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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Just to clarify: Vitamin D is produced when UV-B rays from the sun turn cholesterol in the skin into the vitamins in question. It can be absorbed orally when taken with food since it’s fat-soluble.
It is fact that the medical community has not and does not study the benefits of vitamins. They just refuse to study how vitamins impact our health. My cyncal side says this is because they can’t profit from cheap, readily available vitamin supplements.
I read the book “A Statin Nation” by D. Malcolm Kendrick. Hint: he hates Statins. In that book he says we know little to nothng about the correct doses of Vitamins for optimal health because of the almost complete absense of medical studies. His own belief is that the “daily recommended doses” are far too low, but who knows?
He also mentions how studies are doctored. Medical researchers studying the benefits of Vitamin K will use K1, when K2 and K3 have the most benefit as supplements. Then they will declare “no evidence that Vitamin K is beneficial” when they have studied the wrong variety of vitamin K supplement.
If I was a cynic, I would say they are stacking the deck against vitamin supplements to keep us sicker and more in need of expensive drugs.
MAY NOT ?
Science is never really settled!!!!
....there’s a large body of research that suggests [Vitamin D3] 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......
The preponderance of evidence is still that Vitamin D3 can stave off covid!!!!
After checking their stuff for years, I have no trust in any thing put out by the Business Insider.
This study is horse manure aimed at steering the public to exorbitantly expensive treatments when the preventatives can be had for pennies on the dollar.
I’ve been taked 5000-10000 IU of D3 / K2 since February of last year. I work in a 110 bed hospital and have been around COVID patients on a regular basis. My wife contracted the virus at her work (bank branch) and subsequently passed it on to her mother and some other family members. Despite being in constant proximity to her I remained fine. Haven’t missed a day of work since this “crisis” began.
Sure, lack of underlying conditions is a factor but I am certain that Vitamin D, especially D3, plays a key role in warding off the virus. To argue otherwise is to likely have a financial motive.
“Everything we think we know is probably wrong”.
Oh goody! Another fu*king study!
Sunlight is best, but few of us spend the solid hour daily with sun hitting enough of our exposed skin to get all of the Vitamin D we need. For the rest of us, the vast majority of us, we are left with the pill to make up the difference.
Right today, wrong tomorrow, but right again later. So much BS flying around we all becoming buried in it.
I did what I could to get good sun exposure last year in those prime hours. Also gave me fresh air exposure and UV.
Business Stuff
Add Zinc to your supplements.
I remember a pill back in the 70s that was called “Sunshine”.
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Was it brown?
And the new world order of everyone is a genius and correct yet again shows why the populace gives them, their suggestions, their mandates a concerted ho-hum as they waffle back and forth ad nauseum.
No...orange...and small.....supposedly it gave some the desire to jump through a “Window Pane”
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If I was a cynic, I would say they are stacking the deck against vitamin supplements to keep us sicker and more in need of expensive drugs.
“This isn’t the first research to cast doubt on vitamin D as a potential coronavirus treatment.”
They probably put some already at least half dead people near a window for a few minutes, then reported that they weren’t healed. I’ll keep taking my supplement on days when I don’t get out. Treatments don’t advance the agenda, especially not inexpensive treatments.
The treatment didn’t heal the morbidly obese 85 year old lung cancer patient? Well, then the treatment is ineffective!!
56 STUDIES;
https://c19vitamind.com/
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