Researchers in Israel have found that Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of a hospitalised Covid patient dying more than seven-fold.
Looking retrospectively at the pre-infection Vitamin D levels of the 253 Covid patients for whom such records exist admitted to the Galilee Medical Centre up to February 4th 2021, the researchers found that the mortality rate among the Vitamin D deficient (under 20 nanograms per millilitre) was 25.6% (34 out of 133) compared to 3.4% (4 out of 116) of the non-deficient. That’s an increase in mortality risk of over seven and a half times, or 653%.
The study (which is not yet peer-reviewed) also found that more than half the hospitalised patients (52.5%) were Vitamin D deficient, suggesting Vitamin D deficiency contributed to the patients’ hospitalisation in the first place.
It also found that patients who suffered severe or critical disease were more than 14 times more likely to be Vitamin D deficient than those who suffered mild or moderate disease, once confounding factors had been controlled for.
The figure below shows the Vitamin D levels of the patients and the severity of their illness, broken down by age; the lines indicate the strong correlations.
The researchers noted there is no evidence that using Vitamin D to treat hospitalised Covid patients improves outcomes (seems it’s too late by that point). However, there is some evidence that Vitamin D supplements reduce risk of acute respiratory infection in general, though not yet specifically for COVID-19.
The researchers recommended that further study of the potential benefits of protective Vitamin D supplementation for the Vitamin D deficient is warranted. Sixteen months into the pandemic, you have to say there doesn’t appear to be a hurry to investigate what seems to be a key factor in Covid risk and may provide a cheap way to save many lives.
Read the full study here.
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Which is why Rochdale has high rates of infection – they have the lowest consumption of fruit and vegetable in the country according to a report a few years ago. Maybe their council will take action?
(Though admittedly vitamin D is found more in fish etc. but it does suggest poor diet and therefore low vitamins. Conversely Finland adds vitamin D to food, and Norway consumes large amounts of salmon and mackerel, with both countries reporting low infection rates).
Hugh,
Whilst fruit and vegetables (aka Cabinet Ministers) are a great ource of Vitamin C, we are taking about dairy produce plus that greatest source – eggs, and of course red meat and fish.
But the greatest free source is sunlight. So get your dog muzzles and burkas off and let the sun shine in!
I wonder how Vegans get on not eating eggs, meat or fish.
The vast majority take supplements.
A lot of them seem to develop various deficiencies. There was a time a while back when many vegans dropped their diet for health reasons, including “influencers” on YouTube.
In the States I believe D is often added to milk. Here dairy products are not a good source. It is difficult to get enough D from diet alone, unless you eat fish almost daily, as in say Japan.
With age the ability to absorb it weakens.
Take supplements.
Yes I realised after posting but couldn’t be bothered changing the whole thing. In any case, the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service recommend taking 3,000mg of Vitamin C per day (as well as 2,000iu vitamin D, magnesium, selenium and zinc) so it is likely still a factor. And mushrooms (strictly speaking not a vegetable) can have a fair amount of vitamin D apparently.
Skin pigmentation combined with low levels of sunshine have huge effects on vitamin D levels. Many in Rochdale are from Pakistani heritage.
I believe Finland as had one of the best outcomes when it comes to covid. Low death rate relaxed attitude towards lockdown and travel.
Is this because back in the 50s Finland had one of the highest rates of rickets in the world which successive governments remedied by adding vitamin D to food. Since April 2020 I’ve taken vitamin D which as stopped me getting any respiratory illnesses and stopped me even getting hayfever. Normally I get hayfever every year but this year nothing even though everyone is saying it’s the worst year ever.
I’ve noticed unlike a medicine vitamin D doesn’t work straight away requiring time to build up depending on how deficient you are. So don’t go away thinking you can ditch your antihistamines just yet.
In fact I’ve also noticed this same relationship with respiratory infections there’s a time lag between how much vitamin D from sunshine and rates of respiratory infections. Lastly a report recently about why flu suddenly explodes every year followed by a decline which as been a mystery until now, is believed to be due to varying amounts of vitamin D in ones blood.
Its funny you should mention hayfever, last year my hayfever disappeared, I didn’t have so much as a sniffle, however this year its back.
You’re lucky on the hayfever front! I take daily VitD but have had awful hayfever this year (moderate hayfever last year).
