Vitamin D Update
Video taken from the channel: Dr. John Campbell
Vitamin D, Science
Video taken from the channel: Dr. John Campbell
Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19: is there a relationship?
Video taken from the channel: PharmaStarTV
The relationship between COVID-19 and vitamin D
Video taken from the channel: WSOCTV9
Vitamin D and COVID-19
Video taken from the channel: Reply Ob/Gyn & Fertility
Vitamin D and coronavirus: Sunlight and nutrition could help boost immunity | ABC7
Video taken from the channel: ABC7
Vitamin D and COVID-19 || Could Vitamin D Help with COVID-19
Video taken from the channel: Medtalks
Experts say healthy blood levels of vitamin D may give people with COVID-19 a survival advantage by helping them avoid cytokine storm, when the.Evidence that vitamin D supplements reduce the risk of developing COVID-19 is lacking, but having healthy vitamin D levels can enhance immune health. Plus, vitamin D supplements.Vitamin D recently became the subject of international attention when a published study observed a broad correlation between the average vitamin D level of a given population and that population’s COVID-19 outcomes—sparking discussion that lower vitamin D status may be associated with critical cases of COVID-19.
What is apparent is that we need more dedicated studies to assess any relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19. Currently, 28 trials have been registered relating to vitamin D and COVID-19.Vitamin D is critical to healthy psychological functioning.
Research has shown that vitamin D deficiencies may be related to depression, seasonal.There are currently 28 registered human clinical trials underway to evaluate the potential relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19. Results of those studies are expected to clarify whether supplemental vitamin D might have a positive role to play in the management of COVID-19 patients with low vitamin D levels.
16.Some suggest there is no evidence to support vitamin D dosing in preventing COVID-19 while others have produced evidence for supporting the.Researchers analyzed patient data from 10 countries.
The team found a correlation between low vitamin D levels and hyperactive immune systems. Vitamin D strengthens.”The most vulnerable group of population for COVID-19 is also the one that has the most deficit in vitamin D,” the researchers conclude in their preliminary report.
Cross-sectional reports like these aren’t without their problems, doing little more than suggesting some kind of relationship might exist.11761 COVID-19 and high-dose Vitamin D – Video interview of Dr. CoimbraMay 1 341 Books, videos on Vitamin D, Virus 09 May, 2020 11760 UK makes a U-turn on Vitamin D and COVID-19 – a vivid imagination 745 Virus 09 May, 2020. long list of changed and new page Just New pages All Changed Pages Top 20 new pages.Evaluation of the Relationship Between Zinc Vitamin D and b12 Levels in the Covid-19 Positive Pregnant Women The safety and scientific validity of this study is the.But with vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality, we have four independent cases that all cause Vitamin D deficiency and all are correlated to higher rates of Covid-19 mortality.
It is highly.“The biggest issue relates to calcium and its relationship to vitamin D. Too much vitamin D may result in too much calcium,” which could result in kidney stones, he explained. VITAMIN D LEVELS MAY.A new study reports that vitamin D could be involved in the suppression of the overactive immune response related to severe COVID-19 cases. At low levels of the “sunshine vitamin” the immune system becomes overactive and a phenomenon known as a cytokine storm ensues.
Several research studies have been or are currently under way looking at the correlation between vitamin D deficiency and mortality rates from COVID-19.
List of related literature:
|
|
| from Vitamin D |
|
|
|
| from Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology E-Book |
|
|
|
| from Vitamin D: Two-Volume Set |
|
|
|
| from Principles of Human Nutrition |
|
|
|
| from Mosby’s Canadian Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests E-Book |
|
|
|
| from Seldin and Giebisch’s The Kidney: Physiology & Pathophysiology 1-2 |
|
|
|
| from Krause’s Food & the Nutrition Care Process, Iranian Edition E-Book |
|
|
|
| from The Laboratory Rat |
|
|
|
| from Pediatric Nephrology |
|
|
|
| from Osteoporosis |
205 comments
Very good information sir, my vitamin d level fell to 4 few years back. My pulse became abnormal. But when I took 60000 unit tablet once a week, pulse rate continued to be high. I had taken tablets for 2 months and was completely bad ridden. Sir, is that any powder of 2000 unit which we can take daily for the daily safe dose? I take 60000 unit calcirol powder once a week, I feel good after having that, but I am scared that this is may be a high dose.
John, a comment on Vitamin D: While I totally believe in it and so do many of the experts you have on your show, why is it hardly ever mentioned in the British media when they ask the question Why are BAME people more likely to die than white people? I feel like yelling out BECAUSE THEY ARE VITAMIN D DEFICIENT BECAUSE DARKER SKIN DOES NOT ABSORB IT SO EASILY FROM THE SUN AND THUS THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS COMPROMISED!!! Why is it hardly ever mentioned?
What a great talk, thanks
Reference your comment on D testing. UK GPs are reluctant to test, probably don’t want to start something which will cost.
I found this NHS site for testing out of all the shady & pricey web sites on the net. Tested end Dec 2019 51 nmol/l, end March 2020 at 125 nmol/l. Go to do iut.
https://www.vitamindtest.org.uk/
Get your level tested. I did..it was on the low side….I am supplementing with 10,000 i/u per day, but take Vitamin K with it.
Another thing is the number of black people do not get the sun’s benefits as it cannot penetrate the skin because of dark skin. The sun in the northern hemisphere is not as intense as in. or near the equator. I have been telling black people to take vitamin capsules.
Not one person in the Native American Tribal Clint knew one thing about Covid 19 and Vitamin D
Thank for the excellent video, super useful. Reading other studies that still further the case for Vitamin D (such as in Newcastle and elsewhere). Hopefully at some point NICE etc will take note and things will change, hard to see the reasons why not (though I can guess)
Thanks much John. I have learned about Covid 19, Vitamin D and British Humor. Future Video idea.. discussion of expert individuals and organizations we can trust for health information.
Good video. For a deeper understanding of exactly how vitamin D modified the immune system and protects against COVID-19 I suggest the following video. https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
Arizona is currently having a higher per capita virus resurgence since this State opened up a month ago. Even with the high temps. We have a large population of young people here in the cities. Ugh!
A must read for anyone and everyone who wants to understand vitamin d: The Essential Role of Vitamin D in the Biosynthesis of Endogenous Antimicrobial Peptides May Explain Why Deficiency Increases Mortality Risk in COVID-19 Infections: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202005.0265/v1
and
The Role of the Parent Compound Vitamin D with Respect to Metabolism and Function: Why Clinical Dose Intervals Can Affect Clinical Outcomes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3849670/
Thank you for boldly going where the CDC won’t go despite their publications which indicate 4000 units is safe.
Meanwhile 30 minutes in sun can provide 10 to 20,000 units.
This problem must be addressed by the CDC who don’t have the courage that ABC does. Please stay on this story which can only be properly covered by putting pressure on CDC.
Consider the following:
Appreciated!
Curious if you think the big picture is stated here?:
WH, Congress, CDC, ETC Missing the Immune-System Rescue Boat:
Here is a 9-minute proposal with criticality you will understand in 9 seconds.
PROBLEM:
COVID-19 war is being waged on many external fronts,
…while the internal immunity-support battle is unarmed.
HHS/NIH/CDC has not proactively alerted the public, or healthcare workers and institutions sufficiently, of widespread micronutrient deficiencies, critical to immuno-competency,
such as D, in over 69% Elderly, and People of Color.
Examination of blood levels are now proving significant correlation with severity of Covid outcomes.
Government, and even Pharma-related health agencies, do NOT deny criticality of deficiencies, nor benefits of supplementation, as proven by statements from their publications summarized/quoted below.
Rather, CDC simply has not synthesized findings and proactively advised the public and healthcare professionals, of critical ways to ensure strong immune systems, as they have with spread-reduction techniques.
Unfortunately, there IS great google-garble confusion, in disjointed, difficult to decipher, government health publications.
Example:
ODPHP (Congress-created to “lead disease prevention and health promotion efforts”…ever heard of ‘em?), lists RDA of D 600 iu, adults under 71, (50% more than previous; still often sold/mistaken as 400 iu)…
More problematic, is burying safe “max” doses: (ex. 4000 iu. of D…much more effective in reaching optimal levels), in separate lists which are often overlooked.
Furthermore, they publish that 10,000 to 20,000 ui can be produced in sun…with our bodies preventing excessive levels.
Preventing disease is a CDC directive…
However, guidance on optimal supplementation, by age, gender, race, lifestyle, and condition, is not proactively communicated, even to healthcare professionals.
And, beyond failing to advise “stay-home“ compensation for little sun, not washing-off D, and low/no
winter production, D is just one example of allowing immune systems to become compromised.
Millions of residents and healthcare professionals are unaware of many proven ways to fight COVID-19, (&20!?).
PROPOSAL:
-CDC should be instructed through Congressional oversight committees, to promote immune-system optimization for the public and healthcare professionals and institutions.
It will not be necessary to convince HHS agencies of their own findings, or that best-practices guidelines can be synthesized and advertised very quickly…
We need action,
not further delays or studies.
What follows is a description of purpose and summarized HHS-publication support.
CDC needs a battle plan that powerfully promotes:
1. Optimal Immunity-Critical Micronutrients,
2. Multiple Immune-System-Building methods,
3. Internal Viral-Load-Reduction Techniques.
PRACTICAL PROOF:
Immunity support may not be a cure, but it is a best weapon on the internal battlefield, currently left unarmed.
FACTS-1:
Most COVID infections present no, few, or manageable symptoms, while others suffer or die, ultimately due to immuno-competency differences.
FACTS-2:
Eleven micronutrients, especially A, C, D, and Zinc are critical to immune response.
FACTS-3:
Widespread, hidden deficiencies of D:
69% Hispanics,
82% Blacks, and similar for Elderly, are found in these disproportionately impacted groups.
Overcoming D– deficiency is double-blind proven to improve a range of health outcomes:
from osteoporosis fractures, to depression, dementia, and top fatal illnesses, including
cancer (also immune-system responsive), cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
FACTS-4:
Some micronutrients are useful at much higher levels than RDA.
Doses 7X RDA are safe and beneficial for most.
77% of Americans claim to take supplements, yet 42% are D-deficient, rarely tested, and unlikely to know if we are!
FACTS-5:
“Micronutrients are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
(As my psychiatrist would say, “Does that tell you anything?”)
FACTS-6:
“Zinc promotes immune functions and helps resist infectious diseases.”
