Gary Brecka Body & Science Interview- Vitamin D3

And we're back with Body Science with Gary Brucka. Thank you so very much. And today we're going to talk about D3, the effects on our lives. I know that I'm taking D3 now. I do feel much better in the morning, which you mentioned in the article that you just wrote and that we just heard about. So tell us in your own words, why D3? Why should we be concerned about it and what is it doing for your patients?

Sure. I mean, vitamin D3, Robert, is arguably the most important vitamin in the entire human biome. And the reason why I say that is this is the only vitamin that a human being truly synthesizes. We synthesize vitamin D3 from cholesterol and sunlight. And the truth is most of us are just not getting enough sunlight. And in the absence of adequate sunlight, we don't convert enough cholesterol into vitamin D3 to have sufficient levels throughout our body. So what happens if we have deficient levels of vitamin D3 as half the world's population does, as half of the United States population does? Well, as our levels of begin to decrease, we have reduced capacity to transport calcium. And we transport calcium not only throughout the blood, but we transport calcium and deposit it into the bone. That's where you may hear me talk about from time to time. I talk about vitamin K2 in conjunction with vitamin D3, because you have vitamin D3, which is the calcium transport molecule, and then you have vitamin K2, which makes sure that the calcium gets deposited into the bone and not into the arteries. Arterial wall. Remember the arterial wall. If we deposit calcium into that wall, we get hardening of the arteries. And if our arteries harden, that's an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. So vitamin D3, synthesized by the human body, involved in a number of processes within the body, also acts like hormone. In fact, the majority of our cells have a receptor site for this vitamin D3 hormone. And in the absence of adequate levels, you get exacerbation of sympt, poor sleep, what they call poor waking energy. So you wake less rested than you went to bed. Sometimes you wake a little stiff, a little sore. You feel like you had a workout the day before, but you haven't really had a workout the day before. And in the morning, if it's ever, if your muscles and joints are just a little achy, creaky sore, you get out of bed, you have a little stiffness and achiness, maybe even some mild joint pain on your way to the bathroom for the first time. Takes a while to get the motor going. All of those are symptoms of clinically deficient vitamin D3. It's one of the easiest supplements to turn around to supplement with. We use a very high quality pharmaceutical grade vitamin D3. At Streamline, we put most of our patients on D3 supplements because it's one of those pharmaceutical grade supplements that just about everyone can use and they see rapid improvement in their response to exercise, healing, brain fog, things like their waking energy and their muscle stiffness and soreness. So vitamin D3 is critically important to our human biome.

Perfect. Well, Gary Beckett, thank you so very much. And we're looking forward to our next Body Science with you. Thank you so very much.

Robert, Glad to have glad to have you here.

Thank you.

Yep.