Ancient TB Case Shows the Power of Vitamin D

This is the latest in a string of recent studies confirming the vital role vitamin D plays in increasing your body’s natural capacity to ward off autoimmune diseases, including preventing and treating tuberculosis. 

Vitamin D deficiency is a growing epidemic across the world, contributing to many chronic debilitating diseases – many of which conventional medicine insist need to be treated with vaccines and medication, rather than recommending proper sunlight exposure. 

I really wonder if they would recommend it if they could devise some method to charge you for it, but for the time being at least you can’t patent sunlight.

In the most of the northern hemishpere, the late winter vitamin D average is so low it falls within the category of “serious deficiency.”  

If you are dark-skinned, your risk of being deficient in vitamin D is vastly increased. As many as 42 percent of African American women, compared to just over 4 percent of white women of childbearing age suffer from vitamin D deficiencies during the summer months. African Americans are also statistically more susceptible to TB infection.

How Vitamin D Deficiency Can Cause Tuberculosis

Although nearly one third of the word’s population carries the tuberculosis bacteria, only about 0.2 percent of those infected with tuberculosis (TB) actually develop a clinically significant infection. This fact indicates that something other than the bacteria itself is responsible for developing the disease.

Several studies have appeared in the last decade, indicating that vitamin D is one of the major keys that dictate whether you will actually develop the disease. These studies have all come to the conclusion that vitamin D deficiency sets off the disease if you are a carrier of the bacteria.

One previous study was able to show an astonishing 100 percent resolution rate by treating TB patients with 10,000 units of vitamin D daily (compared with the 400 units usually advocated by conventional medicine).

How Vitamin D Can Treat Tuberculosis

How does vitamin D treat TB so effectively?

Your white blood cells convert vitamin D that your skin produces from proper sun exposure into an active form, which helps form a protein that kills the tuberculosis bacteria. Therefore the more severe your vitamin D deficiency is, the higher your risk of developing the active form of TB.

Although there are vitamin D supplements on the market, I am convinced that supplementing with oral vitamin D is a poor substitute for proper UVB exposure on your skin,  The primary reason is that it’s  just too darn easy to overdose on vitamin D since it is an oil soluble supplement, which easily stores in fat tissue. It is so easy that I’ve actually done it a few times, so I speak from personal experience on this one. Instead, your safest bet is to get your vitamin D from natural sunlight exposure.  

Why?

Because unlike other vitamins, vitamin D is created by your body after exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun. This is the active vitamin D -- vitamin D3. Nearly all the prescription-based supplements are synthetic vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol), which is FAR LESS effective.  

If you do take oral vitamin D supplements, make sure you get your vitamin D level tested before you begin. Please bear in mind that there are TWO vitamin D tests: 1, 25(OH)D and 25(OH)D. The correct test your doctor needs to order is 25(OH)D, also called 25-hydroxyvitamin D, as it’s a much better marker of overall vitamin D status. 

“Normal” 25-hydroxyvitamin D lab values are between 20-56 ng/ml (50-140 nmol/l). However, this range is far too broad to be ideal. In fact, your vitamin D level should never be below 32 ng/ml, and any levels below 20 ng/ml are considered serious deficiency states. Instead, the OPTIMAL value you’re looking for is 50-55 ng/ml (115-128 nmol/l). 

For more in-depth information about sunlight’s vital role in maintaining optimal health, I recommend reading my special report on the topic. Also keep an eye out for my forthcoming book, Dark Deception, which is slated for publication sometime this year.  Previous studies have actually found that more than one million people die every year from lack of sun exposure and subsequent vitamin D deficiency, so fear of the sun is really something that needs to be overcome. My book will take an in-depth look at all of the various issues relating to sunscreen, cancer, vitamin D, and sunlight -- and expose why the conventional wisdom to stay out of the sun is dead wrong.

If you simply are unable to access sunlight during the winter then ideally you will want to consider using a safe tanning bed.

Why You Should Not Ignore Your Emotional Issues

Another strong contributor to TB is your emotional issues. Needless to say, Energy psychology tools are the way to go if you want to optimize your health by resolving long-standing emotional issues. The Emotional Freedom technique, which uses simple tapping techniques, is one of the most effective energy therapies out there.