Can you guess the #1 vitamin deficiency behind vertigo?
DATA:
0:00 Introduction: BPPV explained
0:38 What causes vertigo?
1:15 The Dix-Hallpike test
3:00 The Epley maneuver
4:48 What causes calcium crystals?
7:35 The best remedy for BPPV
9:00 Learn more about vitamin D deficiency!
Today I want to cover a very specific type of vertigo called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).
This type of vertigo makes you feel like you’re spinning when you’re not, and it’s the #1 cause of dizziness.
This condition is typically caused by a calcium crystal that has broken off and is in the canals of the inner ear that control equilibrium and balance.
There is a simple test called the Dix-Hallpike test that you can do at home to help determine if you have this type of vertigo.
Check with your doctor before doing this test to ensure you don’t have an issue with your cervical spine that could prevent you from rotating your neck.
After you perform the test and determine which side is causing a problem, you can try the Epley maneuver. The goal of this maneuver is to create different motions to slowly move the calcium crystal out of the ear.
An interesting systematic review and meta-analysis done in 2020 showed an association between low vitamin D and BPPV.
Vitamin D supports the absorption and transportation of calcium. It's important to note that some people have a genetic issue that causes normal vitamin D levels in the blood but not the tissues.
I believe one of the best natural remedies for BPPV is a combination of vitamin D3 and vitamin K2. For every 10,000 IU of vitamin D3, you would want 100 mcg of vitamin K2. Talk to your doctor about taking 50,000 IU of vitamin D3 and 500 mcg of vitamin K2 once a week for BPPV.
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Thanks for watching! Talk to your doctor about these tips for BPPV. I’ll see you in the next video.
60 responses to “The #1 Vitamin Deficiency Behind Vertigo”
Thank you Dr. Berg for this information, however – I personally, experience Vertigo as an allergic reaction to “food” that I am allergic to. Particularly DAIRY food products. I haven’t been able to drink milk for years, due to Virtigo allergic reaction 😢 I just wish more doctors would become aware of the connection of Virtigo as a reaction to certain foods.
@flamingpie herman Yes, I think we underestimate the effects stress has on our bodies, and it seems to vary so much with each individual.
@Celia Cavalli Me too. It certainly can’t hurt. Hopefully. 😏
I used to suffer with this for years. Even came on at times when I was at work. MD did test but could not give a definite answer or solution. Had to sleep sitting up, could not stand light or noise. Worse feeling ever. I’m taking Vit D, found out years later I was deficient in that along with iron. Have not had that in over five years and hope it never happens again. So Dr. Berg you hit the nail on the head 😀
So true, foods heavy with MSG does it to me and my wife both. Flavored snacks are our worst problem. Doritos, Fritos etc. Chunky soup does it to us also. We are very careful of what we eat now.
@Nan’s Global Kitchen
Could you please share how you flush your ears ?! Thanks ❤
Oh my gosh I suffer from vertigo it’s terrible. Thank you Dr Berg for your help I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy
Her a chriopractec adjustment on the atlas and c1 it’s fixed my vertigo
@Nancy Roger yup. I’ve had it too twice in my life. It was really bad. Throwing up all night/day because of the fast spinning. Only the exercise of laying on a bed and doing that head movement thing twice a day made it go away after 10 days
I would wish it on Bill Gates no problem.
@Badass Mother 😂
@Badass Mother be careful on what you wish to others
Wow, that was the same position I was lying in when this condition first attacked me. It was crazy. My horizontal and vertical went crazy flipping back and forth. It was first thing in the morning calm and and serene from waking up and I turned my neck to the right with a pillow under my neck and upper shoulder, to look towards a clock, I turned my head back and BAM all that hit me and I went into dry heave vomit mode. It was pretty wild 😂😂😂
This is exactly what happened to me this time a year ago, I rolled to the right to check my clock, and quicker then I can describe I was being thrown from wall to wall. Violent was the only word I had to describe it. I had no idea what was happening, talk about ice cold fear. I thought maybe I had a brain tumor. I had no idea what vertigo was about. Three and a half months ago I finally stopped having symptoms. And I’m trying not to live in fear of it returning.
Vertigo feels like being out of sync with Earth’s rotation, which spins at approximately 1,040 mph at the equator. I wonder if one could experience vertigo at the North or South Poles, where the rotation speed is significantly less.
