Updated: April 5, 2024
Some studies have found that patients who were hit hardest by COVID-19 had low levels of vitamin D in their bodies. A SoCal doctor is explaining why this might …
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Vitamin D and coronavirus: Sunlight and nutrition could help boost immunity | ABC7 Updated for 2024
Good video. For a deeper understanding of exactly how vitamin D modified the immune system and protects against COVID-19 I suggest the following video.https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20200602/researchers-caution-against-misinformation-on-vitamin-d-during-covid19-pandemic
A must read for anyone and everyone who wants to understand vitamin d: The Essential Role of Vitamin D in the Biosynthesis of Endogenous Antimicrobial Peptides May Explain Why Deficiency Increases Mortality Risk in COVID-19 Infections: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202005.0265/v1
and
The Role of the Parent Compound Vitamin D with Respect to Metabolism and Function: Why Clinical Dose Intervals Can Affect Clinical Outcomes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849670/
Thank you for boldly going where the CDC won’t go despite their publications which indicate 4000 units is safe.
Meanwhile 30 minutes in sun can provide 10 to 20,000 units.
This problem must be addressed by the CDC who don’t have the courage that ABC does. Please stay on this story which can only be properly covered by putting pressure on CDC.
Consider the following:
Appreciated!
Curious if you think the big picture is stated here?:
WH, Congress, CDC, ETC Missing the Immune-System Rescue Boat:
Here is a 9-minute proposal with criticality you will understand in 9 seconds.
PROBLEM:
COVID-19 war is being waged on many external fronts,
…while the internal immunity-support battle is unarmed.
HHS/NIH/CDC has not proactively alerted the public, or healthcare workers and institutions sufficiently, of widespread micronutrient deficiencies, critical to immuno-competency,
such as D, in over 69% Elderly, and People of Color.
Examination of blood levels are now proving significant correlation with severity of Covid outcomes.
Government, and even Pharma-related health agencies, do NOT deny criticality of deficiencies, nor benefits of supplementation, as proven by statements from their publications summarized/quoted below.
Rather, CDC simply has not synthesized findings and proactively advised the public and healthcare professionals, of critical ways to ensure strong immune systems, as they have with spread-reduction techniques.
Unfortunately, there IS great google-garble confusion, in disjointed, difficult to decipher, government health publications.
Example:
ODPHP (Congress-created to “lead disease prevention and health promotion efforts”…ever heard of ‘em?), lists RDA of D 600 iu, adults under 71, (50% more than previous; still often sold/mistaken as 400 iu)…
More problematic, is burying safe “max” doses: (ex. 4000 iu. of D…much more effective in reaching optimal levels), in separate lists which are often overlooked.
Furthermore, they publish that 10,000 to 20,000 ui can be produced in sun…with our bodies preventing excessive levels.
Preventing disease is a CDC directive…
However, guidance on optimal supplementation, by age, gender, race, lifestyle, and condition, is not proactively communicated, even to healthcare professionals.
And, beyond failing to advise “stay-home“ compensation for little sun, not washing-off D, and low/no
winter production, D is just one example of allowing immune systems to become compromised.
Millions of residents and healthcare professionals are unaware of many proven ways to fight COVID-19, (&20!?).
PROPOSAL:
-CDC should be instructed through Congressional oversight committees, to promote immune-system optimization for the public and healthcare professionals and institutions.
It will not be necessary to convince HHS agencies of their own findings, or that best-practices guidelines can be synthesized and advertised very quickly…
We need action,
not further delays or studies.
What follows is a description of purpose and summarized HHS-publication support.
CDC needs a battle plan that powerfully promotes:
1. Optimal Immunity-Critical Micronutrients,
2. Multiple Immune-System-Building methods,
3. Internal Viral-Load-Reduction Techniques.
PRACTICAL PROOF:
Immunity support may not be a cure, but it is a best weapon on the internal battlefield, currently left unarmed.
FACTS-1:
Most COVID infections present no, few, or manageable symptoms, while others suffer or die, ultimately due to immuno-competency differences.
FACTS-2:
Eleven micronutrients, especially A, C, D, and Zinc are critical to immune response.
FACTS-3:
Widespread, hidden deficiencies of D:
69% Hispanics,
82% Blacks, and similar for Elderly, are found in these disproportionately impacted groups.
Overcoming D– deficiency is double-blind proven to improve a range of health outcomes:
from osteoporosis fractures, to depression, dementia, and top fatal illnesses, including
cancer (also immune-system responsive), cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
FACTS-4:
Some micronutrients are useful at much higher levels than RDA.
Doses 7X RDA are safe and beneficial for most.
