Sunshine, Vitamin D May Prevent Influenza

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Sunshine, Vitamin D May Prevent Influenza

 

Vitamin D, or rather a lack of it, may have something to do with the

regular flaring up of influenza in the winter months. A team of

Harvard based researchers is " focusing on a provocative new

hypothesis that blames annual flu epidemics on something most people

don't get enough of this time of year: sunshine " , reports the

Baltimore Sun.

 

In a paper scheduled for publication next month in the journal

Epidemiology and Infection, a Harvard University-led team proposes

that a vitamin D deficiency caused by inadequate winter sun exposure

may predispose people to infection.

Vitamin D is also called the sunshine vitamin, because it is

manufactured in the human body whenever we catch some of the sun's

rays.

 

We know all about the need to supply the vitamin - either by exposure

to sunshine or by supplements - to avoid rickets and brittle bones. D

takes available calcium from softer tissues, shunts it to the bones

and helps to fix the mineral there. The flip side of that important

function is a sun stroke, where too much vitamin D - too much

exposure to the sun in that case - results in too little calcium left

in the soft tissues, compromising muscle function in a dangerous way.

 

But the theory that vitamin D could determine whether we catch the

flu or not is throwing the medical world into a slight commotion. The

various pros and cons are masterfully put together in the Baltimore

Sun article by reporter Michael Stroh.

 

Certainly the flu vaccine is no great protection, according to some

experts. Also, don't give too much weight to the CDC's propaganda of

36,000 people killed by influenza in an average year, which has found

its way into the Sun article. That figure is a hopeless exaggeration,

bandied about to make you be good and get your flu shots. The real

figures have been found by Jon Rappoport and can be found this

article posted two years ago.

Anyway, here's a copy of the Baltimore Sun article...

 

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/11/28/sunshine_vitamin_d_may_prevent_i\

nfluenza.htm

 

 

 

 

 

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Sepp Hasslberger

 

 

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