This doctor is one of the few we can be unreservedly proud of. One of the very best.

Vitamin D deficiency also made worse by the "Skin Cancer" scaremongering.

@sharonlasper8999

2 ай бұрын

No its not unfortunately

I am utterly depressed by PHARMA's profit-over-health choke-hold on humanity. Severely deficient after 2 decades carbamazepine Rx, my new doc finally tested & dx'd me a year before Covid. But the thin-person protocol of 5,000IU/day after wimpy preloading failed to get my low-D obesity even sufficient! My deep research informed a quadrupling for my BMI=44 body. I luckily reached 54ng/ml (135nmol/L) before unluckily catching Delta, NEARLY ASYMPTOMATIC! I could easily have died at 6ng. I made no other change than the 20,000IU/day D3 supplementation. Now painless & fully disappeared-severe depression, I successfully began Keto/IF. I've so far lost 75pounds, just 50 left to return to my bicycle-racing weight! Thank you, Dr. Grimes😘 (No one needed to die of Covid😠)

@Yukon33

Жыл бұрын

A+ Elise. Good job finding this info!

@taylorashtondavis

Жыл бұрын

This is incredible. I shudder to think of my D levels when I got Delta. Scary symptoms at only 30 years old. Definitely have long haul Covid symptoms that I hope can be ameliorated by supplementation. I’ve been trying to get D levels back by sun exposure alone but this presentation and your comment have me seriously considering getting levels up by any means necessary.

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorashtondavis There is zero chance you can do it by sun exposure, especially in Britain in winter. You’re making a good choice to supplement! Don’t forget the K2 along with the D3 though-keeps calcium from ending up in arteries instead of bones, which is kind of important.

The hospital where I work gave us cookies, candy and ice cream to encourage and thank us for our work. Good food and sun weren’t suggested at all. Thanks so much for this message. Well done!

@porkpie2884

Жыл бұрын

Predictable for hospitals to support a diet that fills up their wards

@sue.F

Жыл бұрын

It’s ironic isn’t it! Recovering in hospital they give you an equally unhealthy sugar-laden diet and the hospital based dieticians (when you’re lucky enough to see one) aren’t exactly up to date either.

@kathym6603

Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine a world where good health practices were actually encouraged?

@thelandsavior402

Жыл бұрын

The hospital knowledge are so broke

Strong argument for D3, 4000 iu each day each adult. Thanks.

my kind of Doctor , a true gem and with all the medical care in his voice. what have we done round the world in the madness and fraudulence that has gone on. I have no faith in the NHS. and never will again. whereever I can I pay for medical advice from recommendation and personal gut feeling at consultation, if I dont like them I dont go back. Best of all I read and listen to the Dr Grimes of this world and try to follow the sound advice.

In Christchurch NZ in the 1950's our parents gave us cod liver oil, "...to make us healthy." This was not well received by most of us kids, although I did not mind it. So I have always been strange! Later, perhaps around 1958, we were switched to malt, a substance that looked and felt like chassis grease, but probably tasted better. We were all healthy. I cannot imagine parents giving this to their kids today, but perhaps some do. How come parents knew to do this and how did later parents unlearn the benefits?

@TteokbokkiNari

Жыл бұрын

My mom also said she was given cod liver oil when she was younger and it was known to be beneficial for their health.

@moiragoldsmith7052

Жыл бұрын

Malt AND cod liver oil mixture. I remember it! We were also given on occassions homemade Rosehip syrup and Elderberry syrup.... and plenty of fresh air. Big pHARMa has vilified and down graded most natural remedies for nefarious reasons no doubt. They were safe deterrents.

There is a mish-mash of vitamin D information out there. Now I see how incomplete most recommendations are. This video is a gold mine of trustworthy information.

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

It really is. One thing to mention: You really do need to take Vitamin K2 along with the D3. I didn’t find this out until early 2022. This is relatively recent research as research goes, but it seems the K2 keeps calcium going to your bones where it should be going instead of to your artery walls where it should not. The jury is somewhat out on the best D3/K2 ratio, but some D3 supplements are sold in a combination pill with K2. You should do your own research because I’m no expert-just thought you should know.

