Participants: Don Mackintosh, Tim Arnott
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000135
00:46 Hi, my name is Don Mackintosh
00:48 and you're watching "Health for a Lifetime" 00:49 We're glad that you've joined us. 00:51 Today we're going to be talking about something that's 00:53 very important - it's SUNLIGHT! 00:56 Do you get enough sunlight? 00:58 What do you know about sunlight? 00:59 Joining us to talk about this interesting subject 01:02 is Dr. Tim Arnott 01:04 Dr. Arnott is a physician who is 01:07 trained in family practice family medicine, 01:09 but also has really spent a lot of time in preventive medicine. 01:12 He's a physician at the Lifestyle Center in Oklahoma, 01:15 and Dr. Arnott, what do they do there at the Lifestyle Center? 01:18 Well, we take individuals most 01:21 oftenly they have diabetes type 2, 01:24 or they might have heart disease, high blood pressure, 01:27 maybe they are concerned about their weight, 01:29 they may have arthritis and they're looking for 01:32 another answer; they are looking for a better option 01:34 than what they've had in the past, 01:35 and so they come to us and we specialize in 01:38 teaching individuals how to remove the cause, 01:40 the underlying cause of their disease, 01:42 so that these problems get better. 01:44 And, it's very exciting work, we see people get better. 01:48 They lose weight, they're on less medicine... 01:51 It's just exciting work. 01:53 That's a beautiful facility! 01:54 I've been out there, I've seen your facility. 01:55 It's right there, kind of on the top of a mountain there 01:58 in the - I think it's the Arbuckle Mountains. 02:03 If you haven't been, you should be... come see us! 02:06 Right there on the top of that, one of the big things 02:08 I noticed is the sunlight. Absolutely! 02:10 Maybe this is why you got interested in this subject. 02:13 You know I think it's one of the reasons we're in Oklahoma 02:14 because we have SO MUCH sunlight. 02:16 Why is sunlight so important? 02:19 Well, you know, there is an epidemic in this country 02:22 of weight in excess. 02:26 We have 60% of the American population that is either 02:29 overweight or obese and that number is growing, 02:32 and there's also an epidemic of depression in this country - 02:36 and those 2 are interrelated! 02:38 And if you're feeling down, if you're feeling discouraged, 02:41 one of the ways you can pick yourself up is by eating. 02:44 And, individuals may not realize that we have turned 02:49 in this country in order to deal with depression - to medications 02:52 Medications that RAISE serotonin levels, 02:55 and that's, of course, a neurotransmitter chemical 02:59 in the brain that improves our mood... makes us feel better! 03:02 It improves our sense of well-being. 03:04 Dr. Lambert and his colleagues 03:07 at the Baker Heart Research Center in Australia 03:11 have actually discovered something very interesting 03:13 and that is if you get out into the sunlight on a bright day, 03:18 you will actually raise your serotonin level 8 times higher 03:23 than if you were standing out in a dull day. 03:28 And so they've discovered, we can go to our first graphic.. 03:31 it shows this quite graphically there. 03:33 You can see what your serotonin production level would be, 03:37 and it's very interesting - they actually took a catheter 03:40 and they put it in the jugular vein that drains the brain; 03:44 the blood coming right out of the brain. 03:46 See, they've done studies... So right in here - 03:48 Right in here. They've done studies where 03:50 they take the blood out of the vein 03:53 in your antecubital vein in your arm, 03:55 and they didn't see any major differences 03:58 in serotonin levels between going out and being in a 04:00 bright day and being out in a dull day, 04:02 but when they measured the blood coming right out of the brain, 04:06 they saw an 8-fold difference. 04:08 Now, here's the point... most of us spend 04:10 nearly all of our time where? Inside! 04:14 INSIDE - we're not even out in a DULL day! 04:16 We're inside an artificial lighting which is about 04:20 100 to 250 lux and it's 10,000 lux outside, 04:25 and it could be a maximum of 100,000 lux on a bright day 04:30 on a beach outside. 04:31 Lux is being I guess the weight. The intensity of the light. 04:35 And so we're in a dark environment basically most of 04:39 our adult life and our serotonin production is suppressed 04:44 essentially chronically. 04:45 They also discovered that the light intensity 04:50 in the wintertime is not nearly what it is in the summer. 