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.
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.
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......
Interesting theory.
I posted this article on COVID and Vitamin D deficiency a while back:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3842447/posts
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.
Going outside and getting a little bit of sun seems like a good idea. Oops! Outside is closed. Plus, any exposure to any sunlight immediately causes death by skin cancer. The experts know everything.
Scott Adams usually has an interesting take on things. He has a knack for looking at a situation from all kinds of angles, including ones most people would never dream of.
I do wish he’d change his blog back to the written format instead of the podcast. Or at least get his podcasts transcribed. I prefer reading over listening.
The Problems of Vitamin D Insuffinciency in Older Persons
NE nursing homes are really a perfect storm of problems: bad weather, high labor costs, regulations that create more problems than they solve, insane public health insurance policies that will cover sex changes but not decent dental care...
I take 5,000 units of Vitamin D3 every day, for several years now.
google vitamin d cytokine storm
here is one hit
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v1.full.pdf
Yes
Note that much of continental USA is above 37° North latitude. As such, many Americans don't get enough "natural" Vitamin D between the autumnal and vernal equinox. And that might explain the much of the high death rate from COVID-19 in New York City.
The Vitamin Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY1sIcTYN3I&list=PL_YaEEDeoAeWNMoAPF0oqbFtOS53amnun&index=3&t
All i know is i hated those grape flavored fluoride treatments
Zinc is also an issue, although not as bad. Zinc supplements should be delivered by Amazon in a week, so that I can build up a store of the mineral.
What is the other supplement I need to get? Manganese?