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I've said this for weeks now, but: If you're concerned about your susceptibility to C-19, dose up on Vitamin D. Apparently the guideline daily limitations were based on faulty data*, so are actually much higher than generally stated (ie you need to seriously abuse Vitamin D for a number of months to have any deleterious effect).
I'm taking two vitamin tablets a day - one general vitamin, and another with just Vitamin D and Cod Liver Oil. I think I might look and see if I can get a pill with just Vitamin D in. I walk about an hour and a half each day and have very fair skin, so I should be getting quite a lot from sunlight too (as well as from the fuckton of mushrooms and eggs I go through each week).
If you have darker skin, this is doubly true (and perhaps, thinking about it, the reason we have so many 'BAME' C-19 mortalities here in the UK?)
Obviously you shouldn't simply trust some schmuck on the internet, so do your research.
Selenium, vitamin k and magnesium might also be good to top up, as they work in concert with Vitamin D and trace levels of Zinc you have in your diet.
Start here...
(I (or someone here) might've posted this a while back)
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc…- I put 'BAME' in single quotes because I've never written it before and don't really like the term, but it's all over the media at the moment, so what the heyNairn
- what is BAME?monospaced
- "black, asian and minority ethnic" - it's a weird onekingsteven
- A good portion of the "BAME" mortality rates imbalance are purely socio-economic where I live.monospaced
- There's a lot of press about how frontline 'BAME' NHS doctors, surgeons etc, who are presumably not socially or economically strifed are dying in higher %sNairn
- You have to have blue skin, missing a layer - like I do, to exist on this gloomy little isle of ours and maintain ok-ish vitamin d levels.
Hence kilts.Nairn - Totally. That's why I said "portion" because there are apparently other indicators leading to the differences.monospaced
- This is mostly common sense. Most people don't know how their body even works, so...
But yes, Vitamin D is important. Also drink more water.******** - Oh and btw, add crude mushrooms in every salad, very good call Nairn!********
- I have been drinking more milk, taking more vitamins and eating soup with chicken stock to help build my immune system up since January. I hope that it works?utopian
- It's your immune system that does the damage. When the virus infects you, a strong immune system will attack it, taking your organs along with it.monospaced
- Part of treatment is making sure the immune system doesn't go into overdrive, actually. But I'm not expert.monospaced
- I've been sun-tanning my anus since last summer, am I good?********
- *thumbs up nbNairn
- @utop - go for long day time walks and bare your chest to the sun, and you'll be alright!Nairn
- Must read in Vit D and sunshine: https://www.health.h…********
- "Except during the summer months, the skin makes little if any vitamin D from the sun at latitudes above 37 degrees north"********
- @nb yes mate, it's common knowledge********
- read this: https://www.medrxiv.…********
- then follow up here with lots more info: https://news.ycombin…********
- just eat a tin of Sardines every few days. The ones from Portugal are always the best, especially ones that are gutted and steamed before tinning.shapesalad
- *facepalm*zarkonite
- Sardines are loaded with arsenic, I love em, but I limit that shitmoldero
- Breathing fresh air also helps...********
- watched this guys vids before and also some (indian?) female doctor. she was saying like 2000iu when daily max is stated as 1000, recommended is 400.microkorg
- im now taking multivit and im going ot get some high strength vitD. whenever i start to feel slightly shit i'll also take echinechia.microkorg
- in other words - make sure you're healthy?inteliboy
- No, simply - most people are Vitamin D depleted. Vitamin D is good against respiratory distress.
Consume more Vitamin D.Nairn - True. Most people should be taking Vitamin D supplements anyway, it turns out.monospaced