Vitamin D and resistance to Viruses

There is lots on the subject, here is one link on the topic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121423/

You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.

@eladar said
There is lots on the subject, here is one link on the topic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121423/

You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.

You just touched a live wire - a taboo subject. Any mention of inexpensive natural medicine will put a target on your back and you will be ridiculed, attacked and dismissed - something that's been going on for 50 years. The one thing the BPIC (Big Pharma Industrial Complex) hates is any competition to their trillion dollar a year profit machine.

@bunnyknight

Here is another quote I found interesting

Vitamin D -- the 'sunshine vitamin' -- is thought to protect against respiratory infections by boosting levels of antimicrobial peptides -- natural antibiotic-like substances -- in the lungs. ... They may also explain why vitamin D protects against asthma attacks, which are commonly triggered by respiratory viruses.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170216110002.htm&ved=2ahUKEwik4rzAorzoAhUO7awKHfxXAqgQFjABegQIBxAJ&usg=AOvVaw0jek2DroxgkBUtGAcoXXhL


It is quite possible that several factors shut down flu season during the summer. Heat and ultraviolet light destroy viruses, while the UV light ramps up our vitamin D levels.

@eladar said
There is lots on the subject, here is one link on the topic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121423/

You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.

Look into selenium as well. A Brazil nut a day may help keep the virus at bay.

https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/the-coronavirus-diet

@Metal-Brain

Brazil nuts are ridiculously high in selenium.

@eladar said
@Metal-Brain

Brazil nuts are ridiculously high in selenium.

They also went from $4.50 a pound to about $18.00 a pound.

@bunnyknight

Yeah that sucks, seems everyone knows about it.

Good part is just one nut and you are way good.

@eladar said
@Metal-Brain

Brazil nuts are ridiculously high in selenium.

That is why I said "a" brazil nut a day. There is no need for more than that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/30/the-evolutionary-reason-why-the-ebola-virus-is-so-deadly/#14b02246562c

Ebola virus and the other hemorrhagic viruses have an added evolutionary advantage: they sequester selenium. The Ebola genome has a repeating sequence of codons that specify selenomethionine incorporation into protein, despite that the virus does not use the resulting selenoprotein directly. It just sits there. The codon sequence is there to deplete the host of selenium reserves so that it cannot mount an effective defense. As it turns out, the oxygen family of elements (oxygen, sulfur and selenium) have antiviral effects against most if not all lipid-enveloped viruses.

@eladar said
@bunnyknight

Yeah that sucks, seems everyone knows about it.

Good part is just one nut and you are way good.

https://www.healthline.com/health/selenium-foods#guidelines

@eladar said
There is lots on the subject, here is one link on the topic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121423/

You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.

Well actually it is true for everything: if you are deficient: replenish (preferably by natural sources).

And a word of warning: Some things can be toxic when consumed in excess Selenium for example...

Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim comes into mind: Da ist nichts was kein Gift ist. Die Dosis macht das Gift. (There is othing that is not toxic, it's the dose that makes it toxic)

@Ponderable

Given the time of year, it is likely you are deficient in vitamin D.

https://www.waterstoneonaugusta.com/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-winter/

Taking your cod liver oil is a great source of natural vitamin d.

These guys say that in winter it is likely you get no vitamin d from sunlight.

http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/linuspaulinginstitute/2016/01/25/sunlight-vitamin-d-winter/

A  simple test is to look at your shadow. If its the same height or shorter than you, you’re getting enough sun to make vitamin D. 

@metal-brain said
That is why I said "a" brazil nut a day. There is no need for more than that.

Oh krap! Many years ago I used to eat about 5 brazil nuts with my lunch. Apparently I survived it okay.

@bunnyknight

18.50 divided by 5 is 3.70 per .2 pound. Just buy a fifth as much and eat just one.

@Eladar
Good idea. But at least I proved that eating 5 nuts doesn't cause a quick death.