Drink your racist white milk. Okay, have some chocolate milk if it makes you feel better.
Added an extra Vitamin D to my Wife and my vitamin regime back in March 2020 on the recommendation of my Doctor daughter in law .......
We are healthy as can be...
I swear that this was discussed on the Joe Rogan podcast last spring/early summer 2020. It was speculated that British Blacks were suffering from the China flu at a higher rate because of their lower Vit D levels. Higher latitudes, less direct sunlight, lower Vit D.
I swear I just saw one of these Government Agencies poo poo the idea of Vitamin D helping for the ChiCom Flu, even though there are studies going back 12 or more years
I thought that the consensus was that vitamin D didn’t help?😵
A LOT of black people are lactose intolerant.
I'm a person of no color, and I take 2,000 IU of Vitamin D every day (not specifically for COVID prevention).
Am I culturally appropriating?
My doc put my on 50,000 IU’s per day after I tested positive for Covid. My wife and I usually take 5,000 IU’s per day so this was a significant bump. Another vitamin my doc told me to start taking is NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine). He said it helps with any kind of breathing issues. Came out of the Covid infection with a pretty mild case. Totally lost taste and smell for about 4 days and about 4 days on each side of that my taste and smell were not at 100%.
Two sources of Vit.D - one comes from animal products and the other from plants. The best combo is K2+D3.
Vitamin D must be good for many things. My ortho surgeon prescribed 5,000 iu/day for 30 days prior to joint replacement, and 30 days after.
Oh, also, if you get the Epoch Times, a few issues ago there was a LONG article on the D3 angle with Covid and the interesting thing was that over 80% of the people that got Covid real bad and were in the hospital were Vitamin D deficient. That could just simply be a result of a lot of people in say a large northern metro area being part of this study since they would most likely be deficient anyway.
This was known a year ago out of a study in Thailand I believe
This stuff was known LAST year.
There’s a reason POC in the US have a higher rate of COVID than those in Africa
You don’t say.
Well, summer is coming. Time to catch some rays and get the Vitamin D cranked up.
Darker skin results in lower body production of Vitamin D. That Vitamin D production depends on how the skin turns sun light into Vitamin D. Yes, darker skin people wearing clothes all the time outdoors ought to take Vitamin D supplements; blood tests, on average, would likely show their Vitamin D levels lower than the average for lighter skinned folks.
Sunlight and Vitamin D from our diets will help to keep us healthy.
There is some interesting data on Low Dose Aspirin and Covid Patients.
Aspirin Is “Huge Win” for Those Looking to Reduce Risk From Some of the Most Devastating Effects of COVID-19
TOPICS:CardiologyCOVID-19George Washington UniversityInfectious DiseasesPopularPublic Health
By GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MARCH 17, 2021
Researchers from the George Washington University found that aspirin may have lung-protective effects and reduce the need for mechanical ventilation, ICU admission and in-hospital mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
George Washington University researchers found low dose aspirin may reduce the need for mechanical ventilation, ICU admission and in-hospital mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Final results indicating the lung protective effects of aspirin were published today in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
“As we learned about the connection between blood clots and COVID-19, we knew that aspirin – used to prevent stroke and heart attack – could be important for COVID-19 patients,” Jonathan Chow, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and director of the Critical Care Anesthesiology Fellowship at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, said. “Our research found an association between low dose aspirin and decreased severity of COVID-19 and death.”
Over 400 patients admitted from March to July 2020 to hospitals around the United States, including those at GW Hospital, the University of Maryland Medical Center, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Northeast Georgia Health System, were included in the study. After adjusting for demographics and comorbidities, aspirin use was associated with a decreased risk of mechanical ventilation (44% reduction), ICU admission (43% reduction), and in-hospital mortality (47% reduction). There were no differences in major bleeding or overt thrombosis between aspirin users and non-aspirin users.
Preliminary findings were first published as a preprint in fall 2020. Since then, other studies have confirmed the impact aspirin can have on both preventing infection and reducing risk for severe COVID-19 and death. Chow hopes that this study leads to more research on whether a causal relationship exists between aspirin use and reduced lung injury in COVID-19 patients.
“Aspirin is low cost, easily accessible and millions are already using it to treat their health conditions,” said Chow. “Finding this association is a huge win for those looking to reduce risk from some of the most devastating effects of COVID-19.”