Vitamin D fights Covid 19

i bought 7 bottles of flux used for soldering irons , and started making stained glass windows , used in churches and labs . trying to find glass stain is difficult

I ran for a D3 school in college. Does that count?

I've been injecting vitamin D milk down my throat with the aid of some tasty cereal. Much cheaper than taking a milk bath.

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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

Reason being that a primary dose of Vit D is from sunshine, and you don't get that in diet.

If you get a lot of sun every day and don't wear much sunscreen, chances are you will be fine. So typically take in winter, drop it in summer. There are studies on vit-d and it helping with the flu.

You can always get a vit-d test if not sure, they don't cost that much. It could actually save your life long term knowing if you are deficient.

Mild supplementation can have its place especially If U cannot or dont get sunlight or can't eat certain food

I'm just arguing that overall it's not a healthy strategy to load up on just a few vitamins and think that that is somehow a magical cure

It makes no sense in the obvious facts of evolution and nutrition and the fact that we're meant to have hundreds if not thousands of different molecules in balance

Also you have to watch out with overdosing on fat soluble vitamins which can accumulate in your tissue. Vitamin D can be toxic at high levels. Well there seems to be a pretty big margin of safety there certainly has been a lot of negative health effects from people who take super high amounts of vitamin D

Water soluble vitamins have a higher safety profile

Anyway just think it's totally over simplistic to think that super high doses of a couple of vitamins is the key to health

We are seeing from the coronavirus that often times that the Quick Fix of certain cholesterol drugs just makes you more vulnerable

The basic point is that there's no quick fix with a magic pill or pellets. Find sustainable Health with good nutrition. Mild supplementation can be good but don't go crazy. Just try to get all your adequate nutrients and let your body work its wonders

Anything that strengthens the immune system will diminish the effects of Covid, so this in not a surprise. It most likely is more effective to take when your exposure to sunlight is at the lowest. This includes winter time, if you live in large cities and if you spend much time indoors.

fisky wrote:

For weeks, I've been saying, "Take supplements to boost your immune system!" Now, we have a study that proves it works. Covid 19 severity correlates closely with vitamin D deficiency, which can be corrected by taking a daily Vitamin D3 gel cap. 86% of patients with normal D3 levels had mild cases. 73% of patients with D deficiency had severe or critical cases. Vitamin D3 costs about 5 cents/capsule. You should be taking 5,000IU daily, although it's okay to take 10,000IU for a few days to build up D levels at first. (Although it's not covered in this study, there is additional data to indicate that zinc, vitamin C, and some other supplements are also beneficial in reducing the severity of viruses.)

https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/first-data-published-covid-19-severity-vitamin-d-levels/?fbclid=IwAR1gU2369ERo9xF_ONWTDztjmaeXaKmbJJclX5lMiVkp51f7_FsgollbUOs

Breaking news malnutrition makes you more susceptible to viruses and weakens your immune system!!! Thanks, now that you've discovered this, people will surely eat healthier and take better care of themselves.

Vitamins have minor benefits if any. If people had healthier diets they would be fine and there would be no need from vitamins.

Vitamins have minor benefits if any.

But vitamin D isn't a vitamin, it's more like a hormone

70% chance that study is BS. Just like that Dr. Shiva telling covid patients to take thousands of mgs of vitamin C. You can sh!t yourself and choke on your own mucus at the same time!

I've been having at least one glass of Sunny D since I was a kid and I'm now 42. I knew it would eventually pay off! Thanks advertising!

Our ancestors weren't living that long because they were dying of other things first. Also, your story is just anecdotal evidence.

To add to this point I wonder if the study (which I admit I didn’t read) corrects for age and underlying disease. Severe vitamin D deficiency is common in patients with renal failure so it could be that renal failure is associated with both vitamin D and more severe Covid. Older people also have less vitamin D and as we know, older people get more severe Covid.

Obtuse much?

YMMV wrote:

Obtuse much?

Not really, seeing as I just explained where you were incorrect in two short sentences.

As others have pointed out, correlation doesn’t equal causation and you’ve crafted a misleading title.

If I had to venture a guess, I would suspect frailty and multimorbidity have a higher association with vitamin D deficiency. Frail people are more susceptible to severe effects from illness. These sorts of correlations are seen in other illness where the vitamin or mineral is not the causative agent.

Still, always worth looking into.

Clarification! wrote:

YMMV wrote:

Obtuse much?

Not really, seeing as I just explained where you were incorrect in two short sentences.

+1

YMMV is the obtuse one.

I saw this today. It sounds like a good thing.

I will give more priority to Vitamin C than Vitamin D here. Because I think vitamin C is the most resistant to disease.

As we age, our bodies become less efficient in utilizing essential vitamins and nutrients. This *might* have a cascading effect in the body's ability to use other vitamins. For example, vitamin D deficiency interferes with the body's ability to use calcium to maintain strong bones.

In my opinion, it makes sense for older adults to take supplements to ensure the body has optimal levels of nutrients to make up somewhat for the aging cells' inability to process nutrients as well as it did when it was younger. When it comes to taking supplements, I'm on the extreme side of the bell curve, taking about 20 supplements a day. I also eat healthy foods, avoid sugars, and exercise.

Getting back to vitamin D...

A 2018 paper found that 43% of seniors had either severe or very severe vitamin D deficiency. (Link below). The original studies I referenced in the initial post stated that vitamin D might treat Covid 19 through three mechanisms. It builds the immune system and it helps suppress the cytokine storm that causes the most severe cases of Covid 19. (I can't remember the third mechanism, but it's in the study below if you're interested.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178567/