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Downside of Vitamin D

With so many people supplementing blindly with vitamin D these days, I wanted to share this PSA. Yes, vitamin D is amazing for immunity. BUT – please remember that Vitamin D is NOT a vitamin. It’s a prohormone that has hormone effects in the body, and therefore must be treated like a hormone.⁣ ⁣ View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bernadette Abraham | Functional Medicine (@bernadette.abraham) ⁣ ⁣⁣As I briefly mentioned in my story, long-term high-dose vitamin D supplementation can:⁣⁣⁣⁣1- Deplete vitamin A. What do we need vitamin A for?⁣⁣⁣⁣✔️Epithelial...

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The Importance of Stomach Acid

For anyone suffering from heartburn, indigestion, reflux or GERD, there’s a great book called “Why Stomach Acid is Good For You”.In fact, acid reflux is not usually caused by having too much stomach acid, but rather not having enough!!Yes, you read that correctly. It’s usually acid in the wrong place – and is most often triggered by insufficient stomach acid!Without a good amount of stomach acid, your meal just sits there in the stomach; proteins putrefy, fats rancidify, and carbs ferment, which can cause a lot of gas and bubbling.And whatever little stomach acid you...

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