Hi John, The Doctor from Israel you had on your Channel sometime ago said that NONE of his PATIENTS with covid that were taking 4000 u of vit D ended up in hospital ! In other words they were infected but did not get severe illness ending up in Hospital . Totally consistent with the results of these 2 studies as you say. Perhaps invite that doctor back. Ron
Dr. Cohen also stipulated that his clients were fairly young, people with higher vitamin d are more likely to be living a healthier lifestyle in general, getting outside and exercising creating better outcomes with regards to mental health and diet. IMO the best advise is to get outside, exercise, eat healthy and have fun, if you are bed bound or can't get vitamin d naturally then there probably is some benefit in supplements.
Even if you do get outdoors most days and exercise outside, etc. you still can benefit from D3 supplementation because you are very likely not getting enough vitamin D naturally from sunlight depending on where in what hemisphere you live in and what time of year it is, or if you wear sunscreen or covered in clothing then you are blocking vitamin D absorption. Most of the year where I live, it is not possible to get ample vitamin D naturally because the days are short in the winter and it is too cold to expose skin. I’ve been taking 5000iu since 2020 and I have not had covid or any illness at all. No harm in taking this amount either.
@@crayonofdarkness215 If you live close the equator plenty of stinking hot sun to burn you don't need supplements, 30 mins to an hour is plenty unless you like getting cooked or skin cancer. I laugh when I see people slapping sunscreen on like plaster & think outdoor is making them healthy yet they get no Vit-D or very little. Yes I can understand people living further north or south from the equator especially during winter will have deficiency in Vit-D, it's known in history when they call it the winter flu. Keeping you Vit-D levels high keeps you immune strong & healthy, older people benefit the most.
My wife and I have been on Vitamin D3/k2 and thus far we have dodged the virus while all around us have fallen foul of it. Thank-you Doctor for your guidance.
Im a bit bothered by this K2 combo only because im on Warfarin blood thinner. Im not worried about it inhibiting the Warfarin because that can always be adjusted. I just can't tell if the Warfarin neutralizes the positive action of K2 as part of the d3/k2 combo.
Me too and im not jabbed 64 years old and before improving and changing my diet plus taking vitamin d3 regulaly caught everything going!!! Have thankfully escaped covid and can only put it down to these changes!!..
I know 327 who have been taking D3/K2 since before the pandemic. All have caught covid, some very ill. Which of out conclusions is scientifically correct?
I have been on high dose vitamin D for just over 2 years and I haven’t had any infections where as normally I’d have at least 3 chest infections over that time
Therefore it MUST be the vitamin D and nothing else. 😂 I'm glad your mind feels better but this is why we do scientific studies even if the ppl who do them sometimes suck.
@@zakariahussein962 masks that most are wearing only offer 5 to 10% social distancing doesnt work either, foctors on the news here showed youd need 30 meters and also time to allow the particles to settle .
Maybe because everyone is wearing masks and washing their hands every 5 mins is why you haven't caught any virus this year. Your trial of 1 subject means nothing lol
I’m a 73 year old female my husband is 70 on Vit. D3, zinc, etc. At the beginning of Covid we listened to top specialist Peter McColough, who suggested we took these vitamins. We duly did, and here we are two years on and we haven’t had as much as a sniffle. We did not hide away with fear, we went about our business as usual, obviously doing what was expected of us. Washed hands, sterilised hands, kept 1.5 mtr distance and wore masks when told to. I believe Vit. D and zinc definitely helped us.
Good upon you both , in keeping well . I'm of a similar age , and unvaxed , with no sniffles etc , confirmed for 2nd time as COVID free via RAT yesterday .
Thanks for your channel. Am 70 years old, unvaccinated, taking Vit D, got Covid. Had 36 hours of mild flu-like symptoms (headache, stiffness) at start, otherwise OK. Now waiting for quarantine period to end. All the best!
My wife (double jabbed) tested positive 5 days ago, I (unvaccinated) have been taking vitamin d3, k2, zinc, vitamin c and a multi vitamin for several months. We have been isolating together sharing the same space for the entire time, she is unwell and I am unaffected and I just tested negative (RAT). As far as I am concerned (anecdotally) Vitamin D works.
Wonder if the following is just affecting the Jabbed children only - "Parents in the UK are being warned to check their children for signs of hepatitis after more than 70 youngsters aged under 10 were diagnosed with the illness."
D3 Seems to be working for me too. Unvaxxed, 1 week ago my 4 year old tested positive after having had a fever. I've shared his drink bottle and got him to cough in my face a few times but no result so far!
I was interested to hear that the study that found no significant differences between groups was from St Mary's Hospital, London (AND that they had (?) progressively SELECTED which patients to exclude from the study). When I was subediting for the BMJ (as I've already told you) I edited a study from St Mary's that started with a large number of patients but then gave results in percentages only - contrary to BMJ rules, which insisted on numbers. Trying to be helpful, I calculated in reverse what the actual numbers should have been, based on the percentages - and inserted them. When the authors checked the proofs they were very irritated. It turned out that, during the course of the trial, patient number had diminished for various reasons - from hundreds to less than 10! So the percentages gave the impression of far better results than was actually the case. I can't now remember whether they'd given any statistics (it was a long time ago), but the paper must have been peer reviewed to have been accepted for publication.This illustrates the importance of rigorous subediting, even after peer review.
the same thing just crossed my mind watching the video. it seemed odd that they using such different quantites of people for each group so i calculated the multiples using the percentages and the results are reversed. but as it's presented (number × %) people will get the wrong impression if they're innumerate, which most people are. so you're right.
doctors and the medical proffession are not what they used to be and sadly we are worse off becouse of that i am 66 and i remeber how the doctor would check your vitals first, look at your skin, nails, breathing etc they would spend time getting to what the problem was. now you are in and out before you get a chance to tell your doctor anything its like speed dateing
@@stephenmeinhold5452 Absolutely. Also meanwhile you wait patiently your appointment, appears a pharmacy comercial man to have a chat with your doctor about what to say or prescribe instead doing what they used to do. I've seen this at the Spanish Health system but I used NHS as well in mi time in England I didn't see this but they treated me as you said, quick as every part in the world I suppose.
Oh dear ! Wouldn't have happened when Sir Harry was in the driving seat. The perps would have been "Mincemeat". Somebody trying to give Javid a "Soft landing" on his call for evidence ? Two supplements which I've perceive have a positive effect which the user (Me) can readily detect themselves, winter supplementation of Vit D + the added Ginseng in some multi-vitamin preparations. Correction I got misled until I closely examined the screen text @ 0:48 Dr Campbell said St Mary's, whereas the text on the screen says Queen Mary's. Two entirely different institutions. The St Mary's with a medical school and post-graduate Research facility (Now part of Imperial College London) is located in Praed St, West London whereas Queen Mary's is a conglomeration medical institutions up the East end, St Paul's, Whitechapel etc. And Queen Mary's apparently doing a bit of school-boy naughtiness . . . and doing so with their admission standards at A-Level (A*+AA). So, with a clear conscience I can continue to Ra ! Ra ! St Mary's and Prof Fergusson et al.
Wait a minute, when did anybody (qualified) say correct vitD level would protect from actually catching covid? I've spent the last 2 years with the understanding that the whole vitD vs covid argument is that it helps /optimise/ the human immune system to best deal with it. As far as I recall Doc Campbell et al have never prior even suggested it could help avoiding catching it. It's the severity results that matter in these studies, surely?
and yet neither of these studies look at whether vit D CAUSES a person to have less severe Covid disease. Causation cannot be found in a correlational study like the Israel study. There are far too many obvious confounding variables to conclude the link is causal. Think about it - what causes worse disease? obesity and sedentary lifestyle are known comorbidities. What causes low vit D? obesity and sedentary indoor lifestyle. So just measuring vitD levels and disease severity leaves out a whole lot of pertinent variables. The vit D level may be coincidental. That is why the gold standard is an experimental study, with double blind and controlled interventions. It does not have to have tens of thousands of subjects, just needs to be designed well and anti-bias rules adhered to. I still take vit D but have healthy skepticism about it still, and feel my regular outdoor workouts are far more important.
Yes. Never got Delta, I think! Age 77 I had Omicron at Christmas, slight sore throat and cough for a couple of days. I carried on as normal with no problems as did everyone else i know who got it. The media hysteria continues unabated though.
I agree absolutely. My 58 year old wife (not jabbed) had covid a few weeks ago. She was quite poorly (flu like symptoms) for a couple of days but has now fully recovered. She takes D3 (with K2)..........
I followed your Vitamin D advice a few months ago and I think it's helped me get over Covid. I'm a fit unvaccinated 64 year old and on the 14th day after getting covid I was back running again. I also walked every day during infection, I stay in the countryside so didn't meet anyone.
Pre-pandemic I used to take D3 during the winter months (I live in the UK) Since the beginning of the pandemic I've taken it daily, plus magnesium, zinc and a probiotic. I haven't contracted Covid while others around me have. I'll be continuing with my D3 supplement for ever more.
I doubled my already high intake of vitamine D3 during the Covidcrisis and combined it with vit A and K2. Much to my surprise my seasonal depression diasappeared. I normally use a daylight lamp but since then my vit D levels got as high as 215 nmol/ l and no more winter depression, I didn’t use the daylight lamp anymore. I think the extra D3/K2 is less expensive than the electricity used for my daylight lamp. High vit D is also very beneficial for the tooth bone and enamel.
I know it varies by person but may I ask how much vitD daily? I've added vitD + k in the last yr or two and have noticed a difference in mood and SAD that I've suffered w all my adult life. I've heard such conflicting advise in regards to how much should be used daily. Many functional Drs have stated up to 10,000 is perfectly safe, and needed in winter but others freak out if it's anything over 4000. I'm assuming it's bc that's the upper tolerable intake that's universally recommended but from my understanding those "recommended amounts" were never accurate to begin with. I feel confident that 5000 is safe but I'm hesitant to go above that atm without blood testing but I'm so curious if it'd make an even bigger positive difference. Like I said, I've noticed improvement but there's certainly room for more lol. I also have a daylight lamp but can't seem to be consistent w using it.
@@crazyratlady3438 I have impaired absorption in the stomach so I am used to taking a lot. 10.000 IU seems ridiculous to me. I take 4000-6000 IU in combination with Vit A and K2 and magnesium. The fats soluble vitamines are best taken in a fatty form, oil or emulsion so that’s what I do. I am glad to hear vit D in higher dose improved tour SAD ad well. It was unexpevted surprise for me. It didn’t click until after two winter seasons and a bloodtest that showed my vit D was over 200 nmol/l. I also take 400 mg of magnesiumcitrate which is essential to me. I suffer from chronic stomach inflammation( autoimmune gastritis) among a few other autoimmune diseases.
I take 10,000 to 15,000 a day, because I have very low absorption, I get my blood test every 6 months for everything. My vitamin D levels are only in the norm but in the middle, so in the winter I up it even 5,000 more because I want it in the norm but on the higher end.
@@martinavancampen-wierda9026 yes I take a whole arsenal of vits..d3+k2 (w coconut oil), magnesium, fish oil, spirulina/chlorella, grass fed beef liver, multiple mushroom extract, liver support (dandelion, milk thistle, burdock, artichoke, peppermint), immune blend (C, D, zinc, selenium, copper, quercetin, vitC cofactors), turmeric/olive leaf/tart cherry blend, Morning Complete (probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, many other compounds for full system and digestive support) and LOTS of vitC w bioflavonoids and polyphenols..oh yeah, and recently added cell salts. Like I said, an arsenal lol. I've been studying and tinkering w this for several yrs now due to many health symptoms that developed in my early 40's. The supplements along w a complete diet change has made a world of difference. I'm not 100% but I know I at least slowed down whatever was happening, drastically. Strengthening my bodies ability/functioning to handle whatever assaults I can't control or are unaware of, and I'm assuming I'm healing, it sure feels that way. I do have some relapsing of symptoms at times but it's far less and less intense. I'm hoping to one day soon find a qualified functional Dr and get all the appropriate testing done and guidance..just to be sure and to make it easier. Maybe then I can narrow down some of the supplementing or at least tailor it more precisely, and most importantly to understand more what's going on and how best to correct it. I will say, I've come a LONG way all on my own and the things I know now as opposed to just 5yrs ago is simply amazing. I encourage everyone, every chance I get to self educate on these matters, it's so very important in our societies current state. One last thing, anyone taking supplements or considering it should ALWAYS do their due diligence or find someone trusted who has bc there are SO many very important things to consider regarding supplements (just wanted to add that for anyone who happens to come along and read this)😊
I believe vitamin D with vitamin K has truely made a massive difference to my health. I’m 65 not vaccinated and was wrongly diagnosed with Copd a couple of years ago . Was put on different inhalers with no relief, had a chronic cough to the point of vomiting 🤮. When Covid started and I started my on research . I stopped my inhalers and within a couple of months taking vitamin D and K my coughing STOP !!! I also suffered with chronic excema in my ear which would cause infections, again this has totally disappeared. So I’m listening to my body !!! Thank you 🙏 Dr Campbell
That’s interesting I had a chronic chronic cough also, it went away around March 2020 when I started taking vitamin D but I never made the connection that it might have been from Vitamin D. I have been taking 5000iu in winter and 4000 in summer with 120 mcg K2.
Vitamin D is the silver lining regarding covid for myself personally. Always found the winter months especially difficult through my life with illness and lack of motivation but just got on with it. Have been taking 8000 ICU of Vitamin D with K2 (two tablets) since 2020 and have been all the better for it. Half my heritage is Asian whilst living in the UK, so after hearing your and others advice I was pleased it made such a big difference. Naturally I am very grateful to yourself and take the time to to watch all your videos and the big main updates get passed to my family WhatsApp group who are also very grateful.
Did you really need a RUclips channel to tell you to eat a healthy diet.... Vitamins are not a cure for anything, it just improves your overall health. Like every doctor on earth will tell you.
The highest maximum dose in the USA recommended is 4000 IU. There are symptoms on line of overdose symptoms. The needed recommended amounts are 400-800 IU/day. Some sources recommended up to 2000 IU / day and none are over 4000IU per day. Not sure about ICU measurents.
@@paintspot1509 I have learned alot about vit D from Dr Campbell ..my Dr never even mentioned it ...I asked for a test and was slightly low so now take vit D and K2...so yes...I did need this channel...isn't that why we are here ?...for info ?
@@paintspot1509 Yes of course a healthy diet is essential - but anyone with half a brain cell now knows, if you live in the northern hemisphere or a very hot and sunny country (and you're not a Masai herdsman outside all the time, skin fully exposed) we will all be short on Vitamin D for at least six months of the year, or, in fact, all year round, especially if a person has darker skin. To try to suggest that this can be fixed by merely eating a healthy diet is nonsense - it can't, unless you're like Alaskan natives who almost exclusively eat oily fish, so a D3 supplement is necessary or even essential.
