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Pre-infection vitamin D deficiency associated with increased severity and mortality among COVID-19 patients (In hospital patients, 2.3% vs. 25.6% mortality in good vs. poor levels)
Medical Xpress / Bar-Ilan University / PLOS ONE ^ | Feb. 3, 2022 | Dr. Amiel Dror et al

Posted on 02/03/2022 6:29:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind

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Please consider checking your vitamin D levels, if in doubt of getting enough.

The current Upper Tolerable Limit is set at 2,000 IU, but it was quite a bit higher just a couple years back.

1 posted on 02/03/2022 6:29:13 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 02/03/2022 6:29:44 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

There are interesting numbers, convincing numbers, and compelling numbers. This falls into the latter category. If this study can be replicated it is no less than malpractice to fail to supplement at-risk patients with D.


3 posted on 02/03/2022 6:36:50 PM PST by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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Two years into this so-called pandemic, it boggles my mind that Vitamin D is not getting more attention.

I have yet to hear of anybody with decent levels of Vitamin D succumbing to COVID.

Get outside and get some fresh air each day (without a mask) and get some sun (without sunscreen) and take at least 2,000 IU of Vitamin D (4,000 IU is better) and you will almost never get sick.

4 posted on 02/03/2022 6:41:34 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 24 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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To: jimfree; ConservativeMind
I've been posting about Vitamin D for almost 20 years now:

The Antibiotic Vitamin (Antiviral Too)

Originally posted in 2006:

The Antibiotic Vitamin

5 posted on 02/03/2022 6:46:11 PM PST by blam
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To: All

Vitamin D3

Zinc

Elderberry

K2

Ivermectin

Stocked up on all those and got through Covid with minor hassle. Never got in my lungs. All good.

I had been prescribed an antidepressant as well but only took that one day. Didn’t like the way it made me feel and you have to avoid caffeine. Didn’t feel like I needed it.

I also megadosed on Vitamin C. But I usually do that this time of year.


6 posted on 02/03/2022 6:51:52 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: SamAdams76

Vit D tends to crater at old age. Skin loses its ability to create it from sunshine, and US latitudes make it worse.

And it’s not a typical blood test.

Not surprising we don’t hear about it.

Just another reason why the old get scythed by the virus and the young do not.


7 posted on 02/03/2022 6:58:03 PM PST by Owen
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To: ConservativeMind

I wonder if this is why they told us to slather our kids with sunscreen if they even thought of going out into the sun. Another bunch of crap I never went along with.


8 posted on 02/03/2022 6:58:57 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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Well, my sun worshipping mother had well over a dozen basal cell carcinomas removed from her back.

I’ve had one removed.


9 posted on 02/03/2022 7:00:43 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Owen

Yep, as on doctor told me.

You can get enough vitamin D if you spend an hour outdoors each day and:

* you have the skin of a 25 year old
* you are naked
* you are at the equator

If the above don’t apply to you, you’re Vitamin D deficient.


10 posted on 02/03/2022 7:24:13 PM PST by Renfrew
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To: jimfree

I saw a study that was conducted several years ago at a prison in Texas. They gave half the population regular doses of vitamin D (can’t remember the amount) and the other half a placebo. During the corresponding flu season not a single person in the treated group acquired the flu while the placebo group had what was considered to be a normal rate of infection. I recalled reading that study when the Fauci Flu hit back in March, 2020. Began dosing with 4,000 units daily plus C. Got the coof this past August. Felt crappy for a few days then like sht for a coupla days then back to normal in another week. I do believe the D made a difference.


11 posted on 02/03/2022 7:26:55 PM PST by technically right
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To: Renfrew

Good call


12 posted on 02/03/2022 7:28:22 PM PST by Owen
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To: jimfree

And I have said for years it is malpractice that doctors are not testing for vitamin D3 levels.


13 posted on 02/03/2022 7:29:26 PM PST by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: technically right

Another good call, but you CAN go too high.

Pretty hard to do. I think 60,000 IU daily for several months will go toxic.


14 posted on 02/03/2022 7:30:13 PM PST by Owen
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To: jimfree

This has been known since almost the beginning. Wonder if there’s any correlation between kids and milk..and cereal with milk..and playing outside?? Are their levels naturally higher because of their lifestyle??


15 posted on 02/03/2022 7:35:35 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ConservativeMind

I have been taking 10,000 units of Vitamin D a day. Just had a blood work up and I will see the doctor this Tuesday for the results. One of the things he is looking at is my Vitamin D level. It will be interesting to see where I stand. By the way I am 78 years old.


16 posted on 02/03/2022 7:50:16 PM PST by Parley Baer
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You take too much. Having 32 ng/ml is ideal.


17 posted on 02/03/2022 7:54:04 PM PST by TTFX ( )
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Not true. Getting to 30 mg/ml(30-80 ng/ml is usually considered the normal range) does offer great protection compared to sub normal levels and several studies showing getting to 30 is greatly beneficial, but more recent studies show that getting to 50 ng/ml is ideal and makes one almost bulletproof against Covid and other infections and more.
You need to take a K2 supplement also(unless you are eating foods rich in K2 like natto) to make sure the calcium the vitamin D will increase goes to your bones and not your arterial walls.


18 posted on 02/03/2022 8:03:31 PM PST by Kurios Ihsous
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To: ConservativeMind

I take 10,000 Its daily in winter, 5,000 in summer

had my level drawn last week: 78. Perfect

I also take K2 - extremely important (as well as magnesium)


19 posted on 02/03/2022 8:05:55 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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To: TTFX

The ideal range is 50-100


20 posted on 02/03/2022 8:06:32 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable. )
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