“…supplements reduce…respiratory infections, lowers…deaths from all causes.“
FACTS-7:
Not everyone is aware of methods to remove viral load from mouth, nose, and throat, or of
other physical immunity-building techniques.
PREDICAMENT:
We have invested in health information tools that have not been effectively delivered.
Dependency on the Google Jungle”, (which can “confuse the health out of us”!) is costing us dearly… before, during, and after(?) the pandemic.
Which politicians will win hearts, minds, and votes in this call-to-action?
POLITICAL SOLUTION:
A former presidential contender is saying, “We need a national policy to show us how to return safely”…
The current contender’s 4-Step Return Plan, is missing the 1st step…optimizing immune systems!
Presumptions that politicians can do nothing, due to Pharma influence, are overcome in an optional “Additional Proposal Support” topic below.
The pandemic presents an unprecedented opportunity to raise and maintain personal health permanently, and address our 75% preventable disease load…and its impending bankruptcy of governmental medical insurance.
Regardless of the structure of our costly insurance programs, salvation/solvency depends on preventing illness…
not just figuring out who gives, gets, and pays…
A Penny of Educational Prevention IS worth a Dollar of Cure.
Politicians who promote this type of permanent-benefit proposal will win.
If not; we all lose.
Winning on the battlefield within, is a best way to mitigate severity AND protect the future of our health, insurance systems, treasury, and sanity.
Embarrassingly delayed?
“Better late than never” was never more urgent.
Filling the immune-system communication gap is a best tactic for our government representatives and hopefuls.
Further NIH-published support and details below, are not needed to take action.
—————————-
PROPOSAL SUPPORT:
Even with vaccines, there is ultimately one cure…
a successful immune response.
Governments haven’t been proactively providing immune-system protection info.
However, the Google Jungle contains the following NIH-published summary of a multi-study review;
happily noted, by scientists from BAYER!
Their conclusions:
“…the immune system needs specific micronutrients, including A, D, C, E, B6, and B12, folate, zinc, iron, copper, and selenium, which play vital, often synergistic roles at every stage of the immune response.”…
“Adequate amounts are essential to ensure proper function of physical barriers and immune cells;
however, intakes necessary to support immune function may be higher than current recommended dietary allowances.
…even marginal deficiency may impair immunity.
…supplementation may modulate immune function and reduce the risk of infection.”
PASSÉ PHARMA PRESUMPTIONS:
Explanations of why CDC and other official health organizations are mum on immunity-building, based on Pharma influence,
(as the Supreme Court allows!),
don’t fly when shot down:
Pharma may influence, but has not have enough funds or network of secrecy, to control HHS/NIH/CDC and Congress…
1. Specialized drug profits are not significantly jeopardized by supplements.
2. Pharma is best-positioned for opportunities in patient-customized micronutrients, tuned for age, race, conditions, medications, vitals, genetics, etc.
3. Vaccine profits, can be marginal, sporadic, exaggerated, and are irrelevant at the moment; nor likely to work in micronutrient-deficient immunesystems.
Vitamin therapy isn’t going to kill Pharma….
But it’s killing us to underrate and under-educate.
Still not convinced immune-system support is a best weapon…or that people will respond?..
Take a look at the now more rapidly growing, mental-illness “side of the coin” in an NIH publication:
”4 out of 10 leading causes of disability are mental disorders…
studies show that a lack of certain dietary nutrients contribute to the development of mental disorders.”
“Notably, essential vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids are often deficient in the general population…
and are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
“Studies have shown daily supplements of vital nutrients often effectively reduce symptoms.”
“…nutritional supplement treatment may be appropriate for controlling major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety, eating, and attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), addiction, and autism.“
Let’s not be sick for no good reason… Please take action!
Appreciated!
Curious if you think the big picture is stated here?:
WH, Congress, CDC, ETC Missing the Immune-System Rescue Boat:
Here is a 9-minute proposal with criticality you will understand in 9 seconds.
PROBLEM:
COVID-19 war is being waged on many external fronts,
…while the internal immunity-support battle is unarmed.
HHS/NIH/CDC has not proactively alerted the public, or healthcare workers and institutions sufficiently, of widespread micronutrient deficiencies, critical to immuno-competency,
such as D, in over 69% Elderly, and People of Color.
Examination of blood levels are now proving significant correlation with severity of Covid outcomes.
Government, and even Pharma-related health agencies, do NOT deny criticality of deficiencies, nor benefits of supplementation, as proven by statements from their publications summarized/quoted below.
Rather, CDC simply has not synthesized findings and proactively advised the public and healthcare professionals, of critical ways to ensure strong immune systems, as they have with spread-reduction techniques.
Unfortunately, there IS great google-garble confusion, in disjointed, difficult to decipher, government health publications.
Example:
ODPHP (Congress-created to “lead disease prevention and health promotion efforts”…ever heard of ‘em?), lists RDA of D 600 iu, adults under 71, (50% more than previous; still often sold/mistaken as 400 iu)…
More problematic, is burying safe “max” doses: (ex. 4000 iu. of D…much more effective in reaching optimal levels), in separate lists which are often overlooked.
Furthermore, they publish that 10,000 to 20,000 ui can be produced in sun…with our bodies preventing excessive levels.
Preventing disease is a CDC directive…
However, guidance on optimal supplementation, by age, gender, race, lifestyle, and condition, is not proactively communicated, even to healthcare professionals.
And, beyond failing to advise “stay-home“ compensation for little sun, not washing-off D, and low/no
winter production, D is just one example of allowing immune systems to become compromised.
Millions of residents and healthcare professionals are unaware of many proven ways to fight COVID-19, (&20!?).
PROPOSAL:
-CDC should be instructed through Congressional oversight committees, to promote immune-system optimization for the public and healthcare professionals and institutions.
It will not be necessary to convince HHS agencies of their own findings, or that best-practices guidelines can be synthesized and advertised very quickly…
We need action,
not further delays or studies.
What follows is a description of purpose and summarized HHS-publication support.
CDC needs a battle plan that powerfully promotes:
1. Optimal Immunity-Critical Micronutrients,
2. Multiple Immune-System-Building methods,
3. Internal Viral-Load-Reduction Techniques.
PRACTICAL PROOF:
Immunity support may not be a cure, but it is a best weapon on the internal battlefield, currently left unarmed.
FACTS-1:
Most COVID infections present no, few, or manageable symptoms, while others suffer or die, ultimately due to immuno-competency differences.
FACTS-2:
Eleven micronutrients, especially A, C, D, and Zinc are critical to immune response.
FACTS-3:
Widespread, hidden deficiencies of D:
69% Hispanics,
82% Blacks, and similar for Elderly, are found in these disproportionately impacted groups.
Overcoming D– deficiency is double-blind proven to improve a range of health outcomes:
from osteoporosis fractures, to depression, dementia, and top fatal illnesses, including
cancer (also immune-system responsive), cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
FACTS-4:
Some micronutrients are useful at much higher levels than RDA.
Doses 7X RDA are safe and beneficial for most.
77% of Americans claim to take supplements, yet 42% are D-deficient, rarely tested, and unlikely to know if we are!
FACTS-5:
“Micronutrients are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
(As my psychiatrist would say, “Does that tell you anything?”)
FACTS-6:
“Zinc promotes immune functions and helps resist infectious diseases.”
“…supplements reduce…respiratory infections, lowers…deaths from all causes.“
FACTS-7:
Not everyone is aware of methods to remove viral load from mouth, nose, and throat, or of
other physical immunity-building techniques.
PREDICAMENT:
We have invested in health information tools that have not been effectively delivered.
Dependency on the Google Jungle”, (which can “confuse the health out of us”!) is costing us dearly… before, during, and after(?) the pandemic.
Which politicians will win hearts, minds, and votes in this call-to-action?
POLITICAL SOLUTION:
A former presidential contender is saying, “We need a national policy to show us how to return safely”…
The current contender’s 4-Step Return Plan, is missing the 1st step…optimizing immune systems!
Presumptions that politicians can do nothing, due to Pharma influence, are overcome in an optional “Additional Proposal Support” topic below.
The pandemic presents an unprecedented opportunity to raise and maintain personal health permanently, and address our 75% preventable disease load…and its impending bankruptcy of governmental medical insurance.
Regardless of the structure of our costly insurance programs, salvation/solvency depends on preventing illness…
not just figuring out who gives, gets, and pays…
A Penny of Educational Prevention IS worth a Dollar of Cure.
Politicians who promote this type of permanent-benefit proposal will win.
If not; we all lose.
Winning on the battlefield within, is a best way to mitigate severity AND protect the future of our health, insurance systems, treasury, and sanity.
Embarrassingly delayed?
“Better late than never” was never more urgent.
Filling the immune-system communication gap is a best tactic for our government representatives and hopefuls.
Further NIH-published support and details below, are not needed to take action.
—————————-
PROPOSAL SUPPORT:
Even with vaccines, there is ultimately one cure…
a successful immune response.
Governments haven’t been proactively providing immune-system protection info.
However, the Google Jungle contains the following NIH-published summary of a multi-study review;
happily noted, by scientists from BAYER!
Their conclusions:
“…the immune system needs specific micronutrients, including A, D, C, E, B6, and B12, folate, zinc, iron, copper, and selenium, which play vital, often synergistic roles at every stage of the immune response.”…
“Adequate amounts are essential to ensure proper function of physical barriers and immune cells;
however, intakes necessary to support immune function may be higher than current recommended dietary allowances.
…even marginal deficiency may impair immunity.
…supplementation may modulate immune function and reduce the risk of infection.”
PASSÉ PHARMA PRESUMPTIONS:
Explanations of why CDC and other official health organizations are mum on immunity-building, based on Pharma influence,
(as the Supreme Court allows!),
don’t fly when shot down:
Pharma may influence, but has not have enough funds or network of secrecy, to control HHS/NIH/CDC and Congress…
1. Specialized drug profits are not significantly jeopardized by supplements.
2. Pharma is best-positioned for opportunities in patient-customized micronutrients, tuned for age, race, conditions, medications, vitals, genetics, etc.
3. Vaccine profits, can be marginal, sporadic, exaggerated, and are irrelevant at the moment; nor likely to work in micronutrient-deficient immunesystems.
Vitamin therapy isn’t going to kill Pharma….
But it’s killing us to underrate and under-educate.
Still not convinced immune-system support is a best weapon…or that people will respond?..
Take a look at the now more rapidly growing, mental-illness “side of the coin” in an NIH publication:
”4 out of 10 leading causes of disability are mental disorders…
studies show that a lack of certain dietary nutrients contribute to the development of mental disorders.”
