Vitamin D Deficiency

It's making you sick.

It is a well-known medical fact that influenza always gets worse during the winter months. What is less well-known is this occurs because sunlight hours lessen during the winter and people become vitamin D deficient, thus making them more susceptible to influenza infections of all kinds.

In the realm of peer-reviewed medical literature, searching Google Scholar for 'influenza' and 'vitamin D' returns tens of thousands of results (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q...). In particular, one study appearing in these search results is entitled Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. It was published in 2006 in the journal Epidemiology and Infection (2006, 134:6:1129-1140 Cambridge University Press) and its abstract reads as follows:

In 1981, R. Edgar Hope-Simpson proposed that a 'seasonal stimulus' intimately associated with solar radiation explained the remarkable seasonality of epidemic influenza. Solar radiation triggers robust seasonal vitamin D production in the skin; vitamin D deficiency is common in the winter, and activated vitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D, a steroid hormone, has profound effects on human immunity. 1,25(OH)2D acts as an immune system modulator, preventing excessive expression of inflammatory cytokines and increasing the 'oxidative burst' potential of macrophages. Perhaps most importantly, it dramatically stimulates the expression of potent anti-microbial peptides, which exist in neutrophils, monocytes, natural killer cells, and in epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract where they play a major role in protecting the lung from infection. Volunteers inoculated with live attenuated influenza virus are more likely to develop fever and serological evidence of an immune response in the winter. Vitamin D deficiency predisposes children to respiratory infections. Ultraviolet radiation (either from artificial sources or from sunlight) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections, as does cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D). An interventional study showed that vitamin D reduces the incidence of respiratory infections in children. We conclude that vitamin D, or lack of it, may be Hope-Simpson's 'seasonal stimulus'.

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=529704


Why the silence?

Vitamin D is perhaps the single most powerful nutrient in the known universe for preventing influenza, and yet many governments won't dare utter a word about it to the masses even in the face of a potentially devastating global pandemic that could be largely halted by vitamin D.

It does beg the question: why the silence?

There are really only three possible explanations for why health authorities would refuse to tell the public about vitamin D as a smart defence against the influenza pandemic:

1.) They don't know about vitamin D. This, of course, is impossible. The medical literature is saturated with respectable studies demonstrating the anti-viral and immune modulating effects of vitamin D. For someone in the field of infectious disease to be unaware of vitamin D's protective benefits would be downright laughable. It would be like a car mechanic not knowing what a fuel filter was.

2.) They do know about vitamin D, and they want to tell people, but they don't know how or don't have the money. This explanation, too, is ridiculous. Telling the people the truth about vitamin D is as simple as just calling a press conference, inviting a vitamin D expert like Dr. Michael Holick to say a few words, and putting the message out to the mainstream media.

This is unlikely to happen. And why?...

3.) They know about vitamin D but they are intentionally withholding information from the people. In essence, they want to keep people nutritionally illiterate so that they remain 'victims' in the coming influenza crisis. Because of who's involved in this (AMA, FDA, CDC, WHO and many others), it cannot be called anything other than a conspiracy of silence about influenza and vitamin D.

What could be the purpose behind such a conspiracy of silence?

Clearly its only purpose is to maximize profits to the drug companies and/or maximize the number of deaths that occur when the swine flu strikes this coming winter.

http://www.naturalnews.com/026921_Vitamin_D_influenza_swine_flu.html


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