Posted on 05/15/2020 9:11:54 AM PDT by grundle
Obesity is not caused lack of by Vit D.
There may be some truth there. I dunno. I’m inclined to believe it.
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.
You might find this interesting:
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?
cows milk has Vitamin D added due to so many getting rickets in the bad old days. But fewer people are drinking milk today.
But Vit D gets deposited in fat, so obese people need higher doses.
He’s saying they’re more likely to be deficient.
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......
But obese are not outside jogging, are they ?
No but heavy people have a higher propensity to be the indoor types.
Helps activate the immune system, such as T-cells.
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
Interesting theory.
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.
I posted this article on COVID and Vitamin D deficiency a while back:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3842447/posts
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.
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).
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.
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