Vitamin D is a hormone. Like Vitamin B3 is really an amino acid

The point is that all these vitamin studies established the low end, where a lack creates a poor state of health. But few have established a high level, where supplementation creates toxicity. Optimum is still not a common attitude towards "vitamins."

I found a paper which found COVID-19 has poorer outcomes the closer the poles an area was. Of course, this can be complicated by many factors.

But I long wondered if the pattern of different results in people with varied skin pigmentation has a Vitamin D factor involved. Most people in developed countries wear a lot of clothes and stay indoors. The paler the person, the more likely their ancestors were from a colder place, where descendants coped with low skin exposure in other ways.

Like the healing properties of cod liver oil.

Gosh Debbie, update your stats Same (always slim) people have been commenting in the NYT on every article that hints CICO may not work for everyone, still under the spell of Jane Brody. . Really not worth your time writing a response.

This has been noted since very early studies about Covid patients, but do we hear about in the US? . In Stockholm the Somali population was particularly hard hit, Swedes, not so much. https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1101/rr-10. However, now Trump's treatment plan includes Vitamin D, zinc, and aspirin.

Tracked down three of those charts Dr. Mahtani used in her talk on a VitaminD wiki, posted by Grassroots Health:

https://vitamindwiki.com/Chart+of+V...ealth+June+2013

Janet, good find. I've bookmarked the site. The chart showing disease incident reduction against the two types of vitamin d measurement units, ng/ml and nmol/L is excellent and provides an easy comparison.

A new article on Vitamin D from Medium:

https://elemental.medium.com/vitami...se-b2593e782933

Interesting quote from the article about a certain study:

This is the study it references:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...article/2748796
It sounds like a pretty well-designed randomized study of older adults (55-70). Maybe it's studies like this one that have led some of the folks I enjoy following to say higher levels of D3 are not necessarily better. However there was no placebo group in the study, and people who had very low levels of D initially were excluded. Though this study concentrated on bone health as opposed to other possible benefits of D3 supplementation. Interesting read however.

The CDC recently revised its guidelines to include Overweight, not just Obesity.


https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/201...conditions.html

You can guess the government’s advice for nutrition and physical activity.

I am reminded of Dr Atkins writings that the obese and overweight are not the only ones that suffer from poor nutrition. Basically anyone eating the SAD is not in the best of health.

Guess that would be 95+ % of Americans....

Sure would like to know more about those who test positive but show few symptoms...what their diet looks like specifically.

Also, Debbie, I don't seek any K2! That's the "traffic cop" who puts all the calcium where it should be.

oh true. I always take my K2 with my D3.

Thorne Research makes a vitamin D3 liquid and a vitamin D3/k liquid.

In Canada, "D Drops" are often found in the "baby" supplies & foods section of groceries & pharmacies, and have been for a couple of decades.

Thanks, all. I think vitamin D gel caps qualify as liquid, but I've never seen it any other way, tablets for example. Maybe I don't get out enough! I'll check out the Thorne Research products. After a 5-mile hike in the Virginia countryside today with clear skies and temps in the high 70s, I'm hoping I received a good dose of the natural D stimulant.

All sorts of stuff including liquid vitamin d/k etc. (in a bottle, not capsules) are available from that big company starting with the letter A that has two day home delivery. Where I get mine.

What is the best way to get your hit of Vitamin D? Researchers probe benefits of the 'sunshine' supplement as a weapon against Covid-19

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...-Vitamin-D.html