Hello again friends:
If you have been following my blog, you know how vitally important it is to keep your Vitamin D levels in the optimal zone. Now there is mounting evidence that can no longer be ignored and finally the medical world is speaking out a bit more loudly. In an Op-Ed piece on MedPage Today, doctors plead “ Don’t Let Covid-19 Patients Die with a Vitamin D Deficiency”! (1) In another letter signed by over 100 medical physicians, the following compelling data is presented (2)
“Research shows low vitamin D levels almost certainly promote COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Given its safety, we call for immediate widespread increased vitamin D intakes .
Vitamin D modulates thousands of genes and many aspects of immune function, both innate and adaptive. The scientific evidence 1 shows that:
Evidence to date suggests the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic sustains itself in large part through infection of those with low vitamin D, and that deaths are concentrated largely in those with deficiency. The mere possibility that this is so should compel urgent gathering of more vitamin D data. Even without more data, the preponderance of evidence indicates that increased vitamin D would help reduce infections, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, & deaths .
Decades of safety data show that vitamin D has very low risk: Toxicity would be extremely rare with the recommendations here. The risk of insufficient levels far outweighs any risk from levels that seem to provide most of the protection against COVID-19, and this is notably different from drugs. Vitamin D is much safer than steroids, such as dexamethasone, the most widely accepted treatment to have also demonstrated a large COVID-19 benefit. Vitamin D’s safety is more like that of face masks. There is no need to wait for further clinical trials to increase use of something so safe, especially when remedying high rates of deficiency/insufficiency should already be a priority .
Therefore, we call on all governments, doctors, and healthcare workers worldwide to immediately recommend and implement efforts appropriate to their adult populations to increase vitamin D, at least until the end of the pandemic. Specifically, to:
Many factors are known to predispose individuals to higher risk from exposure to SARS-CoV-2, such as age, being male, comorbidities, etc., but inadequate vitamin D is by far the most easily and quickly modifiable risk factor with abundant evidence to support a large effect . Vitamin D is inexpensive and has negligible risk compared to the considerable risk of COVID-19.
Please Act Immediately”
Bottom Line: I think it is obvious, so please take your Vitamin D, and for optimal utilization add magnesium and Vitamin K2.
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