41 Replies to “It’s Vitamin D Season”

  2. I’m old enough to remember when you could get vitamin D in, well, food.
    I bet you still can in Iran, Burma, China and Russia, places where they won’t screw up your diet and offer you MAiD instead. Here they’ll chop off your dicks and tits and jab you and then offer you MAiD.
    Are we the baddies?

    1. In a word: YES
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    2. yeahwell,
      calm down, dude.
      I am enjoying plenty of D in my home cooked food and the sunshine outside in our vast country full of good food and sunshine.
      If you have a “screwed up” diet, then you must not shop “smart.”
      As for chopped dicks and tits, all my neighbours and community are normal, hardworking, good people with nice kids.
      You live in Toronto or something?

      1. Burying your head in the sand is not a viable strategy. Burying your head in your ass less so.

  3. I have an interesting anecdotal story regarding Covid and vitamin D. November 2021 I caught what I believed to be Delta and it was rough. The coughing was relentless. If it had gotten any worse I would’ve gone to the hospital. I also had a couple of strange symptoms. Severe constipation (usually Covid causes the opposite) to the point where I was getting dehydrated and due to not being able to take in water.

    The second strange symptom was a sharp pinching pain on the inside of my elbows. After Covid had gone, this persisted for about a year. I remember the following summer having severe issues tying down loads. My forearms were not only very weak but they would fatigue within minutes just doing basic work. They would be on fire, and it would slowly get better over days. But when they healed, they would be even weaker than before. It was a downward spiral. There were loads that would take me 10 hours that should take me an hour.

    I visited my doctor and he suggested a high dose regiment of vitamin D, 10k a day. Within a few days, my forearms were back to normal from a fatigue perspective, but were weak due to being in this state for a while. But at least now I could strengthen them.

    1. I’ve taken about 10,000 iu everyday since being in Edmonton Misercordia Hospital with covid for 8 days about the same time you had it. (and 1000 C, a 50mg B, calcium, zinc, mag.)
      My only side effect now is near total loss of my sense of smell. Sometimes it returns every 3-4 days for about 15 minutes of glory.
      No colds or flu’s since then.
      No jabs, none of my kids or ex have the jabs.

      1. 5000 iu nearly every day (other days; 2500 iu) for the past 4 years. Along with 1000mg Vit C
        Symptoms: Mild, but chronic coughing. (the clear-your-throat kind of dry cough)
        April 2023 – slight stomach flu-like symptoms, mild weakness and lethargic, slight nausea (queasiness), but no vomiting. No fever. Symptoms lasted for 2 days tops.
        I’ve never been jabbed, and my last flu-shot was in November, 2020.
        When I get a scratchy throat (usual signs of incoming cold) I take Zinc and NAC; and a swig of mouthwash every 6 hours. Scratchy throat disappears within 24 hours. (I stopped taking Quercetin in November 2023).
        Other than the mild symptoms I’ve just described, I have never felt sick to the point where I had to stay home and rest in bed for more than a day.
        Disclaimer: This works for me, but I won’t say that it will work for everybody.

  4. Campbell is such a grifter. Go read the paper for yourself:

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10787-024-01578-w

    In it, you’ll find both enthusiastic endorsements for the benefits of Vitamin D, but also admissions that the empirical data is lacking:

    However, there is still no clear evidence of vitamin D’s impact on prevention and treatment, leading to contradictory findings. Therefore, large-scale randomized trials are required to reach a definitive conclusion.

    Campbell doesn’t tell you about that part. It’d water down the message, I suppose.

    But why would they publish a paper that seemingly says two conflicting things? One reason may be that this paper was not peer reviewed. It was accepted 9 days after submission. Reviewers might well have insisted that the paper get its story straight, likely by toning down the cheerleading.

    1. Yep. Campbell lacks depth of intelligence. He is one of those people who continually falls for a magic bullet that never is. Often Wrong Campbell. But for some reason, like a cockroach he never dies.

    3. So KM your point here is that Dr Campbell is flat out wrong and Vit D has no big immune system benefit?

      1. Don’t pay attention to Dead Rat the Quackzine junkie.
        It’s a shill working out of a PHA or the PMO. Much like another Vax zealot, Garf Turner, the dead rat is still freaked out and stuck in 2020.
        Disregard its blatherings.

        1. Notice, Dan, how KM won’t answer my question? KM doesn’t want to prove ignorance by saying vitamin D is insignificant to immune system health. But that’s EXACTLY the position they’ve taken by attacking Dr Campbell’s video. So silence shows either ignorance or bad faith or both. None of that is surprising.

          1. Martin B:

            I know it challenges your limited imagination, but it is possible to criticize Campbell’s selective reading of a paper and still acknowledge that Vitamin D is a valuable nutrient.

