Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]

Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by mrfusion on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:59PM (#24063000)

> When vitamin D is produced in the body naturally via exposure to sunlight there's a huge amount of other things that occur as well

Any further reading on that? On the other hand worth supplementation you don’t get the harmful uv rays.

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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by nradov on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:19PM (#24063193)

There is no evidence that a brief daily exposure to UV rays is actually harmful in terms of all-cause mortality.

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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by glofish on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:37PM (#24063373)

UV rays should not be considered harmful de-facto!

Overexposure to UV rays is what causes trouble.

Slathering on the sunscreen even when not necessary (like walking from point A to point B, or spending 15 minutes outside, is what causes the predominant vitamin D deficiency in the first place.

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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by James_Henry on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:26PM (#24065186)

Are you sure the "predominant vitamin D deficiency" isn't caused by the prevalence of metabolic syndrome?

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