I posted this the other day, but now I am actually listening to it. Some takeaways:
1) High Fructose Corn syrup seems to interfere with Vitamin D directly. It more or less deactivates it.
2) Seasonal flu epidemics can be explained nearly entirely by a lack of sufficient access to the sun, and following Vitamin D deficiency. Everyone North of the 35th parallel cannot statistically get enough sun, making supplementation a must. And with specific respect to COVID-19, nearly all the death is to the north and to the south of the northern and southern 35th parallels. To my mind this raises the OBVIOUS question why Vitamin D supplementation was not recommended several decades ago as a means to reduce flu death. Old people who are Vitamin D sufficient–which is not many of them, but which is a problem which could be easily rectified–seem to fare as well as anyone else with COVID-19.
3) Vitamin D deficiency has been correlated with large increases in risk from severe acute respiratory illnesses (like pneumonia) since the 80’s, at least as a suspect.
4) People who are obese tend to be Vitamin D deficient since it is fat soluble and the more fat you have, the more diluted it is. You can be sufficient and fat, but you need to supplement more.
5) As you get older, your ability to synthesize Vitamin D from the sun decreases, and is about half at, say, 75, that it was when you were 25.
6) There are racial differences in the ability to synthesize Vitamin D from the sun. Broadly speaking the darker the skin, the harder it is to make Vitamin D. This alone could go a long way to explaining some racial differences in health outcomes, particularly as it concerns COVID-19.
7) The list of COVID-19 characteristics and those of Vitamin D deficiency are nearly the same.
8) Smokers are at a slightly LOWER risk, in his view because nicotine is an anti-inflammatory and because smoking produces nitric oxide, which is beneficial.
I’m about halfway through. I’ll listen to the rest later but thought I would share.
Edit: I finished it. He goes through the existing data in the rest, and it is compelling. He himself takes 5,000 I.U. a day, and says that toxicity absent a few specific conditions he names, like renal problems, is nearly impossible to find. One interesting fact is that Finland has almost no D deficiency, and has the lowest rate of COVID I could find in Europe. This whole thing is madness. We have a simple, cheap solution which we knew about last March, which will not just help with COVID but the flu, regular pneumonia, and all infectious diseases.
Here is what I will propose: SOMEBODY can do an expose on all this and get a lot of attention. I’m talking the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, especially if we get Xi Lite into the White House.