“Notably, essential vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids are often deficient in the general population…
and are exceptionally deficient in patients suffering from mental disorders.”
“Studies have shown daily supplements of vital nutrients often effectively reduce symptoms.”
“…nutritional supplement treatment may be appropriate for controlling major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety, eating, and attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), addiction, and autism.“
Let’s not be sick for no good reason… Please take action!
One thing that needs to be mentioned here:
The paper you discuss is about bringing a DEFICIENT person up to speed. So it’s about therapy, not ongoing nutrition.
This is also reflected in the fact that the dose for obese persons is higher. It’s not really that they absorb it less, but having much larger stores they simply need more material to bring Vit D up to the same concentration as in a person with less body fat.
Now, overdosing will not do harm, as the toxic levels of D3 are VERY high, but taking these therapeutic levels of intake as a yardstick may make people concerned who really have no reason to be.
Also, please be diligent about the various forms of the vitamin. Hydroxy-vitamin-D3 is not precise enough. The storage form is 25-hydroxy-Vit-D, the active form released by the kideys is twice hydroxylated 1,25-hydroxy-vit.D3
You mention measuring the level of active 1,25 HO Vit D3. This is rarely done, as it is very tightly regulated by the body. If the level of THAT drops, you are very deficient indeed.
The measurement normally taken is that of the storage form, 25 OH vit D3 in the serum.
Also, as anything concerning nutrition: there are factions touting this or that, selling their particular talking point as a panacea. The truth is usually somewhere in between, or rather, a synthesis of many. A human organism is a very complex system, influenced by many factors, and concentrating on only one usually will not do.
Having said that: Thanks for bringing my attention to the Vit-D topic; I actually have changed my behavior concerning sun exposure due to listening to your talks. I think (again, concentrating on one factor to much) we are overdoing it with sunscreen today. Avoid sunburn, by all means, THAT is damaging to the cells. But any sun exposure below that is probably good for you, even if it may lead to some wrinkles down the line.
I have also heard the argument that sunscreen may have a detrimental effect on skin cancer: as it blocks only UV B, the excess exposure to UV A may actually lead to MORE prevalence of melanoma. I don’t put too much stock in that, but it may be something worth considering.
I have Hashimotos autoimmune disease why doesn’t anybody mention it when talking about autoimmunity.? It has mangled my life. I also had non existent vitamin D levels. All linked. Thank you for bringing the autoimmune connection up, as I have been saying it for years, and have been dismissed.
If you are willing to assess a list of evidence on D3 and covid19 and are competent with science papers..please join this group:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/virusprevent/permalink/717410549031438/
Why is everyone pulling his/her hair out over masks, but no one emphasizes taking Vitamin D to prepare our immune system to fight Covid-19? It would seems to be the #1 thing we need to do, especially if we are overweight, dark skin but living AWAY from the equator, seldom go out doors. So why is no one pushing Vitamin D supplementation? Is it bc there is no mega Pharma pushing it? No kickbacks for the medical profession? Or is it bc the sun is the biggest competitor?
there was someone who had coronavirus and took 75 mg Zinc a day, after 3 days he recovered well.
Thanks for this important info. I’ve been taking 5000 IUs a day of Vitamin D for a few years and my Vitamin D level is 55 ng/ml (US measure), which is a good level. I think 1000 IUs a day is not enough!
Knowledge they wish didn’t exist.
https://youtu.be/xrzs2BIzdvQ Dr. Tom Levy, M.D. JD, Vitamin C, Facts, Fiction and the Law
https://youtu.be/L0x8CxUKDrc Doctor Thomas E. Levy, Vitamin C, the Ultimate Antibiotic
https://youtu.be/W5Bgdqsorg0 Andrew Saul, High Dose Vitamin C Therapy for Major Diseases
https://youtu.be/-3_aYNT1KNA Vitamin C for Sepsis and Severe ARDS, JAMA Network
https://youtu.be/JPyj9Pi8nw4 Unravelling life’s secrets, Immunity, Cancer and Vitamin C Professor Margreet Vissers, Otago University
https://youtu.be/xEUsapvou8o Dr. Thomas E. Levy, Vitamin C, the Ultimate Antiviral, South Africa
https://youtu.be/4lJPjsuftmQ Dr. Paul Mason, Low Carb Down Under
https://youtu.be/TcI3-yxt5ew Andrew Saul on Corona Virus and IVC
https://youtu.be/JS1JalMT7xQ Overview of the health benefits of Vitamin C by Professor Margreet Vissers
https://youtu.be/adYqbucF8M4 ICU nurses discuss IV vitamin C therapy for sepsis
https://youtu.be/fmDng_uMCnY Vitamin D and the Upper Respiratory Tract, Valley ENT
https://youtu.be/aJKRP8bCvOQ Stunning Success, Vitamin C Saves People Dying of Sepsis
https://youtu.be/JFT5rdwrNV0 Vitamin C Basics, Dr. Suzanne Humphries M.D. Internist, Nephrologist.
https://youtu.be/JS1JalMT7xQ Overview of the Health Benefits of Vitamin C by Professor Margreet Vissers
https://youtu.be/rhZETbXCqCM Dr. Judy Mikovits, Whistleblower
https://youtu.be/y0LLX0sgwAU Lecture on Vitamin C by Brilliant Suzanne Humphries, 2 Hours.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Ask your doctor if Vitamin D is right for you.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/suffer-the-children/202005/vitamin-d-and-covid-19
Vitamin D and COVID-19
Can taking Vitamin D save your life?
Posted May 06, 2020
Until medical scientists discover an effective vaccine or treatment for COVID-19, prevention is the best defense. Medical scientists tell us that frequent hand washing, wearing a face mask when in public places, and social distancing are important preventive measures. A less discussed preventive measure, however, is the fact that having a robust Vitamin D level may play a significant role in preventing COVID-19. Recently, a string of studies have identified Vitamin D deficiency as a risk factor for the disease.
A recent report from the Philippines found that in patients infected with COVID-19, the patient’s level of Vitamin D was significantly associated with clinical outcomes. Vitamin D deficiency was associated with a higher level of death from the disease. And a new study by researchers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation Trust and the University of East Anglia in the UK prompted the authors to advise that vitamin D supplementation could protect against respiratory infections like COVID-19. Similarly, a recent study from Switzerland led researchers to “advise Vitamin D supplementation to protect against SARS-CoV2 infection.”
In early April 2020, I received an email about the COVID-19 epidemic from the renowned endocrinologist and former associate professor of medicine at UCLA, Sarfraz Zaidi, M.D.. Zaidi had previously cured me of an autoimmune disorder with large doses of vitamin D3, saving me from more invasive and Draconian cures. Zaidi had been talking with doctors in Iran, a country hard-hit by the COVID-19 epidemic. He wrote in his email: “Doctors from Iran who took care of severe cases of COVID-19 found most patients who died had vitamin D level of less than 50 ng/ml. It is no surprise to me. The optimal level of vitamin D — 25 OH Vitamin D — is between 50-100 ng/ml according to my own vast clinical experience…”
How does Vitamin D help fight respiratory infections like COVID-19? Zaidi explains: “Vitamin D stimulates the production of CAMP — Cathelicidin Anti-Microbial Peptide — from our own immune cells. Think of CAMP as our natural Anti-Viral agent.”
I became aware of the effect of vitamin d when I started watching this channel in March. https://youtu.be/_fIMkigtnk4
I first heard your recommendations for Vit D in Feb and started taking supplements to help with Fibromyalgia as well as building up my system in case of Covid. ���� I can’t believe you are still not being heard on this issue in July, several months on! Can’t thank you enough John, for continuing to speak out. Let’s hope more people listen! ����
Sunlight? Isn’t ABC7 the same idiots that said don’t go to the beach?:/
Can totally recommend vitamin D, I take 50 units per day since i work night shifts half the month. Although im white skinned and my body eats up solar energy as easy like a crocodile eats pets.
I prefer to fail on the safe side since I had my fair share of bad luck in life. And winter in Sweden gets dark.
Thank you Dr John for shedding a much needed light on the gross ineptitude of Dr Tedros and the WHO in preventing the global pandemic of Covid 19. Sadly, not enough people are and I myself have been raising awareness with regards to this issue and educating people on this matter for months. If people are even more interested in exactly what the WHO are all about including the globalist, elitist, deep-state driven agenda that is behind their reason for existence, I urge them to conduct their own further factually accurate research into the history of origin and purpose of the organization itself and connection to the globalist, all powerful, wealth amassing Rockefeller family, etc. It speaks VOLUMES about what is going on today in 2020 with regards to Covid 19 and the current pandemic. In my opinion, the pandemic has been orchestrated, fully facilitated and exacerbated across the world by the puppet masters that control the world’s banks, governments and huge money making corporations. It has been helped in it’s cause to do so by the 100% complicit WHO to purposefully destabilize the global economy and depopulate the Earth. Just look at the stock market activity over the past 6 months and then research what happened to the global elite during this unprecedented time period. The likes of Bezos, Buffet, Gates et al. Guess what people? These already obscenely wealthy billionaires got even RICHER. Can you believe that?! While the rest of the global workforce living hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, got POORER struggling on furlough payments, unemployment has risen to record levels, small businesses going bust from Hanoi to Houston, etc and you tell me something doesn’t seem right?! That’s because it’s NOT. It’s all just one big game to these globalist, devious, wealth amassing a**** and we’re just the disposable pawns. Let’s see if any of the aforementioned elite ever contract Covid?? Guess what people, they NEVER will but we have or might. Why’s that you ask? Well, WAKE UP EVERYONE. We need to stop these forces of evil and educate ourselves into the truth of what is really going on here!
Nurse Campbell thank u Vit D and O blood type I killed corona I have the antibodies all I got was a cold and tickle in throat over a 2 day period that’s it ��
I know of a 4 dollar magic bullet to use against Covid 19 but I will just keep it to myself so all the Sheep will wither away. Besides. Yahoo/Youtube would certainly censor me if I said what it was. They’d call it Fake News going against their own fake news.
I love this man, he embodies anything and everything I am proud of in British culture, and nothing that I’m not proud of.
Great to hear your take on these committees who appear to have an “equality” agenda (AKA “Marxist?) going beyond truth to a level bordering on moronic.
When are all these people going to grow up and accept there is inherent difference in certain elements of racial identity and it is simply factual to recognise it, not “racism”?
https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583 Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
Yey! Vitamin D a good reason (if there needs to be) to have a few minutes in the sun!
