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Study concludes “Vitamin C supplementation effectively increased work motivation and attentional focus and contributed to better performance on cognitive tasks requiring sustained attention”
Key Points
- The brain has the highest concentrations of vitamin C than any other tissue in the body, and vitamin C is involved in multiple critical brain functions
- Supplementation with vitamin C resulted in significant improvements in attention, work absorption, and shorter reaction times when solving mathematical problems, as well as a distinct improvements in fatigue and work engagement
- Supplemental vitamin C intake has also been shown to affect how a person’s vitamin D level responds to vitamin D supplementation, such that those taking 1000 mg/day of vitamin [C] or more had a higher vitamin D level for any given vitamin D intake amount than those taking less supplemental vitamin C
Ryan does mention vitamin D.
The Ada County Commission [Boise, Idaho] interview three candidates for an open seat on the Central District Health board on Aug. 9, 2021. They later selected Dr. Ryan Cole. This is the entire, uncut interview.
5:55 “Hypocrites said 3,000 years ago: ‘let thy food by they medicine, and let they medicine by they food.’ Every physician’s job should be to put him or herself out of a job by creating wellness for their patient…. That should be the real goal of medicine as a physician. Put yourself out of a job because your patients are well.”
“I think vitamin D really is the star potentially.”– stated on Joe Rogan before millions, May 2020
Dr. Campbell: “Why is it [Vitamin D and Covid] not being taken on seriously? … You can understand the pharmaceutical companies not pushing it because vitamin D is dirt cheap, and they can’t make any profit from it. We don’t condone that, but really why governments aren’t taking it up and why international guidelines aren’t changing is really a mystery.”
15:00 Vitamin D Deficiency and Outcome of COVID-19 Patients
Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, (September 2020)
“VitD deficiency was defined as serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D level < 12 ng/mL…. VitD deficiency was associated with higher risk of IMV/D and death (HR 6.12, 95% CI 2.79–13.42, p < 0.001 and HR 14.73….” (full study)
21:55 “People with the lower levels of vitamin D were 14.73 times more likely to die.”
“Run this kind of number here, 14.7 through the number of deaths in your country, and divide that by 14.73….”
“The low vitamin D levels were a more significant risk factor in this study than sex, age and comorbidity.”
“Let’s hope government agencies are listening.”
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Penny is a school teacher who was diagnosed with severe depression about 25 years ago. She’s been “hospitalized in a mental hospital.” She’s taken anti-depressants, some of which made her depression worse, and made her more suicidal, one of the side effects. So she decided to go the natural route.
She learned how to be functionally depressed, so she wouldn’t end up homeless. “So it was imperative that I got up and showed up every day; even though, it was the last thing I wanted to do. In public, I was functional; in private, I cried rivers of tears.”
She recently watched Dr. John Campbell’s December-2021 video, “Vitamin D in Israel,” after which she started taking 10,000 iu per day consistently.
“It was the only thing that I changed in my life at the height of a pandemic, at the height of me wanting to quit my job…. It was the only thing I changed that could have made that difference in my life. … It’s the vitamin D. I am fine, I am fine. I am not depressed anymore. I can say that. I’ll never stop taking vitamin D.” – Minute-8:20 in the video
“I am happy. I am cured of my depression.”
Israeli study analyzed
Great interview about vitamin D in general, not just for those who have headaches.
Full transcript is here, and I put this post together from this video’s transcript: Vitamin D loading dose then 10,000 iu/day | MDs incorrectly taught RDA is enough
Story from the end:
2:00:55.8 Craig: I went and met my uncle for the first time. I’d not seen him since I was a young boy. And I said, “You’re married?” “I’ve got a wife, she’s downstairs.” I said, “Go and get her mate, I’d love to meet her.” And he said, “No, I’m sorry she’s got migraines, she gets really bad migraines. She just likes to stay in a dark room.” And I said, “Mate, just get her to take vitamin D.” And he gave me the look my doctor, everyone that I speak to about vitamin D, apart from yourself and a few select people, give me this look of, roll your eyes, you’re a snake oil salesman. But I sent the D3 to their house and a week or so later, I get a call from him and he’s saying, “Craig, what can we give you?” It makes me cry almost every time I tell the story, it’s like, Mate, I don’t want anything from you. It’s just good to know that she’s able to go outside and live a good life, amen to that, you know?
They’re talking about taking vitamin D to solve cluster headaches, but this is a sensible dosage that could be used for Covid, other ills, and best health in general in low sunshine months, or year-round if never getting enough sun. Then, after about 30 days get your levels checked. Optimum for most people is 80-100 ng/ml in the 25-hydroxy D blood test.
“…take a loading dose, a total loading dose of 600,000 IU of vitamin D3, spread over anywhere from five days to 12 days and then I’m gonna drop back to 10,000 IU a day as a maintenance dose.”
0:00 Intro
0:25 Most convincing study to date
4:25 Strange trend in science
5:11 Vitamin D and your immune system
5:38 Various studies show it’s protective
5:45 Vitamin D lowers background inflammation
7:00 Vitamin D receptor and NFKB, TNF-alpha and IL-6
8:31 Sunscreen is being recommended often, worsening deficiency
9:35 People over 60 need to consider vitamin D supplementation
9:50 WATCH: This table tells the story!!
