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2020-09-14 Science & Technology
Lack of this one vitamin raises COVID-19 infection risk by 77%
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-14 02:52|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Make sure to take that vitamin D3 with vitamin K2(MK7). One of vitamin D3's jobs is to get Calcium from the gut into the bloodstream, and K2 gets it into your bones and other places it belongs instead of plating out in your blood vessels and joint tissues.

Got low back pain. And walk stiff? Could be vitamin D3 deficiency.

I need about 5,000 IU D3 daily to keep my levels where they belong given the conditions where I live.

Darker skin requires more vitamin D supplementation than lighter.

And I hear vitamin D3 is more of a hormone than a vitamin.
Posted by gorb 2020-09-14 03:34||   2020-09-14 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Still looking for a magic bullet, eh?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 03:47||   2020-09-14 03:47|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Please refresh my failing memory. Wat was your plan again ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-14 06:38||   2020-09-14 06:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Control, lockdown, die in the dark?
Posted by Frank G 2020-09-14 06:42||   2020-09-14 06:42|| Front Page Top

#5 "With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things."
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 07:00||   2020-09-14 07:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Quoting Kipling is not a plan.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-14 07:02||   2020-09-14 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Anger as Israel becomes first nation to lockdown for a second time, with new three-week-long coronavirus crackdown hitting major holiday of Yom Kippur
Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-14 07:13||   2020-09-14 07:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Cheap and easy. What’s not to like about Vit D?
Posted by Mad Eye Angonter1301 2020-09-14 07:42||   2020-09-14 07:42|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 It's a comment on certain types of mentalities.
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-09-14 09:21||   2020-09-14 09:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Good nutrition is not a magic bullet, and neither is wearing a mask in crowded spaces, but both seem like good ideas at the present time.
Posted by AuburnTom 2020-09-14 09:52||   2020-09-14 09:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Selenium? Zinc? Helloooooo!
Posted by Raj 2020-09-14 10:54||   2020-09-14 10:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Selenium? Zinc? Helloooooo!
Posted by Raj 2020-09-14 10:54||   2020-09-14 10:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Damn - freakin' slowest selection of mouse speed available under Win10 and I'm still getting these double clicks; sorry, mods.
Posted by Raj 2020-09-14 10:56||   2020-09-14 10:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh - and thanks for the tip, Gorb - gonna get some of that later on today.
Posted by Raj 2020-09-14 11:04||   2020-09-14 11:04|| Front Page Top

#15 #10 Yes, Mr Auburn. But, before you accept the idea of VitD as useful against covid, I suggest you google
(a) Mediterranean Diet & vitamin D.
(b) Look up Covid stats in Italy, Spain, and Portugal (the stats from the other side of Mediterranean are, IMO, unreliable).

p.s. USA foods are fortified with Vitamin D. So, consult your family physician before taking it as a supplement - because it's toxic in high concentration.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 11:08||   2020-09-14 11:08|| Front Page Top

#16 And don't they get lots and lots of sunshine in Italy, Spain, and Portugal?

Been taking Vitamin D supplements for some years now...blood work comes back with normal levels.
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 11:12||   2020-09-14 11:12|| Front Page Top

#17 And speaking of magic bullets. How come Brasil - where they eat HCQ as candy - has such bad covid stats?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 11:14||   2020-09-14 11:14|| Front Page Top

#18 Demographics?
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 11:20||   2020-09-14 11:20|| Front Page Top

#19 @ #1 - Interesting, gorb...never heard of the K2(MK7) connection. Thanks for that...worth looking into.
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 11:22||   2020-09-14 11:22|| Front Page Top

#20 ^Meaning what: too many old people? Too many poor people?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 11:22||   2020-09-14 11:22|| Front Page Top

#21 Black people. We heard about it ad nauseam here in the US.
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 11:25||   2020-09-14 11:25|| Front Page Top

#22 #21
Africa: 113 cases/million, 27 deaths/million
Brasil: 20,343 cases/million, 619 deaths/million
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 11:41||   2020-09-14 11:41|| Front Page Top

