Thread by @BadgleyLaurence

VITAMIN D HOW MUCH? Recent studies in men who work year around without shirts in Hawaii produce 6,000 units of Vitamin D per day; likely a dose selected by Darwinian evolution and likely non-toxic. Maybe even optimum.

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My undergraduate biological sciences professor (1963) discounted need for supplemental Vitamin D & firmly proclaimed walking “15 minutes” outdoors “between classes” was sufficient daily sun exposure; a pompous proclamation in retrospect.

VITAMIN D & COVID-19: Epidemiological evidence has demonstrated ability of Vitamin D to inure human organisms to full onslaught of COVID-19. Anyone who is not maximizing Vitamin D might be missing an opportunity.

Studies in Spain (2020) have demonstrated that early COVID-19 infections relatively avoid the ICU if an IV bolus of ~100,000 units of Vitamin D is expeditiously administered within the early symptom period.

My own clinical research found a significant deficiency of Vitamin D in patients with Fibromyalgia (Proceedings of 10th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Pain, 10/19, Antwerp). My theory: Fibromyalgia promotes indoor sedentary lifestyles.

Studies in Spain (2020) have demonstrated that early COVID-19 infections relatively avoid the ICU if an IV bolus of ~100,000 units of Vitamin D is expeditiously administered within the early symptom period.

My own clinical research found a significant deficiency of Vitamin D in patients with Fibromyalgia (Proceedings of 10th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Pain, 10/19, Antwerp). My theory: Fibromyalgia promotes indoor sedentary lifestyles.

I moved my medical practice to sunny HI in 2019 & began to measure patient Vitamin D levels. To my surprise ~30% of those measured were deficient. Perhaps low skin-melanin people avoid sun with cancer concerns. High skin-melanin people have greater difficulty producing Vitamin D.

Dark skinned people in NYC have higher incidence of COVID-19 mortality. Skin tones, not poverty? Indoor winter life style in NYC might not be conducive to skin tones which evolution selected in sunny equatorial regions.

In truth, I am not up-to-date on the toxic manifestations of injurious physiologic burdens of Vitamin D. I remember around 1980, organizations espousing Chelation Therapy theorized that Vitamin D was harmful & promoted atherosclerosis.

More up-to-date information targets Vitamin C deficiency as singularly injurious to coronary artery smooth muscle as relates to calcium burdens: Rath, M., Am. J. Cardiovascular Dis. 2020; 10(2): 108-116.

I’ll never forget day Dirk Pierson (“Life Extension”) took stage to address society of US Chelation Therapy doctors; showing that administering Vitamin C via steel (iron) needles promoted redox potentials oxidizing Vitamin C molecules. Audience was stunned.

CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS: There is much we don’t fully understand. Rath (see above) has demonstrated that Statin drugs promote calcium deposition into coronary artery intima! Perhaps reason no Statin study shows increased longevity. Who knew?

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