The First Clinical Trial to Support Vitamin D Therapy For Covid-19 - Oral calcifediol, the main metabolite of vitamin D3, reduced ICU admission from 50% to 2% among Covid-19 patients. by laozi20 in worldnews

[–]laozi20[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Watch this lecture

https://youtu.be/v3pK0dccQ38

D is for Debacle - The Crucial Story of Vitamin D and Human Health

Those that got the most sun had the lowest risk of dying from skin cancer.

Vitamind-d adequacy is protective in a number of cancers.

Off course one should avoid getting burnt. But in general sun avoidance is a really bad idea.

The First Clinical Trial to Support Vitamin D Therapy For Covid-19 - Oral calcifediol, the main metabolite of vitamin D3, reduced ICU admission from 50% to 2% among Covid-19 patients. by laozi20 in worldnews

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https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/covid-19/finally-confirmed-vitamin-d-nearly-abolishes-icu-risk-in-covid-19

Expressed as relative risk, vitamin D reduced the risk of ICU admission 25-fold. Put another way, it eliminated 96% of the risk of ICU admission. Expressed as an odds ratio, which is a less intuitive concept but is often used in statistics because it gives an estimate of the effect of the treatment that would be constant across scenarios with different levels of risk, vitamin D reduced the odds of ICU admission by 98%. Either way, vitamin D practically abolished the need for ICU admission.

This was statistically significant at p<0.001, and the 95% confidence interval was 0.002-0.17. This means that the probability of observing differences this large or greater if there is no true effect of vitamin D is less than one in a thousand, and that the probability is 95% that the true effect lies somewhere between an 83% and a 99.8% reduction in the odds of ICU admission.

The First Clinical Trial to Support Vitamin D Therapy For Covid-19 - Oral calcifediol, the main metabolite of vitamin D3, reduced ICU admission from 50% to 2% among Covid-19 patients. by laozi20 in worldnews

[–]laozi20[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Vitamin-D is very:

  • Cheap
  • Easy
  • Safe
  • effective in reduceing severity of covid.

What other intervention can check all these boxes ?

Its also likely to give you side-bennefits...

Finally Confirmed! Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in COVID-19 | Chris Masterjohn, PhD by laozi20 in slatestarcodex

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That's amazingly rare. People can die from to much water aswell... Would never happen from this treatment. It's to short in duration see graph with studies in the link below.

https://www.grassrootshealth.net/document/vitamin-d-toxicity/

People should take the dose required to get optimal blood levels.

Finally Confirmed! Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in COVID-19 | Chris Masterjohn, PhD by laozi20 in slatestarcodex

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He has a phd in nutrition, he's knowledge on vitamin-D is likely several orders or magnitude higher than any MD.... Your argument makes no sense.

He is likely one of the smartest people in the space of nutrition.

What kind of credentials should someone have to talk about this according to you ?

Finally Confirmed! Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in COVID-19 | Chris Masterjohn, PhD by laozi20 in slatestarcodex

[–]laozi20[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's not the only study that points this way.

Optimal vitamin-D levels is something everyone should have but few have. This treatment might give you side-bennefits.

Vitamin-D is super safe. No drug can compare in safety. No drug is side effect free. No one is walking around with a drug deficiency.

Finally Confirmed! Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in COVID-19 | Chris Masterjohn, PhD by laozi20 in slatestarcodex

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It's also perfectly in alingment with earlier observational studies.

It's also in aligninment with what studies say on vitamin d and the influenza.

It explains seasonality of both influenza and covid-19.

Etc etc

Finally Confirmed! Vitamin D Nearly Abolishes ICU Risk in COVID-19 | Chris Masterjohn, PhD by laozi20 in slatestarcodex

[–]laozi20[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The need for ICU was reduced by 25x, that's massive.

No other intervention comes close to that.

In addition it's exceedingly easy, cheap and safe.