Posted on 02/28/2022 11:45:04 AM PST by Red Badger
A study investigating the impact of vitamin D on gene expression has found significant differences between vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 supplements. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, indicate vitamin D3 may be more effective at strengthening the immune system compared to vitamin D2.
Vitamin D generally comes in two main forms: ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) and cholecalciferol (vitamin D3). Prior research has established vitamin D3 supplements are much more effective at raising a person’s blood levels of vitamin D. However, it is unclear whether there is any functional differences to human health between the two types of vitamin D supplements.
To help fill this gap in the knowledge the new research looked at data from a recently completed double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that compared the effects of vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 supplements in several hundred healthy women. A previously published study reported on the trial’s main results, affirming 12 weeks of vitamin D3 supplementation was more effective at raising blood levels of vitamin D.
The new investigation looked at the differences between the two forms of vitamin D on gene expression. In general, the researchers detected significant differences in gene expression between the vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 groups.
“Notably, following vitamin D3 supplementation, the majority of changes in gene expression reflected a down-regulation in the activity of genes, many encoding pathways of the innate and adaptive immune systems, potentially shifting the immune system to a more tolerogenic status,” the researchers wrote in the new study. “Surprisingly, gene expression associated with type I and type II interferon activity, critical to the innate response to bacterial and viral infections, differed following supplementation with either vitamin D2 or vitamin D3, with only vitamin D3 having a stimulatory effect.”
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Sanitizing is important, but it won’t protect you from airborne pathogens — and neither will a mask.
As a high school teacher, I became paranoid about washing my hands/ not touching my face (w/ glasses it’s hard not too), but over 10 years in the classroom I got the flu maybe twice, even with kids sneezing, coughing, touching everything.
If there’s one behavior our society can learn from this ridiculous, man-made catastrophe, I hope it’d be covering your cough and sneeze and not touching everything with your coughed/sneezed hands.
And yet not one of my Doctors has ever asked me about Vitamin D, or recommended it, or tested me for Vitamin D levels. They just want to push Statins.
Lemon flavored. Not bad stuff.
If you’re attached to eeeeewwwwww, you can get it plain:)
I’ve trained my docs to test for D annually...among other things. 😊
What a horrible existence you have. Why not live your life 24/7 in a hazmat suit? No one we know of uses any of that spray stuff.
this article is basically just a bunch of BS and includes nothing new ...
It is very well known that D1 is the active form of Vitamin D and that the dietary form of D is D3. D3 is first converted by the liver and kidneys into the D2 form, and the D2 form is then converted to the active D1 form under control of the parathyroid gland ...
D2 can be taken as a prescription vitamin for those VERY low in vitamin D because it’s difficult to quickly raise levels with just D3 ... D1, too, can be obtained as a prescription , but its use can be dangerous because it bypasses the controls of the parathyroid gland and excess D1 is toxic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
I dis some sanitizing when it first started (shopping cart handles, getting into the car [wiped down steering wheel, handles, etc], countertops, kitchen handles. I also washed my hands frequently. I followed Dr. Roger Seheult’s supplement recommendations from March or April 2020 (Vit D3, Vit C, Quercetin, zinc, NAC, and melatonin) and still take those every day. I added the FLCCC recommendation for Blackseed Oil a couple months ago (aka, Nigella Sativa).
After a couple months the research started showing nobody got sick from touching things, so I quit that nuisance. All that sanitizing was a huge pain in the keister. I just got back from the local fruit stand and a woman was STILL doing all those things — spritzed her hands, wiped down the cart handles.
What I HAVE noticed is that I’m not getting my one or two annual colds and frequent bouts of bronchitis after the colds. I also added a Betadine gargle, a Betadine nasal spray and a Scope mouthwash at the first sign of a sore throat. Previously, my sore throats ALWAYS progressed to full-blown colds. But I haven’t had a single cold or bronchitis episode since starting that.
Last October I really ramped up my exercise and reduced calorie consumption and my weight is down 13 pounds from July 2021. I climbed a local 1,300 foot hill a couple days ago — 5.7 miles round trip — in just over two hours a couple days ago. This 70 year old is quite happy he can still do that intense workout.
Working on getting BMI from about 25 to under 20 soon!
I have been taking D3 since 2003 and have been virus free since except for a dose of the CCP stuff in March 2020. A massive dose of D3 as prescribed by my mother-in-law as soon as I started to show symptoms ended it overnight.
Vitamin D with no subscript is the sunshine derived version and far the best. It is not so much when the weather is cold and one is covered up when outdoors or in the far north where the sun is at a low angle all the time. I have read that D2 is synthetic and D3 is plant derived.
I probably ought to look up the link before posting the following, but I am lazy right now...
An Israeli(?) study recently found that they could forecast the outcome of a patient with the Communist Chinese Flu using only two factors:
1. Age of patient
2. Vitamin D levels
Keep up the D! Zinc and some other things seem to help, too, in my opinion.
Bkmm
Not a big deal to sanitize your hands and items. Just spray with Lysol. I have a great life.
Comes from indoor life-styles. We used to be an outside people, walking to places and getting exercise, now we spend the majority of our time indoors, at desks, and computer screens................
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