Vitamin D an Inexpensive Way to Strengthen Immunity, Govts Must Include it in Strategy against Covid: Experts
3 years, 11 months ago

Vitamin D an Inexpensive Way to Strengthen Immunity, Govts Must Include it in Strategy against Covid: Experts

News 18  

There is no clinical evidence to prove low levels of Vitamin D lead to severe COVID-19 symptoms but there is a definite connect between the sunshine vitamin and immune responses to the disease, say experts as the pandemic spreads across the world and concerns mount over a new mutant strain. Many factors such as age, being male and comorbidities are known to predispose individuals to higher risk from exposure to SARS-CoV-2, but inadequate Vitamin D is by far the most easily and quickly modifiable risk factor with abundant evidence to support a large beneficial effect, said Prof Afrozul Haq, former dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Technology at New Delhi's Jamia Hamdard University. Calling for immediate widespread increased Vitamin D intake, the letter posted on the websitevitamindforall.org states that research shows low vitamin D levels almost certainly promote COVID-19 infections, hospitalisations, and deaths. The current evidence suggests that 25-hydroxyvitamin D serum levels over 30 nanograms per millilitre, a test to measure Vitamin D level is a widely endorsed minimum to reduce COVID-19 risk, Mishra, from Mumbai's Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, told PTI.

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Best vitamin D supplement 2024: Tried and tested
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Best vitamin D supplement 2024: Tried and tested

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dr Sam Oliver, an expert in sport and exercise science at Bangor University, …

How older people can boost their immunity
2 months, 4 weeks ago

How older people can boost their immunity

The Independent  

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Researchers discover surprise vitamin D benefit in fight against cancer
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Researchers discover surprise vitamin D benefit in fight against cancer

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Vitamin D intake ‘may reduce cancer mortality in the population by 15%’ – study
1 year, 4 months ago

Vitamin D intake ‘may reduce cancer mortality in the population by 15%’ – study

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Low levels of vitamin D could be a risk factor for long Covid: Study
1 year, 7 months ago

Low levels of vitamin D could be a risk factor for long Covid: Study

Hindustan Times  

Long-term COVID risk has been observed to rise with low vitamin D levels, according to a study presented at the 25th European Congress of Endocrinology in Istanbul. Low vitamin D levels are one risk factor for poor outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients, such as intubation, mechanical ventilation, or death, but its function in extended COVID has not been well examined. …

5 Vitamins That Will Help Boost Immunity Over Time
1 year, 10 months ago

5 Vitamins That Will Help Boost Immunity Over Time

The Quint  

Vitamin C: It is one of the most popular vitamins and we all have come to know of it and its uses since the Covid times. Vitamin C is one of the biggest immune system boosters and research has proved that lack of vitamin C can make you more prone to getting sick more often. Vitamin E is a powerful …

Vitamin D supplements don't work if you're too fat, study warns
1 year, 11 months ago

Vitamin D supplements don't work if you're too fat, study warns

Daily Mail  

Scientists suggested obese people were absorbing more of the vitamin They found overweight and obese people had less vitamin D in their blood Researchers in Massachusetts tracked 16,000 people for their study Vitamin D supplements may not work if you're overweight, a study suggests. Dr Tobias added: 'This study sheds light on why we're seeing 30 to 40 percent reductions …

Does Taking Vitamins Help When You Have COVID?
1 year, 11 months ago

Does Taking Vitamins Help When You Have COVID?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING With the ever-changing nature of all things COVID, combined with the blizzard of misinformation that’s out there, it’s tough to keep up with best ways to take care of yourself when you’re sick with the coronavirus. During the pandemic, some health experts have said that you don’t actually want to “boost your immune system” when you’re fighting …

5 ways Vitamin D can help you live longer
2 years ago

5 ways Vitamin D can help you live longer

Hindustan Times  

Vitamin D deficiency can increase your overall risk of premature death as well as specific risk of dying from cancer, heart disease or lung disease, as per a new study involving more than 307,000 UK residents. There are also many studies that talk about Vitamin D's role in preventing cardiac ailments and metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes. There are …

Easy ways to include vitamins in your diet
2 years, 1 month ago

Easy ways to include vitamins in your diet

Hindustan Times  

It is important to consciously include immunity-boosting vitamins in our diet. However, the impact of rapid urbanisation and unrealistic body images have affected people’s lifestyles in a great way and we are facing an epidemic of vitamin deficiencies, particularly Vitamin D and other fat-soluble vitamins. Easy ways to include vitamins in your diet In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Kavita …

Can Vitamin D Supplements Help Prevent COVID-19? Know Details Here
2 years, 3 months ago

Can Vitamin D Supplements Help Prevent COVID-19? Know Details Here

News 18  

Vitamin D is one of the most important nutrients that the human body requires. The skin has the ability to absorb the sun’s ultraviolet rays, which in turn, converts them into vitamin D. However, many people suffer from a deficit of it because of various reasons such as older age, lack of nutritious food and a darker skin tone said …

Vitamin D deficiency associated with chronic inflammation: Study
2 years, 4 months ago