#23 Ah, so it IS the Vitamin D from all that African sunshine.
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 11:43||   2020-09-14 11:43|| Front Page Top

#24 Go howl
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 11:45||   2020-09-14 11:45|| Front Page Top

#25 27/113 = 24% (Africa) (Bill Gates)
619/20343 = 3% (Brazil) (HCQ)
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 11:50||   2020-09-14 11:50|| Front Page Top

#26 There are many studies showing the benefits of Vitamin D, but as far as I know none of them have been able to replicate the benefits with Vitamin D supplements. In other words, you need to get it the old fashioned way to see any results.
Posted by Iblis 2020-09-14 12:01||   2020-09-14 12:01|| Front Page Top

#27 In the end, nothing beats a balanced diet, fresh air, and some exercise.
Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 12:05||   2020-09-14 12:05|| Front Page Top

#28 Tostadas tonight before dark.
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-09-14 12:26||   2020-09-14 12:26|| Front Page Top

#29 #7 Haredi sector chose way of life over sanctity of life
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-14 12:30||   2020-09-14 12:30|| Front Page Top

#30 Oh - and thanks for the tip, Gorb - gonna get some of that later on today.

No problem. And Zinc should be paired with the right amount of copper, not too much, not too little.

Selenium is good. We eat a few Brazil nuts each day.

Vitamins C and E help, the complete vitamins in both cases, not the hollowed out ones that you'll typically find on a drugstore shelf.

And it has been said that if your vitamin D levels are low then supplementation doesn't help some conditions because it may indicate a deeper problem. Maybe.

All part of what needs to be done to get your immune system into a state where it has the resources it needs to react appropriately, and not go flying off the handle and end up hurting itself because it is out of balance.
Posted by gorb 2020-09-14 12:38||   2020-09-14 12:38|| Front Page Top

#31 Always remember, correlation is NOT causation.

C, D, and E are all metabolically linked, and magnesium, selenium, and zinc are also in the metabolic chain. Best way is to get those is via food sources, not in a pill. But if you do not, then pills are a fallback.

But also remember that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Eat right.


Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-14 16:59||   2020-09-14 16:59|| Front Page Top

#32 Medical word of caution: If you are on blood thinners, or have clotting issues, talk to your physician before taking any Vitamin K supplement, as well as eating greens and things that contain it. You could be putting yourself at higher risk for strokes, pulmonary embolism, and/or heart attacks.
Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-14 17:01||   2020-09-14 17:01|| Front Page Top

#33 How bout I just lick a penny.
Posted by Slappy 2020-09-14 18:36||   2020-09-14 18:36|| Front Page Top

#34 5000 IU per day of D is good

but some people go crazy

50,000 IU per day of D will give you a toxicity problem in a month or two
Posted by lord garth 2020-09-14 19:31||   2020-09-14 19:31|| Front Page Top

#35 How bout I just lick a penny.

That should be fine for most. For those who are severely deficienct they might try suppository form. :-)
Posted by gorb 2020-09-14 20:16||   2020-09-14 20:16|| Front Page Top

#36 Hence, the coin shortage
Posted by Frank G 2020-09-14 20:53||   2020-09-14 20:53|| Front Page Top

#37 Vitamin D is produced in the body as a reaction to sunlight isn't it?
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-09-14 21:10||   2020-09-14 21:10|| Front Page Top

#38 If you get enough sun exposure. In my lifetime, growing up older in San Diego, I've had too much
Posted by Frank G 2020-09-14 21:35||   2020-09-14 21:35|| Front Page Top

#39  Vitamin D is produced in the body as a reaction to sunlight isn't it?

Yes, by metabolizing cholesterol, as I recall. Twenty minutes of direct sunlight exposure of bare arms and legs between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. during the summer should do the trick. Longer during the other three seasons, longer outside that 10-2 bracket, presumably shorter for you gentlemen wearing only a Speedo.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-14 22:34||   2020-09-14 22:34|| Front Page Top

#40 Jaw drop. :-)
Posted by gorb 2020-09-14 22:50||   2020-09-14 22:50|| Front Page Top

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