As well as D, try vitamin C. I started taking it for a bad infection, and discovered after a week or so on 10g (yes grams) a day my cat and dust allergies disappeared. I’ve been taking at least 5g a day of vit C for a few years now, with no ill effects, no wheezing , no feeling like I was breathing through a wet sponge. Get decent quality pure stuff, the artificial sweeteners in the big soluble tablets aren’t good for you.
I also have asthma which I’ve not had any problems with until now. This I believe is due to more traffic on our roads and more pollen. But I say stick with the vitamin D possible increase to 25 ug in fish oil capsules as I say it does take time to build up.
Japan – very low WuFlu impact – has very high levels of Vitamin D in the population, Italy – very high WuFlu impact – has very low levels of Vitamin D. A correlation worth investigating.
That will not be of any interest to Big Pharma or its agents who work in governments.
Why pay pennies for a vitamin supplement when you can spend millions on useless experimental biologicals.
Exactly my point too
And still they want people (inc. children) shut away inside, children isolating in bedrooms and parents complying in the name of elf n safety.
Yes, – Evil and pointless policies
Speaking to my niece she was worried about her 17 year old daughter who has become very withdrawn and spends all her time in her bedroom and hardly communicates.
Fact Check.This is fake news.
Only by receiving vaccines can you achieve any resistance to this deadly pathogen.
You have received one strike against you for misleading the sheeple, I mean people.
there is a far more effective, and probably far safer, way to achieve resistance: naturally acquired immunity resulting from infection. Vaccination doesn’t appear to generate T-cell immunity, but natural infection does. T-cell immunity probably far more important than humoral immunity in resisting SARS/CoV-2.
Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines induce T-cell immunity against SARS-CoV-2
A new study carried out in collaboration with the University of Birmingham with support from the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium has found that 99% of people generate a robust immune response against COVID-19 after just one dose of the Pfizer vaccine. (this included T cells)
Fascinating. People with compromised immunity do not generate a robust immune response against COVID 19, nor do the elderly. Children, who knows but we are determined to give them an experimental biological, they do not need.
Does your comment relate to the links I gave? I can’t see any mention of compromised immunity or elderly in either.
I have compromised immunity so I am familiar with the situation for my particular compromise (myeloma). Early indications are that all the vaccines will provide a useful level of protection (although obviously not as good as they would for someone with a healthy immune system) but more research is needed. I guess the situation is likely to differ depending on the specific compromise.
Whatever the compromise, protection through getting infected, besides being highly risky, is equally likely to be deficient (after all it is the same immune system).
What is the evidence that the elderly do not generate a robust immune response? In practice they seem to be remarkably well protected by the current vaccines. I have no idea what the situation is for T-cell immunity among the elderly. Are you aware of any research?
I also am not a fan of vaccinating children – say under 16.
Sorry to hear about the myeloma. Very glad to hear you are against vaccinating children.
Protection through natural immunity is very different and better than through the manufacture of the pathogen spike in cells. Yeadon has written on this. It’s the same immune system, but it has been exposed to the whole virus.
He did say that the “vaccines” work, to a lesser degree.
Sandra
Are you claiming that a compromised immune system will respond OK to natural infection? That is not what I am being told!
That “robust immune reponse” also includes a much higher proportion of non-neutralising antibodies than the natural response does https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.07.21253098v2. Which may be why they had to set the dose high enough to generate 4 times the number of antibodies found in the natural response – most of them don’t work, interfere with the immune response https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-antibodies-sars-cov-infectiona-factor-severe.html and increase the risk of ADE. They are also specific to a single epitope and (we are repeatedly told, at least) may be rendered useless by mutations in the virus.
That is another lengthy debate. My point was simply that there is some evidence that the vaccines do create t-cell immunity.
That’s true.
Then how come so many vaccinated people go on and develop covid? I have two friends who became sick with it months after being vaccinated.
No vaccine is perfect. You are less likely to get Covid and far less likely to end up in hospital if you have been vaccinated – but with so many people being vaccinated there are bound to be a large number (but a small proportion) who get the disease, go into hospital, and even a very small proportion who die. There are many observational studies round the world that have shown this again and again – here’s one from Israel: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00947-8/fulltext
I am sorry about your two friends but that is going to happen from time to time. I hope they were not too ill.
