New Israeli Research Shows

 New Israeli Research Shows that Low Vitamin D Levels Prior to Infection with COVID 19 is Linked to a More Serious Case of the Disease – Israel365 News

Vitamin D – known as the “sunshine vitamin because it’s produced in your skin in response to sunlight – has been shown to reduce the risk and to help treat numerous medical conditions. It helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body that are necessary for keeping bones, teeth, and muscles healthy. A lack of vitamin D can lead to bone deformities such as rickets in children and bone pain caused by a condition called osteomalacia in adults. 

 

The fat-soluble vitamin (stored in body fat) has been shown in medical studies to reduce depression, promote weight loss and minimize the risk of developing heart disease and multiple sclerosis (and other autoimmune diseases), and even of getting the flu.  

 

Now, a new study conducted by the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan (near Tel Aviv) and its affiliate Galilee Medical Center (GMC) is among the first to show that a pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D is linked with increased COVID-19 severity and higher risk of death.