Dr. Sanda Moldovan explains how vitamin D acts as an immunomodulator to enhance immune function. She recommends 5,000 IU daily for general use, suggests testing your levels at home with a fingertip blood spot, and notes optimal levels are 50-80. Natural sources include sun exposure, salmon, eggs, and mushrooms.
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Approximately 5,000 IU orally daily.
Approximately 50,000 IU (used as an example by oncologists).
50–80 (as measured on the speaker's referenced scale).
A blood-spot home test (fingertip drop on blotting paper); results typically within about one week.
Beverly Hills Dental Health and Wellness (the speaker offers to send a home blood-spot kit).
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Foreign I'm Dr. Sandhya. Welcome back to our boosting your immune system series. A lot of you are worried about what's going on in the world. Viral outbreaks, bacterial outbreaks. There's always going to be some sort of outbreak. That's why I put together this video series on things that you can do for yourself to make sure you're in top shape. The Institute of Functional Medicine put out a paper, nutraceuticals and botanical recommendations for patients. If you would like to see a full list of this, you can go to orasana.com and download a copy with their recommendations based on scientific evidence. And today I'd like to talk to you about vitamin D. And many of you have heard me talk about vitamin D before because it's such an important immunomodulator. What does that mean? It's, it really helps to boost your immune system in a big way. For example, if somebody's sick with cancer, an oncologist, typically the first thing they would do is test the vitamin D level for that patient and they would give a mega amount of vitamin D in order to help with the healing, such as 50,000 IUs. That's about 10 times as much as you would take on a daily basis. So for you, on a daily basis, the recommendation is fine, 5,000. I use orally daily. And the vitamin D not only enhances the immune system function, but it helps reduce the viral load, which is pretty amazing that, you know, a small supplement can do this for you. And vitamin D, of course, you can also take it from the sun. So actually sitting outside and soaking up sun rays, especially in the morning, you can get your adequate level of vitamin D just by being in the sun for, you know, half an hour or 40 minutes. Also vitamin D, you can find it in foods. Salmon, for example, eggs, mushrooms. There's a variety of foods that you can take vitamin D from. Also, of course, some of the dairy can be fortified with vitamin D. But the most important is you need to know your levels. We can't just take mega levels of vitamin D without actually knowing what our levels are. So what I recommend for you is to do a blood spot test test. And we have that available in our office in Beverly Hills. Dental Health and Wellness. And if you're interested in doing a blood spot test, we can send you a kit at home. Essentially, we need a drop of blood from your fingertip. You put on a blotting paper, you send it in, and we get your results within a week, usually. And they're very accurate. If your levels are low, then we know how much to give you in order to bring you to an optimal level. And what is an optimum level. Vitamin D is really between 50 and 80 as it's measured in our scale. If you have any other question about Vitamin D, please comment below. And don't forget to come back next week for another video on how to boost your immune system. See you next time. Hi, I'm Dr. Sandha. If you have any questions or comments or you'd like to see any videos, please mark them below. And don't forget to subscribe.