There is much confusion between ‘Covid’ and SARS-CoV-2 and what the mRNA gene therapy inoculations actually do. To get the symptoms recognised as Covid you must be infected with the Virus SARS-CoV-2, so to not get Covid you must not be infected, something that results from immunisation either by previous infection or by vaccination.
Sadly, the public continues to believe the publicity rather than the information presented by the manufacturers to obtain the EUAs allowing the experimental jabbing. The information is clear, the treatments do not prevent infection with the virus, they do not prevent the vaccinees being infectious and passing on the virus, they only promise to ameliorate mild disease symptoms of the disease Covid if you get infected with the virus.
I just love the ‘no vaccine is perfect’ defence of those who in the same breath contend that ‘the vaccines are safe’ or even ‘the vaccines are 100% safe’. As has been stated by far more knowledgeable people than me (SCOTUS justices) vaccines are ‘unavoidably unsafe’ which is why we have the FDA MHRA EMEA etc who are supposed to protect us by making careful judgements on the balance of risk when ensuring public safety. The vaccines may eventually prove to be a risk worth taking but that cannot be asserted yet, for example we do not yet have babies, born to women vaccinated prior to conception, who have successfully passed through their key developmental stages, and this simply cannot happen until 2023 at the earliest.
The information is clear, the treatments do not prevent infection with the virus, they do not prevent the vaccinees being infectious and passing on the virus, they only promise to ameliorate mild disease symptoms of the disease Covid if you get infected with the virus.
Have you got a link for this? I got the strong impression that the manufacturers announced efficacy figures based on preventing infection not ameliorating the symptoms. After all the CDC/FDA (I forget which) said it would not accept a vaccine which was less than 50% effective in preventing infection.
The vaccines may eventually prove to be a risk worth taking but that cannot be asserted yet, for example we do not yet have babies, born to women vaccinated prior to conception, who have successfully passed through their key developmental stages, and this simply cannot happen until 2023 at the earliest.
Nor do we have babies born to women who got Covid prior to conception (or during pregnancy) and successfully passed through their key developmental stages. So we have to rely on expert understanding of what might happen to decide which is the greater long term safety risk.
That’s incredibly unusual I suspect- I know only one person who has even had Covid at all.
Wow. In London just about everyone I know has had it, other than some elderly.
Not agreeing with this post as such, although not in a position to disagree either really, but not sure what minus scores achieve here? It’s not insulting or offensive.
Thanks for this. I guess people using the plus/minus scores to mean different things. For some it just means “I agree/disagree with this post”. For others it means “I approve/disapprove of this post”.
Were participants carefully tested for their T cell responses before vaccination to exclude all those who already had natural immunity?
Which paper are you referring to? The Uni of Birmingham study is not totally clear from the information provided – but I suspect not. They only compared the T-cells to others that had not been vaccinated or infected. The paper on Pfizer Moderna they did check before vaccination:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.12.443888v1.full
(I have no doubt that it will be possible to find some fault in any evidence I bring forward – no study is perfect. It is still evidence. So far no one has produced any evidence that the vaccines do not produce T-cell immunity.)
Th1 or Th2?, the difference is important they are supposed to be synchronised to the stage of the disease as required, too much of the one that raises inflammation can, at the wrong time, be fatal at worst and make you sicker than you would otherwise be at best.
No idea. It is probably in this paper somewhere but I don’t have time to dig it out: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.12.443888v1.full
Yesterday a colleague gave me an explanation of how the covid vaccine works which was very good but too simplified and idealistic to be of any use. She failed to mention that even though every one gets the same vaccine dose we don’t generate the same amount of spike protein. Some will generate not enough spike protein to develop immunity. Most will generate enough spike protein to develop immunity and others will generate too much spike protein leading to illness and possible death. But the problems don’t stop there, as Robert Malone the inventor of this technology as said most people only need one dose and this would eliminate most of the harms. The problem with that is you wouldn’t protect the most vulnerable thus why we give two doses.
Next it was assumed that like traditional vaccines the spike protein would remain in the shoulder muscle. This as been found not to be true,around 75% circulate around the body affecting just about every organ with unknown consequences. Spike protein is a toxin that is responsible for all the harmful affects and deaths and should not go anywhere near a human. As the covid vaccine only targets the spike protein not the whole virus your still vulnerable to getting infected.
