Type 2 have ‘metabolic syndrome’. Obesity & high blood pressure, for example, are co-morbidities of COVID & are symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome means lots of inflammation, so if you’re already inflamed, the COVID cytokine storm stacks on top of that. Your Vit D is generally low with metabolic syndrome - if it is in the 60-80 ng/ml range rather than down around 20-25, I’ve seen it said that the cytokine storm doesn’t/cannot develop. Also, BMI is not that useful (doesn’t account for race, as an example). A better determinant is that your waist measurement should be half or less than your height - if more, that’s an indication you may have metabolic syndrome.
My height keeps shrinking, though...that’s not fair.
A better determinant is that your waist measurement should be half or less than your height
Exactly what I told my Doc when he said I should lose some weight. I told him I needed a drug that made me taller.
Two things, he laughed, and I listened and lost 60 lbs.
Read a Japanese study about 10 years ago that discussed vitamin D and the reduction of viral infection, so I started to take it every winter to avoid being infected from the winter office bugs. It worked.
The only time I got a bug was the year I forgot to start vitamin D that winter.
Met a couple people today who were in their late 60’s and early 70’s at a Republican picnic who are going the D route and not going for the jab.
I’m a first medical first responder with a co-morbidity so took the jab 2 months ago but if I was retired I wouldn’t have.