Posted on 08/21/2009 2:57:34 PM PDT by decimon
Good thought. I've read that the answer is no, that it regulates the immune system both ways. But I don't think anyone knows for sure just yet.
I remember that. Maybe he’s who started all of this research.
I just realized this is the Dr. Cannell pushing a vitamin D formula on the radio.
I would take Vitamin D and cod liver oil anyway. Maybe Vit D at a lower dose than me. I take 5000 units D in one capsule each day. Made by NOW Food Products
ping...
Apparently, Vit D can act as a antiviral.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/h1n1-flu-and-vitamin-d.shtml
“... vitamin D appears to both enhance the local capacity of the epithelium to produce endogenous antibiotics and at the same time dampen certain destructive arms of the immune response, especially those responsible for the signs and symptoms of acute inflammation, such as the cytokine storms operative when influenza kills quickly.”
Dr. Cannell again. Not for nothing but I hear him in radio infomercials pushing his product from Purity Products. Nothing wrong with that but he does a financial interest in vitamin D.
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