Magnesium and Vitamin D Deficiency as a Potential Cause of Immune Dysfunction, Cytokine Storm and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in COVID-19 Patients
Patients with COVID-19 who received the magnesium and vitamin D and B12 had an 87% lower risk for requiring oxygen therapy and an 85% lower risk for needing intensive care support.
68 | 118:1 | January/February 2021 | Missouri Medicine
by James J. DiNicolantonio, PHarmD & James H. O'Keefe, MD
This is reporting on another study which used
magnesium 150 mg,
vitamin D3 1,000 IU, and
vitamin B12 500 mcg
once daily
Magnesium and Virus studies
- Long-COVID 3.1 X more likely if insufficient amounts of Magnesium and Vitamin D – March 2024
- COVID appears to be treated by many antioxidants (Vitamins D, C, E, K, and Quercetin, Curcumin, etc) – Jan 2023
- Fatigue and other long-haul problems appear to be associated with low Magnesium - Chambers Oct 2022
- Low Magnesium associated with severe COVID – many studies
- COVID and Magnesium - hypothesis, clinical trials, Long-Haul - Oct 2021
- COVID treatment patent applied for - using Rutin, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Magnesium, etc. – April 2022
- COVID death 6.9X less likely if high Magnesium to Calcium ratio – April 2022
- Hypothesis: 2 long-haul COVIDs: had mild symptoms and had needed ICU - April 2022
- Excess Magnesium is bad for health (COVID hospital days in this case) – April 2022
- Vitamin D, Zinc, Magnesium etc. are needed to fight COVID – April 2022
- Long Covid, Short Magnesium - Chambers April 2022
- Lower Magnesium, 6 percent more COVID - Feb 2022
- Nutritional supplementation during COVID hospitalization helped - RCT - Jan 2022
- How Vitamin D, Magnesium, Omega-3 and Zinc prevent and treat COVID-19 etc. – June 2021
- Elderly nutrition and COVID-19 – systematic review July 2021
- Magnesium in Infectious Diseases in Older People - Jan 2021
- COVID-19 Cytokine storms attenuated by Vitamin D, Omega-3, Mg, Resveratrol, etc – April 2021
- 6X less risk of COVID-19 ICU if Vitamin D and Vit B12 and Mg – Jan 2021
- Cytokine storms (COVID-19, etc.) eliminated by Vitamin D (Magnesium helps)
- Magnesium and Vitamin D deficiencies associated with worse COVID-19 – Jan, 2021
- Excessive insulin decreases vitamin D in 4 ways – problems for diabetic COVID-19 – Dec 2020
- Magnesium (which increases vitamin D) may fight COVID-19 - Oct 2020
- COVID-19 1.8 X more likely if proton pump inhibitor (decreases Mg and Vitamin D) – Aug 2020
- COVID-19 might be treated with Mg IV and Potassium – July 2020
- COVID-19 prompts awareness of deficiencies of Vitamin D, C and Magnesium - April 6 2020
- Obesity pandemic since 1975 - is it due to Vitamin D, Magnesium, Iodine, adenovirus, or what
Vitamin B12 includes the following
Vitamin B12 is not a cofactor of Vitamin D, but it is often needed with Vitamin D
Surfing the web finds
- B12 deficiency increases with age
- B12 appears to have no toxic upper limit
- Some people get frequent B12 injections or I.V to restore levels
- Injection probably be needed
- Only a small portion of B12 taken orally gets into the bloodstream
- Sublingual B12 does not have that problem
- Vitamin B12 – great improvements with nano forms – March 2021
- B12 is stored in the liver – half-life of > 2 years - But. Dr. Greger says to take it weekly or daily
- B12 deficiency symptoms include poor gut - which can reduce uptake of Vitamin D
- unless use gut-friendly forms of Vitamin D, including topical
- B12 can be supplemented via pills, sublingual, transdermal patch, injection, emulsion, and spray
- As with Vitamin D, a massive (loading) dose can restore levels quickly
- Nano forms of B12 are more bio-available - as with many other supplements
COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos
As of March 31, 2024, the VitaminDWiki COVID page had: trial results, meta-analyses and reviews, Mortality studies see related: Governments, HealthProblems, Hospitals, Dark Skins, All 26 COVID risk factors are associated with low Vit D, Fight COVID-19 with 50K Vit D weekly Vaccines Take lots of Vitamin D at first signs of COVID 166 COVID Clinical Trials using Vitamin D (Aug 2023) Prevent a COVID death: 9 dollars of Vitamin D or 900,000 dollars of vaccine - Aug 2023
5 most-recently changed Virus entries
Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
Magnesium and vitamin D each have the possibility of affecting the immune system and consequently the cytokine storm and coagulation cascade in COVID-19 infections. Vitamin D is important for reducing the risk of upper respiratory tract infections and plays a role in pulmonary epithelial health. While the importance of vitamin D for a healthy immune system has been known for decades, the benefits of magnesium has only recently been elucidated. Indeed, magnesium is important for activating vitamin D and has a protective role against oxidative stress. Magnesium deficiency increases endothelial cell susceptibility to oxidative stress, promotes endothelial dysfunction, reduces fibrinolysis and increases coagulation. Furthermore, magnesium deficient animals and humans have depressed immune responses, which, when supplemented with magnesium, a partial or near full reversal of the immunodeficiency occurs. Moreover, intracellular free magnesium levels in natural killer cells and CD8 killer T cells regulates their cytotoxicity. Considering that magnesium and vitamin D are important for immune function and cellular resilience, a deficiency in either may contribute to cytokine storm in the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) infection.
| 5721 visitors, last modified 16 Apr, 2021, |
| ID | Name | Uploaded | Size | Downloads | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15211 | Mg reasons.jpg | admin 10 Mar, 2021 | 266.29 Kb | 654 | |
| 15210 | Magnesium and Vitamin D Deficiency COVID-19.pdf | admin 10 Mar, 2021 | 1.15 Mb | 667 |