Presuming the supplementing you’ve been doing has ensured you will have good bioavailable Vitamin D flowing through your veins if and when your immune system needs it, how’d you fare during the recent COVID-19 unpleasantness?
Did you avoid the worst symptoms even if infected with COVID-19?
Here’s a somewhat windy answer...
My wife and I both did the Moderna two-shot sequence, the one booster each, then we both said “Never again” to that crap.
We are in northern latitudes 100 miles south of the Canadian border. We both take Vit D; I take a higher dose than my wife.. I also started the regimen recommended by many docs starting in April 2020 consisting of Quercetin, Zinc, Vit D, Vit C, NAC, and Melatonin at night. I’ve kept that regimen up almost four years now.
We rarely masked up (only when essential to get into a bank or grocery store).
We both avoided COVID until last July when we both got it on an Alaskan cruise out of Seattle. Everybody always says those boats are giant petri dishes and they were right. Our daughter and son-in-law (neither vaxxed) both got it. Daughter and SIL (mid 30s) both got a lot more sick than my wife and I.
So here are our family results from our little sample of four who were all on the cruise together:
1. Female, mid 30s, unvaxxed, no supplements. Got it July 2023, got pretty sick, and took quite a while to recover. She started getting pretty sick while ON the cruise and it ruined the second half of the cruise for her.
2. Male (SIL), mid 30s, unvaxed, no supplements. Got it July 2023, got pretty sick, and took a long time to recover.
3. Female (wife), early 70s, vaxxed & boosted. Got it July 2023. Symptoms started showing after cruise was over. Mild cold. Got over it in ten days. Did NOT take Paxlovid. No lingering problems.
4. Male (me), early 70s, vaxxed & boosted. Got it July 2023. Symptoms started showing after cruise was over. Mild cold. Got over it in ten days. Took Paxlovid on Day 5 (about too late). No lingering problems. I DID lose my sense of smell and taste (my first indication I got it), but that is back to normal.
All four of us work out quite a bit with the kids in their 30s doing more than us old-timers. My wife plays a lot of pickleball and walks a lot. I mainly hike and walk.
What to make of all that? Lots of variables there. It didn’t kill any of us, so that’s good. Nobody got severe disease, so that’s good. MAYBE the supplements and vax worked, but there’s the confounding age difference.
I used to get one or two nasty lung infections per year pre-COVID often turning into lingering bronchitis. One very good thing for me is the supplements have stopped colds and lung infections.
Sorry for the long answer, but that’s how it all played out. I think the supplements have helped me a lot and I’m keeping them going.