Vitamin D for Covid, What’s the Catch? - DarkHorse Podcast Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin

Bret Speaks with Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin on the subject of Vitamin D as a preventative measure for Covid.https://www.gruffdavies.com/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3669379--- Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. Please subscribe to this channel for more long form content like this, and subscribe to the clips channel @DarkHorse Podcast Clips for short clips of all our podcasts. DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.Timestamps:00:00 Welcome and introductions01:15 Vitamin D initial review in May 202003:40 VitaminDforAll letterhttps://vitamindforall.org/letter.html07:00 Inference and randomized controlled trials11:05 Vitamin D toxicity13:08 Public health authorities are worse than incompetent15:07 Vitamin A and D toxicity19:17 Negative Brazil vitamin D study21:05 Positive studies on vitamin D23:00 Normal function of vitamin D25:20 Vitamin D from the sun and supplements29:07 Africa and sunshine30:21 MERS and seasonality31:30 Ecuador and sunshine33:03 Air pollution in Italy and Korea35:00 Brazil and vitamin D deficiency36:55 Jamaica and politically correct science39:46 Censorship from big tech43:26 Health disparities and funding47:14 Operation Warp Speed50:18 Pascal's wager52:02 Intelligent heroes and cognitive dissonance54:30 Financial incentives56:40 Pre-hormone D58:04 Vitamin D from food01:00:11 Avoiding colds and flu in winter season01:04:15 Australia lockdown01:05:10 Finland and food fortification01:05:54 Sweden and Somali refugees01:08:30 Recommended Daily Allowance01:10:44 Vitamin D and mechanism for COVID immunity01:15:00 Excusing doctors and "disproving" vitamin D in underpowered studies01:21:38 Fluvoxamine and monoclonal antibodies01:24:40 Emergency use authorization01:25:32 Reducing harm with vitamin D01:29:30 Zoonotic transmission and driving COVID extinct01:35:51 Influenza outbreaks and vaccines01:37:33 Not just vitamin D01:39:57 What distinguishes vitamin D01:42:00 Vitamin D, sun, and balance of risk01:46:23 3 recommendations01:47:47 Suspicion of public health authorities01:50:44 Debunking negative studies01:53:14 What does vitamin D expose01:57:40 Funding of journals and fact checkers01:59:25 Wrap upSupport the show