This is why the covid vaccine only stops you getting severe symptoms. As the immunity is only partial the vaccine will force the virus to mutate possibly to a more virulent strain. Time will tell.
Lastly what as convinced me that the covid vaccines are unsafe is the fact that in the U.S. more people have died from covid vaccines in the last 6 months than as died from ALL the vaccines given in the last thirty years. I believe 500 million vaccines are given every year which leads to 200 deaths while the covid vaccines have killed 6000.
Have you a reference for the Spike protein circulating round the body? I don’t normally quote from blogs but this one seemed so knowledgeably and clear I couldn’t resist it. In summary – not much spike protein leaves the injection area and where it is expressed it does not float about your circulation but is anchored to the cell that expresses it.
I am not very good at downloading links but if you look up Byram Bridle an immunologist. He mentions that the Japanese Regulatory bodies asked for a biodistrubution study to see where the spike protein went. Allison Pierson interviewed him where he says “we’ve made a big mistake in targeting the spike protein. “We thought the spike protein was an ideal part of the virus but it’s a toxin that is causing all the blood clots and bleeds. We should remember covid is really a blood disorder problem all caused by the spike protein.
I guess you mean this one?
https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/byram-bridles-claim-that-covid-19-vaccines-are-toxic-fails-to-account-for-key-differences-between-the-spike-protein-produced-during-infection-and-vaccination-misrepresents-studies/
The Allison Pierson interview of Byram Bridle was only a few minutes long where he attempted to explain why vaccinated people were suffering adverse effects. I don’t think he was saying as your article implies that the covid vaccines caused all these harms and deaths. I think as a scientist he was trying to put forward a theory using data available to explain everything. This why we need long term studies not this mad rush to vaccinate everyone. I also noticed in the article it questions the number of deaths without admitting that the numbers are probably an underestimate. Only deaths within 48 hours of vaccination are counted. I also noticed the article doesn’t address the fact we all generate different amounts of spike protein after vaccination. Robert Malone the inventor of this new technology suggests most people only need one dose and this would eliminate most of the harms. The problem with this idea is the vulnerable wouldn’t generate enough spike protein to develop immunity. Lastly instead of this lunatic idea of vaccinating everybody would it not be more sensible to vaccinate just the vulnerable while we found out how harmful or not covid vaccines are. After all only 20% of the population is vulnerable to covid as evidenced by the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
Take D anyhow. Very very safe.
Absolutely- no reason on Earth not to take it.
As long as you don’t go mad with it:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/vitamin-d-toxicity/faq-20058108#:~:text=The%20main%20consequence%20of%20vitamin,the%20formation%20of%20calcium%20stones.
Or let your dog eat it:
https://www.pethealthnetwork.com/dog-health/dog-toxins-poisons/vitamin-d-poisoning
When will people get this?
The UK Govt has been criminally negligent in its failure to advise citizens to fortify their immune systems with Vitamins C and D, zinc, etc.
I agree – If only that is all they had been negligent in…… I remember right at the very beginning of this whole thing Professor Delores Cahill advised us to take this and she was Trashed on Google, YouTube, Twitter, FaceBook —- A brilliant woman trashed for telling the truth ….. Heartbreaking
You tube just deplatformed The Japanese scientist Dr Omura, who won the Nobel prize for his discovery of Ivermectin. Many world renowned researchers, doctors, scientists banned, censored, suppressed. Why. But don’t worry. We now have another government politician to advise us.
I am (proudly) unvaccinated and have taken Vit C and D and zinc supplements before and right through this so-called pandemic. I haven’t had so much as a sniffle, whereas most of my vaccinated friends, family and colleagues have had health issues at one time or another other over the last 15 months. Not exactly a clinical trial I know. But I’ve noticed a similar pattern over the years with my flu vaccinated colleagues too. Indeed, I’ve often wondered if my most vaccinated colleagues are the sickest.
You are 100% right. In addition, I am using Quercetin. Never had a horrible reaction to the experimental biological because I did not take it. 70 year old. My body, my choice.
Ditto
So many have died or suffered needlessly. HCQ and Ivermectin as well as high dosage of C D and Zinc could have saved lives and stopped this scamdemic in its tracks!
Imagine the lives that could have been saved if this had been looked at and acted on 12 months ago.
