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Episode 3. Vitamin D and Magnesium Part 1

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Steve Nugent: Hello my friends and welcome to another episode of The Nugent Report. This episode is going to be the first in a series about Vitamin D and Magnesium. Two of the most important nutrients for the 21st century. In these episodes, you’re going to learn some things about Vitamin D and Magnesium that you’ve probably never heard before. In fact, I’m nearly 100% certain of that. The scientific research team led by a scientist named NR Parva states that, Vitamin D deficiency is becoming epidemic in the United States. And if we were to use the same statistical measures and apply it to the nutrient called Magnesium, then we’d have to say the same of Magnesium as well.

Every time a nutrient gets mentioned on TV or in popular media, I pretty much immediately get people contacting me from countries all over the world asking me about that nutrient. For many people, it’s the first time they’ve heard about it or they know very little about it generally. So, they want to know if they should be taking that nutrient that they saw on the popular media. The problem with getting your nutrition information from TV shows and other forms of popular media is that, they’re rarely objective. Television shows earn their money through advertisement and the higher the shows are rated, the more money they can charge to their advertisers.

Unfortunately, this means that most media is typically more concerned with ratings than representing information objectively. Journalism students are typically taught the phrase, ‘If it bleeds it leads.’ That’s not about facts that’s not about objectivity, that’s about catching people’s attention. Unfortunately, most people are more likely to be captured by extremes than by objectivity. Objective data typically falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum versus one extreme or the other. Simply speaking, objectivity is rarely extreme and sometimes not the best thing for ratings, okay.

Let’s talk about Vitamin D and again, this is going to be a series of episodes. Remember, I did promise my subscribers that I would cover all nutrients from A to Z. I didn’t promise that I would do it in alphabetical order. So, with Vitamin D in mind, that’s where we’re going to start. Before a laboratory test became available to practicing physicians, the belief that virtually no one needed to supplement Vitamin D and certainly no one would ever need to supplement more than 400 international units of Vitamin D in a single day. That belief was almost universal.

In fact, physicians were cautioned to avoid giving too much Vitamin D. Because they were told it could become toxic. Well, that’s true just about everything can become toxic if you get too much of it. In fact, if you drink too much clean pure water even that could become toxic, but we’re talking about ridiculous amounts obviously. So, the 400 IU rule was observed pretty strictly for a very long time for decades. Once physicians began to test people for Vitamin D, that tired old belief was shattered very quickly. To the great surprise of all the physicians that I’ve spoken with, the new blood test was showing very high percentages of people who needed more Vitamin D.

And in fact, physicians were finding that they needed to recommend not hundreds of units, but thousands of international units per week just to get their patients back up to adequate levels. Later on, I’m going to explain the difference to you between deficiencies and less than adequate levels, but we won’t cover that right now. When the world’s first minimum daily requirement was established for Vitamin D, that was back in 1941 by the US National Academy of Sciences. The world was very different than it is today. Diet and dietary choices as well as work activities and recreational activities were all very different than they are today.

In the 1940s, most people of all ages got a good deal more sunlight than they get today. Children played outside versus being glued to a video game console or computer or their cell phones nearly every waking hour of the day. Outdoor activities were the norm versus sitting in your living room. watching television. Although the process of turning whole grain into refined white flour began around 1870. Most foods in the human diet were not significantly altered until many decades later. It seems as science advances in the 21st century that there are never ending ways to alter our food from its natural state.

In 1941, corporate farming was yet to be invented, much has changed since that time. Since medical physicians receive almost no training in nutrition. They rely on information from government agencies, medical associations and the various science journals to make their decisions on their patient’s nutritional needs. Throughout the history of medicine, doctors have been basically taught that if you eat right, you’ll get everything you need. In principle, this sounds great and I wish it was that simple. The fact is most people don’t make good dietary choices. For more than 50 years, people have been given misinformation about diet.

Most of that misinformation was unintentional by various medical experts acting as the health expert on TV shows and other forms of media. Advising on things that they were not experts in. The result is, the average person doesn’t have sufficient accurate information to make good dietary choices. Remember as they say in the computer world, ‘Garbage in garbage out’. If your information input is inaccurate, the conclusion that you draw from that information will almost certainly also be inaccurate.

When I was in practice, I would always ask my patients about their diet when I did the initial intake. That’s the first meeting that you have in the clinic with the patient. Almost 100% of the people who were not well, would tell me that they eat right. They make good choices in their diet, they believed that because they were acting on misinformation that they thought was true and correct. Because for God sakes they saw it on TV. It must be true or Dr so and so said it therefore it must be true. Most of the time this is simply not the case there are of course many reasons for those people not being well when they come to see a health care practitioner. Diet is a significant contributing factor in my opinion in most cases. But there are a variety of possibilities obviously.

