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Vitamin D and H1N1 Swine Flu *****

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:29:00 +0000

Editor's note: The following article is part of a (or the) Sept 2009 newsletter by Dr. John Cannell, one of the most knowledgeable vitamin D

Tim Leahy

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:24:19 +0000

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Auburn

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:03:25 +0000

It should be noted that Health Canada is gathering information on the 25(OH)D levels of H1N1 patients. I am not aware of any similar inquiry in the US. Pity.

NewMom

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:02:58 +0000

I am confused about your statement "I think it possible that Vitamin D levels of 30 ng/mL, which are often obtained by people taking low doses of Vitamin D (1,000–2,000 IU/day), may increase your risk of death from a 1918-like influenza virus." As a pregnant woman, I am considering taking 2000 IU of Vitamin D per day, as recommended by the Canadian Health Ministry. Are you saying this could make me more susceptible to flu??? Please clarify! Also, are you saying one should wait to increase blood levels of Vitamin D until after getting the flu shot? Please clarify!

sbs reddy

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:48:41 +0000

Else where in this site, potential dangers of vaccine has been highlighted.

the uRL is
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Healthcare/many_health_workers_won_t_take_swine_flu_vaccine_160920091023.html
Can we follow the above expert advise of vaccination or not?

Judson

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:14:50 +0000

NewMom,

The 1918 Virus was deadly because it caused a "cytokine" storm. Part of your immune system responds to infections by producing free oxygen species that damdage the foreign particles. Unfortunately these particles damage the host cell as well. There has been some speculation that those with the "healthiest" immune systems are those that are most susceptible to this type of reaction. Vitamin D though actually seems to down regulate the immune factors (at least from what I've seen) that contribute to the so called cytokine storm. Many speculated that substances that boosted the immune system would cause an increase in susceptibility to a cytokine storm. The effects of many immune modulators however are rarily this simple. THere are many different immune markers and very complicated feedback mechanisms. No evidence currently suggests that the vitamin D strengthens cytokine inflammatory response in the immune system... it actually seems to inhibit it.

The vitamin D institute has voiced concerns because black people in 1918 were more likely to survive than whites. Unfortunately I think that working disparities and conditions for black americans at the time could account for this. Is it possible that more black americans were being forced to work outside and were exposed to more sunlight? Enough to compensate for their reduced production capacity of vitamin d and still give them an edge? I think its likely.

Another claim is that young people were more likely to die from the 1918 pandemic... presumably young people had the strongest immune markers and therefore died of the cytokine storm. But again I don't know that you can say that simply because this age group had the highest vit d levels, doesn't mean it caused it. Young people have higher hormone levels, higher levels of other vitamins, higher numbers of stem cells... etc. .... It seems difficult to say that it was the vitamin d in their system that was responsible... Possible, but not definitive.

Reason three is that the killing started in the summer and peaked in october. It became very widespread immediately, It could have just been that the bulk of the population was infected and therefore inoculated before the winter.

This is ALL speculation. All current data would suggest indirectly that vitamin d would prevent a cytokine storm of the 1918 type, although this evidence is not direct. There is a lot of speculation about cytokine storms because they are a recently studied phenomena.

h1n1 lacks the gene that causes the cytokine storm in the vast majority of people. h5n1, the Avian flu caries this gene however, and it is more deadly.