Vitamin D Protects Against Flu
By Barbara Lock, MDAugust 25, 2009
The comments below are transcribed from this interview with a biomedical researcher.
"Pretty much any infectious disease that is more common in the wintertime is a target of Vitamin D. Even some of the more prolonged infections such as tuberculosis. I mean, in fact it was common knowledge that sunshine helped tuberculosis. 100 years ago, every doctor knew that to be a fact. The AMA knew it to be a fact. They published it, they said it was a fact. But people just forget about it. It turns out that the reason that sunlight helped tuberculosis was due to vitamin D....
"The effect that vitamin D has in preventing influenza and the common cold should not be overestimated, especially with pandemic influenza. How likely the virus is to kill you depends upon not only your innate immunity, that is how many antimicrobial peptides you have waiting to kill the virus, but it also depends on how many antibodies you have...and it also depends on how novel the virus in the human species, and how lethal it is. In 1918 there were documented cases of people being well in the morning, coughing at noon, blue at suppertime, and dead by nighttime, it was that quick. Even though the majority of deaths occurred in the wintertime...there were outbreaks in the summertime. I would caution people to think that vitamin D is a cure for influenza, although I think it is going to be proven to be a major weapon in the fight against influenza and even the common cold. "
Please read our legal disclaimer.
Write a comment
- Required fields are marked with *.
Posts: 1
Reply #1 on : Sun October 04, 2009, 13:56:11
Bookmark with:
What are these?