Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

lenharley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:22:45 GMT

VITAMIN D DOES CURE THE COMMON COLD!

I first read about this five years ago and started taking about 800 IU/day (2 X pathetic RDA) from October to March (Here in cloudy UK).

I have never had a cold since. When others brought colds or flu close to me I would begin to feel the first signs and shovel in 20 X 400IU/day. This would overwhelm the "cold" in hours. I have beaten off about 15 "attempted" colds this way over five years. I have now totally convinced all my family after they relectantly tried this after they started colds. It has worked with everyone so far.

I do it this way (allowing a cold to "flirt" with me) so as to be sure I am not anywhere near an overdose situation.

Just try it. You'll be amazed!

HOW DID WE EVER LET DOCTORS CONVINCE US SUNLIGHT WAS HARMFUL?

THEY MIGHT JUST AS WELL HAVE SAID.."FRESH AIR IS HARMFUL" . And we would have believed them

HOW STUPID ARE WE?

HOW INTELLIGENT ARE THEY?

This is truly humbling.

See also Dr Barry Groves Website "Second Opinions" on sunlight/diet/fluoride etc.

Len

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

jetorpe — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:48:54 GMT

I just sent in my blood to be tested by D*Action for the (25(OH)D blood test. D*Action is a project aimed at ending vitamin D deficiency. This group is offering blood spot test kits from ZRT, a very reliable lab, for only $30. You'll be required to provide some basic health data, and your results will be added to a database that will be used to study vitamin D and disease prevention. I should get my results in a few weeks. Can't wait to see where my blood level is at.

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

aj furgal — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:56:47 GMT

3/24/09 I am a 65-year-old very active woman. This winter for the first time in my LIFE I have had neither a cold nor a bronchial infection. This is the first winter I have also been taking 1000 mg. of Vitamin D twice a day! The connection between the 2 is the only conclusion I can draw!!

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

Snowbirdz — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:30:24 GMT

I think what this article is saying it that given correct amounts of vitamin D on a dailly basis you won't get the common cold so no "cure" is necessary.

If the immune system is strong then there is no reason the body will not fight off infections or bugs going around. And it's not only the common cold, as I understand it this relates to all disease.

So, the key is to live your best life, keeping your immune system strong and that Vitamin D is a big part of that and that sadly in the past years doctors havew been recommending we stay away from that which will keep us well.

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

healthyhobbit — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:55:11 GMT

I avoided the flu this season by taking oregeno capsules whenever I was around someone sick and kept up on my regular supplements. Even while my family spread it around, I didn't get it and they were only sick for a day or two.

Now, after one outing as a chapparone for a young girls all nighter. It lowered my immune system enought to let the cold virus to strike. It struck hard! I've been sick for a week! Just now getting my voice back, but had had four miserable nights trying to sleep. I have been so congested. I've been making tea many times a day, taking oregeno oil, garlic, homeopathic remedies and avoiding dairy and sugar.

Next time I need to boost my immune system in preperaton for the lack of sleep and increased stress, even though it is fun. Any advice? Thanks.

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

terryd1960 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:44:11 GMT

news.yahoo.com/.../manyamericansfallshortontheirvitamind

Here is a link to an article I just read that reports research that supports everything Dr Mercola has been posting on this sit about Vitamin D. Amazing how slow the establishment is, isn't it? I've been taking 2000 IU of Vitamin D3 for several months now, and this is the first year in decades I haven't been sick all winter with asthma, bronchitis, colds, and strep infections. In fact, I haven't needed my steroid asthma inhaler since last September. It feels like a miracle to me!

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

Pjmont — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:22:19 GMT

Someone's gotta update these recycled articles...maybe a Mercola paid staff member because this above article still calls for people to use Cod Liver oil for Vitamin D when we all know now that Cod Liver Oil plugs up the body's Vitamin D absorption with Vitamin A instead. Common guys keep this ship polished:>}

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

CCurtis — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:01:06 GMT

I drink raw milk from cows that are free-range and out in the sun all day (when there is sun here in Connecticut). Would the milk I drink contain vitamin D like store-bought milk? Or does that milk only contain vitamin D from supplementation?

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

Running_Stick — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:18:16 GMT

Since this post is at the end of the list, it may not get noticed. But I will try to get some feedback anyway.

Just speculating, but an occasional TH2 resolved infection with a concurrent fever up to 103 may be doing a lot more to keep us healthy that one would assume. The heat shock protiens are produced en-mass, the TH3 response is exagerated at the end of the infection and the whole immune cycle is allowed to work thru to completion. Any comments?

