Shingles and vitamin D

Summary: Vitamin D and Magnesium both treat shingles

  • Shingles worse with low vitamin D, low UV, high latitude, and winter

  • Treating shingles with Vitamin D or UV lowers the pain

  • Treating shingles with Vitamin D almost eliminates the risk of recurrence

  • Vitamin D has even been patented to help with shingles

    • A patent is always a good sign that it probably works

    Shingles incidence is slowly increasing CDC

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2X increase in younger age-groups

see also: Incidence of 22 health problems related to vitamin D have doubled in a decade

all are associated with low Vitamin D

See also VitaminDWiki

  • Vitamin D can inhibit enveloped virus (e.g. Corona, Herpes, Bird Flu, Epstein, Hepatitis, RSV, etc.) – March 2011

  • Herpes virus and vitamin D - many studies

  • The role of solar ultraviolet irradiation in zoster file, not a webpage

  • Overview Pain and Vitamin D

  • The Virus category listing has