Dear Subscriber,
This article on Vitamin D is so important, relevant, immediately useful to you regarding the pandemic, that I am providing it for you intact, unaltered and with credit to the author. I have known about the critical importance of vitamin D for years and have written about it repeatedly in my journalism over many years. Vitamin D caught the attention of a California prison physician who provided it SUCCESSFULLY to inmates to prevent and/or mitigate sever influenza.
Despite the awesome research on its value, I ask, have you seen one report in the mainstream or a single suggestion from government or mainstream medical pundits to push vitamin D as a preventive, or treatment for COVID-19? In medicine, the physician is required to provide you full informed consent regarding the treatment he recommends. That, according to the New Jersey Supreme Court, also includes treatments/methods he might not necessarily personally agree with. In this case the science is unequivocal. I believe the pundits, government, Fauci, health authorities and health facilities had an unequivocal duty to inform the public and patients about vitamin D and provide such prevention and treatment. And, not having done so, I have to consider it gross and wanton negligence on a massive/global scale. Australia and other countries are forcing people into vaccination and destroying the liberties of the unvaxxed whilst ignoring perhaps the most powerful and cheapest method of all to combat the disease.
Please read in its entirety. I’d rather have the “bullet proof vest” of adequate vitamin D levels than the “bullet proof vest” of vaccines which has so many holes in it that bullets of the virus will walk right through. (I take 50,000 units twice weekly. My recent D level was 80. Upper quintile of the reference range).
To your Excellent Health!
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
PS Terri and I just put on a workshop on ozone dialysis that was stunning to the participants. I will tell you why in an upcoming report in the premium section and provide you a link to the comments of the doctors who came.
PPS Here is a national story that actually made me shed tears. I suggest you read the NY Post story, link provided.
A young mother died from blood clots after being forced to get a vaccine to do her job as a teacher, though she desperately resisted it. The story made huge news and Twitter FALSELY fact checked it. I imagine if I was still on Facebook and reported this to my followers, FB would have taken down the page before I did it on my own:
The social media giant fact-checked the obituary after it was shared by Twitter user Kelly Bee alongside a tweet that read: “Jessica Berg Wilson, an ‘exceptionally healthy and vibrant 37-year-old young mother with no underlying health conditions,’ passed away from COVID Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia. She did not want to get vaccinated.”
Twitter put a “misleading” label on the tweet and included information on “why health officials consider COVID-19 vaccines safe for most people.”
https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/twitter-criticized-for-fact-checking-seattle-moms-obituary/
Now – Vitamin D
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/10/3596/htm
Crystal Clear Science Shows Fauci and Other Government ‘Scientists’ Should Have Promoted Vitamin D to Combat Pandemic
There seems to be an endless refusal by the public health establishment to fight the pandemic with the best science-based tools. Instead, they keep pushing vaccines.
Great German research provides unequivocal medical evidence that the government should be strongly advocating two actions: 1. Take vitamin D supplements and 2. Have your blood tested for vitamin D.
The title for this October 2021 journal article says it all: “COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3: Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” [25(OH)D3 refers to metabolite of the vitamin in blood]
In other words, there is clear evidence that the lower your vitamin D level the greater your risk of dying from COVID infection. Moreover, the data clearly show that you need a blood level of at least 50 ng/mL.
Odds are, however, that very, very few people have been tested for their vitamin D level. This is a situation where waiting for testing is not the prudent approach. Vitamin D pills are pretty cheap and it is perfectly safe to take a healthy daily dose to maintain a good immune system. I take 4,000 IUs twice daily.
Here are a number of highlights from this research and other sources; the discussion is aimed at informing people with information not provided by Big Media, Big Government and Big Pharma.
Vitamin D is an accurate predictor of COVID infection. Its deficiency is just as significant, and perhaps more so, than more commonly discussed underlying medical conditions, including obesity.
To be clear, there is a level of vitamin D for an effective strategy at the personal and population level to prevent or mitigate new surges and outbreaks of COVID that are related to reduced vaccine effectiveness and new variants.
In the German study, fifteen other studies were cited that showed low vitamin D levels were related to cases of severe COVID infection, and seven studies that found positive results from treating ill patients with the vitamin.
The German study noted: “The finding that most SARS-CoV-2 patients admitted to hospitals have vitamin D3 blood levels that are too low is unquestioned even by opponents of vitamin D supplementation.” The German study “followed 1,601 hospitalized patients, 784 who had their vitamin D levels measured within a day after admission and 817 whose vitamin D levels were known before infection. And the researchers also analyzed the long-term average vitamin D3 levels documented for 19 countries. The observed median vitamin D value over all collected study cohorts was 23.2 ng/mL, which is clearly too low to work effectively against COVID.”
Why does this vitamin work so well? The German study explained: A main cause of a severe reaction from COVID results from a “cytokine storm.” This refers to the body’s immune system releasing too many toxic cytokines as part of the inflammatory response to the virus. Vitamin D is a main regulator of those cells. A low level of the vitamin means a greater risk for a cytokine storm. This is especially pertinent for lung problems from COVID.
Other studies
On a par with the German study was an important US medical article from May 2021: Vitamin D and Its Potential Benefit for the COVID-19 Pandemic. It noted: “Experimental studies have shown that vitamin D exerts several actions that are thought to be protective against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infectivity and severity. … 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. … there is no downside to increasing vitamin D intake and having sensible sunlight exposure to maintain serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D at a level of least 30 ng/mL and preferably 40 to 60 ng/mL to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection and its severity.” This confirms the German study and its finding of a critical vitamin level of 50 ng/mL.
