Linda Benskin, Phd, RN, SRN joins me today to discuss her research on Vitamin D levels & our immune health. When she began researching Covid-19 earlier this year Dr. Benskin kept seeing studies related to Vitamin D & Covid outcomes. As a wound care nurse she was familiar with low vitamin D levels among patients with chronic wounds because Vitamin D helps control inflammation in the body. Studies she read seemed to indicate that patients with worse outcomes from Covid-19 were lacking vitamin D, and she wanted to determine if the relationship was causal or just happened to be correlated. What she discovered in her research was that the two are very much linked. Dr. Benskin is now one of more than 200 scientists & medical doctors calling for people across the world to increase their Vitamin D intake to at least 4,000 iu’s per day if you aren’t having regular bloodwork done. Listen to today’s episode to see why she and her peers recommend a vitamin D dose 5 times higher than the USRDA’s recommended dose.
Guest’s Website & Social Media
VitaminDForAll
A Basic Review of the Preliminary Evidence That COVID-19 Risk and Severity Is Increased in Vitamin D Deficiency
Linda Benskin LinkedIn
Links Mentioned
– Atlanta Constitution-Journal: Vitamin D deficiency
– United Arab Emirates Covid-19 & Vitamin D Supplementation
– Adrian Martineau meta analysis on vitamin D studies & acute respiratory viruses
– UK Telegraph Wall of Fame Healthcare Workers
– Spanish Cordoba study calcifediol
– Davies study causal role of Vitamin D & Covid-19
– Annweiler Should COVID-19 patients be supplemented with vitamin D?
– Annweiler France nursing home study
– Jain Analysis of vitamin D level among asymptomatic and critically ill COVID-19 patients and its correlation with inflammatory markers
– India study of Vitamin D & clearing of PCR tests
– Chambers Vitamin D & Vaccinations
– Dr. David Grimes blog – Excess deaths of BAME doctors during COVID-19 pandemic
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