Oh wait, it was… Looked at, but then dismissed
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vitamin-d-covid-19
They are criminals — I pray these people are prosecuted….. The Cabinet, Sage and the lazy MP’s who went along with it when it was evident to anyone with a live brain cell what we were doing was a crime against humanity
Hear, hear.
Without question, a sizeable crowd of people should be subject to arrest. There’s a prima facie argument for this person to face criminal charges.
Subject to due process, Id like to see the leading proponents of lockdowns, masks, mass testing, lying about variants, lying about vaccine safety & efficacy face LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
I’ve been against capital punishment all my life, but for the upper echelons of this criminal fraud, I’d make an exception. I’d even do it myself.
One of the most impressive analyses of the effect of the vaccine damage that I have seen looked at date of death of vaccinees in the VAERS system and the date of vaccination. The curve beautifully showed the temporal relationship, a huge spike within the first day that tailed-off sharply over 3 weeks. No wonder those in charge of VAERS started stripping out this data.
Can you post a link to that analysis please, if it can be read freely somewhere online?
Damn straight – a thousand upticks!
The problem is trying to get anyone else to even listen- I have a colleague who’s been depressed throughout this and I’m sure it’s largely because she gets all her news & views from the BBC and is absolutely convinced that everyone is going to die if we don’t all hide away forever. She honestly believes Covid is the biggest killer ever and refuses point blank to look at anything I try to show her to counter this. This despite the fact that no-one in her family has had it- so the empirical evidence all around her is trumped by the BBC ‘news’. I’m sure her two under 10 y/olds will be offered up for the jab immediately it is available.
Vitamin D was known over a year ago to be pivotal & published on.
This is THE most treatable respiratory viral illness ever.
Hydroxychloroquine
Zinc
Vitamin D
Azithromycin
Ivermectin
Fluvoxamine
Budesonide
Dexamethasone
Aspirin
Apixaban
I’ve probably missed some safe & effective treatments.
Why in the world would you even be contemplating a vaccine? Especially a non-live vaccine?
I guess your question was rhetorical but I’ll say it anyway; vaccines because they make lots of money, vaccines especially RNA types because it hooks people into a world of cyber digital techno health and vaccine passports and enables a totalitarian level of control to be achieved seemingly by benevolent Governments in order to ‘keep us safe’.
Ivor Cummins has been advocating the D for most of this ‘pandemic’ – including for BAME doctors who secretly distributed it among their network when they were being hit hard very early on – their turnaround was attributed to some bullshit but it was clearly down to the big D. The govt et al. (The entire pharma complex) have directly and indirectly murdered people in any language – it’s too little too late. Off to goal.
See Dr Joseph Mercola for his thoughts on maintaining your health if you have taken the experimental biological.
Can I add cask strength Islay whisky to that list?
That’s what I use for bad colds. Normal colds – like I have right now – I’ll use something like Caol Ila. If I get covid I’ve got a unopened bottle of Laphroaig, distilled back in 1991, 53.9% ABV.
As they say, if you drink the right amount you’ll live for ever – it’s just finding that right amount.
It’s also be clear to me for many years that the more sunshine I get in the summer the fewer colds I get in the winter.
I have no medical training by the way …
Used to cycle to work, before I could afford a car, so bare arms and legs for an hour a day no matter how shite the weather, as I generated so much heat from the exercise. Never got a cold, even when half the office was coughing at me.
I never cycled, but I used to work on building sites, and then in a big, open garage and we rarely got colds and when we did it was only mild and easily shaken off. When I was at the garage, we often had to collect cars from offices where everyone was cosy and warm, and always had colds and ‘flu’. Interestingly, we’d collect their cars as they arrived and then drive them back to the workshop, so they’d been coughing and sneezing all over them immediately before we drove them and yet we never seemed to catch the lurg – given they way things are currently, you’d have expected us to just keel over dead would you not?
I used to use the “whisky and a hat” treatment.
Place a hat on a chair at the foot of the bed.
Get into bed.
Drink the whisky.
When you see the hat move you know you have had enough.
Sounds like drinking scrumpy to me.
Come to think of it, I reckon proper scrumps – the real dead flat stuff tasting like apple juice – would kill any bugs in the respiratory tract.
I reckon MY should add scrumps to his list.
