This is a YouTube video titled "Make Sure Your Doctor Tests THIS" created in December 2023, featuring Ask AI Mark discussing the importance of vitamin D in the body, its widespread deficiency among Americans, and the need for routine testing to prevent various health issues.
This is probably one of the most important biological compounds in your body because it affects so much. 70% of Americans have suboptimal levels, increasing the risk for cancer, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic muscle pain, bone loss, autoimmune diseases like MS and lots more. So what is vitamin D? It affects the gene expression of over a thousand genes that affect almost everything in your body. It's really hard to get enough from your diet. And unless you're running around half naked between 10 and two in the afternoon for half an hour every day, you're probably not going to get enough vitamin D. Where does conventional medicine miss the mark here? Well, first of all, it's not part of your routine lab test, and it needs to be. Everybody should get their vitamin D tested. So you want to make sure you detect this early because the longer you let it go, the longer it goes on in your life, the worse health outcomes you're going to.