Discover how a key supplement can transform your wellness routine. Learn why D3, often mistaken for a vitamin, is actually a hormone critical for transporting essential nutrients throughout the body. From supporting immune function to promoting bone and heart health, this powerhouse nutrient plays a vital role in overall well-being. Paired with K2, it becomes even more effective, enhancing blood vessel health and combating free radicals caused by daily stressors.

Dive into practical advice on maintaining optimal D3 levels, especially during colder months when our habits and light exposure shift. Explore the importance of building a robust healthcare team and the value of choosing high-quality supplements to support your health goals.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 – Introduction and Overview

00:30 – Understanding Vitamin D3

03:06 – D3’s Role in Health

06:05 – Benefits of Adding K2

07:56 – Product and Recommendations

09:28 – Upcoming Series and Viewer Engagement

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So as we start off kind of going through the How to Pick provider series, which is going to start next week, I want to start doing a for the chemical piece, which is usually on Wednesdays. I want to start doing discounts for the pillars of wellness.com store. So today the the discount is going to be on D3, K2 and the discount code is D325, so it’s 25% off the D3. And so I want to talk a little bit about D3 today. The a lot of people talk about D3 because it’s, you know, they talk about for immune function, they talk about for bone density and for all sorts of things. D3 is not really a vitamin. It’s actually a hormone. The definition of vitamin is essential nutrient that cannot be made in the body. So like vitamin C is not made in the body.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:00] So it’s the vitamin. D3 is made, D2 is made in the liver, which is attached to an LDL cholesterol. Since the kidneys were turned into D3, D3, super important. What it actually does is it carries nutrients around the body, carries ions. So the reason it’s good for the bones is because it’ll carry calcium to the bones. It’s good for the heart because it carries calcium to the heart. It’s good for the stomach because it carries chlorine ions to the heart. I’m sorry, to the to the stomach, but it also carries chlorine, chlorine item ions to the immune system to make white blood cells out of. So D3 is super duper important now. The other problem we get into, as with most medical testing, the labs on these are wrong. The way that we I want to attribute how we get lab values to begin with, the way we get lab values to begin with is you take 500 or 1000 or 2000 people who are willing to get their blood drawn for a cookie, and you bring them in and you pull their blood and you go, how healthier you people go, I’m pretty healthy. And they go, great.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:10] And they look at their levels and they go, well, this is what a the levels of a healthy person should look like. And that’s where we get our lab. That’s literally how we get our ranges. There’s no test to make sure they’re healthy. There’s no qualifications to make sure that they’re, quote unquote, healthy. It’s just, hey, when we took 500 people’s blood and the average was, you know, between 30 and 50 and they said they were healthy. So the average range for a healthy person should be 30 to 50. That’s literally where we get overlaps. Later when we started doing research with a little bit differently like that, where they did the testosterone research was they polarized blood. They said, how do you feel? And they said, Here’s how I feel. And they gave them testosterone. And they were like, How do you feel now? They’re like, my God, I feel so much better. And that’s how we got the ranges that I used, the 812 hundred for a man and 82 to 50 for a woman.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:06] And so that’s where those those higher optimal ranges came from. So for D3, you want it between 80 and 120. What’s really funny is I’ve got patients that we draw blood, a lot of people. And what’s really, really cool is it will draw blood on people and it’ll be, you know, 80, 90, 80, 90 like throughout the year. And then we’ll draw their blood and they’ll be like 25. And I’ll when I go over with them, I’m like, Did you not take your stuff? Like, No, I was taking my stuff at man. I felt kind of bad that day. And you look at their like their white blood cells and they’re, you know, that the, you know, the part of the blood that tells you if they had an infection or something like a bacterial viral infection and those will be elevated just a little bit. And so you’ll be like, all right, you know, I guess when you were sick, you know, this is what happened. And then like later you’ll find out they had the flu or something. And you’re like, how did you feel? Right? You know, I felt bad, but not like terrible. And mostly people also notice lysine when they get viral infections like that.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:04] But there’s no taking their stuff. But they’ll be like, I didn’t feel that bad. And, you know, but their D went crazy low because the body used all three up. How we make white blood cells helping, you know, restore chemical function, helping, you know, feed the body the chemicals it needed. It’s the messengers, the which is the definition of hormone. It’s the messenger. It’s the truck that brings all the bullets to the fight. So keeping your D3 up is super important, especially during this time of year. And people talk about this time of year being cold and flu season because apparently people think there’s more colds and flu is out. That’s not what’s going on. It’s colder. You’re not drinking as much water. You’re not moving around as much. And the vast majority of people, again, you’re like, that’s not me. Well, you’re also maybe not being sick, but the vast majority people are eating way too much sugar, way too much processed food, way too much alcohol, not sleeping enough, much more stress. All those things and there’s less light out. And light is a big function for our bodies or bodies are actually we use light a lot.