The problem is the average person has so much conflicting information. They don’t know how to make the right choices. Even doctors are often confused on this topic. I know this because I’ve been teaching doctors for more than 30 years. Assuming that you made perfect choices, which of course is pretty unlikely. You still may come up short according to more recent scientific study. There’s something else to consider. As I said many times in an attempt to explain to people, how nutrient cofactors work with other nutritional cofactors. That biochemistry is kind of like the kids connect the dot games. In that game of course, you can’t see the full picture until you’ve connected all of the dots.

As I said in one of my previous publications, no nutrient is an island onto itself. Forgive me for paraphrasing on that. All nutrients have co-factors my friends. So, for those people who think because they have internet access and they can go on the internet and look up something by who knows who, to give you information about nutrition that they’re suddenly nutritional experts. They’ve got a lot to learn. Nutritional biochemistry is very complicated, human digestion very complicated. I’m going to do the best I can to make this simple and easy to understand and hopefully to keep your attention as we’re going through this list of episodes.

So, this brings us back to the question. Do you really need to supplement Vitamin D? Physicians now know how to routinely test for Vitamin D, but they’ve not been taught that Vitamin D cannot be utilized by the body if you are deficient in Magnesium. So, should we be asking the question, do you need to supplement Magnesium? I’ll come back to that and that’s why I’ve decided to do this series of episodes talking about Vitamin D and Magnesium together. Because without Magnesium, Vitamin D is not going to be utilized by your body. And you probably don’t know a great deal about Magnesium. So, we’re going to cover them both in these episodes.

In the next episode, we’re going to be talking about how Magnesium and Vitamin D work together. We’ll be talking about blood testing, talking about some health conditions and we’re also going to talk about why people of color may be more deficient in Vitamin D than others. Until then stay safe, be sensible and stay objective.

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《纽金特报告（The Nugent Report）》第3集：维生素D和镁（第一部分）

 

《纽金特报告》，阐述健康与营养背后的科学。欢迎收听本集《纽金特报告》。《纽金特报告》是有关健康和营养客观信息的权威来源。由著名心理学家、作家、公共演说家、科学、健康、保健和营养方面的专家史蒂夫ž纽金特（Steve Nugent）博士主讲。我们的网站是“drnugent.com”，你可以在脸书（Facebook）、推特（Twitter）和Instagram @TheNugentReport上关注我们。

 

史蒂夫ž纽金特：听众朋友们好，欢迎收听新一集的《纽金特报告》。本集《纽金特报告》是关于维生素D和镁系列节目的第一部分。维生素D和镁是21世纪最重要的两种营养素。在本系列中，你将了解到一些你之前可能从未听说的，关于维生素D和镁的知识。实际上，我几乎可以百分之百确定这一点。由科学家NR Parva领导的科研团队指出，维生素D缺乏症正在美国流行。而如果我们用同样的统计方法，将其应用到营养素镁上，那么我们也不得不说镁也是如此。

每当电视或大众媒体上提到一种营养素时，来自世界各地的人们几乎都会马上与我联系，向我咨询有关这种营养素的信息。 对于许多人来说，这是他们第一次听说这种营养素或对此了解甚少。 因此，他们想知道自己是否应该摄入那种在大众媒体上看到的营养素。 但是，从电视节目和其他大众媒体获取营养信息的问题在于，这些信息很少是客观的。 电视节目通过广告赚钱，节目的收视率越高，就可以向广告商收取更多的广告费。

不幸的是，这意味着大多数媒体通常更关注收视率，而不是客观地反映信息。新闻专业的学生通常会被灌输一句话：”流血的新闻才能上头条“。这里强调的不是事实，也不是客观性，而是要吸引人们的眼球。不幸的是，大多数人更容易被极端消息而不是客观事实所吸引。客观的数据通常处于中间位置，而不是在一个极端或另一个极端。简单来说，客观性很少有极端，有时也不是收视率的最佳选择，对吧。

让我们来谈谈维生素D，这将是一个涵盖多期播客的系列节目。我确实答应过订阅者，我会介绍所有营养素。不过，我可没有承诺会按字母顺序依次介绍。所以，考虑到维生素D的重要性，我们先从它开始谈起。在执业医师可以进行实验室测试之前，几乎没有人认为我们需要补充维生素D，更不要说需要在一天内补充超过400国际单位（IU）的维生素D。这种看法几乎是普遍存在的。

事实上，医生被告诫要避免给患者开过多的维生素D，因为过多的维生素D可能会有毒。诚然，如果你摄入过多，几乎所有的东西都会变得有毒。实际上，如果你喝了太多干净的纯净水，纯净水甚至也可能变得有毒，显然我们谈论的是无比庞大的摄入量。所以，在几十年的时间里，医生非常严格地遵守了400IU规定。当医生开始对人们进行维生素D的研究后，这种陈旧的信念很快就被打破了。让所有和我交流过的医生都感到非常惊讶的是，新的血液检查结果显示，需要补充维生素D的人群比例非常高。

