You can find a more dialed in summary and video on Dr Rhonda Patricks page here. https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/vitamin-d-covid-19

Take your Vitamin D. I'm sure many of you out there are deficient, and now is a horrible time to be be deficient in Vitamin D.

Unlike Hydroxychloroquine, this really is a "what do you have to lose?" situation. There's no downside to getting your RDA of vitamins and minerals. Natural sources are usually best when possible, but properly made synthetics are better than nothing.
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"Ya know, seventy percent of the US population has insufficient vitamin D levels..."

The experts keep telling us to avoid the sun. Numerous studies show supplementing D with a pill doesn't do the job (google it). Surprised? They're finding that about most vitamins, after all. And in fact, some studies suggest (right along with logic) that doing so can cause harm: since the sun uses cholesterol to produce D, avoiding the sun and supplementing D (thus, removing any need to produce it naturally) can actually raise your cholesterol. Yes, it's not 100% scientifically confirmed yet, but what is? Thought experiment.

Toss the supplements. We evolved under the sun; go out in it periodically for a while, just don't get burnt.


Edit: Having now watched the whole thing, I now see they do cover much of that. Alright, well, Go get some sun.

- Study in Indonesia found that out of the patients that died from COVID-19, 98.9% of them were deficient in vitamin D, while only 4% of the patients with sufficient vitamin D died. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3585561

- Study of patients in New Orleans found that 84.6% of the COVID-19 patients in the ICU were deficient in Vitamin D while only 4% of the patients in the ICU had sufficient levels of Vitamin D. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075838v1

- Study in the Philippines found that for every standard deviation increase in vitamin D people were 7.94 times more likely to have a mild rather than severe COVID-19 outcome and 19.61 times more likely to have a mild rather than critical outcome. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571484

Stuck inside sick then stuck in ICU = vitamin D deficiency. Like she says, correlation is not causation. But to netwboy's point, it's a very studied compound with not a lot of known downside if taken as directed, so whaddya got to lose? Just a bit of money, like all those vitamin C pills I took to keep from getting sick

If you are interested in what she ( the science/studies say) has to say regarding Vitamin C. It's a tricky one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZJ8YDOX6g&feature=youtu.be&t=3355

Low magnesium levels make vitamin D ineffective
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180226122548.htm

"Approximately 50% of the US population does not have adequate magnesium intake. Magnesium is required by enzymes to convert vitamin D3 into the active steroid hormone that regulates over 5% of the protein-encoding human genome!
Low magnesium levels make vitamin D ineffective" - Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Chemistry is like a fancy desert recipe. Omit one key ingredient, even one you can't really taste, and the whole soufflé falls flat.
That's why it's important to get all your vitamins AND minerals, neither works well without the other....and don't ever forget the baking powder.