Joseph Mercola has accumulated a net personal wealth of over $100 million by peddling quack remedies and herbal supplements online. Mercola has also donated more than $2.9 million to the National Vaccine Information Center — one of the most prominent US anti-vaccine groups — over the past decade.
Mercola maintains two huge Facebook pages, one in English with almost 1.8 million followers and a Spanish-language version with more than 1 million, which have been used as a minefield of false claims.
The FDA has warned Mercola that it’s against the law to market dietary supplements as a treatment or cure for any disease, let alone COVID-19.
The authors of Mercola’s four meta-analyses were candid about the quality of the observational studies they were analyzing. They variously pointed out that the studies present “a high risk of bias,” their quality was “medium to low,” the results may simply mean that vitamin D is a marker of good health, rather than being a cause of good health, and that the results should be interpreted “cautiously.”
Meanwhile, Researchers in the United Kingdom randomly assigned over 6,000 volunteers to either daily doses of 3,200 IU or 800 IU of vitamin D or no supplementation. After 6 months, vitamin D takers were just as likely to catch COVID-19 as the no-supplementation group, regardless of dose. It supports idea that the results of the meta-analyses studies can be false.
That means nothing if you do not know the blood level of D3 in those in the study. I need @10,000iu a day in winter to maintain a decent level (50-80)
As for the Vitamin D, I've seen it from many sources not related Mercola. And the British government actually gave out Vitamin D supplements because of their research.
Protective Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on COVID-19-Related Intensive Care Hospitalization and Mortality: Definitive Evidence from Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis [See especially this one.]
I saw something in the BMJ about two studies that didn't find these results, but the BMJ listed some reasons why those studies may be accurate.
What you write is as biased as them saying Ivermectin, HCQ, Zinc et al do not shorten colds or flu. It is total hogwash.
Big Pharma pushed govt, to make Zicam change the formula to prevent and stop colds. They made them take the zinc gluconate glycine out of their product because people lost their sense of smell. Like it never comes back after CURING the common cold in 5 days or less. You no longer need to have a 14 day run with colds, take zinc, Vitamin C, D3 and have an almost cold. Take the anti Covid protocol and SAVE YOUR LIFE.....except big Pharma and its muscle men in government don’t like this.
Go away propagandist, your kind is not needed in intelligent discussions.