@@vickieyoung7122 most doctors will not insult your intelligence by telling you how to eat proper food. Your lack of basic knowledge is on you, not your doctor.
As a research Chemist I think we see contradictory experimental results often because we are not screening the people who do the research for the necessary skills to work in a lab. That will never be addressed because academic researchers want inexpensive labor to power their research and this topic is not a politically correct topic.
Spot on. I had a new graduate under my supervision, who caused a lab evacuation after spilling nitric acid everywhere. An intelligent woman, but just hopeless in terms of safety and technique. Nothing was done in terms of disciplinary action because this person was part of a protected ethnic group and a female. More woke interference in science.
The timing of the study makes no sense. Study started in the middle of Covid season, which basically ended very early on in the study. So, it makes sense that there would be almost no difference, since vitamin D takes time to metabolize and have a large health effect. The study should have continued on into the NEXT covid season, to see if the intervention had an impact or not.
I finally got my Vit D levels up to 75. I've been working on this since before covid because of autoimmune issues. I've been very careful the past 2 years. My bf who is vaccinated and also careful to protect me got covid. I literally kissed covid on the lips, never got it. He was in bed for a week. I was quite tired the first few days but I tested all week: 2 rapids and 3 PCR... was negative and felt fine. A take a ton of supplements along with D3/K2, so who knows. But it feels like a miracle 🙌🏽💫
I had to have a random blood test to rule out arthritis I mentioned I had covid and the Dr asked did I have it mild etc which I answered yes. guess what she checked me for vit d!!! which come back optimal thanks to you Dr John. they know it's a massive help. this was a year ago
@@Yakerina who ever told you otherwise? They literally teach how to have a healthy diet in school. Do you really need to government to teach adults common sence.
Not really. We don’t need any more analysis of studies. We know what nearly every government official did to suppress effective treatments and they must be held accountable. Discussion of anything else is moot.
@@NCCVE He always dogs the US, but praises smaller countries as "leading the way". He was HUGE pro lockdown, but now he's shifted back to the Vitamin D and Aspiration schtick.
Thank you Dr. Campbell for these videos. I’ve been watching you for two years now. When you make a mistake you say so the next day. You post the links. Both those things give you incredible believably. Namaste 🙏🏻, Brother. You look like my dad and two of his first cousins rolled into one person. My ancestors were from Cork and Scotland. I’m so glad to have found you and I recommend you to everyone.
I've been taking 10000 IU Vit D3 daily along with K2 since November, after seeing the paper that you covered which was a meta-analysis suggesting that deaths from Covid could theoretically drop to zero if serum levels were as high as 50-60ng/ml. I also have suffered with psoriasis for the last 35 years and have been on dimethyl fumarate for the last 20 years which has helped but not eliminated the skin lesions. For the last 5 years , I had been taking 1000IU Vit D daily between Oct and April , ever since I had 6 colds in 6 months and my GP checked my levels and said I was deficient in Vitamin D. So I checked my Vit D levels in mid-November and despite taking 1000IU daily, my serum Vit D was only 24ng/ml. I started taking 10000IU daily in mid-November and had my levels checked 2 months later and they went up to 50ng/ml. I'm about to have my levels checked again later this week. Since taking the higher dose of Vit D. my psoriasis has further improved to be almost gone completely. Two weeks ago I caught Covid and my symptoms were so trivial that had I not tested myself I would not have taken a few days off work. Literally had no more than an occasional sneeze and about 36 hours of mild fatigue. I was lateral flow negative after 5 days and was 100% well in myself within 3 days. My wife and son caught it off me and have been more ill than I was and they have not been taking the high doses of Vit D I have been taking. I genuinely believe that this higher dose of Vit has helped me not only with regard to my psoriasis but protected me from a more severe bout of Covid infection than I would otherwise have had. (I'm 62 years old). I was incensed to see a two-page spread in the Mail on Sunday last weekend, quoting Tim Spector, saying that there is no evidence the Vit D can help with Covid etc.
I believe you are right. I firmly believe that high doses of vit D3/K2 are good for many chronic illnesses. I take 9600 IU daily. Thank you for sharing 😊
@@sigrid3553 Yes Spectre believes this because on his Covid symptom tracker app he was asking who was taking vitamin D and comparing them to those who did not supplement. No mention of dosage, which was probably low given that is what uninitiated medics recommend. It's like taking 20 mg of an antibiotic daily instead of 500mg dose and then saying they don't work because the infection didn't clear!
I'm taking 7000 units per day and also 2000 mg vitamin c with every meal I eat because vitamin c peak in our blood after 2,5 hours and stops working after 5 hours so people should take vitamin c every 2,5 hours or at least with every meal👆
Vitamin D is not gonna prevent infection, it reduces the severity of infection. Though that one of the studies decided to focus on infection prevention goes to how much "good faith" was put in that study.
its just what they decided to study, how does that make them bad faith exactly? Especially since they are supported by a bunch of companies that produce vitamin D supplements which would obviously like it to be effective in preventing infection. Also they do in fact look at severity but because they didnt have that many people that got infected in the first place you can't really tell if it does or doesnt reduce severe infection (they had 0 deaths from covid in all groups for example and a total of 19 people hospitalized)
That was my main objection to an early study published on HCQ. All of a sudden it was only about prophylactic results and without zinc measurements, it just about became worthless as to settling any issue at all. Why do the study when you've sabotaged the results by ignoring entirely the zinc ionophore angle and particularly only counting numbers that caught it and those that didn't. I don't mind catching the bug, what bothers me to this day is needlessly dying of it, so look at those numbers please and in the future do the study in a fair manner on a subject that matters, or don't rattle my cage. It doesn't help the situation when they have issues with doing outpatient studies in very early cases which is where the Zelenko protocol shined the brightest, his patients to a very large degree did not progress to need a hospital to a remarkable degree. And this was with the dangerous early variants long before vaccines were available at any price. We needed results and were denied that by the healthcare system running into itself like a bunch of keystone cops. They are still at it, don't look now.
My vitamin D3 arrived today after your last post. Hoping my psoriasis, clinical depression, and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorder will improve 🤞🏻
Vitamin D deficiency can be a marker for underlying health/metabolic disorders. Best to fix those through diet as much as possible as well as supplement. How is your general weight, health and diet? My father has had psoriasis since he was 4 years old and it cleared up so fast with a change in diet. Increase seafood, red meat and egg consumption, drop the breads, pastas and vegetable oils (olive oil, avo, macadamia oil all fine). Wish you the all the best.
it s sad that information took so long. there were studies on this in april 2020 already (i remember a rogan podcast about it). it s one of the things that has no downside to do but huge benefits if it turns out to be right. but pharma can t make money of it.
Try intermittent fasting. Also, cut all processed crap. Start at 14-10 then work up to 16-8, 8 hour eating window. I'm not a doctor, but know fasting. Goodluck.
December 2020 was when I got COVID. I had a fever for one day and then it was done. I do have some lingering respiratory issues but not life threatening at all. I had a T cell immunity test 8 months afterwards (with great results) and have had negative PCR antigen tests ever since. (Weekly testing per my employment) I take Vitamin D and Zinc on a regular basis. Keep up the great work, Dr. John!!
As someone whom has conducted a personal one man double blind study on taking vitamin D over the last 40years I can confirm vitamin D has stopped me having flue or covid - and every one around me has had both: As with the black death, I also think your own genetics and constitution has a lot to do with all of this. I have not been vaccinated. Although I take an interest, I stopped worrying about this long ago. I also think we may have killed and screwed up more people than had we just let things run their course.
would it make sense to conclude that mass vaccination gave this virus a longer life span ?? being that the mutations and variations come through injection ?
@@808fishman8 I would suggest you search using this "Official Government data suggests the Fully Vaccinated are suffering Antibody-Dependent Enhancement; and the newly published Pfizer Documents prove Pfizer & the FDA knew it would happen" If I gave you the direct link this post would probably be removed! If you come across any of the fact checkers please look to see who finances their operations and if their staff are qualified to comment on medical matters. Many of them are journalists as Dr Campbell has pointed out before! I would aslo suggest that you use a browser other than the most popular one and leave out duckduckgo as I understand they have now been compromised!
Millions of us on vit D deficiency groups have been dismissed by UK doctors . Denied tests.. denied prescription unless critically low levels . Doctors often ignorant to what it causes ..
UK doctors were prescribing in my area during the pandemic. I was prescribed and had to wait a couple of days sometimes to collect prescription. The pharmacist told me that they were ordering large quantities of the form approved by the NHS but demand was still increasing due to the volume of prescriptions.
Strange ! When I had my medication review 2021 I was told my VD level was low and advised to take a supplement, as I was already taking DrC advice I upped my dose, all normal last week.
I contracted the Beijing Influenza in 1994. Ever since I have not been able to recover from chest congestion from viral infections without steroidal inhalers. In January of this year I started taking 10000iu D3. In March I had both Omicron variants. I recovered very easily without any accompanying congestion issues. I never expected to be protected from infection. I expected to be able to manage the infection and that is exactly what I experienced.
I read the study paper, although the inline tables were not legible. It was poorly done, I would have suggested they just give people the supplements and not wasted their time on the study. To start they mention vitamin D, no mention of it was D2 or D3. Next they had no strict adherence requirement, missing dosing half the time was still accepted. No sign of them testing blood levels after the first test to assign them to groups. They assumed 75nmol/L was an optimal level rather than at least a level double of that as being optimal and protective. They had one person whose baseline level was within a normal range and they called it high. No bolus dosing to raise levels quickly. No mention of magnesium or other possibly deficient supplements needed for conversion. The only way this could have been useful is to test blood levels after dosing at intervals. I give a failing grade to this high school level paper as it seems they didn't do their homework and talk to people to ascertain what was needed for a valid outcome. I would like to know what happened to their one participant with the highest vitamin d level which was in the statically protective range.
I've been taking Vit D3 since Dr Campbell first advised it. About seven months ago I had a severely sore throat one afternoon, and thought I was in for a week of unpleasantness, but by the evening it had cleared up. Then my wife developed a streaming cold, that I thought I would get, but all I got was a few sniffles that again quickly cleared up. Thank you Dr Campbell for all of your advice and research!
My vitD levels were 16 … before covid , i had to have 3 overload courses with blood tests to check for calcium build up… before raised to normal levels , maintenance dose dose not hold my levels within normal. I am outside a lot and healthy diet but am autoimmune which i am told can destroy vitD .
Have been taking vitamin D3 + K2 for 6months now. Have been sharing my ute with workmate , both in it together. He got omicron, ive been untouched. But i tell you all my inflammation in my elbows and Achilles tendons have gone, I have NO PAIN anymore. Thanks Doc
Anyone who has been investigating Vitamin D for COVID knows that it can take some time to build up the Vitamin D supplies. It can take months to build up the levels to optimise the Vitamin D. The Front Line COVID Clinical Care Doctors recommend 5,000 IU/day to get to the optimal target of >50 ng/ml. The researchers are not giving the optimal amount of Vitamin D.
My wife has good level of vitaminD and she's got omicron after sleeping close to me while I was symptomatic, thought we're both unvaxxed and recovered fairly quickly after mild symptoms.
Good levels of vitamin D have been found to protect the myelin sheath of nerves (protects against multiple sclerosis), so this alone suggests it’s many benefits. I’ll keep taking it with the vitamin K!
Also thiamine B1 for the myelin nerve sheath! Learned from another UK nutritionist Elliot Overton. See his YT channel EONutrition and prepare to learn!! He's great.
Always suspected Vitamin D, which helps immune system, was more of a moderator of symptoms rather than preventing infection from Covid so one could get natural immunity with an extremely low chance of ending up in a hospital or dying - especially among young and healthy. Also applies to any infection like the seasonal flu.
I've been taking Vitamin D supplements for about 4 years now (along with several other vitamins/minerals) because I work nights and don't get much sun. At the start of the pandemic, I doubled my Vitamin D dose as I read somewhere "it may be effective". Fast forward to now and I still haven't contracted the virus (that I know of). I haven't been jabbed and I've been face to face with infected people several times and almost everyone I know has fallen victim to it. I work 7 days a week in customer service, and have done since the beginning of the pandemic - only having Christmas off. So, I might have good luck, or the Vitamin D might have helped? Either way, I'll keep taking it.
My wife and I have cared for a 6 year old girl with respiratory problems for nearly 5 years. Every winter she has suffered chronic colds/coughs/chest infections and been hospitalised at least twice each winter. Last Autumn we put her on 800i.u.'s of D3 (with K2) once a day. This winter she has had 2 minor colds. She tested positive for covid a few weeks ago but suffered only minor cold symptoms - she isn't jabbed. We immediately double her vitamin D dosage when she shows signs of illness, until it has cleared. In all the times she's been in hospital and indeed seen health care professionals, we've never been advised by anyone to try vitamin D, we took it upon ourselves to do this. The standards of basic health care in this country are in a very sorry state.....................
My wife and I are both over 70 and have taken Vitamin D, K and Zinc since March 2020, we have not had Covid or any other infections during this time so will continue to take them.
I am no expert on trials but watching you and Trial Site News, I have gathered some outlines on them. I have also participated in one. Not only does the StMary's one seem rushed but the criteria seem wrong. In my trial, they were very strict and asked questions to make sure we were all participating correctly, but you get the impression of the opposite in StMary's one. Could it be that as there is little money in selling VitD little money was available for the trial?
It was sponsored by Vitamin companies, bread company and independent charities! They expected positive effects but unfortunately didn't manage to find any!
Nobody is hiding Vit D. It was well advertised through the pandemic and talked about in many a health blog. Literally everybody was talking about vit D because we were all inside more. This isn't hidden information. No duh you should get the neccesary vitamins and nutrients and try to be healthy🙄 nobody is saying different.
My trust is in Dr. John. I will take his indications as gospel. He does his homework and isn't in the pockets of big pharma or constipated government institutions. Whatever he gets from his channel, he has earned it and may God bless him with a long and happy life. 😀😀😀 ጤናይስጥልኝ !!
Well, if they aimed for such low doses in the presence of a deficiency than it's no surprise to me that there was no effect after 6 months. 3200 IU is more of a maintenance dose. One might think they wanted insignificant results😅
Correct. It is well know amongst scientists and doctors (who care about the topic) that if you want to achieve a good Vitamin D levels in a reasonable amount of time you can take 50 000 IU /day with no ill consequences. Otherwise you will need to take 3200 IU for over a year before you even make a significant dent in your Vitamin D levels. And if you take K2 with vitamin D you can take even higher dosages as the blood calcium levels won't be an issue.
