What so many in our society fail to realize is that the vaccine does not fight the virus. The immune system fights the virus. What the vaccine does is jump-start the immune system so that the immune system becomes active and ready to fight the virus immediately after a person becomes infected with it.
When you’re not vaccinated the immune system takes more time to get ready to fight the virus. For people with a weak immune system, a vaccine can be a great help. If your immune system is weak a virus can seriously injure or kill you before your immune system can catch up to fighting the virus.
Many Americans have a weak immune system because of poor nutrition. Just because your stomach is full of food, especially fast food, doesn’t mean that you are properly nourished. There are Vitamin D receptors in our immune system and if we don’t have enough Vitamin D then our immune system will be weak to deal with the virus.
It was discovered that many, if not all, who died early in the COVID-19 pandemic had low levels of Vitamin D in their bodies. Adequate Vitamin D is essential for the immune system to work properly.
Nearly half of all Americans have below adequate levels of Vitamin D and are seriously vulnerable to serious illness or death from COVID.
Even after getting a vaccine, it’s important to make sure your body has adequate Vitamin D. Studies show that T-cells, the big fighters in your immune system, won’t activate if there’s not enough Vitamin D.
Those with a strong immune system are in a better position to successfully fight off the virus, whether vaccinated or not.
Harvard University professor of medicine Dr. Martin Kulldorff has said, “That people who have had COVID, they have excellent immunity from having recovered from COVID, so they don’t need the vaccines. So it’s a waste to use scarce vaccines on people who already … recover. They have better or as good immunity as vaccines. And [there’s] people in other parts of the world who need these, older people.”
There is also the danger of hyper-immunity. What’s that? If you had the virus and your body produced antibodies already then getting the vaccine may put your immune system on overdrive and your own immune system may start attacking the healthy cells in your body. You can get seriously sick or die from this.
Make sure to get tested to see if you did have COVID. They can find out by examining your blood and seeing if you have antibodies for COVID.
Even with Vitamin D, you have to be careful not to overdo it. Too much Vitamin D is harmful. Normally we get the Vitamin D we need through our diet and sunlight, but supplements are also very helpful. Specifically, Vitamin D3 is what our bodies produce from sunlight. I personally take, at least, 5000 IU of Vitamin D3 along with a multi-vitamin/mineral supplement daily.
I know a person from work who had symptoms of COVID and was tested positive for COVID before the vaccines came out. His doctor recommended that he take 5,000 IU of Vitamin D3 daily. After just two weeks, my friend recovered totally from COVID.
Vitamin D is not just for strong bones. We have various Vitamin D receptors in various areas of our bodies, including the heart and brain. Many people suffer from depression because of low levels of Vitamin D in their bodies. Scientific research has shown that Vitamin D is good for our overall health in many ways that we never knew or imagined just a few decades ago.
Babu G. Ranganathan of Boyertown has a bachelor’s degree with concentrations in theology and biology and has been recognized for his writings on religion and science in the 24th edition of Marquis “Who’s Who in the East.”