Excerpt from a YouTube interview titled 'The Other Side of Vitamin D Supplementation' featuring Dr. Sanda Moldovan in conversation. The speakers discuss that low-fat diets are counterproductive when vitamin D is low, emphasize the need for retinol obtainable via healthier dietary fats, and note that magnesium levels tend to be low (especially with inflammation), prompting a question about magnesium supplementation.
Go back to this low fat diet, because you're right, the low fat diet is a wrong approach to this. When the vitamin D is low, we need more intake of retinol. In order to get retinol, we need to incorporate healthier fats in our diet.
Absolutely. The other thing that's going to be low is magnesium. Is going to be low?
Yes.
Magnesium is always low when there's inflammation.
Do you recommend supplementation with magnesium?
Absolutely. 5 milligrams per pound body weight or 10 milligrams per kilo, depending upon what part of the world you're in. But magnesium, it's critically important for regulating energy, but also for responding to inflammation. But that's not taught in doctor school. Doctors think of inflammation as a disease, not a failed energy process.