I was in horrible health and my life in shambles during 2019. At the beginning of 2020, I decided to try to get back on my feet and turn my life around. I first started with simple steps. My first step was to start taking some multivitamins as my diet was extremely monotone and unhealthy. I remembered that my previous visit to a doctor back in 2017, I was told that I was very deficient in vitamin D. So when I bought some multi-vitamins, I also bought a vitamin B complex and a 5000 unit version of vitamin D. A few months later, I got Covid due to irresponsible roommates. It was bad. Headaches, fever where I would sweat even sitting naked with a fan blowing on me, and it hurt to breathe anything deeper than a very shallow breath. I was suffering from severe depression and there was no way I was going to leave that room beyond getting a groceries delivery. I was going to get better or die. All of the overt symptoms disappeared in about three weeks. Honestly, I think it was taking those vitamins was what countered my terrible health at the time. I remember later reading/watching someone talking about the importance of vitamin D especially in the relation to Covid. I feel I got lucky due to a comment of a VA doctor that I had seen years before. Thank you for giving this information a wider audience.

@kathym6603

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your report. That was a close call you went through!!

@amandaaussie-at-heart2735

Жыл бұрын

Hope you're better now @Little Potato - one gets covid because one isn't healthy and with poor immunity ! it's not to do with others, even those with covid or coughing / sneezing etc. Many people don't realise how deficient in nutrients they are, especially vegetarians and vegans and people eating take away food, fast food and processed food.

An overwhelm of common sense!💜 Thank you Dr Grimes.

Here is my *N=1 experience of stopping Vitamin D* . I am a 64 year old female in Australia, it is currently winter and I don't go outside much. In October 2021 I started low carb diet and reversed my diabetes in 3 months as well as losing a lot of weight and other improvements. I didn't get my Covid vaccination until August/October 2021 and never caught it. Early in May 2022 I stopped taking my Vitamin D supplement 1000iu. I've been taking this for 12+ years and hardly even been sick with a cold or flu. Three weeks after stopping my Vit D I caught a flu (2 PCRs were negative as was 1 Flu A/B). I was nearly recovered after 4 weeks and then caught a head cold. Two days after getting the cold I heard online about Vit D being needed for the immune system so I restarted my Vit D at 4000iu. I ended up having the cold for just over 3 weeks.

@porkpie2884

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget to take Vit K2 along with D3 -- 200ug of K2 for every 4000IU of D3

@onthedeschutes

Жыл бұрын

Curious why you stopped taking the vitamin D. Care to offer any detail on that?

@TteokbokkiNari

Жыл бұрын

@@porkpie2884 Magnesium is also very useful. 😊

@mikefahey6606

Жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised I'm male age 77. About 16 years ago (and for a few years before) I was diagnosed with osteopenia. My doc prescribed Actonel (later Fosamax) for about a year. I had marginal improvement in bone density but ALSO SIDE EFFECTS. I was still in osteopenic range but by then had researched vit D. I told my doc I was stopping Act & Fos but was supplementing 4009iu vit D AND rhat no DEXA scans for 2 years. I also asked for vit D blood test 1/year with goal >=50

@olafstorbeck4777

Жыл бұрын

@@porkpie2884 +1 ...you can't put to much emphasis on this....

Back in the late 1940s in Australia babies were given ten minutes in the sun each day, unclothed where possible ‘to prevent rickets’.

I became VERY ill in response to the vaccine: shaking with chills, a fever of 103, extreme dizziness ... That was just to the vaccine. A bit later my blood work showed my vitamin D at an extremely low level (US unit - blood work indicated 8.5 whereas "normal" is 20 - 40). *I think the pandemic contributed to poor D levels for lots of people. We were working from home and cautioned about going out and about. Great work Dr. Grimes. TY

@dmackle3849

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Local to me; mRNA 4@$free (except undisclosed taxpayer$ -> pharma-colonialism , MSMedia, shill Dr) or Vitamin D status test 1@$65, no subsidy. It’s not about health.

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for your diligent research into this critical vitamin. The human body is so amazing.

