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All the magnesium, calcium, selenium, manganese, all these things that nobody's really interested in and they all are in list on their multi multivitamin.
All through the same time frame, people are developing iron deficiency and iron overload. And it turns out that the bacteria have been a pivotal part in our intestine, speaking to our body about whether or not our iron level is low or high in the liver or in the blood system in our bone marrow or in our brain. And if you do not have a specific bacteria
Chapter 11: Why Minerals Could Be The Overlooked Key To Better Health
called Lactobacillus reuteri, you will be missing a brand new metabolite or chemical that was named after that bacteria just in the last three years that's called reuteri. That is one of the chemical messengers that our body uses.
So that means many of the deficiency states that the naturopaths and the functional medicine people are studying are all linked to the fact that this naturopaths and the functional medicine people are studying are all linked to the fact that this bacterial tube has been doing all these things for us all along. And when you lost them, each individual person has its own set of specific deficiency states that must be addressed for their sleep to get better.
I want to go back to Madeline.
Chapter 13: Does Modern Medicine Accept This Vitamin D Theory?
So, my question was because the research that I'm reading says that vitamin D does not cause, trigger or create a B vitamin deficiency.
No, it's not in the literature except my article. Taking vitamin D supplements will not drain your body's B vitamins.
Let me read my title. Vitamin D deficiency changes the intestinal microbiome, reducing B vitamin production in the gut.
The resulting lack of pandaththenic acid adversely affects the immune system, producing a pro-inflammatory state associated with atheroscerosis and autoimmunity.
This is a brand new discovery made by someone who's not a scientist, who's not working in the primary lab, who is a clinician.
And the impact of this is only as strong as I can get this the ideas out there and talk about what happened to my patients.
Now, is it plausible that there's a sort of a intermediary link between the two?
I'm reading some things here that say people are very frequently both low in vitamin D and vitamin B12 at the same time. And this is because they share the same root cause like a poor gut absorption, aging, or a restrictive diet, not because one vitamin is destroying the other. That's what we've been told.
We've also been told that old people don't need as much sleep and that old people get a bad gut as they get old. It is my belief now that it is there is an absolute link between the production of D and I don't have the articles for this even though this is dogma at the moment that our production of vitamin D goes down as we get older. So, if you look back to that person who was 75, who didn't get sick until they were 75, their skin production, even though they're still out there with their truck farm and still raising their own food, their skin production rate of vitamin D goes down. And this is probably true for every animal. And then as their D goes low, they lose their microbiome. And then they die of one of the multiple diseases that are linked to this multiple deficiency state. It's a different lens to look through that says there is actually a system that allowed us to live without medical problems that weren't either related to epidemics of childhood illness or starving to death.
And as long as we had good diets, you can actually look at 1945 to about 1985 and say, what was the ideal for the humans that lived rurally in the United States? Did they live to be 75 years old? and then get diseases.
So it's my claim that those people didn't go to the doctor because there weren't any around them and then things started to happen to them that instead of looking at it through the lens of this disease means this drug that instead we say we should pre-preventing this by paying attention to what vitamin D does in the body and what the vitamin Bs do in the body and ultimately that is linked to most of our diseases.
Chapter 14: What Your Gut Microbiome Reveals About Your Sleep
So l'll read the conclusion of your study here which was published in 2016. I hypothesize and it's important to say this is a hypothesis that the parallel epidemics of abnormal sleep and abnormal intestinal microbiome are linked to one another through vitamin D deficiency.
Proper supplementation doses of vitamin D plus all eight B vitamins appears to return the intestinal microbiome to normal in 3 months. Reinstating the normal microbiome not only treats IBS symptoms, it returns the supply of vitamin B's to their natural daily doses. The B vitamins are neither good for us nor unnecessary. They are good for the person who needs them and only until the normal source picks up again. Both sleep disruption and pain can be caused by large doses of B vitamins once the intestinal microbiome has returned to normal. The B vitamins are very biologically intertwined both in their intestinal production and cellulose cellular use. This suggests that B vitamins, aside from B12, were not meant to be used individually and returning to restorative sleep with normal supply of the building blocks of cellular repair has the potential to repair the pro-inflammatory state seen in association with a chloris atheroscerosis as well as the hyperadrogenic state of associated with hypertension, heart disease and stroke. It appears that given the proper essential elements for normal sleep, the body is designed to repair every physical injury that occurs during normal daily use and may even retain a memory of long deferred repairs. So essentially, you're saying that if you can return the body's vitamin D and and B levels to normal, then the body will kick back up and start producing the everything it needs. Yes, I guess the scientific consensus at the moment is saying that there's not a link between vitamin D and a vitamin B well it's saying that vitamin D does not cause a a vitamin B deficiency.
Correct. And you disagree with that? Absolutely.
And now could it be the case that there's some intermediary like i.e. if I take lots of vitamin D, it disrupts my magnesium production and the magnesium production is having an impact on vitamin B. And could it be the case that it's something else?
Yes, of course. Okay.
And in fact, it's way more complicated than you and I have talked about. And where you finally arrive is actually at co-enzyme A deficiency.
And that is a very important chemical.
It runs our mitochondrial health and our ability to make energy. And it's linked to all the degenerative diseases etc.
So, it's not that l don't understand the idea that once you're a hammer, everything's a nail because that's what I was told by all of my colleagues that you're trying to explain everything. It's that I saw Meline go back to work and we haven't even talked about what happened to Natalie.
What happened to Natalie?
