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  • Horowitz: Studies show vitamin D campaign could've prevented nearly all COVID deaths

    This is something I was encouraging people I know early on to do, as I understood the importance of Vitamin D in the body'sworkings, esp. Relating to immune function. (As a vegan I yearly get blood tests to make sure all my levels of things like D and B12, etc. Are good)

    Much of the world outside of the tropics (especially during winter) is very low in vitamin D (interestingly a horomone and not an actual vitamin) to the point of deficiency (particularly those without jobs outdoors).

    It seems that aggressively pushing for people to supplement and increase their blood levels the last almost 2 years, could have mitigated or eliminated many of the deaths that have occurred.

    So why haven't we?



    What if we could simply have advised everyone last March to supplement with vitamin D (and active forms of D for those with absorption issues)? An endless stream of academic research demonstrates that not only would such an approach have worked much better than the vaccines, but rather than coming with sundry known and unknown negative side effects, it would have induced immeasurable positive side effects in the population for an array of other health concerns.

    I recently changed doctors in search of a physician who actually follows science rather than political protocols from government and Big Pharma. My wife was searching through my medical records and found that eight years ago, my D level was just 18 ng/mL, well below the cutoff for insufficiency. Yet my former doctor never informed me of it or flagged it as a concern. Fast-forward to today after months of supplementing, thanks to the advice of people like Dr. Ryan Cole, and my level is at 67. This likely means that when the pandemic hit last March, my levels were still woefully low.

    According to a new German study, the difference between a level of 18 and one over 50 is the difference between life and death. Why has this education not gotten out to the public, especially now that we are in the winter season, when there is essentially no natural vitamin D from sunlight above the 37th parallel? Or is the obfuscation by design?

    With studies having shown zero correlation between lockdowns, masks, and vaccines and better COVID outcomes, there are now 142 studies vouching for the near-perfect correlation between higher vitamin D levels and better outcomes in COVID patients. It is likely the area of COVID-19 treatment research that has the most data behind it. However, a recent German study stands out from all of them because it comes the closest to proving this ironclad correlation to be causation.

    Not only did the German researchers find a linear relationship between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID, they found essentially zero morbidity for those with a D level above 50 ng/mL. The reason this study is so important relative to the dozens of others tracking D levels with COVID outcomes is because it measured the levels months before the patients got COVID as well as after the infection onset. “In most studies, the vitamin D level was determined several days after the onset of infection; therefore, a low vitamin D level may be the result and not the trigger of the course of infection,” note the authors.

    This study, however, followed 1,601 hospitalized patients, 784 who had their vitamin D levels measured within a day after admission and 817 whose vitamin D levels were known before infection. As an adjunct to this sample, researchers also analyzed the long-term average vitamin D3 levels documented for 19 countries. The observed median vitamin D value over all collected study cohorts was 23.2 ng/mL, which is considered insufficient. The results were remarkable.

    “At a threshold level of 30 ng/mL, mortality decreases considerably,” found the authors. “In addition, our analysis shows that the correlation for the combined datasets intersects the axis at approximately 50 ng/mL, which suggests that this vitamin D3 blood level may prevent any excess mortality. These findings are supported not only by a large infection study, showing the same optimum but also by the natural levels observed in traditional people living in the region where humanity originated from that were able to fight down most (not all) infections in most (not all) individuals.”

    Based on these findings, they conclude that people should test their blood levels and supplement to get their levels over 50. Studies have already shown that one is 14 times more likely to die from COVID with vitamin D deficiency

    The reality is that most people’s levels are below 30 and many are closer to zero, especially among the elderly population. It is beyond criminal that 20 months into this endeavor there has not been a national campaign percolating down to primary care physicians to test and supplement vitamin D levels accordingly. Think of the numerous benefits of vitamin D — from a healthier immune system and stronger bones to decreased risk for heart attack and cancer — as opposed to the risks of so many of the other things we are harnessing to “fight” this virus. Why on earth would vitamin D not become the new vaccine when it provides more protection against the virus than any vaccine?

