The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19

[womanofthehills]

28. I totally disagree -

A vitamin that is known to help the immune system sounds good to me. I don't need to take extra vitamin D because I live in NM where the sun shines all the time and I am outdoors half the time. My vit D levels always test high. Also, free range chickens allowed to run outdoors will have high levels of vit D in their yokes. A good way to get extra vit D.

Key recommendations:

— There seems nothing to lose and potentially much to gain by recommending vitamin D supplementation for all, e.g. at 800–1000 IU/day, making it clear that this is to help ensure immune health and not solely for bone and muscle health.
— This should be mandated for prescription in care homes, prisons and other institutions where people are likely to have been indoors for much of the time during the summer.
— People likely to be currently deficient should consider taking a higher dose, e.g. 4000 IU/day for the first four weeks before reducing to 800 IU–1000 IU/day
— People admitted to hospital with COVID-19 should have their vitamin D status checked and/or supplemented and consideration should be given to testing high-dose calcifediol in the RECOVERY trial.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813231/