Autoimmune Diseases Explained: Vitamin D, Stress, and Immunity #shorts

Añadido: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]Next point you should know about autoimmune diseases where your immune system is attacking itself. It's the number one problem out there. I think it's a combination of a couple things.

[00:00:10]Number one, the person has low vitamin D. But I don't think it's the only cause and it has to do with microbes, viruses, and other pathogens that are constantly trying to invade our body and create all these problems. And one of the strategies that they do is they downgrade your vitamin D receptor. Now, normal amounts of vitamin D don't do anything for you because the microbe is really smart. There's something else that occurs just before this infection.

[00:00:38]Because in practice, I ran into this.

[00:00:41]These people almost always had a stress event right before they developed this autoimmune disease. Loss of a loved one, loss of a job, loss of something. What happens when a person goes through a severe shock? What happens to the immune system? It becomes suppressed. With high levels of cortisol, things can happen to the immune system. And if you're already low in vitamin D3, you can have this shift in the immune system where this immune system starts inappropriately attacking its own tissue and develops an autoimmune disease. Not only that, predinazone, which is a synthetic type of cortisol, will shut down the immune system, too. This is why they use it for autoimmune diseases. Anything like rashes on the