{"id":26616,"date":"2022-04-03T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/?p=26616"},"modified":"2022-04-03T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T00:58:10","slug":"to-d-or-not-to-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/to-d-or-not-to-d\/","title":{"rendered":"To D or not to D?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>To D or not to D?<\/h1>\n<p>There have been studies that show a much lower covid death rate if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/lung\/news\/20220208\/vitamin-d-deficiency-tied-to-severe-covid\">vitamin D levels are maintained<\/a> but there is a balance between vit D and formation of 1-25-D as this study demonstrates:<\/p>\n<pre>Elevated levels of 1-25-D <strong>leach calcium<\/strong> from the bones. High levels of 1,25-D affect muscle function, particularly the cardiac muscle. Studies which have detailed the intricate feedback pathways between the two forms of vitamin D have shown that elevated levels of 1,25-D are also immunosuppressive.\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/clinicalmolecularallergy.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12948-021-00161-w\"><strong>https:\/\/clinicalmolecularallergy.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12948-021-00161-w<\/strong><\/a><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Life is about balance<\/strong>.\u00a0 I think vitamin D supplementing is necessary but we should probably drop the very high levels once the covid\u00a0 wave has diminished. Apparently supplementing with K2 with MK-7 prevents <strong>any calcium leaching<\/strong> (could that be a reason for high calcium blood levels? dunno, but I dropped D intake and ordered K2 as MK-7).\u00a0 <span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Natural vitamin K2 as MK-7 is <b>the essential cofactor for the enzyme \u03b3-carboxylase<\/b> which is able to carboxylate these calcium-regulating proteins making them able to form calcium-binding groups essential for their biological activity.\u00a0 This shows how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitamk7.com\/how-vitamin-k2-works\/\"><strong>D and K<\/strong> <\/a>work together<\/span><\/span> and this explains the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/vitamin-k2#bone-health\"><strong>benefits of K<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course you could always get more sun and eat more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/foods-high-in-vitamin-k#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2\"><strong>kale<\/strong><\/a> but what would be the fun in doing that? Far better to stay locked indoors and order fast food (lolz). Don&#8217;t forget the sun is fierce nowadays with high UV and cosmic radiation is increasing.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Vitamin D Reduces Autoimmune Diseases: New Research<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vitamin D Reduces Autoimmune Diseases: New Research\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezuyfGLph4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Roger Seheult, MD of MedCram discusses a new study about the role of vitamin D in the reduction of autoimmune disease occurance. See all Dr. Seheult&#8217;s videos at: <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa01JNFRVbzRXSk4tOW90STg3dFhSaWNNRmFWQXxBQ3Jtc0trMUlvSTRpcDBxei1CNmtLbHU3NEp0eWE5RXN1X0RVc2dTeWFOR1pyVnlGNG5TYWUzQWcxU0wtTXlJa1NPQllfM2dVN3lmNVhPS1lzYTBiRl85ZFFaTTFSbzFYWU5sMk5sSjZJYXZwNEtKak9kbEgwYw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medcram.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.medcram.com<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> (This video was recorded on February 3, 2022) Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3I3Z3pSejVkd0IxTXp0NXlabnEybmRfdk1MUXxBQ3Jtc0ttNU1UZjNIU2hCTjZNV1QzT3VXcndtNjFFa0hZNWw5cmU2SXZvYWlGZldLX3hLLUVLOHVNcmtRSE1YTXhRUHdTVEpNRUFrTW5EOWxKWU9TSzFLazA5R19MbEpsOFVkZDlKSzNQNG9zOGJLTmgyWjdEZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.medcram.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.medcram.com<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. LINKS \/ REFERENCES: Vitamin D and COVID 19: The Evidence for Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus (MedCram) | <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ha2mLz-Xdpg&amp;t=0s\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ha2mLz-Xdpg<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> Sunlight: Optimize Health and Immunity (MedCram) | <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5YV_iKnzDRg&amp;t=0s\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/5YV_iKnzDRg<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> Melatonin and the Optics of the Human Body (Melatonin Research) | <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFhFc0dTY01FMzloa1FRbDhwTHk2WWFNVVRKQXxBQ3Jtc0tra01GUGR4dDdJY2pONkx2QnRfZ0hfMFA5VDBxX3ViSm9keXdkS3AxQTVGWFdiUnZoS0YtaTBlNS1QZFNRYTFxQUwtU2NUY1NEcWctc0ZTemRZZTJIb0tocDZJbWVqRkpJY0VPanhsalFtdXIxZGVaUQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.melatonin-research.net%2Findex.php%2FMR%2Farticle%2Fview%2F19%2F150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.melatonin-research.net\/in&#8230;<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> Vitamin D and marine omega 3 fatty acid supplementation and incident autoimmune disease: VITAL randomized controlled trial (BMJ) | <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqazdlcXV4Qk9xTTRGYWRteEdaUU1oNk9MNGlwQXxBQ3Jtc0tuRFVZOXFmY0FiYjE3WGFVd1NNVTVjWFg4U2VtV01jN1gtem9aRnlCYncyZ3pkQlB0UFhZWUVXeUJua3dNdkI5aHZnOFUzXzVxWnVfczFGQXREUTRDSUJSTUlqTkhjYUJaOTVna0xRODBsenFSMkNpZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmj.com%2Fcontent%2Fbmj%2F376%2Fbmj-2021-066452.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/bmj\/376\/b&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To D or not to D? There have been studies that show a much lower covid death rate if vitamin D levels are maintained but there is a balance between vit D and formation of 1-25-D as this study demonstrates: Elevated levels of 1-25-D leach calcium from the bones. High levels of 1,25-D affect muscle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5647],"tags":[7419,7376,7420,7422,2524,7421],"class_list":["post-26616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-1-25-d","tag-calcium","tag-k2","tag-mk7","tag-vitamin-d","tag--carboxylase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26616"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26623,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions\/26623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}