My book The Defeat Of COVID cites 130 peer-reviewed clinical trials and other studies on Vitamin D, both sun-derived and supplemented, as having irrefutably strong effect against COVID, especially preventive, whether measured in serum levels or recently supplemented.
As a clinician who has treated cancer patients with vitamin D for 15 years, we (yes, I too, due to my equipoise policy) have taken 10,000 U Vit D3 / day for years, recently increased to 14,000 U / day. No other cancer clinic has documented such successful results as we have over the years. Vitamin D is part of the solution to both cancer and COVID, each requiring of course multiple additional interventions.
Dr. Huber, thank you for writing. I respect your work very much. I am honestly totally confounded about the two D camps. I see what both are saying. I guess everybody has to go with their instincts? How bad are occasional sun beds in winter? Or, could it be true that D does not in fact decline in winter?
Thank you. Vitamin D serum levels are significantly lower in winter. But as a fat-soluble vitamin, it is harder to measure with accuracy in the blood than other analytes. I like sun exposure better than both sun beds and supplementation. But with chilly weather making us cover the arms, we take what we can get.
Now Lyme is a total other kettle of fish...as they say. I have a doctor friend where I live in San Diego, who has become a "bit of an expert" in the treatment of Lyme. His adult daughter was bit while on a trip to Northern CA and contracted it. That's when he took a deep dive into how to treat it with a more holistic approach, and not with antibiotics. (His daughter now has a different doc from her Dad, you know how that mother father thing can go, and she is doing well.) He treated a young boy from Northern Mexico who contracted Lyme and the Mexican doctors did not help him, so his parents brought him to San Diego, to see my friend. Now he has lectured all over Mexico to fellow doctors as to how to treat Lyme.
I quickly scanned the piece by Hommel concerning his skepticism. Almost everyone person that I trust concerning Vitamin D says that supplemental D should be taken with Vitamin K2 or it could be harmful. I think there is simply too much data/studies and low vitamin d levels is too well correlated with poor health outcomes to be overly skeptical.
My book The Defeat Of COVID cites 130 peer-reviewed clinical trials and other studies on Vitamin D, both sun-derived and supplemented, as having irrefutably strong effect against COVID, especially preventive, whether measured in serum levels or recently supplemented.
As a clinician who has treated cancer patients with vitamin D for 15 years, we (yes, I too, due to my equipoise policy) have taken 10,000 U Vit D3 / day for years, recently increased to 14,000 U / day. No other cancer clinic has documented such successful results as we have over the years. Vitamin D is part of the solution to both cancer and COVID, each requiring of course multiple additional interventions.
Dr. Huber, thank you for writing. I respect your work very much. I am honestly totally confounded about the two D camps. I see what both are saying. I guess everybody has to go with their instincts? How bad are occasional sun beds in winter? Or, could it be true that D does not in fact decline in winter?
Thank you. Vitamin D serum levels are significantly lower in winter. But as a fat-soluble vitamin, it is harder to measure with accuracy in the blood than other analytes. I like sun exposure better than both sun beds and supplementation. But with chilly weather making us cover the arms, we take what we can get.
Now Lyme is a total other kettle of fish...as they say. I have a doctor friend where I live in San Diego, who has become a "bit of an expert" in the treatment of Lyme. His adult daughter was bit while on a trip to Northern CA and contracted it. That's when he took a deep dive into how to treat it with a more holistic approach, and not with antibiotics. (His daughter now has a different doc from her Dad, you know how that mother father thing can go, and she is doing well.) He treated a young boy from Northern Mexico who contracted Lyme and the Mexican doctors did not help him, so his parents brought him to San Diego, to see my friend. Now he has lectured all over Mexico to fellow doctors as to how to treat Lyme.
I quickly scanned the piece by Hommel concerning his skepticism. Almost everyone person that I trust concerning Vitamin D says that supplemental D should be taken with Vitamin K2 or it could be harmful. I think there is simply too much data/studies and low vitamin d levels is too well correlated with poor health outcomes to be overly skeptical.
Everything in moderation. Too much of anything is bad. My ma ma said.