Posted on 02/27/2020 6:29:44 AM PST by blam
In April 2005, a virulent strain of influenza hit a maximum-security forensic psychiatric hospital for men that’s midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. John J. Cannell, a psychiatrist there, observed with increasing curiosity as one infected ward after another was quarantined to limit the outbreak. Although 10 percent of the facility’s 1,200 patients ultimately developed the flu’s fever and debilitating muscle aches, none did in the ward that he supervised.
WINTER WOES. Cold-weather wear and the sun’s angle in the winter sky limit how much ultraviolet light reaches the skin. This can add up to a deficiency in production of vitamin D, which might explain why respiratory infections are common and severe in winter.
“First, the ward below mine was quarantined, then the wards on my right, left, and across the hall,” Cannell recalls. However, although the 32 men on his ward at Atascadero (Calif.) State Hospital had mingled with patients from infected wards before their quarantine, none developed the illness.
Cannell’s ward was the only heavily exposed ward left unaffected. Was it by mere chance, Cannell wondered, that his patients dodged the sickness?
A few months later, Cannell ran across a possible answer in the scientific literature. In the July 2005 FASEB Journal, Adrian F. Gombart of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his colleagues reported that vitamin D boosts production in white blood cells of one of the antimicrobial compounds that defends the body against germs.
Immediately, Cannell says, the proverbial lightbulb went on in his head: Maybe the high doses of vitamin D that he had been prescribing to virtually all the men on his ward
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This is the one I mentioned to you
Thank you, The Mayor.
I’ve read a lot of it but have also saved it so I can go back and read it again.
I have some Cold Eeze here which is a source of zinc. I think I should start taking my multi-vitamins again.
I’m sending this to my sister and niece. They are not members but they do read threads that I send them to.
Vitamin bookmark.
Thank you.
I also take a magnesium supplement along with my D3. I read that helps with absorption.
I take 25mg zinc and 2000mg of vitamin-C daily along with my 10,000IU of D3.
63 degrees at 9:45 am and a high of 85 later this afternoon.
We will open the outside doors and windows on the west/north end when it gets to 70ish to air out and sun that part of the house.
The south end of our home, where we basically spend the day will get opened up at about 4-5 pm on both the west and east
side
We will pickup our weekly grocery order at 2 pm. The non perishables will stay in the sun about 2 hours.
We will walk probably before lunch today.
I need to add zinc too. Thanks : )
bmk
Always be careful with 'correlation' as it doesn't always equate to causation.
One thing that many forget is that the lymphatic system doesn't have a pump, like the heart does for blood, and instead requires movement from the body and muscles to function. If there is less activity in colder (i.e., winter months) than the body's systems isn't functioning as well as intended. It's a matter of getting all the right pieces into play.
Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience major complications
When you transition from taxpayer to SS/Medicare recipient; Uncle Sam wants you dead...simple as that.
I take 10,000 iu of D3 twice per day. I was diagnosed with metastatic prostrate cancer six years ago. I also take several other supplements which I believe have kept my PSA at 0.00.
Another thing, men diagnosed with prostate cancer tend to have very low D3 levels. My suggestion is to keep your D3 level close to 100, and certainly over 80. It’s al.ost impossible to have a toxic level of D3, but 200 is really too high in my opinion.
Here is a great site by Dr. Thomaas E. Levy-
https://www.peakenergy.com/
Bad linK? Just FYI.
I get all the Zinc I need from eating nuts.
It wouldn't matter if you'd do it shirtless. There isn't enough strength in the sunlight in the winter at our northern latitudes. Vitamin D is fat soluble, so you can build up the supplies in your body during the summer, but those supplies will be depleted as winter goes on.
I don't take vitamin D in the summer, but when winter gets going I start taking some. I then gradually ramp up how much I take as winter progresses.
Is there a brand of zinc that is easy on the tummy?
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Yes,
https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-Zinc-L-Carnosine-Complex-Digestive/dp/B0035BYOSA
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