Hello Efrat, Good luck with your work and travels! If you have any time to think and discuss the disastrous COVID-19 response, here is the most pertinent research on vitamin D and the immune system: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ . Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, such as 0.125 mg (5000 IU) a day on average, for 70 kg body weight without obesity, and without recent high-level UV-B exposure of ideally white skin, most people have half or less of the 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (made in the liver from vitamin D3) which their immune system needs to work properly.
Most doctors and immunologists take far too little interest in nutrition and tend to be very dismissive about vitamin D.
With proper 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, there would be no pandemic transmission of COVID-19 in the general population.
A 3 page summary of this, for a recent Australian government enquiry on the COVID-19 response, is: https://5nn.info/temp/C19-Response-Inquiry-submission-Robin-Whittle.pdf . This begins with histograms of 25(OH)D levels in Israel, with Arab women averaging around 12 ng/mL, and some below the detection limit of 5 ng/mL. Even Jewish, non-Orthodox men and women have mean levels ca. 25 ng/mL - and this is sunny Israel!
Vitamin D has been totally ignored by those who drive the mainstream COVID-19 response and it has been very largely overlooked by those who are critical of this response. There are plenty of other problems with the mainstream response: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/australian-government-covid-19-response but for reasons of sepsis, COVID-19, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C, influenza, autism, intellectual disability, schizophrenia, ADHD, low birth weight pre-eclampsia, dementia, including Parkinson’s disease, numerous auto-immune diseases, including MS, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis . . . . humans can never be healthy unless they attain 50 ng/mL or more circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
There's very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. High elevation sunlight without glass, sunscreen or clothing can produce plenty of vitamin D3 for people with white skin, but less for the elderly, and much less for those with dark or brown skin. The UV-B light which converts 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin to vitamin D3 cholecalciferol always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer. So neither food, a balanced diet nor UV-B light is a suitable long-term source of the vitamin D3 we need.
Fortunately, supplements are inexpensive, and it is fine to take a 1.25 mg (50,000 IU) capsule once every 10 days. "5000 IUs" a day sounds like a lot, but it is a gram every 22 years - and pharma-grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram ex-factory.
Dear Robin, thank you for all this great info, it feels to me you should open your own substack and write it there, what a waste of talent and knowledge! and important wisdom too.
Dear Efrat, The big page citing and discussing research https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ would never be possible with Substack due to layout and size limitations.
The summary is: Most doctors do not yet know that the immune system only works properly with 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) 25-hydroxyvitamin D - as measured in "vitamin D" blood tests. They are used to thinking that 20 ng/mL is sufficient for health, but this is just what the kidneys need to regulate calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism. Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, most people have 25 ng/mL or less 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
The only practical, safe, way most people can attain 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D is with vitamin D3 supplements. The best recommendations for how much vitamin D3 to take are from New Jersey based Emeritus Professor of Medicine, cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-how-much . For people not suffering from obesity, this is 70 to 90 IUs a day per kg body weight. Those suffering from obesity need higher ratios of body weight. For average weight (70 kg 154 lb) adults, around 0.125 milligrams (5000 IU) a day, on average will attain the level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system needs to function properly. This is 6 to 8 times what governments and many doctors recommend.
Neither vitamin D3 nor 25-hydroxyvitamin D are hormones. The immune system does not use hormonal signaling. Many types of immune cell need a good supply of 25-hydroxyvitamin D to run their intracrine (inside each cell) and paracrine (to nearby cells) signaling system. Only when these work properly can the individual cells adapt their behaviour to their changing circumstances, which is necessary for the immune system to work properly.
There's no need to take my word for any of this - you can read the research yourself. I discuss vitamin D, nutrition and problems with conventional medicine at: https://nutrtionmatters.substack.com. Hoorah for Substack!
I emailed Brad HAzzard very early in the pandemic requesting he give Vit D to all the inmates of aged institutions...He Didn't and didn't reply Typical of the so called health system or is the wealth system?
Hi Efrat, wonderful that you're coming 'down under', I will share this link with everyone I know here and hopefully one or two of them will 'take the bait', anyway, however 'it pans out' I'm excited to see and hear what podcasts, interviews, lectures you do manage to accomplish, good luck and Yah bless <3
Hi Efrat i sent you an email at your gmail address on suggestions for interviews in Australia. If you didnt receive it please ask Ian Brighthope for my details
I watched a 6 hours & 23 minute documentary on the COVID pandemic and Australia that was posted 11 months ago on this channel: https://rumble.com/v24j43w-australia-enslaved-and-plan-4-the-world-global-genocide-must-see.html They titled it different than what the video itself said: Australia Enslaved & the Plan for the World by Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Jerome Torres. Travel Mericies prayed for you.
