Tudpock18 said...
OK...Buddy has staked his claim to March, 2020. Billy Bob if you can produce an earlier date then you remain champ. Otherwise I will be forced to crown Buddy the VD King (uh...that's Vitamin D for you dirty minds).
Jim
First of all, thanks Jim and you other guys for the kind words. Sadly, my last vitamin D thread ended up closed- FOR A 2ND TIME LOL! - otherwise I would have posted several new studies that continue to confirm this the value of D supplementation vs CV-19.
But, without an ability to find and search a list of threads I have started and/or all posts(4500 in 6 years) I've made, I really couldn't tell anyone when I first started posting for vitamin D specifically regarding Covid-19. Obviously not much before March or Feb, since we didn't even know about
it much before then.
In my thread about
Easy Money/D/CV-19, I see in my first post on 5/8, I said: “Well, that was easy (virtual) money. I have been challenging any one with this bet: if they would simply measure the vitamin D and C levels of CV-19 patients ( adjusting for any that, in a panic, began supplementing just before they were hospitalized, and adjusting for those very few and wonderful doctors who would actually give them C and D, they would find that almost every one who was seriously ill, and especially those that needed a ventilator, were severely deficient in both vitamin C and D(and probably needed some zinc also, or a drug- or supplement- that carries more zinc inside the cells to kick virus butt, like hydroxychloroquin(probably works better when given with zinc). I said I would bet money and win, if only someone would do the studies.
Well, someone finally has…………”.
And then I started linking to multiple recent studies. So apparently, I had been making statements about
being willing to bet that everyone in ICU with covid was low on D(and C). But when did I make them? I’m not even certain I made such claims here, rather than at FB or some other web site. And, I’m not having an easy time finding out. Buddy might know, as in the past he has kept a record of my posts in order to show how crazy I am. ;)
Needless to say, I have been posting ever since I got here 6 years ago, in favor of the possible benefits of maintaining a minimum of 30 ng/ml blood D, and probably a bit higher, so for at least 5 or 6 years. Y’all may remember that TA used to lock horns with me over and over, ended up claiming that D supplements were good for nothing andhe had stopped taking them. And honestly, despite that one post from Buddy on 3/9/2020, all I can remember about
his relationship regarding benefits of D is that he was often also fighting me tooth and nail on that subject. In fact, more than once he pointed out how the highly esteemed TA used to constantly lock horns with me on that subject, and how he was similar to TA in that regard. That is my memory of events, which might not be totally accurate.
But, now he says that he was the original advocate at HWPC for vitamin D for Covid? Well, maybe so, I just can’t say for sure. I have been doing some searching, but out of my 4500 posts, that is going to take a lot of searching. Again, perhaps Buddy has all of the relevant info? This post is going long, and that drives some folks to distraction, so I will follow up in a following post.