@@jacob1121 i had my mum and dad taking 10 000 iu of vitamin d 3 and mums levels rocked upto 220, doctor said she had never seen anyone with such high levels, dad was 193, I have been told to stop their vitamin d for a month till next blood test.. I should add they also take magnesium and k2 Recent studies have shown that if a person is deficient in magnesium, no amount of Vitamin D3 supplementation will allow a patient to realize the health benefits of adequate Vitamin D. Magnesium is a critical factor in making Vitamin D bioavailable. Soooo in short, st marys test, were they checking their vitamin d levels? were they also taking magnesium? Mum is 93 and dad is 95. Even though we are in australia, due to skin cancer, we all hide from the sun.
Yeah, even though the study was done by people who would make money off of the sales of vit D ....but it's all about money right....🙄 He didn't even give us all the info, again. The study doesn't even talk about prevention...and you would know that if you read it yourself.
I am bewildered by the ignorance of people in the USA about the importance of nutrition and what they should be doing to have a long healthy life. A big Thank You to Dr. John Campbell for getting the word out about vitamin D early in the covid crisis along with many other health style tips.
So appreciate your knowledge and ability to communicate the info in a way we can understand with perspective. Very up to date and important information for us to know how to better protect ourselves. Thanks for the worldwide perspective. Grateful from Virginia.
Both me and my partner are on Vit D with adequate blood levels. We both caught Covid (2 different years) but neither of us had much for symptoms. (Him fever, me taste/smell) Currently my covid blood antibody titer is high at 3.36. I feel Vitamin D was helpful keeping our illness mild from the infection.
One thing I thought of is the dosing of d3 being relatively low in the low dose. From what I could gather, the blood level of d3 in this group did not rise significantly and so the result should not be significant. The high dose did raise the blood level more, but when did they cross over from being insufficient to sufficient? If it took them a couple of months that means that they where insufficient half of the duration of the studie. I also don't really understand the control group, or the not offered group. Since this group is does not test level of d3 (if I didn't misunderstand?) It would mean that not all in this group is insufficient and if higher levels of d3 in blood meant less chans for infection, part of this group is already less likely to get infections since not all are insufficient. The control should obviously also be low in d3?
I usually take 2,000 iu's a day, though in winter I might take twice that. I've been doing that since 1998. Very rarely do I have any symptoms of any infection, though before I started doing that, I had frequent colds and even a couple skin infections. Early on i was getting that vitamin D accidentally in a vitamin A supplement, as I thought that vitamin A was supposed to be the immune vitamin. But the only form of vitamin A that worked was that which was derived from fish oil, which also has vitamin D. The "dry" vitamin A did not work. Eventually vitamin D hit the news as the immune vitamin, and then I realized why the dry A did not work, because it had no vitamin D in it.
Love your work John. Thank you for your important work on the current global research regarding many aspects of COVID 19 and various treatments. You have become a trusted source of information that is reliable and accessible to the public. Bless your little cotton socks John🥰
Thank you. Because of your videos 2 years ago I started to take vitamin D. It helped me emencely. Pain that I thought was soul pain disappeared. I experienced it for most of my life.
Can we please consider this possibility: They take the test swab from your nasopharyngeal mucosa. That mucosa exists to trap antigens (dust, spores, bacteria, viruses, dander, pollen) so your immune system can destroy an immobilized enemy. The PCR tests don't differentiate between live, intact viruses, and fragments of destroyed viruses. I suspect the rapid antigen tests also don't discriminate. I had chickenpox as a child, and so did my ex. As adults, we nursed four children through chickenpox three separate times. Our oldest boy and my younger stepson when they were 13 months and 4 years old respectively. Then, our youngest caught it at a birthday party 10 years later when he was almost 3. Then, a couple years after that, our daughter caught it when she was 14. I'll bet you 20 inflation-adjusted dollars to donuts that if you'd swabbed our nasopharyngeal goo while we were dealing with these sick kids, you'd have found it crawling with large quantities of PCR and RAT detectable varicella-zoster virus. Does that mean we were infected? No. It would just mean we were exposed.
Me & my family are not Vax at all,,, we around ppl whom had covid, others with chicken pox, flu etc,,,,,we obviously get infected but no symptoms as immune system is killing it naturally...It seems most of my mates have same condition as not Vax and we have ones Vax and there families are always having issues....To me it's logical to alow immune system does its job instead being interrupted by a vaccine....Times & place for vaccines but not now as since Vax, it's getting worse & worse.....18mths prior to Vax, very few deaths & infections
I think you're suggesting that the good doctor make sense, not self censor, and not obsess about "aspiration" and Vitamin D. Not going to happen. I've urged him to consider education regarding the body's primary defenses and how to maintain them so as not to get infected with anything, to no avail whatsoever.
@@jennybensaidane922 Jenny, please look up more on your own, but it is my understanding that without K2, Vitamin D supplementation will leach calcium from your body circulating it in your bloodstream, which then calcifies leading to hardening of the arteries which can cause heart attack and stroke. I'm sure the mechanism is much more complicated or if I have it right, but that is the result. If someone has a better understanding or can point Jenny (and me) to some more reading, please respond.
Hello John I am into 4th day as I write with covid and now have runny nose with no let up I began 800 iu 3 months ago it hasn't been at all pleasant I must say flu at its meanest,I'm 64 this year and in the past was diagnosed with emphysema I have not experienced any breathlessness or pain whatsoever in my chest and yet believe me it searches all your joints and muscles. Had I not taken the vit D who knows but that's my feed back and it's thanks to you. X
John I would like to tell everybody how this covid runs it's course from the start. It begins as with mine,clearing of the throat and little appetite.following day deep almost uncontrollable cough,breathing through the nose helps cos it feels like skin tickling the throat ,then it's shaking you feel freezing cold,dizziness takes over and a strong headache and swishing noises if you move your head or eyes,you feel very dry and even though you've only had a sip every now and then you will constantly be going to the toilet. Every thing feels sore with aches,pains it will tell you where your Arthritis is and where you thought you didn't have it. you just want to sleep,you go from cold to sweating,this is over 4 days I now have a sneezy constant runny nose. In this time I took no medication relying on my immune system,but I feel so much better albeit a little deaf. This is what to expect hope it helps.
Update. This is now my 5th day. I'm still blowing my nose and having temperature changes also although not dizzy was a bit off balance I also had a bit of confusion making a cup of tea it just seemed to go on and on. Must tell you of what I've discovered. Last night I endulged in a glass of 13% merlot red wine as I wasn't hungry,this covid did not like it,I had Niagara falls from my nose it was trying to get rid of it,it was poison to it. The other thing and this is remarkable,I haven't washed,shaved or anything since Monday morning but there is no body odour whatsoever even though I've sweated buckets,not even under my armpits it is completely free and between my legs,it's taken that over obviously killing bacteria! Unfortunately however my fiance is now beside me in bed with covid which began yesterday with the cough. I know what's coming for her,just hope it's not worse and I don't relapse! I've not taken drugs and I think from experience that's the way to go,but that's my choice. Final point we both had triple jabs leading up to this. Hope this helps.
6th day update. I can't taste and I can't smell a thing,I would have thought this would be at the begining. Anything salty you can't smell or taste even bacon,is salt poison to this virus,being acid. I can taste honey the only sweet thing but can't smell it,this is anti bacterial and the covid don't like it,it starts your nose running to get rid of it. All this tells me it trys to starve you to death to take you over so it can pass it on scavengers! What a thought eh. All other symptoms have gone. My fiance seems to be carrying it better than I was,she's 10 years my junior but really grumpy and argumentative.going for a walk soon to see how I fare with temperatures and breathing.
Hi John. The best explanation of these two trials is that, for COVID-19, Vit D is mainly a marker of sun exposure. Near Infrared light from the sun during the day is proposed to stimulate the mitochondria to make melatonin which mops up excess oxidative stress (which has been shown to be the major problem in COVID-19 via ACE-2 inhibition). The sun, at the same time, makes Vit D. So people with higher natural vitamin D levels will have better oxidative stress. Giving them Vit D will not change this only getting out into the sun. We talked about this on MedCram 2 months ago. See "Light as Medicine" or "The Case for Sunlight in COVID 19 Patients: Oxidative Stress"
Dr. Seheult, I would like to thank you for your star MEDCRAM video on the importance of "Sunlight exposure beyond vitamin D". Especially I watched with my daughter and son, minutes 50-59, when as I understand, you explain in a diagram how receiving (near) infrared rays from sunlight, starting in the morning, is "key for welllness of life's (Krebs) cycle" in human eucariot cells with mitochondrias, because it triggers needed 95% production of intracellular antioxidant melatonin. Then, in "normal" human sun exposure, blood's vitamin D and intracellular melatonin are simultaneously increased to healthy levels, and go together, as I think that you point out in this comment. I wish that you make a new video with Dr. Campbell, and include this.
Will be interesting to see how old Javid declared investigation into vit d and health issues for the population flags up. Will the no benefit study feature alot in his "findings". In the meantime, I am happy to keep supplementing daily with the cheap vit d widely available.
@@lulusbackintown1478 I think big pharma would rebrand the name and charge the NHS huge long term contracted fee for the product and thus allowing old Javid a good personal gain from the rebranding.
I can't wait to see what Sajid ends up recommending... I bet it's still a sub optimal dose and in winter only....they all get a bit nervous nellie when it comes to Vitamin D
@@lulusbackintown1478 It has been NHS guidance for a long time that all adults in the UK should take Vitamin D supplements between October and April. The NHS website also explains why: the low angle of the sun during the winter months means the required UV is filtered out so even a good level of exposure to sunlight will not produce adequate Vitamin D.
@@mjwilliamsb2676 I checked the NHS site it says 400 IUs. Yes in the winter. Ive taken 5000 IUs daily(plus vit k) for 15 months and my blood test has come back 'insufficient'.
I don't know why but I always thought vitamin D protected us from severe/critical condition but not against being infected. So just what these studies are showing. Mmmmmm....in fact I find the idea reasonable. 😉 I just started on my D+K March 2020 under the advice of a highly qualified researcher. But he never ever told me I couldn't get infected, only that the possibilities of getting mild/moderate or even light symptoms were higher if we kept vitamin D+K levels in good numbers.
@@orionishi6737 yes I have known a lot of "experts" during the pandemic. Reality is the info never arrived to public on the very first months.... So yes...very well known 😂😂😂😂😂
For the first study I wonder about 2 things 1) The amount of Vit D taken is fairly low. I’ve heard it is optimal if you are deficient to take as much as 10,000 UI. And, you mention Vitamin K2 to help with absorption. 2) intake does not necessarily mean absorption. It would have been useful if they had tested patients for D blood levels after infection and compare this data.
The problem with the UK study is that it selects for people with Vitamin D deficiency, offers treatment, but doesn't seem to check whether they became Vitamin D sufficient or replete. It doesn't matter how much Vitamin D you take, it matters what Vitamin D blood level you reach. Not everyone metabolizes oral Vitamin D efficiently.
I’m sitting here with covid as I write. I have taken vitamin d since the start of the pandemic. My symptoms aren’t too bad, headache, coughing, congestion and fatigue. I have semi actively getting out since January to try to get omicron because I have travel planned this year and I wanted it out of the way so it couldn’t ruin my plans. I finally gave that up a couple of weeks ago and started being more careful again because my first trip was coming up and there was no longer enough time to catch it and recover. Sure enough, today I had to cancel all my plans. 😩
@Bobb Grimley you've clearly not seen or heard the released, under court order in usa, Pfizer trial documents.....it's about as useful as a chocolate fire guard. Massive lies and twisting of facts, truly unreal, we've all been taken for fools. Wrecks the immune system each jab too....we need some ropes
@Bobb Grimley A brazenly vast and ignorant statement of yours. Last time i checked Mathematics is part of the field of "science". And "nobody" is false too, as not everybody in total does disagree. Also, those that do disagree should be checked what interest they have to disagree, is it financial, political or maybe the good old ego being afraid to rescind previous statements made as a professional and loosing face? The last two years should have opened everyones eyes to the fact that science isn't as infallible and consensual as depicted in media and that we currently have a massive corruption running the field of pharmacy because there is easy made money in it. It's more politics than science! Point is, it's MUCH more complicated than just hand waving away something/someone inconvinient you disagree with.
When the doctor from Israel talked about Vitamin D in the very first interview on the topic and what he did with his clients - I'm sure he said that even when some of his patients were infected with Covid and went into hospital - it didn't end up severe for them nor did any die. So, even then it was obvious that Vitamin D didn't necessarily stop or prevent anyone from being infected.
Not logic! We need to fear monger and offer "hidden health information" like getting the neccesary vitamins and nutrients and generally being healthy. How could they keep that from us!? ....sarcasm...btw.
It depends at what stage they were diagnosed with COVID. It may have been a week after they started the Vitamin D therefore the stores hadn’t been built up to optimal levels.
I've been taking vitamin D supplements for around 18 months, although not particularly for the immune system benefits. Vitamin D affects a very wide range of functions--which I only became aware of when I ran into issues I would never have considered vitamin related. To keep the tale brief, about 18 months ago I began to suffer memory problems. These appeared at random moments but were severe enough for me to worry that they were the first signs of dementia. for example, I got lost driving to work--a place I'd been employed for over 10 years and I was only a few hundred yards from the entrance when I had to pull over and get out my GPS as I didn't recognise the road. Even more alarming, I awoke one morning to find I had been drugged and kidnapped then dumped in bed in an unfamiliar room. . . but why had my abductors also brought so many of my belongings? I was, of course, in my own bedroom but I had a minute or two of panic. Called my GP, he had me book a blood test which came back as showing very low vitamin D levels (the phrase 'barely detectable' was used). Prescribed a month of megadose vit D (don't recall the actual dosage) with a recommendation to continue to supplement through the winter at 4000 IU dropping to 1000 IU in the summer months. Memory issues disappeared after a few weeks and haven't reappeared since (thankfully). Looking back over that 18 month period I am surprised to note that, despite normally being the first to catch any colds or flu circulating, I've had no seasonal respiratory infections over the last two winters. It's possible, of course, that social distancing, masks and obsessive hand cleaning helped minimise exposure to infection. I also note that last summer, for the first time in over 30 years, I had no hay fever at all and I didn't need any medication (whereas, even with anti-histamines I am usually have a streaming nose and sore red eyes for about 2 months!). Despite some comments here, it is difficult to obtain sufficient vitamin D from food alone, however 'healthy' one's diet, and winter sunlight in northern climes produces low levels even in those who are habitually outdoors (which isn't me anyway).
@@MrPaulMorris Yes, I understand that, obviously, but unless you're shirtless at 12 noon everyday day, young healthy and light skinned you're not going to get high levels sourced from the sun and also you're not going to get high levels sourced from food. You have to remember that it is what is absorbed and bioavailable and not necessarily what is taken. I'm 60 years old without a gall bladder so I supplement with about 7600 IU daily year round. I stand by my statement.