            You’re getting a little desperate here, putting words in my mouth.

        2. Campbell’s videos are rife with mispresentation and anecdotal nonsense. You want to join his legion of followers who seem to accept everything he says without a trace of skepticism, well join away.

        3. KM you are nothing better than a Big Pharma SHILL. An intellectual prostitute. That you acknowledge the importance of Vit D to immune function AND yet attack a video espousing just that, using some stupid juvenile character attack on a respected teacher and researcher, shows bad faith at a minimum. Anecdotal nonsense? Exactly what are you talking about? You NEVER give examples. No integrity lives in your lazy skin suit.

        4. “KM you are nothing better than a Big Pharma SHILL. An intellectual prostitute.”

          The idea that pharmaceutical companies would pay someone to argue with a handful of anti-vaxxers on SDA who will never, ever change their minds is hilarious. It makes more sense that Kate is paying me to drive traffic, but sadly that’s not happening either.

          Campbell is the prostitute. He began as an even-handed interpretor of medical science for the layman. But then he started hawking pseudo science, and his YouTube views and followers went through the roof (his total views are now likely over a billion), undoubtedly producing fat paycheques. And he’s never looked back, his opinions and his guests getting increasingly fringe.

          This current video is one of the milder ones, a case of focusing on one aspect of a paper while ignoring those parts that are inconvenient to him. But it’s also one where his card palming is readily apparent. All you have to do is read the paper.

    4. Is vitamin D irrelevant to health then? What’s a proper level? What happens when a person has an insufficient level in their body? How many of us have insufficient levels of vitamin D? Why does no one in the medical profession seem to be interested in this?

        1. “Of course Vitamin D is not irrelevant to health” – KM, your link conveniently has NOTHING about Vit D’s importance to immunity. Just to help cure a little of your ignorance, willful or otherwise, give this a read:

          https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3166406/#:~:text=Vitamin%20D%20has%20numerous%20effects,phenotype%5B34%2D35%5D It’s not just your words that shows the poison of intent. It’s also obvious omissions. Nothing but a Big Pharma Shill.

          1. Dennis didn’t ask about the immune system, but the link does briefly refer to it. Once again, your reading comprehension is shaky.

  7. I thought people in the northern latitudes had to supplement, at least part of the year.

    1. Yes we do…
      from mid Oct to mid April, I take 4×1000 IU chewable chocolate!! Vit D’s, everyday.
      I never forget to do my chocolate Vit D’s.

  8. About 25 years ago I had a gf who ate vitamin supplements by the handful. I’m a healthy guy but she convinced me that I should be scarfing down some vitamins so I blew a few hundred and away I went.

    I had a doc from Rhodesia (“I’m not from Zimbabwe he’d declare”). I had an appointment with him one day and he asked me if I took vitamins. I replied in the affirmative. “Why he asked, are you not eating properly”? I suggested I was and he said, “Why do you need vitamins then? All you’ve got is expensive piss”.

    I’ve gotten rid of the vitamins (and the gf) since then, well, that one. I spend a lot of time outdoors but in the dead of winter I pop Vit D

    1. Remember, the same doctors giving that advice also repeated SAFE and Effective ad nauseum……….
      Nice thought, but we dont eat enough to reach required levels of Vits and minerals, especially as we age. And those levels are not what ‘the government’ says they should be, the requirements are much higher
      Supplementation is cheap insurance with great benefits.
      My broad spectrum of supplements prevented me getting Delta, despite my wife getting it, and no, I did not isolate. However, I had Omicron very lightly, only feeling off for a day or two, but definitely not sick sick. I credit that to the supplements.

  9. What standard is the vitamin/supplement world held to? Who knows what is in the pills they sell? These companies are ubiquitous – in every store. Are they tested like pharmaceuticals? No, and we know pharmaceuticals are flawed. Imagine what goes on in the vit/sup game

    1. Ask the girl at the health food store with multiple face piercings and individual fingernail colours who look like she could be a casket salesman’s model. Guarantee, like all vegans she’ll be able to give you good advice on vitamins.

  10. Vitamin supplements are needed today because our food is not as nutritious as it was years ago. Processed too much, grown too fast, kept too long. Lots of reasons. Most people don’t live on farms or in a temperate climate.

  11. Vitamin D? Eat some sardines. 1 tin – 70% RDA vitamin D. For whatever reason a lot of the producers don’t provide this nutrient information on their packaging. Can’t eat out of a tin?, S&P and some flour and fry them up.

    1. “Vitamin D? Eat some sardines…”

      – I’d rather die, thanks – and if I had sardine-breath and entered the same room as my wife, she’d make it happen! 😉

      1. My dogs get sardines especially during hunting season. They have sardine breath…but they are health.
        Quite often I split a tin with ’em. They get the oil and I get the fish…

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