Dr. Mark Hyman

You're going to get more bone loss, more immune dysfunction, your risk for autoimmune disease, risk for heart disease, dementia, cancers, all go up if your vitamin D levels are not over 50.

I mean, if you had a COVID-19

infection in your lab of vitamin D was over 50, there were zero deaths in that population, zero.

So we need to look at what's optimal, not what's just normal.

So the conventional lab ranges just miss this early dysfunction.

Like in other words, we keep shifting the goalposts.

We talk about hypertension, then we talk about prehypertension, and we talk about diabetes, and we talk about prediabetes, we talk about autoimmune disease, and we talk about pre-autoimmune disease.

Well, it's not pre-anything.

These are just early disturbances that are leading you on that path.

So if your blood sugar is normal, it's 70 to 100.

But what if you're 99?

That's not really optimal.

It should be probably between 70 and 87, according to the literature, because after that, your risk goes up.

When doctors order tests, they're just ordering things that are really, like I said, only abnormal if you're in the hospital.

They got your CBC, which is your blood count.

So if you're anemic...

Well, great.

I mean, I had surgery.

I was anemic.

I needed to check my blood count.