Canada Examines Vitamin D For Swine Flu Protection

nutraingredients-usa.com:

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has confirmed that it will be investigating the role of vitamin D in protection against swine flu, NutraIngredients-USA.com has learned.

The agency started a study last year on the role of vitamin D in severe seasonal influenza, which it said it will now adapt to the H1N1 swine flu virus.

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Comments

[TedHutchinson]

The Vitamin D council newletter provides recent evidence that people with higher 25(OH)D status have protection from swine flu.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/vitamin-d-is-protective-against-h1n1-swine-flu.shtml
Basic information on H1N1 SWINE FLU AND VITAMIN D here
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/h1n1-flu-and-vitamin-d.shtml
25(OH)D status needs to be above 50ng/ml as below that level our body only has sufficient vitamin D3 available to meet daily needs.
Only above 50ng/ml do we have stored D3 and it is this reserve store of D3 that allows us to deal safely with the challenge of flu.
The paper Perinatal Outcomes, Including Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19673647 shows the same holds true for HIV infection in Africa.

1) A low Vitamin D level (less than 32 ng/ml) was associated with a 50% higher risk of HIV transmission at 6 weeks post delivery.

2) There was two fold higher risk of transmission through breast milk in uninfected children at 6 weeks of age with maternal Vitamin D deficiency.

3) Children born to women with low Vitamin D levels had a 61% higher risk of dying.

In order for immune function to operate optimally we need to attain and maintain the vitamin D status our DNA evolved to function best with.
The level 55ng/ml at which human breast milk flows replete with D3 seems a reasonable natural starting point.

[drvittoriarepetto]

Vitamin D makes more sense than a vaccine that has been untested

[ImissBush]

damn carnivores....!!!

[mbarnes]

There is good data to suggest that keeping your vitamin D levels up will protect you from colds and flu. It may the simplist way to protect yourself. Here s a link to a summary of the data:
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs026/1102452079631/archive/1102685428884.html