Posted on 02/03/2022 6:29:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Vitamin D is most often recognized for its role in bone health, but low levels of the supplement have been associated with a range of autoimmune, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases. Early on in the pandemic health officials began to encourage people to take vitamin D, as it plays a role in promoting immune response and could protect against COVID-19.
In a study researchers show a correlation between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 severity and mortality.
The study is among the first to analyze vitamin D levels prior to infection, which facilitates a more accurate assessment than during hospitalization, when levels may be lower secondary to the viral illness.
The records of 1,176 patients admitted between April 2020 and February 2021 to the Galilee Medical Center (GMC) with positive PCR tests were searched for vitamin D levels measured two weeks to two years prior to infection.
Patients with vitamin D deficiency (less than 20 ng/mL) were 14 times more likely to have severe or critical case of COVID than those with more than 40 ng/mL.
Strikingly, mortality among patients with sufficient vitamin D levels was 2.3%, in contrast to 25.6% in the vitamin D deficient group.
The study adjusted for age, gender, season (summer/winter), chronic diseases, and found similar results across the board highlighting that low vitamin D level contributes significantly to disease severity and mortality.
"Our results suggest that it is advisable to maintain normal levels of vitamin D. This will be beneficial to those who contract the virus," says Dr. Amiel Dror.
"This study contributes to a continually evolving body of evidence suggesting that a patient's history of vitamin D deficiency is a predictive risk factor associated with poorer COVID-19 clinical disease course and mortality," said Prof. Michael Edelstein.
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The current Upper Tolerable Limit is set at 2,000 IU, but it was quite a bit higher just a couple years back.
There are interesting numbers, convincing numbers, and compelling numbers. This falls into the latter category. If this study can be replicated it is no less than malpractice to fail to supplement at-risk patients with D.
I have yet to hear of anybody with decent levels of Vitamin D succumbing to COVID.
Get outside and get some fresh air each day (without a mask) and get some sun (without sunscreen) and take at least 2,000 IU of Vitamin D (4,000 IU is better) and you will almost never get sick.
The Antibiotic Vitamin (Antiviral Too)
Originally posted in 2006:
Vitamin D3
Zinc
Elderberry
K2
Ivermectin
Stocked up on all those and got through Covid with minor hassle. Never got in my lungs. All good.
I had been prescribed an antidepressant as well but only took that one day. Didn’t like the way it made me feel and you have to avoid caffeine. Didn’t feel like I needed it.
I also megadosed on Vitamin C. But I usually do that this time of year.
Vit D tends to crater at old age. Skin loses its ability to create it from sunshine, and US latitudes make it worse.
And it’s not a typical blood test.
Not surprising we don’t hear about it.
Just another reason why the old get scythed by the virus and the young do not.
I wonder if this is why they told us to slather our kids with sunscreen if they even thought of going out into the sun. Another bunch of crap I never went along with.
Well, my sun worshipping mother had well over a dozen basal cell carcinomas removed from her back.
I’ve had one removed.
Yep, as on doctor told me.
You can get enough vitamin D if you spend an hour outdoors each day and:
* you have the skin of a 25 year old
* you are naked
* you are at the equator
If the above don’t apply to you, you’re Vitamin D deficient.
I saw a study that was conducted several years ago at a prison in Texas. They gave half the population regular doses of vitamin D (can’t remember the amount) and the other half a placebo. During the corresponding flu season not a single person in the treated group acquired the flu while the placebo group had what was considered to be a normal rate of infection. I recalled reading that study when the Fauci Flu hit back in March, 2020. Began dosing with 4,000 units daily plus C. Got the coof this past August. Felt crappy for a few days then like sht for a coupla days then back to normal in another week. I do believe the D made a difference.
Good call
And I have said for years it is malpractice that doctors are not testing for vitamin D3 levels.
Another good call, but you CAN go too high.
Pretty hard to do. I think 60,000 IU daily for several months will go toxic.
This has been known since almost the beginning. Wonder if there’s any correlation between kids and milk..and cereal with milk..and playing outside?? Are their levels naturally higher because of their lifestyle??
I have been taking 10,000 units of Vitamin D a day. Just had a blood work up and I will see the doctor this Tuesday for the results. One of the things he is looking at is my Vitamin D level. It will be interesting to see where I stand. By the way I am 78 years old.
You take too much. Having 32 ng/ml is ideal.
Not true. Getting to 30 mg/ml(30-80 ng/ml is usually considered the normal range) does offer great protection compared to sub normal levels and several studies showing getting to 30 is greatly beneficial, but more recent studies show that getting to 50 ng/ml is ideal and makes one almost bulletproof against Covid and other infections and more.
You need to take a K2 supplement also(unless you are eating foods rich in K2 like natto) to make sure the calcium the vitamin D will increase goes to your bones and not your arterial walls.
I take 10,000 Its daily in winter, 5,000 in summer
had my level drawn last week: 78. Perfect
I also take K2 - extremely important (as well as magnesium)
The ideal range is 50-100
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