A study should also have been done on iodine - an anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal element, especially in the amounts given to patients pre-1940s. A lot of these studies are damage control studies by industry meant to protect the interests of prescribing the more expensive medecines.
Now may be just the time. We have the internet, testing is cheaper and iodine is reasonably priced. I’d love to see it as part of Zoe. Which should continue to be funded even if only for minimizing the adverse impact on mental health.
Exactly, he is completely ignoring the concept of confounding. The explanation is that Vitamin D is a marker, not a cause. Perhaps its a marker for obesity, activity, or other things.
My family including wife who has heart failure not had any of the jabs, no masks, no testing and just got on with life, covid not been an issue, can't say the same for jabbed friends who seem to be testing postive for the seventh time or seem to be poorly in general, some seem to have also passed well before their time......
From the U.S.A. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE NOS GOING TO GO UP HERE...IT IS RISING...... Glad i listen to you and was prepared...thank you so much...please continue to give us information....you are right on...been taking Vit D high levels. so far so good.
I love how YT slaps a "Get the latest information from the CDC about COVID-19" banner below your videos. Given the info they've pushed during the pandemic, that's the last place I'd look for honest, accurate, relevant information.
1. They did not take into account the lag with ingested vit D becoming activated sp while the study was nominally 6 months the duration of actual effective supplementation would have been much shorter. 2. The confidence intervals were very wide so the lack of SS means very little. 3. They only tested levels at the end of six months so we do not know how long it took for levels to rise. 4. Levels in the no offer group almost doubled, so likely some participants self-medicated. One person in the no-offer group even ended up with excessive levels of vitamin D! Obviously this reduces the apparent treatment effect. Conclusion should be "underpowered rubbish study achieves nothing".
Yeah they also probably didnt test to see if people were absorbing the vitamin D and they also didnt take the vitamin with some sort of animal fat that increases absorption in the gut
Thank you once again for your update I keep an eye out for your posts every day am still taking the vits and still ok no infection , bearing in mind that pre covid i used to get horiffic chest flu infections most years , but since religiously taking the vits i have been infection free no covid etc ...thank you for being there .
"...Just get the feeling that something's not quite right." Same here, Dr. Campbell. I'd be very interested in several additional data points: 1.Time from initial vitamin D level to final level at end of the study. (Both the rate of change and the final values might be revealing. Having read extensively on vitamin D these past two years, I've noticed that there's substantial variation in both individual responses to the same dose as well as the final values in individuals for any given dose. And, as you're aware, several weeks are required for the body to actually convert tabular vitamin D into usable form in the body. 2. For those tested positive for infection: What were these individual's Vitamin D level changes from initial level to date of test confirmation of infection? 3.Were there safeguards to exclude individuals with existing, chronic infections? If not, the study blows up. (I'm assuming there was a bias to picking individuals with some sort of health issue(s).
The reason could be that it is about exposure to Sun, which not only improves D vit but also improves local melatonin to fight free radical damage. When you supplement vit D only you dont have that antioxidation effect, check video on MedCram Channel: Sunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (Light Therapy and Melatonin)
As someone who has been taking between 20 - 30,000 IU and 180mcg K2 for the past two years - my reaction to these trials is a cross between bitter laughter and head in hands.
That is an exceptionally high dose. Ludicrously high imo. 30k per day 😐 seriously? So your scoffing a whole bottle every two days. For real? Can you give your rationale for that level please?
Interesting John and thanks. Might you have had a chance to look at the data mentioned in medcram's: 'Vitamin D Reduces Autoimmune Diseases: New Research' episode? As someone who spend many years in the Arctic and developed autoimmune, and later after a life-threatening autoimmune condition that improved dramatically after getting getting my D-25 levels up to a normal or above level, I also noticed that being older now I've not suffered from severe one major repository infections as I did my entire life. As there seems to be pretty conclusive evidence in very large and well conduced study that Vitamin D supplementation improved autoimmune conditions in the study group, and knowing personally how autoimmunity seems to negatively effect infection outcomes, I question if that is reason enough to advise maintaining optimum D25 levels?
Multiple Sclerosis & Fibromyalgia here. 10,000UI D3 a day with K2, Zinc, and C. Haven't been real sick since I started taking them that way in 2020. Had only the sniffles when everyone else had a severe cold, no MS new symptoms either. Fibro is another story though. Covid infected the house but I only tested early and was negative. Never felt bad so I didn't re-test. Been Vaxed x3.
@@Sweetyhide Thanks! Pretty much my story, Super super high ANA with markers for SLE, Sjogren's, Gluten reactivity, many food and environmental allergies, Celiac and early stage Crohn's. Fibromyalgia extreme weakness, chronic Kidney and bladder infections. At one point an internist was positive I had Kidney Cancer and gave me 6 to 9 months and prescribed the Oregon Health Authority suicide pills. The way I felt i figured I'd be dead in 6 months if things kept on that trajectory. I paid to have my My D25 checked add I was at 5 ng/mL. I started with about 10,000IU per day and in a week felt better, at 6 weeks I was a back to where I could walk, My D25 levels were at 12 ng/mL in mid winter. When I was able to get to about 20 ng/mL blood work and energy improved. and my ANA levels were down dramatically. After 9 months I felt like living again and had follow-up done for cancer and none was confirmed. Vitamin, E, C, K2, Zinc, magnesium Oil of oil of oregano w fennel oil and Apple cider vinegar, turmeric and anti-inflammatory stuff helped, and after about 18 months helped get digestive inflammation back to where I could eat some solid foods. 6 years on still alive but I'm unable to see a doctor as none in my State are taking new patients, much less those who may need medical help. I can't even go to the hospital or emergency room because I was trespassed for refusing to show ID on a public street to a hospital security guard. I have a video: ruclips.net/video/m3HdtyF5wnQ/видео.html Thus is the state of Public Healthcare in America, and for the time being, stoic endurance is the only option for many
May I just sound a word of warning, addressed specifically and only to those suffering from an autoimmune disease called Sarcoidosis. A cohort of people suffering from this disease do not metabolise Vitamin D properly. For these people, the build up of Vitamin D can lead to severe kidney damage, and flare-ups, if unchecked. Anyone with Sarcoidosis should not take Vitamin D, without very careful medical supervision. This issue is unique to Sarcoidosis sufferers, and for the general population, Vitamin D is a genuine health gift.
Thanks for sharing. You might want to have a look at page 22 of the first study. More specifically, the row 'Acute Covid19 outcomes'. Without Vitamin K, 800 IU/day might be a better choice. Of course, it might be more valuable if the study took vitamin K into account when they have given participants 3200 IU/day Vit D. Meanwhile, in the footnote (page 23), it says:" this analysis excludes data from participants randomized to either intervention arm who reported that they took vitamin D capsules ‘less than half the time’ as well as those randomized to the no-offer arm who reported any intake of supplemental vitamin D during follow-up." When you compare Table 2 with Table 3, you might realise that the sample size of no-offer group is decreased from 2949 to 1331.
Thank you John , since watching your videos I have started taking vit D every day , whether it helps with covid or not , considering how much time we have spent indoors the last 2 year , plus i work indoors , then it certainly cant do any harm
After routine bloodwork taken over six years ago, I found that I had a Vit D deficiency. My Dr. explained that since I live in NY and I have brown skin, it made sense that I would have such a deficiency. He prescribed Vit D but I didn’t take it seriously and never took it. However, when the COVD pandemic hit and Dr. Campbell and various physicians (including my Dr.) talked about the importance of Vit D, I started taking it. I’ve been taking 10,000 IUs for about a year (5,000 IUs before that). I haven’t caught as much as a cold in five years. I’m not saying that Vit D protected me from cold or flu but this is my anecdotal evidence. By the way, prior to the bloodwork, I the last time I had the flu was when I was about twelve years old (four decades ago) and rarely got a cold (perhaps once every two years or so), but one of my best friends died from complications of COVID so better safe than sorry.
I don’t mind they didnt give some people d. they should have tested everyones level first and split them all up evenly. Then give the three groups the diffrent levels of vitamin d. I love how they contaminate the test right from the start.
Used to get a couple of colds a year with Upper respiratory infections. Have been taking VitD3 and vitc since March 2020 and not even a sniffle so I am sold on the benefits of Vit D3. It is cheap and as far as I am concerned - effective. I was unwell in late December 2019 through to end of January 2020 so could have been covid but no way of knowing as no-one aware of it then. Have not been unwell or have had any covid symptoms since the start of the Pandemic.
Hello John! I can confirm the observation exactly. My vitamin D level in 09/2020 was 60 ng/ml and I was consistently taking 10000 IU per day. In 11/2020 I then had COVID (unvaccinated) with 5 days of moderate flu symptoms and a total of 3 weeks of weakness. In 12/2021 I measured again and only had 46 ng/ml. I would have expected more. COVID has depleted vitamin D. I also have an friend who is not supplementing with vitamin D and was down to 2 ng/ml post COVID, a clear sign that the body is using vitamin D to fight off infection. To me, this is clear evidence that high levels of vitamin D help with infections. Greetings from Germany!
Actually on second thought did either of you happen to know the levels of other vitamins in your blood? Low levels of vitamin D don’t necessarily indicate that it’s all being used up to fight Covid. Maybe Covid just somehow depletes the body of all vitamins. ☹️ I hope you respond because you’re a more reliable source since you have numbers. Thanks.
@@juliad988 No, unfortunately not. I'm just monitoring my vitamin D levels. It is very likely that other vitamins and minerals will also be used as our bodies fight off an infection. It should always be an interaction of many components, but vitamin D is probably the most important component, which is essential for a variety of functions.
Thanks again , John for the relentless pursuit of the truth ! You are a hero of legend , you fight for us and all that is good and true . Love and Respect to you brother . 💟, 🖖!
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Hi John, The Doctor from Israel you had on your Channel sometime ago said that NONE of his PATIENTS with covid that were taking 4000 u of vit D ended up in hospital ! In other words they were infected but did not get severe illness ending up in Hospital . Totally consistent with the results of these 2 studies as you say. Perhaps invite that doctor back. Ron
Excellent suggestion. I love the dialogues with the people he’s had on. Every one of them.
Dr. Cohen also stipulated that his clients were fairly young, people with higher vitamin d are more likely to be living a healthier lifestyle in general, getting outside and exercising creating better outcomes with regards to mental health and diet. IMO the best advise is to get outside, exercise, eat healthy and have fun, if you are bed bound or can't get vitamin d naturally then there probably is some benefit in supplements.
@@cantstandya157 A Vitamin D3 supplement would definitely help them, in comparison to done, if they are bedridden.
Even if you do get outdoors most days and exercise outside, etc. you still can benefit from D3 supplementation because you are very likely not getting enough vitamin D naturally from sunlight depending on where in what hemisphere you live in and what time of year it is, or if you wear sunscreen or covered in clothing then you are blocking vitamin D absorption. Most of the year where I live, it is not possible to get ample vitamin D naturally because the days are short in the winter and it is too cold to expose skin. I’ve been taking 5000iu since 2020 and I have not had covid or any illness at all. No harm in taking this amount either.
@@crayonofdarkness215 If you live close the equator plenty of stinking hot sun to burn you don't need supplements, 30 mins to an hour is plenty unless you like getting cooked or skin cancer. I laugh when I see people slapping sunscreen on like plaster & think outdoor is making them healthy yet they get no Vit-D or very little. Yes I can understand people living further north or south from the equator especially during winter will have deficiency in Vit-D, it's known in history when they call it the winter flu. Keeping you Vit-D levels high keeps you immune strong & healthy, older people benefit the most.
My wife and I have been on Vitamin D3/k2 and thus far we have dodged the virus while all around us have fallen foul of it. Thank-you Doctor for your guidance.
Im a bit bothered by this K2 combo only because im on Warfarin blood thinner. Im not worried about it inhibiting the Warfarin because that can always be adjusted. I just can't tell if the Warfarin neutralizes the positive action of K2 as part of the d3/k2 combo.
Me too and im not jabbed 64 years old and before improving and changing my diet plus taking vitamin d3 regulaly caught everything going!!! Have thankfully escaped covid and can only put it down to these changes!!..
My family are the same while everyone around us got covid.
Me too!
I know 327 who have been taking D3/K2 since before the pandemic. All have caught covid, some very ill. Which of out conclusions is scientifically correct?
I have been on high dose vitamin D for just over 2 years and I haven’t had any infections where as normally I’d have at least 3 chest infections over that time
Therefore it MUST be the vitamin D and nothing else. 😂 I'm glad your mind feels better but this is why we do scientific studies even if the ppl who do them sometimes suck.
My mood has improved. :D
It could be the mask and distancing.
@@zakariahussein962 masks that most are wearing only offer 5 to 10% social distancing doesnt work either, foctors on the news here showed youd need 30 meters and also time to allow the particles to settle .
Maybe because everyone is wearing masks and washing their hands every 5 mins is why you haven't caught any virus this year. Your trial of 1 subject means nothing lol
I’m a 73 year old female my husband is 70 on Vit. D3, zinc, etc. At the beginning of Covid we listened to top specialist Peter McColough,
who suggested we took these vitamins. We duly did, and here we are two years on and we haven’t had as much as a sniffle. We did not hide away with fear, we went about our business as usual, obviously doing what was expected of us. Washed hands, sterilised hands, kept 1.5 mtr distance and wore masks when told to. I believe Vit. D and zinc definitely helped us.
"doing what was expected of us". If you were expected to jump off a cliff, would you?
You didn't need masks nor distancing.
@@typhoon2827 some country's have mandatory maskng , to access shops , and ride shares - including public transport , hospitals , and the like .
Good upon you both , in keeping well . I'm of a similar age , and unvaxed , with no sniffles etc , confirmed for 2nd time as COVID free via RAT yesterday .
@@davidarundel6187 yes, I know. My statement remains valid.
Thanks for your channel. Am 70 years old, unvaccinated, taking Vit D, got Covid. Had 36 hours of mild flu-like symptoms (headache, stiffness) at start, otherwise OK. Now waiting for quarantine period to end. All the best!
What dose are you taking?
My wife (double jabbed) tested positive 5 days ago, I (unvaccinated) have been taking vitamin d3, k2, zinc, vitamin c and a multi vitamin for several months. We have been isolating together sharing the same space for the entire time, she is unwell and I am unaffected and I just tested negative (RAT). As far as I am concerned (anecdotally) Vitamin D works.
Same here dude (doesn’t add up ay)
@Bot great info thanks
Er actually it's your innate immune system that works. Vit d just happens to be a crucial component in that system.
