It is an egregious failure of the majority of medical professionals, immunologists, epidemiologists etc. that the whole world does not already know about the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation, without which most people have only a fraction of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs to function properly.
0.125 milligrams (5000 IU) a day is a good amount to take, on average, for normal weight adults. Below is a link to recommendations based on body weight and obesity status which are appropriate for every person, from infants to the elderly.
There's very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. It can be generated by UV-B exposure of ideally white skin, but this is not available to most people far from the equator except in the middle of cloud-free summer days, without glass or sunscreen - and this UV-B damages DNA and so increases the risk of skin cancer.
Vitamin D3 cholecalciferol is hydroxylated, primarily in the liver, over several days, to become 25-hydroxyvitamin D calcifediol (AKA "calcidiol"). The kidneys need this, and so to many types of immune cell. Neither of these compounds function as hormones.
The third compound - 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D calcitriol is produced by the kidneys, to go into circulation in the bloodstream at a very low level (ca. 0.1 ng/mL) to hormonally signal to multiple cell types which are involved in calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism. This is the sole hormonal function of the three compounds. Individual immune cells can also generate calcitriol within themselves, when triggered to do so by cell-type specific conditions are detected by that individual cell. This calcitriol functions as an intracrine agent in that cell's intracrine signaling system, which changes its behaviour and so makes the cell respond properly to the detected condition. In some cell-types, some of this calcitriol diffuses to nearby cells, usually of different types, and affects their behaviour too. This is paracrine signaling. Neither of these signaling systems are hormonal, and they do not affect, nor are they affected, by the very low level of circulating calcitriol maintained by the kidneys.
Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation - in excess of the tiny amounts recommended by governments and many doctors (such as 0.015 mg 600 IU/day) - many white people, living far from the equator, have 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels only half of what their immune system needs to function properly.
In the absence of proper vitamin D3 supplementation, people with dark skin who live far from the equator have even lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels than the white skinned people who live there. This is probably the biggest preventable cause of the well known health disparities which afflict dark skinned and/or sun-avoidant people who live far from the equator.
To attain a healthy level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D circulating in the bloodstream without the need for blood tests or medical monitoring, without excessive UV-B skin exposure, it is necessary to take an average daily amount of supplemental vitamin D3 which is calculated as a ratio of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity.
For 70 kg (154 lb) body weight, without obesity, 0.125 milligrams (1/8000th of a gram = 5000 IU) vitamin D3 a day, on average, will attain a healthy 25-hydroxyvitamin D level: 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L in the UK, Australia etc.) which is 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass. This is what is measured in "vitamin D" blood tests.
This level is higher than what most doctors think is necessary, because they are only aiming to attain what is needed for proper kidney function regarding regulating calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism: 20 ng/mL (50 nmol/L).
The scarily high sounding "5000 IUs" per day is a gram every 22 years - and pharma grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram.
If everyone supplemented vitamin D3 sufficiently to attain at least the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system needs to work properly, then there would be numerous benefits, including:
1 - Little or no pandemic spread of COVID-19, including current more infectious variants, even in a population which had no immunity to SARS-CoV-2 due to prior infection or vaccination. Handwashing and not breathing, sneezing or coughing into most other people's faces are always good ideas, but there would be no need for masks, social distancing, lockdowns, real vaccines (Novavax) or the quasi-vaccine gene-therapy injections (Pfizer and Moderna mRNA - and AstraZeneca and J&J adenovirus vector).
There would be many fewer infected people, primarily due to each infected person having a less severe disease and so shedding fewer viruses. R0 would be below the pandemic level of 1.0 in almost all circumstances - the possible exceptions being people in confined spaces such as hospitals or submarines. Those infected would much more rarely need hospitalisation or die, assuming that inexpensive, generally safe, effective, treatments such as ivermectin were used in hospitals, or for outpatients with, or at significant risk of developing, serious symptoms.
2 - Likewise influenza and other infectious diseases.
3 - Greatly reduced rates of sepsis, which killed about 11 million people worldwide in 2017.
4 - Reduced risk of in-utero, peri-natal and neurodevelopmental problems including low birth weight, pre-eclampsia, autism, intellectual disability schizophrenia and ADHD: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2.
5 - *Greatly* reduced risk of neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, Alzheimer's disease etc.: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3.
6 - Reduced risk and severity of numerous auto-immune diseases.
For clinical emergencies, such as sepsis, COVID-19, ARDS, Kawasaki disease and MIS-C, ordinary daily healthy vitamin D3 intakes make little difference, because it takes months to raise typical low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, such as 10 to 20 ng/mL, safely above 50 ng/mL.