Vitamin D deficiency associated with chronic inflammation: Study

Hindustan Times  

Scientists have discovered a direct link between low levels of vitamin D and high levels of inflammation, providing an important biomarker to identify people at higher risk of or severity of chronic illnesses with an inflammatory component. Lead researcher, UniSA's Dr Ang Zhou, said the findings suggest that boosting vitamin D in people with a deficiency may reduce chronic inflammation. …

Have Vitamin D3 and B12 deficiency? Here's why you shouldn't take this 'silent epidemic' lightly
2 years, 6 months ago

Have Vitamin D3 and B12 deficiency? Here's why you shouldn't take this 'silent epidemic' lightly

Hindustan Times  

For the uninitiated, vitamin D helps increase the ability of our immune system to ward off infections hence, people with vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency are at a higher risk of developing infections if they do not consume vitamin D that is found in oily fishes such as salmon, tuna and herringbone, eggs, fortified cereals, milk and mushrooms or sunlight, …

Can taking vitamins and supplements help you recover from Covid?
2 years, 7 months ago

Can taking vitamins and supplements help you recover from Covid?

Hindustan Times  

Australia’s surge in COVID cases this year has seen many people looking for ways to protect themselves or boost their immunity and recovery. In Australia, the Therapeutic Goods Administration includes vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, plant extracts and microbiome supplements under the term “complementary medicine”. Little evidence of benefits Despite the large variety of complementary medicines marketed, most clinical trials …

Does Vitamin D work on Covid after all? Israeli study finds nutrient big indicator of severity
2 years, 10 months ago

Does Vitamin D work on Covid after all? Israeli study finds nutrient big indicator of severity

Daily Mail  

McGill University in Canada. 60 per cent higher rates of Covid-19 among people with low levels of the 'sunshine vitamin'. Compared vitamin D levels in almost 200 Covid-19 hospital patients with a control group of more than 2,000 healthy people. Independent scientists say blood vitamin D levels go down when people develop serious illness, which the study did not take …

NIH hasn’t recommended supplements as new COVID-19 strategy
3 years, 3 months ago

NIH hasn’t recommended supplements as new COVID-19 strategy

Associated Press  

CLAIM: The NIH now recommends vitamin C, vitamin D3 and zinc for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. “NIH Now Includes Vitamin C, Vitamin D and Zinc as Recommended in the Prevention or Treatment of COVID,” a headline on the website the Gateway Pundit declared, before it was later changed to assert the agency was “still looking into” the supplements. …

Immune boosters are the new fatal attraction
3 years, 5 months ago

Immune boosters are the new fatal attraction

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Indians have spent Rs. 15 000 crore on immunity boosters, vitamins and supplements during the Covid 19 pandemic yet patients whose condition was severe and critical had no use of these products. Malleshwari, head of the department of nutrition and dietetics at Gleneagle Global Hospitals, said, “In our experience in treating Covid-19 patients at the hospital level, it was …

Vitamin D may not protect against COVID: Study
3 years, 6 months ago

Vitamin D may not protect against COVID: Study

India TV News  

While previous research early in the pandemic suggested that vitamin D cuts the risk of contracting Covid-19, a new study finds there is no genetic evidence that it works as a protective measure against the coronavirus. According to the researchers, including Guillaume Butler-Laporte from McGill University, vitamin D supplementation as a public health measure to improve outcomes is not supported …

COVID and Children: A Nutritionist on What to Eat & What to Avoid for a Robust Immune System
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID and Children: A Nutritionist on What to Eat & What to Avoid for a Robust Immune System

News 18  

Although children are not the face of the pandemic, it is not sparing them either. The COVID-19 pandemic will have a lifelong impact on children through indirect effects, including poor diet, impact on mental health, social isolation, closure of schools and healthcare. Research indicates less likelihood of children being affected due to presence of distinct immune system capable of producing …

Demand for vitamins, zinc supplements soars in second wave. Do they help prevent Covid-19?
3 years, 7 months ago

Demand for vitamins, zinc supplements soars in second wave. Do they help prevent Covid-19?

India Today  

Vitamin C, D and zinc supplements have been flying off the shelves of pharmacies as a raging second wave of Covid-19 has led to a spike in demand for immunity boosters. What studies have found A study, published in the journal JAMA Open Network earlier this year, found that people taking zinc or vitamin C supplements, whether individually or combined, …

Five post-Covid nutrition tips
3 years, 7 months ago

Five post-Covid nutrition tips

India Today  

For those who have managed to beat Covid-19—in terms of the immediate fever, breathing difficulties and so on—the worst, they say, is over. In fact, this is a good time to go back to what Hippocrates, the Greek physician often called the ‘father of modern medicine’ said: “Let food be thy medicine.” Celebrity nutritionist Shweta Shah certainly thinks so, and …

Multivitamins, Omega-3, Probiotics and Vitamin D May Cut Risk of Covid-19, Says Study
3 years, 8 months ago

Multivitamins, Omega-3, Probiotics and Vitamin D May Cut Risk of Covid-19, Says Study

