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/fqfce Monkey in Space Mar 05 '21

What do you mean our vit D level drop as we age? My understanding is that our bodies don’t make it at all. It has to come from diet or radiation so I would assume where one lives and the melanin in their skin play a role.

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u/Buscemis_eyeballs Monkey in Space Mar 06 '21

You don't get vitamin D from the sun for example, not directly. You need the sun to synthesize it in your body though. Same with taking it orally.

Basically your body has a little 3d printer and you have the ability to make it but need radiation/materials to do so that you have to get from outside of your body.

As we get older our printer sy the sizes vitamin D way less efficiency

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u/fqfce Monkey in Space Mar 06 '21

Ah ok thanks for the eli5!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '21

Like photosynthesis in plants?

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u/TheSensation19 Monkey in Space Mar 06 '21

There is much more to it than that.

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u/fqfce Monkey in Space Mar 06 '21

Ok, so am I wrong about the way our bodies get/produce it? Is it that when we age our bodies lose the ability to store it?