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Ireland, vitamin D report

Report on addressing Vitamin D deficiency as a public health measure in Ireland.

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-centre/press-releases/20210407-oireachtas-health-committee-launches-report-on-addressing-vitamin-d-deficiency-in-ireland/#:~:text=The%20Joint%20Committee%20on%20Health,established%20to%20address%20that%20deficiency

https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/33/joint_committee_on_health/reports/2021/2021-04-07_report-on-addressing-vitamin-d-deficiency-as-a-public-health-measure-in-ireland_en.pdf
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The Joint Committee on Health

The Committee heard evidence that Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent across the population and the report recommends that public health measures are established to address that deficiency. These public health measures are preventative in nature and are recommended to reduce the risk of respiratory and other illnesses such as osteoporosis.

1 That daily Vitamin D supplementation of 20-25µg/day should be recommended to the entire adult population as a public health measure,

higher doses recommended for vulnerable groups under medical supervision.

2 That a public health policy, which promotes better knowledge of the benefits of Vitamin D, and which encourages Vitamin D supplementation, should be developed in time for consideration in Budget 2022.

3 That reducing the cost of Vitamin D supplementation, in order to promote its uptake, should be considered.

4 That specific measures need to be put in place for vulnerable groups, and for frontline and healthcare workers,

so that Vitamin D supplementation is administered on an opt-out basis,

and for the duration of this pandemic, people should be offered Vitamin D supplements when presenting at Covid-19 test centres.

Written by Dr. John Campbell

Hello Everyone,My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and A and E nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally.

Comments

  1. Dr. John ! pronounced " Ear- Rocked- Tus "
    for the Irish legislature in gaeilge namely
    O I R E A C H T A S .
    the oireachtas consists of two houses of the oireachtas , an upper house
    and a lower house namely
    Dáil Éireann
    ( pronounced DOLL ) the lower house
    and Seanad Éireann
    ( pronounced SHANAD ) the upper house.
    Thank You for all your work. > go raibh mile mháith agat > on you 1000 good fortunes….or Thanks a million….

  2. Once more "public health" b.s. is being used to impose a stupid measure on ignorant people.
    Just because some people have vit D deficiency does not mean that we should give supplements to EVERYBODY. The foreseeable result is that we "might" help some people boost their health and immunity, while at the same time certainly increasing high blood calcium, kidney stones a.s.o in previously healthy people… whohad no vitamin D deficiency to begin with,.
    Way to go, Ireland!
    If the intentions if those MPs and the "experts" were ever towards improving the overall health of the population, they should have maybe started by creating a program where they educated people to have a healthy diet, eat more fish and other vitamin D-rich food. Not pump everybody full of pills…

  3. this man is a disgrace, giving out advice about vaccines that is unproven, vaccination will weaken the innate immune response in healthy and young people, his arrogance is unbelievable

  4. I am over 70 yers old , take vitamin D every day , vitamin c too , got sun every day , we were so scared by CDC Dr Fauci , WHO , I am so angry , elderly are most victims this men made virus ! I don’t trust no one even Dr,s Any more ! We live world no one can trust even Dr ! Like Fauci ! Good Dr is very few ! That a most discovered this time ! Very sad ! Vaccines is not 100 % safe why officials want us to take ? If sone thing happened who take responsibility ? Vaccines co ? No . Gavament ? No . I must save my life my self ! Isn’t it ?

  5. If you live in a northern climate are a white you are likely to have low Vitamin D. A simple blood test can determine this. Of course, it's a very easy deficiency to cure. So take your vitamin D capsule every day folks!

  6. Why are there not more "clear" & transparent reports? Well, aside from scientific publishing being more poor/ fraudulent than not, in last 15yrs; As the good Dr Quay (to Congress committee ) said: 'Science has been co-opted by geo-politics".

  7. Depressing to see, after always haven taken ViD & other supplementation for such environment/ close contact protection, And having promoted it to public ..as .Drs all called "conspiracy theorists' by media, WHO, Fauci all during 2020 for doing so.. ..it seems we still need studies ad infinitum & with no public health moves. Now , consider it a privalage to be called one, as all our so-called consipiracy theories eg, lab origin,HCQ, no ventilators, invermectin, PCR false tests, case/death data skewing or fraud, children not to be masked.all useless..& not IJ, as no reason to; or lockdowns not working, variants not such an issue, IJ would cause blood clotting , auto-immune issues etc etc etc ..turned out to be strongly supported by evidence. Science has truly been co- opted by geo-politics , CCP & big pharma interests/money interests long ago..but i note some more re-surfacing of some genuine science lately…despite all the desperate big tech/govt censorship. When Dr Campbell includes any of those decent papers, he assists us all getting better evidence out there.

  8. Having watched one of your vlogs about Vitamin D, I have since starting taking 1000 ius of Vitamin D twice a day. I can confirm that I feel so much better overall. I am over 60, a bit over weight so in the right group for being deficient. So glad you told us about this. Thank you so much. I follow every vlog that you mention Vitamin D to keep informed. You really are so knowledgeable I think you should be health minister.
    I am tired of banging on about iron overload in the over 60s with all the cereals, bread and in fact most manufactured foods that have been fortified with iron. I firmly believe this is harmful and should be addressed but it seems the government or food manufacturers are not interested. I bake my own bread but cannot source flour with out being iron fortified. There should be a choice. Thank you again for all your good work.