04:53 And when they tested these serotonin levels 04:56 between winter and summer light exposure 04:59 7- fold greater serotonin production in your brain 05:03 in the summer versus the winter. 05:05 So, we should all move to Florida! 05:08 Well we should get outside more! 05:10 In fact, most individuals who are working 05:13 probably have a 15 minute break some time in their morning 05:17 and some time in their afternoon, 05:19 and basically, what you want to do is get outside 05:23 and get the bright intensity light. 05:26 Some people are worried about skin cancer. 05:29 You really don't have to be concerned about that 05:30 because this is light through the EYE that's important. 05:33 Okay, so instead of having a Prozac attack, so to speak, 05:37 even though there is a place for medication 05:40 I'm sure with depression, maybe one of the best things 05:42 you're saying - one of the reasons sunlight is important 05:45 is because it can help us be less depressed, 05:49 and it can help us have a sense of well-being as well. 05:55 What happens to the brain if I am indoors almost all the time? 05:59 Well, I mean, it just feeding off this last issue... 06:03 When you're indoors all of the time, 06:05 your serotonin levels are going to be chronically suppressed. 06:10 Your serotonin levels are going to be much lower, 06:15 maybe an 8, maybe a 7 of what they could be 06:19 or even LOWER and so your need for medication is 06:22 going to be elevated. 06:24 There is going to be MORE people who are going to be 06:25 ...for example, "SAD" which is seasonal affective disorder 06:30 which we usually think about as being up in the 06:32 northeast and those kind of states - 06:34 BUT, individuals who are depressed through the 06:37 winter months but this something that is a 06:39 major problem - more of a subclinical level, 06:44 maybe it's not being diagnosed but many people are 06:46 depressed in their mood because they are just 06:49 not getting the sunlight that they need. 06:51 When is the best time to be outside? 06:52 Well you know, studies have shown that the BEST time 06:55 to be outside is the first thing in the morning. 06:57 What you want to do... 06:58 I think you have a graphic on this too - don't you? 07:00 Yes, actually we can go to a graphic. 07:02 One of the BEST times to be outside is 07:05 the first thing in the morning. Early in the morning! 07:07 Because one of the things that you want to do... 07:09 Because the sun is out right then - Exactly! 07:10 The sun is out and your body actually has a circadian rhythm 07:15 and it takes cues from the sun in order to get that 07:20 circadian rhythm... So when it sees the sun, 07:21 it says, time to be on the run. Exactly! 07:25 And one of the things that is important, 07:26 you have a gland deep in the brain called the "pineal gland" 07:29 This gland makes the melatonin. 07:32 Melatonin has important benefits as an antioxidant, 07:36 but it also gives you that groggy, sleepy sensation 07:40 that you want at night, but you don't want that 07:42 during the day - you want to SHUT OFF melatonin 07:45 during the day and the WAY you shut it off is you get 07:47 bright intensity light into your eyes 07:50 ESPECIALLY first thing in the morning. 07:52 On your graphic, there's probably another thing here 07:55 as we are looking at that, what's the next thing? 07:57 Spend more time outside! That needs to become a habit! 08:04 Because the only way that you can get the INTENSITY of light 08:09 that you need to BOOST your serotonin level... 08:11 And by the way, serotonin levels go up IMMEDIATELY 08:14 as soon as you're out in that bright sunlight. 08:17 So IMMEDIATELY when you're out there, 08:19 I mean, the benefits just begin right then! 08:21 Absolutely, and in fact, as our next graphic will show, 08:25 if you're short on time and if you're a busy person 08:30 working in an office, all you need to do is to go out 08:34 when the sunlight is MOST intense. 08:37 And that's when people are worried... 08:38 They say - Hey, wait a minute, if I go out when the sun 08:39 is real intense, I'm going to get skin cancer. 08:41 But this is talking about light through the eyes. 08:44 You don't have to have light on the skin. 08:46 You can have your hands covered, arms covered, 08:50 legs covered - as long as your eyes are exposed to the 08:53 bright intensity light there right around 10 08:55 That doesn't mean look at the sun though, right? 08:57 Oh, absolutely not, absolutely not. 08:59 It means just outside... That's right, just outside, 09:01 and your brain will actually be stimulated by 09:05 the intensity of the light. 09:06 Can I raise brain serotonin levels without going outside? 