For average weight adults, a single bolus dose of 10 milligrams (400,000 IU) vitamin D3 will raise 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels safely over 50 ng/mL after several days, due to time it takes to hydroxylate it in the liver. (Actually, only about 1/4 of ingested vitamin D3 goes into circulation as 25-hydroxyvitamin D). This would save many lives, but the best treatment, which almost every sufferer of these diseases desperately needs, is, for 70 kg 154 lb body weight, to give a single oral dose of about 1 milligram of calcifediol. This *is* 25-hydroxyvitamin D. It does not need to be processed in the liver, so it raises 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels safely over 50 ng/mL in 4 hours or less.
I remember some time around 2017 when JAMA came out with an article that basically said all the vitamin D and calcium supplementation had done nothing for bone density and to stop taking them. I didn't hear anything about vitamin D and the immune system until after the fake pandemic. Now I am suspicious that the advice to stop the supplementation was nefarious. I no longer blindly trust any "authoritative source".
Once the mask has slipped, you can never unsee what you're seen.
Yet another of hundreds of studies proving the effectiveness against covid of such treatments as VIT D, ivermectin, HCQ, the McCullough protocols, the Zelenko protocol and others.
As you have stated over and over, 2/3 to 3/4 of covid hospitalizations and deaths could have been prevented with these treatments.
Fauci, Collins, Hotez, CDC and FDA doctors and hundreds of other doctors who falsely discredited and blocked these treatments are guilty of mass assault and murder in my mind.
One analogy is an adult who watches a baby crawl to a pool and fall into the water, and makes no effort to stop the baby or jump in to save it. Every rational person considers this a crime, depraved and horrific.
Is there any real difference between this crime and what those doctors have done - other than the millions of people harmed or killed by the lies told by these doctors?
In other words, per Dr. DeSimone, "Be sure to get poisoned with an experimental mRNA injection for which the acute, sub-acute, & long-term effects are completely unknown, & for which the companies making them are completely shielded from liability, for an infection with a 99.7% recovery rate". Makes perfect sense (not).
In May of 2020 I stumbled on a Dr Louis Coates out of Dallas via FB that encouraged a daily regiment of D, zinc, CoQ10, NAC, quercetin, and vit c. I feel it prepared my compromised immune system well for Delta in late ‘21 and Omicron 3 months later. Dr Coates’ regiment gave me confidence to not cave when being pressured to vaccinate.
Dr. McCullough- Love everyone to stop referring to the experimental MRNA shots as vaccines. In your articles so more can understand please add "not vaccines" but experimental MRNA shots in parenthesis.
Old news. The FLCCC folks figured that out a long time ago. Yet the protocol was to lock everyone indoors… during Spring/Summer time, especially the elderly. Hmm. Surprised the FDA didn’t put out a note about how D is bad for you. Remember we are not “horses y’all”.
This doctor is an embarrassment. He even mentioned disinfecting surfaces when even the CDC acknowledged this has no role. Viruses need a live host; either human or animal. And as for the masking, does he not read any literature?
The Mayo clinic is more aligned with big pharma than the true health of the people. How depressing. There must be more good people than bad, but where are they?
D3 can probably also stop Covid if one is newly exposed and exhibits symptoms. In this case large doses for several days - 50-100iu per day - would be needed. I have used this technique for about 8 years with approx. 75% success on beginning colds and flus. The times it failed seemed to be associated with the virus having already been in my body for too lengthy a period before I began treatment. The protocol called "the hammer" is written up in the medical literature but is not widely known even to many vitamin "gurus". The past two+ years I have instead used zinc + quercetin daily as a preventative and for me this has worked 100%. Of course I still take maintenance doses of D3.
And the medical establishment continues to publish studies “proving” that vitamin D has no benefit in regards to COVID. And the government’s idea of vitamin D insufficiency is a blood level of less than 30.
Mayo can't do as you suggest because that would be an admission of responsibility for it's own part of the "vaccine " tragedy. It would also require humility which is in short supply in medicine.
It is an egregious failure of the majority of medical professionals, immunologists, epidemiologists etc. that the whole world does not already know about the need for proper vitamin D3 supplementation, without which most people have only a fraction of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs to function properly.
Please read the research articles on vitamin D and the immune system which are cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/.
0.125 milligrams (5000 IU) a day is a good amount to take, on average, for normal weight adults. Below is a link to recommendations based on body weight and obesity status which are appropriate for every person, from infants to the elderly.
There's very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. It can be generated by UV-B exposure of ideally white skin, but this is not available to most people far from the equator except in the middle of cloud-free summer days, without glass or sunscreen - and this UV-B damages DNA and so increases the risk of skin cancer.
Vitamin D3 cholecalciferol is hydroxylated, primarily in the liver, over several days, to become 25-hydroxyvitamin D calcifediol (AKA "calcidiol"). The kidneys need this, and so to many types of immune cell. Neither of these compounds function as hormones.
