Are You Taking Your Vitamin D?

Vitamin D is a key in protecting immunity. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with much higher risk for all inflammatory diseases. Most of us are particularly low in Vitamin D. 

“There’s no such thing as flu & cold season. There is only low Vitamin D season.”

Every cell in your body has a nucleus, and every nucleus has a receptor for Vitamin D on it. Two thousand genes in your body are controlled by Vitamin D. Five percent of your body’s genome is controlled by Vitamin D. It is the master key to your immune system, the master key. If one has a Vitamin D level in mid-range, you cannot develop a cytokine storm. Dis the cytokine storm. If you are in mid-level range of Vitamin D, you will not die from Covid because you cannot get a cytokine storm.

It’s a Vitamin D Deficiency Pandemic
We have an international Vitamin D deficiency pandemic. 70 % of the world is immune suppressed. 70 – 80 % of all Americans are immune suppressed because they are D deficient. If you are D deficient you are immune suppressed, you are susceptible to the common cold, the flu, coronavirus, or any sort of bacterial pneumonia. So, the best mask of all is a healthy immune system.

Humans can synthesize Vitamin D through our skin, but the older you get, the harder it becomes to synthesize it. Vitamin D is critical to all people living in the Northern 2/3 of the USA. If you do not supplement your Vitamin D levels, you are immune suppressed in the fall in the winter.

If you live North of the 35th parallel, you definitely need a Vitamin D supplement. Here’s a map of the 35^th parallel. If you live at or below the 35th parallel for four to five months of the year, you cannot synthesize Vitamin D through your skin. That means most of the USA, all of Europe, most of Australia. You have to supplement. Many doctors recommend 4,000 IU per day.

Scandinavians test their citizens twice a year.
They supplement 35 % of their foods on their food shelves with Vitamin D. So, why are Finland, Norway, Sweden doing so well? They take care of the public health of their people.

We’re Also Deficient in Magnesium and Zinc
80 % of Americans also are magnesium deficient. Our soils are depleted. Vitamin D and magnesium play a fine dance, so you need them both to work together in order to have a functional immune system. We’re also zinc deficient, including 70 to 80 % of us in this room. Diet, diet, diet, diet. What you eat matters. It affects your immune health. Obesity drastically reduces your ability to get Vitamin D into your circulation. That’s because D is a fat-soluble vitamin. The heavier you are the more it goes into your fat and not into your circulation to stimulate your immune system.

Why Do You Need to Supplement Vitamin D?
Normal D levels also decrease risk of colon cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, depression rates, and suicide rates. Eight out of the ten highest suicide states are northern tiered states, simply because of Vitamin D deficiency.

Vitamin D is not a vitamin. It’s a prohormone. (Prohormones are substances that the body converts to a hormone. In fact, only about 10 % of the vitamin D the body needs comes from food like dairy and oily fish. The rest the body makes for itself.) Vitamin D affects thousands of genes in your body. When you get a D level up to normal, you decrease risk for all of these things, not just Covid. It is an essential prohormone that your body naturally makes in the sunshine from spring through summer only a couple hours a day. There’s only about a three-hour window a day without your sunscreen (don’t tell the dermatologist). You need to be outside for 20 to 30 minutes during the spring and summer to get natural Vitamin D. In the fall in winter, you need to supplement to boost your immune system.

Why are Blacks and Latinos in Northern Areas More at Risk?
The darker your skin and the further north you live, the harder it is to synthesize Vitamin D. That’s why the hospitalization and the death rates in the darker skinned populations is higher. It’s not social disparity in this case – it is plain and simple biology. The darker your skin and the further north you live, the lower your Vitamin D level and the higher your risk for Covid and all other diseases will be.

Eat Healthy, Sugar-Free
Another key is to cut out the sugar. Cut out the processed foods. Cut out the carbohydrates. These are all inflammatory. The more inflamed you are when going into an illness, the worse you will do. So, obesity is a predisposed inflammatory state. If you are obese, you are inflamed.

Natural Medications
Ivermectin, if added to the mix of treatments, decreases the death rate by 75 %. If given early, by 86 %. What does that mean? Of the half-million deaths we have in North America we would have had 375,000 fewer deaths. There is blood on the hands of bureaucrats in Washington who have suppressed this life-saving medication. Blood on the hands of those individuals. How much does it cost? How many people got Covid that were not on Ivermectin? Scandinavian studies showed that it prevented acquisition by 88 multiple mechanisms of action of this molecule. I don’t have time for a long medical lecture, but it’s fun to know the beauty of it.

Natural Treatments Cover All Virus Variants
This treatment can cover all the variants because of its mechanisms. Unlike “Oh, we’re going to have to give you a new formulation of this vaccine or that vaccine.” No, the mechanisms of the action of this molecule against this virus don’t stop there. There’s a great website by FLCCC doctors that are front line pushing this forward. They’re the ones that got the NIH to finally listen, to finally take a neutral stance to unshackle the hands of physicians that can prescribe it.

