Posted on 12/27/2020 5:53:04 AM PST by billorites
Stop waiting for a miracle drug: A Boston University doctor says a sufficient amount of vitamin D can cut the risk of catching coronavirus by 54%.
“People have been looking for the magic drug or waiting for the vaccine and not looking for something this simple,” said Dr. Michael Holick, professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at Boston University School of Medicine.
Holick and his colleagues studied blood samples from Quest Diagnostics of more than 190,000 Americans from all 50 states and found that those who had deficient levels of vitamin D had 54% higher COVID positivity compared to those with adequate levels of vitamin D in the blood.
The risk of getting coronavirus continued to decline as vitamin D levels increased, the study, published in the Public Library of Science One peer-reviewed journal shows.
“The higher your vitamin D status, lower was your risk,” Holick said.
Many people are vitamin D-deficient because there are only small amounts in food, Holick said. Most vitamin D comes from sun exposure and many are deprived, especially during winter months.
But the sunshine vitamin is easy to find and relatively cheap in drug stores, and taking vitamin D pills comes at no risk. “It’s perfectly safe,” Holick said.
“It’s considered to be, by many, the nutrient of the decade,” Holick said.
COVID-19 positivity is strongly associated with vitamin D levels in the blood, a relationship that stayed the same across different races, sexes and age ranges, the study states.
Vitamin D suppresses excessive cytokine release that can present as a cytokine storm, a common cause of COVID-related morbidity and mortality.
A deficiency in the nutrient alters the immune system, making one more likely to get upper respiratory infections, Holick said.
Throughout the pandemic, people of color have been disproportionately affected by coronavirus, experiencing a higher risk of acquiring it and having serious complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Holick’s study examined the ZIP codes of people of color and found patients from predominantly Black and Hispanic ZIP codes had lower levels of vitamin D and were also more likely to have coronavirus than in patients from predominantly white, non-Hispanic ZIP codes.
The average adult needs around 2,000 units of vitamin D a day, Holick said. He said he’s been taking 6,000 units a day for decades and is in great health.
Several other studies on vitamin D have shown its benefits to the immune system.
Research published with the National Institutes of Health showed people with lower vitamin D levels were more likely to self-report a recent upper respiratory tract infection than those with sufficient levels.
Another study of more than 11,000 participants published in the British Medical Journal found vitamin D supplementation reduced the risk of acute respiratory tract infection among all participants.
“Vitamin D definitely improves your overall immunity to fight infections,” Holick said.
And best of all it’s all OTC.
Only thing I would suggest is to include ivermectin to the list and have it all on hand if you get covid. Ivermectin once a month is also a good prophylactic.
Not pills, apple flavored paste; )
Myself, I didn’t care too much when I got Covid last month as it was available.
If you aren’t able to get your Vitamin D levels up fast with that, take a boron supplement, which is instrumental in helping to convert Vitamin D for proper use.
Not sure the mechanism, but Eastern Virginia Medical Center has it on their covid protocol.
The study I saw said a deficiency in D would make you more susceptible to a bad case of Covid. Greatly increasing your D levels over normal doesn’t add more resistance.
I was diagnosed with low Vit D about 5 yrs ago and went on a script for about two weeks. Started taking supplements afterwards and noticed a change. I used to get roughly two head colds per year and the flu maybe every 5-7 yrs. Since taking D, one head cold in five years no flu. I upped my intake when Covid started.
I have been in quarantine for a week. I was exposed a week ago. I’ve been taking Vit D for weeks anyway, added zinc to my diet and bought a tube of equine paste ivermectin that has 91mcg/kg dose that cost $3. The human dose is 200-1200mcg/kg. I just had to calculate how much paste I had to take for a 200# man at the human dose. It lasted for three days which is the recommended dosing regime for ivermectin.
How did you measure that to get the right amount?
Thank you. It needs said on every article here dealing with D3. Some on here are playing with fire. The bone pain is the process of leaching calcium out of your bones and entering your blood stream. If you have any blockages in your arteries these are the spots it accumulates. I had an artery scan many years ago and had two minor blockages. I was in my 50’s. Best 99 dollars I ever spent. I had another in 2016 and those two had become major and had three other minor ones. So it is not just hardening of the arteries. It sets you up for a stroke. I was put on the 50,000 IU pills and immediately experienced whole bone pain in my right thigh. I had to figure it out on my own, which says a great deal about the VA medical profession. Yeah, take high levels of the rat poison if you dare. Go ahead and play Russian roulette.
It slows viral replication. Your body is not overwhelmed by the virus and eventually effects an immune response that kills the virus.
Ivermectin kills roundworms, heart worms, scabies, and covid. It is dirt cheap and that is the problem.
Worth a view. The things you didn’t know about rat poison, lol. The Vitamin D deception; Cholecalciferol as Vitamin D3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLok37KPd8&app=desktop
I began taking Vitamin D religiously in 2007 after mom died of pancreatic cancer. Out of the blue I read an article about the benefits of the vitamin and its relationship to cancer. I haven’t had the flu, cold, anything since. I recently began taking Zinc after reading that both helped ward off Covid. Zinc is cheap. So is Vitamin D.
Holik is about 10 months late on this.
From looking at the labels of the ivermectin paste, you just have to get out your conversion chart for how many humans per horse.
Just kidding. Looking at the micrograms of dose for kg of weight, I’m guessing about 5-6 doses per tube for a human?
As this paste is labeled and sold for "equine use", is it suitable for human use - or are there other chemicals or processing methods that makes it inherently harmful to people? I understand the FDA has discouraged human use of "for animals" products - but I also know they are a bunch of bureaucrats with all that entails? Asking for a friend...
The despicable govenors in blue states have decided that hydroxchloriquin and ivermectin is not good for you and they BANNED IT, THEY BANNED IT! WHO THE F## DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? They need to be tarred and feathered
He needs to shut up before they ban Vitamin D.
UnwashedPeasant - some people on this thread could use your expertise on Equine Ivermectin.
Gritty - basically yes. It’s fine for humans.
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