It is hard to see how people in places like Israel end up with vitamin D deficiency given the amount of sunlight they seem to have. Even covered up in clothing (forget the sunscreen (don’t get me started on sunscreen)) the sun should be strong enough for anyone out and about for the day to synthesize enough vitamin D.
True. The elderly tend to be indoors more than the young (especially when it’s uncomfortably hot and air-conditioning is available ), maybe that’s part of the explanation.
It’s notable that inhabitants of very sunny and hot countries (e.g. Bedouins) often wear full length sun-shielding robes, presumably for comfort. I wonder what their Vitamin D levels are like.
Ever been to a nursing home. These poor people do not get any sunshine. None.
Which was why they were hit the hardest of all.
I found an investigation into levels of vit D in populations, and strangely Spain came out with the lowest in Europe. Maybe it’s just too hot and the elderly don’t go out in daytime.
When it’s over 30C and probably closer to 40C then you try to avoid going outside if possible because it’s too frigging hot.
Easy explanation. When you live in a hot climate you become very very adept at avoiding exposure to sun. This is clothes, also behaviour such as where you walk down a street, when you go out etc. Most develop a light tan, and this impedes Vit D production.
And yet they want to block out the sun to bring down ‘global warming’!!!
Gates is a lunatic! He’s high on power and thinks he’s God.
Brings to mind the old joke about the difference between God and Larry Ellison! {God doesn’t think he’s Larry Ellison.}
Vitamin D has been known about for what, 90 years? Vitamin means “vital amine”, ie the compounds you must consume as they are essential to health. They used to shovel cod liver oil into children, a spoon each day.
Your body cannot function per design without the right nutrients. Modern foods are nutrient deficient. Modern dietary choices compound the problem. Suppressing this information is a criminal act.
Don’t forget vitamin K2. It decalcifies arteries, as well as stengthening bones etc. Most east asian countries have diets with it in, most western countries do not have sufficient. as well as fatty cheeses , food like Kimchi contains plenty. It and VitD work harmoniously.
If our old folk ate vits D and K2 sufficiently they would be a lot healthier.
Yes we have known the Vitamin D story for over a year. Anyone hear public health England ever mention the importance of maintaining Vitamin D levels. No, I didn’t think so.
They’re all still learning.
It’s apparent that there is still a lot of uncertainty about some aspects of Vitamin D. Much of the ‘mechanics’ of it’s production, both internally within ourselves, and externally, seems to be well understood. However, it’s mode of operation within us, i.e. the overall purpose of it, and the relevant numbers to do with the volume used, is less well known.
The importance of either generating vitamin D internally, or importing it via our diet, or supplementary medication, is still under debate, when it comes to the numbers. There is still some uncertainty about what actually happens with regard to the functions performed by the ‘immune system’, and how they are related to the presence of vitamin D.
The fact that the recommendations for minimum daily quantities of import diet wise have doubled and quadrupled (in German language bumf) recently speaks volumes.
With regard to our vulnerability to certain infective compounds, even this is not fully understood when it comes to numbers related to the content of vitamin D as such, compared with other factors to do with our lifestyle around the year.
A headline that could have been written over a year ago.
Indeed.
180 one per day vitamin D tablets cost about £6 from Sainsbury’s.
Price has gone up, used to be about £2.50. They’ll price it out of reach soon.
You might find vitamin D tablets not as effective as in fish oil capsules. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin so require fat such as milk to be absorbed. I point this out because I’ve heard of people taking vitamin D tablets at high levels and then testing as deficent. The other thing about vitamin D it takes some time to build up, first it goes to the liver where it’s converted into a more active form. It’s in this form you get the benefits such as reduction in respiratory infections and I’ve discovered NO hayfever which I’ve always suffered from.
Yes D3 in oil-based capsules is best. Does the NHS still only prescribe D2? A lot of people can’t metabolise that properly.
Anecdotal, I know, but since starting vitD last year my annual health MOT has shown all the measured factors improving for the first time in 10 years; my gum health is showing a massive improvement, so much so that the hygenist commented on it and showed me the graphs that highlighted it, and a chronic skin condition has spontaneously shown marked improvement.
Improving the immune system should theoretically improve your health generally, and I suspect that is the case with me.
I should add that my wife is also showing a marked improvement in gum health despite no changes in diet.
Anecdotally I’ve heard of people chwewing on D3 capsules and finding their teeth healed up.