09:10 Well, you know, there are some individuals who may not 09:13 be able to get outside. 09:15 You know, their JOB or their living situation 09:18 may not permit it, or, in fact, they may live 09:21 so far north that they're just not able to 09:24 get the intensity... for example in the wintertime, 09:27 that they need... 09:28 And what you can do is, you can get a light box 09:30 and these are full-spectrum lights or they may actually 09:35 be a blue light wave and the 09:38 blue light wave, around the 400 nanometer wave length 09:42 is actually MOST effective at 09:44 shutting off melatonin production. 09:47 And so, you only need about 20 or 30 minutes 09:50 in about 2-3 feet away from a light box 09:53 and you could actually get the SAME benefits to the brain 09:57 as you would with the bright sunlight. 10:01 It will raise serotonin, it will shut off 10:04 melatonin... Why would I want to shut off melatonin? 10:06 I've heard that's good for you. 10:07 Well during the day you want to shut it off 10:09 so at night you have a nice higher amount of melatonin 10:14 so you're sleeping better and you have all of the good things 10:18 that melatonin does at night but during the day, 10:21 you want serotonin raised and so you have the mood 10:24 and elevating effects of that. 10:27 So, do you have one of these lights? 10:28 Do you have to use this or in Oklahoma you have enough sun? 10:33 Well actually, I do have a light box that I do use 10:38 because much of our work is indoors, 10:42 and sometimes we're just not able to get outside, 10:44 but it's actually probably helpful to do both 10:48 because some days you may be able to get out, 10:51 some days you may not be able to get out. 10:52 But by and large, the very best way to get sunlight 10:56 is just to sneak outside at every opportunity 10:59 because there is fresh air out there as well. 11:00 So I have a friend that basically what he does 11:03 right after lunch, is he and his wife always 11:06 go for a little brief walk right after lunch. 11:08 It's probably the most intense time of sunlight, 11:12 plus he doesn't want to lay down after he eats, 11:15 and he just goes out... Is that a good time? 11:17 Absolutely! I think you're talking about Dr. George Guthrie 11:19 I've seen him out there after meals 11:21 at the Lifestyle Center of America 11:23 going around the top of the hill, as you mentioned earlier, 11:26 lots of sunlight - that's an excellent thing to do. 11:30 There was one of our coworkers, myself and he actually 11:33 did 15 minutes in the morning, 15 minutes in the afternoon. 11:38 I tell ya, when you get done, that 15 minute walk 11:42 out and your looking up into the blue heavens, 11:45 and just walking outside, you will FEEL the surge 11:49 of serotonin in your brain. 11:50 You can actually feel the difference - it's amazing! 11:53 I feel like we should just go out right now. 11:55 I mean, here we are with these lights all around us. 11:58 Is this giving us serotonin? 12:01 Is this helping us, these camera lights and all that stuff? 12:03 Most lighting indoors is not nearly intense enough. 12:07 Unless you buy a full-spectrum light that's 10,000 lux, 12:12 and that's being within 2 feet or 3 feet away from it, 12:17 you're just not going to get the 12:19 serotonin boost that you really need. 12:21 So pray for the people at 3ABN, 12:22 they're not getting the light they need. 12:24 They're sharing the light but they're not getting 12:26 enough of the physical light, perhaps... 12:28 Well it's a common problem and all of us have to work on 12:32 ways of getting out there because this is critical. 12:35 We were MADE to be outside. 12:37 The Creator designed us not only to eat a high carbohydrate diet, 12:42 and fiber rich diet but also He designed us to be in the light. 12:46 Okay, we've been talking with Dr. Tim Arnott. 12:49 We've been talking about sunlight. 12:51 Let's summarize that just before we go to our break. 12:53 What again have we learned? 12:55 Let's just summarize briefly. 12:56 One of the MOST important things that we have learned is that 12:59 MANY PEOPLE ARE SUFFERNG FROM DEPRESSION 13:03 because they have depressed serotonin levels, 13:06 and one of the MAJOR ways that you could RAISE serotonin 13:10 7- fold, 8-fold minimally is to get out in the bright sunlight. 13:15 We've been talking with Dr. Tim Arnott 13:18 He is a physician at the 13:20 Lifestyle Center of America in Oklahoma. 13:22 He helps people ALL day with different diseases, 13:26 Western diseases - one of which is overweight and depression. 13:29 We've talked about the connection between that 13:31 and getting out in the sunlight. 