Night shifter hear; 5000 iu daily and then I stop it when I know I'll get some consistent sun. Keeps me between 50 and 80 ng/ml

Thank you.

If only the medical profession had attacked C19 in a logical scientific way.

Wonderful Dr. I remember reading his book "Vitamin D and Cholesterol: The Importance of the Sun" many years ago. I am sure vit D helped me have a mild case on Covid in 2020.

Very interesting. I live in Maryland. I take the 10,000iu a day with K2.

Thank you from Michigan Dr Grimes.

I remember in Match 2020 a top professor was literally cut off Sky news for saying most of the country was vitamin D deficient. I knew the importance of vitamin D as i had a deficiency in it around 7/8 years ago. I got my elderly parents to start taking it ( which was hard as they were set in their ways) They take it to this day, 4 years later. I requested my vitamin D blood test all them year's ago and it wasn't a problem. Now you cant request it. Now i know why. Thankyou Dr Grimes you are a rockstar!!! However im coming to the end of a virus so when i went to see the Dr i asked for a test again ( it was literally this week) I did get a funny look and a question " Why" . Because its super important regarding a virus i told him. He has giving ne one now. Dont give up asking asking for a test!! Thankyou for everything you have done. I really appreciate all this knowledge.

Excellent overview and very well delivered presentation. I learned a lot, thank you!

Indeed it’s so sad a situation that no effort from any government departments educating their people on simple and very affordable strategies like supplementing with vitamin D3.

@tomunderwood4283

Жыл бұрын

They were either ignorant or under control of those who profited from the jabs.

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

You would almost think that governments didn’t want their citizens to weather such illnesses well.

Excellent, informative video Dr Grimes. Thank you

i was taking 8,000 iu's a day and manged to get my vit d level checked by a doctor, he sent me a letter a week later saying my vitamin d level was "un-remarkable" i immediately increased the dosage.

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

Take K2 with the D3. Just research it a bit.

I got my first covid 19 in November 2019..when officially it wasn't in England..what a cytotoxic virus..doctors were baffled. I looked at research online and started taking D3.magnesium and calcium..it took almost 18 months to recover from the long covid but I'm sure that if I had not supplemented I wouldn't be here to tell this. I couldn't do any exercise for around a year ..when I started feeling better and had more blood tests the results were noticeable to me but shrugged off by medical practitioners..at one point early on my blood pressure was around 240/130 ..wow !! I contracted the virus twice more but was just like a bad cold..I'm definitely an advocate for supplementing and advise people I know to do the same..on another note I am now eating an animal based diet..avoiding all oils and carbs definitely no fruit and honey ..I feel awesome and am looking forward to my blood test tomorrow..which the nurse has said that I will die if I continue eating this way !! I have sent her many research questions and links to low carb down under and many more ..this man is right to stick to his guns 🔫 first rule of the hipocaitic oath...first do no harm..which if the medical establishment is withholding information that can save life .they are very guilty..along with complicit negligence funded by big pharmaceutical companies 🤔 maybe. I'm 60 years old and want to stick around a lot longer jut to be a thorn in their side 💪

Do you self a favour and spend some money on a couple of vit d blood tests. One before starting your regiment and then one after each season to find out how many units you need to take in the summer and then in the winter to reach 40-60ng/ml throughout the year. Start with the doses he suggested. A bit lower in the summer if you are outside a lot. Repeat the tests in coming years to check your dose.

beautiful layed out , nice explanation.

Thank you, Dr Grimes & @Low Carb Down Under. Listening from Australia. Well done !

This was awesome - thank you so much !

I think that when losing weight a lot (e.g. by starting keto), your 25 blood level can go up significantly. So don't take that level as your baseline, but check it regularly before and after the summer.

Very useful info Dr Grimes....thank you!

Thank you Dr Grimes

Thank you very much for this valuable insight Dr.

Thank you very much Dr Grimes!

Good presentation, Dr. Grimes.

So nice I listened twice. Pure gold information

In your "Vitamin D Talk" from around December, 2023, you showed a bar-graph of data taken from Israel where all the critically-ill people had very low vitamin D levels. I thought that was very important for people to know. Can you provide any more data regarding that study --how many people were involved, when it was prepared, etc...? And did any other countries do a similar analysis?

