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Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

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Re: Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

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Post by anonytrary »

mindcrime wrote: post #8

Interesting thing... Vitamin D is one of those things that, when vitamins come up on HN, you will often hear the refrain that "it's the one vitamin that large numbers of people are actually deficient in and ought to supplement." I've heard that many times over the years and I have taken a Vitamin D supplement on and off (more off than on) over the years. When this COVID-19 thing first hit, I had a physical scheduled…

I was also tested for Vitamin D deficiency and my doctor prescribed 50,000 ICU a week, followed by a much smaller amount per day afterwards. I noticed an improvement in my well-being as well (could have been psychological). My armchair hypothesis is that modern humans tend to be indoor creatures, yet our bodies evolved as if we were outdoor creatures, therefore we're supposed to be getting more sunlight and Vitamin D than we actually are.

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Post by nostrebored »

trott wrote: post #179

It seems that the authors misunderstood the Boston study they are citing: > In a Boston homeless shelter, 100% of 147 COVID-19 positive subjects were asymptomatic [3]. That study actually excluded N=15 symptomatic people: > The original cases (N=15) were identified sequentially over a 5-day period, and each was expeditiously removed from the shelter population at the time of symptom recognition. These individuals pre…

90% asymptomatic cases isn't surprising?

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Post by waheoo »

windex wrote: post #175
lisper wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The next paragraph is even more interesting: > A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-…

A lot of us actually know of the connection from previous experiences with the Flu. What it seems to really do is to clear out the cough that comes after the Flu when the cough/sorethroat tends to enter your lungs. With VitaminD, that phase of the flu is gone. I dont supplement regularly, and I start taking it the day I feel I am going down with the flu. No point recommending it because you will be seen as someone wh…

Doesnt this basically explain the real reason for why flu is worse in winter.

Less sun exposure in general.

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Post by blotter_paper »

wolco wrote: post #228
adrianmonk wrote: post #151

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I don't know about that. From where I'm sitting, lots of companies stand to gain if Vitamin D turns out to make a big difference. For example: American Airlines, Hilton, and McDonald's.

Not sure I understand why these companies specifically would benefit a new VitD world.

Presumably because they would have customers who weren't quarantined at home unable to purchase goods and services -- any cure is a profitable one for companies not specifically invested in healthcare as a service.

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Post by vlod »

axegon_ wrote: post #42
mindcrime wrote: post #8

Interesting thing... Vitamin D is one of those things that, when vitamins come up on HN, you will often hear the refrain that "it's the one vitamin that large numbers of people are actually deficient in and ought to supplement." I've heard that many times over the years and I have taken a Vitamin D supplement on and off (more off than on) over the years. When this COVID-19 thing first hit, I had a physical scheduled…

Well yes, Vitamin D is pretty hard to come around in the northern hemisphere so no surprise there. Mind you, it's far not the only thing - magnesium, zinc, selenium are just a few which most people are missing. I mean unless your diet consists entirely of tuna and salmon probably. Over the last few years, I've stressed significantly on my physical health(after being very overweight for the most of my adult life and n…

TIP: have ONE brazil nut per day is enough selenium to get your rda dose and generally more enjoyable than popping a pill.

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Post by corpMaverick »

baryphonic wrote: post #218

True story: my mom has plaque psoriasis and I was starting to develop symptoms as well (the condition seems to be heritable). I saw a dermatologist about it, and she prescribed a particular cream as well as doing 15 mins of UV therapy every day on the affected areas (knees and elbows were the worst). I wasn't the best at following medical advice at the time, but the cream helped some. About a year and a half ago, I s…

I've got great results on using vitamin D for cluster headaches. https://n.neurology.org/content/82/10_Supplement/P1.256

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sgustard wrote: post #202
mindcrime wrote: post #8

Interesting thing... Vitamin D is one of those things that, when vitamins come up on HN, you will often hear the refrain that "it's the one vitamin that large numbers of people are actually deficient in and ought to supplement." I've heard that many times over the years and I have taken a Vitamin D supplement on and off (more off than on) over the years. When this COVID-19 thing first hit, I had a physical scheduled…

Hmm, my doctor specifically said a few weeks ago: "During active COVID-19 infection symptoms (fever, cough), please AVOID these common supplements: Echinacea, Elderberry, Polysaccharide extracts from Medicinal Mushrooms and Vitamin D as these MAY theoretically exacerbate the cytokine inflammatory storm. It's OK to take them preventively (if you are already doing so) but please stop at the first sign of COVID-19 sympt…

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Post by holler »

Sargos wrote: post #219
dralley wrote: post #216

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> "I would like you to speak to the medical doctors to see if there's any way that you can apply light and heat to cure, you know, if you could. And maybe you can, maybe you can't." He was talking about 2 things * UV light kills viruses, so why don't you shine UV light into the body to treat the virus * Many viruses such as the flu don't transmit as well during the summer due to the weather conditions (heat + humidit…

>Many viruses such as the flu don't transmit as well during the summer due to the weather conditions (heat + humidity), so could that treat the virus Maybe viruses don't transmit as well during the summer because people are outside more and have higher levels of Vitamin D?

I think I read somewhere that in 1918 flu, they noticed that ppl who had lots of exposure to the sun had better outcomes.. anecdotal
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