I track down where the original source of something is, because sometimes it is no longer available for some reason. This website is Catholic. I am not Catholic. I thought is was a well-made documentary, however long it was. Remember, I said I watch long documentaries. I substituted that for Netflix. https://endtimes.video/australia-enslaved/
My friend just returned from vacation a few days ago from NZ. She apparently forgot to toss out a banana that was in her bag since departing Chicago. In addition to a $400 fine, she has had to write several emails to NZ authorities about the banana incident.
She said the beauty of the country was magnificent but the overall vibe was tense as identification was required everywhere.
My sense is the so called “elites” are creating a police state in NZ since they will be residing there once they ruin the world! Kind of like in Hawaii.
Perhaps. I was relaying my phone conversation. I will get the specifics about the banana incident. It speaks to an authoritarian mindset focused on minutiae - a freaking banana accidentally left in a purse.
It alarmed me since it reminded me of the toxic minutia focused work environment I experienced 6 years ago working for a CCP backed real estate company in the US.
A focus on minutiae is a sure fire way to drive people insane!!
Yeah Australia & New Zealand are definitely a bit too painful at the border when it comes to food. I have accidentally taken some through in the past, luckily no fines.
Hello Efrat, Good luck with your work and travels! If you have any time to think and discuss the disastrous COVID-19 response, here is the most pertinent research on vitamin D and the immune system: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ . Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, such as 0.125 mg (5000 IU) a day on average, for 70 kg body weight without obesity, and without recent high-level UV-B exposure of ideally white skin, most people have half or less of the 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D (made in the liver from vitamin D3) which their immune system needs to work properly.
Most doctors and immunologists take far too little interest in nutrition and tend to be very dismissive about vitamin D.
With proper 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, there would be no pandemic transmission of COVID-19 in the general population.
A 3 page summary of this, for a recent Australian government enquiry on the COVID-19 response, is: https://5nn.info/temp/C19-Response-Inquiry-submission-Robin-Whittle.pdf . This begins with histograms of 25(OH)D levels in Israel, with Arab women averaging around 12 ng/mL, and some below the detection limit of 5 ng/mL. Even Jewish, non-Orthodox men and women have mean levels ca. 25 ng/mL - and this is sunny Israel!
Vitamin D has been totally ignored by those who drive the mainstream COVID-19 response and it has been very largely overlooked by those who are critical of this response. There are plenty of other problems with the mainstream response: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/australian-government-covid-19-response but for reasons of sepsis, COVID-19, Kawasaki disease, MIS-C, influenza, autism, intellectual disability, schizophrenia, ADHD, low birth weight pre-eclampsia, dementia, including Parkinson’s disease, numerous auto-immune diseases, including MS, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis . . . . humans can never be healthy unless they attain 50 ng/mL or more circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
There's very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not. High elevation sunlight without glass, sunscreen or clothing can produce plenty of vitamin D3 for people with white skin, but less for the elderly, and much less for those with dark or brown skin. The UV-B light which converts 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin to vitamin D3 cholecalciferol always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer. So neither food, a balanced diet nor UV-B light is a suitable long-term source of the vitamin D3 we need.
Fortunately, supplements are inexpensive, and it is fine to take a 1.25 mg (50,000 IU) capsule once every 10 days. "5000 IUs" a day sounds like a lot, but it is a gram every 22 years - and pharma-grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram ex-factory.
Robin Whittle, Daylesford 90km NW of Melbourne.
Dear Robin, thank you for all this great info, it feels to me you should open your own substack and write it there, what a waste of talent and knowledge! and important wisdom too.
Dear Efrat, The big page citing and discussing research https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ would never be possible with Substack due to layout and size limitations.