In Queesland Australia, a UK born man working without a shirt everyday and no sun screen during most of the day in the sun, was still found to still be Vitamin D deficient. He could neither make vitamin D in the skin or absorb it from oral supplements. He needed Vitamin D by intramuscular injections.
Great information! Thank you so much for sharing!
Dr. John Campbell and Dr. Eric Berg is providing additional information on Vitamin D3 that you would find pretty revealing.
Thanks to this video I literally plucked up the courage to order a Vitamin D Test. £29.00 and arriving by First Class Mail. I am not diabetic, but I’m sure it will contain a painless finger lance to collect the sample. BCPS NHS lab in Birmingham, UK.
That’s why you should stop listening to government experts. go in the sun and take high doses of vitamin D supplements instead of putting the stupid mask on. Why isn’t the government recommending this
Dr John is particularly good at spotting the details that many researchers and reporters will all too quickly move on past without stopping to think through. Knowing the value of stopping to explain the details is very conducive to saving lives. As a personal note it’s a good reminder to get the kids out into the sunshine as much as possible.
Yes! And not being fat also helps! And would you know, not having previous maladies also helps! Of course care home patients have low vitamin D. They never go out. Skewed statistic
“When did agriculture start?”….. when you and me were boys Doc:-)
Unlike the (as you infer) misleading correlation between telephones and heart disease cited in your example, the relationship between Vitamin D (and better survival of) Covid 19, benefits from the fact that unlike telephones, vitamin D is actively involved in the process and immune functionality. Waiting for absolute certainty is folly in such a crisis situation, especially as it has no significant negative side effects unless taken at extremely high doses. Those with darker skin, even highly paid doctors, are tending to prove that low vitamin D is surely a serious risk factor.
Good grief Doc, you’ve been banging on about Vitamin D for months. A buffoon in charge of WHO and a Gomeral in charge of PHE!
So, was there a Vitamin D Scientific STUDY? Do we know if COVID causes Vitamin Depletion or elevates Vitamin D in the body. You can buy Vitamin D online and have Amazon or Walmart ship it anywhere.
I stopped taking vitamin D. But it’s my fault. Since about a couple of months I get pain in my private parts. Only when: I take vitamin D, or if I eat too much beans. Its very proven, retried like 10 times already with inmediate results(same day) when taking vit.D, or at the next day when eating too much beans(this case is more pain). I am the one at fault, Im weird, this has little sense.
Why no trials on Vitamin D? Probably incarcerated in the purgatory of the local ethics committee due to the antivaxing, conspiracy theorist lay person representative.
I have been taking 5,000 of vitamin D most of my life, blood tests show, (perfect) I add Vitamin K2.
zinc and C, together with a multi vitamin and mineral. Magnesium and other. all good for a 75 years old.
You can buy a home vit d testing kit on line now… just google! About £30
I can absolutely concur with your comments. I’m a physician and I have a series of over 800 patients whom I measure vitamin D levels in my practice for other reasons and every single patient has had sub therapeutic levels of vtiamin D I place all my patients on 1000 to 2000 IU every day depending on their level. I prefer D3. Of course it makes sense in the Northern Hemisphere as we spend six months in Fall/Winter weather and use sunscreen in the summer
Vitamin D3 is responsible for functioning more than 3000 genes in human body. Its role is way underrated.
People suffering depression for years can get cured when reaching D3 levels 300-400 ng (nano grams) per ml (blood). Taking approximately 10000-20000 IU per day (for a healthy person) lets keep D3 at a stable level (60-120 ng/ml). If you are ill you need much more than just 10000 IU per day to bring D3 level up (20000-50000 IU is not an exageration). With levels below 30 ng/ml serious deseases may occur (as below).
In the 1970-ties medical books were officially saying that taking vitamin D3 in dosages 10 000 IU per kg of body mass for a certain, not long period of time (for a 100kg person it would be 1000000 IU, yes 1 million IU) doesn’t cause overdosing (if taken with other fat soluble vitamins: A,E, K2-MK7 of course). But this is for people suffering cancer, deep depression, schizophrenia (yes, larger doses of D3 help here + some of the B group vitamins and minerals), autism, sclerosis multiplex, Alzheimer, autoimmune deseases etc.
Along with vitamin D3 other fat soluble vitamins should be taken as already mentioned: A, E (E consists of 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols to be precise) and K2-MK7 which is very important (should be always taken with D3) and not many people have heard about it. K2 is responsible for calcium re-distribution (D3 frees up calcium and K2 takes it to bones and teeth, definitely good for osteoporosis and much more). Magnesium helps vitamin D3 to work properly (+ other minerals and vitamins).
Sun in our longitude helps to produce vitamin D3 in our bodies (skin) only in the summer between 10:00– 13:00 aproximately. In the very morning and afternoon D3 production is very low let alone winter months.
Solution? Solarium with so called UVB lamps.
An example of dosage: 20000 IU vit. D3; 25000 IU vit.A; 400-500 mg of vit. E; 600-1000 mg of vit K2-MK7.
If you can find vit. A as a water micelle ( water dispersed) it would be the best. D3 water dispersed as part of your daily D3 dosage would be also a good thing.
There are some materials on Youtube in polish about D3 and much, much more, unfortunately not translated to english (people like Hubert Czerniak or Jerzy Zieba talk about it for example).
Jerzy Zieba’s book “Hidden Therapies. What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You” part 1 is available in english. Doctor Hubert Czerniak is able to bring back to normal autistic children by using D3, A,E, K2 + ketogenic diet (includes avoiding flour made products like bread as those contain glyphosate). He also cures hashimoto desease, diabetes and other so called incurable deseases (it is of course more complicated than just taking vitamins, but they do play important role).
The CPT code for a vitamin D level check is 82306. Blue Cross covers this test when filed with diagnosis code Z00.00. I’m not sure about Medicare. You call your insurance company and ask them how CPT 82306 will be covered in an office setting.
We don’t actually know the reasons for winter seasonality and why some viruses are so pathogenic. I thought these ideas were an interesting starting point: https://youtu.be/l_jmqGvdeBY
Could have thrown more….at some of us… Allotments -vitamin D, good nutrition, good exercise.. hopefully good community…
Concerning people who do not take this COVID-19 disease seriously;
then the COVID-19 disease will take them seriously
Doc, I found a news about the vaccine: “Head of China CDC gets injected with experimental vaccine”. For your reference if you are interested.
Seems the traditional dosage is to only cure for rickets
I feel looking at aborigines and life guards for the proper levels needed
That s 60 to 70
And when they say a population is deficient, to what level are they calling defiecent?
The low rickets model?
I fear the actually defiecent is actualk y higher
Out of Africa is mainly based on archeological findings made decades ago. In the meantime older human remains which puzzle the scientific community have been found in Asia and Europe. The common ancestor of homo-sapiens might be from Africa, but homo-sapiens/humans might have developed independently from that ancestor in different regions of the world. We still don’t know for sure…
All these knowledge on vitamin-D and the relation to ethnic background is pretty old and should not require a new study to wake up the nutrition advisory committees? should it?
John, Glad to see allopathic trained healthcare personnel are finally coming around. You are still missing the whole picture though. You need vitamin C and additional zinc.
It’s blatantly obvious that care home residents lack vitamin D. They never see any sunshine.
My dad has been taken into hospital again and tested positive for covid 19 for the second time. It’s being said you can’t get it twice. This is clearly not so. Can you make a video and explain for me please about this. I’ve had covid 19 and am back in self isolation cause I was with my dad and I’m afraid to be ill again as I suffered badly the first time round
I use 60000 units once in 2 months. Now my D level 42. Is it recommended dosage?
Jon, are you feeling well? The past few videos I have noticed your health looking not so good. I hope you are well. I appraicate the videos but dont overdo it.
As a doctor i would say get your “D” levels checked pretty quick so your patients will have a guide to go by
Not only does vitamin D help, but also melatonin! Check this out, it helped me out immensely: http://learningiseverything.com/post/how-the-hormone-of-darkness-can-help-you-fight-covid-and-other-diseases
Good night from Australia ���� but I’m form Newcastle England �������������� love ya
Lockdowns are increasing and aggravating vitamin D deficiency
People have to get exposed to sunlight
the a/c keeps us in a state that makes our system think its winter all the time which compounds the vitamin d deficiency
I have believed the same as you for my entire life. God changed the skin color of those that lived far from the sun to allow them to absorb Vitamin D. His plan is to always protect us. He gives us everything we need to stay healthy if we just eat an ancestrally appropriate diet, exercise, and spend time in the sun.
taking vitamin D is not risky and is unlike other unsafe measures suggested. why not just take it everyday? though there is not ‘proof’ there is much compelling evidence that it makes a positive difference in fighting covid. i’m all in.
I am in complete disbelieve on how many people deny even the simplest tools like vitamin D or wearing face masks. From the comment section on the DT for example the vast majority is dismissive of the efficacy of masks or social distancing and other essential measures. They even condemn the government for imposing regulations. How can people not tolerate or understand that these simple actions are absolutely imperative in preventing the spread?
I just got back my lab results, and my Vit D is in range, but at the lower end, would I feel better if I increase my Vit D intake?
Good information. For a deeper understanding of exactly how vitamin D modifies immune system and protects against COVID-19 I suggest the following video https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
It’s worth noting that while the French National Academy of Medicine and Campbell state there are no randomized controlled trials looking at vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19, this is not true. There are many such trials currently underway. They just haven’t been completed and published yet, but you can find them (and may be able to enroll in them) by searching ClinicalTrials.gov
In the UK, there’s the Covidence UK Study,6 an effort to collect data about how vitamin D deficiency impacts your COVID-19 risk. If you live in the U.K., you can sign up for the Covidence UK study at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/covidence/. According to Adrian Martineau, a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, who is leading the Covidence study:
“Vitamin D could almost be thought of as a designer drug for helping the body to handle viral respiratory infections. It boosts the ability of cells to kill and resist viruses and simultaneously dampens down harmful inflammation, which is one of the big problems with Covid.”
Working 50 to 60 hours a day has to be tough on the old immune system. Poor buggers LOL
Seriously, though. Thank you so much for this information.
Selfless, anticipatory and thorough. How has this one man, working alone, given more accurate, timely and useful information, than the whole apparatus of the UK government? Questions need to be asked about the response, certainly, but give Dr. John a medal for his unselfish public work, regardless.
Excellent review of the literature! I very much appreciate the time and effort you have invested in keeping us well informed. I am an ICU nurse and have recommended your channel to everybody with COVID19 questions. Much love from the US! �� ����
Good advice especially for the elderly and BAME communities. And continue to socially distance!
