Pete from Shawnee Mission wrote: “D.D. Good morning! Thought this would interest you!”
Not impressed. Correlation vs. Causation.
Vitamin D doesn’t cause good health. It is a result of good health.
Vitamin D is the ‘sunshine vitamin’.
Healthy people tend to be more active and get more sunshine and more Vitamin D.
Unhealthy people tend to be less active and get less sunshine and less Vitamin D.
Healthy people are less susceptible to Covid.
Humm. Lets see; Your:
Good health causes Vitamin D because healthy people go out in the sun which results in Vitamin D... and unhealthy do not go out so do not get Vitamin D.
That I think is correlation. (The predicate “Good Health” is in the wrong place.
Exposure to Sunlight = D3 creation = Better health.
That is causation but you are free to believe what you want and I will not bother you about it.
For the anyone else reading this, the point of the German Study was to encourage D3 supplementation. People living in areas with little sunlight in the winter need to get their vitamin D levels up. (Cant go running naked in the northern forests of scandinavia in January, unless its from the Sauna to the hole in the ice and quickly back to the house!)
Here is what they say:
“However, a recent German study stands out from all of them because it comes the closest to proving this ironclad correlation to be causation.
Not only did the German researchers find a linear relationship between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID, they found essentially zero morbidity for those with a D level above 50 ng/mL. The reason this study is so important relative to the dozens of others tracking D levels with COVID outcomes is because it measured the levels months before the patients got COVID as well as after the infection onset. “In most studies, the vitamin D level was determined several days after the onset of infection; therefore, a low vitamin D level may be the result and not the trigger of the course of infection,” note the authors.
This study, however, followed 1,601 hospitalized patients, 784 who had their vitamin D levels measured within a day after admission and 817 whose vitamin D levels were known before infection. As an adjunct to this sample, researchers also analyzed the long-term average vitamin D3 levels documented for 19 countries. The observed median vitamin D value over all collected study cohorts was 23.2 ng/mL, which is considered insufficient.”