Levels of vitamin D correlated to better Covid19 outcomes

[Halbhh]

One of a variety of findings (more tomorrow):

The researchers found 80 percent of 216 COVID-19 patients at the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla had vitamin D deficiency, and men had lower vitamin D levels than women. COVID-19 patients with lower vitamin D levels also had raised serum levels of inflammatory markers such as ferritin and D-dimer.
Study finds over 80 percent of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency | Endocrine Society

One quick way to get more vitamin D when you don't have a supplement at the moment is to get some sun on the skin for something like 20-30 minutes, depending on intensity. (e.g. "To maintain healthy blood levels, aim to get 10–30 minutes of midday sunlight, several times per week. People with darker skin may need a little more than this. Your exposure time should depend on how sensitive your skin is to sunlight. Just make sure not to burn." How to Safely Get Vitamin D From The Sun)

Anyone light skinned and not accustomed to being outdoors and who haven't sunburned before should be aware you can begin to sunburn on a high UV day pretty fast, in just 10 minutes, and someone in that light skinned situation should limit mid day sun exposure in full 10am-3pm sunlight to just 5-10 minutes on first day. The skin will react by making melanin, but not on the first day, and ideally a person trying to rely on sunlight for vitamin D (if they can't find a supplement quickly) would need to take it slow and not at all try to get a lot of sun quickly, but only gradually over a week or more, and meanwhile look for how to get vitamin D supplementation. (A sunscreen that blocks UVA and not UVB would be helpful, though perhaps few that cannot get Vitamin D supplements would be able to get such a sunscreen)

The more fair skinned a person is and the more intense the sun, the less time they should be in it.

Typically, those able to find a vitamin D supplement or multivitamin with at least 400iu (or better 800-1200iu) of vitamin D should do so, as their main way to get vitamin D.

 

[returntosender]

A friend posted this on another forum a few months ago. He maintained that is why so many elders were dying in the nursing homes because they did not get enough vitamin d

 

[SkyWriting]

One of a variety of findings (more tomorrow):

The researchers found 80 percent of 216 COVID-19 patients at the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla had vitamin D deficiency, and men had lower vitamin D levels than women. COVID-19 patients with lower vitamin D levels also had raised serum levels of inflammatory markers such as ferritin and D-dimer.
Study finds over 80 percent of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency | Endocrine Society

One quick way to get more vitamin D when you don't have a supplement at the moment is to get some sun on the skin for something like 20-30 minutes, depending on intensity. (e.g. "To maintain healthy blood levels, aim to get 10–30 minutes of midday sunlight, several times per week. People with darker skin may need a little more than this. Your exposure time should depend on how sensitive your skin is to sunlight. Just make sure not to burn." How to Safely Get Vitamin D From The Sun)

30 minutes of noon sun will destroy your skin's DNA with irreversible damage.
It has never been recommended. Drink Milk instead.

 

[Halbhh]

30 minutes of noon sun will destroy your skin's DNA with irreversible damage.
It has never been recommended. Drink Milk instead.

Thanks for helping point out that temporary way to get some vit d by sunlight needs extra clarity, for when none is available somewhere (other nations, not ours). Of course some might read this global website that have no kind of supplement available in any form, including fortified milk, and such.

I'll bold that key instruction.

 

[SkyWriting]

Of course some might read this global website that have no kind of supplement available in any form, including fortified milk, and such.

1. Consume fatty fish and seafood. ...
2. Eat more mushrooms. ...
3. Include egg yolks in your diet. ...
4. Eat fortified foods. ...
5. Take a supplement. ...
6. Try a UV lamp.

How to Get Vitamin D: 7 Effective Ways

 

[Halbhh]

1. Consume fatty fish and seafood. ...
2. Eat more mushrooms. ...
3. Include egg yolks in your diet. ...
4. Eat fortified foods. ...
5. Take a supplement. ...
6. Try a UV lamp.

How to Get Vitamin D: 7 Effective Ways

Remember above you were reasonably concerned that some might naively overexpose themselves to sun and damage their skin. That's from UV radiation in the sunlight. People not knowing how much sun exposure is ok, and such. With a UV lamp, it's the same situation generally. They can damage their skin with a UV lamp.

So, for anyone able to get a UV lamp to begin with, supplements are obviously superior to deliver a lot of vit D faster and safter, and anyone that could get a UV lamp is very likely to be able to obtain supplements.

If you noticed above, the reason sun exposure is a natural and beneficial source of some needed vitamin D is of course because a lot of people on Earth cannot afford any of these various ways to get vitamin D except for sun exposure. I did though add helpful instructions to the OP, though it's the kind of instruction most would already know, it was good to add it for some that might not have learned basic lessons about sun exposure yet. Plenty of people in advanced nations are naïve about sun exposure we could guess.

Meanwhile, what people need to know, now, today, is that masks work to protect them, and vitamin D helps them when they are exposed.

 

[Halbhh]

Meanwhile, what people need to know, now, today, is that masks work to protect them, and vitamin D helps them when they are exposed.

 

[Halbhh]

Just found significant, new to me, research --


"The newly discovered coronavirus had killed only a few dozen people when Feixiong Cheng started looking for a treatment. He knew time was of the essence: Cheng, a data analyst at the Cleveland Clinic, had seen similar coronaviruses tear through China and Saudi Arabia before, sickening thousands and shaking the global economy. So, in January, his lab used artificial intelligence to search for hidden clues in the structure of the virus to predict how it invaded human cells, and what might stop it. One observation stood out: The virus could potentially be blocked by melatonin.

Melatonin, best known as the sleep hormone, wasn’t an obvious factor in halting a pandemic. Its most familiar role is in the regulation of our circadian rhythms. Each night, as darkness falls, it shoots out of our brain’s pineal glands and into our blood, inducing sleep. Cheng took the finding as a curiosity. “It was very preliminary,” he told me recently—a small study in the early days before COVID-19 even had a name, when anything that might help was deemed worth sharing.

After he published his research, though, Cheng heard from scientists around the world who thought there might be something to it. They noted that, in addition to melatonin’s well-known effects on sleep, it plays a part in calibrating the immune system. Essentially, it acts as a moderator to help keep our self-protective responses from going haywire—which happens to be the basic problem that can quickly turn a mild case of COVID-19 into a life-threatening scenario.

Cheng decided to dig deeper. For months, he and colleagues pieced together the data from thousands of patients who were seen at his medical center. In results published last month, melatonin continued to stand out. People taking it had significantly lower odds of developing COVID-19, much less dying of it. Other researchers noticed similar patterns. In October, a study at Columbia University found that intubated patients had better rates of survival if they received melatonin. When President Donald Trump was flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for COVID-19 treatment, his doctors prescribed—in addition to a plethora of other experimental therapies—melatonin.
...
He and others suggest that the real issue at play may not be melatonin at all, but the function it most famously controls: sleep....
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The Mysterious Link Between COVID-19 and Sleep

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@SkyWriting As you may know, melatonin, needed to regulate (make to function correctly) sleep, is made in response to sunlight hitting the skin. It is also available as a supplement.