I am a man of color. And I have a Vitamin D deficiency. My doctor has actually been prescribing 2000 units of Vitamin D for years. But I never took the prescribing of over-the-counter vitamins very seriously…until this year. Now, since March, I have been taking a pill every single day.
People in retirement homes the place where more deaths occur all over the world are not allowed to go outside and receive the sun and on top of that they are full of prescribed medicines that had already undermine their immune system!!!
thanks so much for breaking the research down so I could understand it…backed by science!
Teacher…, IF we could but Destroy THE EDISON machine A.I. of Forced Slave Labor Technology, could WE THE PEOPLE all be free, and STOP Repeating OUR De-Ja-Vu Lives.??? It is my CONTENTION that everything in PURGATORY is only this way because we are UNDER A Super Natural Curse known as THIS Living “Thinking” Technological MECHANIZATION where The Machine Watches us, the Machine Dresses us, and THE MACHINE uses Graven Images known as the MOVING Pictures from Cartoons to World NEWS to say the same damn ENCHANTMENTS over and over known as LET US ENTERTAIN YOU… We must do all we can be we GOOD or EVIL aka Angel or Demon, or WE THE PEOPLE shall never have FREE WILL and we will never break from from the SPELL we are all CAST Under just as every TV SHOW has a CAST and a Teleprompter, so when you get A WORD in your DREAMS, than send it to that EMAIL cause the Clue is in THE WORD for did not I Christ Become THE WORD, and the word Became Flesh and Blood and Bones???? This Hidden knowledge that not even the Highest Degree FREE MASON Could know cause they are all under POSSESSION of Wicked Vile Spirits known as Living STONE in THE LOST WORLD Season 2 Episode PENTAGRAM or FIVE for the uninitiated, but when you watch That Episode is show you just as Friday The 13th THE TV SHOW that we are surrounded by things that prevail against WE THE PEOPLE to be returned to the GOLDEN AGE in this CONSTRUCT The Great Work known as our Holographic Dreams when we sleep and are in STASIS, and this Virtual Reality we all keep waking up to where it seems no matter what WE SAY or Do, no one will Teach the Truth, and them whom are Crazed and Lunatics keep putting on the COSTUME called the UNIFORM too make them CONFORM to lies of FAKE SPACE – False Religions – CONSUMERS aka Consumerism that are nothing more then WORDS or The Spell of ENTITIES where The Word CONSUME is a form of Dark Magic where you feel incomplete unless you BUY what the TV SCREENS or Black Mirrors say you need to do this to be COMPLETE!!! However, all are LOCKED in Houses, All are Wearing The Muzzle of COMPLIANCE with Illegal LAWS and Possessed MACHINE MINDED Persons where they want to do WAR IS MURDER when Murder is Against The RULE OF LAW cause FREE MASON are taught at a very young age to LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING, and we the POSSESSED will give you jobs and money and fame and fortune, but the ONE THING these Parasites whom feed off our dreams and desires can never give us is A WAY OUT of This PLACE known as Purgatory, and so we die and REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT, and if you want to Go Home??? Than WE must turn this place of WAR IS MURDER and BLOOD MONEY IS ALL ANY WANT into WAR IS WRONG and it is against THE LAW for we of and for OUR WORLD REPUBLIC CONSTITUTION Coalition… The Book of EXODICE!!!
https://mewe.com/group/5dd5589eb8ff8967436429b5
You can find THE BOOK OF NONMASON – THE BOOK OF PUZZLES – THE BOOK OF RIDDLES, and now our latest attempt at BREAKING the Curse of Purgatory at mewe.com/i/johnnyexodice where are making a NEW RELIGION at our FLAT EARTH Magical Academies called: The Science and Religion of Pak-Toe…
Only people with SOLIDS can do Magic, so keep doing and perfecting your CRAFT, and you have my full permission as THE COMMANDER to walk away from all [OTO Kabbala Zohar] #QANON /_\ FREE MASON LODGES………, and set up your {own temples} +=+ and schools as part of OUR Rag Tag Rebellion known as The Society of nonmason
The Sentinel…
[///|||\\\]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Suspect you’ve nailed SACN not wanting to mention skin colour. For PC reasons rather than focusing on peoples health and lives.
I was watching this video in bed this morning and my wife commented that you won’t hear Dr John on the BBC news as they only follow the official government line. She has become rather sceptical of some of the official advice coming from the Government health experts. She’s a retired staff nurse.
Since this Covid-19 has an assured inflammation component and we see it with the use of Dexamethasone, why hasn’t anyone come up with at least with a presumption of inflammation being of a great importance. Oxygenation by respirators is great but if inflammation prevents oxygen to come in contact with the pulmonary surface for O2/CO2 exchange… I am hoping corticosteroidal anti-asthmatics are being studied… or is it just not worth it for pharma industry?
What about b12 and other deficiencies? The blood work for b12 levels isn’t reliable as it doesn’t differentiate between active and inactive b12 levels. Many people are b12 deficient and because the NHS ranges are so broad, people are given false ‘normal’ results. B vitamins are essential too! My recent vitamin d level is 108 yet I’m suffering severely with neurological symptoms from Covid. I supplemented every day prior to this with Vit D spray.
I keep trying to scroll up and down on your papers there John….with my mouse haha
Nordic countries eat plenty of fish good for vitiman D.get it right.!!
sir, please make a lecture on central and peripheral muscle relaxants
Unknown pneumonia deadlier than COVID-19 in Kazakhstan
https://youtu.be/8P3q8ietyso
My husband was in the Air Force stationed in Malaya in the 1950s and he worked outside shirtless on the
aircraft, so had loads of vit D but also sunburn and 40 years later he died of skin cancer.
Speaking from perspective as a skin cancer surgeon, I think I rather patients took Vitamin D than stripped off their tops to maximise their UV exposure! However, if you wish to, then probably best avoid 11am to 2pm when UV is at its highest intensity.
HI COULD EVERYONE FIND OUT IF ANY NUDISTS WHO ARE NUDE ON THE BEACH HAVE DIED OR NOT AND COMPARE/CONTRAST WITH NON-NUDISTS. WHY YOU ASK? BECAUSE NUDISTS IF THEY ARE ON A NUDIST BEACH BEFORE AND DURING COVID WOULD GET A LOT MORE VITAMIN D AND THUS HAVE MUCH LOWER DEATH RATES.
Hi Dr. Campbell, forgive my lack of understanding or ignorance, whichever is applicable �� if you can get vitamin D from the sun, how comes there are sooooo many people of colour lacking, when they live in countries that have sun 9 times out of 10 compared to us here in the UK??? Oooookay just took in the bit about africans working outside, are blacks in the US simply sheltering from the sun??? Contrary to the myth we blacks don’t tan I TAN QUICKLY AND FADE SLOWLY… Note to self get Vit. D blood test ������
Sunshine is shown to be vital to making vitamin d so the tory clueless government ban people going to sunny Spain.
I take 5,000 to 10,000 iu s daily bc I have MS. It has been controlled.. I have not had an excaserbation in over 10 yrs. my serum level is 96.
I am one week into my COVID-19 diagnosis and my symptoms have been very minor. I tend to be vitamin D deficient so I take 125 mcg per doctor’s orders. I am very fair-skinned but am Native American, and several of my daughters are also vitamin D deficient and take supplements. I have made a point of spending time outside in the sun every day. It also appears that by wearing a mask and practicing hand-washing, I haven’t passed it on to anyone else-fingers crossed!
There is no Scientific Proof and I am surprised John, that you are stating these things. I do appreciate that you are stating “this is my personal opinion and there is no PROOF”. John I recommend you read the most ancient text on the planet that tells exactly how and why we cannot find a “missing link”. Lost Book of Enki, you can listen to it at https://youtu.be/FNvfUcktXsY
Your argument is true but superficial and it just begs the prior social question. Its like saying that poverty doesn’t cause death but the scientific fact that we can’t live without food so poor people should be given more food. Also you define science too rigidly.
I critized him a lot to increasing the fear for this virus but im gonna praise him for the info on vitamin D. I know for example that in germany there is much more emphasis on vitamin suplements and levels are measured by doctors. This suplementing in winter ( the r-months) is helpfull for all saisonal virussen and high doses of c and d, zinc and fishoil will help you recover faster.
I follow several youtube from John Campbell about Vitamin D.
I also seen several other articles of Vitamin D
Most (including J Campbell) keep suggesting oral intakes of D3 daily without mentioning the vita (min D level in our blood.
3 years ago I checked my Vit D in my blood with test D 25-OHram/mL. The results was 10.3 nanogram/mL. The recommended level was to be 30 100 ng/mL
The doctor recommended 600 iu/day of D3. 6 months later I checked again my blood levels.
It was 10.5. I then took 5000 iu /day. Since then my blood level of D3 is @40. (checked every 6 months)
Not impressive but sufficient. I decided to go for 10000/day to try blood levels of 75 ng/mL.
I am Belgian (white, 74 yrs, living in the tropics )
I suggest to check yr blood levels of D3 and find out what dose will get you in the recommended zone of 30 100 ng/mL
Emiel De Pauw
MAYBE TAKING TOO MUCH CAN CAUSE INTOXICATION? From internet: “Vitamin D intoxication occurs when blood levels rise above 150 ng/ml (375 nmol/l). The main consequence of vitamin D toxicity is a buildup of calcium in your blood (hypercalcemia), which can cause nausea and vomiting, weakness, and frequent urination. Vitamin D toxicity might progress to bone pain and kidney problems, such as the formation of calcium stones.” Is that true? So one would need to constantly check the blood for the level. How about trusting the body that it will produce the level of Vitamin D that it needs. There are trillions of chemical processes going on in the body. I am sure the body knows what it is doing, and who are we to know better. We can maybe count 5-10 processes and thats about it. But the body has many ways of adjusting the balance in the complex system the way it wants. And then we come in, and start controlling those processes. All I know is that certain Vitamin D supplements severely disturb my sleep cycle and makes me feel depressed. When I dont take various Vit D supplements, and I tried many, I feel fine. But at the same time according to ‘medical book’ I m deficient. But I dont feel deficient. In fact I feel much worse taking those supplements. Go figure.
No such thing as an infectious disease this whole thing is a scam. If you get sick then your lymph system is backed up.
As part of other blood tests they did vitamind D test recently and it was 90 nmol/L, so not quite the recommended 100nmol/L that you mentioned. I have been taking 50 mikrogram vitamin D pill every day like you do now for 4 months. I wonder if I will get to 100nmol/L if I continue like this or should I take more than 50mikrograms a day?