11:30 Majority of patients with mild disease had sufficient Vitamin D3 levels
12:41 Super-majority of critically ill patients were deficient in vitamin D
13:07 Pre-infection levels of Vitamin D were assessed in this study
They said the association was so strong they could predict Covid patient outcomes just by their age and vitamin D levels.
From: Daily Mail
Does vitamin D protect against Covid after all? Israeli study finds patients who are deficient are up to 14 TIMES more likely to fall severely ill
4 February 2022
… Previous research has been criticised for only looking at vitamin D levels when the Covid patient was already in hospital. [Ed. – not entirely true. Many patients in this landmark October 2021 study had their levels tested prior to hospitalization: COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3…]
Being ill is known to make levels of the vitamin drop, which may have skewed findings, according to critics.
To overcome this limitation, in their latest study, researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center looked at patient records up to two years before they were diagnosed with Covid.
They found people who were consistently deficient in the vitamin were up to 14 times more likely to suffer severe disease, even after adjusting for age and other underlying health woes.
The patients were in hospital before Israel’s vaccine rollout was widespread….
[CHART: Not many ill above 50 ng/ml. Critical are below 20 ng/ml – ed.]
Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses within our bodies. Deficiency of the vitamin will impair the Killer T-Cells of our immune system and the body will have a difficult time fighting off serious infections from the virus.
People with low levels of Vitamin D may be more likely to catch coronavirus and die from COVID-19 infection, study suggests
1 May 2020
Study: The role of vitamin D in the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 infection and mortality
Almost everyone is too low. Everyone should have the D levels tested.
Carole Baggerly and Dr. Cedric Garland
I just found this gem from the Alaska Legislature 2015. Rep. Paul Seaton chairs a vitamin D discussion. Natives used to dry Salmon under the sun, greatly increasing vitamin D. Now their vitamin D levels are way down, since most eat a western diet in addition to no longer using this traditional drying technique.
The vitamin D discussion is on overcoming Rickets, which only requires 20 ng/ml blood levels, whereas immune health (as for Covid) requires 50 ng/ml.
Video of the Alaska State Legislature
03/12/2015 03:00 PM HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES
56:15 Rep. Paul Seaton, Chair says they lowered the preterm delivery rate to 7% through a vitamin D program called “Protect Our Children Now.”
1:17:30 Vitamin D presentation by JAY BUTLER, MD, Chief Medical Officer/Director Division of Public Health
133:30 Alaska State Rep. Paul Seaton explains how Alaska Natives traditionally dried Salmon, marine and land animal meats in the sun, which greatly increased their vitamin D levels.
Breast cancer has basically been cured, but Big Pharma and Big Media is silent!
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Higher Levels of Vitamin D Reduce Breast Cancer Risk by 80%: Study
TORONTO, Ont (June 21, 2018) – A study of 5,038 women (age 55+) in a pooled cohort of two randomized controlled trials and a prospective cohort has found that women with vitamin D blood levels of ≥150 nmol/L [≥60 ng/ml – ed.], which is over three times the level recommended by Health Canada for bone health (50 nmol/L), have an 80% lower risk of breast cancer. The study was published June 15th in the peer reviewed open access scientific journal PLOS ONE from researchers at the University of California San Diego, Creighton University, Medical University of South Carolina and GrassrootsHealth a U.S based nonprofit. The study concluded “Higher 25(OH)D concentrations were associated with a dose-response decrease in breast cancer risk with concentrations ≥150 nmol/L [≥60 ng/ml – ed.] being most protective.”
Breast cancer risk markedly lower with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations 60 vs <20 ng/ml (150 vs 50 nmol/L): Pooled analysis of two randomized trials and a prospective cohort
Published: June 15, 2018
Sharon L. McDonnell1 *, Carole A. Baggerly1 , Christine B. French1 , Leo L. Baggerly1 , Cedric F. Garland2 , Edward D. Gorham2 , Bruce W. Hollis3 , Donald L. Trump4 , Joan M. Lappe5
“Vitamin D is actually a hormone that should be called the immunity vitamin.”
“The dermatologists won. They made us afraid of the sun.”
~”Everyone should know their vitamin D levels.” “Optimum is level is somewhere between 50 and 100.”
Clear explanations! Only problem is they warn against taking more than 5,000.
“Most labs say that 30-100 ng/ml is normal.”
60-80 ng/ml is optimal
Homeless shelters not hit — high vitamin D.
12:20 England: dark skinned doctors were getting serious Covid.
And organization of 8,000 doctors of color chose to take vitamin D, and none were even hospitalized!
Vitamin D upregulates macrophages, Pac-Manlike virus chomping bad organisms and downregulates cytokines.
35:50 hyperbaric oxygen chambers for Covid
Covid discussion starts at 6:50
VitaminDWiki is my favorite vitamin D site. Henry Lahore is the founder. Notice how cool he is:
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