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Vitamin D is a critically important nutrient for multiple bodily functions.
According to Healthline, the fat-soluble vitamin supports immune system function, improves resistance to certain diseases, and supports growth and development of bones and teeth.
However, vitamin D reportedly could have additional health benefits.
New research from Australia “suggests a regular regimen of vitamin D supplementation” can promote “robust heart health,” according to StudyFinds.
The researchers found vitamin D deficiency may increase the risk of heart attacks and other major cardiovascular events in older adults.
“The study, based on a clinical trial, finds that vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attacks among older adults (ages 60+),” StudyFinds states.
“Taking vitamin D supplements linked to better chance of avoiding heart attacks”
“Taking vitamins just makes expensive urine”—Pharmaceutical industry, 1981 https://t.co/i5e3p2AmJn
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) June 29, 2023
The researchers reportedly said “the absolute risk difference was small,” but this was the “largest trial of its kind to date.”
They stressed further evaluation is needed.
StudyFinds writes:
Prior observational studies have consistently noted a link connecting vitamin D levels and CVD risk, but thus far randomized controlled trials have yielded no evidence that vitamin D supplements prevent cardiovascular events — possibly because of the differences in trial design that can influence results.
To address this, the research team in Australia assessed if supplementing older adults with monthly doses of vitamin D would alter the rate of major cardiovascular events. This D-Health Trial was carried out between 2014 and 2020 and included 21,315 Australians (ages 60-84). Participants received one capsule of either 60,000 IU vitamin D (10,662 people) or a placebo (10,653 people) to take orally at the beginning of each month for up to five years.
Those with a history of high calcium levels (hypercalcemia), overactive thyroid (hyperparathyroidism), kidney stones, soft bones (osteomalacia), sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease, or anyone already taking more than 500 IU/day vitamin D were excluded from the experiment.
ADVERTISEMENTNext, the research team made use of data covering hospital admissions and deaths to identify major cardiovascular events like heart attacks, strokes, and coronary revascularization (a treatment to restore normal blood flow to the heart).
Average treatment duration lasted five years, with over 80 percent reporting taking at least 80 percent of their tablets. Over the course of the trial, 1,336 participants experienced a major cardiovascular event (6.6% in the placebo group, 6% in the vitamin D group). Meanwhile, rate of major cardiovascular events was nine percent lower in the vitamin D cohort compared to the placebo group (equivalent to 5.8 fewer events per 1,000 people).
Heart attack (-19%) and coronary revascularization (-11%) rates were lower in the vitamin D group, but the team did not note any differences in the rate of stroke between the two cohorts. Notably, there was some indication of a stronger effect on those using statins or other cardiovascular drugs at the beginning of the trial. However, researchers clarify those findings were not statistically significant.
All in all, it is estimated that 172 people would need to take monthly vitamin D supplements to stop one major cardiovascular event from occurring.
In conclusion, study authors acknowledge a small underestimation of events may have occurred, and these findings may not apply to other populations, especially populations in which a higher proportion of people are vitamin D deficient. However, this project was still a very large trial with extremely high retention and adherence, as well as a near-complete dataset covering cardiovascular events and mortality outcomes. Researchers believe their findings suggest vitamin D supplementation may reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events.
Another fantastic way of getting vitamin D is through natural sunlight.
In fact, a significant source of vitamin D for the body is through the skin when exposed to sunlight.
From UCLA Health:
The major source of our body’s vitamin D comes from our own production in the skin. This requires the ultraviolet rays from sunlight to form vitamin D3; both the liver and the kidneys are needed to then create the active form of vitamin D.
Read the study, titled “Vitamin D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised controlled trial,” at BMJ.
The study’s conclusion reads:
Vitamin D supplementation might reduce the incidence of major cardiovascular events, although the absolute risk difference was small and the confidence interval was consistent with a null finding. These findings could prompt further evaluation of the role of vitamin D supplementation, particularly in people taking drugs for prevention or treatment of cardiovascular disease.
RELATED:
“Vitamin D” Is Trending Again Today!
Vitamin D is trending on Twitter again today…
Check this out:
From Joe Rogan to Russell Brand, the world is waking up to the truth:
Joe Rogan: How Many Lives Could Have Been Saved if the Authorities Told the Truth About Vitamin D?
Full Video: https://t.co/aKJ1Myi4MS pic.twitter.com/5KoPWInC0z
— neil by mouth (@nbreavington) March 5, 2023
All you have to do is take whatever the MSM is pushing on you (the sun is BAD — cover up and apply 150 SPF!) and do the opposite:
We don't "need" SPF or less time in the 🌞. We need vitamin D! pic.twitter.com/MDfvq5DjhC
— Separated from Goats (@leftchurchcult) March 12, 2023
Turns out we were right all along.
Of course, we knew that.
You knew that.
But it’s still great to get that vindication.
And fascinating to see the REAL research and the REAL science that is now finally allowed to be posted on Twitter.
Truth is breaking free!
Check this out…
The protective role of Vitamin D against serious cases of Covid: Anyone who dared to suggest this in 2020 & 2021 were ridiculed or deplatformed. The science that we were told to follow wasn’t given any room for scrutiny or debate. Total suppression.pic.twitter.com/OFF7Po1wH5
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) February 2, 2023
Surprise, surprise:
𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲, 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲!
