FYI:
My M.D. general practitioner cousin, when I brought up covid-19 ten days ago, said to be sure to not be vitamin D deficient. He said it's an important component in maintaining a healthy immune system. I believe that would mean enough exposure to sunlight and/or a supplement. I bought a bottle of D3 at Costco 9 days ago. I'm pretty sure it's 50mcg, little yellow transparent soft gels, 2000iu.
ugh, due to a medication i take, i recently found out that i basically have no vitamin d at all. i wonder if that's why i have felt like crap for over a year.
my chest has hurt on and off for over 6 months and doctors did tests and are like "idk everything looks fine"
at least my doctor just prescribed me some 50000 IU pills
Excellent, and worth watching the whole thing! It also explains the whys and wherefores of acute respiratory tract infections symptoms being in considerable part due to the body's own immune response system, something being discussed in these covid-19 related threads.Yep, it's a inexpensive chance at reducing the seriousness of COVID-19. Dr. John Campbell, known for his daily coronavirus updates, dedicated an entire video to Vitamin D.
Hmm... when I was Vitamin D shopping a few days ago I saw bottles of 250mcg pills being labeled for deficient people so I went down to 125mcg (50,000 IU)... same as you. Surprised they didn't prescribe more. Maybe I got too much! Already figured it was a high dose and planned to skip days.
Could well save your life. Watch that video by Dr. Campbell.ugh, due to a medication i take, i recently found out that i basically have no vitamin d at all. i wonder if that's why i have felt like crap for over a year.
my chest has hurt on and off for over 6 months and doctors did tests and were like "idk everything looks fine". but one of them finally decided to check vitamin d levels.
at least my doctor just prescribed me some 50000 IU pills
Why do you think the common folk cant get no test kits? Trump is testing himself every 10 seconds of the day.... almost not OnionOdd to mention Trump's personal health in regards to an emergency meeting that involves an actual national and worldwide emergency, especially considering he doesn't smoke or drink and the Democratic field is filled with elderly politicians as well.
Considering he is the President of the United States, it would be odd not to mention Trump's personal health in regards to an emergency meeting that involves an actual national and worldwide emergency.
Not smoking and drinking is hardly an indictment of overall health, especially when you eat horribly...
Consistent with this science, analysis of deaths from corona virus in China shows that men are more likely to die than women, something that may be related to the fact that many more Chinese men smoke than women. Among Chinese patients diagnosed with COVID-19 associated pneumonia, the odds of disease progression (including to death) were 14 times higher among people with a history of smoking compared to those who did not smoke. This was the strongest risk factor among those examined.
Not absolutely. If you have a respiratory infection while this pandemic is raging across the planet, sure, get tested if testing is readily available to you. If it isn't if you can afford to quarantine yourself, doing so would be a public service. Myself, I can do it and will if it comes to that... with or without testing to confirm I have covid-19.But that would require daily testing of everybody...
I saw more info on that yesterday. Apparently 20-25 YO people during the Spanish Flu epidemic experienced outsized immune response that shut down major bodily systems moreso than younger/older age groups resulting in much increased mortality.Yeah, interesting question. I gather that all these epidemics are different like that, attack different age groups. I'd guess it has something to do with levels of immunity? (Maybe older people had been exposed to something vaguely similar in the distant past?). Or is it something else?
Watch that video by Dr. Campbell linked above. He explains why Vitamin D deficiency is a major factor in respiratory infections in particular in the northern regions of the planet. it would matter in Antarctica too!Yeah. I got a couple bottles of D-enriched orange juice last week and a load of D3 from Kroger a few days ago (buy one, get one free sale). I got the 125mcg variety but that may be a little excessive if you aren't cronicly deficient for some reason.
I strongly suspect that Vitamin D deficiency is a third reason for the seasonality of respiratory illnesses since one of the other causes, indoor warmth-seeking, exacerbates it. It doesn't help that winter sunlight just doesn't work as well for natural vitamin D even if you do expose yourself to it and the temperatures will probably keep you in long sleeves.
ugh, due to a medication i take, i recently found out that i basically have no vitamin d at all. i wonder if that's why i have felt like crap for over a year.
my chest has hurt on and off for over 6 months and doctors did tests and were like "idk everything looks fine". but one of them finally decided to check vitamin d levels.
at least my doctor just prescribed me some 50000 IU pills
Yeah. I watched it a couple days ago... literally less than 30 seconds after he uploaded it.Watch that video by Dr. Campbell linked above. He explains why Vitamin D deficiency is a major factor in respiratory infections in particular in the northern regions of the planet. it would matter in Antarctica too!
WHO finally declares COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.World Health Organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic
"We're deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction," WHO's Dr. Tedros said.www.cnbc.com
The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus
Botao Xiao & Lei Xiao
South China University of Technology
The 2019-nCoV has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated that the genome sequences from patients were almost identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human. An article published on The Lancet reported that 27 of 41 infected patients were found to have contact with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 meters from the seafood market. We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory. Our proposal provided an alternative origin of the coronavirus in addition to natural recombination and intermediate host.
I saw that in the ~40 minute documentary on it on Youtube. It's a curious thing. Why was the death rate highest in th 20-40 YO age range? So different from this covid-19 epidemic.
I saw more info on that yesterday. Apparently 20-25 YO people during the Spanish Flu epidemic experienced outsized immune response that shut down major bodily systems moreso than younger/older age groups resulting in much increased mortality.
Washing with soap & water: I read that the soap dissolves the outer layer of the virus spores, effectively rendering them harmless to you. It's not just the washing away of these spores that's going on with that.
Myself, I don't use "regular" hand soap when I wash my hands 95% of the time. Do you remember those Borax dispensers they used to have in public bathrooms? I bought a fair sized box of that some years ago. I poured some in a small plastic container, burned a hole in its top. I dispense a little of that in one palm and go to work, then rinse. I like the grainy nature of that stuff, have always felt it is better at removing dirt. I presume (hope) it will likewise put the kibosh on those nasty SARS-C0V-2 spores.