77% of Americans claim to take supplements, yet 42% are D-deficient, rarely tested, and unlikely to know if we are!
FACTS-5:
“Micronutrients are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
(As my psychiatrist would say, “Does that tell you anything?”)
FACTS-6:
“Zinc promotes immune functions and helps resist infectious diseases.”
“…supplements reduce…respiratory infections, lowers…deaths from all causes.“
FACTS-7:
Not everyone is aware of methods to remove viral load from mouth, nose, and throat, or of
other physical immunity-building techniques.
PREDICAMENT:
We have invested in health information tools that have not been effectively delivered.
Dependency on the Google Jungle”, (which can “confuse the health out of us”!) is costing us dearly… before, during, and after(?) the pandemic.
Which politicians will win hearts, minds, and votes in this call-to-action?
POLITICAL SOLUTION:
A former presidential contender is saying, “We need a national policy to show us how to return safely”…
The current contender’s 4-Step Return Plan, is missing the 1st step…optimizing immune systems!
Presumptions that politicians can do nothing, due to Pharma influence, are overcome in an optional “Additional Proposal Support” topic below.
The pandemic presents an unprecedented opportunity to raise and maintain personal health permanently, and address our 75% preventable disease load…and its impending bankruptcy of governmental medical insurance.
Regardless of the structure of our costly insurance programs, salvation/solvency depends on preventing illness…
not just figuring out who gives, gets, and pays…
A Penny of Educational Prevention IS worth a Dollar of Cure.
Politicians who promote this type of permanent-benefit proposal will win.
If not; we all lose.
Winning on the battlefield within, is a best way to mitigate severity AND protect the future of our health, insurance systems, treasury, and sanity.
Embarrassingly delayed?
“Better late than never” was never more urgent.
Filling the immune-system communication gap is a best tactic for our government representatives and hopefuls.
Further NIH-published support and details below, are not needed to take action.
—————————-
PROPOSAL SUPPORT:
Even with vaccines, there is ultimately one cure…
a successful immune response.
Governments haven’t been proactively providing immune-system protection info.
However, the Google Jungle contains the following NIH-published summary of a multi-study review;
happily noted, by scientists from BAYER!
Their conclusions:
“…the immune system needs specific micronutrients, including A, D, C, E, B6, and B12, folate, zinc, iron, copper, and selenium, which play vital, often synergistic roles at every stage of the immune response.” …
“Adequate amounts are essential to ensure proper function of physical barriers and immune cells;
however, intakes necessary to support immune function may be higher than current recommended dietary allowances.
…even marginal deficiency may impair immunity.
…supplementation may modulate immune function and reduce the risk of infection.”
PASSÉ PHARMA PRESUMPTIONS:
Explanations of why CDC and other official health organizations are mum on immunity-building, based on Pharma influence,
(as the Supreme Court allows!),
don’t fly when shot down:
Pharma may influence, but has not have enough funds or network of secrecy, to control HHS/NIH/CDC and Congress…
1. Specialized drug profits are not significantly jeopardized by supplements.
2. Pharma is best-positioned for opportunities in patient-customized micronutrients, tuned for age, race, conditions, medications, vitals, genetics, etc.
3. Vaccine profits, can be marginal, sporadic, exaggerated, and are irrelevant at the moment; nor likely to work in micronutrient-deficient immunesystems.
Vitamin therapy isn’t going to kill Pharma….
But it’s killing us to underrate and under-educate.
Still not convinced immune-system support is a best weapon…or that people will respond?…
Take a look at the now more rapidly growing, mental-illness “side of the coin” in an NIH publication:
”4 out of 10 leading causes of disability are mental disorders…
studies show that a lack of certain dietary nutrients contribute to the development of mental disorders.”
“Notably, essential vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids are often deficient in the general population…
and are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
“Studies have shown daily supplements of vital nutrients often effectively reduce symptoms.”
“…nutritional supplement treatment may be appropriate for controlling major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety, eating, and attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), addiction, and autism.“
Let’s not be sick for no good reason… Please take action!
Appreciated!
Curious if you think the big picture is stated here?:
WH, Congress, CDC, ETC Missing the Immune-System Rescue Boat:
Here is a 9-minute proposal with criticality you will understand in 9 seconds.
PROBLEM:
COVID-19 war is being waged on many external fronts,
…while the internal immunity-support battle is unarmed.
HHS/NIH/CDC has not proactively alerted the public, or healthcare workers and institutions sufficiently, of widespread micronutrient deficiencies, critical to immuno-competency,
such as D, in over 69% Elderly, and People of Color.
