Posted on 05/02/2022 6:39:34 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
A randomized controlled trial study published last week found that Vitamin D can significantly reduce your chances of contracting COVID-19, without producing any serious side effects.
The peer-reviewed study, which recruited 321 frontline healthcare workers, received follow-up from 94 participants from the group that was administered Vitamin D and 98 from the group that was not. Of those who had taken Vitamin D, 6.4% contracted COVID-19, while 24.5% of those who had not taken the vitamin were infected with the virus.
The study also found that Vitamin D is effective against COVID-19 regardless of the Vitamin D levels in the blood.
Pre-existing evidence was supportive of Vitamin D being used as a treatment for COVID-19, though less conclusive.
Vitamin D deficiency was found to be high in COVID patients admitted to the hospital. Another study suggested that insufficient vitamin D could account for almost 9 out of 10 COVID deaths. More recently, a retrospective study found that pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D is associated with increased COVID severity and mortality. With that background, vitamin D treatment seemed like a good thing to try. Studies using vitamin D as early treatment for COVID found an overall 80% improvement, and over 30% when used as a prophylactic.
But this new study is the first randomized controlled trial showing conclusively that Vitamin D is safe and effective against COVID-19, with statistical significance.
“To our knowledge, this is the first controlled study evaluating the role of [Vitamin D] supplementation as a prophylactic measure to prevent SARS-Cov-2 infection and therefore has profound clinical and public health implications,” the researchers wrote.
Some of the world’s leading physicians have been recommending Vitamin D as part of a COVID-19 treatment protocol.
In February 2021, 220 professionals – most of them doctors – from 33 countries signed a letter advocating for the use of vitamin D to treat COVID-19.
“Many factors are known to predispose individuals to higher risk from exposure to SARS-CoV-2, such as age, being male, comorbidities, etc., but inadequate vitamin D is by far the most easily and quickly modifiable risk factor with abundant evidence to support a large effect," read the letter. "Vitamin D is inexpensive and has negligible risk compared to the considerable risk of COVID-19.”
“Given its safety, we call for immediate widespread increased vitamin D intakes,” the letter added.
With the COVID-19 vaccine admittedly unable to prevent infections, it is unclear whether Vitamin D will now be mandated to stave off the virus.
On a long seminar about vitamin D which I watched from a link here on Freerepublic, the presenters said that when your shadow is shorter than your height, you not getting vitamin D from sunshine because the sun’s rays are coming through too dense an atmosphere.
It would’ve been so easy for the CDC to suggest vitamin D supplements early in the pandemic, perhaps even provide free vitamin D supplements. They did not do this because, in my opinion, they wanted their control and the public’s fear, to last through the 2020 election.
Sorry, you pressed my button by seeming to refute a scientific study, albeit one that could have been more robust, based on your one subjective anecdotal data point. Which is far more unhelpful than any acronym.
And as far as counting on Vitamin D to help, it depends entirely on your definition of help. The only real, critical help that was needed is reducing severe illness which can overwhelm hospitals, and deaths.
Even a single percentage point of help in those areas would have meant hundreds of thousands fewer hospitalizations and tens of thousands fewer deaths. Anyone with any understanding of health and nutrition knows that a rational health education campaign would have made far more than a one percentage point difference.
Early in the epidemic, the American Dental Association posted guidance for respiratory illness prevention that included Vitamin D, Vitamin C and zinc. That guidance vanished as soon as Fauci and the vaccine shills started threatening everyone posting such “misinformation.”
One dimensional thinking runs rampant through society, with deadly consequences.
Thanks.
bkmk
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33447107/
Plenty of information showing that having adequate Vitamin D levels PRIOR to infection results in lower risk of infection and lower risk of severe or fatal outcome.
It’s not a therapy , it’s a prophylactic. Apparently it will remain a top secret one, and there’s not much I can do about that.
I don’t care what you think, especially now that I know you have nothing useful to add.
Have a pleasant evening, and I won’t bother reading any reply you might have.
Bump
I’ve been taking vitamin D for many years, and I still contracted Covid-19.
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Groups at higher risk for the wuhan coronavirus have more stored iron, so I think not having a lot of stored iron is the most important factor to not have an aggressive case.
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