“In October 2020, the FLCCC Alliance identified, based on a review of the recent and rapidly emerging clinical trials evidence, that ivermectin, an anti-parasitic medicine, has highly potent real-world, anti-viral, and anti-inflammatory properties against SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.” https://covid19criticalcare.com/about/the-flccc-physicians/

I can say that I’ve saved 42 lives in the last two months with this protocol. I don’t prescribe very often, you know, I’m generally behind the microscope or in the lab. But I know from one case to another.

CALLED a Vaccine, but NOT a Vaccine
By definition a vaccine historically is giving a protein or an antigen or a part of a pathogen and / or a whole killed pathogen, injecting a sequence of its mRNA into a human being, and this is a medical device historically. But what we’re doing right now does not fall under the definition of a Vaccine. They shifted the verbiage in some of the federal register back in October, so they could approve this. So, it was a sleight of hand to change the verbiage. What we have right now is an experimental biological gene therapy immune modulatory injection. We are injecting people with a synthetic sequence of nucleic acid. We have never done this on a large scale in human history. mRNA trials in mammals have led to odd cancers. mRNA trials on mammals have led to autoimmune diseases. Not right away, but six nine twelve months later. So, a quick question then. So, the lipid nanoparticles that are actually in the vaccines can actually cause the cytokine storm. Lipid nanoparticles are the question. The lipid nanoparticles in these shots 70 % of us are allergic to. Polyethylene glycol that is antifreeze, Polyethylene glycol 2000 if you get a coronavirus shot.

Animal Trials of “Vaccines” Unsuccessful
Historically with SARS MERS animal coronaviruses, if you get a shot, then when you’re exposed to a wild type of variant of the virus 6 9 12 months later, the immune system can go haywire. In the SARS vaccine trials on ferrets and the monkeys, 100 % of the animals when exposed to wild-type virus ended up with immune reaction.

End of Dr. Ryan Cole Lecture

OK, How Much Vitamin D Do I Need?

Many doctors recommend Vitamin D supplementation of 4000 IU.
My rule of thumb is 1 hour of sunlight every day, however I am not a doctor.

To test your Vitamin D levels, a doctor can order a blood test for you. The most common test is the 25-hydroxyvitamin D, known as 25 (OH)D for short. For the blood test, a technician will use a needle to take blood from a vein. You do not need to fast or otherwise prepare for this type of test.

Research shows low vitamin D levels almost certainly promote COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Given its safety, we call for immediate widespread increased vitamin D intakes. The scientific evidence shows:

• Higher vitamin D blood levels are associated with lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
• Higher D levels are associated with lower risk of a severe case (hospitalization, ICU, or death).
• Intervention studies (including RCTs) indicate that vitamin D can be a very effective treatment.
• Many papers reveal several biological mechanisms by which vitamin D influences COVID-19.
• Causal inference modelling, Hill’s criteria, the intervention studies & the biological mechanisms indicate that vitamin D’s influence on COVID-19 is very likely causal, not just correlation.
• The US NAM said 4000 IU “is likely to pose no risk of adverse health effects to most individuals.”
• info@vitaminDforAll.org

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Evidence to date suggests the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic sustains itself in large part through infection of those with low vitamin D, and that deaths are concentrated largely in those with deficiency. The mere possibility that this is so should compel urgent gathering of more vitamin D data. Even without more data, the preponderance of evidence indicates that increased vitamin D would help reduce infections, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, & deaths.

Decades of safety data show that vitamin D has very low risk: Toxicity would be extremely rare with the recommendations here. The risk of insufficient levels far outweighs any risk from levels that seem to provide most of the protection against COVID-19, and this is notably different from drugs. Vitamin D is much safer than steroids, such as dexamethasone, the most widely accepted treatment to have also demonstrated a large COVID-19 benefit. Vitamin D’s safety is more like that of face masks. There is no need to wait for further clinical trials to increase use of something so safe, especially when remedying high rates of deficiency/insufficiency should already be a priority.

Many factors are known to predispose individuals to higher risk from exposure to SARS-CoV-2, such as age, being male, comorbidities, etc., but inadequate vitamin D is by far the most easily and quickly modifiable risk factor with abundant evidence to support a large effect. Vitamin D is inexpensive and has negligible risk compared to the considerable risk of COVID-19.

Thanks for reading!

About
Sri Jana, aka Jane Barthelemy, is an intuitive medium, energy healer, craniosacral therapist, and author, getting lots of sun on the beaches of Bali these days. A practitioner of Kundalini Buddhist meditation for over 50 years, she has an MBA and worked as CFO of Rudi’s Bakery for 10 years. Her life path includes other careers including opera primadonna in Italy and owner/designer of Marco Polo Designs Venetian glass jewelry company. Health challenges led her to teach Qigong, Taichi, and write two wellness cookbooks: “Paleo Desserts” and “Good Morning Paleo published by DaCapo Press/Hatchette Books. Her first website JanesHealthyKitchen.com recently won the 2021 Corp Today Magazine Award for “Best Healthy Food & Lifestyle Blog – North America”. Her upcoming books include: “Heal Your Past Lives”and “Buddha Speaks – Channeled Passages from the Master”. Srijana and her Bhutanese husband Lama D are faculty members of the NewEarth University. They live in Bali where they offer distant healings, classes, and retreats. FiveSeasonsMedicine.com.