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@ Why would I get fat?
2025-05-16 15:02:57
Pain management, vitamin D
Dr. Jack Kruse: "I'll give you the example. When you had a failed fusion or a pseudoarthrosis in the lumbar spine, if you kept their vitamin D level high they wouldn't use oxycodone, OxyContin, Percocet. It made me realize that people had higher levels of melanin were more resistant to pain. I found out it was from α-, β- and ɣ-MSH from POMC. Then I realized about the story about β-endorphin. β-endorphin is another one of the cleaved chemicals. If β-endorphin levels are high they didn't need pain medicine.
"I pointed this out to one of my better pain specialists. Like this guy would never not tell me the truth. He said to me, 'Jack, I never knew there was a link in the literature between vitamin D levels and pain.' So I showed him about 30 papers. You know what he did? He turned around and took his worst offenders of using Suboxone past five years in his practice, he found that every single one of them had vitamin D levels below 30.
"Then he came up with the idea to begin to supplement. Like the ones that he couldn't get because somebody's already a drug addict, they're never going to go out in the sun, because most of them live at night with the TV on, you know, or are heavy metal guys. He put people on the supplementation and guess what? Turned out, the people that supplemented did pretty good.
"That was one of the things that got me over the threshold. Even certain people who have problems, I'm okay with using vitamin D supplementation. The big issue for me is that I don't think you can use this on a population basis. It has to be very specific for the problem you're dealing with. It requires you, the clinician, to understand truly what's going on.
"That's the reason why I don't recommend like the use of methylene blue or vitamin D pills to everybody across the board. I need to know a little bit more about your history in order to understand how it goes. Obviously, do I think there's less risk from using vitamin D than there is in using Suboxone? Obviously. That's a no-brainer. But if you can get somebody off like 80 to 120 of Suboxone down to say 20 or 30 mg of OxyContin over a period of six months, dude, that's a winner winner chicken dinner.
"It turns out the pain doctors really appreciate this because they're not making money off of people coming in for more drugs. They're actually creating fucking nightmares for the public because those are the people that eventually kill themselves. They're always afraid that they're going to be linked to these suicides through the prescriptions. When I pointed this out to him he's like, 'Dude, you may have just saved my practice. I had no idea that that link was there.'
Dr. Jack Kruse with Doug Sandquist @ 01:34:45–01:37:37 (Posted 2024-07-19) https://youtu.be/zKO2xE2Oyro&t=5685