Vitamin D, DHA, water, sun, latitude

Dr. Jack Kruse: "I don't recommend supplements. I have a rule, I think it's in the CPC 9 blog post. It says, 'If you're designed to make it endogenously you're not designed to take it exogenously.' How's that? So how do I make my vitamin D? From the freaking sun. […]

"I understand how that battery works. And if you want to understand how that battery works, Ubiquination 8 blog post tells you how it works. It's DHA and water. You got to have those two together for the sun to begin to work. Then where you live on this planet will determine your level of vitamin D. So for example, if you live in Sweden, you're not going to have a high level of vitamin D, ever, because the sun's power, it never gets you there. When you're at the equator it's going to be way higher."

Joe Cohen: "So what should they do in Sweden?"

Dr. Jack Kruse: "[…] Just think about it. If you're not designed to have a lot of sun what do you need more of? DHA. What do you know that Swedish people have a lot of?"

Joe Cohen: "Fish."

Dr. Jack Kruse: "Hey, how about the Inuits, what do they eat? See how it works?

"Vitamin D is yoked to that damn battery and people don't understand it. So the less light you have the more DHA you need. And when you come to the equator you can live more like a plant, like photosynthesis. That's the reason why carbohydrates doesn't hurt people close to the equator. But when you move further from the equator you have a huge problem. […] Our conditions of existence on this planet, where we live, determine what we really should do. So what you do, Mr. Cohen, and what I do is radically different, because you know what? Our personal thunderstorms are different. […]

"I want you to hack your environment because the number one issue is the environment; it's not your biology.

"And you need to realize the fundamental things: what organizes the matter in us? Let's make it really simple. Number one: gravity = light. The electromagnetic force = magnetism. Archimedes principle = water. Those are the synonyms for those things. What's the spark of life? What allows those three things to get its spark, what's the jumper cable? DHA and water. What is the ultimate battery charger that's free? The sun. OK?

"The further you are from the equator the more DHA you need. The closer you are to the equator the more water becomes critical, just like it is in a plant. And when you realize that those five pathways are how biology fundamentally organizes in a cell, then you can begin your biohacking there. Then you'll really find out how bad your environment really is."