Re: How痴 Eddie?
A friend of mine had pnemonia with his Covid and was in the hospital with a ventilator for awhile. He is also well over 400 pounds and eats fast food several times a day. His doctor gave him a B12 shot and he said that worked great at giving him more energy. I asked my doctor about that when I saw here and she laughed. She said that it was a placebo and it would do nothing to give me more energy. Only resting and waiting it out will accomplish that.
I would not so easily dismiss the reaction to the B12 shot. I will bet back to that in a second...
A few years ago, maybe 4-5 at this point, I finally went to the doctor to have a checkup. Never had one before. :laughing: The Doctor did blood work that included checking my vitamin D level.
I have read for years that vitamin D deficiency is rampant in the industrial world but I figured I was spending enough time outside in the sun, eating food high in vitamin D, and I was ok...
I was wrong. Very wrong.
My vitamin D level was at 17 but it should have been between 30 and 100. :shocked:
I finally got serious taking supplements and with my next checkup my vitamin D level was 44 or there about. I modified my dosage and with my third checkup the vitamin D was around 70. Figured that was good enough. I should have gone back to the doctor last March but that did not happen.
Part of my exercise routine is watching YouTube videos while I walk or run in place. For some reason, YouTube showed me a video created by a UK doctor, Dr. John Campbell, that was about The Virus and vitamin D. He has a series of videos on the pandemic, and I had never watched anything he had produced or anything close to it so I don't know why YouTube showed me the video. Anyway, the vitamin D caught my eye because of my experience with low levels of the vitamin.
Campbell has a long video or two about The Virus, vitamin D and Zinc.
The bottom line of it is that there are studies out there, and there need to be more studies on this, that show if your vitamin D level is under 30, you are many times more likely to end up in the ICU, or dead, because of The Virus. Symptoms with people who have the recommended amount of vitamin D in their systems are much less severe than people who are deficient. Some hospitals in the US and else where are giving massive does of vitamin D, or better yet, the chemical(calcifediol), that the body produces from vitamin D, as a treatment for The Virus.
Vitamin D is helps out is many different ways for general health but also for respiratory illnesses. The cytokine storms we used to hear about are reduced, if not prevented, by vitamin D. D is really, really, really important not just for fighting The Virus. Looks like Dr. Campbell has published some other videos on vitamin D, but here is one of the one's I watched:
The three main ways for one to get enough vitamin D in their system is to eat fish, sit in the sun and/or take supplements. The problem with the sun, is that at this time of year, once you get to just north of the NC and VA border, you can sit naked outside in the sun all day and still not get enough exposure to top up one's vitamin D level. That leave one to take supplements and/or eat the right kind of fish.
The UK, among other industrial countries, has a population low in vitamin D. I saw a UK program about this years ago and they had three groups deficient in vitamin D, eat fish, sit in the sun, or take supplements to get their vitamin D levels to normal. It really makes one wonder if vitamin D levels, as well as some minerals and other vitamin deficiencies in the population are showing up in the COVID hospitalization and death rates. For instance, at the start of the pandemic, the experts were saying Africa was going to get wiped out. That has not happened. Why? South Africa has been hit very, very hard but not the rest of Africa. Could it be sun exposure has increased vitamin D levels in the population?
Once I watched the linked video, I got other videos. :laughing: One of the videos, at least I think it was a video and not something I read, stated that one of the reason obese people are hit hard by The Virus is that it uses fat cells as part of it's attack on the system. The more fat one has the more virus that is produced.
And back to B12.
A video from another doctor showed up the other day talking about a variety of vitamins and minerals and their affect on The Virus. Some vitamins and minerals don't affect The Virus, but vitamin D is highly likely to have a positive affect while zinc and B12 might.
Later,
Dan
