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.
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.
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
This isn’t news.
Meanwhile, I wonder if there’s been an uptick in kidney disease since the CoupFlu vaxxes came out...? 🤔
I take 5000+ IU’s every day......................
Too High Vitamin D can cause High Blood Pressure
“Vitamin D Deficiency Is a Potential Risk for Blood Pressure Elevation and the Development of Hypertension”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8703486/
It’s a balancing act. Too Low Vitamin D raises BP and so does too high Vitamin D.