Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: The latest revision of the official vitamin D recommendations were based on the body's reaction to protect bone health, but what about the other three dozen affected organs? Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/how-the-institute-of-medicine-arrived-at-their-vitamin-d-recommendation/ and I'll try to answer it! Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I'd be happy to try to answer them. This is the seventh video in a nine day series on vitamin D (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/vitamin-d/). Be sure to check out yesterday's video-of-the-day The difficulty of arriving at a vitamin D recommendation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-difficulty-of-arriving-at-a-vitamin-d-recommendation/). https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Are the apparently amazing benefits of amla—dried indian gooseberries—too good to be true? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Support NutritionFacts.org with a donation at http://www.NutritionFacts.org/donate. So excited to get back to this after all these years. Here’s the original series, which gives tips on how to find the stuff: • Amla Versus Cancer Cell Growth (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-cancer-cell-growth) • Amla Versus Cancer Cell Invasion (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-cancer-cell-invasion/) • Amla Versus Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/amla-versus-diabetes/) What else is super-duper antioxidant packed? See my videos Antioxidant Power of Plant Foods vs. Animal Foods (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/antioxidant-power-of-plant-foods-versus-animal-foods) and Antioxidant Content of 3,139 Foods (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/antioxidant-content-of-3139-foods/). Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion in my next video Amla vs. Drugs for Cholesterol, Inflammation, and Blood-Thinning (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Amla-vs-Drugs-for-Cholesterol-Inflammation-and-Blood-Thinning). No matter how well it works, though, one can essentially eliminate risk of heart disease with a healthy enough diet. See my overview video How Not to Die from Heart Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-heart-disease). But if after doing everything right your cholesterol is still too high, amla may help. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-food-for-high-cholesterol and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-food-for-high-cholesterol. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Icons created by Sketch2SVG, Suji, and Alina Oleynik from The Noun Project. Image credit: McKay Savage / flickr https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org