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01-12-2022, 08:00 PM #38501
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01-12-2022, 08:21 PM #38502
Do a search of this thread or the other covid one - there have been some studies done showing that people with lower than normal vitamin D levels faired worse with covid infections.
So options are
- get your level checked and supplement if low
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- take 1000units a day (or a few times a week if you don’t want to take it daily). It’s cheap, the pills are small, and at that dose you’re not gonna end up anywhere close to high levels in your body that could cause any harm.
(Or do neither is an option too I guess)
Anytime I’ve mentioned vitamin D in here a lot of posters have reacted like I’m saying “it cures covid! You don’t need vaccines just take vitamins! Make Vitamin D great again!”
That’s not what I’m saying.
I also loved the “my doctor never brought up vitamin D….so therefore I must not be able to benefit from it”
For the record I think HCQ and invermectin and colloidal silver are bullshit remedies for covid. And I’m triple vaxxed.
A little nuance here could help.
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01-12-2022, 08:32 PM #38503
tgapp--the other question, besides getting a negative test, is whether you'll feel up to it, since it sounds like you're pretty sick now. But I don't think anyone can predict if you will or won't.
Re Vit D--I take 2000u/d (for my bones) and haven't gotten Covid, so it works.
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01-12-2022, 08:49 PM #38504
I agree, the association is quite apparent. Low D is associated with lots of bad things. It's a great surrogate.
Most studies (covid and everything else associated with low D), find that adding supplements don't do much at all. I'm sure some people who are really deficient could benefit, but that's not most of us.
That said, I take 5k units per day. It's cheap, low side effect profile, possibly helps. But I sure dont think it's the same as getting sun and excersize.
Also, covid free, worked in hospital for 20 years and haven't missed a (non-powder) day in the last 10... except post Moderna day #2.the drugs made me realize it's not about the drugs
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01-12-2022, 09:01 PM #38505Registered User
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i remember that the anti vaxers were seriously over doing it on the vitamin D ... apparently not a good thing
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01-12-2022, 09:06 PM #38506
Lots of people have low vitamin D stores and have no chronic illness (ie no other apparent bad things going on). But yes I can see how more studies would have to be done to tease out if these types of people faired worse than matched people without low D stores.
Or if you took the low D people and split them into a study and control group.
And yes exercise and some outdoor time is beneficial in a thousand ways - but no one is saying taking vitamin D is a substitute for exercise - nor does taking vitamin D preclude you from getting outdoors and from getting exercise.
Me I’m doing all 3.
XXX - you got a link to show antivaxxer doses of vitamin D? Standard dose is 1000. Dr. OG is taking 2000. WKd is taking 5000. What doses were you seeing? Got a link?
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01-12-2022, 09:14 PM #38507
Thanks OG, BennyMac, and others.
Feeling a little under the weather right now and I'm not able to look at a screen for too long, but I take vitamin D daily as well as turmeric, zinc, and a handful of other supplements.
Guess this is a good opportunity to practice some zen mindfulness. Unless, of course DumbOldDad can hook it up with the horse dewormer.
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01-12-2022, 09:17 PM #38508Registered User
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Yeah, vitamin D has no effects on the immune system.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166406/
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01-12-2022, 09:22 PM #38509Registered User
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01-12-2022, 09:26 PM #38510
Tgapp - Given your age and health there is a very real chance you’ll feel up to doing this trip if it’s not going to be that hardcore with long days and big climbing vertical - especially if you rest and avoid stress and keep yourself well fed and hydrated now (no guarantees of course)
The issue, as you know, is that pesky pre-trip test.
If you get a PCR test now and it shows influenza that would probably put your mind at ease that your pre-trip PCR test is likely going to be negative for covid.
If you get a PCR test now that shows covid then regardless of how you quickly you recover you’ll have to be a bit lucky to get a negative PCR in 9 days. But as reported in here that can happen.
But in that situation you’ll be left leaving it to the last day to know whether or not you can enter Canada. Which sucks.
It’s shitty timing for these symptoms to show up. Hope it works out for you.
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01-12-2022, 09:48 PM #38511
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01-12-2022, 10:13 PM #38512Registered User
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01-12-2022, 10:20 PM #38513
Amore serious post about Vit D. I was put on it after I broke ribs several times with minimal trauma. Once it was just twisting, no trauma at all. My bone density test showed thin bones, my vitamin D level was normal. The endocrinologist they sent me to put me on calcium, vitamin D (actually a little more than 2000/d because the calcium pills contain some). So it would seem that taking 1000/d is safe whether or not your vitamin d level is low or not.
Whether taking Vit D helps reduce the chance of getting covid or helps your chances if you get it I don't know enough to comment on.
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01-12-2022, 10:23 PM #38514
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01-12-2022, 10:26 PM #38515
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01-12-2022, 10:27 PM #38516
Fwiw, when I was getting sick a lot years ago, my doc mentioned vitamin D and my levels tested on the low side. I started supplementing and test every year and my levels are now on the high side of normal. So anecdotally, supplementation has worked for me (at least as far as raising my levels). I have been much healthier too, but I've made so many life changes that I won't try to attribute it to the vitamin.
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01-12-2022, 10:28 PM #38517
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01-12-2022, 10:30 PM #38518
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01-13-2022, 12:01 AM #38519
Replace red meat with fish = win.
My medico friends claim most people are low in D. I eat a ton of high D foods, and spend a lot of time in the sun, but my levels always test low. Maybe the metrics are wrong?
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01-13-2022, 12:27 AM #38520Registered User
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Vitamin D is another popular supposed COVID cure, though many of its claims to reduce heart disease or cancer have not panned out. I was willing to entertain the possibility that it might work for COVID-19. But the only published trial about Vitamin D and COVID-19 shows that it does not. Researchers in Brazil randomized hospitalized COVID patients to get either a placebo or 200,000 units of Vitamin D. This is a massive dose and 20 times higher than what most people take per week. For those patients, their blood levels of Vitamin D went up. They just didn’t get better any faster. Admission to the ICU, being put on a ventilator and mortality were the same in both groups.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/co...d-and-covid-19
Qiky search here, it wouldn't be too hard to find the recommended dosage for D luvin whacko nut jobs so here is one ^^where they were doing 200, 000 units of D which as i understand it is calcium so what happens if you overdo the calcium ?Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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01-13-2022, 12:38 AM #38521Rod9301
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01-13-2022, 12:52 AM #38522
To be clear - no one in their reasonable mind is promoting the idea that giving Vitamin D cures someone from a covid infection. Whether it is giving normal daily amounts or stupid high doses to a covid infected person.
There is some evidence (I’m not the person to comment on the strength of that evidence) that having a normal level of Vitamin D stores in your body (instead of a low level) may offer you better protection from having a worse case of covid. That is to say that taking vitamin D - in advance of infection - in order to ensure your vitamin D stores are in the normal range - may help support your body in some fashion that helps it in fighting back against the virus if you later get infected.
I hope you can see the difference cause I think this is the third time I’ve tried to explain this to you.Last edited by bennymac; 01-13-2022 at 02:16 AM.
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01-13-2022, 07:34 AM #38523Registered User
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I took zinc, and vitamin D when I had covid last year. Turned out that some of the symptoms I was experiencing were from taking too much vitamin D and zinc, and not from Covid, haha.
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01-13-2022, 10:38 AM #38524Registered User
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01-13-2022, 11:06 AM #38525
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