Wonder if the following is just affecting the Jabbed children only - "Parents in the UK are being warned to check their children for signs of hepatitis after more than 70 youngsters aged under 10 were diagnosed with the illness."
D3 Seems to be working for me too. Unvaxxed, 1 week ago my 4 year old tested positive after having had a fever. I've shared his drink bottle and got him to cough in my face a few times but no result so far!
So good how Dr Campbell gives a summary at the start. RUclipsrs "never" do this as want to force everyone to watch until the end.
I still feel forced to watch til the end
@@SamFreedom, I don't feel forced to watch until the end, but I feel compelled to watch it all.
Exactly. Sometimes I do, other topics I don't . But I love been given a good choice.
RUclipsrs cannot force you to do anything....
Isn't there some kind of requirement to watch a certain amount of the video to get the monetary compensation?
I was interested to hear that the study that found no significant differences between groups was from St Mary's Hospital, London (AND that they had (?) progressively SELECTED which patients to exclude from the study). When I was subediting for the BMJ (as I've already told you) I edited a study from St Mary's that started with a large number of patients but then gave results in percentages only - contrary to BMJ rules, which insisted on numbers. Trying to be helpful, I calculated in reverse what the actual numbers should have been, based on the percentages - and inserted them. When the authors checked the proofs they were very irritated. It turned out that, during the course of the trial, patient number had diminished for various reasons - from hundreds to less than 10! So the percentages gave the impression of far better results than was actually the case. I can't now remember whether they'd given any statistics (it was a long time ago), but the paper must have been peer reviewed to have been accepted for publication.This illustrates the importance of rigorous subediting, even after peer review.
the same thing just crossed my mind watching the video. it seemed odd that they using such different quantites of people for each group so i calculated the multiples using the percentages and the results are reversed. but as it's presented (number × %) people will get the wrong impression if they're innumerate, which most people are. so you're right.
doctors and the medical proffession are not what they used to be and sadly we are worse off becouse of that i am 66 and i remeber how the doctor would check your vitals first, look at your skin, nails, breathing etc they would spend time getting to what the problem was.
now you are in and out before you get a chance to tell your doctor anything its like speed dateing
@@stephenmeinhold5452 Absolutely. Also meanwhile you wait patiently your appointment, appears a pharmacy comercial man to have a chat with your doctor about what to say or prescribe instead doing what they used to do. I've seen this at the Spanish Health system but I used NHS as well in mi time in England I didn't see this but they treated me as you said, quick as every part in the world I suppose.
Wow. Sneaky
Oh dear ! Wouldn't have happened when Sir Harry was in the driving seat. The perps would have been "Mincemeat".
Somebody trying to give Javid a "Soft landing" on his call for evidence ?
Two supplements which I've perceive have a positive effect which the user (Me) can readily detect themselves, winter supplementation of Vit D + the added Ginseng in some multi-vitamin preparations.
Correction
I got misled until I closely examined the screen text @ 0:48 Dr Campbell said St Mary's, whereas the text on the screen says Queen Mary's. Two entirely different institutions. The St Mary's with a medical school and post-graduate Research facility (Now part of Imperial College London) is located in Praed St, West London whereas Queen Mary's is a conglomeration medical institutions up the East end, St Paul's, Whitechapel etc.
And Queen Mary's apparently doing a bit of school-boy naughtiness . . . and doing so with their admission standards at A-Level (A*+AA).
So, with a clear conscience I can continue to Ra ! Ra ! St Mary's and Prof Fergusson et al.
Wait a minute, when did anybody (qualified) say correct vitD level would protect from actually catching covid? I've spent the last 2 years with the understanding that the whole vitD vs covid argument is that it helps /optimise/ the human immune system to best deal with it. As far as I recall Doc Campbell et al have never prior even suggested it could help avoiding catching it. It's the severity results that matter in these studies, surely?
and yet neither of these studies look at whether vit D CAUSES a person to have less severe Covid disease. Causation cannot be found in a correlational study like the Israel study. There are far too many obvious confounding variables to conclude the link is causal. Think about it - what causes worse disease? obesity and sedentary lifestyle are known comorbidities. What causes low vit D? obesity and sedentary indoor lifestyle. So just measuring vitD levels and disease severity leaves out a whole lot of pertinent variables. The vit D level may be coincidental. That is why the gold standard is an experimental study, with double blind and controlled interventions. It does not have to have tens of thousands of subjects, just needs to be designed well and anti-bias rules adhered to. I still take vit D but have healthy skepticism about it still, and feel my regular outdoor workouts are far more important.
Yes. Never got Delta, I think! Age 77 I had Omicron at Christmas, slight sore throat and cough for a couple of days. I carried on as normal with no problems as did everyone else i know who got it. The media hysteria continues unabated though.
Exactly
I agree absolutely. My 58 year old wife (not jabbed) had covid a few weeks ago. She was quite poorly (flu like symptoms) for a couple of days but has now fully recovered. She takes D3 (with K2)..........
I agree , have been taken 50000 iu vit D for 6 month ,vitD level when tested was 375nmoL/L i still got covid , had it for about 18 days
I followed your Vitamin D advice a few months ago and I think it's helped me get over Covid. I'm a fit unvaccinated 64 year old and on the 14th day after getting covid I was back running again. I also walked every day during infection, I stay in the countryside so didn't meet anyone.
Dr Campbell. Your amazing. Thanks for keeping us posted. You deserve a medal. Thanks from me and my family
Just imagine how many millions of lives could have been saved if only Vitamin-D₃ cost $10/pill instead of 2¢!
This
Yes, or if it was patented by one of the big pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer...
the goverment did NOT want to save lives . The agenda is to de poulate the planet .
Haha
yup, big wink!
Pre-pandemic I used to take D3 during the winter months (I live in the UK) Since the beginning of the pandemic I've taken it daily, plus magnesium, zinc and a probiotic. I haven't contracted Covid while others around me have. I'll be continuing with my D3 supplement for ever more.
Same and I work in a residential setting!
I'm curious what is the deference between D3 and plain D? If any.
Add Quercitin to the mix twice daily and then ur good
@@sncnutrition7118 will look into that, take it your not selling
@@stephen3654 thanks 😊
I hope once Covid is over you keep uploading stuff about health. Love to listen to your calming voice about interesting medical science. :)
I doubled my already high intake of vitamine D3 during the Covidcrisis and combined it with vit A and K2. Much to my surprise my seasonal depression diasappeared. I normally use a daylight lamp but since then my vit D levels got as high as 215 nmol/ l and no more winter depression, I didn’t use the daylight lamp anymore. I think the extra D3/K2 is less expensive than the electricity used for my daylight lamp. High vit D is also very beneficial for the tooth bone and enamel.
I know it varies by person but may I ask how much vitD daily? I've added vitD + k in the last yr or two and have noticed a difference in mood and SAD that I've suffered w all my adult life. I've heard such conflicting advise in regards to how much should be used daily. Many functional Drs have stated up to 10,000 is perfectly safe, and needed in winter but others freak out if it's anything over 4000. I'm assuming it's bc that's the upper tolerable intake that's universally recommended but from my understanding those "recommended amounts" were never accurate to begin with. I feel confident that 5000 is safe but I'm hesitant to go above that atm without blood testing but I'm so curious if it'd make an even bigger positive difference. Like I said, I've noticed improvement but there's certainly room for more lol. I also have a daylight lamp but can't seem to be consistent w using it.
@@crazyratlady3438 I have impaired absorption in the stomach so I am used to taking a lot. 10.000 IU seems ridiculous to me. I take 4000-6000 IU in combination with Vit A and K2 and magnesium. The fats soluble vitamines are best taken in a fatty form, oil or emulsion so that’s what I do.
I am glad to hear vit D in higher dose improved tour SAD ad well. It was unexpevted surprise for me. It didn’t click until after two winter seasons and a bloodtest that showed my vit D was over 200 nmol/l. I also take 400 mg of magnesiumcitrate which is essential to me. I suffer from chronic stomach inflammation( autoimmune gastritis) among a few other autoimmune diseases.
I take 10,000 to 15,000 a day, because I have very low absorption, I get my blood test every 6 months for everything. My vitamin D levels are only in the norm but in the middle, so in the winter I up it even 5,000 more because I want it in the norm but on the higher end.
@@martinavancampen-wierda9026 yes I take a whole arsenal of vits..d3+k2 (w coconut oil), magnesium, fish oil, spirulina/chlorella, grass fed beef liver, multiple mushroom extract, liver support (dandelion, milk thistle, burdock, artichoke, peppermint), immune blend (C, D, zinc, selenium, copper, quercetin, vitC cofactors), turmeric/olive leaf/tart cherry blend, Morning Complete (probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, many other compounds for full system and digestive support) and LOTS of vitC w bioflavonoids and polyphenols..oh yeah, and recently added cell salts. Like I said, an arsenal lol. I've been studying and tinkering w this for several yrs now due to many health symptoms that developed in my early 40's. The supplements along w a complete diet change has made a world of difference. I'm not 100% but I know I at least slowed down whatever was happening, drastically. Strengthening my bodies ability/functioning to handle whatever assaults I can't control or are unaware of, and I'm assuming I'm healing, it sure feels that way. I do have some relapsing of symptoms at times but it's far less and less intense. I'm hoping to one day soon find a qualified functional Dr and get all the appropriate testing done and guidance..just to be sure and to make it easier. Maybe then I can narrow down some of the supplementing or at least tailor it more precisely, and most importantly to understand more what's going on and how best to correct it. I will say, I've come a LONG way all on my own and the things I know now as opposed to just 5yrs ago is simply amazing. I encourage everyone, every chance I get to self educate on these matters, it's so very important in our societies current state. One last thing, anyone taking supplements or considering it should ALWAYS do their due diligence or find someone trusted who has bc there are SO many very important things to consider regarding supplements (just wanted to add that for anyone who happens to come along and read this)😊
I believe vitamin D with vitamin K has truely made a massive difference to my health. I’m 65 not vaccinated and was wrongly diagnosed with Copd a couple of years ago . Was put on different inhalers with no relief, had a chronic cough to the point of vomiting 🤮. When Covid started and I started my on research . I stopped my inhalers and within a couple of months taking vitamin D and K my coughing STOP !!! I also suffered with chronic excema in my ear which would cause infections, again this has totally disappeared. So I’m listening to my body !!! Thank you 🙏 Dr Campbell
I started vitamin D and haven’t been sick for 4 years. Not even a cold. I have 6 grandkids that live near me, and as we know they are always sick
Cheers to you and to good health!
@@riapelekanos222 I started at 2000iu and during Covid went up to 5000iu. I haven’t noticed any bad effects. I also take it with vitamin K
@@gtbigdog3507 question. why did you stop your inhalers and not just use them while taking vitamin d?
That’s interesting I had a chronic chronic cough also, it went away around March 2020 when I started taking vitamin D but I never made the connection that it might have been from Vitamin D. I have been taking 5000iu in winter and 4000 in summer with 120 mcg K2.
Vitamin D is the silver lining regarding covid for myself personally. Always found the winter months especially difficult through my life with illness and lack of motivation but just got on with it. Have been taking 8000 ICU of Vitamin D with K2 (two tablets) since 2020 and have been all the better for it. Half my heritage is Asian whilst living in the UK, so after hearing your and others advice I was pleased it made such a big difference. Naturally I am very grateful to yourself and take the time to to watch all your videos and the big main updates get passed to my family WhatsApp group who are also very grateful.
Did you really need a RUclips channel to tell you to eat a healthy diet....
Vitamins are not a cure for anything, it just improves your overall health. Like every doctor on earth will tell you.
The highest maximum dose in the USA recommended is 4000 IU. There are symptoms on line of overdose symptoms. The needed recommended amounts are 400-800 IU/day. Some sources recommended up to 2000 IU / day and none are over 4000IU per day. Not sure about ICU measurents.
@@paintspot1509 I have learned alot about vit D from Dr Campbell ..my Dr never even mentioned it ...I asked for a test and was slightly low so now take vit D and K2...so yes...I did need this channel...isn't that why we are here ?...for info ?
@@paintspot1509 Yes of course a healthy diet is essential - but anyone with half a brain cell now knows, if you live in the northern hemisphere or a very hot and sunny country (and you're not a Masai herdsman outside all the time, skin fully exposed) we will all be short on Vitamin D for at least six months of the year, or, in fact, all year round, especially if a person has darker skin. To try to suggest that this can be fixed by merely eating a healthy diet is nonsense - it can't, unless you're like Alaskan natives who almost exclusively eat oily fish, so a D3 supplement is necessary or even essential.
@@vickieyoung7122 most doctors will not insult your intelligence by telling you how to eat proper food. Your lack of basic knowledge is on you, not your doctor.
As a research Chemist I think we see contradictory experimental results often because we are not screening the people who do the research for the necessary skills to work in a lab. That will never be addressed because academic researchers want inexpensive labor to power their research and this topic is not a politically correct topic.
Spot on. I had a new graduate under my supervision, who caused a lab evacuation after spilling nitric acid everywhere. An intelligent woman, but just hopeless in terms of safety and technique. Nothing was done in terms of disciplinary action because this person was part of a protected ethnic group and a female. More woke interference in science.
Wow, good point.
you said it all. couldn't agree more
qualifications or diversity (or simply diversity as a qualification) ~
The timing of the study makes no sense. Study started in the middle of Covid season, which basically ended very early on in the study. So, it makes sense that there would be almost no difference, since vitamin D takes time to metabolize and have a large health effect.
The study should have continued on into the NEXT covid season, to see if the intervention had an impact or not.
I finally got my Vit D levels up to 75. I've been working on this since before covid because of autoimmune issues. I've been very careful the past 2 years. My bf who is vaccinated and also careful to protect me got covid. I literally kissed covid on the lips, never got it. He was in bed for a week. I was quite tired the first few days but I tested all week: 2 rapids and 3 PCR... was negative and felt fine. A take a ton of supplements along with D3/K2, so who knows. But it feels like a miracle 🙌🏽💫
NO. Thank You, Dr. Campbell. For all you do for us. Seriously, you are an angel. Thank You
I had to have a random blood test to rule out arthritis I mentioned I had covid and the Dr asked did I have it mild etc which I answered yes. guess what she checked me for vit d!!! which come back optimal thanks to you Dr John. they know it's a massive help. this was a year ago
wow, here in the u.s. we seem to be avoiding this conversation. but you know, that's how pirates, i mean capitalists are. ahem.
Wow!!!
The peculiar thing is that Vitamin D was indicated as very good for us all along.
@@jondo3817 stop being insane. The vitamin industry is worth billions. How on earth have you not heard about the benefits of a healthy diet....
@@Yakerina who ever told you otherwise? They literally teach how to have a healthy diet in school. Do you really need to government to teach adults common sence.
