Dr. Paul Mason - 'The 5 Minute Vitamin D Talk'

I can listen to Dr. Paul Masson speak for hours.

It is so refreshing to hear such an intelligent doctor with a sense of humor. All of Dr. Mason’s lectures are very informative and I look forward to listening to him.

Let's not ever forget, Dr Keyes 'seven countries' study was created as such, because the other 14 countries that he ALSO had data for, didn't support the hypothesis he was presenting. So he just ignored them.

I can vouche dor this. After a few months on a hypercarnivore diet, my skin was extremely resilient and resistant to the sun and I held most of my tan through the winter months.

OMG How can one person share so much useful knowledge in just 5 minutes !!! Now we need to see the full talk please.

I'm a simple girl... I see Dr Mason and I click play.

Dr. Eric Westman, founder of the Keto Clinic at Duke University, said that in his many years of medical practice he never prescribed vitamin D supplements to any of his patients. He said that as his patients lost body fat with his prescribed, very meat heavy keto diet, their vitamin D levels always improved significantly.

Outstanding! This makes so much sense. I've had a question about the importance of VitD because I live in a northern country (Scotland) where it is often not sunny (even in summer) and between October & April it is impossible to get VitD from the sun. My ancestors were not renowned for running around naked (except perhaps in battle) because it is either too cold or the midges would make your life hell! Not to mention the matter of modesty... Rickets is a relatively modern affliction on the Scots (think Victorian slums up until they started to get knocked down after WWII) so how were we getting our VitD for the past 2000-8000 years if it can't have been from the sun? Eating animal fats makes complete sense, of course, but maybe we just didn't need it because we were metabolically healthy in the past (we certainly aren't now!) & were not subject to lots of sun exposure. Anecdotally, I also lived in New Zealand in childhood & suffered terrible sunburn at times & continued to do so throughout adulthood in Scotland & working in the tropics or holidaying in southern Europe. I grew up with a 'perfect' plant-based diet until my early 40s (& have health problems to show for it). I went mostly plant-free about 5 years ago & my ability to cope with sun exposure has never been so good. I do burn but nowhere near as badly as I used to.

Man this doc just continues to blow my mind. Now I’ve got to completely rethink my love of the sun. He goes into this deeper on his podcast with Dr. Chaffee plus a whole bunch of other gems. I highly recommend it!

Every physician on the face of the earth should be strongly encouraged to take in this information. Sadly, I don’t see it ever happening. Thanks Doc!

Brilliant as always. I spent 6 weeks on the sun in northern hemisphere and got back with highest vitamin D levels ever in my life and a significantly reduced cholesterol levels. So yes, it makes sense.

Great to see relevant shorter segments for those of us with limited time.

One of the best sources of health and nutrition information I have found. Mason is a wealth of knowledge and I am thankful he shares it with us.

I went Keto 2 years ago and then Ketovore 1 year ago and my sun tolerance (and not getting burned) went up. I actually crave sunshine and feel great. I used to avoid the summer sun and now I love it. My experience is simply that you don't get burned even when in hot midday summer sun. I was quite amazed. I am zero carb and consume no seed oils, sugars, carbs nor processed foods - Only meat and fat (nose to tail).

There are some awesome doctors, scientists, and journos in the low carb sphere. Mason is among the top, as well as Bikman. They're brilliant people with the knowledge to save millions, the desire to spread that knowledge to anyone who seeks it, and the gift of being able to communicate that knowledge in an approachable manner.

Dr Mason amazes me every lecture by how easy and fun he delivers information

It's an interesting topic. Where do animals get their vit D from? And fish, for that matter, does UVB penetrate water? Why were almost all covid patients vit D deprived? Why were people of color over-represented in the hospital intakes? Doesn't the sun also produce nitric oxide for us? How much do we really know of the processes going on when we're out in the sun?

I don't get sunburned anymore, 18 months keto, heading towards carnivore. I do limit my sun but even if I overdo it, I still just redden and then that tans. Interesting talk, thank you!

Carnivore for 5 months prior to a San Diego summer. Surf, swim, run regularly in the sun. One day, got caught up at the beach for 2 + hours (unplanned) no sun screen, zero sun burn at all.

Beautiful and thought provoking talk.