It's no secret getting outside is good for you and there was talk months ago that vitamin D helps a lot with these viruses.

Man 13 out of 26 to ICU? There had to be something different about that group, no?

I've been knocking back 15,000 IUs of vitamin D a day for the last few months, and had been doing 10,000 IUs a day for a year or so before that...had significant vitamin D deficiency at an annual physical.

Add in some of the supplements Doc Coates suggested, plus dropping a good chunk of weight, and at a minimum I feel like Covid wouldn't kick my ass too badly if I got it. Putting up as much of a wall as I can.

This study would be at least one indicator that that this CV is not a respiratory disease but a blood vessel one.

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

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I've been knocking back 15,000 IUs of vitamin D a day for the last few months, and had been doing 10,000 IUs a day for a year or so before that...had significant vitamin D deficiency at an annual physical.

Add in some of the supplements Doc Coates suggested, plus dropping a good chunk of weight, and at a minimum I feel like Covid wouldn't kick my ass too badly if I got it. Putting up as much of a wall as I can.

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Wow, that is way too much vitamin D and can lead to kidney issues especially stones. The covid studies only show that people who are deficient don't do so well. Having supratherapeutic levels have no health benefit.

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To that end, I went and looked at my last panel from my annual screening (about 6 weeks ago)...Vitamin D levels were slightly above optimal (65.4 ng/mL) for the first time ever. My levels were pretty regularly in the 20s and 30s on that same scale in years past.

Toxicity is considered > 150 ng/mL, so I'll dial it back to more maintenance levels of supplementing.

Doc was not at all displeased and didn't think a thing of it when we were going through my results.

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I've been knocking back 15,000 IUs of vitamin D a day for the last few months, and had been doing 10,000 IUs a day for a year or so before that...had significant vitamin D deficiency at an annual physical.

Add in some of the supplements Doc Coates suggested, plus dropping a good chunk of weight, and at a minimum I feel like Covid wouldn't kick my ass too badly if I got it. Putting up as much of a wall as I can.

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Wow, that is way too much vitamin D and can lead to kidney issues especially stones. The covid studies only show that people who are deficient don't do so well. Having supratherapeutic levels has no health benefit.

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This is not true- taking too much calcium can cause kidney stones but vitamin D does not increase your risk of kidney stones at all. The side effects of overdosing on Vitamin D are very mild- fatigue, headache, stomach ache, weakness.

Most docs don't care if people want to take megadoses of vitamins because they are generally benign outside of calcium and Vitamin A.

Is it helpful? Not likely. But if you feel like you want to try megavitamins it is your money to burn.

(I'm on 2500 IU/day of Vitamin D in my multivitamin)

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Actually, it does as it leads to hypercalcemia and subsequent hypercalciuria. I'm a urologist and have treated plenty of patients that fall into this category.

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I could see that relationship! Excellent point.

The Mayo Clinic lists kidney damage among the potential issues for those taking more than 4000IU a day: Vit D

I don't get it?

I think I'll keep listening to my doctor about these things.

I also take Vit K2 to help with the calcification. Calcium, Vit D3, and Vit K2 work together to put the calcium where it belongs. . .

Lots of information about it, but here's a quick one. . .

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613455/

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Animal and human studies suggest that optimal concentrations of both vitamin D and vitamin K are beneficial for bone and cardiovascular health as supported by genetic, molecular, cellular, and human studies.

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It's important to note this is K2, not K1, which is for clotting. Two totally different things.

For???

Fun fact...

Vit D (cholecalciferol) is used as a rat poison. Obviously, much higher doses (mg/kg) than your daily supplement.