Mike Maher: "Vitamin D. Would you would you suggest somebody like me, who's in the latitude I'm in, should I be taking that supplement? You're saying no. Why no?"
Dr. Jack Kruse: "[…] Vitamin D when you take it doesn't equal Vitamin D from the sunlight. If you want to know the main reason, when you take vitamin D pills it's soaked in seed oils. The reason it's soaked in seed oils because it's a fat-soluble vitamin.
"When you understand how we use it, it's made from an ester of cholesterol in our skin from UV-B sunlight. It stays electromagnetically on that ester until it falls, just like an apple to a tree, but in the blood to a vitamin D binding protein. Then what happens? What makes the decision that it falls into the blood to go to where it needs to be transmitted to the kidney and liver? Turns out sulfation. You know what sulfation does in sunlight? It actually makes it water soluble. […]
"What's the effect when you take vitamin D pills? It raises your cholesterol. Then it also uncouples the system, because remember, how you decide to make vitamin D is from 315 to 325 light. If you never get that light, which you don't in the UK, well very rarely, that's why you can see everybody's got low vitamin D status. Which is why from a longevity standpoint, I don't want my little 18-year-old baby living in the UK long term. Now you understand the reason why. […]
"Vitamin D will raise your LDL cholesterol, it'll lower your HDL cholesterol. Then what will the doctor do when he sees that? Oh, I got to put you on statins. Do you understand? They have already gamed the system. […] You do not want to use pills to do this.
"Now unfortunately for many of you there, the best thing about vitamin D pills, it'll help prevent rickets, it'll help the bone issues.
"This will probably shock you even further. […] Do you know that vitamin D pills actually affect darker-skinned people worse than white-skinned people? It's true. Those studies have been done in the United States but they're not well popularized. What happens? People will take vitamin D pills who have darker skin, whether you're brown or black, the intima of your arteries get thicker. Why? Because it downregulates nitric oxide production when you have dark skin. Dark skin is designed to protect you from equatorial sun. There is no place in the UK, even in a tanning bed, where there's equatorial sun. So this is the reason why people who are African, when they come to high latitude Europe, they develop mitochondrial disease, peripheral artery disease, hypertension. They also get more mental illness. […] What makes melatonin and and dopamine? UV light. Those are the two aromatic amino acids. When you turn the telly on and you see what the hell is going on Europe, […] it comes from this story. It's a light story. People are stunned when I make the links for them.
"But no, if you're a white dude like me, if I lived up there, no I would not do it. My mitigation strategy if I had low vitamin D and I had say a shitty job, I would go probably buy a UV-A and a UV-B bulb from the pet store, that you use for reptiles. Then I'd probably add in some infrared A and near infrared light. Or the best way for you to do it, is if you build that sauna the right way, I'd get in that sauna and then I'd put combination of lights over my sauna. That's how I would raise my vitamin D if I lived where you live."
Dr. Jack Kruse with Mike Maher @ 01:05:44–01:10:28 https://youtu.be/luMHcGTAhA8&t=3944