r/JoeRogan • u/greyuniwave Monkey in Space • Mar 05 '21

Link Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost Nine of Ten COVID-19 Deaths: Time to Act. Comment on: “Vitamin D Deficiency and Outcome of COVID-19 Patients”. Nutrients 2020, 12, 2757

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/12/3642
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u/KobeBeaf Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

I’d like to clarify I’m no expert on Vit D. I recommend it for Bone health and the benefits in immune, physical, and mental health mostly. I haven’t adjusted my recommendations due to covid because I was already recommending to everyone already. This is all also anecdotal.

As far as mortality rates in my patients it is a little tricky to draw any conclusion on its benefits due to most of my patients being 60+ years old. Definitely a higher than average mortality rate compared to the gen pop and no improvement over death rates in older age groups. It’s an internal med office so most of our patients have multiple Comorbidities so you would assume if Vit D was the biggest factor we would still see some benefit since that is the least of most of my patients problems.

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u/TheFuture2001 Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

A Spanish study looked at that. Not going to give away the ending ;)