Updated: June 21, 2026
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Vitamin D can be deficient in COVID-19 hospitalized patients Updated for 2026
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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.
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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!
Vit-D is a hormone, please see this research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIsC0PJg5i8
Look at Dr John Campbell daily report on Covid. Its excellent and he is an enthusiast believer in D. He also has much better presentations on the subject than this.
I had suspected Covid-19 3 months ago and still suffering symptoms. Two weeks ago I was found to be very Vitamin D deficient. Hope it's not too late for me.
there was a Covid 19 patient who took Zinc 75 mg a day, after 3 days he recovered well.
Good video though a higher dose of 50mcg/2000IU is widely recommended for adults.
Do you agree with the theory that Vitamin D deficiency causes disproportionate deaths amongst the BAME community and health workers e.g. in the UK?
The evidence has become quite clear that peoples of African descent living away from equatorial zones need to run to the drug store and start taking Vitamin D. At least the UK government suggest you take Vitamin D, but the Government of the United States of American want to hide that information: the more Blacks in America die, the better chance Trump has of being elected.
Note that in all areas close to or in the equatorial zones, the Caribbean and Africa have the lowest Covid-19 numbers although most people expected them to have the highest. Fasting will go a long way in helping you to control those chronic health problems like diabetes and obesity and high blood pressure. But at this time though the issue is your Vitamin D level to defend you against Covid-19.
Ask your doctor if you need to take more than 4000 iu per day, depending on you daily activity etc. If you live in Canada. UK or USA forget about taking anything less than 2000 iu per day. Push your doctor to get familiar with the new information. Actually the information is not that new but has been kept under wraps.
SPREAD THE WORD,
For more information for understanding exactly how vitamin D affects the immune system please watch the following video. https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
10 mcg or 400 IU is a joke. We need 20x that. The hormone we call vitamin D evolved to slow down the immune system to survive the winter. Virtually all humans have their immune system fully reduced year round their entire lives. To see how this is so watch Why Does Vitamin D Exist? https://youtu.be/vjq5t1GWb_Y
PHE also state there is no evidence that vitamin D can reduce the impact of Covid19. They are muppets.
This would be an excellent video if the timing for the written messages was consistent. I am not a slow reader but many of the slides I could not read before they flipped over to the next one. Stopping and going back breaks the flow of well thought through sequence of information. Would love to see this redone with more consistent timing. I have a degree in nutrition and would like to share with people I train. Thanks!
No shit Sherlock.
Great job. Covers so much in a short period. Would like to see more short concise videos in addition to your teaching videos .
Is time to go under sun is important sir ?
What about zenith angle?
The information in the video you posted is correct but the headline may be misleading. People may think that vitamin D BECAME deficient in COVID-19 patients when the deficient D levels caused the problem, not vice versa
Great video, I've been telling everyone I know about the importance of Vitamin D and now I have a great video to send them. You rock Dr. Been.
This is a good idea DR Sayed. Thank you very much
voice is also necessary because non-sci people will take some time to read the displayed info.
Interesting with the general information, but there is another more complex one with only decorative illustrations. I think that the particularity of DRbeen is due to the use of adapted, clear and simple graphics. If you are shorter, you should be even clearer.
An awesome video. Really informative. It is for every one. Please continue it.
Thank you for this very informative video on the importance of Vitamin D & how it help keeps the body esp… elder bodies healthy. I take Vitamin D daily but have not taken Zinc, Can you please explain the important role Zinc plays in human bodies? Thank you!
Thank you for this and all that you are doing.
I've posted this on my FB timeline and hope it gets shared by many of my friends.
@Drbeen, this is absolutely lovely. Thank you so much. I was expecting to see your face as usual… But it's ok. Lol.
Kindly update that Vitamin D, unlike it's cousin Vitamin C, is fat soluble & can therefore cause an overdose if taken in excess quantity.
Bless you plenty.