Hello,
everyone, it's so nice to join you once again
for another biblical prescription for a life.
This week, I'd like to talk
about vitamin D revisited.
Remember, we talked about vitamin D back on June
six, 2021, where I talked
about vitamin D and vitamin P.
And if you want to go back and look at that video,
you can learn again what vitamin P was.
But before we talk about vitamin D and its importance to treat
and prevent COVID infections in a new article
that came out, I want to share from from the word.
And remember, this is the big picture, the source of healing.
In the Bible, it's ways we can touch base with truth and God.
And it's also gives us great hope in a time of uncertainty.
And I want to encourage everyone, if you haven't tried
reading the Bible, give it a try.
It will change your life.
John, eight,
verse twelve, is a biblical prescription for this week.
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying,
I am the light of the world.
He who follows me shall not walk in darkness
but have the light of life.
Jesus is the light of the world,
so if your life has a little darkness,
this is where to turn.
This sort of fits in a little bit light with vitamin D,
because we know that light is needed to activate vitamin D.
Just a quick recap of some of the good things
that vitamin D does is it helps our bones people that vitamin D deficient
have weak bones more likely to have pathological fractures.
Years ago, they first discovered vitamin D deficiency in people that had rickets.
So that's very important.
It's important for heart health, too,
because the nitric oxide synthase include a thigh bone.
It helps our endothelium stay more healthy.
Vitamin D is needed for the brain, and in fact,
vitamin D is a pro hormone, and it helps every cell in the body.
It also is very important for your immune system.
And remember, the immune system is the one that deals with foreign substances
in the body like COVID 19, SaaS viruses and other viruses.
It's very important.
Specifically, we found out in studies that in the COVID
19 virus, the first few days, it replicates and divides.
Then it has an inflammatory response
and then it starts to turn into blood clots in the body.
Well.
The inflammatory response.
Vitamin D helps turn it down, decreases the amount of cytokines and substances
like interleukin six and tumor necrosis factor.
Unfortunately, worldwide,
there's a widespread deficiency of vitamin D.
It's been estimated that at least 1,000,000,001
billion people have a vitamin D deficiency.
And if you think of what we just talked about,
if you don't have vitamin D, those parts of your body
just aren't going to run as smoothly, including your immune system.
So you're going to be more prone to infections and problems
if you have vitamin D deficiencies.
Well, why do we have a problem with this?
Well, one thing is we are wearing more clothes than ever to.
We're staying more inside and not getting outside enough.
Also, as we age, we have problems with vitamin D.
Some people that have dark pigmentation don't absorb sunlight,
so they can activate vitamin D and different seasons.
For instance, in the winter months, especially January
and February, that's the lowest level of vitamin D.
And of course, in July and August, it's the highest in some parts of the world,
with high latitudes like Alaska, Canada.
They don't get much sunlight and they have vitamin D deficiencies,
and it's been associated with depression, so they actually have to have lamps
to help them with their vitamin D level.
So it's very important.
Now, one thing that I want to talk to you about is
you can think you're getting enough vitamin D and actually not have enough.
For instance, my wife likes to go out and walk our dogs, max and Daffy.
There are great little Sharkey's, by the way.
She walks them every day, gets out in the sun,
and she thought she was having enough vitamin D in her body.
Well, this wasn't the case because she went
and had it checked the other day, and it was measured as low and lows
considered less than 20 nanograms a middle of the year.
So her level was below that, even though she did get out,
get out in the sunshine quite a bit.
So, so now she's starting to take a supplement for vitamin D.
Well, a new study that came out.
I just want to share this with you.
February three, 2022.
They look back over the last few years and looked at all the studies
and showed that studies with potential low vitamin D
and an increase of infection with the sales and poor clinical outcomes.
So what
they did in this study is they actually looked at people vitamin
D level and saw if they had bad COVID infections.
They also looked at the mortality.
So this gives a little bit more up to the importance of vitamin D.
You know, people just aren't getting enough vitamin
D, and it's affecting not only their immune system, but their entire body.
So they looked at some patients
and 253 of them had vitamin D levels
measured prior to the COVID 19 infection.
So basically, I wanted to share two important things from this study.
Patients with low vitamin D
as defined of less than 20 nanograms of melody
were 14 times more likely to have severe
or critical disease 14 times.
And that's when they adjusted for all these other factors.
So just having enough vitamin D made you 14 times.
Less likely
to have severe or critical COVID 19 infections.
So that makes me recommend vitamin D for everyone.
Secondly,
later in the study, they actually look at mortality
and they found out that mortality among patients with sufficient vitamin
D levels was 2.3% of those
that they looked at that had covered 2.3%.
In contrast, people that were vitamin D
deficiency had a mortality rate
of 25.6%.
So 2.3 25.6 major difference.
If you had enough vitamin D in your body,
so I can't tell you how important it is
for you to get vitamin D if you can't get it outside.
I'm suggesting a supplement like my wife is taking,
so she is right now taking 2000
international units a day and she's going to recheck it in a couple of months.
Of course, if you're really, really low, you can take extra.
It's very, very hard to overdose on vitamin D.
So I just wanted to
bring that information to you today
and ask you a few questions as we close today.
Personally, as you're out there, of course, you want vitamin
D levels for the aforementioned reasons, but more than that.
Do you want to live the life that's been given to you in the light?
Or do you want to live in darkness?
Do you want to have truth in your life?
And where do you go for that truth?
Well, I want to invite you
to give Christ a try,
give this book
that's been around for a long time that has evidence that it's true.
Give it a try.
And another question I have for you.
Really, what do you have to lose?
Let's go back and review our techs again, one more time
than Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world.
He who follows me.
She'll not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.
Well, I hope you have a great week.
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You can start taking supplements, which might be a good idea
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