Good info. So many of us are low on Vitamin D, That being said, I believe is the reason why so many seniors are getting sick with COVID 19, is, that they are indoors most of the time, all year and depletion of Vitamin D or the bodies’ ability to metabolize it slows down.
What do you think?
Thanks to Dr. John Campbell, I started to use vitamine D supplements. The day I started it (supplementing 800IU) I got severe headache. Now I am at home for 1.5 weeks now trying to beat a cranial herpes zoster outbreak. Zero visibility due to the anti-virus cream I have to put on my eyeballs to prevent herpes on my cornea.
The neural pain started to decrease once I stopped taking the vitamine D supplements.
Anyway, I will retry the supplements once the shingles and headache are gone.
The funny thing is that I am just reading a medical hypothesis (j.mehy.2015.06.027) that vitamine D can prevent herpes zoster outbreaks. Or more correctly: “Vitamin D is closely linked to the clinical courses of herpes zoster: From pathogenesis to complications”, in this case it might have taken the wrong direction.
Without doubt, the most informative and concise information with facts and not fiction(media).
Wife is a nurse in Uk, and using your information for a C.P.D. (Advises work colleagues to follow)
Appreciate your time and respect professional input.
Thank you Dr C. Very interesting video, thank you. I share your frustration. As a result of cancer treatment my immune system was blitzed, no one, including my consultant or dietician (I lost 4 stone in weight), mentioned vitamin D to me at all…ever! so far). It was my cancer support group who all informed me that I should be taking Vitamin D supplements. Great timing because that was October 2019! My parents (both over 80), carry on regardless and won’t even ask their respective GP’s about their D levels even though they have at least a weekly ‘appointment’ with them. My partner who is clinically obese and his diet is mostly meat, (and alcohol) thinks that because he gets outside occasionally and eats mushrooms that he gets ‘plenty of vitamin D’ and won’t even entertain supplements. It’s such a simple and fairly inexpensive way to protect yourself…. I just do not understand their attitudes at all. I’ve had to just walk away from trying to help because it was ‘doing my head in’. I hope that they all get through this current Covid situation but I can see where their other ailments might benefit from a good dose of Vitamin D. Big resigned sigh!
No media outlet is reliable, at this time journalism is dead, it’s all propaganda. Verify everything.
You can get 4000 and 5000 iu from Amazon and I have been taking this for some time I would also suggest also taking vitamin K2 as this works in conjunction with vitamin D3. This also works in conjunction with testosterone in aiding lean muscle mass and decreasing fat. But that’s a different story.
This is basic science 100 years ago, we are scammed all day every day. Science is now more religion.
Also it is imperative to eliminate all food consumption of high fructose corn syrup bc it interferes w Vit D consumption & its immune functioning benefits.
I’m surprised at all the people that are d deficient. As soon as this started I’ve been supplementing with zin, d3, and k2
I was curious, since dark colors absorb more light (radiation) than reflective colors like white; one would think black skin would absorb more sunlight (D3). Much thanks for all you do Dr. John.
There are some truths that are so obvious, so logical that those have to be true. Yet real data is always needed to add to this a proof. In the meantime next time I visit a doctor, I will ask for a blood test to survey my metabolic syndrome, vitamin D, zinc, HDL LDL Triglycerides… Being obese and having a life that prevent me from being outside in broad daylight I currently take 4000ui per day D2/D3 mixed source (except the sun).
Well our surgery is barricaded in they have taped up the letterboxes you have to be tech savvy to get in touch using askmygp, they are not going to give you a vit d test full stop. That’s not worth risking medical personnel’s lives, so guys keep taking the tablets and roll your sleeves up while your walking the dog or going for the newspaper.
Jesus gave His life for all, therefore, ALL lives are important and matter.
I THANK YOU for this information so I can look out for my family members and friends who have more melanin in their skin. We have to look out for all our neighbors and loved ones. ��
Hi, can you comment about this video? https://twitter.com/justinformu/status/1287822324700389377?s=21 and the use of hydroxychloroquine. Thank you
COULD HELP? Lol Science You guys SCIENCE… all the answers. Haha
I’ve heard reports that Vitamin D needs Vitamin K to be most effective.
Hi just subscribed thank you John I do take vitamins especially D with my calcium…
Dr. Campbell is absolutely wonderful. But watch this… Dr. Michael Holick’s life’s work has been in Vitamin D. This lecture has nothing to do with Covid… occurred in 2013 at Boston University but it is mind blowing. Get past the first half hour or so in which he explains how he came to study Vitamin D and get his medical, masters and PhD. Then get out your pen and paper as he describes and explains all the health conditions caused or exacerbated by D deficiency. I discovered Dr. Holick some years ago when I first realized how important a hormone it is. He does his own graphics it has terrible spelling but he is fantastic and highly entertaining. Listen to the end including the questions from the audience. The more you know, right? Stay healthy everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP81YMvs4yI
Dr. could you also give advice on another vitamin Vit. C in relation to Covid-19 especially and immunity in general?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196110/pdf/zbc36228.pdf
“Cotton is one of the most heavily sprayed crops with Glysophate
Think people think!! 
And if you want to know why are used American flag mask it’s because Glysophate was invented and pushed in the USA ”
Stefanie Seneff did a lot of research on Glyphosate…
https://youtu.be/MqWwhggnbyw
Did you know that Sugar, glysophate, dyes, and synthetic vitamins are in
“A part of a complete breakfast.”
This was a slogan first invented by Kellogg’s about a century ago, in a bid to persuade people to include cereal (which was a new thing) as part of their breakfast. In truth, it’s meaningless, because what it’s actually saying (quite truthfully) is “For most of your nutritional needs, you need to eat other not so good things.”
“Glysophate that it interrupts Vit D production as the second inteevention blocking the immune system and deregulating homeostasis.
Vit D intravenous can stop the deadly cytokine storm. that is why VIT D IS DO IMPORTANT TO SURVIVE BEER VIRUS AS WELL AS YOUR VIT D status if in deficiency has a higher death rate in the population
Simona Murphy wrote very important facts: “ It also blocks absorprion of Vit.D, it triggers breast cancer parts per trillions via estrogen receptors, also acts like antibiotic destroying good gut flora, but feeds bad bacteria, depletion of oxygen, kills cells, danages DNA, destroys kidneys, is causing infertility……and by higher source info is connected to neg. aliens agenda via Monsanto and send down the chain through unconscious people who are applicators without knowledge, causing wide spread harm….”
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2558268927821526&id=100009153305960
Excellent brief, entertaining, well sourced documentary with awesome comments!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9O3Yi-Nn0&feature=youtu.be
“Spread this truth everywhere, buy marker pens and write hashtags, links, URLs and quotes etc on park benches, wooden fencing, public bathrooms, phone booths and especially on money.”
“Coming at us from all angles. Food, air, water, soil. Trying to poison everything in our day to day lives. It’s a genius way to make people sick without them even knowing!” Hmmmm think Starbucks might be the source & Starbucks drinkers tracked & traced?
Lots of hospitals & churches now have Starbucks in em…correlations? Bet that study would be revealing…
“Starbucks, Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, Microsoft, and the Gates family are all tied to an elite, shadowy consulting firm.
*These mini-documentaries are always completely sourced. Every fact or claim made is from what is considered a “reputable source”, and the links are always pinned as the top comment under video”
Bayer is paying over $10 billion to settle 95,000 claims in the U.S. that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. 287 million pounds of Roundup was sprayed across the country in 2016.
Dena Takruri got rare access inside the company’s Puerto Rico operation last year, where they test and grow GMO seeds to send all over the world.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1853512758123556&id=407570359384477
“THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Agriculture is currently considering approving a new Monsanto corn genetically engineered to be used with five deadly herbicides. The vast majority of soy and corn grown in the United States is Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready product. Roundup is the trade name of glyphosate, a chemical agent widely accepted as causing cancer in humans, including by the World Health Organization and the State of California. Monsanto’s new corn, however, is designed to be used not just with glyphosate, but also with dicamba, glufosinate, quizalofop, and 2,4-D.
“The fact that the U.S. government may be expanding — not reducing — the amount of deadly chemicals used in food production is remarkable, considering that this week Monsanto’s parent company, Bayer, announced it was paying nearly $11 billion to settle a myriad of lawsuits from cancer patients over claims Roundup causes the deadly condition. In 2018, a California court ordered Monsanto to pay former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $289 million, finding that Roundup was a factor in his terminal cancer. And last year a federal court awarded $80 million in damages to an individual who sprayed the product on his lawn for years, opening the floodgates for far more lawsuits. Yet the government appears to still be protecting Monsanto; in January the Environmental Protection Agency insisted that glyphosate did not cause cancer, non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, or any other fatal condition. ‘This administration’s troubling allegiance to Bayer/Monsanto and the pesticide industry doesn’t change the trove of peer-reviewed research by leading scientists finding troubling links between glyphosate and cancer,’ said Lori Ann Burd, director of environmental health for the Center for Biological Diversity.”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/activists-urge-department-of-agriculture-deny-monsanto-gmo-herbicide-combo/268979/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/uk-ministers-order-urgent-vitamin-d-coronavirus-review
Better late than never!!! ��
The 17th of June Daily Mail Headlines,’Vitamin D new hope in the war on Corona’ they have at last picked up on this and the first to print was the Mail. Hopefully the rest will follow PDQuick. At last I feel vindicated about preaching the Vitamin D3 and K2 regime to build the immune system up. The whole thing would not have even got going had there been enough UVB to make it in the skin, but pollution and clouds block it so supplements are necessary in most of the world. I am fed up being trolled over this matter after trying to get the message out over the past year. Put it out more as you have the following now.
Thank you for the information, I’m agree with everything you’ve said except…….how can such a smart person believe in evolution…let’s just admit that we have no idea where we come from and why we have different races….if you have at list some common sense you’ll never believe that fish become a bird or monkey become human…. yet we still got monkeys in the forest and fish in the sea….why not all of the monkeys turn into humans? Because they are genetically different to us simple as that!..so people pls don’t try to pretend that genetics are so easy and that we can change our skin color like chameleons depends on our inhabitants…no matter how many times people will jump of the roof we won’t grow wings…..I do believe in a natural selection…strongest survives and procreate…I know one think for sure…that I know nothing..lol…but honestly black will never become Asian or white will never become black no matter how long they live in Africa…they babies will be born white…I don’t believe you can change your genetics if you and the generations after you carry on only have children your own race….even if you fly to the moon…you’ll still be just a human….there was white, black, Asian, American Indian, Australian aborigines and others from the start…. only mix race people are the product of people mixing with other races…otherwise no race will ever change they appearance depending on the weather or place you leave lol….