Good old Dr John. Sensible and balanced. You've kept me going.
Not really. We don’t need any more analysis of studies. We know what nearly every government official did to suppress effective treatments and they must be held accountable. Discussion of anything else is moot.
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A little less of the old, 😏 experience, can't buy that ...but yes, he is good.
@@NCCVE He always dogs the US, but praises smaller countries as "leading the way". He was HUGE pro lockdown, but now he's shifted back to the Vitamin D and Aspiration schtick.
Thank you Dr. Campbell for these videos. I’ve been watching you for two years now. When you make a mistake you say so the next day. You post the links. Both those things give you incredible believably.
Namaste 🙏🏻, Brother.
You look like my dad and two of his first cousins rolled into one person.
My ancestors were from Cork and Scotland. I’m so glad to have found you and I recommend you to everyone.
Thank you for your precise, nuanced videos! I'm so tired of low-quality news coverage that misses the point of studies.
I've been taking 10000 IU Vit D3 daily along with K2 since November, after seeing the paper that you covered which was a meta-analysis suggesting that deaths from Covid could theoretically drop to zero if serum levels were as high as 50-60ng/ml. I also have suffered with psoriasis for the last 35 years and have been on dimethyl fumarate for the last 20 years which has helped but not eliminated the skin lesions. For the last 5 years , I had been taking 1000IU Vit D daily between Oct and April , ever since I had 6 colds in 6 months and my GP checked my levels and said I was deficient in Vitamin D. So I checked my Vit D levels in mid-November and despite taking 1000IU daily, my serum Vit D was only 24ng/ml. I started taking 10000IU daily in mid-November and had my levels checked 2 months later and they went up to 50ng/ml. I'm about to have my levels checked again later this week. Since taking the higher dose of Vit D. my psoriasis has further improved to be almost gone completely. Two weeks ago I caught Covid and my symptoms were so trivial that had I not tested myself I would not have taken a few days off work. Literally had no more than an occasional sneeze and about 36 hours of mild fatigue. I was lateral flow negative after 5 days and was 100% well in myself within 3 days. My wife and son caught it off me and have been more ill than I was and they have not been taking the high doses of Vit D I have been taking. I genuinely believe that this higher dose of Vit has helped me not only with regard to my psoriasis but protected me from a more severe bout of Covid infection than I would otherwise have had. (I'm 62 years old).
I was incensed to see a two-page spread in the Mail on Sunday last weekend, quoting Tim Spector, saying that there is no evidence the Vit D can help with Covid etc.
Tim Spector is pretentious K-unt.
I believe you are right. I firmly believe that high doses of vit D3/K2 are good for many chronic illnesses. I take 9600 IU daily. Thank you for sharing 😊
@@sigrid3553 Yes Spectre believes this because on his Covid symptom tracker app he was asking who was taking vitamin D and comparing them to those who did not supplement. No mention of dosage, which was probably low given that is what uninitiated medics recommend. It's like taking 20 mg of an antibiotic daily instead of 500mg dose and then saying they don't work because the infection didn't clear!
@@helenmurray6786 I agree 100%! The dosage is crucial here, because recommended doses are probably way too low.. Thank you for your comment.
I'm taking 7000 units per day and also 2000 mg vitamin c with every meal I eat because vitamin c peak in our blood after 2,5 hours and stops working after 5 hours so people should take vitamin c every 2,5 hours or at least with every meal👆
Vitamin D is not gonna prevent infection, it reduces the severity of infection.
Though that one of the studies decided to focus on infection prevention goes to how much "good faith" was put in that study.
That makes it a "vaccine" by the now changed definition 😅
its just what they decided to study, how does that make them bad faith exactly? Especially since they are supported by a bunch of companies that produce vitamin D supplements which would obviously like it to be effective in preventing infection. Also they do in fact look at severity but because they didnt have that many people that got infected in the first place you can't really tell if it does or doesnt reduce severe infection (they had 0 deaths from covid in all groups for example and a total of 19 people hospitalized)
The study was most like done to try and discredit the proven benefits of vitamins
Probably pro vaccine agender
That was my main objection to an early study published on HCQ. All of a sudden it was only about prophylactic results and without zinc measurements, it just about became worthless as to settling any issue at all. Why do the study when you've sabotaged the results by ignoring entirely the zinc ionophore angle and particularly only counting numbers that caught it and those that didn't. I don't mind catching the bug, what bothers me to this day is needlessly dying of it, so look at those numbers please and in the future do the study in a fair manner on a subject that matters, or don't rattle my cage. It doesn't help the situation when they have issues with doing outpatient studies in very early cases which is where the Zelenko protocol shined the brightest, his patients to a very large degree did not progress to need a hospital to a remarkable degree. And this was with the dangerous early variants long before vaccines were available at any price. We needed results and were denied that by the healthcare system running into itself like a bunch of keystone cops. They are still at it, don't look now.
What evidence do you have that taking Vit D supplements reduce severity?
My vitamin D3 arrived today after your last post.
Hoping my psoriasis, clinical depression, and musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorder will improve 🤞🏻
Vitamin D deficiency can be a marker for underlying health/metabolic disorders. Best to fix those through diet as much as possible as well as supplement. How is your general weight, health and diet? My father has had psoriasis since he was 4 years old and it cleared up so fast with a change in diet. Increase seafood, red meat and egg consumption, drop the breads, pastas and vegetable oils (olive oil, avo, macadamia oil all fine). Wish you the all the best.
it s sad that information took so long. there were studies on this in april 2020 already (i remember a rogan podcast about it). it s one of the things that has no downside to do but huge benefits if it turns out to be right. but pharma can t make money of it.
@@hurcorh I was a 3* Chef and power lifter I can safely say I know more about diet, health and what I'm talking about
Try intermittent fasting. Also, cut all processed crap. Start at 14-10 then work up to 16-8, 8 hour eating window. I'm not a doctor, but know fasting. Goodluck.
@@andgray No point trying with this guy lol. Thinks he knows best even though his body/mind is falling apart.
For me 🇺🇸 love the accent of Vitamin Dr. 🥰 Look forward to your daily talks everyday. God bless you and your work.
Dear Dr John, when do you plan on giving your analysis of the Ivermectin study recently shared by MSM?
December 2020 was when I got COVID. I had a fever for one day and then it was done. I do have some lingering respiratory issues but not life threatening at all. I had a T cell immunity test 8 months afterwards (with great results) and have had negative PCR antigen tests ever since. (Weekly testing per my employment) I take Vitamin D and Zinc on a regular basis. Keep up the great work, Dr. John!!
I am taking lots of vitamin D because of you. How many others are?
I am too
🙋🏻♂️ Started today
Yes. Started 2 years ago.
Me 🤗
I've been doing it for 20 plus years with vitamin k2 for ~18 years.
As someone whom has conducted a personal one man double blind study on taking vitamin D over the last 40years I can confirm vitamin D has stopped me having flue or covid - and every one around me has had both: As with the black death, I also think your own genetics and constitution has a lot to do with all of this. I have not been vaccinated. Although I take an interest, I stopped worrying about this long ago. I also think we may have killed and screwed up more people than had we just let things run their course.
A 1 person study. Wow that's a powerful study right there (Max sarcasm).
would it make sense to conclude that mass vaccination gave this virus a longer life span ?? being that the mutations and variations come through injection ?
@@808fishman8 No, it really would not. Considering the family tree shows us that Omicron is a variation of the older strain and not of Delta.
@@808fishman8 I would suggest you search using this
"Official Government data suggests the Fully Vaccinated are suffering Antibody-Dependent Enhancement; and the newly published Pfizer Documents prove Pfizer & the FDA knew it would happen"
If I gave you the direct link this post would probably be removed! If you come across any of the fact checkers please look to see who finances their operations and if their staff are qualified to comment on medical matters. Many of them are journalists as Dr Campbell has pointed out before! I would aslo suggest that you use a browser other than the most popular one and leave out duckduckgo as I understand they have now been compromised!
In 2020 a 15yo boy from Mongolia died of Bubonic Plague by eating raw marmot.
Millions of us on vit D deficiency groups have been dismissed by UK doctors . Denied tests.. denied prescription unless critically low levels . Doctors often ignorant to what it causes ..
UK doctors were prescribing in my area during the pandemic. I was prescribed and had to wait a couple of days sometimes to collect prescription. The pharmacist told me that they were ordering large quantities of the form approved by the NHS but demand was still increasing due to the volume of prescriptions.
Strange ! When I had my medication review 2021 I was told my VD level was low and advised to take a supplement, as I was already taking DrC advice I upped my dose, all normal last week.
You don't need a doctor to prescribe you vit d. Just buy the stuff from amazon ffs
you must be limbless in a wheelchair and totally incapable of taking action yourself. you need a man in a white coat to tell you.
If you were denied tests, how can you be sure you were deficient? Don't wait for a prescription, order online from the US. It's not expensive.
I contracted the Beijing Influenza in 1994. Ever since I have not been able to recover from chest congestion from viral infections without steroidal inhalers. In January of this year I started taking 10000iu D3. In March I had both Omicron variants. I recovered very easily without any accompanying congestion issues. I never expected to be protected from infection. I expected to be able to manage the infection and that is exactly what I experienced.
When I’ve had a stressful day, I can always count on you to ground me Dr, thank you - Ontario, Canada 🍁 ♥️
I read the study paper, although the inline tables were not legible.
It was poorly done, I would have suggested they just give people the supplements and not wasted their time on the study.
To start they mention vitamin D, no mention of it was D2 or D3.
Next they had no strict adherence requirement, missing dosing half the time was still accepted.
No sign of them testing blood levels after the first test to assign them to groups.
They assumed 75nmol/L was an optimal level rather than at least a level double of that as being optimal and protective.
They had one person whose baseline level was within a normal range and they called it high.
No bolus dosing to raise levels quickly.
No mention of magnesium or other possibly deficient supplements needed for conversion.
The only way this could have been useful is to test blood levels after dosing at intervals.
I give a failing grade to this high school level paper as it seems they didn't do their homework and talk to people to ascertain what was needed for a valid outcome.
I would like to know what happened to their one participant with the highest vitamin d level which was in the statically protective range.
Excellent that you actually read the preprint. And your critique of it is spot on, M Bell. Thank you.
I've been taking Vit D3 since Dr Campbell first advised it. About seven months ago I had a severely sore throat one afternoon, and thought I was in for a week of unpleasantness, but by the evening it had cleared up. Then my wife developed a streaming cold, that I thought I would get, but all I got was a few sniffles that again quickly cleared up.
Thank you Dr Campbell for all of your advice and research!
My vitD levels were 16 … before covid , i had to have 3 overload courses with blood tests to check for calcium build up… before raised to normal levels , maintenance dose dose not hold my levels within normal. I am outside a lot and healthy diet but am autoimmune which i am told can destroy vitD .
If you have autoimmune check out dr Coimbra - Brazilian neurologist treating with vitamin D etc
Have been taking vitamin D3 + K2 for 6months now.
Have been sharing my ute with workmate , both in it together.
He got omicron, ive been untouched.
But i tell you all my inflammation in my elbows and Achilles tendons have gone, I have NO PAIN anymore.
Thanks Doc
Thank you Joh for doing all the hard work and keeping us up to date. Personally I really appreciate this. Regards. Sean
Anyone who has been investigating Vitamin D for COVID knows that it can take some time to build up the Vitamin D supplies. It can take months to build up the levels to optimise the Vitamin D. The Front Line COVID Clinical Care Doctors recommend 5,000 IU/day to get to the optimal target of >50 ng/ml. The researchers are not giving the optimal amount of Vitamin D.
My wife has good level of vitaminD and she's got omicron after sleeping close to me while I was symptomatic, thought we're both unvaxxed and recovered fairly quickly after mild symptoms.
It seems to me that, in the St Mary's study, the vit D levels in the supplemented group were still quite low.
Agreed 👍
Good levels of vitamin D have been found to protect the myelin sheath of nerves (protects against multiple sclerosis), so this alone suggests it’s many benefits. I’ll keep taking it with the vitamin K!
Also thiamine B1 for the myelin nerve sheath! Learned from another UK nutritionist Elliot Overton. See his YT channel EONutrition and prepare to learn!! He's great.
Always suspected Vitamin D, which helps immune system, was more of a moderator of symptoms rather than preventing infection from Covid so one could get natural immunity with an extremely low chance of ending up in a hospital or dying - especially among young and healthy. Also applies to any infection like the seasonal flu.
I've been taking Vitamin D supplements for about 4 years now (along with several other vitamins/minerals) because I work nights and don't get much sun. At the start of the pandemic, I doubled my Vitamin D dose as I read somewhere "it may be effective". Fast forward to now and I still haven't contracted the virus (that I know of). I haven't been jabbed and I've been face to face with infected people several times and almost everyone I know has fallen victim to it. I work 7 days a week in customer service, and have done since the beginning of the pandemic - only having Christmas off. So, I might have good luck, or the Vitamin D might have helped? Either way, I'll keep taking it.
You surely have contracted the virus. Your exposure did not result in illness.
@@harmagician1 perhaps, perhaps not. I'll get an antibodies test in the next few weeks regardless.
My wife and I have cared for a 6 year old girl with respiratory problems for nearly 5 years. Every winter she has suffered chronic colds/coughs/chest infections and been hospitalised at least twice each winter. Last Autumn we put her on 800i.u.'s of D3 (with K2) once a day. This winter she has had 2 minor colds. She tested positive for covid a few weeks ago but suffered only minor cold symptoms - she isn't jabbed. We immediately double her vitamin D dosage when she shows signs of illness, until it has cleared. In all the times she's been in hospital and indeed seen health care professionals, we've never been advised by anyone to try vitamin D, we took it upon ourselves to do this. The standards of basic health care in this country are in a very sorry state.....................
My wife and I are both over 70 and have taken Vitamin D, K and Zinc since March 2020, we have not had Covid or any other infections during this time so will continue to take them.
I am no expert on trials but watching you and Trial Site News, I have gathered some outlines on them. I have also participated in one. Not only does the StMary's one seem rushed but the criteria seem wrong. In my trial, they were very strict and asked questions to make sure we were all participating correctly, but you get the impression of the opposite in StMary's one. Could it be that as there is little money in selling VitD little money was available for the trial?
Nope.
It was sponsored by Vitamin companies, bread company and independent charities! They expected positive effects but unfortunately didn't manage to find any!
Nobody is hiding Vit D. It was well advertised through the pandemic and talked about in many a health blog. Literally everybody was talking about vit D because we were all inside more.
This isn't hidden information. No duh you should get the neccesary vitamins and nutrients and try to be healthy🙄 nobody is saying different.
@@orionishi6737 This has to do with my post , HOW?
