How about viral infections like colds, flu, HIV,shingles, cold sores and genital herpes?

I have often mentioned that vitamin D is effective against the flu and colds. A recent study found that 60% of flu infections are prevented by vitamin D given in optimal doses. This is way ahead of a flu shot which is ineffective a great deal of the time and maybe problematic to some. What is not mentioned is that there are other viral infections out there that it may help treat. How about shingles ( a virus that lives in the nerves after infection with chicken pox) which seems to affect people with poor immune function or who are under a great deal of stress. I know personally of people who have had multiple cases of this and it stopped after optimizing vitamin D.
Lets not stop there! Lets think about other kinds of viral infection that some studies suggest vitamin D maybe very helpful. Cold sores, genital herpes, and HIV. All these things are viral . Vitamin D improves immune function.
What do you have to risk. A bottle at my favorite vitamin store of 400 pills that are 5,000 iu, cost under ten dollars. That is a years treatment at the conservative dose of 5 k a day. Optimize your dose after three months of daily dosing. Only by testing can your blood level can you determine a optimized dose! I believe a optimized blood level is between 70 and 100 ng/ml.
I love to hear feed back from people who have tried Vitamin D. So feel free to contact me. I will keep your statements confidential.
B Bennett CRNA Retired.