vitamin d and swine flu

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Hello Family, I do not post things like this usually, But I think this article is worth a reading!Much respect to all,Liane

 

SETTING THE PEOPLE UP TO DIE:

A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE ABOUT SWINE FLU NATURAL REMEDIES

By Mike

NaturalNews

August 26, 2009

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

It's emblazoned across the front page of USA Today, just underneath a

subhead declaring was, indeed, killed by a drug overdose:

" Flu could infect half of USA. " The article goes on to describe the

predicted number of deaths expected in the U.S. (30,000 - 90,000 Americans)

as well as the actions being taken by the government to protect Americans

from the coming swine flu pandemic.

That advice reads sort of like a comic book of health care advice for

kindergarteners: Wash your hands, cover your mouth if you cough and let " the

grownups " take care of the rest by injecting you with a vaccine. Curiously

absent from all the health advice being handed out on the swine flu

<http://www.naturalnews.com/swine_flu.html> by the White House, the CDC, the

WHO and even the FDA is any mention of Vitamin D or other natural remedies

that offer enormous protections from influenza infections.

The absence of this information from virtually all the advice being handed

out to the American public is increasingly suspicious. If a pandemic flu is,

indeed, threatening to infect half the U.S. population, and if most of the

population is deficient in a nutrient known to strongly prevent influenza

infections, wouldn't it make good sense to make a few announcements

encouraging Americans to raise their vitamin D levels throughout the coming

winter?

It is a well-known medical fact, of course, that influenza always gets worse

during the winter months North of the equator and the summer months South of

the equator (which are really called their " winter " months). This is because

as sunlight hours lessen during the winter, the people living there become

vitamin D deficient and are susceptible to influenza infections of all

kinds.

The information resources backing this are easy to find. Even our own

NaturalPedia.com website reveals a large amount of information on natural

defenses against influenza <http://www.naturalpedia.com/influenza.html>.

NaturalNews.com, of course, offers a wealth of articles on Vitamin D

<http://www.naturalnews.com/vitamin_D.html>.

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=influenza+vitamin+D & hl=en & btnG=Search>.

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'. "

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