@@robert7622 I think you are incorrect. If there had been money available it would have been a better trial.
I wonder "who" paid for this Study!!! I will continue to take my vitamin D it has Always worked for me. Thank You, Dr. Campbell/You are the BEST.
My trust is in Dr. John. I will take his indications as gospel. He does his homework and isn't in the pockets of big pharma or constipated government institutions. Whatever he gets from his channel, he has earned it and may God bless him with a long and happy life. 😀😀😀 ጤናይስጥልኝ !!
Well, if they aimed for such low doses in the presence of a deficiency than it's no surprise to me that there was no effect after 6 months. 3200 IU is more of a maintenance dose. One might think they wanted insignificant results😅
Correct. It is well know amongst scientists and doctors (who care about the topic) that if you want to achieve a good Vitamin D levels in a reasonable amount of time you can take 50 000 IU /day with no ill consequences. Otherwise you will need to take 3200 IU for over a year before you even make a significant dent in your Vitamin D levels.
And if you take K2 with vitamin D you can take even higher dosages as the blood calcium levels won't be an issue.
My words exactly 💯 👏
@@jacob1121 very true 🙌
@@jacob1121 i had my mum and dad taking 10 000 iu of vitamin d 3 and mums levels rocked upto 220, doctor said she had never seen anyone with such high levels, dad was 193, I have been told to stop their vitamin d for a month till next blood test.. I should add they also take magnesium and k2 Recent studies have shown that if a person is deficient in magnesium, no amount of Vitamin D3 supplementation will allow a patient to realize the health benefits of adequate Vitamin D. Magnesium is a critical factor in making Vitamin D bioavailable. Soooo in short, st marys test, were they checking their vitamin d levels? were they also taking magnesium? Mum is 93 and dad is 95. Even though we are in australia, due to skin cancer, we all hide from the sun.
Yeah, even though the study was done by people who would make money off of the sales of vit D ....but it's all about money right....🙄 He didn't even give us all the info, again. The study doesn't even talk about prevention...and you would know that if you read it yourself.
The only person I trust on covid 19 information - Dr John Campbell, you are a legend!
Absolutely
Absolutely. Same here
agree
Do you not trust the people he is talking about that do the studies?
RIP Mum XX
I am bewildered by the ignorance of people in the USA about the importance of nutrition and what they should be doing to have a long healthy life. A big Thank You to Dr. John Campbell for getting the word out about vitamin D early in the covid crisis along with many other health style tips.
So tell us the ignorant people of the USA how we should be eating …. How you think we are eating ?
@@karahamil3657 Lots of fast food and highly-processed trash is SAD (the Standard American Diet). We don't all do that of course, but many do.
So appreciate your knowledge and ability to communicate the info in a way we can understand with perspective. Very up to date and important information for us to know how to better protect ourselves. Thanks for the worldwide perspective. Grateful from Virginia.
Hi Helen how're you doing today?
Both me and my partner are on Vit D with adequate blood levels. We both caught Covid (2 different years) but neither of us had much for symptoms. (Him fever, me taste/smell) Currently my covid blood antibody titer is high at 3.36. I feel Vitamin D was helpful keeping our illness mild from the infection.
One thing I thought of is the dosing of d3 being relatively low in the low dose. From what I could gather, the blood level of d3 in this group did not rise significantly and so the result should not be significant. The high dose did raise the blood level more, but when did they cross over from being insufficient to sufficient? If it took them a couple of months that means that they where insufficient half of the duration of the studie.
I also don't really understand the control group, or the not offered group. Since this group is does not test level of d3 (if I didn't misunderstand?) It would mean that not all in this group is insufficient and if higher levels of d3 in blood meant less chans for infection, part of this group is already less likely to get infections since not all are insufficient. The control should obviously also be low in d3?
Thank you Dr. Campbell. It’s most informative regarding Vitamin D.👍
I usually take 2,000 iu's a day, though in winter I might take twice that. I've been doing that since 1998. Very rarely do I have any symptoms of any infection, though before I started doing that, I had frequent colds and even a couple skin infections. Early on i was getting that vitamin D accidentally in a vitamin A supplement, as I thought that vitamin A was supposed to be the immune vitamin. But the only form of vitamin A that worked was that which was derived from fish oil, which also has vitamin D. The "dry" vitamin A did not work. Eventually vitamin D hit the news as the immune vitamin, and then I realized why the dry A did not work, because it had no vitamin D in it.
Love your work John. Thank you for your important work on the current global research regarding many aspects of COVID 19 and various treatments. You have become a trusted source of information that is reliable and accessible to the public. Bless your little cotton socks John🥰
Thank you. Because of your videos 2 years ago I started to take vitamin D. It helped me emencely. Pain that I thought was soul pain disappeared. I experienced it for most of my life.
Thank you! As usual, excellent cautious/diplomatic interpretation of these pre-print data!
Can we please consider this possibility:
They take the test swab from your nasopharyngeal mucosa. That mucosa exists to trap antigens (dust, spores, bacteria, viruses, dander, pollen) so your immune system can destroy an immobilized enemy.
The PCR tests don't differentiate between live, intact viruses, and fragments of destroyed viruses. I suspect the rapid antigen tests also don't discriminate.
I had chickenpox as a child, and so did my ex. As adults, we nursed four children through chickenpox three separate times. Our oldest boy and my younger stepson when they were 13 months and 4 years old respectively. Then, our youngest caught it at a birthday party 10 years later when he was almost 3. Then, a couple years after that, our daughter caught it when she was 14.
I'll bet you 20 inflation-adjusted dollars to donuts that if you'd swabbed our nasopharyngeal goo while we were dealing with these sick kids, you'd have found it crawling with large quantities of PCR and RAT detectable varicella-zoster virus.
Does that mean we were infected? No. It would just mean we were exposed.
Me & my family are not Vax at all,,, we around ppl whom had covid, others with chicken pox, flu etc,,,,,we obviously get infected but no symptoms as immune system is killing it naturally...It seems most of my mates have same condition as not Vax and we have ones Vax and there families are always having issues....To me it's logical to alow immune system does its job instead being interrupted by a vaccine....Times & place for vaccines but not now as since Vax, it's getting worse & worse.....18mths prior to Vax, very few deaths & infections
Not to mention those swabs damaging underlying tissue as they jam the trapped particles into said tissue.
I think you're suggesting that the good doctor make sense, not self censor, and not obsess about "aspiration" and Vitamin D. Not going to happen. I've urged him to consider education regarding the body's primary defenses and how to maintain them so as not to get infected with anything, to no avail whatsoever.
Bingo. "..BUT CASES!!!"
Well stated. Since Sars-cov-2 I keep this posted in large letters near me: "Don't let your faith in doctors exceed your common sense."
Glad to hear you mention K2 Doc! Was getting worried about you holding up that large Vitamin D bottle with no K added.
is k2 connect to clotting ???
@@jennybensaidane922 Jenny, please look up more on your own, but it is my understanding that without K2, Vitamin D supplementation will leach calcium from your body circulating it in your bloodstream, which then calcifies leading to hardening of the arteries which can cause heart attack and stroke. I'm sure the mechanism is much more complicated or if I have it right, but that is the result. If someone has a better understanding or can point Jenny (and me) to some more reading, please respond.
Hello John I am into 4th day as I write with covid and now have runny nose with no let up I began 800 iu 3 months ago it hasn't been at all pleasant I must say flu at its meanest,I'm 64 this year and in the past was diagnosed with emphysema I have not experienced any breathlessness or pain whatsoever in my chest and yet believe me it searches all your joints and muscles. Had I not taken the vit D who knows but that's my feed back and it's thanks to you. X
John I would like to tell everybody how this covid runs it's course from the start. It begins as with mine,clearing of the throat and little appetite.following day deep almost uncontrollable cough,breathing through the nose helps cos it feels like skin tickling the throat ,then it's shaking you feel freezing cold,dizziness takes over and a strong headache and swishing noises if you move your head or eyes,you feel very dry and even though you've only had a sip every now and then you will constantly be going to the toilet. Every thing feels sore with aches,pains it will tell you where your Arthritis is and where you thought you didn't have it. you just want to sleep,you go from cold to sweating,this is over 4 days I now have a sneezy constant runny nose. In this time I took no medication relying on my immune system,but I feel so much better albeit a little deaf. This is what to expect hope it helps.
Update.
This is now my 5th day. I'm still blowing my nose and having temperature changes also although not dizzy was a bit off balance I also had a bit of confusion making a cup of tea it just seemed to go on and on. Must tell you of what I've discovered. Last night I endulged in a glass of 13% merlot red wine as I wasn't hungry,this covid did not like it,I had Niagara falls from my nose it was trying to get rid of it,it was poison to it. The other thing and this is remarkable,I haven't washed,shaved or anything since Monday morning but there is no body odour whatsoever even though I've sweated buckets,not even under my armpits it is completely free and between my legs,it's taken that over obviously killing bacteria! Unfortunately however my fiance is now beside me in bed with covid which began yesterday with the cough. I know what's coming for her,just hope it's not worse and I don't relapse! I've not taken drugs and I think from experience that's the way to go,but that's my choice. Final point we both had triple jabs leading up to this. Hope this helps.
6th day update. I can't taste and I can't smell a thing,I would have thought this would be at the begining. Anything salty you can't smell or taste even bacon,is salt poison to this virus,being acid. I can taste honey the only sweet thing but can't smell it,this is anti bacterial and the covid don't like it,it starts your nose running to get rid of it. All this tells me it trys to starve you to death to take you over so it can pass it on scavengers! What a thought eh. All other symptoms have gone. My fiance seems to be carrying it better than I was,she's 10 years my junior but really grumpy and argumentative.going for a walk soon to see how I fare with temperatures and breathing.
Hi John. The best explanation of these two trials is that, for COVID-19, Vit D is mainly a marker of sun exposure. Near Infrared light from the sun during the day is proposed to stimulate the mitochondria to make melatonin which mops up excess oxidative stress (which has been shown to be the major problem in COVID-19 via ACE-2 inhibition). The sun, at the same time, makes Vit D. So people with higher natural vitamin D levels will have better oxidative stress. Giving them Vit D will not change this only getting out into the sun. We talked about this on MedCram 2 months ago. See "Light as Medicine" or "The Case for Sunlight in COVID 19 Patients: Oxidative Stress"
Dr. Seheult, I would like to thank you for your star MEDCRAM video on the importance of "Sunlight exposure beyond vitamin D". Especially I watched with my daughter and son, minutes 50-59, when as I understand, you explain in a diagram how receiving (near) infrared rays from sunlight, starting in the morning, is "key for welllness of life's (Krebs) cycle" in human eucariot cells with mitochondrias, because it triggers needed 95% production of intracellular antioxidant melatonin. Then, in "normal" human sun exposure, blood's vitamin D and intracellular melatonin are simultaneously increased to healthy levels, and go together, as I think that you point out in this comment. I wish that you make a new video with Dr. Campbell, and include this.
i really liked that video and now when i go in the sun and feel the warmth of it i think about my mitochondria reviving :))
Will be interesting to see how old Javid declared investigation into vit d and health issues for the population flags up. Will the no benefit study feature alot in his "findings". In the meantime, I am happy to keep supplementing daily with the cheap vit d widely available.
My cynical self says if the government come out and say we should supplement how long will vit D remain cheap.
@@lulusbackintown1478 I think big pharma would rebrand the name and charge the NHS huge long term contracted fee for the product and thus allowing old Javid a good personal gain from the rebranding.
I can't wait to see what Sajid ends up recommending... I bet it's still a sub optimal dose and in winter only....they all get a bit nervous nellie when it comes to Vitamin D
@@lulusbackintown1478 It has been NHS guidance for a long time that all adults in the UK should take Vitamin D supplements between October and April. The NHS website also explains why: the low angle of the sun during the winter months means the required UV is filtered out so even a good level of exposure to sunlight will not produce adequate Vitamin D.
@@mjwilliamsb2676 I checked the NHS site it says 400 IUs. Yes in the winter. Ive taken 5000 IUs daily(plus vit k) for 15 months and my blood test has come back 'insufficient'.
I don't know why but I always thought vitamin D protected us from severe/critical condition but not against being infected.
So just what these studies are showing.
Mmmmmm....in fact I find the idea reasonable. 😉
I just started on my D+K March 2020 under the advice of a highly qualified researcher. But he never ever told me I couldn't get infected, only that the possibilities of getting mild/moderate or even light symptoms were higher if we kept vitamin D+K levels in good numbers.
How? It was very well known information before the pandemic that Vit D supports a healthy immune system. It's not hidden information.
@@orionishi6737 yes I have known a lot of "experts" during the pandemic. Reality is the info never arrived to public on the very first months....
So yes...very well known 😂😂😂😂😂
For the first study I wonder about 2 things 1) The amount of Vit D taken is fairly low. I’ve heard it is optimal if you are deficient to take as much as 10,000 UI. And, you mention Vitamin K2 to help with absorption. 2) intake does not necessarily mean absorption. It would have been useful if they had tested patients for D blood levels after infection and compare this data.
The problem with the UK study is that it selects for people with Vitamin D deficiency, offers treatment, but doesn't seem to check whether they became Vitamin D sufficient or replete. It doesn't matter how much Vitamin D you take, it matters what Vitamin D blood level you reach. Not everyone metabolizes oral Vitamin D efficiently.
I’m sitting here with covid as I write. I have taken vitamin d since the start of the pandemic. My symptoms aren’t too bad, headache, coughing, congestion and fatigue. I have semi actively getting out since January to try to get omicron because I have travel planned this year and I wanted it out of the way so it couldn’t ruin my plans. I finally gave that up a couple of weeks ago and started being more careful again because my first trip was coming up and there was no longer enough time to catch it and recover. Sure enough, today I had to cancel all my plans. 😩
I wonder how long they were given vitamin D for, and did their levels come into range before the start of the study?
Have someone like Prof Norman Fenton, a mathematician gone through the St Mary’s study? He has torn the Pfizer jab stated efficacy to shreds.
Pfizer = poison . End.
@Bobb Grimley you've clearly not seen or heard the released, under court order in usa, Pfizer trial documents.....it's about as useful as a chocolate fire guard. Massive lies and twisting of facts, truly unreal, we've all been taken for fools. Wrecks the immune system each jab too....we need some ropes
@Bobb Grimley A brazenly vast and ignorant statement of yours.
Last time i checked Mathematics is part of the field of "science".
And "nobody" is false too, as not everybody in total does disagree.
Also, those that do disagree should be checked what interest they have to disagree, is it financial, political or maybe the good old ego being afraid to rescind previous statements made as a professional and loosing face?
The last two years should have opened everyones eyes to the fact that science isn't as infallible and consensual as depicted in media and that we currently have a massive corruption running the field of pharmacy because there is easy made money in it. It's more politics than science!