So glad I found your site. In spite of the grizzly nature of the illness, getting reliable information about it is reducing my stress! ALOT! Thank you. Here in the states we need all the intelligent help we can get! I’ve texted the vitamin D thing to all my family.
Thank you,
I totally understand and agree
with the studying of Vitamin D
I’m only a little way into this…. Am I not mistaken in thinking that cholesterol is pivotal in the production, or rather processing, of vitamin D??
I suffered from crippling psoriasis, for years, until I started taking a vitamin D supplement. Its more under control now. However, interestingly, I’m pretty sure I had covid in mid March I suffered quite considerably from a shortness of breath for some weeks after. And my psoriasis is worse again. There is definitely something in this. My concern is WHY I’m short of Vit D, I’m a gardener, no one spends more time than I outside.
I am taking 1000 IU vitamin D3 daily using a oral spray recommended by my doctor. I have no idea what my vitamin levels actually are, but the NZ sun is strong enough to burn me in short order, so I largely stay out of it. The official NZ website however makes no mention of vitamin D. I do not know why not but speculate that it must mean either that NZ does not get the science regarding vitamin D, or perhaps the Govt is worried about being saddled with the cost of providing Vitamin D to nearly a million people aged 60 +.
Dr. Campbell, I have been listening to you since early on in the pandemic. Thank you for keeping us informed about the ongoing covid-19 developments & treatments. I have recently learned about a hospital therapy, which was developed by a team of international doctors that seems to be having a high degree of success in clinical trials called MATH+. Please explore it at… https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocol/
Since I work mostly indoors, I started taking a supplement. Since vitamin D modulates the immune response, I wondered if it would help the autoimmune problems I have. After two weeks of supplements, all the painful lesions from plaque psoriasis on my hands have cleared up and the plaque is gradually wearing away. I found this paper on the relation between psoriasis and vitamin D: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486909/. People may want to consult with their doctor about this before going on immune-suppression type treatments.
What happens to the vitamine D in fat tissue. Is it stored or used? If It is stored and you start loosing weight, willl it be released?
Dr. John Campbell you videos are alway very educational, thank you so much!!! What’s your take on tea tree oil to help avoid catching the virus when I am required to go into a public place.
i am afraid to take vit d, i have scleroderma and have to avoid the sun but also my immune system is in overdrive so not sure what to do,
Great informative video, been on vitamin D for 5 years since random blood work showed a severe deficiency…but here’s the kicker, I work outside operating construction machinery and supervising projects in Australia….it’s the mandatory long sleeve shirts, long pants and sunscreen stopping the natural process. Thanks for your efforts to educate us.
Rendesivir Caused more deaths than the ventilators because it killed everyone who had high or low blood pressure or a heart condition or varying other cardio pulmonary considerations… Gilead, doing its part to thin the herd while on the dole -overheard
������
“Virologists once again as fear-mongers”
https://off-guardian.org/2020/05/13/covid19-a-case-for-medical-detectives/?fbclid=IwAR0fsfYqlNhPuwHXNNfyLqHWGX_DUFuiID-yRmgPDD98eoo3d8X3iuwKb8
‘Besides the WHO, the fear-mongers are again some virologists I already know from the past. Most of them – and this is unfortunately already “new normality” everywhere at medical institutes today – have established close cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry or other investors.
Nowadays it is easier to become a professor if you have shown skills in obtaining third-party funds. Science has become accustomed to “cheating”, and the universities make this easier through non-transparent spin-offs, public-private partnerships or cooperation with alleged charitable foundations.
The virology department of the Berlin Charité is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation regarding Covid-19. A co-author of the PCR test by Drosten et al. is the CEO of the biotech company TIB Molbiol, which is now increasingly producing tests and selling them for millions. However, these are detective secondary findings that do not explain by far what is turning this world upside down.
The majority of experts can no longer deny that the danger of infections in Germany and its neighbouring countries has already passed, without embarrassing themselves for the rest of their careers.
And yet there are people in governments, public offices and the scientific community who want to lock us up with fear and keep on patronizing us.
My annoyance about this medically incomprehensible panic mongering and about many epidemic-hygienically nonsensical authorizations and freedom-withdrawing disciplinary measures is also accompanied by the curiosity of a “medical detective” who is concerned about possible hidden motives.
Nevertheless, I do not want to deal with the political or economic background at this point. The time for this will probably come eventually. Moreover it is not my area of expertise.”
Lots of trickery stacking of lies..
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767752
Good DayALL. Dear Good Dr.. fRom tHe Beginning of tHis event, of epic proportion, YoU have Been My main go to Person. I tHoUght to HaVe found a Diamond in tHe Rough, and, I was nOt aLoNe. HoweVer, Sir, I Am Certain, a Man of yoUr stature May possibly acKnowledge that as Humans, We aLL are susceptible to mistakes, ( which are ViTaL to our existence), and acknowledge as WeLL that We are NEVER to oLd to Learn….
There is a DEEP thought that professes “it is not what goes into oUr Mouth, buT What coMes out of it!!!
For YoU to Claim, YoU KnoW, or were There, with the FabLed First Duo, is the signal For Me, to make you Aware of of YoUr Backside, (aKa; (gasHoLe)….. We ALL HAVE onE…. And Just LiKe YoUr BackSide, shoUlds Be KepT PERSONaL…… YoU aRe not GoD, as I Am Not. A Word for tHe Wise, From My Dear BeLoVed GrandMa: KEEP YOUR RELIGION AND POLITICS, and ButT, PRIVATE…..in Your opinion of EVERYONE BEING BLACK, and fiTamine D, or lake Of Fitamin D, changing tHe pigment of many; I Am Curious to Know “witch’ fitamin, or lack of, gives other different Features; Ae; siZe, shape, Facial features, slanted eYeS, different pitches, Voices, Languages and so On. Perhaps the ToWer of Babel?
That is what my DNA says the same thing, and most of my ancestors came from Engl and, Scotland, Ireland and Germany, etc
Good video. For more information and exactly how vitamin D modifies immune system and protects against COVID-19 symptoms I suggest the following video https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
Check you’re yourself if you live in the UK. We did it for our family and all of us were over some a lot more than another. https://www.vitamindtest.org.uk. I have been taking a 500OIU capsule for over 5 years daily and my results were well over the amount they say is adequate.
Hi Dr! Just found you, and I’m so fascinated by your info. I subscribed n will be following you. Hour teaching skills are awesome. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Are you married haha Love and Light! U r the best!
Sadly our “American” CDC and AMA are both and each and both criminally complicit in not making this useful information know to all citizens who are at risk for Corona SARS19. In fact they each and both criminally lied to all American citizens when they published false data stating tha WEARING MASKS WOULD NOT SLOW THE SPREAD OF Corona SARS 19! VERY SAD!
Check it out but ppl with darker skins are vit d deficient. The sun cant penetrate the skin.
Vitamin D help me get better when I got sick in March, it works.
Black males are dying disproportionately from Covid. It also so happens that black people are vitamin D deficient in very large numbers, possibly as high as 90%.
Wouldn’t it be a scream if getting enough sunlight was a means of becoming immune to catching coronavirus. This would say that sunlight, which is free and universally available, and cannot be patented is the best vaccine against COVID-19? Not only that but it’s virtually impossible to hide a secret ingredient into sunlight which causes sterility
DR ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������NEXT
The vitamin D3 info is great and helpful to everyone but I suggest he stay out of the politics! Here in the states our cities have rioting and killing. BLM is not what they say they are and they are not peaceful just because you see a few ribbons on trees!!!
I also read 82% of black adults in the U.S.A. Are deficient in vitamin D. This could be a big reason why the black population is higher in getting covid and Hispanics are 70% deficient in vitamin D.
You are a life saver, I’m sure. I’m so so grateful I came across your videos, especially on Vit D. I never ever realised how important Vit D is, in spite of the fact I’m a supplement believer. With thanks and respect.
SUNSCREEN WOES!
Dr Campbell thank you so much for sharing with us all during this pandemic.
SUNSCREEN!!!
I have read reports that it can block up to 99% of Our bodies ability to absorb and utilize Vit. D3
I have for a little long time avoided application of any type of chemical to my skin. And have noticed the way it is lavishly applied on those at the beach, poolside or during outside activities.
I tend to expose skin before 10am and after 3 or 4 pm and then cover up at the sun intense times.
I would love to hear any comments you may have on this subject.
The main stream media are so c-rrupted that they would rather have hundreds of thousands of people die than allow the use of low cost m-dications to suppress the progress of this p-ndemic in its early stages.
Great report. For more information on exactly how vitamin D modifies the immune system in COVID-19 I suggest the following video. https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
I live in FL my routine is vitamin D 3,000iu, vitamin C 2,000iu and I go outside in my shorts, no shoes, no shirt, no sunscreen and sit on direct sun on my patio at 10am for 10 minutes a day. ������
Dr. John Campbell,
Have you looked at the latest statement by UK’s NICE on their review of Vitamin D with regard to Covid-19? They are basically saying after reviewing all the scientific literature on Vitamin D, the correlation between Vitamin D deficiency and high mortality rates is not significant. They are saying most of the studies are flawed because they did not take into account co-morbidity.
Can you please do another video and respond to this.
Thanks, Peter
There are maximum safe doses per day it varies but around 2000 to 10000 iu. So why would giving you a massive dose be safe? Have they done studies on this? https://ods.od.nih.gov › factsheets
Web results
Vitamin D Health Professional Fact Sheet Office of Dietary Supplements NIH and Harvard medical. Institute of medicine etc. Excessive amounts can have negative side effects as well. As the good dr says. Get your blood tested
in other words, trump wasn’t wrong about sunlight. also he wasn’t wrong about moving jobs back to america. to be fair, he says a lot of stupid stuff but people should not write him off. news channels need to stop politicize everything.
Hi John,
Someone in the UK is listening about Vit D and Covid.
See Seminar:
https://vitdandcovid.com/
Thank you Dr Campbell for covering this important topic. I feel folks should understand we have an innate immune system, as well as the adaptive side, that seems famous for making antibodies. We have chemicals that will act against foreign things, without having seen them before. I think we should emphasise we have both, and they are different.
Crucially, Vit D UP-regulates this innate system; (no-one has heard of it before?) and it DOWN-regulates the adaptive system, which as you say produces the inflammatory cytokines, as well as antibodies. So if someone spends a month in the sun in summer, in Greece for example; they will have UP-regulated the innate and DOWN-regulated the adaptive; ie the inflammatory side is much calmed, and the making of antibodies is also reduced. Sounds strange doesn’t it? Strange but true.
