How Vitamin D Deficiency Impacts Your Mood, Immune Function, And Risk Of Disease

This episode is brought to you by. Rupa University, AG1, and
Pendulum.  Up to 90 percent of the population have an
inadequate intake of vitamin D and around 40 percent are deficient.
Vitamin D, which works closely with magnesium, is a steroid hormone
and is critical for proper immune function. It also helps support
healthy inflammation levels and is important for supporting bone
health, improving mood, reducing cancer risk, and reducing the
severity of illnesses, including respiratory illnesses. In today’s
episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Max Lugavere about why
your vitamin D level matters and how to increase it. Dr. Elizabeth
Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices Functional
Medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her
practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve
their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power
of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training
other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Max Lugavere is a
health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times
bestseller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More
Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life, now published in
10 languages around the globe. His sophomore book, also a
bestseller, is called The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen
Your Body, and Become Extraordinary. Max is the host of a number
one iTunes health and wellness podcast called The Genius Life. His
new cookbook, Genius Kitchen, just hit the shelves. Max appears
regularly on The Dr. Oz Show, The Rachael Ray Show, and The
Doctors. He has contributed to Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, CNN,
and The Daily Beast and has been featured on NBC’s Nightly News and
The Today Show and in the New York Times and People magazine. He is
an internationally sought-after speaker and has given talks at
South by Southwest, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Biohacker
Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, and many others. This episode is
brought to you by Rupa University, AG1, and Pendulum. If you’re a
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out. Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here: Do
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