13:33 Well, if you can pop your head out for a couple of seconds, 13:35 then come back in for the second half of the program 13:37 do that - we hope you join us when we come back. 13:41 Have you found yourself wishing 13:42 that you could shed a few pounds? 13:44 Have you been on a diet for most of your life, 13:46 but not found anything that will really keep the weight off? 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15:25 Well you know, when we were living in Iowa, 15:27 my wife and I had a small garden and we were growing some corn. 15:32 You know, Iowa is known for its TALL corn. 15:34 Well our garden was actually shaded in part; 15:38 50% of it was totally shaded, 15:41 and then there was less and less shade. 15:42 Well we grew this corn and you could actually SEE 15:45 what corn was getting the most sunlight by how tall it was. 15:49 And the corn that was shaded the most was VERY short, 15:52 and one of the things, of course, that green plants need 15:57 is they need the sunlight hitting those electrons 16:01 there in the green pigments of the plant creating energy 16:05 for that plant so the plant can 16:07 grow and develop and become tall. 16:09 Children need calcium in order to build the strong bones 16:14 ...those long bones, the femur bone in the leg 16:17 that are actually going to help that child be nice and tall. 16:20 The way the child gets that calcium into their body 16:24 is through the assistance of a hormone vitamin D 16:29 Vitamin D is actually a hormone that goes and it reaches the 16:34 intestine of your body and it stimulates the formation 16:38 of a protein and that protein reaches out 16:41 and it binds the calcium in the food 16:44 that you've just eaten and pulls it in. 16:45 But if you don't have enough vitamin D, 16:48 you're NOT going to make enough of that protein 16:50 and the calcium is going to go on past and out of your body 16:53 rather than getting into the body. 16:55 So vitamin D becomes very important for growing children. 16:59 And, of course, vitamin D is made in the skin 17:03 as light hits the skin, hits cholesterol in the skin, 17:07 and changes it by a 2- step process into vitamin D 17:11 So just like those green plants didn't really grow 17:14 if they didn't have sun, so your children really won't 17:17 have the strong bones and won't really grow 17:19 and have the calcium they need unless they're in the SUN! 17:22 We have a resurgence of a disease in this country 17:24 called "rickets" 17:26 Rickets is a disease of the bones of children. 17:29 They don't form properly, they are deformed. 17:32 And actually, the very first cesarean section 17:37 was done and it was developed because women had 17:42 abnormally shaped pelvises because they weren't 17:45 getting enough vitamin D and so they had a form of rickets... 17:49 And so they had these abnormal pelvises and they had to do 17:52 the first C-section or deliver a child 17:54 through that abnormal bony structure. 17:56 So the first C-section was done 17:58 because there wasn't enough vitamin D 18:00 That's exactly right! People weren't getting 18:02 enough sunlight and it's happening all over again today 18:06 for a number of different reasons... 18:08 But first of all, there is a resurgence of interest in 18:12 vegetarianism, plant-based diets. 18:14 Many people are reaching out for plant diets, 18:17 and they're getting off of dairy products. 18:19 Well one of the major reasons that we don't have 18:23 vitamin D deficiency in this country 18:25 is because of the D in milk. 18:27 So if you LEAVE dairy products behind, 18:30 but you don't pick up a source of vitamin D 18:32 somewhere along the way, 18:33 you can be putting your body at risk of vitamin D deficiency, 18:37 and your children at risk of rickets. 18:39 I can almost hear people right now turning their 18:42 televisions off and going outside. Exactly right! 18:45 But before you go outside, there are a couple of other 18:47 diseases we need to talk about. 18:49 What are some other diseases that develop as a result of 18:52 not having exposure. 18:54 We've talked about rickets... 18:55 We've talked about, you know, some of these problems, 18:59 but are there other diseases that develop? 19:00 Absolutely... One of the major chronic afflictions 19:06 of many individuals in this country is fibromyalgia. 19:09 Now fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder where the muscles 19:14 are painful - there are actually specific painful trigger points. 19:19 The muscles are tense - usually these individuals are 19:22 under a lot of stress. 