The innate repels boarders before they penetrate into the body: so after a month in the sun, this system is optimally set up. In the mucosa of the airways, these chemicals (called AMPs or anti-microbial peptides) prevent viruses and bacteria getting into the body; Vit D tightens the boundaries between cells, making it harder for invaders to penetrate; a healthy person has little need of laboriously making slowly antibodies: a healthy innate immune system repels boarders before they can penetrate into the body: I feel that is important to know.
I am morbidly obese and started taking 25ug/1,000 IU daily in March after watching an earlier video. In May I had a blood test (private) which came back as 62.2 nmol/l, which the testing company said was in the normal range. Now I see the recommendation for optimal health is at least 75 nmol/l and preferably 100-150. So I am increasing my daily intake 4x and will recheck blood level in a couple of months.
Interestingly, I developed mild psoriasis about 18 months ago it has improved since I started taking the vit D. I also get outside most days with bare face and arms.
I have psoriasis and am taking 10,000 IUs vitamin D per day. When should i stop?
@ 24:45 gotta question your maths regarding percentages there. The difference between percentages is a b not a/b.
I started taking 4000iu 4 months ago and my Vitamin D level is now 97nmol/L. If your interested in paying for a test and live in the UK I would recommend Monitor my health They are a NHS lab in Devon, it costs £29, When you send your sample back you get your results the next day. Hope this helps, stay safe guys.
Thank you, Dr. Campbell, for your effort of making available to us of such an important and useful information.
In the media I found information about the importance of taking vit K2 along with vit D, to better direct the calcium in bones and to avoid deposits of calcium in arteries. Please give your opinion on this vit K2. Thank you
Yes sadly people are dying from lack of Vitamin D (see Shropshire Star link below)
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/health/2018/06/27/vitamins-could-have-prevented-babys-death/
Also you missed Thyroid off the autoimmune list (also hibernation connection). I’ve been ordering private Vit D blood tests since c.10 years as GP wouldn’t test (NHS lab in Birmingham set up as many people there are deficient).
Don’t forget co-factors of K2 & Mg For how much D3 to take see grassroots.org’s table.
Refreshing for someone to say at last, how we went paler going north thanks for highlighting this age-old problem Dr Campbell.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/29/no-evidence-that-taking-vitamin-d-prevents-coronavirus-say-experts
I read somewhere that the Universidad of Granada is doing a study on Vitamin D on COVID-19 patients. Study ends June 30th. It will be interesting to see.
Close the parks close the beaches and stay inside! Funny right?
Any percentages on symptoms due to vitamin d deficiency and does if effect the blood system equally as the lymphatic system?
Thank you so much, doctor!! For your relentless attempt to keep us update and stay healthy.. ��
Dr C, we live just down the road from you in Fleetwood and are avid watchers of your videos. I also watch the Covid series from MedCram and theyve come out with an interesting video on testing and how to do it effectively, cheaply and quicker than now. Worth a look I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dA9VhL60A&t=647s
Be careful though. It’s certainly not bad for you but for me taking vitamin D had a negative effect. I started taking it when Covid kicked off to try and boost my immune system. I also cut out red meat (general health guidance) and was sunbathing lots in the garden. It resulted in me having an iron deficiency. My skin was in terrible condition, dry itchy with red rashes. Cold sweats. Very very uncomfortable and depressing. I have now cut out vitamin D supplements and have moved onto Iron supplements and I’ve never felt better.
I have been getting nauseous everyday since I started taking 10,000 units of vitamin D. ��
Thanks for common sense advice John. I’ll certainly be adding vitamin D tablets to my daily intake.
Well in many medical researches there is a proven correlation between lung function and vitamin d. People who are deficient have a higher chance of developing lung problems. I’m deficient and still sick in presumably COVID19. It has been 3 months.
I take 5000iu every day and have done for a couple of years. My capsule includes K2 also. I am 75 years old, my D level is high-normal and my osteoporosis is slowly reversing. D3 and K2 tell your body to deposit calcium in the bones; otherwise your body deposits it in the blood vessels and the soft tissues
Thank you Dr. Campbell. I found this service very efficient to get a vitamin D test in the UK.
https://www.vitamindtest.org.uk/
I’ve bee taking Vit D3 for the last 5 years and I don’t get the cold virus like I used to and if I do it’s mild. I used to get horrible cold viruses and the cough and exhaustion would linger for a couple of months. I’m a senior and Vit D3 has made a huge difference for me and improved my environmental allergies too.
I wrote this 30.11.17: Because vitamin D3 plays a critical role in activating the body’s immune system e.g. against autoimmune and infectious diseases, it is important to have vitamin D3 supplemented optimally from birth onwards. By August 2009 thirty-six U.S. children had died of Swine flu before the actual flu season began. Analysis of the Center for Disease Control [CDC] data indicates vitamin D3 deficiency puts children at a higher risk of dying [ http:www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ mm5834a1.htm]. Some already believe that vitamin D3 is an important protective factor in H1N1 then bronchial epithelial cells are induced by 1,25-(OH)2D3 to the production of antimicrobial and -viral polypeptides [35]. Further studies on this subject are urgent as 58 million American children are vitamin D3 deficient and 7.6 million severely deficient. Due to the fact that daily vitamin D3 or medicinal tablets or drops for infants are difficult to market, at least in some countries, new devices and methods for easy and reliable dosing are needed [36]. Children in Nordic Countries are most likely vitamin D3 deficient as well, at least in Finland where only 50% of children under 3-years of age have received the recommended
vitamin D3 supplementation [37]. I can send you that full draft of vitamin D.
Dr. Graves spot on about Hydroxychloroquine! Must watch before deleted. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=279678843135112
I started taking a multiple vitamin with 50 micrograms of vitamin D because dr. John thought it was a good idea that was back in February thanks Doctor John
Thank you for your valuable research on Vitamin D! I’m now in my forties but have had a Vit d deficiency for the most part of my life, it’s generally under 30. I get it checked every year and it varies depending on my consistency in taking supplements (I can get quite lazy taking tablets every day). Thankfully I’ve now found a capsule that contains 10,000IU and I’ve started taking this once or twice a week. Hoping this will give me a little more energy and lift my Vit D accordingly.
For the first time in months I went out. I was shocked to see how many people went into shops with a mask on to then remove it. Not every one has breathing problems. I have COPD and I still managed to wear a mask.
Gee wiz…No Sh!t. Unfortunately, Our fear-mongering, cowardly Dictator Newsom and his butt boy Garcetti want everyone to stay inside and out of the fresh air and sunshine. From now on, anyone who gets the CV because of weaken immune systems due to “Lockdown” orders should bring criminal charges against Herr Newsom and his two-bit thug Garcetti for ATTEMPTED MURDER.
i read nordic countries eat a lot of fatty fish which is high in vitd
I had Covid 19 with ZERO symptoms! The only reason I knew I’d even had it was I took part in asymptotic testing. I have multiple autoimmune conditions and did NOT get sick with Covid 19 AT ALL ����. The ONE thing I do perhaps differently to most is I take vitamin D 3-4000 units EVERYDAY and have done for YEARS. Pleeeease people take high dose vitamin D. I never get the flu and I never have flu jabs either. I’m convinced vitamin D ensured I breezed through Covid 19 with absolutely no symptoms. Stay safe all ❤️
https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20200602/researchers-caution-against-misinformation-on-vitamin-d-during-covid19-pandemic
Another reason showing why it is stupid to lock people in their homes, shielded from the sun, causing vitamin D shortage. Together with the stress it causes, the immune system is heavily deteriorated.
Having an affected immune system and being inside with one Covid-19 infected person, especially when there is dry cold air, due to air conditioning systems without enough fresh air inlet, the infection chance will increase, also when you keep the 6 ft distance.
In the Netherlands one can get 150000 euro fine if you say that D3 or C helps against corona.
Issued by NVWA (Dutch food and merchant authority)
Netherlands becoming crazy? I started a procedure against them.
Exactly this is why this lockdown is bad for us.we need the sun.and sun creams are bad for you.it blocks the sun on your skin so no vitiman D.and sun cream causes skin cancer.not THE SUN.!!sun cream is full of bad chemicals and your rubbing on your skin and your kids skin.be wise if you start to burn get out of the sun for a while.
Looks like the mainstream media just woke up to VitaminD! BBC news item this morning highlighting it! FINALLY!
Thanks sir, what about skin allergy due to Vit D supplement?
Vitamin D has been shown to have an anticoagulant effect. A decrease in 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration has also been associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism. Hence, we sought to determine the relationship between 25(OH) D levels and idiopathic lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis THROMBOSIS is in all covid patients.
Good video. To better understand the connection between vitamin D in the immune system and COVID-19 I suggest the following video.
https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
Great video. For more information on exactly how vitamin D modifies the immune system and protects against COVID-19 symptoms and even death I suggest on video. https://youtu.be/cDnokrtWJNo
Explains why there are fewer COVID-19 fatalities in the Tropics.
Take Vitamin D3 and Zinc supplements for supporting our immune system…
Eat Sesame seeds daily..
Drink beetle leaf boiled water….
What do you think is a normal or high level of vit.D in our blood. In the Netherlands is discussion about when you consider your level to low.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Sv_pS8MgQ Apologies wrong link below.
THANK you and PLEASE spread the word about vitamin D deficiency, especially in the elderly and coloured population!!
Could do with another update on vit D, the guardian has published a piece saying its not important for covid, I’ve only seen it in the guardian.
I have been supplementing Vitamin D for over a year due to low levels in a blood test, we used 20,000 IU for 10 days ( prescribed ) and then 500iu after, one thing to note which may be worth going over is for people to be careful of an overdose, this is hard but you can readily buy 5000iu tablets off the shelf, taking these daily with sunshine can cause some issues in the role of calcium uptake and calcium in the blood, I’m not a doctor but I have researched this so much once I saw I was deficient people need to understand that more does not always mean better, a great app to use on my phone is dminder I use this in the UK I mix my supplementation along with the app, love your work and the common sense approach!!!
As a fair skinned person I do not advocate spending long in the sun which very often results in melanoma. I speak from experience. Another important fact told to me by my highly qualified hormone specialist is that people over 50 no longer absorb vitamin D through the skin (or at much slower rate as stated in this vid) My levels were found to be at rock bottom being 55, plus not having been in out in the sun for years after melanoma.