Things you don’t know that will help protect the vulnerable through Corona virus/COVID.

Nick Garner, author of this document.

Important! I’m not a medical practitioner, I’m just a person who does his research and is making the best decisions to help his family in this crisis situation.

All my important statements are backed up with references to relevant scientific papers.

20 March 2020 update | Why read this?

Apart from social isolation, hand washing and common sense ( not that common I’m afraid) …there is one thing the vulnerable can do to give them a fighting chance against coronavirus:

Vitamin D3

A study was done with 107 older adults (60 years and above) from 25 long term care facilities in the United States in 2016 proved that medium to high level regular intake of vitamin D3 reduced respiratory infections by 40%. Source.

On the US National library of medicine website: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov there are 32,009 publications citing the keywords ‘vitamin D deficiency’. Source.

This is a widely understood fact: Vitamin D deficiency compromises your immune system.

Or in other words; take vitamin D to fight coronavirus.

Why would the elderly have vitamin D deficiency?

They probably spend most of their time indoors. A US study suggested over 65’s spend 21.8 hours inside per day. Source

If you’re in Northern Europe, they there is only enough UVB radiation between late March and early October to have any effect on skin. Source.

They probably don’t eat enough oily fish, red meat or eggs to get any vitamin D through those sources. Source.

They probably don’t take vitamin D supplements. Source.

The research says:

In the UK between January and March, over 65 males are 29% vitamin D deficient. Source.

If you are vitamin D deficient, your probably add 40% more risk of having respiratory tract infections. Source.

A study of 125 patients aged 75 years or older who were admitted to an acute geriatric unit were tested for vitamin D levels. 43% of the sample were either very severely, or severely vitamin D deficient. Only 15% had normal vitamin D levels. Source.

The older you are, the more you need vitamin D. Source.

Recommendations

Suggested vitamin D intake for seniors is around 800 IU a day. Source. but, it’s safe to go up to 2000 IU per day with minimal risk. Source.

What about getting vitamin D from sun?

If you have 20 minutes Noon day direct sunlight in the summer months, wearing a T-shirt and shorts, you will have sufficient vitamin D intake. Source.

The catch: The elderly may well be in self isolation so can’t go out AND they will have vitamin D deficiency from winter.

What do I buy?

Vitamin D3 and K2 supplements are the best. The two vitamins interplay with each other to provide more overall health benefits than vitamin D3 on its own. Source.

Next steps:

Contact your elderly loved one

Ask them if they’re taking vitamin D supplementation

If not, go online and buy them any of these vitamin D3 & K2 supplements ( See link here )

Finally

If you’re not already…take vitamin D3 & K2!

Give vitamin D# & K2 supplements to those who need them!

Buy supplements like these: Amazon or anywhere that sells vitamin D3 and K2.