Natalie got better and actually how she first with the D like most of the patients, she started to sleep better but at the end of two years she stopped sleeping better. She actually lost weight which was the case with several of the women that were postpartum who had complained about that. So in some my interpretation was in someone who is less affected than Meline was the DB50 combination especially in the setting of being after the pregnancy is really all somebody who was relatively normal at the start of their life needs and then she got better. Her anti-depressant went away. Her postpartum depression cleared her high heart rate. So the other thing that we didn't mention is many of these women who are very interested in exercise and doing exercise had high heart rates of 110 or above sitting quietly and had not been like that before. Their high heart rates come down. So she came back to being her normal self again and did she have to come off the vitamin B? She only took it for 3 months.
Okay. And then she did a multivitamin and then eventually almost everybody needs to be off the multivitamin completely. It is my belief that if all of this happens spontaneously in every other animal on the planet, then we shouldn't have to take supplements either. The squirrels are not going to GNC shops to buy supplements.
That means if there's a mistake made like we move indoors and we give back what is needed to get the normal microbiome, then you should assume that your body will go back to supporting itself. And Natalie's she's good again. Natalie's back to being a triathlete and doing great.
Chapter 15: How To Build The Right Sleep Protocol For Better Rest
If we zoom out for a second, what is the advice you'll give to all of my listeners now? There might be millions of them all over the world. Some of which are struggling with sleep. Some of them just want to, you know, optimize their sleep a little bit. What is the the over overarching advice, the thing that all of them could could do to make sure they sleep better in your view?
One, do the behavioral cognitive stuff first. Make the bike out curtains. Do the whole thing. If you haven't done that with the eye cover, then go ahead and do that. And if that's all you need, do not mess around with supplements.
Two, if you've already done the behavioral changes, then go to my website, read about the ideas, or listen to this podcast, and see whether or not the ideas there feel like they apply to you.
You've come up with this protocol called the right sleep protocol. What is that? And can you walk me through it?
Sure. So, the right sleep program is a process of taking your D to a certain level, supplementing B12 if your B12 is at a certain level below a certain level, taking B50 for 3 months, and then taking a multivitamin. And that is until your body says, gee, I might need more Bs.
This is a diagram. And you have a beautiful step-wise visual assist here. The first 3 months, if your B12 is low, you will take B12 as a separate supplement.
And keep in mind, there's a lot to be learned about multivitamins. For instance, many multivitamins say multivitamin on the front, but they actually have the equivalent of B50 in them. They have 50 milligrams of all these B vitamins. In fact, if you go to an expensive vitamin store, they put up the doses of B s.
The doses of these vitamins are extremely important for the way you feel every day. If you get it right, you feel energetic, perky, and wonderful all day.
If you get it wrong, you feel awful in the same way you did before. You have to look at the back. You have to learn some of the name of these vitamins. Most people are not that interested in that. If you want to get better, that's what you have to do.
So, the first step is you're taking all four of these.
Then in the second step for a period of usually 3 to 4 months, you're still taking B12 if you were B12 deficient.
You're still taking vitamin D and you're adjusting your vitamin D dosing based on recommendations based on your D levels that you're doing every month.
And I show you how to get them done properly because the vitamin D levels that your doctor is doing are not accurate, unfortunately. nor do they know that or care and you're still taking a multivitamin.
Then after the three months that are depicted here, it turns out if your sleep is much better, you will actually get to a place where your body will stop sleeping well again.
And it turns out that your brain is asking for more additional B s.
The basic bottom line is the sleep is a thing that once you learn how to use it and once you learn the concept that if in the third or fourth month of this program, my sleep gets much better and then in the sixth month it gets worse again, what you should take from that is my brain really knows how to do this. It was able to get me to sleep from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. with one brief wake up. Went back to sleep. Didn't get up to pee and I have no pain when I wake up and I feel energetic all day long. It knows how to do that. When it doesn't do it again two months later, the message is not, "Oh man, I knew it wouldn't work cuz everything else I've tried didn't work."
Instead, it means what my brain is asking for is something else. Then you address that.
On my website, I also have multiple videos of Q&As's addressing questions like, I'm in the fifth month and this happened to me, etc.
So, what I would give as advice is one, supplementation is only good for you if there's something wrong with you that you're trying to correct.
Two, keep a log of what happens to that thing because we tend to forget. All my headache patients forget that they had headaches when they go away. That's challenging to a clinician because they come back and they say, "Yeah, I still have headaches." And then their husband says, "Wait, we were in Vegas two weeks ago and you said you didn't have any headaches at all." And she says, "Oh, I know, but they're back now." We view it as it should have fixed me and now it hasn't. This is a different belief system where the answer is your brain is asking you for something. Interpreting what it's asking for is difficult but possible.
So number one was if you do not have something wrong with you, do not mess with supplements, especially D.
Number two is keep a log.
Read more. Think about it. Think about it a little bit. Think about whether or not there are things that are bothering you.
Okay. Number three. Number three is if there's something bothering you, then decide you're actually going to take some time and you're going to learn
about a system which allows you to give supplements that lets your body be fully replete, which means fills up all the deficiencies. And that's your final outcome will be great sleep, great repair, and you will be doing things that will allow your body to prevent degenerative illness. Why don't you just, you knoW, why don't I just instead of taking supplements or be this, be Chapter 16: Is Sunlight And Nutrition Better Than Supplements?
that, be the other, D, whatever, why don't I just go outside in the sun and have a better diet?
I think that's a a great question. And here's the problem. So, l've got, you know, l've got all these things, these wonderful things here. I've got l've got some kimchi, which is good for the gut microbiome.
