You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.
You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.
You just touched a live wire - a taboo subject. Any mention of inexpensive natural medicine will put a target on your back and you will be ridiculed, attacked and dismissed - something that's been going on for 50 years. The one thing the BPIC (Big Pharma Industrial Complex) hates is any competition to their trillion dollar a year profit machine.
Vitamin D -- the 'sunshine vitamin' -- is thought to protect against respiratory infections by boosting levels of antimicrobial peptides -- natural antibiotic-like substances -- in the lungs. ... They may also explain why vitamin D protects against asthma attacks, which are commonly triggered by respiratory viruses.
It is quite possible that several factors shut down flu season during the summer. Heat and ultraviolet light destroy viruses, while the UV light ramps up our vitamin D levels.
You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.
Look into selenium as well. A Brazil nut a day may help keep the virus at bay.
Ebola virus and the other hemorrhagic viruses have an added evolutionary advantage: they sequester selenium. The Ebola genome has a repeating sequence of codons that specify selenomethionine incorporation into protein, despite that the virus does not use the resulting selenoprotein directly. It just sits there. The codon sequence is there to deplete the host of selenium reserves so that it cannot mount an effective defense. As it turns out, the oxygen family of elements (oxygen, sulfur and selenium) have antiviral effects against most if not all lipid-enveloped viruses.
You can read all of it if you wish, but there seems to be a positive effect of supplementing with vitamin D if you are deficient. It mentions respiratory infections specifically.
Well actually it is true for everything: if you are deficient: replenish (preferably by natural sources).
And a word of warning: Some things can be toxic when consumed in excess Selenium for example...
Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim comes into mind: Da ist nichts was kein Gift ist. Die Dosis macht das Gift. (There is othing that is not toxic, it's the dose that makes it toxic)