We asked Dr. Brian Clement of Hippocrates Health Institute about the causes of vitamin d deficiency, and more importantly what the best sources of vitamin D are.
He tells us that the concept of vitamin D deficiency came because of the con artists in the health care profession, including the natural health care profession.
30 years ago they all came up with a new philosophy that the sun is really not your friend and it causes disease and never go to the sun.
So now lock, stock and barrel, they frighten the public and people stop going into the sun. Now, I will grant you that everyone of us looking in the mirror, I will guarantee you that it’s the sun that caused most of those wrinkles.
You need the sun. Nature didn’t put us under the sun for the entirety of humanity until very recently when now we are in our offices and we’re in our house and we’re not outside as farmers and before that as nomads. That’s part of our process of developing vitamin D.
Now, I’ll answer the question about where to get it, and then I’ll go back and tell you there’s no better source than the sun itself.
Hippocrates Center produces the best (and I say this with great pride), the best vitamin D supplement on the market. Why, because it’s a whole food living vitamin D that we’ve extracted from shiitake mushrooms. That sounds almost counterintuitive that from a mushroom that does not grow in the sun you get it. But remember UV rays are also captured in soil, and naturally, organically, the shiitake mushroom picks that already fractionated and full spectrum vitamin D out and contains it in it. We then extract it without heating the shiitake mushroom. Voila, we’ve produce the product Life Give Sun – D.
So the best sources of vitamin D are:
• Getting sun early morning or late afternoon when it’s not as strong – this is really vital.
• Supplement with whole food vitamin D.
But is a vitamin D supplement enough? The answer is no. Although I told you 30 seconds ago it’s the best one on the market, I’m also going to tell you we will never replicate what the skin does, the pigmentation, to convert over into fractionated, usable and necessary form of vitamin D. What the sun does is the only, only way that that’s going to happen.
If I was from the North from October to April, I would take Sun-D, but I would also be telling you to get out in the sun. You say there is no sun, no there is little sun. You say it’s cloudy, yes, but big deal – you can still get sun.
Dr. Brian went on to explain the refraction of the sun through the clouds and how and when to make sure you do get the sun you need. The best source of vitamin D is the sun period.
Please listen to the short audio and leave me any comments or questions.
