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by kpfleger 1y ago
The proper claim is that raising people from deficient (<20ng/ml) to a sufficient level (>30ng/ml ideally) should improve outcomes. Sometimes looking at a subset of those who started deficient is good enough to find such an
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by kpfleger 2y ago
Nonesense. It's well established that dietary D3 (or D2, but D3 is better) clearly incleases 25(OH)D serum levels. It is that serum biomarker whose deficiency (levels below 20ng/ml or 30ng/ml) that has the largest association
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by kpfleger 2y ago
The academic paper this story is based on is here: https://nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00793-y Despite the linked story title only mentioning omega3, the paper was about 3 interventions, that, vitamin D, exercise an
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by kpfleger 2y ago
For more extensive discussion see my X thread here: https://x.com/KarlPfleger/status/1888649974621347950
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by kpfleger 2y ago
No, ample evidence shows that vitamin D (or vitamin D deficiency at least) is causally related to multiple diseases. The evidence is pretty overwhelming. Eg here's a just published review on D deficiency causality for Covid based on ap
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by kpfleger 4y ago
I put extended analysis of the results & caveats of what it means (correlation vs causation, etc.) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlPfleger/status/1557814485070409728
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by kpfleger 4y ago
I've collected the results from all 4 papers including the links to all 4 in a Google spreadsheet for easily lining up the results for each stage of Covid: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a5twV0x-TlHzd
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New systematic meta-analysis of Vitamin D and Covid (Jul'22), 4th since Dec'21(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by kpfleger 4y ago|3 comments
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by kpfleger 4y ago
4 big systematic meta-analyses since Dec'21. Consistent results from all 4: Low D levels or not supplementing D has 1.5x-3x worse Covid risk at all stages (infection to mortality).
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by kpfleger 4y ago
Some critical responses to this new study are starting to accumulate: Dr. Peter Attia's takedown: https://peterattiamd.com/vitamin-d-nejm-study/ Dr. Ronald Hoffman: https://drhoffman.com/article&#x
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by kpfleger 4y ago
One reason getting these from the evolved route may be better is because feedback mechanisms stop making the beneficial substance when the body has enough, which may not happen via intake by other methods. This is the case for vitamin D fro
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by kpfleger 4y ago
I thought this piece spent too much time arguing about the wrong things (such as evolutionary stuff). I added 3 comments on what I think are the most important points with links to scientific research to the comments on Apr 22. Just search
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Just how much lower it would get cannot be discerned from available data yet. It is very hard to believe from current data that it would go all the way to zero and also very hard to believe that fixing all vitamin D deficiency would not sav
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Did you read the open letter (original link of thread)? There is an entire paragraph and footnote with 2 refs talking about the problem with the current government guidelines.
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by kpfleger 6y ago
The site itself was set up (by me) just to host this open letter, just as the site masks4all.co was set up to host the similar open letter that happened for masks in the spring. The credibility isn't of the site itself but of the signa
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by kpfleger 6y ago
This has been a big problem. Some people labeled science on vitamin D & covid19 as misinformation, lumping vitamin D in with things that have little to no evidence even when the vitamin D evidence was mounting rapidly. Part of the point
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by kpfleger 6y ago
The FLCCC has been pushing Ivermectin, but I am not aware of an open letter analogous to this one or the similar one for masks that is signed by 100+ doctors & scientists. I have not personally read the Ivermectin literature, but I thin
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Don't Let Covid-19 Patients Die with Vitamin D Deficiency(medpagetoday.com)
14 points by kpfleger 6y ago|1 comments
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Subtitle: "We can't wait for perfect evidence" Op-ed by former surgeon general plus 2 other MDs.
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Over 100 Scientists and Doctors Call for Increased Vitamin D to Combat Covid-19(vitamindforall.org)
119 points by kpfleger 6y ago|112 comments
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by kpfleger 6y ago
185 experts. Over 100 medical doctors. Roughly 100 professors, including many of the most respected vitamin D experts in the world---check out the list of names and qualifications yourself. Please read the link before posting about correlat
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Terrible piece. First off, the majority of people with D levels of ~80ng/ml are fine, even quite healthy. Her problem was too much calcium, which is related but they (at least not in the article) don't address what her calcium int
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Some point the figure at big pharma. I've no evidence of any foul play, but the pharma industry would lose money if a large fraction of their revenue comes from drugs to treat conditions that are at least in part the consequence of ina
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Vit-D and COVID19 update: big review (Benskin) peer reviewed; tide turning?
15 points by kpfleger 6y ago|2 comments
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Correction (sorry, copy/paste error): The Mendelian randomization paper was by Kohlmeier. De Smet was one of the other studies.
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by kpfleger 6y ago
This piece is not as thorough as my vitamin D & COVID-19 review: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/ or its 1-page bullet-point summary: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19facts/ A
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Every time a new D & C19 item comes up, 75+% of the comments are already addressed in my review: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/ This new study is already incorporated there with a couple paragraphs of go
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Having read this whole piece, I think my review is much more comprehensive in covering all relevant evidence: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/ Note that the title changed and many improvements made since it wa
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by kpfleger 6y ago
Author of the review here. Happy to have addition suggestions for papers to include in the review. I looked at the Reddit group you linked and saw only citations of Alipio et al and Grant et al (from several posts), both of which I already
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by kpfleger 6y ago
As with many comments in this thread, carefully reading the originally linked review: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/ would help. One of the 3 recent preprints specifically noted repeated testing of C19 patie

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