There is plenty of discussion, with the COV-situation, about the ability of Vitamin D to to cure. To date, these arguments back and forth wage back and forth – largely without any definition of CURED.
Vitamin D Deficiency Cured
It’s not hard to define cured. It’s not hard to define cured by Vitamin D. There is no need to reference COVID. An illness with a single cause is cured when its cause has been successfully addressed. Let’s look at Vitamin D.
When our consumption of Vitamin D, or our exposure to sunshine drops, we develop Vitamin D Deficiency diseases. At first, the signs and symptoms are minor. Vitamin D deficiency is rarely diagnosed. As the damage progresses, the children can be diagnosed with rickets. Adults might be diagnosed with osteomalacia or osteoporosis.
“In 1903, photobiologist Dr. Niels Ryberg Finsen won the Nobel Prize for medicine after successfully demonstrating that exposure to sunlight cured many diseases, including lupus vulgaris, or tuberculosis of the skin.” – Michael F. Holick, The Vitamin D Solution.
Vitamin D Cures
What is the cure for rickets and osteomalacia? No medicine can cure this disease. Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 19th edition says “adults with osteomalacia and children with uncomplicated rickets can be cured by giving vitamin D 40 μg (1600 IU) po once/day.” Vitamin D, the only cure, is a nutrient, contained in many foods, not a medicine. Vitamin D is not documented as a cure for Vitamin D deficiency, perhaps because it’s so obvious.
COVID-19 CURED?
What is the cure for COVID-19? Maybe you’ve noticed – or maybe not, that the worldwide statistics for COVID-19 do not contain any cured patients, although over 180 million are presently listed as “RECOVERED”. What’s the difference between recovered and cured? Well, it’s complicated, but in simple terms, cured is not defined, and recovered is not defined either, but nobody cares. Perhaps the reason Google no longer reports RECOVERED, because the definition is so poor that the statistics are crap. But other sources count RECOVERED. Recovered is counted and reported, but cured not. What does a case of COVID-19 RECOVERED look like?
SARS-CoV-2 creates a hole in our healthiness that we call COVID-19. In over 90 percent of cases, our natural healthy systems are able to cure COVID-19.
Why do we use the word RECOVERED but not CURED? Our healthiness is not in the doctor’s union shop, so no credit can be given for the cure. Medical systems say the patient “RECOVERED’ – the word CURED is avoided.
But.. what happens if we combine the two illnesses? What when a patient who is Vitamin D deficient (perhaps not severe enough to be diagnosed and treated as rickets or osteomalacia contracts COVID-19? When the patient infected with SARS-CoV-2, their health already has a significant hole – the deficiency of Vitamin D, which might range from minor to severe.
Vitamin D, it turns out, is essential to the natural cure processes. The Cleveland Medical Clinic says “vitamin D may also play a role in helping to keep you healthy by protecting against… Infections and immune system disorders“
Vitamin D Deficiency plus COVID-19
Several studies have shown that patients who are deficient in Vitamin D are more likely to suffer severe consequences, even death, from COVID-19. What’s going on? It’s not hard to see when we combine the two diagrams, such that the Vitamin D deficiency illness has not been cured when the SARS-CoV-2 virus arrives.
When a person is deficient in Vitamin D, even only slightly, COVID-19 has a better chance to multiply and overtake the immune system defenses. The patient’s health has a harder time RECOVERing. In addition, fighting COVID-19 uses up the body’s supply of Vitamin D, making both illnesses more severe. The more severe the Vitamin D deficiency, the more severe the COVID disease.
What if we cure the Vitamin D deficiency?
- If we cure it before the SARS-CoV-2 infection, the infection will be less severe when it occurs. The COVID-19 patient is more likely to RECOVER.
- If we cure it after the SARS-CoV-2 infection, we will give the patient a fighting chance, and aid their RECOVERY from COVID-19.
- Even if we don’t cure it entirely, supplementing Vitamin D gives the COVID-19 patient a better chance to RECOVER. The body needs more Vitamin D to fight COVID.
Does Vitamin D cure COVID?
Vitamin D is not “the cure for COVID”. It is a cure for Vitamin D deficiency. Curing Vitamin D deficiency helps patients RECOVER from COVID-19. Or maybe that’s just nonsense, the use of weasel words to avoid the word cure. The real truth is simple and clear.
Vitamin D cures COVID – when the seriousness of the case is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D.
Other COVID Cures
There are many other health factors, or healthinesses, that can be involved in curing a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Zinc is a nutrient that slows the growth of viruses. Patients who are zinc deficient also suffer more severe cases of COVID-19. Curing the zinc deficiency, in those cases, cures COVID.
Vitamin C is necessary to healing processes, essential to recovery from COVID. Patients who are Vitamin C deficient will be less likely to recover and their recovery will be slower and perhaps not as complete as possible if they were not deficient. Curing a Vitamin C deficiency in those cases, cures COVID.
Even water is essential to cure COVID. Patients who are continually dehydrated are more likely to suffer severe consequences from COVID. Ensuring they are hydrated – curing their dehydration – cures their COVID.
We might argue that, in these case, the Vitamin D, the zinc, the Vitamin C, and the water did not cure, perhaps it just aided or enabled the cure. When a patient is cured, those arguments are theoretical, but hardly practical. In theory, the patient is might not have been cured by Vitamin D. But in reality, the patient is cured. That’s good enough.
Patients who are obese are more likely to suffer severe consequences from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. If we can cure the obesity before the infection, the COVID disease will be easily healed in more cases. Of course, curing the Vitamin D deficiency status is so fast we can do it even after the COVID infection. Curing obesity is a very slow process that can be used to prevent severe COVID, but not useful once COVID is present.
How many other health factors are involved in curing COVID-19? We don’t know.
We don’t know, because we don’t study cured. We don’t even study “RECOVERED” other than to collect statistics.
Perfectly Healthy?
Maybe you’ve seen reports of people who were perfectly healthy, who suffered severe consequences from COVID-19. What’s going on?
Vitamin D deficiency, mild or even moderate, is very difficult to diagnose. The patient seems to be perfectly healthy. Vitamin C deficiencies are common and so normal that we might be deficient several times in a year without significant consequences, might appear to be perfectly healthy. Zinc deficiency is difficult to diagnose and must be carefully distinguished from deficiencies of biotin, vitamin B2 (riboflavin), or essential fatty acid deficiency. Patients, for the most part, can appear to be perfectly healthy. Even people who are obese are often judged to be otherwise perfectly healthy. Even a person who is mildly Vitamin D deficient, Vitamin C deficient, zinc deficient, and obese – might appear to be perfectly healthy. People who are perfectly healthy don’t die from a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
We can Cure COVID
When COVID-19 is worse because of a pre-existing disease, even a minor medical condition, the most effective way to help patients RECOVER is to cure the pre-existing disease or condition before the SARS-CoV-2 infection. Next most effective, is to cure it AS SOON AS the patient develops a SARS-CoV-2 infection. The current medical recommendations of many authorities: wait until the patient is hospitalized is medical negligence.
We need to do all we can to cure COVID patients. Right now, we are practicing cure denial, avoiding cures and avoiding cure claims. Even when Vitamin D cures a case of COVID – we deny the cure.
We can do better. We can cure COVID.
to your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure
