Vitamin D & Influenza by Cannell, MD

[Guest guest]

As readers from 3 years ago remember, this newsletter first published

evidence vitamin D would prevent influenza and many varieties of the

common cold in 2005:

 

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/2005-nov.shtml

 

I then published the theory

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Cannell JJ, et al. Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. Epidemiology and Infection.

2006 Dec;134(6):1129-40.

 

As Science News reported, I realized this after observing an influenza

epidemic at Atascadero State Hospital.

 

The antibiotic vitamin: deficiency in vitamin D may predispose people to

infection.  Science News, November 11, 2006

 

Last year, we used vitamin D to explain virtually all of the many unsolved

mysteries of influenza.

 

Cannell JJ, et al.  On the epidemiology of influenza. Virology Journal. 2008

Feb 25;5:29.

 

Our second influenza paper is by far the most accessed paper in the journal this

year.

 

Top 20 most accessed articles for last year in Virology Journal

 

Today, researchers from Harvard and the University of Colorado, writing in the

Archives of Internal Medicine, published convincing evidence my observations at

Atascadero State Hospital were correct.

 

Vitamin D deficiency linked to more colds and flu. Scientific American, Feb 23,

2009

 

Adit A, et al.  Association Between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Level and Upper

Respiratory Tract Infection in the Third National Health and Nutrition

Examination Survey. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(4):384-390.

 

Influenza kill around 35,000 Americans every year and similar viruses cause

additional mortality and untold morbidity. As I have said, It appears Linus

ing was right about everything he said about vitamin C, but he was off by

one letter. The Vitamin D Council, the nearly broke non-profit educational

organization, now believes most influenza deaths and many other respiratory

infections, like the common cold, could be prevented if Americans, and their

doctors, understood some simple facts:

 

·         Vitamin D is not a vitamin, but a steroid hormone precursor,

which has profound effects on innate immunity.

·         The amount of vitamin D in most food and nearly all

multivitamins is literally inconsequential.

·         The correct daily dose of vitamin D for adults is

approximately 5,000 IU/day, not the 200-600 IU recommended by the Institute of

Medicine, the National Institutes of Medicine and the FDA.

·         The only blood test to determine vitamin D adequacy is a

25-hydroxy-vitamin D, not the 1,25-di-hydroxy-vitamin D test many physicians now

order.

·         Healthy vitamin D blood levels are between 50-80 ng/ml,

levels obtained by fewer than 5% of Americans.

·         Medicare’s new proposed rule change, which forbids Medicare

carriers for paying for virtually all vitamin D blood tests (Draft LCD for

Vitamin D Assay Testing (DL29510), will kill tens of thousands of Americans

yearly.

·         The mechanism of action of vitamin D in infection,

dramatically increasing the body’s production of broad-spectrum natural

antibiotics (anti-microbial peptides or AMP) suggests pharmaceutical doses of

vitamin D (1,000 IU per pound of body weight per day for several days) will

effectively treat not only influenza and the common cold, but help treat a

host of other seasonal infections, including meningitis, septicemia, and

pneumonia, in both children and adults.

·         In 1997, when the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) set the

current guidelines for vitamin D intake, they forgot to correct for the

widespread sun avoidance that began in the late 1980’s when the AMA’s

Council of Scientific Affairs warned against sun-exposure, and recommended that

all Americans should make every effort to never let a photon of sunlight strike

their skin.  The failure of the 1997 FNB to compensate for sun-avoidance, has

led to millions of deaths around the world.

·         Physicians who ignore vitamin D deficiency will eventually

suffer medical-legal consequences.

·         While many think the influenza virus causes influenza,

Cannell notes it was Bernard Shaw who first understood: “The

characteristic microbe of a disease might be a symptom instead of a cause.â€

Bernard Shaw, (Preface on Doctors, The Doctor’s Dilemma, 1911).

 

Cannell, MD

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

The Vitamin D Council

9100 San Gregorio Road

Atascadero, CA 93422

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