@Blazer Chris Mine lasted about a year. I have had scarier conditions that stayed longer, but this is severely disorientating. Your inner vertical and horizontal goes really haywire and you quickly go from a serene nothing to what seems like a 100 mph in your head. Stay well!
@SFzip Hmm, that would be an interesting question. I live at 36° North and I believe I read the earth spins about 750 mph at these latitudes. Fastest at the equator of course.
@Frank Taylor ⁷ùuýyý
My husband suffered with debilitating vertigo for 20 years. One morning we were about to have our morning coffee and he said, “I don’t think I’m going to have coffee today because I start feeling bad after I drink it”. He did not experience any vertigo from that day since and it’s been about 1year. He found that any consumption of caffeine, whether it be tea, coffee, soda, would bring on the vertigo. I hope this helps someone, God bless❤
Wow my pops does drink a lot of coffee Hmmm thanks Bronx Love 183
Yeah, I think it’s related to dehydration. I started drinking coffee later in life and now I need to stop, doesn’t seem to be good for me.
I don’t know about coffee, but I do get issues when my stomach isn’t good. Can be triggered by coffee, tea or just hunger.
Yeap, coffee is affecting a lot to our body and got that too after being a coffee drinker for years.
same here specially black tea
My spouse had this years ago and we were terrified he was having a stroke. The epley maneuver worked. He used it occasionally naybe twice a year, but since going on Vit D3 plus K2, he hasn’t had any issues. It’s been many years.
Good to hear that. Thank you for sharing. Mind to tell which brand of vitamin D3 and K2 you bought?
My dear mother passed away three months ago. She had this problem for a few years. She saw many doctors but her problem never went away😢. Live long doctor Berg🙏. The world would have been much better if we had more doctors like you. God bless you❤️
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@MissEN ❤️
She might hade migraines without the headache. Many doctors don’t have a clue..
I suffered from vertigo a couple of years ago. I did the Epley Maneuver and it stopped. A year later I began taking Dr. Berg’s D3 K2. Thank you Doctor for great supplements.
The Eply Maneuver is a life saver!
What is apley thing?
A maneuver that is supposed to put the ear crystals back in place with bppv.
I had this happen to me several years ago. I told my doctor that it feels like you’re on a boat in the ocean during a hurricane. She said it’s the most benign condition someone can have that makes you feel like you are dying. She is right. She got me to do the lying back while turning my head and watched my eyes. It was on the right side and the right eye is the eye that showed the reaction. It was horrible. I couldn’t close my eyes or be in a dark room and turn over in the bed without feeling like I was in a violently rolling boat. I did the maneuver and helped some, but it took me months to get over it completely. I still sometimes have some dizziness, but it’s a piece of cake compared to the BPPV. I take your Vitamin D3/K2 supplement, but I will up the amount for now.
Try B1 also it helped me a lot.
BPPV is horrid.
draw the mark of an X on a piece of paper,cellotape it to a door at eye level……….Then take step back and fixing your eyes on the X,then very quickley turn your head right and left 20times,keeping your eyes fixed on the X at all times….This eye exercise relieves the symptoms for me, and maybe for others that get vertigo.What triggers vertigo for me is when I am moving from one place to another in quick succession.
This makes so much sense given my case and symptoms!!
I have crohns, vitiligo, and now a severe hearing loss caused by a vertigo episode. I also have the sensation of something in my throat which you’ve mentioned can be solved with calcium lactate.
It’s very clear vitamin D is a major key here and your videos are helping me put all these puzzle pieces together to heal naturally. Thank you!
I’ve got it twice after using cheap in-ear headphones. 1 time it lasted a week and a half and the other just under a week and was intense! The two incidents were about a year or so apart but thankfully I noticed the pattern. Never used them again and never had that problem again. Hopefully this helps someone.
After Covid, I suffered for months with spinning inside my head and spinning the room. Both were going, sometimes in opposite directions.
On D3 for years, but it certainly got better after I added K2.
It can be brought on by a virus as well. I still suffer from vertigo occasionally
I started developing this last month. I was so certain I was vitamin D deficient, so I got my blood work done. Turns out not only am I not deficient I am way too high to the point where it could be very dangerous. The moment I stopped supplementing, I felt a lot better, and my vitamin D levels are probably going down to normal now. Just FYI, overdoing vitamin D can lead to the same calcium issues as low vitamin D.
