Vitamin D3 Anti Aging Supplement? 2020 Research Explored
what’s up everyone vitamin D has been making headlines because it looks like it can help fight off the common cold which is awesome but get it to a bit more than them why are leading researchers such as dr.
David Sinclair and dr. Rhonda Patrick taking vitamin D so in this video we’ll break down some extraordinary stats around vitamin D we’ll look at how vitamin D works and what it can potentially do in the anti-aging world by watching this you’ll turbocharged your anti-aging mechanisms you’ll be able to fight off the common cold you’ll get an exercise performance boost and most importantly you’ll be able to take vitamin D safely if you liked this video please do smash that thumbs up button it really does help with the YouTube algorithm so let’s get into it so why do we need to care at all about vitamin D well it turns out that around half of the population so half of the people watching this video are deficient in vitamin T which blew my mind when I saw this in the United States fifty to sixty percent of all hospitalized patients are vitamin D deficient okay so half of us are vitamin D deficient but why should we care well vitamin D is very important in making sure that our burns are strong that we’re getting enough calcium into them and that’s all that science used to focus on when it came to vitamin D but it looks like there’s a whole host of other really important functions that vitamin D is involved with as this review paper published in 2011 explains deficiency in vitamin D is associated with increased autoimmunity as well as an increased susceptibility to infection so not only does vitamin D help with calcium in our bones it looks like when it’s at the right dose vitamin D can boost our immune system and reduce how often we get sick we’ve also got multiple papers showing that vitamin D can help boost your athletic performance it can boost your muscle growth this 2010 paper concluded that six months of cholecalciferol and calcium supplements results in enhanced skeletal muscle strength and physical performance despite no change in muscle energy parameters and if those three reasons aren’t enough to get you excited about vitamin let’s have a look and see what it can do in the anti-aging world now to explain vitamin D effect in the anti-aging world I need to go through what telomeres are your body’s DNA is packaged into what we call chromosomes and at the end of your chromosomes you’ve got telomeres every time your cells divide to grow or to repair tissue your DNA means to split apart as well so your chromosomes split and every time that happens that tell me is at the ends of your chromosomes get shorter and shorter and shorter your telomeres break away until eventually the DNA phrase and the cell dies this is one of the leading theories in the anti-aging world so in a nutshell the longer your telomeres the longer you’ve got left in life and the shorter your telomeres the shorter you’ve got left so we want to try and boost our telomere link so let’s see what vitamin D does sorry in 2007 paper looked at leukocytes now leukocytes are a white blood cell and they looked at the leucocyte telomere length or LTL and they found that higher vitamin D concentrations which are easily modifiable through nutritional supplementation are associated with longer LTA which underscores the potentially beneficial effects of this hormone on aging and age-related diseases so this is really exciting this is the first piece of evidence that we’ve got that we can actually boost our telomere length by taking vitamin D but that’s just one paper what are other papers saying will to explain this next one I need to explain to you what telomerase is now remember we’re trying to lengthen our telomeres as much as possible and we’ve got an enzyme within our cells called telomerase and telomerase can help lengthen I’ll tell a minute so we want to be boosting this telomerase to boost our telling me a link so this 2012 paper looked at vitamin D supplementation in overweight African Americans and it found that giving vitamin D significantly increased the telomerase activity in our weight African Americans it goes on to say our data suggest that vitamin D may improve telomere maintenance and the really exciting thing about this paper is that it’s a double-blind trial and double-blind trials are awesome it means that the participants they don’t know if they’re taking vitamin D or placebo and neither do the researchers it means that it removes all of the bias from this paper we can actually see the truth as to what vitamin D does to the telomerase so these are two really compelling papers about telomeres and vitamin D but hold on there is another one this 2018 paper showed higher maternal vitamin D concentrations are associated with longer leukocyte telomeres in newborns so potentially by getting the vitamin D levels right mothers can help boost their child’s telomere link they can potentially give them a longer life which is pretty ethnic so with all of these vitamin D benefits why are so many of us deficient so broadly speaking vitamin D has got two forms an inactive form and active form and when we are outside and we expose our skin to UV that way we can convert the inactive to the active form so we need to make sure that we’re getting enough sunlight but of course there’s a problem often we’re doing jobs inside we’re doing office work and even when we go outside we’re putting on sunscreen this paper shows that even if someone spends ample time in the Sun if you’re putting on sunscreen with an SPF of 15 you have a 99% reduction in your vitamin D absorption now this is a good thing you do want to be putting on sunscreen it’s bad for your skin to get sunburned it’s bad for its aging and it’s bad for potential skin cancers so I’m not in any way shape or form suggesting that you don’t put sunscreen on but we do need to come up with another way to fight off the vitamin D deficiency and this is where the supplement vitamin d3 comes into it and that’s important we want vitamin d3 because that’s the act of fall but like always there’s a problem vitamin D is fat soluble this means that your body can store it it’s not like vitamin C which is water-soluble so every time you have to have some vitamin C because you just pee right now you need to replenish that vitamin D since it’s fat soluble you can store it and since you body can store it there’s a massive potential risk of overdosing you don’t want to be overdosing on vitamin D if you do orbit ice you can have too much calcium in your blood you can have nausea vomiting and weakness and you could be damaging your kidneys all things that we don’t want to do sorry there is a sweet spot for vitamin D too little and you’re not going to get all of the benefits but too much and you’re going to be doing yourself a lot of harm so I personally have a blood test looking at my vitamin D levels and that way I can make small adjustments to get within that sweet spot so depending on the season I could be taking between 2,000 and 4,000 units every day and I adjust the dose to aim for between 40 and 60 milligrams of 25 hydroxy vitamin D per mil of blood that’s roughly the target that you want sorry in summary when done well vitamin d3 supplementation can be awesome for you and make sure that your bones are strong you’ve got a great immunity you get an exercise performance boost and you can potentially lengthen your telomeres but if you choose to take vitamin D you need to make sure that you do it right you don’t want to be overdosing because again your body can store it since the vitamin D is fat soluble please let me know down in the comment section below if you found this video useful and if you’re going to start taking vitamin d3 and as always if you like this video please do smash that thumbs up button it really does help with the YouTube algorithm until next time thanks very much
