Posted on 08/21/2021 10:33:39 AM PDT by Signalman
New studies conclude that vitamin D can reduce your risk of developing COVID-19 as well as decrease the severity of the illness.
Experts say vitamin D boosts the immune system, which can help fight off ailments such as COVID-19.
The best way to get vitamin D is through sunshine and healthy meals, but supplements can also be used. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Some information may be out of date. Visit our coronavirus hub and follow our live updates page for the most recent information on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vitamin D is a well-known immune booster.
Now, a series of recently published studies say the supplement can also protect you from contracting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that can cause COVID-19. And vitamin D may reduce the severity of illness if you do test positive for COVID-19.
In one studyTrusted Source, University of Chicago Medicine researchers led by Dr, David Meltzer, the university’s chief of hospital medicine, found a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and risk of developing COVID-19.
The researchers studied 489 patients at the hospital and observed that those with a vitamin D deficiency (defined as less than 20 nanograms per milliliter of blood) were almost twice as likely (1.77 times higher) to test positive for the novel coronavirus than those with normal levels of vitamin D.
“These findings appear to support a role of vitamin D status in COVID-19 risk,” the researchers wrote in their retrospective cohort study.
They also called for further clinical studies on the possible link between the vitamin and the disease.
Meltzer told Healthline that he ranked getting adequate vitamin D in the diet “below masks and hygiene” in terms of COVID-19 prevention, but, “I think it should be near the top of everyone’s list.”
“There’s a lot of evidence that we should be taking [vitamin D deficiency] very seriously,” Meltzer said. “If you’re taking a reasonable dose of vitamin D, it’s hard to see how it hurts and it could help a lot.”
“If you’re deficient in vitamin D that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection,” agreed Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in a recent Instagram Live interview with actress Jennifer Garner. “I would not mind recommending and I do it myself, taking vitamin D supplements.”
Vitamin D deficiency is widespread More than 40 percent of the U.S. population is deficient in vitamin D, which can be found in food like salmon and other fatty fish, egg yolks, mushrooms, and foods fortified with the vitamin, such as milk.
Vitamin D requires exposure to sunlight to activate in the body, a unique characteristic of vitamins.
A recent meta-analysis of 40 research studies found that daily, long-term doses of vitamin D seemed to protect against acute respiratory infections. Other studies also have found associations between vitamin D levels and COVID-19 susceptibility.
Notably, a small randomized studyTrusted Source from the University of Grenada in Spain found that of 50 people with COVID-19 treated with calcifediol, a type of vitamin D, one required admission to the ICU, while 13 of 26 untreated people required admission to the ICU.
“Our pilot study demonstrated that administration of a high dose of calcifediol or 25-hydroxyvitamin D… significantly reduced the need for ICU treatment of patients requiring hospitalization due to proven COVID-19,” the study authors concluded.
Dr. Luigi Gennari, an associate professor in the department of medicine, surgery, and neurosciences at the University of Siena in Italy, recently presented data at a meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research showing a possible link between low vitamin D levels and risk of more serious COVID-19 infections.
The Italian researchers said that people who were admitted to the ICU at San Luca Hospital in Milan with severe COVID-19 symptoms had lower levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and higher levels of interleukin-6 (a protein produced by the body associated with inflammation) than those hospitalized with milder symptoms (non-ICU).
People who died from COVID-19 at the hospital also were more likely to have lower vitamin D levels than those who survived, the study found.
I knew going fishing had to be good for something!
So, how much vitamin D? I take 50,000 units twice a week.
We’ve known this about respiratory viruses and vitamin D3 blood serum levels for a long time.
Obese people have lower blood levels of vitamin D, since it is fat soluble. There is more storage area for vitamin D, so less circulates.
Obesity is also connected with blood sugar issues and diabetes, all of which are connected to covid risks.
You can take too much D which causes calcium issues. It is suggested you supplement D3 with K2. Best to get your blood level and adjust accordingly.
Also, there is the “D hammer” which is 30,000 units or 10,000 units 12 hrs apart x3. It saved my bacon back in 2020 when something hit me like a ton of bricks.
I am not a doctor, the above is synthesized from the many threads on the subject. Do your own research.
Also note that the D mentioned in the article is part of the MATH+ Protocol.
We take 4,000 units of D3 daily with K2 and zinc.
Crap article doesn’t have amount of Vitamin D.
lmao...Is this a Biden written article?
Vitamin D deficiency, obesity, and diabetes.
The CCP/CDC/WHO are not incorporating these pre-morbidities into their statistics. The proletariat can’t be trusted with this information.
I-MASK+ protocol
1,000–3,000 IU/day of D3
> So, how much vitamin D? <
A doctor in the article said that you should take a “reasonable dose”. What more do you need to know?
Now in all seriousness, I get that different people have different requirements. But I hate articles like these. There’s absolutely no guidance on what you should actually do.
I do 10,000 a day.
K2+D3 is better, it’s one pill - plus take zinc.
I’ve read that an increase in adipose tissue is an increase in ACE2 receptors which the virus needs to replicate.
Kids have very few ACE2 receptors.
get your vitamin d levels checked with a blood test
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I’m taking that much for 12 weeks because my levels are really low. I’m only to take that much until the level is back to normal
Average BMI for hospitalized COVID patients was found to be over 43 in one study. That’s remarkably overweight.
We do D3 and zinc, C, B-12.
That is what my doctor recommended once I’m done taking the high dose.
Take quercitin with the zinc.
Vitamin D is a miracle vitamin. I have been taking daily doses religiously since reading about it after mom died of pancreatic cancer. I add zinc with it now to help ward off any covid cooties.
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