Vitamin D

Vitamin D - The Allopathic View 

 Vitamin D - The Allopathic View
This diagram shows the influence of sunlight, affecting the skin to synthesize some precursor vitamin D, passing through your blood, down to the liver, to be stored there. I said earlier that the liver is a great storing location.

It also shows on the right side that you can acquire some vitamin D through your diet, assimilate it in your blood through digestion and going to the same place, the liver. You can assimilate a little bit that way with few foods. By the way there is even a little bit in BioSuperfood. But really, there's more in fish, and so forth. I wouldn't recommend milk.

But besides the liver, it also shows here the kidney's participation in synthesizing, or supercharging vitamin D, the final factor, which at this stage is really a hormone created by specialized cells of the kidney. You can also see here on the right the stimulation from the para-thyroid gland. Earlier, I said that the parathyroid gland releases hormones, and that specialized cells of the kidney will receive these messages and synthesize vitamin D hormones. You can see here the process where cells of the kidney and cells of the liver work in tandem to charge vitamin D123 (a hormone).

Vitamin D supplementation exploded on the market in the last couple of years, when, three or four years ago, nobody talked about it. It hadn't been spotted yet as a deficiency in certain types of cancer. But with those recent observations and premature deductions, the vitamin D industry was born. That's similar to what happened to vitamin E starting in 1980. Due to some premature recommendations, it became a star supplement.

Now the fact that the vitamin D factors are important in intestinal absorption, in calcium and bone metabolism and prevention of cancer is real and we must be concerned with that. But there are many other components in our body that become deficient with loss of life force. And we have an opportunity to resolve these deficiencies in a very different way then supplementing. We want to restore the declining metabolism that leads to deficiencies.

Vitamin D - The Holistic View


Now, continuing on with vitamin D, in chart thirteen, you'll see that I've drawn lines. I've shown the brain's involvement from the HPA that supervises the pituitary, which controls the para-thyroid, which controls the kidney.
 Vitamin D - The Holistic View
Here we can see that the parathyroid glands would do nothing unless the HPA says "go ahead, please, we need some vitamin D." And know that with aging, fatigue, malnutrition, inflammation, etc., even the brain's requests for vitamin D slows down, and we have vitamin D deficiency.

With this visual, I hope you understand the importance of the HPA's relationship with our metabolism. Without the brain's action in restoring cellular energy, even if you go in the sun you're not going to get your proper vitamin D level restored. Even consuming food with vitamin D, and large amounts of vitamin D supplements will not be good.

All the aspects related to vitamin D activity, from reception of the sunlight, assimilation of your vitamins, its storage at the liver, its subsequent synthesis at the kidneys, all the way into the biochemistry of each cell and its Krebs cycle function will not work well, or at all without that HPA relationship.

The last thing I wanted to do with this chart was to show vitamin D as a separate event. You could not have the vitamin D metabolism working unless you also had acquisition of nutrients and transfer of energy, vitamin c, fat metabolism, mineral activity, and so on also working. In summary, all human metabolisms are inter-related. I'm trying to show the big picture.