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Vitamin D Proves Better Than Flu Vaccine
As most of our subscribers know at Health Freedom Alliance when darkness falls we turn into a super hero and hand out Vitamin D to sick people everywhere. It now appears there is proof that Vitamin D is better at preventing flu than vaccinations. The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects, costs little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral drugs or vaccine.
Only one in ten children, aged six to 15 years, taking the sunshine vitamin in a clinical trial came down with flu compared with one in five given a dummy tablet. Mitsuyoshi Urashima, the Japanese doctor who led the trial, told The Times that vitamin D was more effective than vaccines in preventing flu.
Vitamin D was found to be even more effective when the comparison left out children who were already given extra vitamin D by their parents, outside the trial. Taking the sunshine vitamin was then shown to reduce the risk of flu to a third of what it would otherwise be.
Altogether 354 children took part in the trial, which took place during the winter of 2008-09, before the swine flu epidemic. Vitamin D was found to protect against influenza A, which caused last year’s epidemic, but not against the less common influenza B.
The trial, which was double blind, randomised, and fully controlled scientifically, was conducted by doctors and scientists from Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.
The children were given a daily dose of 1200 IUs (international units) of vitamin D over a period of three months. In the first month children in the group taking the vitamin became ill just as often as those taking the dummy tablet. But by the second month, when the vitamin level in the children’s blood was higher, the advantage of the vitamin was clear.
The Japanese scientists, writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, say that the anti-viral drugs zanamivir and oseltamivir reduce risk of flu infection by 8 per cent in children who have been exposed to infection, compared with a 50 per cent or greater reduction with vitamin D.
Anti-virals are also too expensive, and possibly too toxic, to be given to the population as a whole whereas vitamin D has additional benefits. The sunshine vitamin not only prevents bone fractures but is also believed to reduce risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other illness, including various bacterial as well as viral infections.
The Japanese finding supports a theory that low blood levels of the sunshine vitamin occurring in winter explain why flu epidemics generally peak between December and March.
Vitamin D activates the innate immune system, enabling the body to produce several proteins such as defensin and cathelicidin which trigger cell activity and disable viruses.
Dr Urashima said: “Vitamin D and vaccine work by quite different mechanisms. Vitamin D enhances innate immunity while vaccine enhances acquired immunity. So we do not have to select only one way of prevention, rather we should do both ways, I think.”
Dr John Oxford, professor of virology at Queen Mary School of Medicine, London, said: “This is a timely study. It will be noticed by scientists. It fits in with the seasonal pattern of flu. There is an increasing background of solid science that makes the vitamin D story credible. But this study needs to be replicated. If it is confirmed we might think of giving vitamin D at the same time as we vaccinate.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7061778.ece
I agree…. We need more sunshine in our lives and get away from the drugs they are pushing..
Kim Risley
Why are there no references to verifiable sources for your article? I use vitamin D supplements personally so I know the benefits from experience. I would eagerly pass this article on to interested parents however it is not credible without references and I do not send anything to anyone if there are no links, references or footnotes citing quote origins, previously published facts, studies, and other verifiable sources. Of course, when I have some time, I will look up the research you mention and the doctors themselves, but since you already included their info in your article you could have saved me the time and trouble. Thank you for all that you do do. ~Nancy
“The anti-viral drugs zanamivir and oseltamivir reduce risk of flu infection by 8 per cent in children who have been exposed to infection, compared with a 50 per cent or greater reduction with vitamin D.”
This should be all any rational person needs. Why take an expensive, dangerous, toxic drug that comes with unknown risks and is six times less efficacious than our mother sun???
I would guess that 1,200 IU of vitamin D3 only raised the kids blood levels of vitamin D to less than 35 or so ng/ml. With a blood level of 50 ng/ml the kids IMO would NEVER have gotten the flu!
IMO these results can and should be extrapolated across all of health.
Stay away from the toxic drugs, especially “vaccines”, peddled by Rockefeller and Rothschild evil clans and embrace your mother sun and her winter surrogate vitamin D3 !