事实上，医生发现，要让维生素D缺乏患者恢复到足够的水平，推荐数百个单位远远不够，他们需要推荐每周摄入数千个国际单位的维生素D。稍后，我会解释缺乏和低于足够水平之间的区别，现在先不谈这个。我想说的是，世界上第一个维生素D每日最低需要量，是在1941年由美国国家科学院提出的。那时的世界与今天截然不同。无论是饮食、饮食选择还是工作和娱乐活动，都与今天大不相同。

20世纪40年代，不论哪个年龄段，大多数人都会经常晒太阳，沐浴在阳光中的机会比今天的人多很多。孩子们在户外玩耍，而不是像今天的孩子几乎每时每刻都玩游戏机、电脑或手机上。那时，户外活动才是常态，而不是像如今大家都坐在客厅里看电视。虽然将全谷物变成精白面粉的过程始于1870年左右。但人类饮食中的大多数食物直到几十年后才发生重大变化。随着21世纪科学的进步，似乎永远都有办法改变食物的天然状态。

1941年时，农业企业化经营还没出现，不过从那时起，很多事情都开始发生变化。由于医生几乎没有接受过营养方面的任何培训。他们依靠政府机构、医学协会和各种科学杂志提供的信息来决定患者的营养需求。在整个医学史上，医生们基本上都受到教导说，只要吃对了，你就能得到你所需要的一切营养。原则上，这一说法听起来不错，我也希望道理是如此简单。但事实却是，大多数人都没有正确选择饮食。50多年来，人们一直在饮食方面不断接收错误信息。

这些错误信息大多是各种医学专家无意造成的，他们在电视节目和其他形式的媒体上充当健康专家，对他们其实并不擅长的事情提出建议。这样一来，普通人就无法获得足够准确的信息，从而做出良好的饮食选择。请记住，就像计算机行业流行的说法：”废料入、废品出”。如果输入的信息不准确，那么你从这些信息中得出的结论几乎肯定也是不准确的。

我执业的时候，每次接收病人时，总是会在初次问诊时询问他们的饮食情况。这是我在诊所里与病人的第一次见面。几乎100%的人都会告诉我，他们吃得很好。这些病人相信，他们在饮食上做出了很好的选择。他们不知道自己的选择是建立在错误信息的基础上，他们认为那些错误信息是真实、正确的。因为他们认为在电视上看到的就一定是真的，或者某某博士是这么说的，所以就一定是真的。但在大多数情况下，那些根本不是事实，当然还有很多原因让这些人感觉不适、前来问诊。但在我看来，大多数情况下，饮食是造成身体不适的重要因素。显然，还有其他多种潜在因素。

问题在于，普通人获得了太多自相矛盾的信息。他们不知道如何做出正确选择。即使是医生也经常对这个话题感到困惑。我知道这一点是因为我教了30多年医生。假设你做出了完美选择，当然这不太可能。根据最新的科学研究结果，你仍然可能会存在不足。还有其他因素需要考虑在内。正如我尝试向人们解释的时候，曾多次强调，这些营养辅助因子是如何与其他营养辅助因子一起发挥作用的。这种生物化学原理有点像孩子们玩的连点游戏。在这种游戏中，你只有把所有的点都连接起来，才能看到图片全貌，

正如我在以前出版书籍中所说的，营养素自身并不是孤岛。请原谅我转述自己的话，朋友们，所有的营养素都有共同的作用因素。所以，对于那些认为自己能上网、能查阅资料，能提供营养信息的人来说，突然之间他们就成了营养专家。但是其实他们还有很多东西要学。营养生物化学非常复杂，人体消化作用也非常复杂。我将尽我所能把这些原理变得简单易懂，希望我们录制的这一系列播客，能让你集中注意力倾听。

那么，让我们回到这个问题上。你真的需要补充维生素D吗？现在的医生都知道如何常规检测维生素D，但他们没有接受过教导，如果人体缺乏镁，那么维生素D就不能被人体利用。这样，我们是否应该问另一个问题，你需要补充镁吗？我会谈到这个问题，这也是为什么我决定在这个系列播客中把维生素D和镁放在一起讨论的原因。如果没有镁，维生素D是不会被身体利用的。而你可能对镁了解不多。因此，我们将在接下来的几集中同时介绍镁和维生素D。

下一集，我们将讨论镁和维生素D是如何一起发挥作用的。我们将介绍血液检查，提及一些疾病，我们还将谈论为什么有色人种可能比其他人更缺乏维生素D。在那之前，请大家保持安全、理智和客观。

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