interesting- it’s an easy fix if true-
A year ago I suffered 3 1/2 months of Long Something as did my partner. He made the mistake of babysitting his sick grandson and bringing home the bugs for us to suffer. Symptoms were mostly severe coughing that went on and on. Probably not Covid, but perhaps RSV. THe previous fall I had gained weight from nervous nibbling and worry about 3 loved ones dealing with cancer. My 2022 Dec. annual physical showed my Vitamin D had dropped from optimum to insufficient. Later that week I read an article posted by CMind to the effect that if your BMI is above 25, your Vitamin D moves into your fat rather than circulating in the blood where it can help the immune system. Perhaps this happens with iron as well. My BMI was now 27.5 and then my partner brought home The Bug, and our illness commenced.
I immediately increased my Vitamin C intake to every few hours, more zinc, and especially more Vitamin D. Reflecting on that period and months afterward, I now remember buying more red meat, as opposed to my eating mostly chicken and seafood for my protein. Of course this may just have been a result of going on a strict low carb diet and upping my protein intake. The result is when I had my annual physical this January, my weight was down 25 lbs., my BP was 120 over 65, my heart and lungs were very good, but my blood Vitamin D level had moved above the optimum range. So I immediately cut back on my Vitamin D from 10,000 IU to 5,000 IU. Also my partner had promised to not babysit his grandson again if the child was sick. Now my energy is back and I am getting caught up on neglected important tasks.
As a young woman (I am now 85), I was frequently anemic and the doctor recommended Iron which did not seem to help much. Then I read in an Adelle Davis book that Vitamin E can increase the life span of red blood cells from 85 days to 115 days. I had just started taking Vitamin E for my post pregnancy varicose vein problem development, and soon my anemia issue was gone, and has never returned. I do take a number of different supplements, and have added some as I have developed helth issues, and always been helped by the ones I selected after research. So far the conditions I have helped (which my parents experienced as health problems), have included that varicose vein issue, frequent respiratory infections, back pain, cataracts, and Vitamin D deficiency.