FEATURED ISSUE
Vitamin D gaining respect against COVID-19
There has been a remarkable upsurge in early October 2020 in including vitamin D with other treatments for preventing and treating COVID-19. What started with official pronouncements that there was no data to recommend the use of vitamin D progressed to a recent touting of vitamin D as being a silver bullet solution. If you have been on the fence about your own nutritional supplementation to enhance your immune system, there are now numerous studies that you can review and discuss with your family physician. You may want to keep closer track of your own vitamin D level and develop a better understanding of the potential negative impact of being deficient, especially related to your susceptibility to COVID-19.

Issue: Do you understand the role of vitamin D and COVID-19?

AHHA strives to maintain a neutral position on issues and viewsknowledge as power. For those interested in this month’s issue the articles cited below were selected to offer you some resources to begin your research to better understand the media’s changing role in presenting vitamin D’s role related to COVID-19.

Can vitamin D protect against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? (10/2/20)
by William F. Marshall, III MD
Mayo Clinic
[There isn’t enough data to recommend use of vitamin D to prevent infection with the virus that causes COVID-19or to treat COVID-19, according to the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization.]

Vitamin D and COVID-19 (10/3/20)
International SOS
[So far Vitamin D has not been proven to be effective in treating or preventing COVID-19.]

Scholarly Heat and Light and Vitamin D in the Pandemic (10/6/20)
ConscienHealth
[If you are deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection.]

What to Know About Vitamin D and COVID-19 (10/7/20)
Healthline
[Several studies have linked vitamin D deficiency to coronavirus infection and more severe COVID-19.]

5 ways in which Vitamin D can help prevent multiple organ damage from Covid (10/9/20)
by Subhasree Ray
The Print
[Among the hospitalized Covid-19 patients, 20 per cent develop Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and need ICU admission. Vitamin D, an immunomodulatory agent, could have protective effects against these severe outcomes in Covid-19 patients.]

Is Vitamin D a Silver Bullet? (10/9/20)
by Mikko Paunio, MD, MSH
Lockdown Sceptics
[Vitamin D now appears to provide us with a silver bullet solution to protect the most vulnerable and provides us with the means to get rid of these socially disastrous lockdowns even before there is a vaccine available.]

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