Masterpiece Theater: Vitamin D and Immune Defense against Viruses
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This is the first edit (of 3) of Video no5 in my series on ReDefining Vitamin D Deficiency in Adults.
The previous four videos cover: 1) pain, 2) mood, 3) barriers, 4) inflammation:
VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY results in CHRONIC PAIN and PAIN AMPLIFICATION
Vitamin D Deficiency in Mood Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression
Vitamin D in Physiology and Medicine, Part 3: Role in Barrier Defense. Sample excerpt: Vitamin D for Strong Barrier Defenses, Prevention of Infection, and a Healthier Vagina?
This is the first 34 minutes of an anticipated 1hour45minutes of this video.
The video is currently being reviewed, edited, re-reviewed, re-edited and will probably be posted to this page in about 10-14 days. It will be a masterpiece by the time the final version is presented. The complete version of the video will be uploaded to healthythinking.substack.com and notice will be sent by email; you have to be on the email list in order to receive access to the full version of the video.
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The whole defense-immune response is remarkably complex and actually quite fascinating, especially—in my opinion—the absolute dependence on the specific/adaptive immune system to respond in a coordinated manner based purely on the simultaneous existence of two identical antigenic/immunogenic peptide sequences by the purely random process of gene shuffling, VDJ recombination, receptor editing and the required “handshake” of costimulatory signals, and the proper “ambiance” of cytokines which strongly orchestrate the resulting immunophenotypic response.
VIDEO VitaminD’s Role in Immune Defense against Viruses: The Introduction (first 30 minutes)
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Dr Alex Kennerly Vasquez (introduction; brief Bio-CV) writes and teaches for an international audience on various topics ranging from leadership to nutrition to functional inflammology. Major books include Inflammation Mastery, 4th Edition (full-color printing, 1182 pages, equivalent to 25 typical books [averaging 60,000 words each]), which was also published in two separate volumes as Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine (Volume 1: Chapters 1-4; Volume 2: Chapter 5—Clinical Protocols for Diabetes, Hypertension, Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis, Vasculitis, Dermatomyositis and most other major inflammatory/autoimmune disorders); several sections have been excerpted including Antiviral Strategies and Immune Nutrition (ISBN 1502894890) (aka, Antiviral Nutrition [available as PDF download] and Brain Inflammation in Chronic Pain, Migraine, and Fibromyalgia. Dr Vasquez’s books are available internationally via bookstores such as BookDepository, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, ThriftBooks, AbeBooks, BetterWorldBooks, WaterStonesBooks and his new Telegram channel is https://t.me/DrAlexVasquez.
