Vitamin D Highly Effective at Reducing Flu in Children

A double blind, randomized, controlled study in children ages 6 – 15 has found that taking 1200 IU of vitamin D per day cut the risk of getting the flu by 50%.  The study is published online in the prestigious American Journal of Clinical Nutrition¹.

I reported last week on another study documenting how vitamin D helps your higher-powered adaptive immune system kick into gear – an absolute necessity for fighting any vital infection.  Furthermore, vitamin D is known to boost the front line troops of your innate immune system in multiple ways.

Mitsuyoshi Urashima, the Japanese doctor who led the trial, has told media that vitamin D was more effective than vaccines in preventing flu.  Data supporting that comment was not part of the published study.  However, antiviral drugs that are highly toxic and too dangerous for children (even though doctors recklessly prescribe them for prevention of the flu) only reduce the chance of getting the flu by 8%.  The data shows that a vitamin is highly superior to these drugs at preventing the flu – a fact that will either be ignored by the FDA or cause their Big Pharma stomachs to churn.