Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
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Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
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Re: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
#2Welp. I don't think it's gonna make the difference if I get COVID-19, but I did order some Vitamin D supplements. I live in a low-sunlight area, work indoors, and don't drink a lot of milk. 75% of people in my region are Vitamin D deficient. I can put two and two together.
Re: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
#3One difficulty in determining if vitamin D actually helps with COVID is determining if vitamin D levels are directly affecting outcomes or whether they are a proxy for something else. For example: are low levels a proxy for people who don't go outside much and therefore don't exercise?
That's a huge problem in medical studies generally.
Re: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
#4Welp. I don't think it's gonna make the difference if I get COVID-19, but I did order some Vitamin D supplements. I live in a low-sunlight area, work indoors, and don't drink a lot of milk. 75% of people in my region are Vitamin D deficient. I can put two and two together.
There's enough evidence for vitamin D being beneficial that it's certainly not likely to hurt anything and is probably a good idea.
Re: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
#5What does the author mean "the new chloroquine"? No one knows if chloroquine + zinc is effective when taken early. Anyone telling you they know is lying.
Re: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
#6One difficulty in determining if vitamin D actually helps with COVID is determining if vitamin D levels are directly affecting outcomes or whether they are a proxy for something else. For example: are low levels a proxy for people who don't go outside much and therefore don't exercise? That's a huge problem in medical studies generally.
There are now 24 trials (of some kind) listed on ClinicalTrials.gov:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=vitamin+d&cond=C...
At some point, high-quality RCT results will be in.
Re: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
#7One difficulty in determining if vitamin D actually helps with COVID is determining if vitamin D levels are directly affecting outcomes or whether they are a proxy for something else. For example: are low levels a proxy for people who don't go outside much and therefore don't exercise? That's a huge problem in medical studies generally.
In other words: establishing causation (or lack of it) is more useful than merely correlation. Yes. But hardly breaking news, or even specific to medicine.
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#8I'm surprised the article barely mentions Vitamin K, which is needed along with Vitamin D - D to mobilize the calcium and K2 to put it into the right place.
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#9For me this is a perfect example of wishful thinking.
It's really hard for average person to accept reality: This virus, like all others, will last for a long time. We won't have, in a foreseeable future, a treatment neither a cure. Cancer, HIV or even seasonal flue are good examples examples of diseases that were discovered decades ago for which science still don't have a cure, there are a few treatments or easing medication, but none of them can be actually cured.
I expect that people will move from crazy solution to another on a regular basis until a final cure is found.. my expectation is this will last for years.
Re: Vitamin D: the New Covid-19 Chloroquine?
#10I feel like Vitamin D deficiency correlates with every disease. A large % of everyone has a vitamin D deficiency so there is always a high correlation.