@Nabiyah1 286 nmol/L if in Canada or 115 ng/mL in other places
The most important thing was that symptoms occurred for me at that point maybe it wouldn’t for other people but it was the symptoms that made me realize that I should go get checked
@Jennifer Berkel most multivitamins a waste. In and out.
@Jennifer Berkel probably a multi mineral is best. If we eat right, we get enough vitamins plus its in our bodies .
@Jennifer Berkel .
@PB that’s debatable. I would recommend the gummies or chewable ones only cause there already broken down before reaching the stomach
I’m glad you mentioned K2! A couple years ago I was starting to have vertigo upon lifting my head off the pillow in the morning. This was happening for several days in a row. I then learned that certain foods could exacerbate the problem (like coffee or chocolate) and in my case I thought it might have been dark chocolate (because I didn’t drink coffee) so I stopped it completely.
Having heard that calcium crystals could be the cause, and knowing that K2 helps drive calcium out of soft tissue and into the bones, I immediately upped my intake of K2 by adding an extra 100 mcg. Since I was already taking 5K to 10K of D3 I didn’t bother increasing my D3 intake. In any case the problem immediately went away, never to return. And to top it off I can still eat a couple squares of 85% dark chocolate every day with no issues but I have continued to take the extra vitamin K2 along with the vitamin D3.
I used to have this terrible vertigo experience very often since I started taking D3& K2 after listening yours pervious lectures I started feeling much better now I know the reason after listening to this lecture & I will try this more seriously on that proportions, Thanks Dr Berg
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I’ve had this thing twice in my life. The last time was last year. The only cure for this seemed to be doing certain movements like you showed in this video. Both of those incidents lasted about 10 days total before it was totally gone. Every time I’d move my head even a little bit my eyes would do exactly that and the whole room was spinning fast multiple times a second. So I was throwing up a lot and only a specific exercise helped to get rid of it.
I don’t understand how people here in the comments say that they or someone they knew had this for years. It’s must’ve been mild for them because in this condition you literally can’t even walk without hitting walls and throwing up right after because where ever you look everything spins so fast just by moving your head even a little bit
Woke up to room spinning violently. I have a colorful painting on my wall and I could see the all the colors on it whirrling around the room at 10,000 miles per hour. Only thing that stopped it was sitting up. Threw up for the next few hours literally crawling to the toilet because I couldn’t walk straight. Was the worst thing I ever experienced. I slept sitting up for the next week because I was terrified of laying down. Sleeping sitting up gets achy. For 3 days after the vertigo, every time I turned around even slightly I would get nauseous. Packed fresh ginger to chew on at work to help with the nausea. Like you said, I don’t know how people live with it for years, must be milder than what I experienced. Now when someone tells me they have vertigo it literally horrifies me. I have PTSD from it.
@LemonBar Yeah. I sat down and tried to sleep like that too the first time i had it because i was too afraid to move my head in any direction lol. But after going to the doctor and getting a prescription for nausea the days went easier, even though everything was spinning still I didn’t feel the overwhelming urge to vomit.
Note that the Dix-Hallpike test and the Epley maneuver are for diagnosing and treating BPPV in the posterior canal. There are two more canals in each inner ear that can be affected by BPPV, and there are corresponding test/maneuvers for those two, as well.
Which are?!
This condition is soo scary. I had an episode while I was driving about two weeks ago 😬😳 Per usual, I missed work and felt like I couldn’t do anything. Thank God for your useful videos Dr. Berg!!! 👏🏾
Terrifying ,I’ve had this too while driving ,
This is amazing. I was diagnosed with BPPV about 15 years ago. I woke up one Sunday morning and the room kept spinning for no reason. I went to the ER because I was so scared. They said it was caused by a combination of a sinus infection and me recently traveling by plane. They prescribed meds that only made me sleep but I was down for over 3 weeks. Finally, an ENT did the epley maneuver to put my crystals back in my inner ear. I have suffered with vertigo off and on ever since. This makes me feel so much better. Thank you for the work that you do.
My 104 y.o. grandmother has been having this the last few years. It’s amazing how these videos come up at the time needed. Thank you!
This makes a lot of sense for me personally. I had this version of vertigo in the winter of 2019-2020 and was so freaked out because it was happening to me all of a sudden at the age of 47. Because of the cold I was indoor all the time. These days I take the 10,000 IU with K2 pills daily. I feel great! Thank you doc!