Why take a flu shot when you can take cheap vitamin D3 supplements and avoid the hazards of a vaccination? In the summer if you go outdoors every day you don’t even need the supplement because you are getting your antiviral vitamin D from the ultimate source. I have had no flu or cold in the 16 years I have been taking the D3 supps. Most of the folks I know get their shots annually and still gt flu though less frequently and still get as many colds as they ever got.
Some info you will be interested in:
Vitamin D for influenza
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
Excerpt - last two paragraghs:
The Institute of Medicine recommendation for adults younger than 70 years of age is 600 IU of vitamin D daily. We are told that this would achieve a level of 50 nmol/L in greater than 97.5% of individuals.6 Regrettably, a statistical error has resulted in erroneous recommendations by the Institute of Medicine leading to this conclusion and it might actually take 8800 IU of vitamin D to achieve this level in 97.5% of the population.7 This is a serious public health blunder.
A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic.8 We urgently need a study of this intervention. The cost of vitamin D is about a penny for 1000 IU, so this treatment costs less than a dollar.
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Low Vit D levels are also strongly implicated in having a more severe course of COVID and a higher mortality rate.
I have been taking the vitamin D3 supplements for years. I very seldom get sick.