    What is particularly scandalous is that the authors found that black people living in northern countries have lower vitamin D levels in general, and yet there has been no governmental push to raise awareness of their vitamin D deficiency. Instead, there is a relentless effort to shame them into taking shots that are unsafe and ineffective.


    As the authors explain, the main cause of death from COVID stems from a “cytokine storm” when the body’s immune system releases too many toxic cytokines as part of the inflammatory response to the virus. Vitamin D is the key regulator of those cells, and the insufficient amount of D is nearly synonymous with a greater risk for a cytokine storm. In many ways, a cytokine storm is literally the outcome of vitamin D deficiency.

    We’ve had 20 months to get our levels over 50, and certainly at least over 30. I had my levels increase by approximately 50 ngs/mL in a half year. Had the public been doing this at the same time, most deaths could have been avoided. Those with absorption problems could have been given the active form of D – either calcifediol or calcitriol – to raise their levels, bypassing the liver’s metabolic process very quickly. Studies have shown that almost anyone hospitalized with low levels but given the active form of D did not progress to the ICU thereafter.

    A new study from Turkish researchers found that even a rapid regimen of regular vitamin D3 with the aim of getting people’s levels over 30 was wildly successful compared to people without supplementation. They found that those who used their treatment protocol to get their levels over 30 — even if they had comorbidities — were much better off than those without comorbidities who didn’t supplement. “Our treatment protocol increased the serum 25OHD levels significantly to above 30 ng/mL within two weeks,” concluded the authors. “COVID-19 cases (no comorbidities, no vitamin D treatment, 25OHD <30 ng/mL) had 1.9-fold increased risk of having hospitalization longer than 8 days compared with the cases with comorbidities and vitamin D treatment.”


    Hence, if one believes government can violate human rights and place mandates on one’s body to get a job, if the government made a rule that you have to get your D level over 50 in order to get a job, at least it would be following the science. Not only are people with high D levels better off personally, unlike vaccinated individuals with low D levels, they are much less likely to affect other people by spreading the disease because they have lower viral loads. A meta-analysis of 23 published studies containing 11,901 participants found that one who is vitamin D-deficient was 3.3 times more likely to get infected with SARS-CoV-2 than one who is not deficient.


    As a nation, we have been willing to harm our children, society, economy, mental health, and physical health with masks, lockdowns, shots, and experimental therapeutics that have zero or limited proven efficacy. Why would we not try an approach that comes with positive, rather than negative, side effects for our whole health? Perhaps the answer lies in what Big Pharma doesn’t want us to know about the benefits of high-dose vitamin D — not just for COVID but for other ailments they rely upon for their existence. All the political policies flow downstream from there.

    https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horow...l-covid-deaths

  • #2
    Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post
    So why haven't we?
    Because there isn't big money to be made encouraging people to spend more time outdoors and take inexpensive and readily available vitamin supplements,
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


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    • #3
      I have been very faithfully keep up with the C and D and other vitamins stuff, and Zinc and... until about 2 weeks ago, I figured I could ease off.

      Now I'm coughing and hacking and stopped up and miserable. BACK on the vitamins and stuff!!!!
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Gondwanaland View Post
        This is something I was encouraging people I know early on to do, as I understood the importance of Vitamin D in the body'sworkings, esp. Relating to immune function. (As a vegan I yearly get blood tests to make sure all my levels of things like D and B12, etc. Are good)

        Much of the world outside of the tropics (especially during winter) is very low in vitamin D (interestingly a horomone and not an actual vitamin) to the point of deficiency (particularly those without jobs outdoors).

        It seems that aggressively pushing for people to supplement and increase their blood levels the last almost 2 years, could have mitigated or eliminated many of the deaths that have occurred.

        So why haven't we?

        Now I dare you to try and share this article in social media and see what happens.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
          I have been very faithfully keep up with the C and D and other vitamins stuff, and Zinc and... until about 2 weeks ago, I figured I could ease off.

