The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19

Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by JabavuAdams on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:11PM (#24366898)

Are you sure you just aren't getting colds because of better hygiene, and less contact with others? Without controlling for social distancing, you can't reasonably conclude that it was the vitamin D.

I haven't had a cold since we initially locked-down in April, which is very unusual for me, but completely explained by social distancing.

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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by arkitaip on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:23PM (#24367058)

Oh I absolutely believe that social distancing and better hygiene are the reasons why I've gotten so few colds this year but those actions can't fully explain the decrease in severity. My colds have gone from being absolutely miserable to barely noticeable and are over in a week or less. I could be totally wrong but I'm not willing to remove vitamin d/k/c from my diet just to validate the hypothesis.

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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by ColanR on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:22PM (#24367039)

> you can't reasonably conclude that it was the vitamin D.

Except you can, because that is the conclusion of at least one other study of the effect of Vitamin D. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16959053/

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