Re: How痴 Eddie?
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Although I do believe that vitamin D helps, I am always skeptical of many statistics such as those taken in Britain. Surely there were more people not taking vitamin D who got the virus than ones who took vitamin D, but is that because there are not that many people taking vitamin D as those not taking it. Also, Britain and Germany are not sunny countries like Spain and Italy so Britains do not get as much vitamin D from sunlight so they probably need vitamin D more than those in sunny countries.
In the link I posted, the study was from UK data, however, Dr. Campbell has other videos discussing studies from other countries. There are studies out there that indicate that low levels of vitamin D lead to far worse out comes, include death, compared to people with great than 30 ng/ml of vitamin D in their blood.
In the study in the video, there was a control group, and the study had a very high chance of being correct, well over 95%. While Spain is further south, than say the UK, it is a who cares in winter. During the winter, once one gets north of about 36/37 degrees north, which is a bit north of the NC/VA border, you can spend all day out in the sun, without a stitch of clothes, and you will not get enough vitamin D from the sun. Most of Spain and Italy is north of 36 degrees north.
Other countries, including countries that have plenty of sun, still have vitamin D deficiency issues in the population. Here is a link with maps,
Is vitamin D deficiency a major global public health
problem?
Elderly people, there is a map of this in the link, really have issues with vitamin D levels in their blood.
When I went for a check up years ago, my doctor, bless him, made sure the blood work checked my vitamin D level. I would have sworn that I had proper levels due to my diet and sun exposure. My level was 17. :shocked:
Later,
Dan
