{"id":15388,"date":"2017-03-01T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15388"},"modified":"2024-07-02T01:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T15:44:45","slug":"study-vitamin-d-outperforms-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15388","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: Vitamin D Outperforms Flu Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/VitaminDBetterThanFluShot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15389\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/VitaminDBetterThanFluShot-300x168.png\" alt=\"STUDY: Vitamin D Outperforms Flu Shot\" width=\"766\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA new study has shown researchers that taking vitamin D might well be a better option than receiving a flu shot. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) examined respiratory tract infections, these ranged from simple colds to full-blown pneumonia. They found that 1 in every 33 people who supplemented with vitamin D were protected from respiratory tract infections. That number is 1 in 40 in concern with flu shots. That\u2019s a staggering differential when you take into account the greater whole of the population.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vaxxter.com\/study-vitamin-d-outperforms-flu-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/vaxxter.com\/study-vitamin-d-outperforms-flu-shot\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has shown researchers that taking vitamin D might well be a better option than receiving a flu shot. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) examined respiratory tract infections, these ranged from simple colds to full-blown pneumonia. They found that 1 in every 33 people who supplemented with vitamin D were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STUDY: Vitamin D Outperforms Flu Shot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52412,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388\/revisions\/52412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}