This is a YouTube video titled "Why Vitamin D Alone Isn't The Answer To COVID-19" containing a conversation recorded on December 24, 2020. The discussion involves multiple speakers, including Ask AI Mark, focusing on the benefits of vitamin D and other supplements in COVID-19 treatment, emphasizing a holistic approach rather than isolated vitamin D supplementation.
With the vitamin D data out of Spain, where they were able to show that when people were getting adequate doses of vitamin D and they were hospitalized, that those patients didn't end up getting into the ICU and didn't end up dying. And the patients who were in the control arm who didn't get the vitamin D, they had a much higher rate of going into the ICU and several of the patients in that small cohort died. So we're seeing this, we're seeing the data is coming out, but we know the information now and the interventions are not toxic and they're not expensive and they can be broadly applied. And so we're looking for how do we do the research? How do we team up with academic centers to say, let's do the research on this? Unfortunately, we haven't really had takers yet around doing that. Although people, and it's interesting, it's like we found when we were doing research at the Cleveland Clinic, they want to isolate a specific variable. Or we'll do research on vitamin D alone. I was like, well, you know, I'm not telling my patients just to take vitamin D. I'm saying, hey, take these bioflavonoids to help your gut microbiome, take these anti-inflammatories, take vitamin D, help your overall metabolic health, and eat this really good diet.
And they're doing better. Yeah. I mean, it's sort of like the analogy I give is, you know, like Michael Jordan could be the best basketball player in the world, but he's not going to win a championship on a team by himself. that all these things work in concert and synergy and have different mechanisms and are additive or even synergistic.
