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How vitamin D inhibits inflammation

January 14, 2021 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered specific molecular and signaling events by which vitamin D inhibits inflammation. In their experiments, they showed that low levels of Vitamin D, comparable to levels found in millions of people, failed to inhibit the inflammatory cascade, while levels considered adequate did inhibit inflammatory signaling. They reported their results […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: anti-inflammatory, disease, inflammation, vitamin D

Vitamin D determines severity in COVID-19 so government advice needs to change, experts urge

January 9, 2021 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin are calling on the government in Ireland to change recommendations for vitamin D supplements. A new publication from Dr Eamon Laird and Professor Rose Anne Kenny, School of Medicine, and the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in collaboration with Professor Jon Rhodes at University of Liverpool, highlights the association […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, sun, vitamin D

Adequate Levels of Vitamin D Reduces Complications, Death Among COVID-19 Patients

December 25, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were vitamin D sufficient, with a blood level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of at least 30 ng/mL (a measure of vitamin D status), had a significant decreased risk for adverse clinical outcomes including becoming unconscious, hypoxia (body starved for oxygen) and death. In addition, they had lower blood levels of an inflammatory […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, supplements, vitamin D

Over 80 percent of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency

December 21, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

Over 80 percent of 200 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain have vitamin D deficiency, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Vitamin D is a hormone the kidneys produce that controls blood calcium concentration and impacts the immune system. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: COVID-19, immune system, vitamin D, vitamins

Could Vitamin D Save Us From Radiation?

November 5, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body’s main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Hayes explains that calcitriol, the active form of […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: calcitriol, dna, radiation, vitamin D

Vitamin D crucial to activating immune defenses

October 15, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defenses and that without sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system — T cells — will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the body. For T cells […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: immune system, immunity, supplements, viruses, vitamin D

Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates

September 29, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

After studying global data from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, researchers have discovered a strong correlation between severe vitamin D deficiency and mortality rates. Led by Northwestern University, the research team conducted a statistical analysis of data from hospitals and clinics across China, France, Germany, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK) […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, sun, vitamin D, vitamins

Vitamin D protects against colds and flu, finds major global study

January 4, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet Leave a Comment

Vitamin D supplements protect against acute respiratory infections including colds and flu, according to a study led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The study provides the most robust evidence yet that vitamin D has benefits beyond bone and muscle health, and could have major implications for public health policy, including the fortification of […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: colds, flu, vitamin D

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