Health for a Lifetime

Why Spend Time In The Light?

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Participants: Don Mackintosh, Tim Arnott

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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.
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14:41 Welcome back, we've been talking with Dr. Tim Arnott
14:44 Dr. Arnott is a physician at the Lifestyle Center of America
14:47 and he helps people basically doctor, getting over
14:51 the common diseases that afflict Americans.
14:54 We've talked about depression.
14:55 We've talked about being overweight.
14:57 We've talked about the importance of
14:58 being out in the SUN to address this
15:01 and increase our serotonin levels and give us
15:05 that sense of well-being and all those different things.
15:08 We're looking a little more into that.
15:11 We want to talk a little bit about the skin and sunlight.
15:16 A question maybe we could ask is...
15:19 What do green plants and children have
15:22 in common with the skin?
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.


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