Posted on 03/11/2021 9:49:30 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
...two preprint studies posted March 7, evidence doesn't support supplementing vitamin D to stave off the virus. In one study researchers from McGill University in Canada looked at data from people who were genetically predisposed to vitamin D deficiency. They analyzed whether supplementing the nutrient might lower their risk of infection or severe illness from COVID-19. They found no evidence that supplementing vitamin D could improve coronavirus outcomes.
In another study researchers from Aristotle University in Greece compared the rates of vitamin D deficiency with rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality in 24 European countries, including Finland, Italy, the UK, and Germany. The data did not show a significant link between lower vitamin D levels in the population and higher rates of death and illness...
...it's too early to conclude that supplementing could protect people from infection or complications.
"Vitamin D has been praised for too many things even though we have very limited data for that," Dr Michael Chourdakis, lead author of the European study.
This isn't the first research to cast doubt on vitamin D as a potential coronavirus treatment. A study published in November 2020 found that large doses of vitamin D didn't reduce the severity of COVID-19 in patients.
Despite the new doubts about the merits of vitamin D for coronavirus treatment, there's a large body of research that suggests the nutrient is crucial for a healthy immune system. There's good evidence it plays a role in fighting off viral infection, which could extend to COVID-19.
A study published in October 2020 found that coronavirus patients who were given a highly potent form of vitamin D were significantly less likely to need intensive care, and none of them died. And another study found people with a vitamin D deficiency were twice as likely to be infected.
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The two studies are not yet peer-reviewed.
D3 is cheap, widely available, and it's well known people don't get enough sunlight exposure in fall, winter and spring, especially north of 34 degrees latitude or people with dark complexions.
So I'll keep taking it.
Everything that is not a huge profit maker may not be as protective against COVID-19 as previously thought, new data suggests
So, are they going to ask us to avoid it as they are with some of the vaccines?
It’s more important to know the money source behind a “study” than the study itself. It is well known that fully half of medical studies are bogus.
Figures lie and liars figure.
In my case, I just try to eat healthy and definitely spend a lot of time outdoors.
I worry about Rona as much as I worry about the flu. i.e. I don’t.
Translation: our democrat connected pharmaceutical company is unable to come up with a way to charge $1000 bucks a pill
Exactly. I’ll keep taking my D3 supplements. It’s easy and very little cost.
In the PNW mom’s slather their kids with sun block in summer and in winter ninety days of cloudy rainy weather. No wonder kids here look so anemic.
One of the main problems for the public have been the myriad of different
voices contradicting each other regarding all things COVID-19.
Fauci is the absolute worst, but everyone has followed his lead on this.
One day this. The next day that. Okay now. Not okay tomorrow.
Look at hydroxychloroquin. Trump was right all along.
Interesting because Old Man Fauci himself says he takes Vit D to build up his immunity. Wonder what the kickback was for that little quip.
It’s like chicken soup, it couldn’t hurt..................
A D3 a day keeps the covid away!....................
Vitamin D naturally produced by the sun or a pill?
If something non patented like a vitamin encroaches on a patented drug, it’s never long before an avalanche of studies appear that discredit the former. The correct conclusion in a post truth world? take vitamin D.
Vitamin D from sunlight (the only way to get it) is absorbed through the skin not through the gut. Supplements taken orally aren’t as effectively absorbed. They just run through the digestive tract and get flushed out of the body. There’s a correlation between the almost universal acceptance and overuse of sunblockers and the “epidemic” of Vitamin D deficiency.
If we can’t make money on it, the treatment doesn’t work??
I beg if vit d 3 was government controlled and cost $20,000 a pop they’d have a different report out
The sun is the absolute best source of Vitamin D.
Pills are a poor second choice, only for when sunshine is unavailable.
Wonder if the study factored the damaging aspects of rebreathing your own breathe wearing face-masks ?
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