[D66] Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Should you take Vitamin D and Vitamin C?

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Should you take Vitamin D and Vitamin C?
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Should you take Vitamin D and Vitamin C?

Does colder temperature make you more prone to getting a cold? Or COVID-19?
Most health experts agree that when it’s cold, people spend more time 
indoors and in close contact with other people, and this likely 
increases the spread of germs.
Also, experts believe that our immune system may be more active when our 
body is warmer, as in during the summer months.

Back in 2007, there was this study…
https://journals.plos.org/plospathoge...
In this one particular study looking at the spread of the influenza 
virus, they put guinea pigs together in a chamber and carried out 
different environmental experiments on them. They found that low 
relative humidities of 20%–35% were most favorable for infection, while 
the transmission was completely blocked at high humidity of 80%.
They also found that when guinea pigs were kept at 5 °C, transmission 
occurred with greater frequency than at 20 °C, while at 30 °C, no 
transmission was detected.
The authors concluded that low relative humidities produced by indoor 
heating and cold
temperatures favored the spread of the influenza virus.

I also want to add, that cold weather, by itself, can cause a runny nose 
without necessarily
having a cold, and this allows for the virus so be carried in those 
secretions, which probably facilitates transmission.
40% of common colds are caused by rhinoviruses. The second most common 
cause of
cold is the coronavirus, the normal one, not this novel coronavirus, aka 
SARS-CoV-2.
Its been shown that the rhinovirus reproduces more quickly at cooler 
temperatures means you might catch a cold more quickly if you’re chilly.

And this probably applies to the coronavirus as well.

It's likely that with the combination of all of these 5 factors, 
meaning, cooler temp, lower
humidity, people staying indoors more often in winter months, cold 
weather causing runny noses and our immune system is more active when 
it's warmer, these combinations of factors likely explain why colds, 
flu,, and COVID-19 are more likely to cause infections in the winter months.
But there is likely a 6th factor as well. And that is vitamin D.
Our bodies don’t normally make vitamin D unless we get sunlight. In the 
winter months, for most of us in this world, we don’t get enough 
sunlight to make enough vitamin D. Unless you live in a warm climate, 
then maybe you are the exception. So if you aren’t getting enough 
sunlight in the winter months, that means you have to get enough vitamin 
D in your diet. And if you don’t do that, you will have low vitamin D 
levels.
Vitamin D helps regulate or Calcium levels and is important for bone and 
muscle health. It also plays a role in regulating our immune system, but 
its exact role is not known.



Why is this important when it comes to the common cold, flu, and perhaps 
with this novel
the coronavirus that’s causing COVID-19?
Well, vitamin D doesn’t affect these viruses themselves. Instead, it 
affects our immune systems.

So what is my recommendation for taking Vitamin D?
The best thing to do is check with your doctor to see if you might have 
low vitamin D, and if it is low, you’ll def need to get more vitamin D, 
especially during the winter months.

Vitamin C.
Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is vital to the function of 
white blood cells that help to fight infections, and overall immune 
system health. Vitamin C is also important for iron absorption, and 
being deficient in iron can make you more vulnerable to infections in 
general.
The normal, recommended daily intake of vitamin C for adults from the 
diet and/or supplements is 75 to 120 mg. You can get about 80 to 90 mg 
from a cup of orange juice or sliced orange, or even more from kiwi 
fruit, or a cup of sweet peppers.

Zinc.
Zinc has become one of the most popular suggestions for reducing 
symptoms of coronavirus.
There have been conflicting results about the effect of zinc on the 
severity and duration of cold symptoms.
Some studies showed that zinc reduces the duration of a cold by half, 
while others showed no effect. Another study found that the type of zinc 
taken determined the result—zinc gluconate lozenges that provided 13.3 
milligrams (mg) of zinc lessened the duration of colds, but zinc acetate 
lozenges that provided 5 mg or 11.5 mg of zinc did not.

Note: Please watch the whole video to get the proper details, for the 
character limitation of the youtube description, I couldn't provide the 
whole details, so I suggest you to watch the whole video.

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