They come in easy-to-swallow softgels.
I have taken one per day (in organic coconut oil) and only been sick once this winter, and that was just the general cold.
People are not taking sufficient quantities of Vitamin D.
Ditto, Vit D deficiency is rampant and my level was quite low.
I take that and a probiotic and avoid sugar, especially in flu season.
Yup. If you get enough sunlight on your skin you can produce your own Vitamin D... but that isn't really feasible in the winter.
I don't take any Vitamin D supplements, but I consume a lot of pickled herring in the winter to boost my Vitamin D intake.
One day last month I came down with something that felt like it was going to turn into a VERY bad cold. I had a phlegmy cough, headachy from sinus pressure, etc. I put oregano essential oil into a diffuser to get the vapors in my house. The next day the cold was gone. First real illness I've had in three or four years.
I take that and Kyolic Garlic, had the sniffles, but nothing serious thank God.
Vitamin D3 would’ve probably saved this teacher. If you get the flu take 20k or 25k IU every day for 3,4 days. Buy it at WalMart about $6 for 240 gel caps of 5,000 IU.
And how does it do that?
The sialic acid receptors that the influenza virus uses to get inside the cells and wreak havoc are exactly the same, regardless of whether or how much vitamin D you take. The only method known to prevent influenza virus from entering cells is to have a good active immune response. And you only develop active immunity through exposure to a pathogen. There is no way taking vitamin D can substitute for induction of active immunity.
Vitamin D3 5,000IU prevents the flu.
Bullshit.
Show me the actual studies that prove that claim.