Earlier this month Nutraingredients.com reported on the formation of an alliance of researchers and doctors whose aim is to encourage governments to increase recommendations for vitamin D intake to 4000 IU daily. Underpinning this goal is the belief that taking vitamin D at much higher doses than the 400 IU the government currently recommends could reduce COVID-19 hospitalisations.
Dr Gareth Davies, a member of the alliance and an independent coronovirus research scientist, suggests there is a lack of understanding of how vitamin D works within the body. Whilst it is referred to as a vitamin it is in fact a hormone essential to the functioning of both the innate and adaptive immune system. The group action therefore also involves a public awareness campaign as well as petitions and calls to MPs.
Over 100 Scientists, Doctors, & Leading Authorities Call For Increased Vitamin D Use To Combat COVID-19
Research shows low vitamin D levels almost certainly promote COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Given its safety, we call for immediate widespread increased vitamin D intakes.
Vitamin D modulates thousands of genes and many aspects of immune function, both innate and adaptive. The scientific evidence1 shows that: Higher vitamin D blood levels are associated with lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Higher D levels are associated with lower risk of a severe case (hospitalization, ICU, or death).
Intervention studies (including RCTs) indicate that vitamin D can be a very effective treatment.
Many papers reveal several biological mechanisms by which vitamin D influences COVID-19.
Causal inference modelling, Hill’s criteria, the intervention studies & the biological mechanisms indicate that vitamin D’s influence on COVID-19 is very likely causal, not just correlation.
https://vitamind4all.org/letter.html
#1: Lod To: Horse (#0)
Lod posted on 2020-12-23 12:45:15 Reply Private Reply
#2: Esso To: Lod (#1)
I've read that VitD is quite toxic.
Esso posted on 2020-12-23 13:41:46 Reply Private Reply
#3: Lod To: Esso (#2)
I'd feel pretty stupid to kill myself trying to stay healthy and well.
Lod posted on 2020-12-23 14:24:08 Reply Private Reply
#4: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#3)
Yeah, I might back down to one every other day. I only take iodine once a week.
I put my supplements into one of those pill minder boxes every two weeks. Can never remember if I took 'em or not.
Esso posted on 2020-12-23 14:29:44 Reply Private Reply
#5: noone222 To: Esso (#4)
I have a similar memory lapse every 3 minutes !
noone222 posted on 2020-12-23 14:34:00 Reply Private Reply
#6: Lod To: noone222, Esso, supplement addicts (#5)
Since I take no prescription drugs, all my supplement costs are "medical" deductions, so far so good. eff'em
Lod posted on 2020-12-23 14:57:04 Reply Private Reply
#7: Esso To: noone222 (#5)
Hell, I can't figure out why everybody is talking about Xmas in February.
Esso posted on 2020-12-23 14:57:35 Reply Private Reply
#8: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#6)
(Edit) I truly am a dinosaur in search of an asteroid. That deal when the neighborhood women came out to watch me, a truck driver, a retired Marine and his Army son repair a fence last Sunday was just weird, in a sad, pathetic sort of way.
Esso posted on 2020-12-23 15:16:56 Reply Private Reply
#9: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#2)
Maybe the man made stuff is not so good to consume, but when you get sunlight on your skin it produces Vitamin D3. Milk is fortified with Vitamin D anyway but no idea which type it is. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-12-23 16:15:04 Reply Private Reply
#10: Esso To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#9)
Yeah, I'm in NE Indiana. I haven't seen the sun since August.
It is 50 outside now, must be Glowbull Worming, or just Indiana.
Esso posted on 2020-12-23 16:30:28 Reply Private Reply
#11: Horse To: Esso (#2)
Horse posted on 2020-12-23 17:59:03 Reply Private Reply
#12: Esso To: Horse, 4um (#11)
Doctors won't see me since the accident thing. Lawyers screwed them. When I was able to get bloodwork circa 2013, they never checked shit like that, just stuff they could prescribe to make the bux.
I live in the real world, I only have OboingoCare to protect me from being cleaned out with one ER call.
A few years ago, I cut my ear in a fall. It was right where my ear hooks to my head. 15min ER time and 4 stitches cost about 17,000 bux. I think after the ins. co. "negotiated things down", my share was only 2 or 3 thousand. This was a walk-in.
(Edit) FWIW I fell up the stairs. My buddies like to chide me about that. Wait 'til they see my new pink pussy hat some old gal crocheted for me. I don't have the stones to wear that in public, unlike the assholes that wear masks in their cars.
Esso posted on 2020-12-23 18:08:26 Reply Private Reply
#13: Fred Mertz To: Esso (#12)
They must have vaginas.
Fred Mertz posted on 2020-12-23 21:17:22 Reply Private Reply