The summary is: Most doctors do not yet know that the immune system only works properly with 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L) 25-hydroxyvitamin D - as measured in "vitamin D" blood tests. They are used to thinking that 20 ng/mL is sufficient for health, but this is just what the kidneys need to regulate calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism. Without proper vitamin D3 supplementation, most people have 25 ng/mL or less 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
The only practical, safe, way most people can attain 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D is with vitamin D3 supplements. The best recommendations for how much vitamin D3 to take are from New Jersey based Emeritus Professor of Medicine, cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#00-how-much . For people not suffering from obesity, this is 70 to 90 IUs a day per kg body weight. Those suffering from obesity need higher ratios of body weight. For average weight (70 kg 154 lb) adults, around 0.125 milligrams (5000 IU) a day, on average will attain the level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D the immune system needs to function properly. This is 6 to 8 times what governments and many doctors recommend.
Neither vitamin D3 nor 25-hydroxyvitamin D are hormones. The immune system does not use hormonal signaling. Many types of immune cell need a good supply of 25-hydroxyvitamin D to run their intracrine (inside each cell) and paracrine (to nearby cells) signaling system. Only when these work properly can the individual cells adapt their behaviour to their changing circumstances, which is necessary for the immune system to work properly.
There's no need to take my word for any of this - you can read the research yourself. I discuss vitamin D, nutrition and problems with conventional medicine at: https://nutrtionmatters.substack.com. Hoorah for Substack!
I emailed Brad HAzzard very early in the pandemic requesting he give Vit D to all the inmates of aged institutions...He Didn't and didn't reply Typical of the so called health system or is the wealth system?
Hi Efrat, wonderful that you're coming 'down under', I will share this link with everyone I know here and hopefully one or two of them will 'take the bait', anyway, however 'it pans out' I'm excited to see and hear what podcasts, interviews, lectures you do manage to accomplish, good luck and Yah bless <3
Thank you so much Mart! we sow the seeds...
Welcome down under Efrat. Will you be travelling around the country at all or will you be based in Melbourne the entire time?
I'll be in Brisbane too for a day :)
Hi Efrat i sent you an email at your gmail address on suggestions for interviews in Australia. If you didnt receive it please ask Ian Brighthope for my details
Hi yes saw it will reply shortly, thanks!
Did you get my followup email from BOOM. And out of curiosity how long is shortly??
I watched a 6 hours & 23 minute documentary on the COVID pandemic and Australia that was posted 11 months ago on this channel: https://rumble.com/v24j43w-australia-enslaved-and-plan-4-the-world-global-genocide-must-see.html They titled it different than what the video itself said: Australia Enslaved & the Plan for the World by Bro. Michael Dimond and Bro. Jerome Torres. Travel Mericies prayed for you.
I track down where the original source of something is, because sometimes it is no longer available for some reason. This website is Catholic. I am not Catholic. I thought is was a well-made documentary, however long it was. Remember, I said I watch long documentaries. I substituted that for Netflix. https://endtimes.video/australia-enslaved/
No guesses to who the politician in Brisbane is...
LOL... give us your guess...
Rennick?
Nope. Same first letter though :)
Ah Malcolm. Ask him from me if he's still using a BHP 1800 number for his own one.
My wife went to an event in Sydney put on by this group talking about excess deaths in Australia.
Maybe they can help you organize a talk in Australia?
https://amps.redunion.com.au/too-many-dead-warner
Thanks Sydney
Have a great trip. I look forward to seeing the fruit of your continued efforts. Thank you, thank you.
Thanks Teresa
Hello Efrat, have a good trip. I always look forward to your amazing podcast posts. Take care :)
I'm so happy to hear that Heinz... Thank you so much!!
My friend just returned from vacation a few days ago from NZ. She apparently forgot to toss out a banana that was in her bag since departing Chicago. In addition to a $400 fine, she has had to write several emails to NZ authorities about the banana incident.
She said the beauty of the country was magnificent but the overall vibe was tense as identification was required everywhere.
My sense is the so called “elites” are creating a police state in NZ since they will be residing there once they ruin the world! Kind of like in Hawaii.
I spend most of my time in NZ. I feel this is exaggerated somewhat.
It was definitely a police state up until early April 2022.
Perhaps. I was relaying my phone conversation. I will get the specifics about the banana incident. It speaks to an authoritarian mindset focused on minutiae - a freaking banana accidentally left in a purse.
It alarmed me since it reminded me of the toxic minutia focused work environment I experienced 6 years ago working for a CCP backed real estate company in the US.
A focus on minutiae is a sure fire way to drive people insane!!
Yeah Australia & New Zealand are definitely a bit too painful at the border when it comes to food. I have accidentally taken some through in the past, luckily no fines.