Vitamin D fights Covid 19

Supplementing Vitamin D is a good idea, especially in fall, winter, and early spring, but there is no evidence that it will significantly help you with regard to COVID-19.

Is grassroots health a go-to source for high quality medical research?

Because it appears to mostly be a blog that shills for supplement manufacturers.

Blacks have been hit much harder than whites by Covid 19, according to some recent reports. There are guesses by experts as to why this disparity exists, but perhaps Vitamin D deficiency could be a primary factor.

The above study includes a chart (shown below) that shows ~60% of blacks have vitamin D deficiency compared to only ~12% of whites. (Deficiency levels are shown in red. Optimal levels are shown in green.)

https://www.grassrootshealth.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NHANES-bar-graph-adults-by-race-2013-14.pdf

rojo's campaign manager wrote:

Is grassroots health a go-to source for high quality medical research?

Because it appears to mostly be a blog that shills for supplement manufacturers.

Yeah, I noticed that too, but vitamin D is free (10-15 minutes of sunlight) or 5 cents/capsule.

Besides, there are other studies that point to vitamin D as a potential benefit for flu and other diseases. Unfortunately, we're not likely to see widespread testing of vitamin D because there's no money in it so the masses remain unaware of the potential benefits to decide for themselves.

For example, when I was in Walmart a week ago, vitamin C was completely sold out, but vitamin D3 was still available.

fisky wrote:

Blacks have been hit much harder than whites by Covid 19, according to some recent reports. There are guesses by experts as to why this disparity exists, but perhaps Vitamin D deficiency could be a primary factor.

The above study includes a chart (shown below) that shows ~60% of blacks have vitamin D deficiency compared to only ~12% of whites. (Deficiency levels are shown in red. Optimal levels are shown in green.)

https://www.grassrootshealth.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NHANES-bar-graph-adults-by-race-2013-14.pdf

That's not a possible answer. African Americans are more likely to have a mismanaged underlying health condition due to more access to healthcare due to systemic racism.

Healthy people have healthy levels of vitamin D and other substances related to health. Maybe we should say that all substances related to health in good quantities help fight disease and just get it over with?

Cod liver oil and sunshine

Idel wrote:

Healthy people have healthy levels of vitamin D and other substances related to health. Maybe we should say that all substances related to health in good quantities help fight disease and just get it over with?

"Healthy" people are often deficient in vitamin D. It's common for blood work to show low levels of D but optimum levels of everything else.

One of the main factors found in the autopsies of COVD-19 patients is that they have hyposplenism. The hallmarks of that are sickle cell disease and celiac disease. Hyposplenism typically indicates a folate deficiency.

Vitamin D deficiency is also associated with Japanese people who didn't seem to be as affected.

Purell Frank wrote:

One of the main factors found in the autopsies of COVD-19 patients is that they have hyposplenism. The hallmarks of that are sickle cell disease and celiac disease. Hyposplenism typically indicates a folate deficiency.

Vitamin D deficiency is also associated with Japanese people who didn't seem to be as affected.

Good information. I didn't know this, thanks.

I did a quick search saw an apparent correlation between obesity and folate deficiency, although it wasn't clear which might have caused the other.

Regardless, I'll check my diet to see if I'm getting adequate folate and check my supplements to see if I'm already supplementing with folate. To me, there's no downside to ensuring you have all the nutrients your body needs to work optimally.

Thanks again.

How reputable is this journal?

How reputable is the government?

I take D3 as recommended by my optometrist for my eyes. That would be a nice bonus if it helps to lessen Covid symptoms

Western diet advice has reduced animal sources of vitamin D, as has endless fear-mongering about avoiding the sun. These two are related. On a plant-based diet I burned very easily and in the Summer I put on SPF 40 first thing every day, as I work outside most of the time. Since becoming keto and now carnivore, I might dab a bit of sunscreen on my face and shoulders if I am in a high-UV situation, but for the most part don't use sunscreeen and even after 8 hours in the direct sun I have just a nice mild tan.

The sun converts cholesterol into vitamin D, and if your body is depleted of cholesterol (as most people and especially older people on statins are), you will be depleted of D as well being susceptible to burning. Our ancestors ate lots of fish and game, and spent all day in the sun, and didn't die of skin cancer at 40. Heck, skin cancer, like most cancer, was almost unkown until the advent of industrial seed oils in the early 20th century. Replace animal fats with vegetable-derived oils and you are cutting your own throat.

I would like to see the comorbidity statistics of correlation between statin use and covid deaths. Probably sky-high.

RunRagged wrote:

Apparently, Chinese patients with COVID-19 had lower than usual cholesterol. Which is one of the reasons the idea that statins - as well as drugs for high blood pressure - might be implicated in bad outcomes from COVID-19 has occurred to others:

https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qjmed/hcaa103/5812790https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1182/rr-10

Yup. Makes perfect sense. This disease s nothing new, what is new is that 88% of the population is now grossly unhealthy at the metabolic level.

rojo's campaign manager wrote:

Is grassroots health a go-to source for high quality medical research?

Because it appears to mostly be a blog that shills for supplement manufacturers.

Of course it's a shill to sell stuff you don't need. Seafood has plenty of vitamin D. And there's no evidence that you can overload on vitamins to create health. Does that make any sense? We weren't designed by evolution to utilize nutrients in balance. Why would just loading up on two or three vitamins be good when there's literally hundreds and hundreds of molecules we need in balance. Does that make any sense about life? Eat a balanced diet. Simple healthy living

homeostasis wrote:

rojo's campaign manager wrote:

Is grassroots health a go-to source for high quality medical research?

Because it appears to mostly be a blog that shills for supplement manufacturers.

Of course it's a shill to sell stuff you don't need. Seafood has plenty of vitamin D. And there's no evidence that you can overload on vitamins to create health. Does that make any sense? We weren't designed by evolution to utilize nutrients in balance. Why would just loading up on two or three vitamins be good when there's literally hundreds and hundreds of molecules we need in balance. Does that make any sense about life? Eat a balanced diet. Simple healthy living

Some supposedly healthy food lack the nutrients they purport to contain. It cant hurt to load up on certain vitamins, minerals and other supplements at this time, especially when the foods you might want and need are scarce. I am sitting more now than ever, I am indoor more now than ever and I am adjusting to a slightly different diet. With these and other stressors one might be wise to supplement.