nutrition can fix many of our health issues but our “healthcare” intisnt interested because it doesn’t make them money.
I was diagnosed diabetic and in three months with doing nothing but changing my eating completely reversed it. I am not even “pre diabetic”. My doctor couldn’t believe how drastic my change in numbers was and the first thing he asked me was “what did you do” when he walked in the room.
We live in a “sickness” industry not a “wellness” industry.
My physician (who is progressive) explained to me that (at least in the U.S.), a doctor's medical training may have focused on 'fixing' problems presented by the patient, not so much on preventing chronic illness. It may not be the doctor is purposely overlooking better solutions for their patients, but that it may be a deficiency in their medical training, not staying up to date, dealing with the pressures of running their clinic, not having enough time to spend with each patient, limitations on what tests they can order due to insurance limitations, and influence of the pharmaceutical companies. Some physicians practice 'functional' medicine, which may include using food (nutrients) as medicine, as mentioned recently by John, the nutraceutical approach.
1 in 30 sounds pretty good to me. 😊
And along with preventing diabetes, it’s cancer protective. Double win!
So well explained, it made more sense than when my doctor explained it to me. Thank you so much Sir.
Superb information presented by a talented and CARING physician! Thank you Doctor Campbell!
Great information! My aunt is going through pre-diabetes, and already changed her diet to zero carbs (but not carnivore, sadly).
Dr Cambell your videos are so informative,i am looking into taking a vitamin D supplement with k2 along with other supplements i feel i may be deficient of particularly B vitamins,omega 3,6,9 and a good probiotic,i will look forward to more of your videos and will post the results in due course.