Evidence to suggest vitamin D can prevent viral respiratory infections and lessen the severity if you do contract it

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Just sharing this here for anybody who wasn't aware of the benefits of vitamin D in regards to respiratory infections. He knows what he's talking about

In summary, if you're not already - take vitamin D

We're taking 4000iu vitamin D daily w/ 1000iu vitamin C

I must remember to take mine. I've been taking 1000 per day but will
Up It to 2000 & try to remember every day. Though as mine was low a few months ago, maybe I should take 4000 a day for a few weeks?!

I eat a ton of broccoli (& other veg) & eat cheese & butter so I think I should be ok for k2 esp if I take my multi daily.

Data from Iceland: estimated that half the population is infected.
Death rate= 0.004 %
A whopping 10% of Iceland's population tested.
Estimated 50% asymptomatic

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8210401/Iceland-finds-half-population-asymptomatic-infected-Covid-19.html

Iceland has very low vitamin D deficiency (approx 8%) whereas the UK probably has more than 30%.

Note : high % of ICU admittance data from BAME section of UK and high % of BAME deaths in NHS could suggest a vitamin D3 link:

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/coronavirus-bame-deaths-nhs-staff-labour-inquiry-a4412631.html

ICNARC report published on 10th April (UK data on intensive care admittance) shows a much higher than representative proportion of MABE sections of society.

Copy and paste URL:
file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/ICNARC%20COVID-19%20report.pdf.pdf

I thought that between April and September in the UK, pale skin can get enough Vitamin D? Lots of PPs saying it should be taken all year round.

Interesting. There is evidence that people with low vitamin D/ vegetarians are more at risk of TB. Vitamin D in vitro can activate white blood cells so maybe there is something in this. And persons with darker skins are more likely to be deficient in vitamin D. The only good dietary source is oily fish and also enriched foods such as margarine, condensed milk ( a hangover from WW2) breakfast cereals, and some mushrooms. I think I need to take supplements again. 400 iu/ 10 up per day is the recommended dose.

“ 10 ug “ ie micro grams per day.

If you were in any doubt that latitude and covid 19 deaths are linked somehow:

Recent call from three UK based researchers for hospitals to urgently analyse serum vitamin D3 levels from covid 19 patients:

www.dropbox.com/s/ka7h4fbi7xdz9s9/Covid-19 and Vitamin D Information.pdf?dl=0

I find it interesting how lifestyles have changed over the years, I remember being force fed sardines for tea in the 70’s and my parents moaning about being given COD liver oil in the 40’s.

White skin might have evolved to better absorb vitamin D in northern countries when humans spent most of their time outdoors, but I’m not sure evolution has quite caught up with people spending most of their day in front of a screen.

I thought that between April and September in the UK, pale skin can get enough Vitamin D? Lots of PPs saying it should be taken all year round.

That what I thought and I never expected to be deficient in Vit D because I'm quite pale, I walk the dogs so I'm outside all the time, and I don't wear suncream all the time, but them I was tested and I was deficient, not too badly, but I was.

Thanks LJW for that link - so interesting that the latitude affects the death rate of covid.
And confirmation that older people generally have lower levels of vitamin D. Explains why children and young people are less affected.
I read that as you age your body’s ability to make your own vitamin D via your skin decreases.

Spain and Italy are sunny countries and that doesn't seem to have helped their infection rates.

Although it does fit with my tin pot theory that confining people to their homes and restricting time spent outside is probably the worst way to deal with a virus

Agree, so anyone who is (unknown) positive, made to stay inside with your family members, some whom will be essential or HCPs and infect them all too..... makes perfect sense!

Yes you really have to expose your skin too. Walking the dog isn’t necessarily a guarantee you’ll synthesize enough. Large areas of skin need to be exposed for optimum levels. And if you have become deficient through the winter months you’ll be starting on the back foot.
I hope after this that tests for Vit D become widespread/easy to do at home.

I thought I'd posted yesterday but it seems to have disappeared.

Anyway I NEED vit D, without my prescription my Vit D drops to single figures. please don't strip the shelves, #the pharmacy hasn't been able to get mine for 2 weeks now.

You posted on the other Vit D thread, sashh your post hasn't disappeared.

I would have thought prescription Vit D is not what people are buying over the counter, I understand you need it, but blaming others isn't helpful.

How long does Vit D stay in your system after eg a sun holiday. It was away in January for two weeks of extreme sun...would that top up my levels for a while?

Not sure of the exact time magicstar1, but yes it would help.
A winter sun holiday is a good thing to do.

Magic star it would stay up a few weeks and then trend downwards.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon barely any vitamin D is prescription only, a pharmacy could legally sell the high dose stuff if you could say you had reason to take it.
I ve had it prescribed before and bought the same strength so I wasn't using a prescription to get it.

Having lived in Italy for a while and Spain too, I’ve never seen an Italian or a Spaniard sunbathe or even sit in the sun for long. They shutter themselves up in their homes during siesta time, cover up their skin and you’d rarely catch them actually lying on a beach in a swim suit.

I'm 50. Can I my partner, teenage son and I take Accrete D3? (I 'inherited' it)..

Could they start to fortify milk here?

@NeedToKnow101 there are a lot of white people with pale skins who I've directed over the years to get vitamin D tests due to their signs and symptoms. They have to take it all year round.

In short if you work indoors and don't have a hobby that means you are outside in the sun for a few hours a week without sun screen between April and September, then yes as a white person you can be deficient.

@sashh why the panic? Lots of pharmacies and health food shops sell vitamin D3.

The only time I got mine on prescription was when I had to take 20,000IU tablets.

Since then I had to take decreasing amounts and have tablets/drops from 10,000IU to 400IU to buy.

"Having lived in Italy for a while and Spain too, I’ve never seen an Italian or a Spaniard sunbathe or even sit in the sun for long."

Having been to the beach in Spain and seen loads of Spanish people sunbathing, I find this quite surprising.
A friend's Spanish DM lives on the south coast and goes to the beach every day.
I have seen people keeping out of the siesta-time sun especially when it's extremely hot on on the plateau, but the beeches in Spain are not empty except for tourists.

" it does fit with my tin pot theory that confining people to their homes and restricting time spent outside is probably the worst way to deal with a virus"

Well, no, because it takes away the social contact the virus needs to pass from one person to the other.
Vit. D can be taken in tablet or spray form. That's what I do. It would have to be over 30 degrees for me to go out exposing my arms and legs - something that hardly ever happens, so I take a supplement. I also wear sun cream a lot so a supplement is better for me.