Point is, it's MUCH more complicated than just hand waving away something/someone inconvinient you disagree with.
@Bobb Grimley Mhm k. Just google it.
When the doctor from Israel talked about Vitamin D in the very first interview on the topic and what he did with his clients - I'm sure he said that even when some of his patients were infected with Covid and went into hospital - it didn't end up severe for them nor did any die.
So, even then it was obvious that Vitamin D didn't necessarily stop or prevent anyone from being infected.
Not logic! We need to fear monger and offer "hidden health information" like getting the neccesary vitamins and nutrients and generally being healthy. How could they keep that from us!? ....sarcasm...btw.
Another very intertesting and informative video from Dr. John. Thank you very much John. I always learn so much from your talks.
It depends at what stage they were diagnosed with COVID. It may have been a week after they started the Vitamin D therefore the stores hadn’t been built up to optimal levels.
I've been taking vitamin D supplements for around 18 months, although not particularly for the immune system benefits. Vitamin D affects a very wide range of functions--which I only became aware of when I ran into issues I would never have considered vitamin related.
To keep the tale brief, about 18 months ago I began to suffer memory problems. These appeared at random moments but were severe enough for me to worry that they were the first signs of dementia. for example, I got lost driving to work--a place I'd been employed for over 10 years and I was only a few hundred yards from the entrance when I had to pull over and get out my GPS as I didn't recognise the road. Even more alarming, I awoke one morning to find I had been drugged and kidnapped then dumped in bed in an unfamiliar room. . . but why had my abductors also brought so many of my belongings? I was, of course, in my own bedroom but I had a minute or two of panic.
Called my GP, he had me book a blood test which came back as showing very low vitamin D levels (the phrase 'barely detectable' was used). Prescribed a month of megadose vit D (don't recall the actual dosage) with a recommendation to continue to supplement through the winter at 4000 IU dropping to 1000 IU in the summer months. Memory issues disappeared after a few weeks and haven't reappeared since (thankfully). Looking back over that 18 month period I am surprised to note that, despite normally being the first to catch any colds or flu circulating, I've had no seasonal respiratory infections over the last two winters. It's possible, of course, that social distancing, masks and obsessive hand cleaning helped minimise exposure to infection. I also note that last summer, for the first time in over 30 years, I had no hay fever at all and I didn't need any medication (whereas, even with anti-histamines I am usually have a streaming nose and sore red eyes for about 2 months!).
Despite some comments here, it is difficult to obtain sufficient vitamin D from food alone, however 'healthy' one's diet, and winter sunlight in northern climes produces low levels even in those who are habitually outdoors (which isn't me anyway).
1000 IU / day is low even for summer.
Maybe keep in mind that confusion, memory problems and hallucinations / delusions can be indications of UTI in “elderly” people.
@@carlosoliveira-rc2xt 1000 IU per day in summer is intended to supplement natural production, not be the sole source.
@@MrPaulMorris Yes, I understand that, obviously, but unless you're shirtless at 12 noon everyday day, young healthy and light skinned you're not going to get high levels sourced from the sun and also you're not going to get high levels sourced from food. You have to remember that it is what is absorbed and bioavailable and not necessarily what is taken. I'm 60 years old without a gall bladder so I supplement with about 7600 IU daily year round. I stand by my statement.
A study should also have been done on iodine - an anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal element, especially in the amounts given to patients pre-1940s. A lot of these studies are damage control studies by industry meant to protect the interests of prescribing the more expensive medecines.
Now may be just the time. We have the internet, testing is cheaper and iodine is reasonably priced. I’d love to see it as part of Zoe. Which should continue to be funded even if only for minimizing the adverse impact on mental health.
@@marybusch6182 Yes, but what is Zoe? May be a UK term, I guess.
@@jennifermarlow. I see, thank-you.! Well, I'm a willing dinosaur and have no mobile devices, so I can't be tracked that way, loil.
@@jennifermarlow. Whenever there's no money to be made, the medical journals and associations will diss the claims.
Was this controlled for body mass index? Vitamin D levels are highly dependent upon body mass.
Never heard that before.
Exactly, he is completely ignoring the concept of confounding. The explanation is that Vitamin D is a marker, not a cause. Perhaps its a marker for obesity, activity, or other things.
@@SamFreedom The MedCram youtube channel has some excellent videos about Vitamin D if you want to find out more.
They are not dependent upon body mass but if you are obese you will need to take more to get your levels to optimal.
@@cherylmcduff5388 Agreed
My family including wife who has heart failure not had any of the jabs, no masks, no testing and just got on with life, covid not been an issue, can't say the same for jabbed friends who seem to be testing postive for the seventh time or seem to be poorly in general, some seem to have also passed well before their time......
From the U.S.A. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT THE NOS GOING TO GO UP HERE...IT IS RISING......
Glad i listen to you and was prepared...thank you so much...please continue to give us information....you are right on...been taking Vit D high levels. so far so good.
I love how YT slaps a "Get the latest information from the CDC about COVID-19" banner below your videos. Given the info they've pushed during the pandemic, that's the last place I'd look for honest, accurate, relevant information.
1. They did not take into account the lag with ingested vit D becoming activated sp while the study was nominally 6 months the duration of actual effective supplementation would have been much shorter.
2. The confidence intervals were very wide so the lack of SS means very little.
3. They only tested levels at the end of six months so we do not know how long it took for levels to rise.
4. Levels in the no offer group almost doubled, so likely some participants self-medicated. One person in the no-offer group even ended up with excessive levels of vitamin D! Obviously this reduces the apparent treatment effect.
Conclusion should be "underpowered rubbish study achieves nothing".
A trial designed to fail !!
Yeah they also probably didnt test to see if people were absorbing the vitamin D and they also didnt take the vitamin with some sort of animal fat that increases absorption in the gut
I believe one of the reasons I got Graves’ disease was due to very low Vit D. Thank you again for a great video.
Thank you once again for your update I keep an eye out for your posts every day am still taking the vits and still ok no infection , bearing in mind that pre covid i used to get horiffic chest flu infections most years , but since religiously taking the vits i have been infection free no covid etc ...thank you for being there .
"...Just get the feeling that something's not quite right."
Same here, Dr. Campbell. I'd be very interested in several additional data points:
1.Time from initial vitamin D level to final level at end of the study. (Both the rate of change and the final values might be revealing. Having read extensively on vitamin D these past two years, I've noticed that there's substantial variation in both individual responses to the same dose as well as the final values in individuals for any given dose. And, as you're aware, several weeks are required for the body to actually convert tabular vitamin D into usable form in the body.
2. For those tested positive for infection: What were these individual's Vitamin D level changes from initial level to date of test confirmation of infection?
3.Were there safeguards to exclude individuals with existing, chronic infections? If not, the study blows up. (I'm assuming there was a bias to picking individuals with some sort of health issue(s).
The reason could be that it is about exposure to Sun, which not only improves D vit but also improves local melatonin to fight free radical damage. When you supplement vit D only you dont have that antioxidation effect, check video on MedCram Channel: Sunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (Light Therapy and Melatonin)
As someone who has been taking between 20 - 30,000 IU and 180mcg K2 for the past two years - my reaction to these trials is a cross between bitter laughter and head in hands.
That is an exceptionally high dose. Ludicrously high imo.
30k per day 😐 seriously? So your scoffing a whole bottle every two days. For real?
Can you give your rationale for that level please?
May I ask: is that 20-30k per day?
You’ll wind up with vitamin d toxicity eventually if that’s a daily dose
@@andocobo vitamin d toxicity is extremely extremely rare. Did I say extremely!!
@@andocobo John just said you get 20000 in an hour in sunlight if you are sufficiently unclothed
Interesting John and thanks. Might you have had a chance to look at the data mentioned in medcram's: 'Vitamin D Reduces Autoimmune Diseases: New Research' episode?
As someone who spend many years in the Arctic and developed autoimmune, and later after a life-threatening autoimmune condition that improved dramatically after getting getting my D-25 levels up to a normal or above level, I also noticed that being older now I've not suffered from severe one major repository infections as I did my entire life.
As there seems to be pretty conclusive evidence in very large and well conduced study that Vitamin D supplementation improved autoimmune conditions in the study group, and knowing personally how autoimmunity seems to negatively effect infection outcomes, I question if that is reason enough to advise maintaining optimum D25 levels?
that was a good study from medcram.
Multiple Sclerosis & Fibromyalgia here. 10,000UI D3 a day with K2, Zinc, and C. Haven't been real sick since I started taking them that way in 2020. Had only the sniffles when everyone else had a severe cold, no MS new symptoms either. Fibro is another story though.
Covid infected the house but I only tested early and was negative. Never felt bad so I didn't re-test. Been Vaxed x3.
@@Sweetyhide Thanks! Pretty much my story, Super super high ANA with markers for SLE, Sjogren's, Gluten reactivity, many food and environmental allergies, Celiac and early stage Crohn's. Fibromyalgia extreme weakness, chronic Kidney and bladder infections. At one point an internist was positive I had Kidney Cancer and gave me 6 to 9 months and prescribed the Oregon Health Authority suicide pills. The way I felt i figured I'd be dead in 6 months if things kept on that trajectory.
I paid to have my My D25 checked add I was at 5 ng/mL. I started with about 10,000IU per day and in a week felt better, at 6 weeks I was a back to where I could walk, My D25 levels were at 12 ng/mL in mid winter. When I was able to get to about 20 ng/mL blood work and energy improved. and my ANA levels were down dramatically. After 9 months I felt like living again and had follow-up done for cancer and none was confirmed.
Vitamin, E, C, K2, Zinc, magnesium Oil of oil of oregano w fennel oil and Apple cider vinegar, turmeric and anti-inflammatory stuff helped, and after about 18 months helped get digestive inflammation back to where I could eat some solid foods.
6 years on still alive but I'm unable to see a doctor as none in my State are taking new patients, much less those who may need medical help. I can't even go to the hospital or emergency room because I was trespassed for refusing to show ID on a public street to a hospital security guard. I have a video: ruclips.net/video/m3HdtyF5wnQ/видео.html
Thus is the state of Public Healthcare in America, and for the time being, stoic endurance is the only option for many
May I just sound a word of warning, addressed specifically and only to those suffering from an autoimmune disease called Sarcoidosis. A cohort of people suffering from this disease do not metabolise Vitamin D properly. For these people, the build up of Vitamin D can lead to severe kidney damage, and flare-ups, if unchecked. Anyone with Sarcoidosis should not take Vitamin D, without very careful medical supervision. This issue is unique to Sarcoidosis sufferers, and for the general population, Vitamin D is a genuine health gift.
@@Sweetyhide you may be interested in coimbra protocol
Thanks for sharing.
You might want to have a look at page 22 of the first study. More specifically, the row 'Acute Covid19 outcomes'.
Without Vitamin K, 800 IU/day might be a better choice.
Of course, it might be more valuable if the study took vitamin K into account when they have given participants 3200 IU/day Vit D.
Meanwhile, in the footnote (page 23), it says:" this analysis excludes data from participants randomized to either intervention arm who reported that they took vitamin D capsules ‘less than half the time’ as well as those randomized to the no-offer arm who reported any intake of supplemental vitamin D during follow-up."
When you compare Table 2 with Table 3, you might realise that the sample size of no-offer group is decreased from 2949 to 1331.
Thank you for the update on Vitamin D. Have a great day
Thank you John , since watching your videos I have started taking vit D every day , whether it helps with covid or not , considering how much time we have spent indoors the last 2 year , plus i work indoors , then it certainly cant do any harm
I find it hard to trust the science anymore given the sheer amount of back handers and unknown relationships.
Don't feel bad for that. Medical science IS corrupt to the very foundations. It breaks my heart as science was always my compass.
After routine bloodwork taken over six years ago, I found that I had a Vit D deficiency. My Dr. explained that since I live in NY and I have brown skin, it made sense that I would have such a deficiency. He prescribed Vit D but I didn’t take it seriously and never took it. However, when the COVD pandemic hit and Dr. Campbell and various physicians (including my Dr.) talked about the importance of Vit D, I started taking it. I’ve been taking 10,000 IUs for about a year (5,000 IUs before that). I haven’t caught as much as a cold in five years. I’m not saying that Vit D protected me from cold or flu but this is my anecdotal evidence. By the way, prior to the bloodwork, I the last time I had the flu was when I was about twelve years old (four decades ago) and rarely got a cold (perhaps once every two years or so), but one of my best friends died from complications of COVID so better safe than sorry.
Dr John, thank you so much for your helpful videos. Wade from Chesapeake Virginia, US.
Thank you for informing us. You do a lot of work and I appreciate you
I always knew that it didn't stop Covid infection but it reduces the severity.
I don’t mind they didnt give some people d. they should have tested everyones level first and split them all up evenly. Then give the three groups the diffrent levels of vitamin d. I love how they contaminate the test right from the start.
Used to get a couple of colds a year with Upper respiratory infections. Have been taking VitD3 and vitc since March 2020 and not even a sniffle so I am sold on the benefits of Vit D3. It is cheap and as far as I am concerned - effective. I was unwell in late December 2019 through to end of January 2020 so could have been covid but no way of knowing as no-one aware of it then. Have not been unwell or have had any covid symptoms since the start of the Pandemic.
Hello John!
I can confirm the observation exactly. My vitamin D level in 09/2020 was 60 ng/ml and I was consistently taking 10000 IU per day. In 11/2020 I then had COVID (unvaccinated) with 5 days of moderate flu symptoms and a total of 3 weeks of weakness. In 12/2021 I measured again and only had 46 ng/ml. I would have expected more. COVID has depleted vitamin D. I also have an friend who is not supplementing with vitamin D and was down to 2 ng/ml post COVID, a clear sign that the body is using vitamin D to fight off infection. To me, this is clear evidence that high levels of vitamin D help with infections.
Greetings from Germany!
Thanks for this comment it’s actually helpful with the before and after comparisons with actual numbers
Actually on second thought did either of you happen to know the levels of other vitamins in your blood? Low levels of vitamin D don’t necessarily indicate that it’s all being used up to fight Covid. Maybe Covid just somehow depletes the body of all vitamins. ☹️
I hope you respond because you’re a more reliable source since you have numbers.
Thanks.
@@juliad988 No, unfortunately not. I'm just monitoring my vitamin D levels.
It is very likely that other vitamins and minerals will also be used as our bodies fight off an infection. It should always be an interaction of many components, but vitamin D is probably the most important component, which is essential for a variety of functions.
@@rubberduck888 Fair enough. Thank you for trying to help others figure out this terrible thing.
Thanks again , John for the relentless pursuit of the truth ! You are a hero of legend , you fight for us and all that is good and true . Love and Respect to you brother . 💟, 🖖!