"Vitamin D deficiency was found in 82.2% of COVID-19 cases and 47.2% of population-based controls (p<0.0001)." (https://t.co/fm5GMfMGth)
And frankly speaking, I doubt that anybody would get ill at all with 25(OH)D levels above 50 ng/mL. pic.twitter.com/DyaK2w01eC
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) January 23, 2023
Oh, and guess what food is naturally high in Vitamin D?
You guessed it: Eggs!
Eggs high in vitamin D.. odd eggs are so expensive now and some egg farms burned to the ground?
Multiple Studies Have Now Identified Egg Yolk Antibodies Block the Binding of Multiple SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) Spike Protein Variants..
— SinceTheEscalatorTrump (@11Pythagorean) February 2, 2023
What they did to everyone was criminal!
If government/main stream media really cared about your health. Don’t you think they would’ve pushed vitamin D3,C and ZINC As hard as the 💉🔥. I am older, and I never knew how important vitamin D was to immune system. 80% of severe Covid /Death had major vitamin D deficiency. pic.twitter.com/naLMX7tqyL
— mike carden (@mike4dodge) February 2, 2023
How perfect is this?
COVID #Truth pic.twitter.com/qdBn22fhsI
— Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) February 3, 2023
But I’m just getting started…
Keep reading 👇
EXPOSED: Vitamin D Treatment for C-19 Completely Vindicated By New Scientific Study!
Imagine that…Vitamin D works.
In fact, it works really well!
Just.
Like.
We.
Told.
You!
Here is my friend Kyle Becker with more on his Substack:
Public health authorities around the world suppressed scientific evidence that Vitamin D deficiency was associated with severe Covid outcomes, and furthermore, some officials misled the public about alleged studies showing the vitamin did nothing for treating the viral infection.
Vitamin D deficiency has long been associated with reduced immune function that can lead to viral infection. Several studies have shown that Vitamin D deficiency is associated with increases the risk of infection with COVID-19. However, it is unknown if treatment with Vitamin D can reduce the associated risk of COVID-19 infection, which is the focus of this study. In the population of US veterans, we show that Vitamin D2 and D3 fills were associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection of 28% and 20%, respectively [(D3 Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.80, [95% CI 0.77, 0.83]), D2 HR = 0.72, [95% CI 0.65, 0.79]]. Mortality within 30-days of COVID-19 infection was similarly 33% lower with Vitamin D3 and 25% lower with D2 (D3 HR = 0.67, [95% CI 0.59, 0.75]; D2 HR = 0.75, [95% CI 0.55, 1.04]). We also find that after controlling for vitamin D blood levels, veterans receiving higher dosages of Vitamin D obtained greater benefits from supplementation than veterans receiving lower dosages. Veterans with Vitamin D blood levels between 0 and 19 ng/ml exhibited the largest decrease in COVID-19 infection following supplementation. Black veterans received greater associated COVID-19 risk reductions with supplementation than White veterans. As a safe, widely available, and affordable treatment, Vitamin D may help to reduce the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The statistical analysis showed that “Vitamin D3 supplementation was associated with a 33% lower risk of COVID-19 infection ending in mortality within 30 days,” the study noted. “However, results for vitamin D2 were statistically insignificant.”
Vitamin D insufficiency affects almost 50% of the population worldwide. Vitamin D supplements may have been helpful not only for treatment and prevention of Covid-19 treatment, but a host of other chronic illnesses. It was a win/win for the patients to get more sunshine and Vitamin D supplements, but arguably, a loss for public health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry that had gone into overdrive pushing a ‘vaccines or nothing’ Covid response.
The ‘Nature’ study further throws into serious question the decision to enforce lockdowns during the Covid pandemic, which compelled millions of civilians to stay indoors, and deprived them of the Vitamin-D-promoting powers of sunlight. Furthermore, there is scarce if any evidence that Covid-19 is spread outdoors.
Adding to the public’s confusion on the matter, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock misled the Parliament in 2020 by stating that a Vitamin D study was conducted that showed it was not effective for treating Covid.
“Health Secretary Matt Hancock was told to ‘get his facts straight’ today after shooting down vitamin D as a potential coronavirus treatment despite a growing body of evidence from around the world suggesting it works,” the Daily Mail reported at the time.
“Experts have for months been calling for officials to look into the immune system-boosting nutrient’s effect on Covid-19 patients after a mountain of research showed a link to vitamin D deficiency,” the report added. “Mr Hancock told the House of Commons last week he had green-lit a Government-funded ‘trial’ investigating vitamin D and that it did not ‘appear to have any impact’.”
In 2020, however, there were data that showed strong correlations between Vitamin D and Covid outcomes. A University of East Anglia study showed that case rates tended to decrease with higher Vitamin D levels among the population.
A University of Chicago study found 60 per cent higher rates of Covid-19 with low levels of the ‘sunshine vitamin’ among a sample population of 500 Americans.
A study by Tehran University, in Iran, and Boston University analysed data from 235 hospitalised patients with Covid-19. Patients who had sufficient vitamin D – of at least 30 ng/mL— were 51.5 per cent less likely to die from the disease.
Vitamin D isn’t the only alleged ‘fake news’ treatment to have been vindicated in recent weeks. Without going into arguments about the efficacy of the medication, doctors have won a concession from government lawyers thatprescribing ‘Ivermectin’ for Covid infections in an off-label capacity is within the discretion of physicians.
Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and Vitamin D have one thing in common: They were all low-cost alternatives to Covid vaccination and expensive treatments that Big Pharma dismissed out-of-hand during the pandemic. Was their rush to dismiss these treatments based on the Science or based on their profits? Further research is leading many to believe that it was much less of the former than the latter.
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