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

DonnaM — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:41:32 GMT

Heather Marsh,

You make an extrememly important point- make sure you are paying attention to the way the values are reported. The normals Dr Mercola and Dr Cannell give are in ng/ml. You stated your values as nmo1/L and they did need the conversion to get to ng/ml. I was just looking it up when you repsponded back. I am studying for my doctorate in Natural Medicine after 28 years in the medical field and I work as a health coach in the meantime with my business. I have ALL of my clients on 5,000 IU of Vit D (that are adult) and they all had a healthy winter with no flu. (Especially my dark skinned clients.) I also use Dr. Cannells recipe for the flu of 2000 IU/kg of body weight dose for 3 days if someone was coming down with the flu and it worked miracles and had my brother back to work in 3 days. He was amazed. Vit D is absolutely amazing and I only supplement September-May and then I am back in the sun and I have red hair and green eyes and only stay out to get my Vit D and a little bit of pink and stay healthy all year. I am fighting Lymes disease and it has made all the difference in the world. I am attending the conferance where Dr Mercola is speaking on April 2-3 for Bio-Energetic Medicine. They will be discusisng the pros and cons of Vitamin D and Lymes. Stay tuned.

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

alystra — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:36:51 GMT

I use Carlson Solar D Gems - 4000 IU's of vitamin D3 per soft gel daily. It helped recover much faster from my winter flu.

www.vitasprings.com/solar-d-gems-4000-iu-360-softgels-carlson.html

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

Bigman — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:15:56 GMT

We all need to realize that that our goal for ourselves should be homeostasis. What CURES or reduces the chance of experiencing any particular disorder whether it be the influenza or an immune disorder, etc is the state our bodies experience at the moment of exposure to an invader like a virus acutely or long term dysfunction (autoimmune). Vitamin D is only a puzzle piece in this regard. I have been taking 10000 iu of D3 for several months and have slowly raised my level from 14 to 35 ng/ml. This still leaves me in a deficient state. Although I FELT better and experienced a much improved winter in Northern Michigan I still experienced a very shortened version of the Influenza (3 days instead of 2 weeks) I am convinced that the D made the difference.

As a Chiropractor,I tell my patients that the difference between medicine and Chiropractic is that medicine believes that our bodies make mistakes and Chiropractic understands that our bodies are fundamentally incapable or very rarely make mistakes. Our bodies fix themselves by design.Our decisions and choices, actions and attitudes are the mistake generators whether it be trauma or bad food choices or where we choose to live. Vitamin D is not even a "nutrient" its a steroid produced in our skin. Ultimately we are not designed to live in Northern Michigan so we have to supplement or choose artificial light exposure if you can find it and tolerate it. At present supplementing appears safe as long as you can trust manufacturers......

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Ali Steven — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:41:41 GMT

I work at Dr's office that offers weight loss solutions to people and we do lab work by LabCorp on all of our patients , including tracking of vitamin D levels. I would guess that 95% of people that come in are extremely deficient, in the teens and twenties or lower on their vitamin D level. When they start the diet, the doc prescribes 8,000 UI per day and often go up to 10,000 UI if they are extremely low. We recommend to clients to have their level between 60-100 to prevent cancer. Even on maintenance plans, the are usually on 2,000-6,000 UI per day, but I imagine those Rx's will go down some in the summer months.

re: Can Vitamin D Cure the Common Cold?

curious7 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:40:34 GMT

As a young child I can remember my Grandmother saying when we had a cold get oout get some fresh air and sunshine. I used to wonder why at the time, and it seems my dear Grandmother was ahead of time.

I for one am glad that mercola.com continues to beat this drum about sunshine, because too many of us do not get enough, or we have fallen for the ruse that says you need to smother your skin with a toxic sunscreen. I know some people are sun sentative, but with a little research even sun sensitivity is no barrier to the health benefits of the sun.

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jonnakay1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:20:47 GMT

Every winter I am the one who chronically gets the respiratory ailments, colds, etc. But last fall I started a Vitamin D regimen, the type recommended, Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), and have had NO colds or respiratory problems this winter whatsoever. I was the only one in my household to NOT get them and was the only one on the Vitamin D3 regimen. Coincidence? I think not. I also increased my exposure to sunlight when it was available during the winter months, which helped with the "winter blahs" as well. I am sold on the effectiveness of vitamin D for many uses. Look back at the 50's and 60's when we drank much more milk. I think families, especially kids, were alot more healthy back then, due to the vitamin D in the milk they were drinking alot of.