How Does Vitamin D Help With The Flu Virus
Pandemic, Schmandemic
While the world frets over the possibility of a swine flu pandemic, is there anything you can do to further protect yourself?
Yes: Take vitamin D.
I say this from experience. Since I began having patients supplement vitamin D to achieve normal blood levels (we aim for 60-70 ng/ml), viral and bacterial infections have become a rare thing indeed.
Personally, I used to suffer through 2 or 3 episodes of a runny nose, sore throat, hacking cough, fevers and feeling crumby every winter. Over t...
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