COVID-19 Latitude, Morality and Vitamin D

  So we're talking about an interesting relationship between COVID-19 mortality, vitamin D and latitude. Okay this is basically the distance from the equator. There are all sorts of diseases that are related to latitude of where the person lives, for example if you live in the northern hemisphere, you have a higher risk of getting colorectal cancer MS diabetes type 1. By the way MS and diabetes type 1 are autoimmune and then breast cancer risk celiac okay, this is an autoimmune disease your risk of getting celiac is five point four times greater when you live in the northern hemisphere, which is fascinating.

 This could also relate to what we're going to talk about which is vitamin D, because if you have celiac you have colon damage. Guess what that's where you absorb vitamin D and if it's winter time and you don't have enough vitamin D you could be very very deficient even a higher risk of having lung cancer. 

In countries that are in the northern latitude this article is based on this report, which I'm going to put a link down below low population mortality from COVID-19 in countries south of latitude 35 degrees north supports vitamin D as a factor determining severity. Now there's anexception the Nordic countries did not show a high mortality rate and that could be because these countries consume a lot of fatty fish. They also take a lot of vitamin D as supplements through the winter, in fact if you go to the health of store a lot of the supplements especially cod liver oil comes from these countries right here.

 Now what is the connection between vitamin D in this virus COVID-19 well vitamin D regulates and suppresses inflammatory cytokines that is one of the conditions that actually can kill some one if they're in intensive care, because in the respiratory system they have this out-of-control inflammatory condition. They call that a cytokine storm and so vitamin D doesn't kill a virus. What it does it can support this these cytokines, which are inflammatory as well as respiratory macrophages, which are white blood cells that are actually involved in this inflammatory process.

 By decreasing the inflammation you can also decrease this right here art, which is acute respiratory distress syndrome. You see this in advanced cases when someone's in the hospital under serious care and this is what could potentially kill them. 

Now the other thing that's actually quite interesting is that you also see low vitamin D levels inhypertension obesity diabetes cardiovascular disease. The various things that increase the risk of dying from COVID-19. Vitamin D has a very very important place in supporting your immune system and I really don't think that they're emphasizing the importance of using vitamin D with hydroxychloroquine. They're using with zinc but what about vitamin D and I'm talking about keeping the inflammation suppressed in the respiratory system. If you like my article please share and follow for more articles like this, thanks for reading.