In the Covid-19 era, vitamin D has never been more important to both whites and people of color.
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By Daniel Girard, from the United States.
As the pandemic wreaks havoc in the West, scientists discover that infected people with a high vitamin D deficiency often see their condition deteriorate, sometimes to the death.
The sun does not shine often and for a long time north of the Equator and its absence has harmful consequences for the populations of North America and Europe.
Northwestern University study finds that many sick people in the world’s deadliest countries – the United States, Britain, Italy, France and Spain – suffer from severe vitamin D deficiency
According to biomedical engineer Vadim Backman, a coronavirus patient with severe vitamin D deficiency is twice as likely to get worse until death. @NorthwesternU https://t.co/sxS53MJpCO
– Daniel Girard (@DanielGGirard) May 13, 2020
Biomedical engineer Vadim Backman, and his team of researchers, analyzed mortality in these countries by eliminating all kinds of variables one by one.
After examining the nature of the Covid-19 strains, the contaminated population groups and the quality of health care by country, the team finally targeted the effects of vitamin D deficiency. It was largely preponderant in the most developed countries. hardest hit.
This preprint finds a relationship between average vitamin D deficiency by country and COVID-19 deaths. Get your sunlight. Can’t hurt.https: //t.co/6cXMrr3DOM
– Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) April 15, 2020
Vitamin D deficiency creates what has been named cytokine shock, an uncontrollable runaway of the immune system creating a potentially lethal hyper-inflammation.
Hyper-inflammatory phenomenon: the cytokine storm occurs in severe cases of Covid-19 and leaves doctors unresponsive. pic.twitter.com/0bLA0Z40fb
– Daniel Girard (@DanielGGirard) May 13, 2020
This cytokine storm often causes a dry cough, fever and fatigue. But if the patient’s condition worsens, the virus will cause respiratory discomfort, damage the lungs, and develop into severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Vitamin D is essential
The best way to avoid such a scenario is to not be deficient in vitamin D. This vitamin is produced by the sun’s ultraviolet rays interacting with the skin. It thus becomes a hormone that strengthens the immune system, contributes to bone health and promotes the absorption of calcium. In summer, you have to spend between 15 and 30 minutes in the sun to fill up on vitamin D.
Public Health England advises taking Vitamin D while in confinement to remedy the lack of sun, but not only. Explanations. # Covid19UK #lockdown https://t.co/XoBNi9QEBO pic.twitter.com/r9HuLqhXti
– Magazine Ici Londres (@ici_Londres) May 13, 2020
It is therefore not in confinement that we are going to fill up with sun and vitamin D, as Didier Raoult points out.
Seroprevalence of 60,000 people in Spain: among active workers, those who exercise an essential profession and have continued to go out were less contaminated with COVID19 than those confined. This should lead to thinking about confinementhttps: //t.co/rMaFSLH8eR pic.twitter.com/9vbNTPEfKi
– Didier Raoult (@raoult_didier) May 14, 2020
Fortunately, in the absence of the sun, there are foods rich in vitamin D such as oily fish, herring, sardines, mackerel, cod liver, cheese, eggs, and which are eaten regularly by Icelanders. , Norwegians and Finns do not enjoy the benefits of the sun.
# COVID19: #VitaminD, essential to strengthen its #System, recalls # Anses https://t.co/Dy2SsnGriU
– Food Power France (@FoodPower_FR) May 7, 2020
This diet is crucial for people of color for whom the synthesis of vitamin D in the sun is much weaker and does not increase after ten minutes of exposure.
The pigmentation of the skin reduces its ability to produce vitamin D3 under the action of UVB rays by reaching epidermal cells. The richness in melanin thus slows down the cutaneous production of D3, essential to protect cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, cognitive decline, and certain forms of cancer.
Vitamin D deficiency: Black skin is more vulnerable. The stronger the pigmentation, the more the body struggles to make vitamin D. pic.twitter.com/3b1AgEvcXa
– Daniel Girard (@DanielGGirard) May 13, 2020
In the Covid-19 era, vitamin D has never been more important to both whites and people of color.
