The vitamin that can save your life

 Can vitamin D save your life?  - Yes

Vitamin D is the vitamin superstar, affecting so much more than bones and teeth. The brain, immune system, hormones, cancer prevention and gene expression all rely to some extent on Vitamin D.

The "sunshine" vitamin impacts all areas of our health, and is hailed as a "miracle" vitamin by some experts. It reduces the risk of several cancers, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and a host of other ailments.

Five ways to get more vitamin D:

1- 15 minutes of sun three times a week 

2- Fatty fish and cod liver oil

3-  Fortified dairy products

4-  Multivitamins

5-  Vitamin D supplements

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Fatty fish such as wild (not farmed) salmon and sardines have roughly 400 i.u of D in a 3 ounce serving. Liver and pastured egg yolk have a tiny bit – 40 i.u. in 1 egg or 3 ounces liver. That’s a lot of liver, eggs and canned fish to get a dose of 1000 to 7,000 i.u. daily.

How Vitamin D can save your life:

1- The immune system  Vitamin D supports the “Killer cells” of the immune system, helping white blood cells kill infections. We get sick less often and get well faster.  Vitamin D is also a potent immune modulator for the prevention and resolution of autoimmune diseases like MS and inflammatory bowel disease.

2-  DNA repair and gene regulation. It doesn’t get bigger than this! Vitamin D impacts all the bad genes (turn off!) and all the good genes (turn on!), changing your entire future. 

3- Keeping a healthy brain   Vitamin D affects production of serotonin which affects sleep, depression, PMS, weight, mood, digestion and more. It helps prevent Parkinson’s by enhancing the transmission of electricity to your neurons and by detoxifying your cells.  Dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory and information processing are all affected by low D. Vitamin D activates and deactivates enzymes in the brain and the cerebrospinal fluid involved in neurotransmitter synthesis and nerve growth.  

4- Heart disease  People with insufficient D have an 80 percent greater risk of narrowing of the arteries according to a long-term study at Johns Hopkins. Vitamin D is important for reducing hypertension, atherosclerotic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. One study showed Vitamin D deficiency increased the risk of heart attack by 50 percent. Vitamin K2 plays a huge role here also. Don’t take D without K2, as the K2 prevents D from hardening the arteries or forming calcium deposits incorrectly anywhere in the body.

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5- Vitamin D stimulates insulin production and is important for Diabetes management and for weight loss.



Vitamin D and COVID-19

Winter vitamin D supplementation seems to reduce the risk of developing influenza. Two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have reported beneficial effects along these lines.

In terms of the potential impact of vitamin D supplementation in patients with COVID-19 infection, experimental reports have shown vitamin D has a role in reducing the risk of COVID-19, including consideration of the fact that the outbreak occurred in winter (a time when serum vitamin D levels are lowest), and the fact that vitamin D deficiency contributes to acute respiratory distress syndrome and case-fatality rates increasing with age and with chronic disease comorbidity, both of which are associated with a lower 1,25(OH)2D concentration. 

However, it is reasonable to hypothesize that vitamin D supplementation may enhance host immune responses against COVID-19 and its aggressive effects on all organ systems. High-dose vitamin D supplementation may be considered for subjects with laboratory confirmed deficiency, particularly the elderly, obese, those with dark skin, and those individuals living at higher latitudes. 

Based on its protective effects in subjects at risk of chronic diseases, including cancers, cardiovascular disease (CVD), respiratory tract infections, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension, it can be assumed that vitamin D supplementation and the associated increase of serum vitamin D levels above 50 ng/ml (125 nmol/l) may have beneficial effects in reducing the incidence and severity of various viral diseases, including COVID-19.

Warning :Some people with certain medical conditions, such as kidney problems, cannot safely take vitamin D.

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