Science
Posted on 02/10/2022 7:30:41 AM PST by shadowlands1960
A newly published study by a team of researchers from the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University in Safed, Israel and the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israel suggests a link between vitamin D deficiency and severity of disease from Covid-19 infection.
Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the research looked at vitamin D levels in 1,176 patients hospitalized with a positive PCR test result between April 2020 and February 2021 at the Galilee Medical Center. The vitamin D levels were based on testing that had been conducted prior to the hospitalization “either as part of a routine blood workup or following a clinical suspicion for vitamin D deficiency.” Those lab results had occurred anywhere from 14 to 730 days before the positive Covid tests.
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I had pancreatitis many years ago and I heard Vit D would help , I’ve been taking it ever since
Now they tell us. /s
That doctors do not test vit d levels is malpractice IMHO...would like to see a good study on long term/senior care center residents
Getting out in the fresh air and sunshine are good for you-
Surprise, surprise, surprise!!!
Did you get covid?
I can’t believe Indonesia did a vitamin D study two years ago with the same result.
Israel follows up after 2 years. US is still missing in inaction.
What is wrong with medicine in western societies, that they can’t check simple stuff like this?
Yeah...but unless you live in the south of US...getting enough sunshine is a problem
I have been taking 4000iu of Vitamin D3 a day for at least 10 years, combined with lots of sunshine (when the sun shines in the northeast). I rarely get sick and when I do, the symptoms are relatively minor. (I am 62). I did get Covid just after Christmas. The symptoms, which lasted four days, were similar to a moderate cold plus night sweats. If I had the same symptoms in 2019, I would not have thought twice about isolating at home.
It's one of those pieces of "settled science" the left doesn't like. It didn't fit the narrative and still doesn't.
I walk for exercise.. I put in at least 40 miles a week... on top of that I live in sunny Northern California. I don’t know how many people know that they get the bulk of their Vit. D from the sun. It’s important. On a related note, adding Vit. D to milk products has virtually eliminated rickets among children.
Western medicine, most notoriously the US, follows the MONEY, not the science.
Didn’t we already know this?
Yes, it was known. That’s why the lock-downs were criminal malpractice. Forcing people into their homes to breathe on each other was pretty much the worse thing they could have recommended.
When I had my checkup last January, she said my D was too low. It was 50. I was taking 1000iu a day. She said to double that. I live in the South but have to be careful in the sun due to skin cancer. I’m a natural fair skinned redhead with Scottish ancestry. I’m sure I still get more natural sun than most people in the North.
The last skin cancer I had to have removed, the surgeon said “let me guess, Scottish” and I said yes. He said I had skin that should never see the sun.
I haven’t had covid that I know of. I’ll be curious to see what my level is this year.
Both my wife and I supplement with vitamin D. She got a very mild case of covid. If I got covid it was so mild I didn't notice.
There are many things about Covid that should make us angry but the lack of pushing vitamin D as the #1 recommendation by our health authorities should destroy any and all trust in those institutions.
The studies are so overwhelming and the results are so obvious that the silence is criminal.
How many lives would have been saved just by this recommendation? There are other supplements that could further reduce the death and misery too.
It is not taught in medical school.
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