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Re:Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young by kpfleger on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:54PM (#43003744)
No, ample evidence shows that vitamin D (or vitamin D deficiency at least) is causally related to multiple diseases. The evidence is pretty overwhelming. Eg here's a just published review on D deficiency causality for Covid based on applying Hill's Criteria for causality https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/3/599 and a prior 2022 paper on the same subject https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35308241/

Some vitamin D skeptics claim tat there's insufficient evidence from RCTs but few people question the causality of smoking's influence on cancer despite no RCTs for that---that relationship was established also via Hill's Criteria.

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Re:Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young by kpfleger on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:55PM (#43003758)
For more extensive discussion see my X thread here: https://x.com/KarlPfleger/status/1888649974621347950
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Re:Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young by eightysixfour on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:30PM (#43083021)
> No, ample evidence shows that vitamin D (or vitamin D deficiency at least) is causally related to multiple diseases.

Both my statement and yours can be true. Having a deficiency in an essential nutrient can be causal for bad outcomes while, at the same time, having the correct amount or excess can be non-causal but correlated with positive health outcomes.

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