Gear said...
Another article on Yahoo today about D.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/new-study-suggests-vitamin-d-linked-covid-19-mortality-141201888.html
BTW, Gear: In my earlier response to your link, I said they had some big time authorities quoted as not being impressed by this study. But, did you notice this? :
"Equally cautious about
the study is Dr. Kavita Patel, a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution and Yahoo Life medical contributor.
“I have no reason to believe that there is some significant association with vitamin D alone and [COVID-19] mortality,” Patel says. “It just doesn’t make sense to me clinically.” That’s not to say, however, that she doesn’t consider vitamin D to be beneficial when it comes to respiratory infections.
“There have been studies in the past around the effects of vitamin D supplementation in decreasing the effects of the influenza virus,” Patel says. “
So myself, and many doctors I know, started to give our families and ourselves [vitamin D] supplementation when this pandemic started, not knowing if this would be anything like the influenza virus, but we thought it wouldn’t be harmful.”
One of the studies Patel is referring to is a 2017 global meta-analysis of 25 randomized controlled trials, involving more than 11,000 individuals, which concluded that taking vitamin D supplements daily or weekly could significantly reduce the risk of severe respiratory infections like influenza. For those deficient in vitamin D (i.e., having blood levels below 10 mg/dl),
the risk of respiratory infection was cut in half. While no similar research on vitamin D protecting against coronavirus exists, Patel says a randomized controlled trial on its effects is currently underway."
Do you see that? She states she has no reason to believe there is an association between CV-19 mortality and D, despite this new study she is being asked about
and the several other recent studies.
But she and her fellow doctors started giving D for themselves and their families when the pandemic started! OH GOOD GRIEF! How about
telling your patients and the public? Just the other day, I was talking to my URO. Now keep in mind that he never once suggested that I take vitamin D or get adequate sun. While conversing with him in general conversation, I asked him "are you taking vitamin D" while pulling out my phone to show him this study from Ireland and the one from Louisiana where 100% of the CV-19 patients <75 years old were deficient in D, while the ones not in ICU had higher levels. But before I could even show him the studies, he responded " Oh yes, I take 5000 IU/day, because I have a family history of PC" plus a couple of other health issues he either has or has a family history of. He also takes CoQ10 and a couple of others he mentioned. So, once again, he does not apparently tell his patients(not me anyway) that this might help and probably won't hurt, but as for him he is taking it!
While that situation irritates the heck out of me, I somewhat understand what our local docs are up against. If they ever go even slightly off of the reservation and recommend non-prescript
ion, non FDA approved approaches to their patients, either their fellow MDs at the medical and licensing boards are liable to come down on their heads, or the FDA is, or both. And they certainly don't want any threat to their license. So they stay on the prescribed path.
Still, I think the situation from our CDC/NIH/FDA authorities is shameful. They have to know about
all of this evidence, and that these things might actually save some lives. Between vitamin D and C, it is more than possible that quite a few lives could have been saved, with extremely small risk of harm and almost no expense. But they simply refuse to tell us, they are not gonna do it. Though it is possible that their bias simply prevents them from accepting the evidence that is right in front of them, and thus they don't believe it, any way you slice it, it just a'int right.