Ep79 New Study on Vitamin D, UV and Latitude - Powerful Effects on Viral Dangers???
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ep79 reveals the more nuanced interactions between Vitamin D, Latitude, UV and the impacts of Covid19 on different countries around the globe. Note that there's more to the sun than Vitamin D - there's Nitric Oxide and more too!
We know that there is a strong seasonal effect with Covid19 already - Northern Hemisphere (Europe/USA) hit really hard coming out of their winter, while Southern hemisphere (Australia/NZ) getting away with incredibly low impacts.
But what about countries near the equator - what will happen to them - and WHEN?
GUEST DETAILS:
Rahul KM ( Rahul Thondan) Faculty of Economics & Business, Goethe University - Frankfurt
Founder : http://forecasty.ai
Contact : rahulkm85@gmail.com
Rahul on Twitter here - follow him! https://twitter.com/rahulthondan
Rahul's Study here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3586555
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| 0:00.0 | it gives more credibility to our vitamin D hypothesis. |
| 0:04.0 | It's one way to check how it is going to happen. |
| 0:07.0 | I think in Brazil anyways, it's getting higher and higher now, |
| 0:12.0 | probably because of the low VV index. |
| 0:14.0 | India, we would have to watch out June, July, August. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, it's a great point and it's very sad. I mean, these are hypotheses, but again, |
| 0:24.1 | I just stress that they have a long history of research and logic. They're not just jumping on |
| 0:30.2 | a correlation or anything like it. Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Iber Cummins. |
| 0:39.3 | Hey guys, we have a podcast today. |
| 0:42.3 | Again, it touches on coronavirus, but also vitamin D and particularly UV flux around the world, |
| 0:48.3 | which is a very common conversation these days. |
| 0:51.3 | So I'm with Rahul KM today today who's a PhD and has a research team |
| 0:58.0 | and they're currently focusing and have a pre-print paper out on UV versus vitamin D status versus |
| 1:05.5 | coronavirus impacts. So great to meet your rachel in person. Thank you very much, Ivor. It's been a pleasure. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, we've had some chats on Twitter and that and I've shared your new paper widely as well as all the other papers out on vitamin D status versus COVID impacts, which are quite fascinating. |
| 1:24.6 | So I think today you wanted to maybe share your paper, which would be great. |
| 1:29.2 | I don't know if you want to share the screen. Yes, of course. I'll quickly walk you through |
| 1:34.9 | on what I've prepared, essentially the paper. Before we dive deeper, essentially the paper was |
| 1:42.7 | about radiation, vitamin D and COVID-19. |
| 1:46.3 | A little bit of background on this topic. So I am originally from marketing area, |
| 1:51.3 | doing a lot of analytics stuff. But then we figured out that there is some sort of association |
| 1:58.4 | going on between UV and COVID-19. and that's how the whole project got started. |
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