Anyone Feeling Sick???

[peteadams]

After all the huhu, some possibly practical advice. The link below was sent on by a friend, a health professional on the mainland who is very interested in immune system issues and was passed to him by his neurologist. The article basically says that (in the M.D. author's opinion, of course) that large quantities of vitamin D, 2000-5000 units a day, have a significant effect on the immune system to fend off influenza viruses. In fact, he thinks that adventitiously administered vitamin D helped some of his patients survive an institutional influenza outbreak. Further, he says, while the sun-starved denizens of office buildings may require pills, even short periods of full body sunshine have been shown to create significantly more vitamin D than even these high pharmaceutical doses. So, now we can ponder balancing more sun exposure and all the warnings we have been given about wrinkling and cancer with the possibility that such exposure could avoid many a nasty illness.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/51913.php