Does vitamin D protect against Covid after
all? Israeli study finds patients who
are deficient are up to 14 TIMES more
likely to fall severely ill
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/5/2022 2:29:03 AM
Vitamin D may help fight off coronavirus after all, a study suggests. The jury has been out on the 'sunshine vitamin' since early in the pandemic, with conflicting findings muddying the waters. Papers that did find a link were deemed not rigorous enough and not definitive. But a new study—this time in Israel—claims to have the most conclusive evidence yet. Previous research has been criticised for only looking at vitamin D levels when the Covid patient was already in hospital.(Snip)To overcome this limitation, in their latest study, researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center looked at patient records up to two years before
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‘My stomach hurts, I’m very pale’:
Olympians lament inedible food and ‘unreasonable’ conditions 29 replies
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Many of us knew all along that easily available and inexpensive supplements were effective preventatives. Here it emerges that vitamin D is likely even more effective than the vaccines they're pushing, at a fraction of the cost and with essentially zero side effects. How many lives might have been saved had such information not been widely suppressed and derided by the free and independent American media?