Daniel Horowitz has made this correct observation about vitamin D supplementation: “An endless stream of academic research demonstrates that not only would such an approach have worked much better than the vaccines, but rather than coming with sundry known and unknown negative side effects.“
There are now 142 studies vouching for the near-perfect correlation between higher vitamin D levels and better outcomes in COVID patients.
From Israel came work that showed 25% of hospitalized COVID patients with vitamin D deficiency died compared to just 3% among those without a deficiency. And those with a deficiency were 14 times more likely to end up with a severe or critical condition.
Also from Israel, data on 1,176 patients with COVID infection admitted to the Galilee Medical Center, 253 had vitamin D levels on record and half were vitamin D-deficient. This was the conclusion: “Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D was associated with increased disease severity and mortality.”
Several studies have come from the University of Chicago. One found that a vitamin D deficiency (less than 20 ng/ml) may raise the risk of testing positive for COVID-19, actually a 7.2% chance of testing positive for the virus. And that more than 80% of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were vitamin D deficient. And Black individuals who had levels of 30 to 40 ng/ml had a 2.64 times higher risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than people with levels of 40 ng/ml or greater.
On the good news side is a new study from Turkish researchers. They focused on getting people’s levels over 30 ng/mL with supplements. At that level there was success compared to people without supplementation. This was true even if they had comorbidities. They were able to achieve that blood level within two weeks. Those with no comorbidities and no vitamin D treatment had 1.9-fold increased risk of having hospitalization longer than 8 days compared with cases with bothcomorbidities and vitamin D treatment.
Another option
Some people may have absorption problems. The solution is to use the active form of D – either calcifediol or calcitriol – to raise their levels more quickly. This bypasses the liver’s metabolic process very effectively. Studies have shown that people hospitalized with low levels but given the active form of D did not progress to the ICU. Places that sell vitamin D often sell the concentrated active form.
I have a supply of cholecalciferol pills that provide 50,000 IUs, compared to ordinary D pills typically with 2,000 IUs. A reasonable use of the high concentration pills is in the event of coming down with a serious COVID infection. This may be a sensible strategy for those who do not know what their level is or have not taken the normal pills for some period. It can take months to raise a very low level to above the critical level the German study found necessary for the best protection.
Deficiency
Aside from dealing with COVID, two pertinent questions are: Is there an optimal level of vitamin D and are Americans deficient in it? For the first, this has been said: “While blood levels of 30 ng/mL or higher are considered normal, the optimal blood level of vitamin D has not yet been established.” From the Cleveland Clinic is this: “Normal vitamin D levels are usually between 20-80 NG/ML. If supplementation is recommended, remember to take it with a meal and on a full stomach to help absorption. Unfortunately, about 42% of the US population is vitamin D deficient with some populations having even higher levels of deficiency.”
A Mayo Clinic study said this: “Vitamin D deficiency is more common than previously thought. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that the percentage of adults achieving vitamin D sufficiency as defined by 25(OH)D of at least 30 ng/mL has declined from about 60% in 1988-1994 to approximately 30% in 2001-2004 in whites and from about 10% to approximately 5% in African Americans during this same time. Furthermore, more people have been found to be severely deficient in vitamin D [ <10 ng/mL]. Even when using a conservative definition of vitamin D deficiency, many patients routinely encountered in clinical practice will be deficient in vitamin D.”
Clearly, personal deficiency can only be determined by a blood test that prudent people will request their doctors to order for a lab test.
Conclusions
Seeing vitamin D as crucial to surviving COVID is supported by solid medical research. There is good data to support a desired level of 50 ng/mL. Whether a person has this level requires a blood test for the vitamin, not something that most physicians normally call for when ordering blood tests for other reasons.
https://noqreport.com/2021/12/07/crystal-clear-science-shows-fauci-et-el-should-have-promoted-vitamin-d-to-combat-pandemic/
Hi!
Yes I take vitamine D3. From the start of covid!
Here in Quebec, the government what’s to
Tax people that are not vaccined!!
On there income-tax!!
Have a good Day!
“Powe et al. demonstrated that black Americans had significantly lower 25(OH)D and vitamin D-binding protein concentrations when compared to white Americans; however, they had similar bioavailable 25(OH)D concentrations as a result(104, 105). This study points out a major weakness in the reliance on a circulating blood level of 25(OH)D to determine vitamin D status and correlations with downstream biologic activity. In most research studies that assess vitamin D interventions, the assessment of binding protein concentrations, bioavailable 25(OH)D, or 1,25(OH)2D to assess active metabolite levels, is not performed or considered.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4769794/
25D isn’t a valid measure of overall vitamin D status. There are dozens of forms and most of the claimed benefits are from 1,25D. Even healthy runners have “low” vitamin D:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24198585/
That’s because “low” vitamin D does not cause disease. Disease causes low vitamin D.
“Current evidence suggested that vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency was not significantly linked to susceptibility to COVID-19 infection or its associated death. Vitamin D supplements did not significantly improve clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19. The overall GRADE evidence quality was low, we suggest that vitamin D supplementation was not recommended for patients with COVID-19.”
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937-021-00744-y
Different meta-analyses may say something different but it doesn’t matter. Correlation is not causation. In fact, covid acutely plummets 25D levels.
The only study that really looked like it was effective used calcifediol, not the precursor in supplements. Not sure what to make of that.
I was severely injured by 2 weeks of mega dosing D3. Made my chronic infection get worse and took me a year to recover, thankfully with the help of Benicar. There are many others, but you don’t find what you don’t look for.
D metabolism is complex and supplements can completely skew it. Sunlight is the only safe way. Get lots of sun and ignore 25D levels. The only thing which may mean something is ratio of 1,25D to 25D. If you do take supplements, take them acutely and listen to your body for side effects.
Dr. Rowen, vitamin D is just another fish oil, IMO