(TLB) Editors: It should be noted that many in The Liberty Beacon Project, along with family, friends and nutritionists have long known the benefits of Vitamin D, Especially Vitamin D3 with a baker of Vitamin K2 to facilitate 100% absorption of the “D.”
Vitamin D3, known as the sunshine vitamin, reportedly wards off depression and promotes a feeling of “well being” to counter the lack of “real sunlight” when work or lifestyle requires one to stay inside. (Nutritionists do remind us nothing can take the place of a 30 minute exposure of Real Sun for top health benefits.) ~ (TLB)
Vitamin D in spotlight for COVID-19 following UK parliamentary comments
Nutrition Insight
Vitamin D is in the spotlight as UK’s health minister, Matt Hancock, looks to hear about “all possible scientific advances that might be helpful” in the fight against COVID-19. This comes in light of new evidence pointing to the vitamin’s efficacy, which is in contrast to previous government-backed reviews.
Hancock is set to meet with MPs Dr. Rupa Huq and David Davis, who have repeatedly called for vitamin D to be investigated as a low-cost and low-risk intervention.
Davis has previously detailed two potential courses of action for correcting vitamin D deficiency in UK consumers to reduce the risk of serious COVID-19 complications.
First called for in May, one course of action is encouraging people to use supplements to boost their vitamin D intake, potentially by the NHS providing them for free. According to Davis, this would cost less than a penny a pill – which is “trivial” in comparison to the costs of lockdown.
The second option would be to fortify foods like bread, flour and milk with vitamin D. Davis argues that the best approach would be a combination of fortification, supplementation and a public health education campaign.
“It’s important that the government takes the potential benefits of vitamin D seriously when it comes to COVID-19. I hope they now investigate the evidence properly,” Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) Layla Moran tells NutritionInsight.
Evidence under review
Last week, a study from the Boston University School of Medicine found that in comparison with vitamin D- deficient patients, vitamin D-sufficient hospitalized COVID-19 patients had a significant decreased risk for adverse clinical outcomes, including unconsciousness, hypoxia (body starved for oxygen) and death.
Moreover, the patients had lower blood levels of C-reactive protein, an inflammatory marker, and higher blood levels of lymphocytes, a type of immune cell to help fight infection. The study authors view sufficient vitamin D intake as a cost-effective strategy to reduce the severity of morbidities and mortality associated with acquiring COVID-19.
In response to the US study, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson says: “The latest review from NICE suggests no robust evidence for vitamin D supplements reducing the severity of COVID-19. However, this is a new virus, and we keep all strong evidence on treatments under review.”
Read more at Nutrition Insight
Related from The Liberty Beacon:
Covid Proof Your Immunity in 7 Easy Steps
••••
••••
Stay tuned to …
••••
The Liberty Beacon Project is now expanding at a near exponential rate, and for this we are grateful and excited! But we must also be practical. For 7 years we have not asked for any donations, and have built this project with our own funds as we grew. We are now experiencing ever increasing growing pains due to the large number of websites and projects we represent. So we have just installed donation buttons on our websites and ask that you consider this when you visit them. Nothing is too small. We thank you for all your support and your considerations … (TLB)
••••
Comment Policy: As a privately owned web site, we reserve the right to remove comments that contain spam, advertising, vulgarity, threats of violence, racism, or personal/abusive attacks on other users. This also applies to trolling, the use of more than one alias, or just intentional mischief. Enforcement of this policy is at the discretion of this websites administrators. Repeat offenders may be blocked or permanently banned without prior warning.
••••
Disclaimer: TLB websites contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available to our readers under the provisions of “fair use” in an effort to advance a better understanding of political, health, economic and social issues. The material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving it for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes other than “fair use” you must request permission from the copyright owner.
••••
Disclaimer: The information and opinions shared are for informational purposes only including, but not limited to, text, graphics, images and other material are not intended as medical advice or instruction. Nothing mentioned is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Leave a Reply