The third compound - 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D calcitriol is produced by the kidneys, to go into circulation in the bloodstream at a very low level (ca. 0.1 ng/mL) to hormonally signal to multiple cell types which are involved in calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism. This is the sole hormonal function of the three compounds. Individual immune cells can also generate calcitriol within themselves, when triggered to do so by cell-type specific conditions are detected by that individual cell. This calcitriol functions as an intracrine agent in that cell's intracrine signaling system, which changes its behaviour and so makes the cell respond properly to the detected condition. In some cell-types, some of this calcitriol diffuses to nearby cells, usually of different types, and affects their behaviour too. This is paracrine signaling. Neither of these signaling systems are hormonal, and they do not affect, nor are they affected, by the very low level of circulating calcitriol maintained by the kidneys.
Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation - in excess of the tiny amounts recommended by governments and many doctors (such as 0.015 mg 600 IU/day) - many white people, living far from the equator, have 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels only half of what their immune system needs to function properly.
In the absence of proper vitamin D3 supplementation, people with dark skin who live far from the equator have even lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels than the white skinned people who live there. This is probably the biggest preventable cause of the well known health disparities which afflict dark skinned and/or sun-avoidant people who live far from the equator.
To attain a healthy level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D circulating in the bloodstream without the need for blood tests or medical monitoring, without excessive UV-B skin exposure, it is necessary to take an average daily amount of supplemental vitamin D3 which is calculated as a ratio of body weight, with higher ratios for those suffering from obesity.
Please see such recommendations, from New Jersey based Professor of Medicine, at https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/how-much-vitamin-d3-to-take. These are his slight simplification, announced in an FLCCC podcast, of the recommendations in his 2022 article in Nutrition: "Rapidly Increasing Serum 25(OH)D Boosts the Immune System, against Infections - Sepsis and COVID-19": https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/14/2997.
For 70 kg (154 lb) body weight, without obesity, 0.125 milligrams (1/8000th of a gram = 5000 IU) vitamin D3 a day, on average, will attain a healthy 25-hydroxyvitamin D level: 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L in the UK, Australia etc.) which is 1 part in 20,000,000 by mass. This is what is measured in "vitamin D" blood tests.
This level is higher than what most doctors think is necessary, because they are only aiming to attain what is needed for proper kidney function regarding regulating calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism: 20 ng/mL (50 nmol/L).
The scarily high sounding "5000 IUs" per day is a gram every 22 years - and pharma grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram.
If everyone supplemented vitamin D3 sufficiently to attain at least the 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system needs to work properly, then there would be numerous benefits, including:
1 - Little or no pandemic spread of COVID-19, including current more infectious variants, even in a population which had no immunity to SARS-CoV-2 due to prior infection or vaccination. Handwashing and not breathing, sneezing or coughing into most other people's faces are always good ideas, but there would be no need for masks, social distancing, lockdowns, real vaccines (Novavax) or the quasi-vaccine gene-therapy injections (Pfizer and Moderna mRNA - and AstraZeneca and J&J adenovirus vector).
There would be many fewer infected people, primarily due to each infected person having a less severe disease and so shedding fewer viruses. R0 would be below the pandemic level of 1.0 in almost all circumstances - the possible exceptions being people in confined spaces such as hospitals or submarines. Those infected would much more rarely need hospitalisation or die, assuming that inexpensive, generally safe, effective, treatments such as ivermectin were used in hospitals, or for outpatients with, or at significant risk of developing, serious symptoms.
2 - Likewise influenza and other infectious diseases.
3 - Greatly reduced rates of sepsis, which killed about 11 million people worldwide in 2017.
4 - Reduced risk of in-utero, peri-natal and neurodevelopmental problems including low birth weight, pre-eclampsia, autism, intellectual disability schizophrenia and ADHD: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2.
5 - *Greatly* reduced risk of neurodegenerative disease: Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, Alzheimer's disease etc.: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3.
6 - Reduced risk and severity of numerous auto-immune diseases.
For clinical emergencies, such as sepsis, COVID-19, ARDS, Kawasaki disease and MIS-C, ordinary daily healthy vitamin D3 intakes make little difference, because it takes months to raise typical low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, such as 10 to 20 ng/mL, safely above 50 ng/mL.
For average weight adults, a single bolus dose of 10 milligrams (400,000 IU) vitamin D3 will raise 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels safely over 50 ng/mL after several days, due to time it takes to hydroxylate it in the liver. (Actually, only about 1/4 of ingested vitamin D3 goes into circulation as 25-hydroxyvitamin D). This would save many lives, but the best treatment, which almost every sufferer of these diseases desperately needs, is, for 70 kg 154 lb body weight, to give a single oral dose of about 1 milligram of calcifediol. This *is* 25-hydroxyvitamin D. It does not need to be processed in the liver, so it raises 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels safely over 50 ng/mL in 4 hours or less.
