Another Reason to Check Your Vitamin D Levels

Vitamin D, long recognized as the vitamin one took to strengthen and maintain strong bones, has, in the past several decades, been shown to be important in strengthening the body’s immune system against a host of other health problems, including cancer, dementia, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and rickets.

During the height of the COVID pandemic, a study was done in New Zealand that compared the severity and lethality of COVID-19 among patients based on their levels of Vitamin D. The results were dramatic.

Take a look at the chart below. The box to the left demonstrates the survival and death rates of patients with normal Vitamin D levels (orange) with patients whose levels were insufficient (green and purple).