19:24 They are sedentary individuals, 19:26 and it's a very difficult disease to treat... 19:29 And even when you adopt an exercise program, 19:32 which does help fibromyalgia, you have to be very careful 19:36 that you don't overDO it. 19:37 But one of the things that has been shown to 19:40 help these individuals move away from their chronic pain 19:43 and some of the muscle spasm 19:46 is when they get their vitamin D level up. 19:49 A good number of these individuals - in fact, 19:51 the majority in some studies have been 19:52 shown to be vitamin D deficient. 19:55 They're not bringing calcium into their body... 19:57 And you may remember from your physiology 20:00 that if you drop the calcium level too low in a muscle, 20:04 that muscle actually goes into tetany. 20:07 In other words it just kind of seizes up. Exactly! 20:09 It kind of seizes up and so they are discovering that 20:12 when they take these women who are D deficient 20:15 who have fibromyalgia and they replenish the vitamin D, 20:18 that much of their symptoms are going away and improving 20:23 and so this is something that you may want to... 20:26 Do men get fibromyalgia as well? 20:27 I think that's true... probably the majority of women 20:30 get it but I think there are men that get it as well. 20:32 So for those men or women that are struggling with this, 20:35 they've had that diagnosis... GET OUTSIDE! 20:39 Absolutely! Get outside and make sure... 20:42 Again, it's recommended that you get about 15 minutes 20:45 on your face, your hands, and your arms 20:49 at LEAST 3 days a week but that's just to avoid deficiency, 20:53 that's not to get you to your optimal level. 20:55 You have a graphic to show us about osteoporosis 20:58 as it relates to vitamin D deficiency, right? 21:00 That's correct - there are researchers who actually 21:04 took women who were 85 years of age. 21:08 These women were actually at high risk for osteoporosis 21:13 and hip fractures and they simply took one group 21:16 and they put them on a double placebo... 21:19 Which is like a fake pill. That's right 21:20 It doesn't really do anything but they take it. 21:22 That's right, it looks like the study medicine, 21:24 but it has nothing in it. 21:26 Then they put the other group of women... 21:27 And again, these were 85-year-old women... 21:30 They're in the menopause, of course, 21:32 their bones were at risk... 21:33 And they put them on 1200 mg of calcium, 21:36 and they put them on 800 IU of vitamin D, 21:41 and they waited a few years and lo and behold... 21:44 They were able to cut the risk of these women having a 21:48 hip fracture about 40% if they took the 1200 mg of calcium, 21:54 and 800 IU of vitamin D. 21:57 AND they were able to significantly reduce a hormone 22:02 which is parathyroid hormone and that's a hormone which 22:06 frankly, if you don't get enough vitamin D, 22:08 the body puts out that hormone to go to your bones and get 22:12 the calcium and that uses the calcium from your bones 22:16 to replenish the calcium level in your bloodstream. 22:18 If you're not bring it from the gut, the body will go 22:21 to your bones to get it and uses parathyroid hormone to do it. 22:24 If you get enough vitamin D, then the body will settle down 22:27 that parathyroid hormone. 22:29 Well many times people that had these hip fractures 22:31 that's their last major injury because they go in the hospital 22:34 and they never get out of the hospital. 22:36 That's exactly right! 22:37 So this is actually putting off their death - perhaps. 22:40 Absolutely, that's a VERY good point. 22:42 In fact, I've seen it myself in treating patients 22:46 who come in from the nursing home into the hospital with 22:49 a hip fracture and they NEVER leave the hospital. 22:53 Sometimes they're taken to a surgery, 22:55 they have to have a hip pinning and they don't survive 22:57 the surgery because, you know, you put the patient, 23:00 an elderly patient, on anesthesia, 23:02 the blood pressure drops, they could have a stroke. 23:05 It's a serious situation. 23:07 So sunlight - very simple, but very powerful, 23:10 and something that all of us can really take advantage of, 23:15 just getting out there and getting in the sun. 23:17 What about the effect of having not enough sunlight 23:21 and diabetes - I've heard that there is some relation 23:24 between those two. 23:25 You know, it was interesting to study the very important effects 23:30 of vitamin D 23:31 Vitamin D - the major circulating form of vitamin D is 23:36 what is called 25-hydroxyvitamin D 23:38 The ACTIVE form is 125-dihydroxy, 23:44 so it's a special formulation of vitamin D that actually 23:49 does the vitamin D work in your body, 23:51 and receptors, protein receptors 23:53 for that active form of vitamin D, 23:55 are ALL over the body. 23:56 They're in the brain. 