Would vitamin D really have a protective effect against complications related to COVID-19? This is what a recent Italian study tends to demonstrate.
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According to researchers, more than three quarters of patients affected by VOC
ID-19 and having developed an acute respiratory syndrome were deficient in vitamin D.
“We know that vitamin D is involved in the immune system to a certain extent. We know that for certain actions, vitamin D has an important role to play, but it is not a key role, ”explains microbiologist Karl Weiss in an interview with Mario Dumont’s program.
In addition, to be considered a real risk factor associated with COVID-19, vitamin D deficiency must be severe.
“Vitamin D has been attributed a lot recently. You should also not start taking mega doses thinking that it will help prevent the coronavirus. It’s not that at all, ”explains Dr Weiss.
“It has an important role to play in the immune system … up to a point,” he insists.
The research puzzle of COVID is far from complete, and each discovery is a very complex piece of the puzzle scientists are working on.
“If you’re old, you’re overweight, you’re diabetic, hypertensive, you’re going to be able to take all the vitamin D you can, it won’t change the severity or the risks much if you have COVID. -10 ”, exemplifies Dr. Weiss.
Conversely, taking vitamin D in younger, healthy, non-overweight or hypertensive people who are eating properly is “probably” useless, according to him.
“The proof of all this remains to be done.”
*** See his full intervention in the video above. ***
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