          Now I'm coughing and hacking and stopped up and miserable. BACK on the vitamins and stuff!!!!
          I gave up on the zinc, as it was like a giant uncoated aspirin and it made me gag. Otherwise, I'm taking the same. And I haven't been sick since April/May 2020. Thanks in part to simple awareness, hand sanitizer and wearing a mask at work (hospital setting).

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          • #6
            I often supplement vitamin D because I am probably naturally low on it and it's a helpful vitamin, but these kinds of studies about it possibly helping with covid have inspired me to make sure I keep taking it regularly.

            That said, these scientific findings so far on vitamin D and covid are still fairly weak and subject to other issues. Vitamin D supplementation is incredibly common in many northern european countries, and most people in tropical regions should be getting plenty of vitamin D naturally, and yet in both kinds of countries we've still seen plenty of covid deaths.

            What I suspect is really happening in these studies is that a person who is often inside doesn't get much vitamin D and a person who is often outside does. We know covid transfers well indoors and badly outdoors. Also typically the elderly and sick tend to stay inside, while the fit and healthy get outside a lot. So it's not surprising that there's a correlation between covid sickness and death and amount of time spent indoors vs outdoors. The vitamin D blood measure is probably acting as a proxy measure for time spent inside and out. If so, taking vitamin D supplements isn't going to do anything at all to help against covid. We would need a randomized controlled study that tested the effect of vitamin D supplementation as a preventative for serious covid outcomes.
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            • #7
              I take extra D as a help with my osteoporosis. Our milk here is fortified with it, but I have never been a milk drinker. I also take C for my osteoporosis. Whether I am taking those in amounts large enough to help with covid, I don't know. But I haven't had it, so..............


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              • #8
                Because this is the time of year I do 70 hour work weeks, I've started taking a heavy vitamin regimen, including D. I am feeling the extra bounce in my step.
                "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Ronson View Post

                  I gave up on the zinc, as it was like a giant uncoated aspirin and it made me gag. Otherwise, I'm taking the same. And I haven't been sick since April/May 2020. Thanks in part to simple awareness, hand sanitizer and wearing a mask at work (hospital setting).
                  Yeah, I haven't even been wearing a mask - nobody around here does anymore - but --- what's the stuff you use when you fly -- Airborne? Some kind of immunity booster. Back on it again!!!
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

                    Yeah, I haven't even been wearing a mask - nobody around here does anymore - but --- what's the stuff you use when you fly -- Airborne? Some kind of immunity booster. Back on it again!!!
                    "Airborne" immunity booster? Never heard of that.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by seanD View Post

                      Now I dare you to try and share this article in social media and see what happens.
                      Pfft. I get flagged on FB at least every other day.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Ronson View Post

                        "Airborne" immunity booster? Never heard of that.
                        This. I think I used to hear it advertised on Rush's show fairly often.

                        The Wikipedia article seems to be the easiest place to find the ingredients -- various vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, etc.

                        I've had success with zinc gluconate glycine lozenges and zinc acetate lozenges, but quit them several years ago after observing they caused me to lose my sense of taste for several days. Online research showed I was not alone.
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                        Justice for Ashli Babbitt!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by NorrinRadd View Post

                          Pfft. I get flagged on FB at least every other day.
                          I haven't had a FB account for awhile, so I wouldn't know. I believe I've heard folks getting banned on twitter for not toting the covid cult line about jabs. Folks are definitely getting censored on YT for sharing this type of information (or "medical misinformation" as they claim).

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                            Because this is the time of year I do 70 hour work weeks, I've started taking a heavy vitamin regimen, including D. I am feeling the extra bounce in my step.
                            About the only time I've felt *any* "bounce in my step" in the past 10+ years was a few years ago when I had bronchitis and the Urgent Care doc put me on prednisone. For about 24 hours, I felt superhuman.
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                            Justice for Ashli Babbitt!

                            Justice for Matthew Perna!

                            Arrest Ray Epps and his Fed bosses!

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                            • #15
                              There seems to be a fair amount of research showing a significant correlation between Vit D levels and Covid infection severity. Dr John Campbell's Youtube channel is a good resource on Covid in general. He reviews published research articles in a clear and even-handed way.
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