Do you remember the few short years, back in the early 1920s when the medical establishment almost went bankrupt because people discovered something that improved their health so much that they didn’t need doctors? I don’t remember it either, because I‘m not that old, but the occurrence did happen and it’s been very well documented. The thing they discovered was Vitamin D, and here’s the story.
In 1913 scientists exposed cholesterol to full sun and discovered that it produces an unusual substance. When the substance was tested on people, it didn’t take much time to realize, this stuff was incredible because it quickly solved a massive number of historical health problems. The world was spilling over with people who had bad teeth, bone problems, skin problems, heart problems, kidney problems, sleep problems, nerve problems and a million other health problems, but for a brief few years nearly all of that went away.
Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin and your skin is very well equipped to manufacture large quantities of it. Some sources say your skin can make up to fifteen thousand IU’s per square inch per hour. This means your skin can produce hundreds of thousands of units per day, but this mechanism doesn’t work if obstructed by clothing or sunscreen.
This is why people were suffering so badly in the early 1900s. Back then people felt it was lewd to show skin other than the face and hands. Teeth problems, YES, everyone had them. Dentistry was a good trade no matter how inexperienced you were. Rickets was also common. Rickets is a disease in children where their bones are painful and soft and bend out of proportion. Rickets, as well as soft muscles, is directly caused by a deficiency in calcium and minerals, but the reason their bodies couldn’t get the calcium and minerals was because they didn’t have enough Vitamin D.
Sleep problems were also caused by this deficiency. People in factories commonly worked 12 - 16 hours per day, can you imagine how little sun they got! The exhaustion and sleep problems were unrelenting and people visited doctors and practitioners of all sorts looking for solutions. Lots of money was made selling drugs, potions and remedies, but nothing actually helped until Vitamin D.
Here’s how Vitamin D is made. Vitamin D in its active form is called Vitamin D3, and it’s made by the cholesterol in your skin when exposed to sunshine. Lanolin from sheep is mostly cholesterol and has been found to perfectly replicate the Vitamin D3 from your skin. That’s how they make supplements. Here’s the rest of the story...
By the early 1920’s most people in the US were taking a high dose supplement every day. It was cheap and sold everywhere and diseases of all kinds were disappearing. The only trouble was, the pharmaceutical industry was in full bloom, but it looked like this single Vitamin was going to take them down. The heads of the pharmaceutical companies got together in the mid 1920s and decided this must stop. They instigated propaganda across the nation that suggested Vitamin D was poisonous in all but the tiniest doses. They determined that 400IUs had little to no effect on the human body, so that was set as the standard. That standard has never been challenged and today 400units remains the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance). The propaganda worked perfectly and by the 1930s disease was back in force and doctors offices were full again.
Here’s how Vitamin D works in the body. The first thing Vitamin D does is instigate the absorption of Calcium through the intestinal wall into the blood stream. Calcium is the master mineral and allows our body’s to absorb all the other minerals on a cellular level. I’ll explain in a second. Without Vitamin D, we do not get calcium into the blood, no matter how biological it is. Calcium is the master mineral because it has a unique magnetism that causes all the other minerals to line up behind it in a rope-like effect. When the cells need nutrients and open their doors, the calcium pushes the ropes of nutrients into the cells. Without calcium, the cells will get a few random nutrients that are floating by, but there will be no rope-like concentrations. This calcium connection makes Vitamin D essential for the absorption of all minerals, and without it we become deficient. There’s more.
Dr. F. Batmanghelidj M.D, explains in his book “You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty” how important Vitamin D is for hydration. We’ve known this for years, but Dr. F.B goes into great detail explaining how we must have Vitamin D because it magnifies our calcium and mineral absorption by 20x, and how we must have those minerals to absorb water. Water is the only thing that carries nutrients into the cells and toxins out. If the water can’t get into the cells, it can’t detoxify them. Dr. F.B explains how we are not sick, we are toxic because we are dehydrated, and this is regardless of how much water you drink. You can drink ten gallons a day, but if you don’t have the minerals to carry it into the cells, your kidneys just process it and you pee it back out. Without Vitamin D, the minerals do not get where they need to be and neither does water!
Besides the physical symptoms of deficiency, there are also emotional symptoms. Vitamin D is called a vitamin because it is “Vital-to-man”, just like all vitamins, but in reality it is more of a hormone, and its utility is extremely important in the brain. Without it, mood swings, panic attacks, mental fatigue, depression and chronic fatigue are common. This is because Vitamin D is highly anti-inflammatory, and without it the brain can suffer. Brain inflammation is no joke! The brain’s ability to think clearly and function is drastically reduced when it’s under the influence of inflammation. Anything that helps reduce brain inflammation is a GOOD thing!!!
Here’s a few more interesting facts. Vitamin D is good for your cartilage, bones and muscles. The anti-inflammatory effect that helps your brain also helps everything else. Premature babies are nearly always born to mothers who are deficient in Vitamin D. There are places in the world called blue zones, and the people in these blue zones live the longest in the world. People in blue zones also have the highest levels of Vitamin D. Food sources of Vitamin D are, egg yolks from chickens that get sun, pork from well tanned pigs, beef and beef liver from grass fed cows and fatty fish such as salmon and mackerel. Plants do not make Vitamin D, except mushrooms, but they must be in the sun to do it.
Vitamin D is making a resurgence for the first time since the 1920s, but just like then, it’s already under attack from the pharmaceutical industry. Don’t let it happen to you. Learn more about Vitamin D and get yours today.