Thank you for a insightful and engaging presentation :)

Wow really informative thank you so much

Thank you Doctor for sharing this information about Vitamin D

Well done, thanks

Thank you for this informative talk

I'm taking 3 vitamin D tablets... and vitamins can and e and b complex and zinc. Despite being an extremely close contact three times. I have not caught covid. I go out on the sun for 10 minutes every day that is sunny. I attribute this to the vitamin d

Fascinating. In Australia a recent study being widely reported also states no benefit from vitamin d for immunity.

@onthedeschutes

Жыл бұрын

Find out who funded the study...dollars to donuts it was big pharma.

@paranoidandroid9825

Жыл бұрын

Natural remedies are forbidden.

@elinmansson5535

Жыл бұрын

Yeah If this was true everybody in Queensland would be super healthy and we know this is not true lol

Good one Doc 👍

Outstanding!!!!!

I was looking for an excuse to eat prawns three times a day.

Excellent!

Thank you!

Thank you 👍

thx you

VitD3, ivomec far to cheap to be used...

what role does blood type play in covid severity?

Thank you Dr. Grimes for your commonsense advice.

Sign me up for the guerrilla war! Thank you Dr. David Grimes.

The biohacker is tanned all year around. I am poor and live 1000km south from the arctic circle. Do you know that NIR is beneficial in itself and it can be obtained even in winter. You just need the will to loose those clothes when it is sunny ;) Cool, huh?

I was in Clitheroe today ;^)

Serum D levels are part of routine blood work in the UK and over a third of patients are found to be deficient, many acutely. That's according to accepted thresholds which are arguably too low and the number of people who are acutely and or chronically deficient is much higher, IOW it might be practically an epidemic.

If someone dismisses the importance of Vit D, then ask them "What is the origin of black and white people?" or ask them "Why black people who moved from Africa to Europe millions years ago became white?" I'm sure they won't be able to answer it, meaning their opinion on Vit D is meaningless.

I think you mean eating fish three time a week, not three times a day. That's a bit much, even the Inuit. 😏

Does anyone know how i can contact dr.grimes? Im doing research and need help

tan at 10-14h when uvb is active

I find the "Google" warning, on this video, to be insulting to this gentleman. It highlights what's actually happening to someone who has spent their life helping others, and how they are treated and targeted by big tech/big pharma. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, how much experience you have, these "people" need you to conform, don't question authority, and bend the knee to your technocratic elite overlords. Vitamin D3 is cheap, available from foods alone, there's no big-pharma profit in that. Blackrock, Vanguard, et al. don't want you to listen to this or spread this information. Can you imagine major media outlets showing this kind of information and data? If you said "No", then you already know it's not about your health or saving lives.

@onthedeschutes

Жыл бұрын

Google is evil. Sadly here we both are.

@paranoidandroid9825

Жыл бұрын

I said NO to the CONTRACT. To free yourself stop putting your name on paper we operate in CONTRACT LAW.

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.

Is it bad if you have 110 ng/ml for a 60 year old female?

@grahamsmith17466

Жыл бұрын

Wow! That's pretty high. A very good level, in my humble opinion. What is your daily dose, just out of interest?

So what’s recomanded for overweight white male of 100kg ? Not sure I got it right

👏👏👏

Are you talking in International Units when you say Units? You said you take 20,000 units every Sunday. Do you mean international units (iu) it's just when you buy Vitamin D is says ie. 1000iu I want to be sure.

@michaelwhite5255

2 ай бұрын

He is taking 20.000 IU, which is about 3000 IU a day. That is a sensible amount.

Does vit-d make you healthy, or does being healthy help you make the finished vit-d?

@bother2adapt

Жыл бұрын

Keep your D3 level about 60 - it's protective to your health.

He was rather optimistic regarding the end of the pandemic, notwithstanding, his advice on vitamin D still stands.

