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.
But it’s still likely you need more. Have your levels tested at your next blood draw. (You have to ask most doctors to add the test.) You want those levels between 40-60. If you are below 25, you are at much higher risk for not just COVID, but any other flu, cold, etc.
The vehicle in the ivermectin 1.87& equine paste I observed to give a transient diarrhea but so does the Wuhan Virus. Another consideration IMO is that when Ivermectin was first being explored in veterinary medicine we used a high dose only to find out years later a dose ten times less was effective against parasites and is why I went with a lesser dose. Many drugs used in human medicine were used for years in veterinary medicine before the human side began or even realized their benefit.
While I'm on my soapbox may I mention that veterinarians were fighting retroviruses and coronaviruses before the human side was even aware of the viruses. It was a veterinarian that was ignored at the CDC when he hypothesized that the GRIDS virus was much like the Feline Leukemia virus. When SARS erupted the CDC had to recruit veterinarians that had been studying Coronaviruses for decades to help them begin research. Veterinarians have been trying to make an effective vaccine against Coronaviruses for decades and were thwarted with the propensity of the virus to mutate rapidly and effectively against the vaccines.
The Red Governor of Arizona, Lord Douchey, has banned HCQ as well. Unless you are in the hospital ... at which point it is often too late.
Sunlight! While I am happy this topic is finally getting out I am angered because I have been screaming it all year. Too often for these lockdowns we hear “stay inside”. The worst possible advise. Up north in the winter, 15 minutes of sun at lunchtime makes a lot of difference.
Like I said earlier, I take 2,000 IU during the summer months when I can get some beneficial sun. During the winter months when the sun is lower in sky, I switch up to 5,000 IUs, which is still a tenth of your 50,000 IU.
During the whole time, I'm having foods rich in vitamin D such as eggs and fatty fish.
I think the human body was programmed to obtain all necessary vitamin D through sunlight and animal-based foods. Pills probably not necessary at all if you eat right and get out into the sun with none of that sunblock lotion.
Yes, the Eskimos got very little of their Vitamin D through sunlight but remember they had diet heavy on fatty fish. That was probably their compensating factor.
The medical establishment in this country has much to answer for by keeping long established drugs and innovative treatments out of our hands for their own purposes. I see no medical reason why they very often refuse to use highly effective known medications to save lives (Ivermectin and HCQ are two prime examples) when they are proven life savers. But I can think of plenty of political and monetary reasons for not doing so.
“Greatly increasing your D levels over normal doesn’t add more resistance.”
There have been (and continues to be) significant differences of opinion among the “experts” as to what constitutes normal, optimal, etc.
The MATH+ protocol is the best standard for inpatient treatment of COVID. It is the protocol established by top critical care doctors across the country, and it is being suppressed/ignored by the media and big pharma/government.
On the MATH+ protocol for someone in the ICU with active COVID and receiving over 4 liters of Oxygen, the starting dose is 480,000 IU of vitamin D all at once, as soon as possible. (That is not a typo. It is Four Hundred Eighty Thousand IU.)
The same doctors also developed the I-MASK+ protocol for outpatient and for preventive.
Details frequently updated here: https://covid19criticalcare.com
50,000 mcg or 50,000 iu? There is a big difference. I take 12,000 iu twice per day to help suppress my prostate cancer. 50,000 mcg = 2,000,000 iu, or 285,714 iu per day. That's way beyond a toxic level. 24,000 iu is a lot.
I have several high school classmates who are nurses. They take 10,000 iu per day and recommend everyone over 40 do the same. 10,000 iu is not that much.
D3 gel caps are very small.
If Fauci had been replaced by the FLCCC Alliance doctors, many 100,000s of people would not have died needlessly.
Horse paste is super easy to dose because there is no math required. (Apple-flavored is best.) The "plunger" stick (blue on the image below) includes a ruler measured in pounds. For a 250 lb person or horse, you would push the plunger into the "syringe" tube so that the ruler marks move by 250 lb. The sample product in the picture below has enough medicine for a 1250-lb horse. Each notch on the ruler is 50 lb. That little white ring at the end of the plunger can slide down to mark the dose on the ruler, so you push the plunger just the amount you want. You can round up or down by 50 lb, and the measurement does not have to be exact.
On the MATH+ and I-MASK+ protocols for COVID in humans, the dosage of ivermectin is 200mcg/kg (or 0.2mg/kg) at a time. This is the same dosage given to both people and horses for worms.
Doctors and protocols that use ivermectin differ in how many doses are given. Some give 200mcg/kg on days 1 and 2. Some give it on days 1, 3, 6 and 8. Some give it for 5 to 7 days in a row, starting as soon as possible, since this is both safe and aggressive. Some clinical studies have used a single dose of 600mcg/kg, which is good to know if someone can only get one dose (for example, if a relative is sneaking it into a nursing home). The I-MASK+ preventive protocol gives doses on days 1 & 3, then once per week thereafter.
There is talk that the FDA will begin to require a prescription for horse paste because they believe it is being used in people. The horse paste prices are increasing substantially, and it is becoming harder to acquire on Amazon. It is currently available at livestock supply stores, such as Tractor Supply.
WARNING: Ivermectin should not be used by children under 33 lb or by pregnant women, since young children do not have a fully formed blood brain barrier.
WARNING: Some horse paste products (and heartworm products for dogs) include Ivermectin plus a second drug, so check the label to avoid that second drug.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor, and I do not recommend that anyone take anything.
>>>>Why does a roundworm medication, Ivermectin, help with Covid?
It’s also a strong anti-viral.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-020-0336-z
Which—mg or mcg? I take 5000 IU which is listed as 125 micrograms (mcgs) daily. A milligram is abbreviated as mg.. Fifty grams per week?
K2 promotes Calcium deposits to the bones; and, discourages Calcium from soft tissue like the lining of the arteries.
A half-hour of full body exposure to sunlight is worth 25,000 IU V-D3. Northern Europeans (Denmark) love the sun, and oily fish.
Any idea what a good dosage of K2 would be combined with the 5,000 IU of D3 I take daily?
I get enough K from egg yolks and you might also.
Thanks. Good to know. I eat a couple eggs each day.
There is more than one form of the vitamin K2, thus one must choose an appropriate source of proper labeling to determine a dosing. Here is an information resource that delves into balancing intake of D3, Calcium, K, and K2. Natto condiment—Nattokinase extract are sources of K2.
https://maapgh.com/blog/2016/02/are-you-taking-vitamin-k2-with-your-vitamin-d/
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