Examination of blood levels are now proving significant correlation with severity of Covid outcomes.
Government, and even Pharma-related health agencies, do NOT deny criticality of deficiencies, nor benefits of supplementation, as proven by statements from their publications summarized/quoted below.
Rather, CDC simply has not synthesized findings and proactively advised the public and healthcare professionals, of critical ways to ensure strong immune systems, as they have with spread-reduction techniques.
Unfortunately, there IS great google-garble confusion, in disjointed, difficult to decipher, government health publications.
Example:
ODPHP (Congress-created to “lead disease prevention and health promotion efforts”…ever heard of ‘em?), lists RDA of D 600 iu, adults under 71, (50% more than previous; still often sold/mistaken as 400 iu)…
More problematic, is burying safe “max” doses: (ex. 4000 iu. of D…much more effective in reaching optimal levels), in separate lists which are often overlooked.
Furthermore, they publish that 10,000 to 20,000 ui can be produced in sun…with our bodies preventing excessive levels.
Preventing disease is a CDC directive…
However, guidance on optimal supplementation, by age, gender, race, lifestyle, and condition, is not proactively communicated, even to healthcare professionals.
And, beyond failing to advise “stay-home“ compensation for little sun, not washing-off D, and low/no
winter production, D is just one example of allowing immune systems to become compromised.
Millions of residents and healthcare professionals are unaware of many proven ways to fight COVID-19, (&20!?).
PROPOSAL:
-CDC should be instructed through Congressional oversight committees, to promote immune-system optimization for the public and healthcare professionals and institutions.
It will not be necessary to convince HHS agencies of their own findings, or that best-practices guidelines can be synthesized and advertised very quickly…
We need action,
not further delays or studies.
What follows is a description of purpose and summarized HHS-publication support.
CDC needs a battle plan that powerfully promotes:
1. Optimal Immunity-Critical Micronutrients,
2. Multiple Immune-System-Building methods,
3. Internal Viral-Load-Reduction Techniques.
PRACTICAL PROOF:
Immunity support may not be a cure, but it is a best weapon on the internal battlefield, currently left unarmed.
FACTS-1:
Most COVID infections present no, few, or manageable symptoms, while others suffer or die, ultimately due to immuno-competency differences.
FACTS-2:
Eleven micronutrients, especially A, C, D, and Zinc are critical to immune response.
FACTS-3:
Widespread, hidden deficiencies of D:
69% Hispanics,
82% Blacks, and similar for Elderly, are found in these disproportionately impacted groups.
Overcoming D– deficiency is double-blind proven to improve a range of health outcomes:
from osteoporosis fractures, to depression, dementia, and top fatal illnesses, including
cancer (also immune-system responsive), cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
FACTS-4:
Some micronutrients are useful at much higher levels than RDA.
Doses 7X RDA are safe and beneficial for most.
77% of Americans claim to take supplements, yet 42% are D-deficient, rarely tested, and unlikely to know if we are!
FACTS-5:
“Micronutrients are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
(As my psychiatrist would say, “Does that tell you anything?”)
FACTS-6:
“Zinc promotes immune functions and helps resist infectious diseases.”
“…supplements reduce…respiratory infections, lowers…deaths from all causes.“
FACTS-7:
Not everyone is aware of methods to remove viral load from mouth, nose, and throat, or of
other physical immunity-building techniques.
PREDICAMENT:
We have invested in health information tools that have not been effectively delivered.
Dependency on the Google Jungle”, (which can “confuse the health out of us”!) is costing us dearly… before, during, and after(?) the pandemic.
Which politicians will win hearts, minds, and votes in this call-to-action?
POLITICAL SOLUTION:
A former presidential contender is saying, “We need a national policy to show us how to return safely”…
The current contender’s 4-Step Return Plan, is missing the 1st step…optimizing immune systems!
Presumptions that politicians can do nothing, due to Pharma influence, are overcome in an optional “Additional Proposal Support” topic below.
The pandemic presents an unprecedented opportunity to raise and maintain personal health permanently, and address our 75% preventable disease load…and its impending bankruptcy of governmental medical insurance.
Regardless of the structure of our costly insurance programs, salvation/solvency depends on preventing illness…
not just figuring out who gives, gets, and pays…
A Penny of Educational Prevention IS worth a Dollar of Cure.
Politicians who promote this type of permanent-benefit proposal will win.
If not; we all lose.
Winning on the battlefield within, is a best way to mitigate severity AND protect the future of our health, insurance systems, treasury, and sanity.
Embarrassingly delayed?
“Better late than never” was never more urgent.
Filling the immune-system communication gap is a best tactic for our government representatives and hopefuls.