News 18  

Taking multivitamins, omega-3, probiotics or vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of testing positive for the novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19, at least among women, according to a large observational study. The researchers, including those from King’s College London in the UK, drew on adult users of the COVID-19 Symptom Study app to see if regular supplement users were …

Australian clinical trial finds vitamin D does not ward off colds, flu
3 years, 11 months ago

Australian clinical trial finds vitamin D does not ward off colds, flu

Live Mint  

An Australian randomised controlled trial of vitamin D supplements, led by the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane has found they do not protect most people from developing colds, flu and other acute respiratory infections. We analysed data from the D-Health Trial to determine whether supplementing older Australian adults, recruited from the general population, with monthly doses of vitamin …

Vitamin D inexpensive, low-risk, can strengthen immune response to COVID-19: Experts
3 years, 11 months ago

Vitamin D inexpensive, low-risk, can strengthen immune response to COVID-19: Experts

Hindustan Times  

There is no clinical evidence to prove low levels of Vitamin D lead to severe Covid-19 symptoms but there is a definite connect between the “sunshine vitamin” and immune responses to the disease, say experts as the pandemic spreads across the world and concerns mount over a new mutant strain. Many factors such as age, being male and comorbidities are …

Scientists urge government to issue Vitamin D advice, "arrogance that the government wants to wait"
3 years, 11 months ago

Scientists urge government to issue Vitamin D advice, "arrogance that the government wants to wait"

NL Times  

A group of scientists and health experts have criticized the government for their wait-and-see approach to taking vitamin D. According to the experts, more and more studies show that Vitamin D can decrease the chance of getting Covid-19 or minimize the symptoms. For example, the leading professor of Nutrition and Health at the Vrije Universiteit, Jaap Seidell, said that “waiting …

‘Alarmingly high’ levels of vitamin D deficiency in UK, says study
4 years ago

‘Alarmingly high’ levels of vitamin D deficiency in UK, says study

The Independent  

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Coronavirus: Do I need to start taking vitamin D during lockdown?
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus: Do I need to start taking vitamin D during lockdown?

The Independent  

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Doctors will trial whether vitamin D can protect people from Covid-19
4 years, 2 months ago

Doctors will trial whether vitamin D can protect people from Covid-19

Daily Mail  

Doctors will finally trial whether vitamin D can actually protect people from Covid-19 amid mounting evidence the 3p-a-day supplement could be a life-saver. A Singaporean study earlier in the year of nearly 800 people found almost 99% of Covid-19 patients who died had vitamin D deficiency CARE HOME RESIDENTS 'SHOULD BE GIVEN VITAMIN D' Care home residents are not being …

Vitamin D Remedy: Some Covid Protection Shining Down on Us. Indians May Take Note
4 years, 2 months ago

Vitamin D Remedy: Some Covid Protection Shining Down on Us. Indians May Take Note

News 18  

The simplest of supplements is proving extraordinarily effective against catching coronavirus, a major new study shows. The study in Boston published in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Public Library of Science One’ shows that that the risk of getting coronavirus declines steadily as Vitamin D levels increase. “The results are yet to come out, but we have seen already that those patients …

Matt Hancock wrongly claims vitamin D doesn't work for Covid-19
4 years, 2 months ago

Matt Hancock wrongly claims vitamin D doesn't work for Covid-19

Daily Mail  

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. Countries with low vitamin D levels tend to have the highest case rates per million - but the graph was from a study in May, …

Coronavirus: Vitamin D can half risk of fatal complications, research finds
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus: Vitamin D can half risk of fatal complications, research finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Both studies claim that patients with sufficient levels of vitamin D are less likely to …

Vitamin D Cuts Complications, Risk of Death in Covid-19 Patients, Says Study
4 years, 2 months ago

Vitamin D Cuts Complications, Risk of Death in Covid-19 Patients, Says Study

News 18  

A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that patients with sufficient levels of Vitamin D are less likely to experience complications and die from Covid-19. According to the study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, hospitalised Covid-19 patients who were vitamin D sufficient, with a blood level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of at least 30 ng/mL had a …

Vitamin D supplements 'could keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care'
4 years, 3 months ago

Vitamin D supplements 'could keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care'

Daily Mail  

Treating coronavirus patients with high doses of vitamin D supplements could help keep them out of intensive care, a study has suggested. Researchers gave high doses of calcifediol – a type of vitamin D supplement – to 50 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 in Spain. Calcifediol – a type of vitamin D supplementation – appeared to slash the risk of a …

Link between low Vitamin D levels, high COVID-19 infection risk established by Israeli researchers
4 years, 4 months ago

Link between low Vitamin D levels, high COVID-19 infection risk established by Israeli researchers

Firstpost  

People in their 20’s and 50’s were also found to be more at-risk for COVID-19 in the study, due to social gatherings and comorbid conditions. Dr Eugene Merzon, one of the study’s lead researchers from LHS, told International Business Times that their main finding was a “significant connection between low plasma vitamin D level and the likelihood of COVID-19 infection …

Coronavirus: ‘No evidence’ vitamin D supplements protect against Covid-19, review finds
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus: ‘No evidence’ vitamin D supplements protect against Covid-19, review finds

The Independent  

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