23:58 They're on the pancreas. 23:59 They're on the beta cells of the pancreas. 24:02 They're in the intestines. 24:04 They're all through the body and they're also 24:06 on the white blood cells, the activated T cells for example, 24:11 and researchers have discovered that vitamin D is very important 24:15 for modulating the immune system. 24:18 If you don't have enough of vitamin D in your body 24:21 because you haven't been getting enough sunlight, 24:23 your immune system will actually be hypersensitive. 24:27 It will overreact to things that aren't enemy, 24:31 but it treats them as though they were enemy, 24:33 and so individuals who don't get enough vitamin D 24:35 are higher risk for autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes. 24:38 And type 1 diabetes is caused because the body fights itself, 24:41 it's own beta cells in the pancreas and kills them, 24:44 and you're suggesting that if we get some sunlight, 24:46 we won't - or perhaps those that would be set up for that 24:50 might not develop it... You know it's very interesting, 24:54 researchers have taken lab animals and these lab animals 24:58 are susceptible to type 1 diabetes, for example, 25:02 or they're susceptible to rheumatoid arthritis, 25:05 and they will go ahead - and these animals will get those 25:08 diseases because they've been genetically programmed to do so. 25:11 BUT, if they will give those lab animals that are susceptible 25:15 to these autoimmune diseases, type 1 diabetes, 25:18 and rheumatoid arthritis and they'll give them vitamin D, 25:21 they won't get those diseases. 25:23 And what they've discovered is, 25:25 vitamin D has a suppressing effect on the immune system, 25:28 but it's not a suppressing effect that would lead you 25:32 to get more infections. 25:33 It just makes the immune system better able at determining 25:37 what's friend and what's enemy, 25:39 and so you don't destroy your own tissues. 25:41 You've convinced me - we've only got a couple of minutes... 25:44 Can sunlight help lower the risk of cancer? 25:46 That's absolutely right... 25:48 In fact, what studies have shown is that individuals 25:52 that have the highest vitamin D levels, 25:55 and typically these are individuals who live closer 25:58 to the equator - they have the lowest risk 26:01 of colon cancer, prostate cancer 26:04 ovarian cancer and breast cancer. 26:06 Can you get too much vitamin D? 26:07 Yes, you can get too much vitamin D, 26:10 but ONLY if you take it as a supplement, 26:14 and you have to take about 10,000 IU of vitamin D 26:20 every day in order to get toxic. 26:22 So how much vitamin D do we actually need? 26:24 Let's look at that graphic in our last minute here... 26:27 Well, you know, there are a number of different 26:30 authorities out there that have... 26:31 It says keep it above 30-40. 26:34 Yeah, that's the 25-hydroxyvitamin D level, 26:37 and what we're actually finding out is that individuals 26:41 who have a 25-hydroxyvitamin D level - that's the main 26:45 circulating form - if it gets to about 40-50, 26:49 certainly 30 but 40-50 is even better, 26:52 those individuals have the lowest risk of cancer - 26:55 colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer... 26:57 So we want it somewhere between 40 and 50... That's correct 27:00 And not above... Not above 150, 27:03 you can get up to about 100 without any trouble. 27:06 The reference lab will take you up to about 70... 27:10 Can you get this test done somewhere? 27:12 Would your local doctor know how to do it? 27:14 Yes, it's available at any reference laboratory, 27:18 any standard laboratory will do a 25-hydroxyvitamin D level. 27:21 MY LEVEL was 15. 15! That's correct 27:25 Boy, I'm surprised you're alive today! 27:27 In fact, three doctors at the Lifestyle Center of America 27:29 ...one was 13, one was 15 and one was undetectable 27:32 So you're seeing patients outside now there at the 27:34 Lifestyle Center of America. Yeah - well, we should be! 27:37 We've been talking with Dr. Tim Arnott 27:39 We've been talking about vitamin D 27:41 It's something you can get most effectively from the sun. 27:44 If you don't know your level, if you have questions, 27:46 why not get it checked? 27:47 And we hope that as a result of increasing vitamin D 27:51 in your life in proper ways, you can have health that is 27:55 BETTER and health that lasts for a lifetime! 27:57 Thanks for joining us. |
Revised 2014-12-17