Further NIH-published support and details below, are not needed to take action.
—————————-
PROPOSAL SUPPORT:
Even with vaccines, there is ultimately one cure…
a successful immune response.
Governments haven’t been proactively providing immune-system protection info.
However, the Google Jungle contains the following NIH-published summary of a multi-study review;
happily noted, by scientists from BAYER!
Their conclusions:
“…the immune system needs specific micronutrients, including A, D, C, E, B6, and B12, folate, zinc, iron, copper, and selenium, which play vital, often synergistic roles at every stage of the immune response.” …
“Adequate amounts are essential to ensure proper function of physical barriers and immune cells;
however, intakes necessary to support immune function may be higher than current recommended dietary allowances.
…even marginal deficiency may impair immunity.
…supplementation may modulate immune function and reduce the risk of infection.”
PASSÉ PHARMA PRESUMPTIONS:
Explanations of why CDC and other official health organizations are mum on immunity-building, based on Pharma influence,
(as the Supreme Court allows!),
don’t fly when shot down:
Pharma may influence, but has not have enough funds or network of secrecy, to control HHS/NIH/CDC and Congress…
1. Specialized drug profits are not significantly jeopardized by supplements.
2. Pharma is best-positioned for opportunities in patient-customized micronutrients, tuned for age, race, conditions, medications, vitals, genetics, etc.
3. Vaccine profits, can be marginal, sporadic, exaggerated, and are irrelevant at the moment; nor likely to work in micronutrient-deficient immunesystems.
Vitamin therapy isn’t going to kill Pharma….
But it’s killing us to underrate and under-educate.
Still not convinced immune-system support is a best weapon…or that people will respond?…
Take a look at the now more rapidly growing, mental-illness “side of the coin” in an NIH publication:
”4 out of 10 leading causes of disability are mental disorders…
studies show that a lack of certain dietary nutrients contribute to the development of mental disorders.”
“Notably, essential vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids are often deficient in the general population…
and are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
“Studies have shown daily supplements of vital nutrients often effectively reduce symptoms.”
“…nutritional supplement treatment may be appropriate for controlling major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety, eating, and attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), addiction, and autism.“
Let’s not be sick for no good reason… Please take action!
https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583 Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
🎩🎩🎩🎩 📘 My Vitamin D short OpEd……📘➡️ 5 years ago I was Vitamin D deficient. I still take it daily today. Scientifically; Maybe this is why I haven't died from the Covid-19? @ which I think I got on Feb 12, 2020 at the dentist! I don't go anywhere so I am almost 100% sure, but I never got a Covid-19 test! Back at that time getting my doctors office to get me a Covid-19 test was an epic fail of course because none existed. No quick made appointments (even if you are sickly ill) Dealing with pain makes us stronger! In fact the more you endure it, the better spiritually you become because your in constant prayer with Father God. In fact that night I got the sniffles. The next day it was more constant, like 5 times per day, the 3rd day my eyes started itching. I pray often and prayer is a daily & 24 hour constant. I never went to the hospital or anywhere. I stayed home, simple. Did I go through days of suffering? Yes, I went through several days of it. But I said this prayer often, father if I am to die, make it so, if I am to live then tell me what to write about. Doctors really do not want to send you to get an expensive test. I assume they assume, that you would take an ambulance if it were that bad? But I hate the privately contracted AMR losers so that is never an option! You be the judge, was it the Vitamin D, the suffering science of bad days or good luck and or prayer that got me through that illness?
Explains why there are fewer COVID-19 fatalities in the Tropics.
This is obvious though…
in other words, trump wasn't wrong about sunlight. also he wasn't wrong about moving jobs back to america. to be fair, he says a lot of stupid stuff but people should not write him off. news channels need to stop politicize everything.
there was someone who had coronavirus and took 75 mg Zinc a day, after 3 days he recovered well.
Considering the bats and civet cats are nocturnal
I'm surprised at all the people that are d deficient. As soon as this started I've been supplementing with zin, d3, and k2
Knowledge they wish didn't exist.
