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    New Study Found 80% of COVID-19 Patients Were Vitamin D Deficient


    New Study Found 80% of COVID-19 Patients Were Vitamin D Deficient
    A growing amount of research is finding a link between vitamin D and COVID-19, leading some experts to believe the "sunshine vitamin" may be helpful in the fight against the virus.
    New Study Found 80% of COVID-19 Patients Were Vitamin D Deficient

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    Recent research discovered a correlation between vitamin D deficiency and a higher risk of COVID-19. Now, another new study has found the same — noting that more than 80 percent of people with COVID-19 didn't have adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin" in their blood.

    As part of the new study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, researchers looked at 216 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain. The scientists matched the patients to controls from another dataset.

    Of all the patients, 82.2 percent were deficient in vitamin D.

    In the research, men had lower vitamin D levels compared to women.

    People who had COVID-19 and lower vitamin D levels also had higher inflammatory markers such as ferritin and D-dimer. Those have been linkedTrusted Source to poor COVID-19 outcomes.

    People with vitamin D deficiency had a higher prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. They also had longer hospital stays for COVID-19, the study showed.

    Comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity are associated with low vitamin D status, said Dr. Hans Konrad Biesalski, a professor at the University of Hohenheim who has evaluated vitamin D and COVID-19.

    "It looks like patients with a poor vitamin D status may have more severe COVID-19," he told Healthline. But the new study didn't find that relationship.
    Vitamin D and COVID-19 recovery

    Nevertheless, in addition to the correlation between vitamin D levels and COVID-19 risk, many people are looking at how it may protect people or help them recover from the disease.

    "One approach is to identify and treat vitamin D deficiency, especially in high-risk individuals such as the elderly, patients with comorbidities, and nursing home residents, who are the main target population for the COVID-19," said study co-author José L. Hernández, PhD, of the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain.

    He said people at high risk for COVID-19 — older adults, those with underlying conditions, and people in nursing homes — can be treated with vitamin D.

    "Vitamin D treatment should be recommended in COVID-19 patients with low levels of vitamin D circulating in the blood since this approach might have beneficial effects in both the musculoskeletal and the immune system," Hernández said in a statement.




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    Sunshine and daylight are primary sources of Vitamin D. Guess what a shutdown does. Guess why care homes are hit so hard. Me, I have taken high potency multivites my entire adult life (I'm 63) and an outdoorsman. From my mild case of covid, I can't disagree with the study findings.

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    Vitamin D seems to be a factor, but at the same time, if you tested a random number of people for vitamin D, would 80% of them be deficient anyway? Meaning it may really have nothing to do with getting covid. As the old adage says we repeat a lot, correlation is not necessarily causation.

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    I was taking my vitamin D-3 and using the D-minder app to monitor my sun exposure for vitamin D as well. I had been taking prior to getting covid as well, and while my fever lasted a long time, my other symptoms were really mild in comparison to others.

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    Vitamin D, other everyday vitamins could counter coronavirus effects: report
    Studies reveal nine out of 10 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented if people had adequate Vitamin D levels
    By Jack Durschlag
    Vitamin D, other everyday vitamins could counter coronavirus effects: report | Fox News


    Using simple, everyday medicines available in your medicine cabinet or in your kitchen could counter the effects of coronavirus, a report said Thursday.

    For instance, dozens of recent studies have shown taking Vitamin D is an easy way to fight COVID-19 and your doctor can request a blood test to check your overall vitamin levels, Dr. Peter Osborne with Origins Nutrition Center in Sugar Land, Texas, told FOX 26 of Houston.

    "I think that's probably one of the smartest things that a person could do right now, with an unpredictable role of a relatively unknown illness," Osborne told the TV station. "What we do know at this point about vitamin therapy, particularly about vitamin D, a new study has come out and a new analysis has come out on what we know about vitamin D and COVID."

    So far, here's what medical experts say: People with low vitamin D who get COVID have a greater tendency toward dying, have a greater tendency toward hyper-inflammation in the cytokine storm that comes with COVID, and have a greater tendency toward getting on ventilators, which is very bad because ventilators don't work very well for COVID, Osborne said.

    "When a person's on a ventilator with COVID it's not a good thing. So, the outcomes aren't great, so if we can keep people off of ventilators and we can keep their immune system supported really well with nutrition, that ideally that makes the most sense," he explained.

    Additional studies also revealed nine out of 10 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented if people had adequate Vitamin D levels, the FOX 26 report said.

    In the winter, Vitamin D levels are reduced because fewer people are outside and not soaking it up from the sun, the report noted. People need at least 20 minutes of sunlight every day to get an adequate amount, which is why a supplement is often needed to get to a healthy level.

    In fact, some hospitals nationwide are even using vitamins as a treatment for COVID-19, not just prevention.

    "A lot of doctors are now learning this and suggesting this as a form of treatment. At the East Virginia School of Medicine there's a COVID protocol that includes Vitamin D, Osborne said.

    So if you're hospitalized for COVID, they're automatically putting you on between 20,000 and 60,000 units of Vitamin D. This is part of their standard of care protocol in that hospital system, he said.

    Vitamin D is one of the most simple and affordable ways to help you stay healthy, Osborne told FOX 26.

    "Vitamin D is very inexpensive," he said. "You can buy it at the local nutrition store, and it might just save your life, should you get sick.

    "With vitamin D, there's a therapy that can be done that I recommend, and it's 1,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D per pound. So if you're 100 pounds, you would take 100,000 international units of vitamin D for three days. After that, you don't have to keep taking those higher doses, but three days of high dose vitamin D will elevate your serum vitamin D levels to adequate levels," Osborne explained.

    He stressed everyone should think of boosting their immune systems using four different supplements – Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc and Quercetin, a natural bioflavonoid that opens up the cells in your body so zinc can get inside, the FOX 26 report said.

    While some hospitals are already treating COVID patients with all four of the supplements, Osborne suggested a few dietary sources of vitamin D like cod liver oil, fatty fish and mushrooms could assist people in their goal to reach the recommended daily allowance, but warned you would have to eat a lot of it.












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    Additional studies also revealed nine out of 10 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented if people had adequate Vitamin D levels, the FOX 26 report said."

    That's quite a lofty claim. Wow

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    I also take liquid zinc (a few drops under the tongue) which is more potent.

    I take vitamin C powder and mix it with water.

    When you take it in liquid form, it goes right to your blood stream. It's more beneficial.

    My niece takes liquid D (drops) which I haven't tried yet, but I might.


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    My best friend and wife just let me know they had it. They had wanted to meet last weekend for Christmas but we couldn't make it...thank the Lord. lol.

    He said he got a 'cocktail' similar to Trump of Budesonide through a nebulizer and a bunch of different meds and vitamins.

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    My best friend and wife just let me know they had it. They had wanted to meet last weekend for Christmas but we couldn't make it...thank the Lord. lol.

    He said he got a 'cocktail' similar to Trump of Budesonide through a nebulizer and a bunch of different meds and vitamins.
    I gather they quickly recovered?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    I gather they quickly recovered?
    Still recovering I think. Just found out they had it. But he said they were doing well.

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