Don’t wait for these tests to be run here in the good old USSA. They will NOT. The PTB are quivering in their boots and making big plans to bury this so deep it will NEVER be found.
We have all we should need.
http://healthyprotocols.com/2_sun.htm
I am working on a Ph.D. in holistic healing and understand that digestive failure is what is causing all of the excess disease that is being experienced. Sunshine (D3) begins the process that creates the calcium (the immune system) and all of this requires that the appropriate elements, enzymes, probiotics and yeast be in play to create the end result. We are out of balance because of the excessive use of chemicals in the water and excessive use of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals and other polutants that are destroying the probiotics. Our cells are made of bacteria. If out government and corporate worlds were not so reckless with out health we would not need healthcare. One hundred years ago one in 10,000 people developed cancer, 50 years ago one in one thousand, today, one in 3.
Here is the reference and abstract of the article from PubMed for those who wanted verification:
Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Mar 10. [Epub ahead of print]
Randomized trial of vitamin D supplementation to prevent seasonal influenza A in schoolchildren.
Urashima M, Segawa T, Okazaki M, Kurihara M, Wada Y, Ida H.
Division of Molecular Epidemiology Jikei University School of Medicine Minato-ku Tokyo Japan.
BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, no rigorously designed clinical trials have evaluated the relation between vitamin D and physician-diagnosed seasonal influenza. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the effect of vitamin D supplements on the incidence of seasonal influenza A in schoolchildren. DESIGN: From December 2008 through March 2009, we conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial comparing vitamin D(3) supplements (1200 IU/d) with placebo in schoolchildren. The primary outcome was the incidence of influenza A, diagnosed with influenza antigen testing with a nasopharyngeal swab specimen. RESULTS: Influenza A occurred in 18 of 167 (10.8%) children in the vitamin D(3) group compared with 31 of 167 (18.6%) children in the placebo group [relative risk (RR), 0.58; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.99; P = 0.04]. The reduction in influenza A was more prominent in children who had not been taking other vitamin D supplements (RR: 0.36; 95% CI: 0.17, 0.79; P = 0.006) and who started nursery school after age 3 y (RR: 0.36; 95% CI: 0.17, 0.78; P = 0.005). In children with a previous diagnosis of asthma, asthma attacks as a secondary outcome occurred in 2 children receiving vitamin D(3) compared with 12 children receiving placebo (RR: 0.17; 95% CI: 0.04, 0.73; P = 0.006). CONCLUSION: This study suggests that vitamin D(3) supplementation during the winter may reduce the incidence of influenza A, especially in specific subgroups of schoolchildren. This trial was registered at https://center.umin.ac.jp as UMIN000001373.
It saddens me that our own doctors are not educating consumers about other options than the flu shot. I just wrote another blog post about this. People need to be their own best advocate.
Zanamivir study 2000:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11058672
The efficacy of vitamin D in children may be higher than zanamivir. However, a study that followed ENTIRE FAMILIES in their study showed a 75% prevention of influenza A and B. Whereas the Vitamin D study only showed an 8% percent prevention in children only against influenza A.
Vitamin D full study:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winhs.org%2Fdownloads%2FVitamin%2520D%2520and%2520influenza%2520AJCN%2520Study-1.doc&rct=j&q=Randomized%20trial%20of%20vitamin%20D%20supplementation%20to%20prevent%20seasonal%20influenza%20A%20in%20schoolchildren.&ei=njNlTqiYKtK5tgfAxqCpCg&usg=AFQjCNEaoXDGxg9-Eoc3yo-5sK66Uj7tcg&sig2=VNG5yjht9UVEMTpHZd3nkQ&cad=rja
The 8% from the Vitamin D study IS significant. I will be giving my kids Vitamin D come October (the study says it takes roughly 3 months for Vitamin D levels to stabilize). But, the 75% prevention rate from zanamivir is unmistakeable, and I will not be putting my kids’ health at risk because “I don’t trust pharmaceutical companies.”