{"id":74856,"date":"2021-07-21T14:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=74856"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:56:04","slug":"the-effects-of-vitamin-d-and-covid-related-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=74856","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of Vitamin D and COVID-Related Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author_date_tools\">\n<div class=\"date\">\n<h3><em>An overwhelming volume of research makes it clear that this hormone produced in our skin can save lives<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>By Joseph Mercola<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Do you know your vitamin D level? If not, getting your blood tested\u2014and optimizing your levels\u2014is one of the simplest and most straightforward steps you can take to improve your health, including in relation to COVID-19. Vitamin D, as an immunomodulator, is a perfect candidate for countering the immune dysregulation that\u2019s common with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>As early as November 2020, it was known that there were striking differences in vitamin D status among people who had asymptomatic COVID-19 and those who became severely ill and required intensive care unit (ICU) care. In one study, 32.96 percent of those with asymptomatic cases were vitamin D deficient, compared to 96.82 percent of those who were admitted to the ICU for a severe case.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 patients who were deficient in this inexpensive and widely available vitamin had a higher inflammatory response and a greater fatality rate. The Indian study authors recommended \u201cmass administration of vitamin D supplements to populations at risk for COVID-19,\u201d in a study published in Scientific Reports, but this hasn\u2019t happened, at least not in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><i>Continues &#8211; site has paywall w\/ some free articles each month:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/the-effects-of-vitamin-d-and-covid-related-outcomes_3896844.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/the-effects-of-vitamin-d-and-covid-related-outcomes_3896844.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An overwhelming volume of research makes it clear that this hormone produced in our skin can save lives By Joseph Mercola<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}