The two studies are not yet peer-reviewed.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.
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..................
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??
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.