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First it was vitamin C that cured everything, now it's vitamin D. I'm predicting the next "miracle vitamin" will be vitamin E.

mojuba 6y ago
Or an artificial vitamin C++
- trhway 6y ago
  the future here is iron oxide. Wrt. the original post there is also another correlation - vitamin D insufficiency is more prevalent in African American and Latin populations and those populations are more seriously affected by Covid. Also i think genetic predisposition to vitamin D that the original post uses doesn't matter much (until it hits pathological edges of course) because daily exposure to Sun would be more important factor than genetic predisposition.
  - Sunspark 6y ago
    Yes and no. If you live in a northern hemisphere country, it is possible to spend hours in the sunlight with pale skin during the colder months and not receive enough vitamin D if you don't have supplemental sources.
    - metalliqaz 6y ago
      I seem to remember this "sun" thing you are talking about. Don't think I've seen it since sometime in October.
hammock 6y ago
That already happened in the 90s
GuB-42 6y ago
Vitamin C certainly helps with scurvy. I think the big question is about the effect of vitamin D deficiency on COVID-19. It has been shown that vitamin D deficiency has a number of detrimental health effects, some of them related to the immune system. It is not that much of a stretch to think that if makes things worse for COVID-19 patients. As always with vitamins and other micro-nutrients, not being deficient is important, but if you are not deficient, you don't really need more. In the case of vitamin D, with winter and an indoors lifestyle, it is thought that many people are deficient. Being dark skinned and living in higher latitudes certainly doesn't help either.
gt565k 6y ago
If you have a healthy diet, get enough sun exposure, and are physically active, you don't necessary need supplements like vitamin d or c. The fact is, most people's diets are shit, especially in America where people avoid vegetables and fruits like the plague.
- metalliqaz 6y ago
  Vitamin D is mostly not found in fruits and vegetables.
  - hombre_fatal 6y ago
    Their first sentence has the full prescription which includes sunlight. Sunlight gives you more than enough. It's a lot easier to get sunlight when you're not cooped up in a cubicle all day.
    - dahfizz 6y ago
      > It's a lot easier to get sunlight when you're not cooped up in a cubicle all day. Or, forced to work from home and discouraged from going outside.
- nytgop77 6y ago
  How much sun exposure is enough? Lot of sources say 10-40 minutes. But nothing is said about how much skin should be exposed for that duration. (recommendations that are so vague are dismissed as useless) .. and since i'm venting, diet experts use formula "1 cal = 1 kilo cal". why oh why?
  - nradov 6y ago
    The amount of sun exposure necessary depends on latitude, time of day, weather, skin color, diet, etc. There's no simple answer. Probably the best approach for most people is to get a periodic blood test and then adjust sun exposure and supplementation up or down as needed.
  - 6y ago
perardi 6y ago
Nah, we already had a brief Vitamin E fad, and that went nowhere. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578028/ https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.99.4.591?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed& https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.99.4.591?url_...
ggm 6y ago
Linear progression. Most biological sequences are Fibonacci so it should be vitamin K
AntiImperialist 6y ago
This is lowest of the low level retarded shit all over again. Taking any chemical in isolation is overall bad for humans. Nutrient-nutrient interaction is hugely underestimated. Taking a lot of one random nutrient can put everything else off-balance. Humans have lived in the Northest parts for tens of thousands of years and never needed "supplements".

mojuba 6y ago

Or an artificial vitamin C++

trhway 6y ago
the future here is iron oxide. Wrt. the original post there is also another correlation - vitamin D insufficiency is more prevalent in African American and Latin populations and those populations are more seriously affected by Covid. Also i think genetic predisposition to vitamin D that the original post uses doesn't matter much (until it hits pathological edges of course) because daily exposure to Sun would be more important factor than genetic predisposition.
- Sunspark 6y ago
  Yes and no. If you live in a northern hemisphere country, it is possible to spend hours in the sunlight with pale skin during the colder months and not receive enough vitamin D if you don't have supplemental sources.
  - metalliqaz 6y ago
    I seem to remember this "sun" thing you are talking about. Don't think I've seen it since sometime in October.

hammock 6y ago

That already happened in the 90s

GuB-42 6y ago

Vitamin C certainly helps with scurvy. I think the big question is about the effect of vitamin D deficiency on COVID-19. It has been shown that vitamin D deficiency has a number of detrimental health effects, some of them related to the immune system. It is not that much of a stretch to think that if makes things worse for COVID-19 patients. As always with vitamins and other micro-nutrients, not being deficient is important, but if you are not deficient, you don't really need more. In the case of vitamin D, with winter and an indoors lifestyle, it is thought that many people are deficient. Being dark skinned and living in higher latitudes certainly doesn't help either.

gt565k 6y ago

If you have a healthy diet, get enough sun exposure, and are physically active, you don't necessary need supplements like vitamin d or c. The fact is, most people's diets are shit, especially in America where people avoid vegetables and fruits like the plague.

metalliqaz 6y ago
Vitamin D is mostly not found in fruits and vegetables.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  Their first sentence has the full prescription which includes sunlight. Sunlight gives you more than enough. It's a lot easier to get sunlight when you're not cooped up in a cubicle all day.
  - dahfizz 6y ago
    > It's a lot easier to get sunlight when you're not cooped up in a cubicle all day. Or, forced to work from home and discouraged from going outside.
nytgop77 6y ago
How much sun exposure is enough? Lot of sources say 10-40 minutes. But nothing is said about how much skin should be exposed for that duration. (recommendations that are so vague are dismissed as useless) .. and since i'm venting, diet experts use formula "1 cal = 1 kilo cal". why oh why?
- nradov 6y ago
  The amount of sun exposure necessary depends on latitude, time of day, weather, skin color, diet, etc. There's no simple answer. Probably the best approach for most people is to get a periodic blood test and then adjust sun exposure and supplementation up or down as needed.
- 6y ago

perardi 6y ago

Nah, we already had a brief Vitamin E fad, and that went nowhere. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578028/ https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.99.4.591?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed& https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.99.4.591?url_...

ggm 6y ago

Linear progression. Most biological sequences are Fibonacci so it should be vitamin K

AntiImperialist 6y ago

This is lowest of the low level retarded shit all over again. Taking any chemical in isolation is overall bad for humans. Nutrient-nutrient interaction is hugely underestimated. Taking a lot of one random nutrient can put everything else off-balance. Humans have lived in the Northest parts for tens of thousands of years and never needed "supplements".