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Hi I’m Dr Daniel aan founder of brain MD and I am here with Dr Nicole Lavina our chief science officer uh who’s a neuroscientist trained at Princeton and rockfeller University so I think of vitamin D for Daniels that this is just critical and we found during the pandemic that people who had low levels really got hurt much more from covid and low levels of vitamin D are epidemic in the United States and throughout the world if your
Levels are low you’re more likely to have cognitive problems actually a brand new study that people who take Vitamin D supplements had 40% less r Des of cognitive decline it’s been shown um low levels higher incidents of depression brand new study in adolescence so vitamin D is absolutely
Essential for your brain for your immune system and your body you know I think one of the challenges that we’re seeing is that people don’t know if they’re deficient in vitamin D and that’s why it’s so important to get tested you have to ask your doctor test my vitamin D
Levels it’s so important because if you are deficient it’s a quick fix you can easily Rectify it the reason why so many people are deficient is because many people are just not able to readily absorb the vitamin D that they’re getting from the foods that we consume
That have vitamin D in them so even if you’re eating vitamin D fortified cereal or consuming dairy products that are fortified with Vitamin D it could be that your body simply isn’t able to absorb it also the sun the sun plays a big role and most of us are not in the
Sun enough to really get vitamin D or we’re lathered in sunscreen I often say the dermatologist one they made us afraid of the Sun and if you’re not getting enough Sun odds are you are vitamin D deficient and you you don’t want to be there’s one study out of UC
Sandy Diego that showed people who had a level over 40 so healthy is typically thought of as 30 to 100 people who had a level over 40 had half the risk of cancer of those who are under 20 and when I first tested my vitamin D level
And I live in Southern California where the sun’s out uh 330 days a year my level was 17 because I wasn’t out during the day I would exercise at night and so you need to get your level tested and then Optimized
