Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influenza, Coronavirus, etc

Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influen... by pcvarmint on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:56PM (#22632652)

Seattle has a severe Vitamin D deficiency, due to almost year-round cloudiness.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the Seattle outbreak.

I live only 3 miles from the Life Care Center nursing home. So far no coronavirus symptoms, but I'm staying home.

I was diagnosed with osteomalacia in my 40s, with a DEXA Z score of -5, and I have suffered bone fractures three times, two of them spontaneously. I'm currently taking Fosamax (Alendronate), mega-Vitamin D (10,000+ IU a day), and Calcium.

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influen... by mygo on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:35PM (#22640199)

There’s lots of Vitamin D in Florida. There are Seattle-level outbreaks there, too. Just a few weeks behind.

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influen... by mrfusion on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:59PM (#22633092)

Surprisingly they have one of the highest rates of skin cancer too. I could never figure that one out.

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influen... by jschwartzi on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:10PM (#22633163)

There's still a lot of UV that comes in through the cloud layer. It's one of the reasons it's recommended to wear sunglasses and sunscreen if you're hiking on snow on a cloudy day. You can still sunburn the inside of your eyes from UV exposure, and because it's not visible light your iris doesn't react to it the same way it would on a bright sunny day.

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influen... by WalterSear on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:20PM (#22633237)

But, as a cause of skin cancer, that would preclude vitamin D deficiency, since it is also dependent on UV exposure.

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influen... by enterabdazer on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:01PM (#22633824)

UV is a spectrum. UV-B is responsible for vitamin D production. Very little UV-B reaches us, even during the summer in the northern hemisphere. UV-A does damage, and reaches us much more strongly. You can receive damaging UV exposure while producing little to no vitamin D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#/media/File:Ozone_...

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Re:Vitamin D Supplementation Could Prevent and Treat Influen... by WalterSear on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:43AM (#22634960)

I see.

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