Vitamin D3 Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections

ORGANICMD PODCAST - EPISODE 44 Dose Your D3. Supplement with Vitamin D3 to decrease the risk of flu and COVID-19 coronavirus infection. Maintaining an elevated Vitamin D3 blood level is one of the most effective things you can do to protect yourself from infection from the flu virus or the current coronavirus. In this age of the COVID-19 pandemic, one would think that doctors and public health officials would be screaming from the rooftops about the importance of everyone doing whatever it takes to maintain an optimal Vitamin D status. For most people, all this means is taking a supplement regularly.During the current COVID-19 pandemic, we recommend taking Vitamin D3 supplements year-round. A compelling body of evidence demonstrates the safety and effectiveness of D3 supplementation in increasing immunity to colds, flu, and even novel viruses like COVID-19. This short paper will discuss peer-reviewed literature, dosing recommendations, and safety data on Vitamin D3 supplementation, and provide a brief discussion of the biology of Vitamin D3 in humans. Vitamin D3 is cheap, easy to use, safe, and it works. Even if you already take adequate Vitamin D3, this short paper provides valuable background and useful recommendations.When considering a treatment, doctors always balance the risks against the benefits. When few or no treatments are available, and a treatment is less than 100% proven but has zero risk, it is prudent to use that treatment.