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Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby Mike4 » January 12th, 2021, 10:52 am

88V8 wrote:
johnhemming wrote:I don't myself think that giving large amounts of Vitamin D infrequently is a good idea. Because of the way it is metabolised it really needs to be taken daily.

Amen to that.
During winter only, we take a daily 1000somethings of Vit D. I don't believe that overdoses of anything are effective, not even chocolate.

On a different note, here is a reference to some (small) studies that postulate a link between long Covid and gut biome.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/g ... lammation/
But as with so many gut interrelations, it may be hard to distinguish between cause and effect.

I shall continue to put my faith in regular doses of peanut butter and marmalade sandwich.

V8


That sounds disgusting. Peanut butter should be eaten with Marmite not marmalade in sandwiches. As any fule kno.

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby 88V8 » January 13th, 2021, 9:38 am

Mike4 wrote:That sounds disgusting. Peanut butter should be eaten with Marmite not marmalade in sandwiches. As any fule kno.

Peanut butter is also good with honey.
And cheese.
But marmalade is not. And nor is honey, nor cheese.
So peanut butter might be regarded as a versatile intermediary. The Henry Kissinger of foods.

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby XFool » January 13th, 2021, 12:17 pm

Covid: Large trial of new treatment begins in UK

BBC News

A large-scale trial of a new treatment it is hoped will help stop Covid-19 patients from developing severe illness has begun in the UK.

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby Mike4 » January 13th, 2021, 1:11 pm

XFool wrote:Covid: Large trial of new treatment begins in UK

BBC News

A large-scale trial of a new treatment it is hoped will help stop Covid-19 patients from developing severe illness has begun in the UK.


From the article:

Early findings suggested the treatment cut the odds of a Covid-19 patient in hospital developing severe disease - such as requiring ventilation - by almost 80%.

So it's a bit like Vitamin D then.

Why is the govt, NICE etc so opposed to accepting the effctiveness of Vitamin D? The evidence continues to pile up.

https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby XFool » January 13th, 2021, 1:37 pm

Mike4 wrote:Why is the govt, NICE etc so opposed to accepting the effctiveness of Vitamin D?

Vitamin D supplements: how to take them safely

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vitamin-d-supplements-how-to-take-them-safely

Guidance for at-risk groups offered free vitamin D supplements by the government this winter.

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby Mike4 » January 13th, 2021, 1:42 pm

XFool wrote:
Mike4 wrote:Why is the govt, NICE etc so opposed to accepting the effctiveness of Vitamin D?

Vitamin D supplements: how to take them safely

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vitamin-d-supplements-how-to-take-them-safely

Guidance for at-risk groups offered free vitamin D supplements by the government this winter.


Yes. That advice is exactly the problem.

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby 88V8 » January 13th, 2021, 10:46 pm

Mike4 wrote:Yes. That advice is exactly the problem.

What, being in Nepali? Why waste money on that. Perhaps someone had a budget they needed to spend.

V8

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby johnhemming » January 14th, 2021, 7:27 am

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news ... -qm9jhh5d7

With an estimated one in five having been infected, the findings, based on a study of 21,000 UK healthcare workers, suggested that herd immunity could already be slowing the course of the pandemic. However, scientists warned that they still did not know how long immunity lasted.

“What that’s saying to us is that prior infection looks as good as the vaccine, at least at this time interval, which is very good news for the population,” said Susan Hopkins, deputy director of the national infections service at Public Health England (PHE). “It will help alongside the vaccine to give a level of immunity and protection that will start to reduce transmission.”


This, of course, should not be news in 2021. In many ways this is the expected result and was clearly the case as soon as it was possible to be reinfected (which was probably March 2020 or earlier). It was always going to be a small minority of people that get reinfected.

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Re: Coronavirus Health - Health and Wellbeing

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Postby look » January 25th, 2021, 1:56 am

there's no discussion anywhere about the food for patients in hospital. The lack of interest about food is a fail of hospitals.


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