https://youtu.be/xrzs2BIzdvQ Dr. Tom Levy, M.D. JD, Vitamin C, Facts, Fiction and the Law
https://youtu.be/L0x8CxUKDrc Doctor Thomas E. Levy, Vitamin C, the Ultimate Antibiotic
https://youtu.be/W5Bgdqsorg0 Andrew Saul, High Dose Vitamin C Therapy for Major Diseases
https://youtu.be/-3_aYNT1KNA Vitamin C for Sepsis and Severe ARDS, JAMA Network
https://youtu.be/JPyj9Pi8nw4 Unravelling life’s secrets, Immunity, Cancer and Vitamin C Professor Margreet Vissers, Otago University
https://youtu.be/xEUsapvou8o Dr. Thomas E. Levy, Vitamin C, the Ultimate Antiviral, South Africa
https://youtu.be/4lJPjsuftmQ Dr. Paul Mason, Low Carb Down Under
https://youtu.be/TcI3-yxt5ew Andrew Saul on Corona Virus and IVC
https://youtu.be/JS1JalMT7xQ Overview of the health benefits of Vitamin C by Professor Margreet Vissers
https://youtu.be/adYqbucF8M4 ICU nurses discuss IV vitamin C therapy for sepsis
https://youtu.be/fmDng_uMCnY Vitamin D and the Upper Respiratory Tract, Valley ENT
https://youtu.be/aJKRP8bCvOQ Stunning Success, Vitamin C Saves People Dying of Sepsis
https://youtu.be/JFT5rdwrNV0 Vitamin C Basics, Dr. Suzanne Humphries M.D. Internist, Nephrologist.
https://youtu.be/JS1JalMT7xQ Overview of the Health Benefits of Vitamin C by Professor Margreet Vissers
https://youtu.be/rhZETbXCqCM Dr. Judy Mikovits, Whistleblower
https://youtu.be/y0LLX0sgwAU Lecture on Vitamin C by Brilliant Suzanne Humphries, 2 Hours.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Ask your doctor if Vitamin D is right for you.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/suffer-the-children/202005/vitamin-d-and-covid-19
Vitamin D and COVID-19
Can taking Vitamin D save your life?
Posted May 06, 2020
Until medical scientists discover an effective vaccine or treatment for COVID-19, prevention is the best defense. Medical scientists tell us that frequent hand washing, wearing a face mask when in public places, and social distancing are important preventive measures. A less discussed preventive measure, however, is the fact that having a robust Vitamin D level may play a significant role in preventing COVID-19. Recently, a string of studies have identified Vitamin D deficiency as a risk factor for the disease.
A recent report from the Philippines found that in patients infected with COVID-19, the patient’s level of Vitamin D was significantly associated with clinical outcomes. Vitamin D deficiency was associated with a higher level of death from the disease. And a new study by researchers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation Trust and the University of East Anglia in the UK prompted the authors to advise that vitamin D supplementation could protect against respiratory infections like COVID-19. Similarly, a recent study from Switzerland led researchers to “advise Vitamin D supplementation to protect against SARS-CoV2 infection.”
In early April 2020, I received an email about the COVID-19 epidemic from the renowned endocrinologist and former associate professor of medicine at UCLA, Sarfraz Zaidi, M.D.. Zaidi had previously cured me of an autoimmune disorder with large doses of vitamin D3, saving me from more invasive and Draconian cures. Zaidi had been talking with doctors in Iran, a country hard-hit by the COVID-19 epidemic. He wrote in his email: “Doctors from Iran who took care of severe cases of COVID-19 found most patients who died had vitamin D level of less than 50 ng/ml. It is no surprise to me. The optimal level of vitamin D — 25 OH Vitamin D — is between 50-100 ng/ml according to my own vast clinical experience…”
How does Vitamin D help fight respiratory infections like COVID-19? Zaidi explains: “Vitamin D stimulates the production of CAMP — Cathelicidin Anti-Microbial Peptide — from our own immune cells. Think of CAMP as our natural Anti-Viral agent.”
Good advice – especially for the elderly and BAME communities. And continue to socially distance!
But it's free. The pharmaceutical won't accept that.
Gee wiz…No Sh!t. Unfortunately, Our fear-mongering, cowardly Dictator Newsom and his butt boy Garcetti want everyone to stay inside and out of the fresh air and sunshine. From now on, anyone who gets the CV because of weaken immune systems due to "Lockdown" orders should bring criminal charges against Herr Newsom and his two-bit thug Garcetti for ATTEMPTED MURDER.
Sunlight? Isn't ABC7 the same idiots that said don't go to the beach? :/
Close the parks close the beaches and stay inside! Funny right?
Yes! And not being fat also helps! And would you know, not having previous maladies also helps! Of course care home patients have low vitamin D. They never go out. Skewed statistic
Yey ! Vitamin D – a good reason (if there needs to be) to have a few minutes in the sun !
WRONG
I know of a 4 dollar magic bullet to use against Covid 19 but I will just keep it to myself so all the Sheep will wither away. Besides. Yahoo/Youtube would certainly censor me if I said what it was. They'd call it Fake News going against their own fake news.