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:11] And so all those things kind of pile up to make people sick. So that’s why they’re like, there’s more colds and flu this time of year because it’s cold. No, it’s not. Why? It’s mostly because we’re eating trash and we’re more stressed out or sleeping less. We’re getting more light. Less light. That’s really kind of weird that. So keeping your D up at this time will be really, really helpful. So what we usually tell people is 5000. I use 400 pounds of body weight. A lot of people who are like, I take 15,000 times a day, I’m right at 245 pounds and that keeps mine right at that 8090 range. So the the the benefit of K two on this one, there’s a little bit of research that shows if you just take D3, it can allow for calcium deposits in the blood vessels. 300%.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:05] Honest with you, I don’t I don’t buy it. I don’t think that D3 is going to cause calcium deposits in the blood vessels or arterial sclerosis. I don’t think that’s happening. However, K2 is really beneficial to blood vessel health and to blood function and to everything else. So I’m a big fan of adding it in regardless because I’m a big fan of blood vessel health, you know, the things that terrible it does as a part of our stress. So that reactive oxygen stress as free radicals, you know, all the stuff that’s floating around from, you know, the bad foods we’re eating, the poisons that are in our food, all the different chemicals, the stuff that’s in our water and air and stress and, you know, all those things. And, you know, if you don’t have enough cook, you ten you produce a lot of free radicals that way. There’s a ton of metabolic waste that produces damaging chemicals, waste products. So adding a little bit more K2 and just kind of bolster your your blood vessel, health is always a benefit to everything we’re doing. So adding that in would be highly beneficial.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:07] So the D3 and the K2 just works really well together. There isn’t really an upper limit on this one if you’re, you know, you don’t need to take a whole bunch. If you’re 110 pounds and you want to take one in the morning, one at night, that’d be fine. If you just do one, you be pretty, pretty good. This off the one of the pillars store. I can’t speak for everybody else’s stuff. There’s a bunch of stuff out there that’s bad. So little deal and stuff that we take. I test this stuff on a regular basis because it’s what I take. It’s what I give my patients and it’s what I give my kids. So I’m real picky about one, what I give my kids and to what I put my name on. So like we legitimately test this off all the time. I can show you guys a picture sometime of all the stuff that I take and I’m going to probably post what.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:56] I take on the website on the pills once by the side, but go to post one Starcom, go to the store and it’s easiest to just go up in the search bar and type in whatever you’re looking for. We’re going to start adding some more stuff on their bed toppers like Mean. I’m trying to get with Sleep Aid to get them to let us do some stuff with them because they’re they’re fantastic. If you guys are looking for a bed topper by the way that heats and cools and does all the things sleep aids my by far my favorite I’ve ever used. But so if you guys are looking for that the deed the discount on the D three is D three 2,525% off the full list price. That’ll change every week as we go through different things on Wednesdays. But so that’s where we’re going right now. If you guys have any other questions about anything, if you guys have any supplements that you guys want to see on your you want to learn more about where you want to see on the discount list. Tell us questions that Thomas wants.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:49] I can drop them in the comments and we’ll get you guys kind of set up. But the the thing we’re doing in about ten days, about 12 days, actually, is I’m going to go through and kind of go through the the things you need to look for when you’re building your health care team. Not everybody has a whole health care team because not everybody knows they need one. And then all of a sudden they’re like, my gosh, I my kid broke his leg. I need to find a surgeon. Like, how do I find a good surgeon? Or, you know, my marriage is, you know, okay, but not great. How do I find a therapist or, you know, what kind of dentist are we looking for? Are there things going on with my dental health that I need checked on?

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:28] And so I’m going to do some I’m doing some podcast with my the guys I use here in Frisco, our mental health team, some of our chiropractic buddies, the our dentist team, those type of people. So we’ll go through and we’ll have, you know, I’ll talk in the morning and then I’ll release that day. I longer podcast I’ve done with some of these guys so you guys can check that out, share that with your friends. A lot of this stuff is driven because of what you guys have asked over time, either in the office or DMS and that type of stuff. So we’ll get to. Altogether. If you guys have any other questions, like I said, questions that Thomas won’t stay calm or drop in the comments. Thanks for your time. See you guys tomorrow.

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