The two diseases mentioned by the doctor, TB and the other which I will not name because my post will be deleted, are both known to be much more contagious in confined spaces, i.e. indoors. The doctor concludes the higher rates of infection are due to insufficient Vitamin D rather than being exposed to the diseases in confined spaces. The most recent ABC Health Report (1 August 2022) had a segment from a US professor discussing a large study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) which found no benefit from Vitamin D supplementation. The accompanying NEJM editorial also referred to other studies showing no benefit (in the absence of established deficiency).

@Gumbatron01

Жыл бұрын

Was this study that you mention the LeBoff study?, I'm not entirely sure what study you are referring to, but that was the only one that I found mentioned in media reports around that time. However, that study looked at the effects on fractures and bone strength. I have not yet been able to find a link to the actual underlying study though, so it is difficult to determine anything further from it in terms of their methodology or any potential conflicts that might exist. Surprise surprise, some pharmaceutical companies who make billions of dollars are willing to fund and publish research that paints cheap, off patent drugs as ineffective. In terms of Vitamin D as a prophylactic for COVID infection, and the impact on Vitamin D levels on the severity of COVID infections, there have been several studies. For example: Pre-infection 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and association with severity of COVID-19 illness, by Dror et al. Which showed a distinct decrease in severity of COVID infections as Vitamin D levels increased, this effect was more pronounced in older cohorts and suggestive of an ideal blood level of around 50ng/ml, well above the "deficiency" level of

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

The thing is-almost everyone (well, several years ago, it was 70-80%) in the U.S. was deficient in D when Covid hit, tho the percentage is probably somewhat better now. So … “no benefit [to Vit D] (in the absence of established deficiency)”-yet there are so many international studies demonstrating the proven benefit of higher D levels in good Covid outcomes. As to my own experience of deficiency, about 10 or 12 years ago my doctor included a Vitamin D level in my routine blood testing and discovered mine was 21. She put me on a prescription form of D and brought it up-to what, I don’t know, because I wasn’t that interested at the time. I am blonde to the point that I can’t tan but I’ve had some memorable burns trying to do so, and therefore I now usually shield myself from the sun during the hottest part of the day. So, I really have to use supplements. When my D level was 21, I was to all outward appearances healthy, energetic, with a “normal” American diet (maybe slightly healthier since I hated fast food), took supplements occasionally, and you wouldn’t think my D level would be that low. I was one of many such Americans, oblivious to D as a health marker. My most recent D level was in the 80s, and my doctor was pleased. Insurance companies are still pretty stingy with Vitamin D-level testing. I requested it in spring 2021 off-schedule (BCBS) and it was going to be around $200 extra though it’s not supposed to be an expensive test to perform. I got it done elsewhere than a multi-specialty clinic -independent labs tend to be less costly, which is something to keep in mind.

SAGE and NICE … how inappropriately named.

Take Vit D!!!

sorry to say it mate but the govornment don't wat tohear that.

Sorry just not evidence of causation here. Lovely man (fellow Dr. In UK) but could be all sorts of explainations. Toxicity was common on my intensive care unit during covid where a few had dangerous calcium levels. Sun does other things such as Nitric oxide production - vit D may just be a marker etc etc

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

K2 is also important when you take D3. Helps calcium get to the bones.

Vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency is not significantly linked to susceptibility to COVID-19 infection. Reference: Low vitamin D levels do not aggravate COVID-19 risk or death, and vitamin D supplementation does not improve outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a meta-analysis and GRADE assessment of cohort studies and RCTs (BMC, Oct 2021)

@willsee9742

Жыл бұрын

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34719404/

@globaloutreach7523

Жыл бұрын

Quoting/referencing info from the same folks that brought you “Two weeks to stop the spread”???

@annap7678

Жыл бұрын

Conflicts of interest of authors of those cohort studies and RCTs??? There is a lot of dissembling out there in research communities these days and a lot of money transfers.

Vit D is awesome for us, but the C thing doesn't even exist....

OMG, so much nonsense here.

@ryandavis6660

Жыл бұрын

Might you say some more ?

He said about 500 million years ago a complex protein called vdr exploded on the scene. Really. I thought it was 500 kabllion years ago at the very least. I have to draw the line here. I'm out. Vitamin D is important. That's all you need to know. Eat the meat and throw out the bones.