The details of this 0.014 mg / kg body weight calcifediol protocol are in Prof. Wimalawansa's article, and at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#4.7.
I am still grappling with the reality that many doctors do not care about their patients.
I remember some time around 2017 when JAMA came out with an article that basically said all the vitamin D and calcium supplementation had done nothing for bone density and to stop taking them. I didn't hear anything about vitamin D and the immune system until after the fake pandemic. Now I am suspicious that the advice to stop the supplementation was nefarious. I no longer blindly trust any "authoritative source".
Once the mask has slipped, you can never unsee what you're seen.
Yet another of hundreds of studies proving the effectiveness against covid of such treatments as VIT D, ivermectin, HCQ, the McCullough protocols, the Zelenko protocol and others.
As you have stated over and over, 2/3 to 3/4 of covid hospitalizations and deaths could have been prevented with these treatments.
Fauci, Collins, Hotez, CDC and FDA doctors and hundreds of other doctors who falsely discredited and blocked these treatments are guilty of mass assault and murder in my mind.
One analogy is an adult who watches a baby crawl to a pool and fall into the water, and makes no effort to stop the baby or jump in to save it. Every rational person considers this a crime, depraved and horrific.
Is there any real difference between this crime and what those doctors have done - other than the millions of people harmed or killed by the lies told by these doctors?
In other words, per Dr. DeSimone, "Be sure to get poisoned with an experimental mRNA injection for which the acute, sub-acute, & long-term effects are completely unknown, & for which the companies making them are completely shielded from liability, for an infection with a 99.7% recovery rate". Makes perfect sense (not).
In May of 2020 I stumbled on a Dr Louis Coates out of Dallas via FB that encouraged a daily regiment of D, zinc, CoQ10, NAC, quercetin, and vit c. I feel it prepared my compromised immune system well for Delta in late ‘21 and Omicron 3 months later. Dr Coates’ regiment gave me confidence to not cave when being pressured to vaccinate.
Dr. McCullough- Love everyone to stop referring to the experimental MRNA shots as vaccines. In your articles so more can understand please add "not vaccines" but experimental MRNA shots in parenthesis.
God Bless you Dr. McCullough.
Happily financially supporting your foundation.
Peter!!!!!!! Please see the figures:
Association Between Preoperative 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level and Hospital-Acquired Infections Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/1782085
Old news. The FLCCC folks figured that out a long time ago. Yet the protocol was to lock everyone indoors… during Spring/Summer time, especially the elderly. Hmm. Surprised the FDA didn’t put out a note about how D is bad for you. Remember we are not “horses y’all”.
This doctor is an embarrassment. He even mentioned disinfecting surfaces when even the CDC acknowledged this has no role. Viruses need a live host; either human or animal. And as for the masking, does he not read any literature?
The Mayo clinic is more aligned with big pharma than the true health of the people. How depressing. There must be more good people than bad, but where are they?
This has been reported in many places, such as
5 X less COVID infection of health care workers who took lots of vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2024
https://vitamindwiki.com/5+X+less+COVID+infection+of+health+care+workers+who+took+lots+of+vitamin+D+%E2%80%93+meta-analysis+Feb+2024
D3 can probably also stop Covid if one is newly exposed and exhibits symptoms. In this case large doses for several days - 50-100iu per day - would be needed. I have used this technique for about 8 years with approx. 75% success on beginning colds and flus. The times it failed seemed to be associated with the virus having already been in my body for too lengthy a period before I began treatment. The protocol called "the hammer" is written up in the medical literature but is not widely known even to many vitamin "gurus". The past two+ years I have instead used zinc + quercetin daily as a preventative and for me this has worked 100%. Of course I still take maintenance doses of D3.
And the medical establishment continues to publish studies “proving” that vitamin D has no benefit in regards to COVID. And the government’s idea of vitamin D insufficiency is a blood level of less than 30.
The Role of Vitamin D3 as Rat Poison and Weigh Loss Pills... Codex Alimentarious: Synthetic Vitamins & GMO Removes Nutrients https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-trials-2-0/f/codex-alementarious-synthetic-vitamins-gmo-removes-nutrients Pick Your Poison! VITAMIN D3ATH: Vitamin D-D3 is Rat Poison https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-trials-2-0/f/pick-your-poison-vitamin-d3ath-vitamin-d-d3-is-rat-poison
Mayo can't do as you suggest because that would be an admission of responsibility for it's own part of the "vaccine " tragedy. It would also require humility which is in short supply in medicine.