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Hopefully part 2 will contain a section about how Vitamin D regulates cytokine production in your lungs. Without enough vitamin d, your body over reacts to a re
by Threeve303 6y ago
Hopefully part 2 will contain a section about how Vitamin D regulates cytokine production in your lungs. Without enough vitamin d, your body over reacts to a respiratory illness by over producing cytokines, and then the patient has a much higher chance of dying.
There has to be additional evidence showing a decline in vitamin D levels over the past 20 years or so as we all got addicted to our devices, became narcissistic and anti social as a result of social media addiction, and largely stayed inside more than we used to. So we cut off our main source of vitamin D over time, and here we are...
- devaboone 6y agoCytokine production wasn't something I was able to include, simply because I was trying to cover a lot of ground in 1200 words! I alluded to it in the discussion about the cascade of events that occur when Vitamin D binds to immune cells. Cytokine production is one of those events. Still, I'm not completely convinced that Vitamin D deficiency directly leads to a higher chance of dying due to cytokine production. It's another one of those areas where we have a correlation, and a plausible explanation for causation... but it's not straightforward. And yes, the lack of sunlight is one explanation for why we seem to have so much Vitamin D deficiency... then again, maybe we see so much because we are defining deficiency the wrong way. There are so many things to discuss, and hopefully I can get to all of them.
- Threeve303 6y agoI'm just a software developer and simply regurgitating stuff I've read and maybe only half way understand. I look forward to someone like you with an open mind and with the proper knowledge to tackle that specific question. Thanks!