Jim Stephenson on Vitamin D Deficiency: Deconstructing the Deception & Stop Fearing the Sun

Source: Katie Wells
Apr 14, 2023 Wellness Mama Podcast Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkpSVtKBfE

This episode is all about vitamin D and it might call some of your assumptions about vitamin D into question. It lines up with some aspects I have found in my own research and experience, but I understand there will be some controversial statements in this podcast.
I'm here with Jim Stephenson, who is an expert in the field of vitamin D research. And knows more about it than probably anybody I've ever talked to. He talks about things he discovered in his research, how supplementing with vitamin D could actually be making things worse, not better, and why. He shares that most of the work done on Vitamin D has been just associative data, the difference between D3, the intermediate molecule, versus the storage form versus the active form, and why that's important to understand. We talk about the different forms of vitamin D we can test for, and how to actually test the active form of vitamin D in the body, why that distinction is important.
We go deep on the difference between getting vitamin D from a supplement versus making it in the body from sun exposure. And he shares what to know about sunscreen, how much sun exposure, cautions around that, and including things like why we should not wear sunglasses.

https://wellnessmama.com/podcast/627/