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Israeli Study Offers Strongest Proof Yet Of Vitamin D’s Power To Fight COVID
The Times of Israel ^ | 02/03/22 | Nathan Jeffay

Posted on 02/05/2022 7:36:01 PM PST by Enlightened1

Israel scientists say they have gathered the most convincing evidence to date that increased vitamin D levels can help COVID-19 patients reduce the risk of serious illness or death.

Researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center say that the vitamin has such a strong impact on disease severity that they can predict how people would fare if infected based on nothing more than their ages and vitamin D levels.

Lacking vitamin D significantly increases danger levels, they concluded in newly peer-reviewed research published Thursday in the journal PLOS One.

The study is based on research conducted during Israel’s first two waves of the virus, before vaccines were widely available, and doctors emphasized that vitamin supplements were not a substitute for vaccines, but rather a way to keep immunity levels from falling.

Vitamin D deficiency is endemic across the Middle East, including in Israel, where nearly four in five people are low on the vitamin, according to one study from 2011. By taking supplements before infection, though, the researchers in the new Israeli study found that patients could avoid the worst effects of the disease.

“We found it remarkable, and striking, to see the difference in the chances of becoming a severe patient when you are lacking in vitamin D compared to when you’re not,” said Dr. Amiel Dror, a Galilee Medical Center physician and Bar Ilan researcher who was part of the team behind the study.

He noted that his study was conducted pre-Omicron, but said that the coronavirus doesn’t change fundamentally enough between variants to negate vitamin D effectiveness.

“What we’re seeing when vitamin D helps people with COVID infections is a result of its effectiveness in bolstering the immune systems to deal with viral pathogens that attack the respiratory system,”


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: covid; study; vaccine; vitmaind
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1 posted on 02/05/2022 7:36:01 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Yes, adequate vitamin D is important, but people are going to start OD’ing on the stuff. More is better, but too much is not.


2 posted on 02/05/2022 7:42:10 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H.L. Mencken)
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To: Pining_4_TX

What amount would you say is the max?


3 posted on 02/05/2022 7:45:39 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

32 ng/ml is the ideal level. In experiments, increasing it further doesn’t benefit.

Once the blood level reaches 32 ng/ml, the body starts deactivating vitamin d.


4 posted on 02/05/2022 7:57:53 PM PST by TTFX ( )
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To: Enlightened1

Vitamin D is actually a hormone, and very beneficial in creating immunity. It is cheap, so take every day.


5 posted on 02/05/2022 7:59:36 PM PST by entropy12
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To: Enlightened1
Fauci knew this...said he took it himself...but never pushed it. Of course not...it's not a "miraculous vaccine".

I believe there were also some stats that said blacks usually had lower Vit D counts than whites.

6 posted on 02/05/2022 8:06:20 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: TTFX

“32 ng/ml is the ideal level. In experiments, increasing it further doesn’t benefit.”

That’s the conventional thinking and it’s what the cabal wants you to believe, but it’s wrong

Levels should be at least 50 to prevent viral infection.


7 posted on 02/05/2022 8:10:22 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Pining_4_TX

A big Bowl of Fruit Loops Daily with Whole Moloko D!
.
Keeps me singing
In the Rain.


8 posted on 02/05/2022 8:15:56 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Horrorshow,droogie!


9 posted on 02/05/2022 8:28:46 PM PST by old-ager
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To: Enlightened1

Here are the study results:

Results

“Of 1176 patients admitted, 253 had records of a 25(OH)D level prior to COVID-19 infection. A lower vitamin D status was more common in patients with the severe or critical disease (<20 ng/mL [87.4%]) than in individuals with mild or moderate disease (<20 ng/mL [34.3%] p < 0.001). Patients with vitamin D deficiency (<20 ng/mL) were 14 times more likely to have severe or critical disease than patients with 25(OH)D ≥40 ng/mL (odds ratio [OR], 14; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4 to 51; p < 0.001).”

It may be that the worst effects of Covid could have been avoided by Vitamin D supplementation.


10 posted on 02/05/2022 8:36:27 PM PST by buridan
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To: TTFX

“Once the blood level reaches 32 ng/ml, the body starts deactivating vitamin d.”

total bullshit on both accounts:

1. D3, the dietary form is NOT the active form: D1 is the active form, so D3 has to be converted to D1 in the body, and this occurs by first converting it to D2, which is then converted into D1, but D1 conversion is tightly controlled by parathyroid hormone, so it’s quite difficult to take too “dangerous” amounts of D3 ... because low D1 levels are difficult to raise, i know doctors who prescribe 50,000 units of D3 daily until levels are raised ...

2. NUMEROUS studies have shown that >50 ng/ml D3 offers numerous health benefits ...


11 posted on 02/05/2022 9:09:46 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science ...)
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To: Enlightened1; All

4,000 mg daily is ideal.


12 posted on 02/05/2022 9:22:16 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Amazing the Human race survived all these millennia Without a guy in a White Jacket telling
Everyone what to eat and How Much !
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We should have stayed in the Primordial Swamp,
A lot less Stressful.


13 posted on 02/05/2022 9:25:28 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Yup


14 posted on 02/05/2022 9:26:01 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Cobra64

I take 10000 D3 daily / K2 / magnesium. I get my D3 levels tested and they are at 75 ng/ml. I am shooting for 90 ng/ml. And no stinkin spike protein vaxxx for me! D3 is my vax, in a good way.


15 posted on 02/05/2022 9:26:46 PM PST by dennisw
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To: Cobra64

oops.... 4000 iu not mg


16 posted on 02/05/2022 9:30:36 PM PST by nicotinefiend (....now nicotineFREE!!!)
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To: dennisw
See the source image

10000 units is the least expensive way to buy D3. Take this 3-4 times a week if one daily is too much for you. This one can be found at Amazon, though last time I bought two at Walmart on line.

17 posted on 02/05/2022 9:34:29 PM PST by dennisw
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To: Enlightened1

“vitamin D3 has such a strong impact on disease severity that they can predict how people would fare if infected based on nothing more than their ages and vitamin D levels”


18 posted on 02/05/2022 9:42:39 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Pining_4_TX

Been taking Carlsons Norwegian Cod Liver Oil every day for at least 20 years. I care very much where cod comes from, Norway has the cleanest waters. Expensive, but my MD prescribes it, which makes it a deductible medical expense.

My Health food store hs annual 35% off sale every year so I order 3 bottles for the price of two. I’m a very small person, so don’t ned to take tablespoon per day, teaspoon is enuff. And of course in summer,I sit out in the sun before 8 a.m. for 20 minutes, which gives same benefits.

Do it, my FRiends.


19 posted on 02/05/2022 10:29:45 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness offends me)
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To: Pining_4_TX; All

Yours is an idiotic assumption.

People working in the sun all day make way more vitamin d than they’d ever take from bottled supplements and they are not OD’ing from too much vitamin d. There is no epidemic of sunbathers or groundskeepers having vitamin d overdoses due to high sun exposures. Never in recorded history.

Most people are deficient in vitamin d. In the winter that deficiency increases. As you age, your body can’t utilize it as well as when you’re young, so you need more.


20 posted on 02/05/2022 10:29:49 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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