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Note: Supplements can easily improve the Vitamin D Receptor
Study reported on in Medscape (found via Facebook) Download PDF from Vitamin D Life
Biovista is doing the investigation
Project Prodigy AI at Biovista is focused on potential COVID-19 treatments
- "... create visual networks of connections between different attack points related to COVID-19, including drugs, genes, pathways, cell types and more"
- "Project Prodigy is working through more than 170,000 putative Drugs, Compounds and Nutritional Supplements, DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY linked to the COVID-19 targets..."
- They then are:
- exploring the biology around the disease
- generating hypotheses for possible treatment
- sharing hypotheses with the community
- assessing and refining these hypotheses
- "Supporting scientific literature (PubMed articles) can be viewed by clicking on the blue document icons."
- So far, we hypothesize that two (2) drugs and (2) Nutritional Supplements that could be co-administered with the drugs seem to be suitable for further study and testing
Another repurposing study also considers Vitamin D for treatment - Sept 2020
Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19: an endocrinology perspective
September 2020BMC Endocrine Disorders 20(149), DOI: 10.1186/s12902-020-00626-0
Cadegiani Flávio
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References include
- 155) Jakovac H. COVID-19 and vitamin D-Is there a link and an opportunity for intervention?. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2020;318(5):E589. doi:https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00138.2020
- 157) Aygun H. Vitamin D can prevent COVID-19 infection-induced multiple organ damage [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 25]. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 2020;1-4.
- 159) Glinsky GV. Tripartite Combination of Candidate Pandemic Mitigation Agents: Vitamin D, Quercetin, and Estradiol Manifest Properties of Medicinal Agents for Targeted Mitigation of the COVID-19 Pandemic Defined by Genomics-Guided Tracing of SARS-CoV-2 Targets in Human Cells. -Biomedicines. 2020;8(5):E129. Published 2020 May 21.
- 161) Teymoori-Rad M, Shokri F, Salimi V, Marashi SM. The interplay between vitamin D and viral infections. Rev Med Virol. 2019;29(2):e2032.
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COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos
Contents as of Nov 21:
- 35 trials, 4 trial results, 32 observations, 13 recommendations, 35 associations, 77 speculations, 26 videos
Top Vitamin D and COVID-19 recent updates
- Vitamin D should fight COVID-19 (but Irish Consortium recommends only 1,000 IU) – Nov 21, 2020
- Hospital COVID-19 observation: 7X more likely to live if more than 20 ng of vitamin D– Nov 19, 2020
- Severe COVID-19 not fought by vitamin D when given too late - RCT Nov 18, 2020
- Higher vitamin D associated with fewer cases and deaths in India Nov 2020
- COVID-19 defeated 3x faster by 420,000 IU Vitamin D nanoemulsion – RCT Nov 12, 2020
- 2X fewer COVID-19 deaths observed if infrequent vitamin D (2X more deaths if daily dose) – ClinicalTrial Oct 20, 2020
- Vitamin D fighting COVID-19 meets all Bradford Hill Criteria - Nov 2020
- French National Academy recommended 100,000 IU of Vitamin D to elderly to fight COVID-19 - May 2020
- Chinese COVID-19 study – 80 pct of severe cases had low Vitamin D, all asymptomatic cases had OK Vit D – Oct 13, 2020
- Vitamin D and COVID-19 - observational studies found it helps, never hurts - Campbell Oct 31, 2020
- Low Vitamin D associated 1.8X increased risk of COVID-19 death in hosptial – meta-analysis Nov 4, 2020
- COVID-19 lung death 4X more likely in Iran if less than 25 ng of vitamin D – Oct 30, 2020
- Evidence Regarding Vitamin D and Risk of COVID-19 and its Severity - Oct 27, 2020
- COVID-19 patients who happened to be taking Vitamin D did much better – Oct 27,2020
- 9X COVID-19 survival in nursing home if had 80,000 IU dose of vitamin D in previous month – Oct 2020
- COVID-19 fought by Vitamin D in 43 studies - Oct 15, 2020
- 15 studies indicating that Vitamin D fights COVID-19 - Dr. Grimes Oct 9, 2020
- 32X more likely to have severe-critical COVID-19 in Turkish hospital if Vitamin D deficient – Oct 5, 2020
- Vitamin D Cuts SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rate by Half Mercola Sept 28
- 47% lower SARS-CoV-2 positivity rate if > 50 ng vs < 20 ng
- 58% lower risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 if > 30 ng vs < 30 ng
- 2X higher risk of hospitialization if <30 ng
- ICU patients got semi-activated Vitamin D - death rate dropped to 2% from 50%
- Virtually no COVID-19 cases in countries having more than 30 ng of Vitamin D - Sept 17, 2020
- Studies on Vitamin D and COVID-19 (11 categories) - Sept 20, 2020
- Rate of COVID-19 test positive is 40 pcnt lower if high vitamin D (192,000 people) - Holick Sept 2020
- 14.7 X more likely to die of COVID-19 if less than 12 ng of Vitamin D (185 Germans) – Sept 10, 2020
- Low D increases risk of infection. Dr. Fauci Sept 11
- "If you're deficient in vitamin D, that does have an impact on your susceptibility to infection. I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself, taking vitamin D supplements,..." 32 minutes into Instagram interview
- Dr. Fauci takes 6,000 IU of Vitamin D daily – Sept 2020
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- COVID-19 defeated by calcifediol form of Vitamin D in Spain - pilot RCT Aug 29, 2020
- WHO – Severe COVID-19 mortality reduced by hormones (should consider hormone D too) - Sept 2020
- Vitamin D in Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 (16 reasons) – Sept 1, 2020
Search Google Scholar for COVID-19 Vitamin D 20,000 publications Oct 10, 2020
Many clinical trials are underway which are testing Vitamin D to fight COVID-19
Vitamin D Receptor items in Vitamin D Life
- Vitamin D Receptor is associated in over 58 autoimmune studies*
- The risk of 44 diseases at least double with poor Vitamin D Receptor as of Oct 2019
- Vitamin D Receptor activation can be increased by any of: Resveratrol, Omega-3, Magnesium, Zinc, Quercetin, non-daily Vit D, Curcumin, intense exercise, Ginger, Essential oils, etc
- Note: The founder of Vitamin D Life uses 10 of the 12 known VDR activators