{"id":66312,"date":"2026-07-06T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66312"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:36:57","slug":"vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66312","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dr_Pierre_Kory_On_Vitamin_D.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Pierre Kory On Vitamin D\" width=\"520\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dr_Pierre_Kory_On_Vitamin_D.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dr_Pierre_Kory_On_Vitamin_D-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big Pharma is \u201cterrified\u201d of Vitamin D, and Dr. Pierre Kory says he could spend a whole hour on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>Why so scared? Because \u201cIt threatens the DISEASE MODEL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A meta-analysis out of Italy found what happens when people take Vitamin D, and the results are staggering:<\/p>\n<p>Looking at data from 19 different studies and 1.26 million individuals, the meta-analysis revealed:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Vitamin D showed about a 60% effectiveness against the incidence of COVID-19 in randomized control trials.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Vitamin D showed about 40-50% effectiveness in reducing the incidence of COVID-19 in observational studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 For preventing severe COVID-19 cases requiring ICU care, vitamin D supplementation was about 70% effective.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t need to lock ourselves inside for years, live in fear, and vilify our neighbors for not wearing a mask. That was literally the worst thing we could have done. All we ever needed was to go outside, get sunshine, and raise our vitamin D, and everything would have been so much better.<\/p>\n<p>But the sunshine story goes far beyond COVID. You think you\u2019re doing your health a favor by avoiding the sun? The data tells a very different story, and it starts with 29,518 women who did exactly that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/2073754956608274466?s=20\">https:\/\/x.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/2073754956608274466?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Pharma is \u201cterrified\u201d of Vitamin D, and Dr. Pierre Kory says he could spend a whole hour on this topic. Why so scared? Because \u201cIt threatens the DISEASE MODEL.\u201d A meta-analysis out of Italy found what happens when people take Vitamin D, and the results are staggering: Looking at data from 19 different studies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vitamin D&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312","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=66312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66314,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66312\/revisions\/66314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}