Loading...
 
Toggle Health Problems and D

Prefer 40 – 60 ng of Vitamin D to minimize COVID-19 – March 17, 2021

Vitamin D and Its Potential Benefit for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Endocrine Practice https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eprac.2021.03.006
Nipith Charoenngam MD 12 Arash Shirvani MD, PhD1 Michael F.Holick MD1

VitaminDWiki

COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos

As of Jan 31, 2024, the VitaminDWiki COVID page had:  19+ trial results,   37+ 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

Virus and Dark Skin in VitaminDWiki 20 pages

COVID fought by 50 ng of Vitamin D


Also by Dr. Holick

 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
Image

Image

US COVID-19 data

Image
Image
Vitamin D is known not only for its importance for bone health, but also for its biologic activities on other many other organ systems. This is due to the presence of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) in various types of cells and tissues, including the skin, skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, endocrine pancreas, immune cells and blood vessels. Experimental studies have shown that vitamin D exerts several actions that are thought to be protective against COVID-19 infectivity and severity. These include the immunomodulatory effects on the innate and adaptive immune systems, the regulatory effects on renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system in the kidneys and the lungs, and the protective effects against endothelial dysfunction and thrombosis. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have shown that vitamin D supplementation is beneficial in protecting against risk of acquiring acute respiratory viral infection and may improve outcomes in sepsis and critically ill patients. There are a growing number of data connecting COVID-19 infectivity and severity with vitamin D status, suggesting a potential benefit of vitamin D supplementation for primary prevention or as an adjunctive treatment of COVID-19.

Although the results from most ongoing randomized clinical trials aiming to prove the benefit of vitamin D supplementation for these purposes are still pending, there is no downside to increasing vitamin D intake and having sensible sunlight exposure to maintain serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D at least 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L) and preferably at 40 – 60 ng/mL (100 – 150 nmol/L) to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection and its severity.


Created by admin. Last Modification: Sunday December 12, 2021 18:24:22 GMT-0000 by admin. (Version 14)

Attached files

ID Name Comment Uploaded Size Downloads
15286 potential 4.jpg admin 20 Mar, 2021 62.97 Kb 727
15285 potential 3.jpg admin 20 Mar, 2021 56.99 Kb 701
15284 potential 2.jpg admin 20 Mar, 2021 97.55 Kb 735
15283 potential 1.jpg admin 20 Mar, 2021 107.05 Kb 755
15282 Potential benefit of 40 to 60 ng for COVID_compressed.pdf admin 20 Mar, 2021 484.89 Kb 412