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Scott Adams: Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise?
Wordpress and Twitter ^ | May 8 and May 15, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill commenting on comments by Scott Adams

Posted on 05/15/2020 9:11:54 AM PDT by grundle

Scott Adams: Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise?

Scott Adams: just brought up this really great point at Twitter. This is what he said:

Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise? Google it: old, overweight, black, diabetic, smog dwellers, nursing homes, prisons, shaded NYC streets, Chinese urban dwellers, covered body parts (Iran). All would have vitamin D issues.

Maybe we only think the heat and sunlight and humidity are what makes most viruses fade in summer. I believe science is not entirely sure why summer helps. All four variables seem promising, including Vitamin D. But the latter explains more observations.

Does the Vitamin D correlation work In reverse too? Who is doing unexpectedly well at keeping COVID19 at bay? Texas, Florida, other outdoorsy states. How about kids. Do your kids wear sunscreen every time they go in the backyard or street? Probably not.

Prisons are showing high infection rates but low deaths. Just learned that prison meals are engineered with vitamin D supplements. Makes sense.

I think each and every one of those points is excellent.

Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise? Google it: old, overweight, black, diabetic, smog dwellers, nursing homes, prisons, shaded NYC streets, Chinese urban dwellers, covered body parts (Iran). All would have vitamin D issues.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2020

Maybe we only think the heat and sunlight and humidity are what makes most viruses fade in summer. I believe science is not entirely sure why summer helps. All four variables seem promising, including Vitamin D. But the latter explains more observations.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2020

Does the Vitamin D correlation work In reverse too? Who is doing unexpectedly well at keeping COVID19 at bay? Texas, Florida, other outdoorsy states. How about kids. Do your kids wear sunscreen every time they go in the backyard or street? Probably not.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2020

Update: Prisons are showing high infection rates but low deaths. Just learned that prison meals are engineered with vitamin D supplements. Makes sense.

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2020



TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blogtrash; chinavirus; coronavirus; dilbert; proabortion; scottadams; vitamins; vitd
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1 posted on 05/15/2020 9:11:54 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Obesity is not caused lack of by Vit D.


2 posted on 05/15/2020 9:14:04 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: grundle

There may be some truth there. I dunno. I’m inclined to believe it.


3 posted on 05/15/2020 9:14:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: grundle

Almost every day since early March (I miss days though) I have been taking Vitamin D and Zinc. Once or twice a week I take Vitamin C too.

Far as I know I have not been exposed to the virus though, and I’m not trying to find out if these vitamins will help to be honest.


4 posted on 05/15/2020 9:15:27 AM PDT by z3n
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To: TexasGator

You might find this interesting:

https://www.newsweek.com/vitamin-d-supplement-linked-weight-loss-overweight-and-obese-children-1140838


5 posted on 05/15/2020 9:15:52 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: grundle

Can’t argue with that. Another low-cost/no-cost preventative.

What does Vitamin D do for the body that helps it to resist/fend off the rona?


6 posted on 05/15/2020 9:16:00 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: grundle

cows milk has Vitamin D added due to so many getting rickets in the bad old days. But fewer people are drinking milk today.


7 posted on 05/15/2020 9:16:11 AM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: TexasGator

But Vit D gets deposited in fat, so obese people need higher doses.
He’s saying they’re more likely to be deficient.


8 posted on 05/15/2020 9:17:13 AM PDT by GnuThere
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I don’t know the validity of Vitamin D deficiency being a risk factor of Covid-19, but I have been trying to boost my immune system by taking vitamins, consuming foods high in Vitamin D, etc......


9 posted on 05/15/2020 9:17:52 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: TexasGator

But obese are not outside jogging, are they ?


10 posted on 05/15/2020 9:19:02 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: TexasGator

No but heavy people have a higher propensity to be the indoor types.


11 posted on 05/15/2020 9:20:06 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: BradyLS

Helps activate the immune system, such as T-cells.


12 posted on 05/15/2020 9:20:50 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: TexasGator

Perhaps not directly; but it probably does so indirectly, particularly in terms of fatigue, muscle weakness, etc:

https://www.medicinenet.com/vitamin_d_deficiency/article.htm

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/15050-vitamin-d—vitamin-d-deficiency


13 posted on 05/15/2020 9:20:58 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: grundle

Interesting theory.


14 posted on 05/15/2020 9:21:37 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TexasGator
Obesity is not caused lack of by Vit D.

I think he point is that the obese are often Vitamin D deficient, not that Vitamin D deficiency causes Obesity.

Correlation is not causation. I could be that the Vitamin D deficiency and the Obesity may be caused by the same factors.

But, the premise here is that the Vitamin D deficiency causes susceptibility to the disease, and the correlation to Obesity is explained by the correlation of Obesity and Vitamin D deficiency, and that it is actually the Vitamin D deficiency that is causing the problem.

15 posted on 05/15/2020 9:22:26 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (It's Winnie-the-Flu / Put the blame where it belongs / On Winnie-the-Poo)
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To: grundle

I posted this article on COVID and Vitamin D deficiency a while back:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3842447/posts


16 posted on 05/15/2020 9:23:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: TexasGator
Why Vitamin D Deficiency is a Common Cause of Obesity
17 posted on 05/15/2020 9:25:13 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: TexasGator

I don’t think he’s saying that. Vitamin D is manufactured in the body partly by skin exposure to direct sunlight. He’s saying a lot of obese people don’t show a lot of skin even in summer.


18 posted on 05/15/2020 9:27:33 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: grundle

Vitamin D is made from sub cutaneous 7-Dehydrocholesterol a cholesterol metabolite from the cholesterol humans make naturally internally. Humans (all skin pigmented types) exposed to sunlight biochemically convert this cholesterol metabolite into Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Dehydrocholesterol

The symptoms of severe prolonged sunlight (sunburn) have excessive Vitamin D production (overdose) in the description— severe headaches from the excess D (which is a fat soluble Vitamin and takes a long time to be cleared from the body— through the liver and gall bladder).


19 posted on 05/15/2020 9:29:08 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: grundle

I’ve read the data and the studies. I’m convinced. However, I’m not willing to get the virus to prove a point. But I will live my life as I see fit. To hell with the Great Masking.


20 posted on 05/15/2020 9:30:43 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If liberals had a conscience, they would wouldn't be liberals.)
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