Welcome to my presentation on the amazing benefits of vitamin D for COVID and immune health.

The world is racing to develop a vaccine against COVID-19, something that many believe will

put their fears around this virus to rest.

The latest Gallup and Statt Harris polls suggest that at least half of Americans would get the vaccine if it were provided free of charge, even if it only cut their risk by under 25%.

It's understandable that most Americans are willing to get a vaccine.

They're scared and they want to protect themselves and their family from COVID.

What doesn't make sense is that many of these same Americans are vitamin D deficient or insufficient.

According to the Endocrine Society, a vitamin D status of less than 20 nanograms per mill-liter

or 50 nanomoles per liter is considered

a deficiency. 20 to 30 nanograms or 50 to 75 nanomoles is an insufficiency and more than 30

nanograms or 75 nanomoles is compatible with optimal health and considered sufficient.

These recommendations line up well with the vitamin D concentrations of indigenous tribes in Africa,

25 to 68 nanograms per mill liter or 60 to 170 nanomoles with an average of 45

nanograms or 110 nanomoles.

It's likely that these were the levels we evolved with and under which our immune system developed.

Yet 42% of Americans are vitamin D deficient, including 80% of the black population and 70% of the Hispanic population.

When we take into account vitamin D insufficiency, only 23% of the Hispanic population. When we take into account vitamin D insufficiency,

only 23% of the American population has sufficient vitamin D levels,

including only 5% of black Americans and 10% of Mexican Americans.

While it's not really surprising,

considering that we transitioned from a people of the sun to a people of the cubicle, it is disheartening considering the essential role of vitamin D in protecting

us from infectious diseases. In fact, I'd wager that if a simple vitamin D supplement were a vaccine,

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