Posted on 05/27/2024 1:10:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased risks for cardiovascular mortality and chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression in patients with early-stage disease, according to a study.
Yanhong Lin and colleagues examined the effects of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) deficiency on cardiovascular mortality and kidney outcomes in patients with early-stage CKD. The analysis included 9,229 adult patients with CKD (stages 1 to 3) from 19 medical centers across China (January 2000 to May 2021).
The researchers found that compared with patients having 25(OH)D ≥20 ng/mL, a there was a significantly higher risk for cardiovascular mortality (hazard ratio, 1.90) and CKD progression (hazard ratio, 2.20) as well as a steeper annual decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (estimate, −7.87 percent per year) in those with serum 25(OH)D <10 ng/mL.
"In conclusion, 25(OH)D deficiency was common in patients with early-stage CKD," the authors write. "Vitamin D status should be closely monitored in patients with early CKD."
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I was just reading an Epoch Times article about how statins, that have become so prevalent, are the cause of many issues with covid. Statins suppress cholesterol, which the body needs to form Vitamin D. I wish I could post the entire article, but there’s a paywall. Here’s an excerpt:
In 2013, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommended that everyone between the ages of 65 and 75 who were at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (nearly everyone) be prescribed a statin drug. Then, by 2019, statins were a $10 billion market, and over 92 million people—35 percent of the U.S. population—mostly older adults, were taking statin drugs. This number was a threefold increase from the previous decade. By 2020, the United States ranked sixth in the world in per capita statin use.
So in 2019, the American public was about as saturated with statins as we had ever been.
The perhaps unintended result was that statin saturation rendered many seniors vulnerable to devastating outcomes from an infectious illness such as COVID-19. That cumulative vulnerability, which peaked in 2019, likely represented the lowest point of collective immune capability, and those extremes crested right before COVID-19 hit, as I will show in this article.
Statin drugs lower a person’s cholesterol, and cholesterol is not a luxury but rather a necessity for forming the vitamin D molecule—the conductor of the symphony, so to speak, of the human immune system.
Three organs are involved in your vitamin D production: first, the skin, then the liver, and finally, the kidneys. This is to take vitamin D to where it’s fully activated for its role as the executive director of all of a person’s immune function, as in the diagram below.
Vitamin D is the gateway nutrient to the proper functioning of the rest of the immune system, and was especially crucial in battling COVID-19, as I showed in over 130 study references to vitamin D’s role against COVID-19 and other infectious illnesses—in both treatment and prevention—in my 2021 book, “The Defeat of COVID.” Both those with higher blood lab values of vitamin D and those who supplemented vitamin D vanquished COVID-19 much more readily—with respect to lower hospitalization and lower deaths—than those who avoided vitamin D or who were deficient in it.
just take a pill. Obama.
Most people in North America are deficient, getting sun is also problematic because of skin cancer. If there was a single nutrient that people should supplement - Vitamin D is probably the one. Sunny days aren’t enough, much of the year the atmosphere is too thick. One doctor suggests D supplements year round - not just the winter months, to ensure an adequate level.
Lots of red meat, eggs, butter, and fish. This is key to a healthy lifestyle. This is how to lower your cholesterol to healthy levels. Since I went to eating 3-6 eggs per day, my cholesterol has dropped to 177.
They lied to us.
It seems like of all the vitamins, D is probably one of the most important for overall health and one most people are deficient in.
Mankind was not made to live indoors all the time.
God created Adam and Eve and put them in a garden.
Basically, just do opposite of what typical, conventional modern medicine advises and you’ll be healthier for it.
Because over the decades, I have noticed that everything conventional medicine sneers at that the natural health community advocates has come to be beneficial.
FINALLY, conventional medicine finds a *study* that demonstrates what natural medicine has stated all along and they act as if they made this amazing new discovery, and paint themselves as heroes after destroying the health of so many for so long.
FWIW, mr. mm’s grandmother died in her mid-90’s and we found paperwork of some of her health care, and a couple years before she passed, her cholesterol was 350+.
Its really a pro-hormone. please remember, that depending on where you live, plus time of year, you will not be able to get from being outdoors.
Best course of action is to have your blood levels checked, and supplement when necessary. Yes,it is extremely important to maintaining good health.
I think the skin cancer risk is overblow, but that’s just my opinion, FWIW.
That said, in some locales, it’s just not physically possible to get adequate sunlight producing UV.
Vitamin D is amazing. It is essential for good health and organ function in so many ways.
I take a 5,000 IU supplement in the winter, but now I’m out in the sun. Just got back from a 5.5 mile hike at the Charleston Slough on the San Fran Bay. Glorious sunshine!
but one problem with D is it causes stones which in turn damage kidneys further- but apparently taking with Vit K-2 will help offset that
I stayed out of the sun (in Miami) until retiring. 25 years later, I made a real effort to get out in the sun while it was shining.
Eventually, kidney stones came about. (one, small, but painful). Now my diet is free of oxalates (celery/spinach and many more).
Freed of kidney stones, I’ve been on stations for 40 years, even receiving encouragement: doctors saying statins slowly remove circulatory plaque from body AND BRAIN...!
Mr. mm also has kidney stones and needs to watch his oxalates, but one interesting thing he found out is that if you eat oxalates with calcium, they bind in digestion and are less likely to cause future stones.
Also, the dr told him to cut back on nuts. He had looked at his labs and asked him if he was doing a lot of nuts, which he had been since they are so good for you in most ways, unless you have kidney stones. He said he had, and the dr told him to cut back again ( but no need to eliminate)
Uh-Oh.
Somewhere I’d read that cashews were good for you, so I’ve been snacking on cashews—by the pound!
Might want to check out lists of high oxalate foods. There are plenty online.
This isn’t news.
Meanwhile, I wonder if there’s been an uptick in kidney disease since the CoupFlu vaxxes came out...? 🤔
20 Foods High in Oxalates to Limit if You Have Kidney Stones
https://www.livestrong.com/article/436995-foods-with-high-oxalate-uric-acid/
I had my first case of skin cancer before I was 30. And I’ve never been a sun worshipper.
I still try to get about 90 minutes unprotected a week. If I’m out longer I’ll wear protective clothing. I don’t use sunscreen because I haven’t found one yet that stays on me long enough to bother with.
Had my D level checked for the first time ever during the coof (never got an explanation for why it was tested which was interesting).
But I also take a multivitamin and eat a decent diet.
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