Studies on the benefits of vitamin D, particularly in connection with COVID-19 infections, just keep coming out, but just as fast as a new study is announced, naysayers denounce any possibility that vitamin D can help treat and possibly prevent COVID.
COUNTERPUNCH writer Jonathan Cook takes on those doubters who ignore the research no matter how strong it is, and suggests that Big Pharma simply has “no interest in promoting a vitamin freely available through much of the year and one they cannot license.
Rather, they’d prefer “an expensive magic bullet that offers the hope of enriching company directors and shareholders,” he says. He also blames governments for shirking their duties with sloppy regulations, recommendations and uses of vitamin D.
And, finally, he lambastes doctors and medical organizations for failing to keep up on the science of vitamin D, as well as the general populace for not understanding that getting enough sun and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important too.
“The sedentary lifestyles many of us lead, the lack of exposure to nature and to sunshine, the gratuitous consumption on which our economies depend, and the advertiser-driven urge for instant gratification that has led to a plague of obesity,” he says. “There is no vaccine for any of that yet.”
SOURCE: COUNTERPUNCH February 18, 2021