Editorial: Vitamin D is for defense against COVID-19 virus

It's important to note the 110 Placer County residents who died of COVID-19 did not die in vain. Like the 2-in-37 senior boys in my 1965 graduating class at Colfax High School who died in Vietnam, those 110 souls died for a reason: corporate profits. Except this time it was pharmaceutical corporate profits instead of war industry corporate profits. It's all about billions in vaccine profits that are going to cure a vitamin-D deficiency disease called COVID-19. Most people get most of their vitamin D from the sun, and between clothing, conventions, sunscreens, sun fear and people with tropical skin living far from the tropics, most people are sub-optimal in D; and it gets worse with age because the older skin gets, the less vitamin D it makes. New York state statistics in April showed 83% of the sick and dying were people who were sun-deprived from hiding in their homes or stuck away in convalescent hospitals, and additionally were old and with darker skin, while only 8% of victims were people out and about, supposedly risking their lives to do essential work. That's when vitamin-D scientists figured we had a virus that, like all other respiratory viruses, was controllable with sun exposure, vitamin D supplementation and ultraviolet light. Throughout the spring and summer, as research kept showing higher vitamin-D levels in the blood were always associated with lower risk of COVID-19 sickness and death, Dr. Anthony Fauci kept saying vitamins C and D can't hurt us and might help. He quietly amplified his tune in early September after a Spanish university hospital study in late August showed 100,000 IU of vitamin D given to new COVID admissions, and 50,000 IU every third day thereafter until well, lowered the need for ICU from 50% to 2%, and deaths from 8% to zero, according to an article at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Fauci acknowledged he takes 6,000 IU of vitamin D a day because it reduces the risk of getting COVID-19. But most people have no idea Fauci put out that information. If Dr. Fauci and his National Institute of Infectious Diseases had prominently advised the nation to take his dose of vitamin D, adjusted up and down for differences in body weight, the COVID-19 epidemic would have stopped within a month. But even Dr. Fauci won't dare get in the way of Big Pharma's mega-billion-$$$$$ vaccine payday. Apparently, Dr. Fauci and I used the same two research studies to arrive at our D3 dosage formulas because I would have had him taking 6,500 IU D3/day. An Iranian study of vitamin-D blood levels showed death is frequent below 30 ng/ml and absent above 60 ng/ml, with sickness being present up to 65 ng/ml (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7518606/). And a UW Seattle study showed it takes about 8,000 IU D3/day to raise blood D3 from a typical winter low of 25 ng/ml to 65 ng/ml in a typical normal-weight 160-pound person in three months (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33184642/). To get the similar blood levels of D3 in people of different weights, a conversion formula of 1,000 IU D3/day/20 lbs body weight must be used. So figure out your dosage. Mine is 10,000 IU D3 per day for my 200-pound frame. Keep in mind the UW Seattle study took three months to reach higher blood levels. So unless you are already taking 1,000 IU D3/day/20 pounds body weight, you are deficient in regard to COVID-19 and need to follow the advice of the Endocrine Society for recovery from deficiency: double that dose for 3-4 weeks, and triple that dose if you're obese (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21646368/). That's for prevention. Treatment is another thing. For people who already have COVID-19, and don't care to be part of the sickness-and-death program for preserving Big Pharma's mega-billion-$$$$$ vaccine windfall, the best proven path is to follow the protocol of the university hospital in Cordoba, Spain: 100,000 IU on the first day, followed by 50,000 IU D3 every 3-4 days thereafter, while considering the Endocrine Society's advice for higher or much higher doses for overweight and obese people. Vitamin D is safe. The normal range for vitamin D in the blood is 30-100 ng/ml. A blood level goal of 65 ng/ml is exactly in the middle of that range, and no toxicity has been shown up to 200 ng/ml. Although the oral dosages recommended here show every sign of shutting down this disease, it appears the very best COVID-19 immunity is to be attained by twice-weekly sessions at a tanning salon that uses lamps with 4-7% ultraviolet because, in addition to abundant vitamin D production, sun-similar UVA-UVB ultraviolet light has several other immune-enhancing and virus-inhibiting effects on the body. We don't have to wait helplessly until two weeks after we all get vaccinated, getting sick and watching our loved ones die, if we just take enough vitamin D or do a tanning salon twice a week. For further reading and references, feel invited to call me at 530-878-1901.