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The vitamin world is giving the wrong advice. For instance, if you do not know what you're doing with them, they're
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just as dangerous as any drug you could put in your mouth. The next thing is supplementing with vitamin D is not the
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same as being outdoors [music] because we absorb it through our skin. But what we've been told is don't ever
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let the sun touch your skin. And another example is when we're deficient [music]
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in this vitamin, our brain actually forgets how to sleep. And I know that because I'm a
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neurologist and I wanted to tell the world about what my patients and I had discovered together about making sleep
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better. And billions around the world have a sleep problem, but no one's treating it. And the usual sleep
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treatment is behavioral. Like blackout curtains, go to bed at the same time. But that is not something that's helped
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the people who wind up with me. They've tried all that already. And I've taken care of 28-year-olds who just had a
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stroke. >> 28, sorry? >> 28-year-olds. We associate stroke with being old and having diabetes and
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hypertension and heart disease. No. So then I did a whole bunch of sleep studies because we found some exciting
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things by [music] accident that turn out to have to do with vitamin deficiencies
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and deficiencies that have developed from being indoors too much. [music] And we're starting to feel the effects of
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that. Like obesity. But there there are no obese squirrels in my backyard. The only obese animals are cats and dogs
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[music] that we keep inside. And then we found out most of the sleep disorders are really linked to the gut and
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microbiome. And we could go into that, but one of the interesting thing I learned was vitamin D is a hormone.
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There was a mistake made in calling it a vitamin. >> Well, I'm very curious to learn about
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all of this. And also, you've come up with this protocol called the right sleep protocol. Can you walk me through
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it? >> Absolutely. Here's the first part of it. So,