New Study Shows Vitamin D3
Can Inhibit COVID-19
September 19, 2021
A study using
active forms of vitamin D3 has shown that the vitamin’s metabolites can inhibit
replication and expansion of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Summarized by
Newswise, “researchers on this study say their findings help explain a possible
mechanism for why low vitamin D levels seem to promote COVID-19 infection and
poor outcome in certain individuals. This correlates to other studies showing a
relationship between vitamin D deficiency and poor disease outcomes. More
studies and clinical trials are planned to test the efficacy of vitamin D and
lumisterol as an antiviral therapeutic for COVID-19 in animals and humans.”
Study authors
commented, “Active forms of vitamin D and lumisterol can inhibit SARS-CoV-2
replication machinery enzymes, which indicates that novel vitamin D and
lumisterol metabolites are candidates for antiviral drug research.”
In September
2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, said he believed that vitamin D could help fight COVID,
although he didn’t elaborate at the time on how he knew that to be true.
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