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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Rock on, for sure! Are you in a sunny climate
and outside a lot ?

I have two friends now who’ve had to go on
50K IU a week to fix their deficiencies.


4 posted on 11/13/2009 3:11:16 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE; fanfan
Canada looks at Vitamin D for Swine Flu Protection

Snips: Canada appears to be one of the first countries to literally “see the light.”

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has confirmed that it will be investigating the role of vitamin D in protection against swine flu.

The agency started a study last year on the role of vitamin D in severe seasonal influenza, which it said it will now adapt to the H1N1 swine flu virus.

Dr. John Cannell, founder of the Vitamin D Council, first introduced the hypothesis that influenza is merely a symptom of vitamin D deficiency in the paper Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D, published in the journal Epidemiology and Infection two years ago, followed up with another study published in the Virology Journal last year.

The findings were confirmed by a new study -- the largest and most nationally representative of its kind to date -- that involved about 19,000 Americans. It found that people with the lowest blood vitamin D levels reported having significantly more recent colds or cases of the flu.

6 posted on 11/13/2009 3:13:13 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: STARWISE

Star,

I am in the NE USA - not a lot of sun exposure in winter.

In regards to safety, you could take 100,000 for weeks with
not side effects.

For lurkers... make sure you take the D3 form.


9 posted on 11/13/2009 3:15:32 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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