What is very worrying is Professor Delores Cahill was trumpeting the merits of Vitamin C D and Zinc as well as HCQ early last year. However, the government and their scientists completely ignored this preferring to listen to people like Neil Fergusson, that well known computer modeller who got it wrong on Mad Cows disease and he also got caught breaking covid rules, just like Hancock! Did the government remove him ? No they did not ! Although we have a change of Minister for Health I doubt very much if their agenda has changed!
You call Neil Ferguson a computer modeller I call him a computer fiddler for getting his sums repeatedly wrong. Computers work by making calculations but if you make the wrong assumptions or ignore certain facts your going to get garbidge. Or as the nerds call it GIGO garbidge in garbide out!
Yep same rule I was taught regarding hi-fi equipment.
I bought Vit D supplements last summer for this very reason and here we are a year later with Einstein reporting on it FFS.
Others have pointed out that Vitamin D was recommended by some experts a year or more ago. It was pooh-poohed then. This latest evidence shows only that “The Science” is not immutable and that it’s necessary to keep an open mind. I would also suggest that if any relatively harmless substance appears useful, there is nothing to lose by taking it.
As for its effect in the BAME community there are differing reasons for Vitamin D deficiency – vegetarians and vegans (eg Hindus) have a dietary issue, covered-up women (eg Moslems) will have inadequate sunlight exposure. It appears that Vitamin D may prevent acquisition, but not, if one acquires the virus, progression to the severe syndrome of Covid-19, which is likely to be a genetic predisposition (as I have outlined in my blog more than once!).
Vitamin D is a hormone that boosts and regulates our immune response to viruses like SARS-COV-2. It’s critical to maintain vitD levels. Most people in the UK, in fact everyone above (& below) the 35th parallel, needs to ensure they get enough sunlight exposure or take VitD supplements. This is why care homes have been requested to provide supplements to their residents.
A good presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha2mLz-Xdpg
Another such video has been ‘removed’ by YouTube (the world’s leading covid expert, not!) for “violating community guidelines”!
If they’re only ‘guidelines’, why are they enforced with Gestapo like vigour I wonder?
I rememner someone on the internet listing the “dangers” of vitamin D. Actually all the dire consequences he listed were symptoms of vita,im D DEFICIENCY. But he wouldn’t be told.
You mention sunlight in your note.
I have a fairly strong skin and quite enjoy being in the sunshine. I do need some protection from the sun but certainly not factor 50, 30, 20 or even 15 suncream.
\the lowest I see on sale here is factor 8, maybe sometimes factor 6. Even 6 is too much for me; I would like to buy factor 4, 3 or 2 and THAT would give me plenty of Vitamin D.
But I cannot buy anything less than 6.
Now I do know that some people are much more sensitive to the sun than I am; my wife needs high factor suncream, but I do not.
Why cannot I get low factor suncream?
Because the safety fascists say so that’s why. There is no reason as to why a greater range of sun lotions cannot be on sale. Those who (like me) do not need a high factor, will get a low factor and those who need a high factor will get a high factor.
What is the problem with this??
For lots more info on natural supplements that help with the virus see:
http://www.orthomolecular.org
Articles well written by scientists who believe in using these supplements to heal us – backed up with references. Lots on intravenous Vitamin C, Vitamin D and many other supplements in relation to the virus. They too think that information is being suppressed because of corruption and the pharmacutical industry – most of these substances are cheap and generic plus they work so if used properly do not have side effects – no money to be made there then!
The human immune system is a wonder of evolution – we all need to look after our own immunity and it will then look after you. Eat well – no ultra-processed foods, take good quality supplements, get exercise, preferably outdoors and good sleep. Lack of stress helps too – difficult in these times! A healthy population is what we need now.
I am sure that high levels of vitamins C and D help humans stay healthy.
However, the figures in the paper appear to show regression lines of disease severity as a function of vitamin D concentration. I can accept that the categories “mild”, “moderate”, “severe”, “critical” are on an ordinal scale, but the authors of the paper seem to imagine they can label these as numbers “1”, “2”, “3”, “4” and make their calculations as though the vertical axis is a numerical scale. Why should “critical” be four times worse than “mild”?
The Spearman correlations would be OK (being for ranked values), though assuming that, for example, everyone deemed “severe” is equally “severe” and thus has the same rank is perhaps questionable.