Judson Somerville - The Optimal Dose: Restore Your Health With the Power of Vitamin D3

Author: Judson Somerville, MD

Editor: Nancy Pile

2018 by Judson Somerville, MD

All rights reserved

Reproduction or translation of any part of this work beyond that permitted by Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act without permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. Requests for permission or further information should be addressed to Judson Somerville MD at somervillejudson@netscape.net.

Disclaimer: This book is not intended to substitute for the counsel of a qualified health professional or to diagnosis or treat any disease. The reader takes full responsibility for any action taken after reading this material. Improper use of vitamin D can lead to hypercalcemia and in rare cases permanent damage and possibly death. Some individuals due to preexisting medical conditions are more prone to these side effects and should only use vitamin D if recommended by their physician. The reader is advised to consult a qualified health professional before making any changes in the amount of vitamin D, magnesium or for that matter any supplements, vitamins or minerals.

ISBN: 978-1-7326550-0-3

Printed in the United States of America

To my mom you did a great job.

You taught me to turn human waste into fertilizer.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Grant Teaff, Baylor University football head coach (1972-92)

This book is part of my mission to change peoples health and lives for the better. This book explains my discovery of how all of us can elevate our health through optimal dosing of vitamin D3 what thousands of my patients and I consider a miracle vitamin. It offers a detailed exploration of the lifesaving effects of optimal dosing of vitamin D3, one of the most unheralded cures available today.

How can vitamin D3 help you? What health issues does vitamin D3 address? Here is just a short list of the ailments that vitamin D3 at optimal dose levels helps:

• Autism spectrum disorder
• Lyme disease
• Influenza
• Cancer
• Multiple sclerosis
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Sleep apnea
• Chronic fatigue
• Dementia

In 2010 I was desperate. My immune system was noticeably weaker, my sleep chronically poor, my weight a hundred pounds too heavy, and my energy and spirit at a low. On top of this, as a hard-working, dedicated physician for sixteen years and counting, I was taking care of thousands of patients. Just as I was worried about my own health, I was deeply concerned about theirs. For me to give them the care and the compassion they needed, I had to figure out what was holding back my own health.

What was going on with me? Something was missing. Something key to the state of my overall health was missing. And I was desperate to find it. Thats the reason behind the life-or-death quest that brought me to vitamin D3. To clarify, my life wasnt exactly at risk, but the quality of my life certainly was. I was constantly septic due to chronic low-grade urinary tract infections and wound infections.

I decided to concentrate on my chronic lack of deep restorative sleep (DRS). I figured that if I could restore the quality of my sleep, then Id be in a stronger position to work on other areas of my health. It was in my research on DRS, that I came upon vitamin D3 and the possibility that most people in todays world are functioning on suboptimal levels of vitamin D3. Because vitamin D3 plays a pivotal role in the body achieving the state needed for deep sleep to happen, a person at suboptimal levels ends up never achieving that deep sleep state even after a supposedly full eight to ten hours of rest.

When you fail to achieve DRS, you never feel fully rested, rejuvenated, and recharged. Basically, in the morning when its time to get up, youre exhausted. Notice this isnt talking about length of sleep; its the depth of sleep that matters.

It was due to this chronically exhausted state that I began my foray into the study of vitamin D3 and its critical and multifaceted roles in the human body.

Eight-plus years later, Im about one hundred pounds lighter, a regular deep sleeper, with a robust immune system, and on most days my energy and spirits are high.

What happened?

Upon first learning about the connection between vitamin D3 and deep restorative sleep so many years ago, I continued learning more about vitamin D3. I delved into research on the issue, met up with other medical experts and pioneers, and even did my own research. Eventually, I came to understand the connection between vitamin D3 and multiple systems in the human body. Vitamin D3 plays a key role in the immune system, in the mechanisms involved in deep restorative sleep, and metabolic systems (meaning weight-loss and weight-gain related). When vitamin D3 levels in your blood are optimal, your immune system, depth of sleep, and metabolism are primed to function at their greatest potential.

The reverse is also true: when the vitamin D3 levels in your blood are suboptimal, your immune system, depth of sleep, and metabolism deteriorate.

In my studies, I came to learn that like so many of us in todays modern world, my vitamin D3 levels for years, decades even, were suboptimal. Thats why no matter how much I was supposedly sleeping, I couldnt achieve deep sleep and feel fully rested. Thats why I was obese. Thats why my immune system had difficulty fighting off infection. Thats why my spirits were low and my energy too. What Im describing about myself is what so many other people are suffering as well. Its a condition Ive dubbed winter syndrome, and you can expect this book to explain it to you in detail.

After I made these discoveries and connections, I polled my patients and learned of their chronic sleep troubles. I am talking thousands of patients whom I asked a series of detailed questions only to find that like me, they too chronically failed to get deep restorative sleep. Their weight struggles and proneness to viruses were issues I was already familiar with as their physician. Apparently we all were suffering for years from the lack of optimal levels of vitamin D3. We all were suffering from winter syndrome and didnt even know it.

This book traces the journey I took to restore both my patients health and my own with optimal dosing of vitamin D3. You see, Im not the only one who has experienced the miracle of optimal dosing of vitamin D3. After I established an optimal blood level of vitamin D3 and became certain of its benefits as well as it being totally safe, I started many of my patients on the same plan. Now, eight years later, I have thousands of patients who attest to the incredibly, seemingly miraculous, turn in their health due to vitamin D3 optimal dosing. Here are some of those patients comments about their experience taking vitamin D3 at optimal dosing:

Two years ago, Dr. Somerville started me on vitamin D3 supplements at what he called optimal dosing amounts. I was game, as I wanted to try anything that might work. Almost immediately, within days, I was sleeping better. I discovered that I was more rested, had more bounce in my step and more energy. I started thinking better. It was like a light bulb in my body went off and told my body, OK. Everything is fine now.

Within six weeks I started to notice weight loss but I hadnt changed my eating habits, at least not intentionally. In the first four months I lost twenty-two pounds. And let me say I was not working out at all as I was too busy and didnt have the time. Today, Im at 187 pounds (thats down from 240), and I feel the best I have felt in my life. Thank you, Dr. Somerville, and vitamin D3!