Vitamin D Covid battle.
Why is it that negative research keeps being disseminated to the American public about Vitamin D?
I have written frequently about the true value of Vitamin D which is miss labeled as a Vitamin, but is actually a hormone in it’s active form in the body. It controls over 3000 gene expressions for normal biological functions. Maintaining a balance between osteoblasts and osteoclasts that maintain bone health is just a basic role. Unfortunately, Big Pharma sees profit in developing targeted chemo drugs that destroy the osteoblasts (they destroy old bone) and it is their solution to maintaining bone structure. The reality is that bones are continually being remodeled and old bone is destroyed and new bone is created. Eli Lilly directed and managed a $30 Million dollar research WHI study funded by NIH because retired President George Bush Senior was on their Board of Directors, just for that goal of having NIH spend their (your) money for the study. The goal was to discredit estrogen and allow their chemo drug for bone health become the prescribed method of helping women maintain bone strength. They were successful in discrediting estrogen and cut the study short. Alex Azar, life long Eli Lilly lawyer who now runs NIH could probably provide details of the study, but I’m sure he will not.
That event was back in the 1990’s and today we have the Covid crisis where recent studies have indicated that risk of dying from Covid is minimal if your blood value of vitamin D is over 35 ng’s. Mine is 70 ng’s and I’m in the high risk category and did have Covid and would not get the mRNA injections because I understood the the risks from the injection. Vitamin D is a key component of a healthy immune sytem, but does not act alone, but is a hormone that activates genes that do the work.
The medical profession in general has not embraced the fact that Vitamin D is deficient in the American population. It is estimated that 80% are deficient and some are grossly deficient and are in the high risk category of dying if they acquire Covid.
The following paragraphs are from Dr. William Grant’s research paper that clearly calls out the need for medicine to start testing everyone for Vitamin D deficiency. Especially those at great risk of dying due to comorbidities.
Some of the evidence has become stronger now than before February 11, 2022. In my opinion, scientists and physicians have a duty to inform the public regarding their best understanding of the available information on how to deal with a public health crisis. Unfortunately, public dissemination of the health benefits of vitamin D has been effectively blocked through the pharmaceutical industry’s use of the Disinformation Playbook for vitamin D (37). U.S. government health agencies, research universities, and the mass media have been cowed into downplaying or dismissing vitamin D and its array of measurable benefits.
In addition, the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency acceptance of mRNA vaccines to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 led to the mass media’s not discussing vitamin D and other reported highly successful early treatments for COVID-19. FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization stipulated that “there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives” (38). As a result, the world has seen a mass media blockade and partial social media blockade on vitamin D and other supplements and repurposed drugs for preventing and treating COVID-19. The costs of withholding such treatments, which have little downside risks, remain unknown. Unfortunately, the article by Quinn and colleagues further confounds the issue.
Please re-read Dr. Grant’s comments: The following statement is damning and is the basis of why we have gone down this narrow path in treating Covid!
Emergency Use Authorization stipulated that “there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives”
If you are interested in reading his research paper in it’s entirety, email him for a copy.
See his extensive biography below and his detailed research with over 300 papers on Vitamin D.
My thoughts for the day!
Thomas A Braun RPh
The path to GOOD Health is Good Nutrition including ample Vitamin D over 50 ng's and void of toxins from the food supply, drugs/injections and the environment, coupled with exercise and mind body harmony. I call it N2E+ for Life.
William B. Grant has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1971). He had a 30-year career in laser remote sensing of atmospheric constituents including at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He has published landmark ecological studies related to solar UVB on cancers, influenza, autism, and to dietary links to Alzheimer's disease, as well as the first article suggesting the likely role of vitamin D in reducing risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19. His main interest now is the study of vitamin D in reducing risk of chronic and infectious diseases.
William B. Grant, Ph.D.
Director, Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center P.O. Box 641603
San Francisco, CA 94164-1603, USA
wbgrant@infionline.net, williamgrant08@comcast.net www.sunarc.org
@wbgrant2
Author of 304 publications on vitamin D listed at pubmed.gov 21 publications regarding COVID-19 Twenty nine of his open-access publications are available at Nutrients https://www.mdpi.com/search?authors=william+b+grant
Regarding D3, you are correct and there are old and very new studies that bare out the fact that as the blood level of D3 rises above 35 ng.mL the resistance to coronavirus and other respiratory viruses and bacteria increases. One study showed that if folks could maintain a level of 50 ng/mL the infection rate could be driven to zero.
I too have high D3 blood levels. When I was in the hospital in September 2020 for a dislocated or broken right hip, my blood D3 concentration was 98 ng/mL. Two days after surgery I developed some chest congestion and a fever. This was attributed to anesthesia. In three days it was gone. Three months later I was tested for covid antibodies and based upon the test results my PCP advised me not to get any vaccine or jab. The testing indicated that I would be immune to coronavirus.
My blood D3 level was checked a month ago, July 2022, and it was at 82 ng/mL. I have never had a respiratory infection of any kind and no colds. I do have some allergies but the effects are limited to my nose.
Thomas, I imagine that you grew up without childhood vaccines as I did. I have only had three vaccines in my life; polio, small pox, and hepatitis. When I had the small pox vaccine i didn't get a scab, either time. When I had no scab the first time I was given the scratch a second time but it too never formed a scab. When I went back to the family doctor he spoke to my mother about it but no one ever talked to me about the lack of a scab. I know now that not having a scab meant that I already had immunity to small pox. My childhood exposures were from my older brother but I didn't manifest any of the diseases.