Cod liver oil

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on the list cod liver oil is going to be your best bet for a simple way to get all of your vitamin d on a daily basis three and a half ounces 100 gram gives you 10 000 ius which is more than you need So a serving being a tablespoon would give you 1500 and to get the 400 I used you'd only need a little under a teaspoon so if you take somewhere between a teaspoon and a tablespoon of cod liver oil then you're going to get your full daily supply of vitamin D and not only that but you're going to get it in a form that's very absorbable and you're going to get it together with plenty of vitamin A and there's going to be a lot of those associated factors like ADEK in there as well.

So oftentimes when we talk about this we're kind of assuming that you're going to get all your vitamin D from one source from one food the food is really more just a supplement the best way still and always to get your vitamin D is from the sun that's how humans have done it for thousands hundreds of thousands of years but there are some limitations if you have dark skin the darker the skin the harder it is for you to make vitamin D that's why afro-american people have more deficiencies because even though they tolerate the sun much better they also have to spend more time in the sun to make that vitamin D the area of exposure we don't show off much skin anymore we wear clothes most of the time we sit indoors we work indoors we sit drive in our cars we drive from one garage to another garage and we rarely see daylight unless we make an effort to go outside and once you go outside then it's the area of skin that's exposed to the sun that matters So if you're only showing your face that might only be 5 or 10 percent of your body's surface and you're not going to make a whole lot of vitamin D.

The angle of the sun matters.

They all work together to transport and produce and interact with each other.

If you eat real food and you take care of your digestion then you're going to have the best chance of making and utilizing the vitamin D properly also.

And if you feel like you are at risk that you may not be getting enough sun or you may not be getting enough through the food if you don't eat fish on a regular basis then my best recommendation would be a cod liver oil supplement.

If you have access to some of the things we use like Cataplex D or whole food supplements, they would also be good.

I mean, the one study that always stands out when we start talking about prenatal supplementation Study Journal of Pediatrics, 2001.

They gave one group of mothers cod liver oil throughout the pregnancy.

The other one's corn oil.

And then followed the children, their children, up until the age of five.

On average, by the age of five, the children who had the cod liver oil, mothers taking it during the pregnancy, four to five IQ points higher.

Simply, you give the brain what it needs to grow, and nature will do its work.

Yeah, talk about the building blocks, you know, the fat.

Sardines and those really fatty fish, cod liver.

We're going to talk about cod liver oil right now.

So we also know that other fish like mackerel is a really good oily fish and you can get a lot of vitamin D there.

I've shared with you before that I spent some time in Norway this year and everybody there because of the lack of light.

So just make sure you're checking regularly, make sure you're getting D3.

I also know that if you add a little bit of K to it, vitamin K, that really enhances the body's ability to absorb it.

But one of the things I wanna encourage you to look at, you're gonna either love this or not love this, so you tell me in the notes, is that one of the best options for vitamin D is cod liver oil.

So it's the old grandma trick, right? How many years ago was grandma like, drink your cod liver oil when you're not feeling well? Now, if you can't stomach that, I understand you can try to get them in little capsules, but they're really important.

Take your, take your time with it and yeah, if you can have...

I mean, I think one of the things that probably saved my butt was, so I've got a, I've got a, a business in New Zealand and Australia that imports fermented cod liver oil and also some very specific probiotics.

That business there, I kind of kicked that in just before I left New Zealand, and I, I, I kind of, I guess I must have known deep down that, you know, this is something, something that I, I should do and, um, you know, say I better get another income stream.

And I kicked that in.

But, you know, thank you for clarifying that.

Yeah, I mean, like the, the question was around more, you know, you, you, you were talking about nutrition.

You've got your cod liver oil-

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a superfood, and I'm gonna explain why.

Cod liver oil has, like, four main really important things: omega-3 fatty acids, EPA, the anti-inflammatory DHA, which is more to support your brain and your nerve cells.

But omega-3 is significant when it comes down to the hardcore research on the benefits.

And the problem with all the omega-6 fatty acid seed oils, they compete for this omega-3, and a lot of people are just, are not getting enough.

But cod liver oil also has two additional things.

It's a good source of vitamin D. It's also a good source of vitamin A.

Now, I've talked extensively about vitamin D on my YouTube channel, but I wanna spend a little more time on this vitamin A to really, um, educate you on what that does.

But if we just compare cod liver oil to fish oil, very, very different.

were on.

We had, it was castor, not castor oil, it was cod liver oil.

Oh, yeah, that's even worse yet.

You know something? I love that stuff.

I would have drank it out of the bottle if I had had the opportunity.

Cod liver oil? Yeah,

I don't know what it was supposed

to do, but...

You're going to get every single fat-soluble nutrient you need, including vitamin E.

Number two, cod liver, as well as cod liver oil.

If you've never had cod liver, I suggest you try it.

It's kind of like It's not that fishy, doesn't taste bad at all, but it has a unique taste.

I like it, but it has a consistency of like pudding, but it's just loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, as well as these fat-soluble vitamins, specifically vitamin A and vitamin D and omega-3.

And you can also do the cod liver oil, either as itself... or in a little pearl.

One of the problems I do notice when people take it is they tend to burp more with it.

So there is a solution.