  9. Dr. John Campbell would it be save to say taking Vitamin D, C and Ivermectin would greatly reduce the chances of contracting COVID 19. And in my opinion it may actually be better then taking mRNA vaccine which is too new to write it off as a save vaccine.

  10. ALL NATIONs TOUCHED BY THE QUEEN's POLITICS/LEADERSHIP VIA HER PRIVY COUNCIL ARE IN LOCKDOWN PLANDEMIC TYRANNY – AS BAD AS GERMANY & STALIN's BROWN-SHIRTS.

  11. ..THESE SIDE EFFECTS. FLU OR COVID MMR OR ANY THAT BOAST TO CREATE IMMUNE RESPONSE…..THAT YOU ARE AGREED IS "SAFE AND MILD"..in all cases is your insistence .. SO THAT ILLNESS SIDE EFFECT SAFE AND MILD..IS CAUSED BY AN IMPOSITION OF A FOREIGN MATERIAL IN BLOOD…CAN YOU ASK..THE PEOPLE WHO DESIGNED TO OFFER THIS…..WHAT IS ACTUALLY..OCCURING..WHILE THAT FOREIGN BODY…IS ..CAUSING AN ILLNESS SAFE AND MILD OR OTHERWISE…..AND IS AS NORMALLY OBSERVED IN SUCH…BLOOD INVASION..OR INFECTION..DOES A PERSON ..NATURALLY LOSE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF RED BLOOD CELLS…CHEMICALLY MOTIVATED BY INFECTIONS TO ..STOP ACTING AS OXYGEN SUPPLIER..AND START ACTING AS…IMMUNE DEFENDERS..AND THAT PROCESS IS THE CAUSE OF ANY ILLNESS FELT….FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS…OR EVEN AN HOUR…..FOR THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE .."ILLNESS" AFTER AN INJECTION

  12. I started taking vitamin D3 after your advice 2 and a1/2 years ago , thank you !! It cost around $5.99 now two years later it has gone up to $9.99 to $12.99 , but I thank you for mentioning it to all of us !

  13. Shame UK NHS did not follow your advise 1 year ago on getting every one taking extra Vitamin D
    I feel vitamin D is the Sunshine Vitamin and makes you feel like you in the summer when you feel so much better
    Like you do in the summer rather than dull wet cold wintertime
    I have taken it since this channel suggested it.

  14. Item 4 should vitamin d be taken prior to get covid shot during covid shot or a time (how much) after covid shot.
    Be interesting to hear my m d argue against this as he's Irish .

  15. A country full of people who get a sunburn if they stand too close to a postcard of a sunset, is low in vitamin D?
    Can't say that's shocking news.
    I'm only very slightly Irish (like 5%), but I have the complexion through more scandanavian roots.
    I can't digest fish oils very well also, so i tend to avoid oily fish due to the nausea it causes. But I do get a lot of Vit A&D whole milk, it's very common in the US.

  16. Why does every country have a different way of naming the amount of vit D. Here in the Netherlands people up to 69 have to take 10yp per day. After 70 years it goes up to 20. Its very disturbing that it's not the same everywhere. You talking about a couple of thousand iu per day is very rare up here.

  17. Real salmon is northern pacific (wild) + some frozen from the cold waters of northern Europe. Found in the 2 german supermarkets in blighty. (Sorry forgot the names.)
    Atlantic salmon is farmed.

  18. John I totally believe in strengthening the Host. We've only had vaccines since 1779.
    I don't think man made it this long because he was extremely intelligent. I think man persevered because he has one of the most advanced immune systems to ever walk the planet and there were a lot of us. If we have access to proper nutrition and clean water we run pretty good for a long time.
    Thank you

  19. if deciding between eating properly and buying supplements I tend to favour eating properly and try to find foodstuffs that provide me with enough vitamins. taking a booster of vit D for one month stopped my depressive state in the winter months.

  20. ❓SOLUTION ? STOP ALL JABs …
    Redirect Funds to Preventing spread of Covid and Treatments for Covid …
    please read 1) thru to 5) and reply … thank you

    1) STOP “all jabs” (ALL Covid Vaccinations) and obliterate ALL the corruption that goes along with it (eg. Pfizer contracts with South American countries demanding their sovereign assets be signed over to Pfizer in exchange for vaccines & guaranteed immunity against prosecution for “side effects, neglect & mistakes”) … Source: Gravitas Feb 2021

    2) Obliterates also ALL concerns re side effects & deaths from vaccines … if Vaccines do remain, at least ensure the government of yr country has Vaccination Compensation Program in place to protect your population … incredibly AUSTRALIA HAS NONE … but UK Canada, USA and over 15 other countries have these programs, including South Korea

    3) Re-direct vaccine MEGA $ for global distribution of PPE to prevent spread AND $ to improve Covid treatments

    4) Re-direct $ to boost immune systems globally (already happening in Ireland ☘️ with Vitamin D from government to their population at covid centres) … ref review by Dr John Campbell

    5) In this way ALL FUTURE VARIANTS in global population can be dealt with as they occur, adapting treatments as required

  21. I approached my dr about vitamin d3. But doctors here in America really are not aware of any of this. I was shocked. The research I have read states that at certain latitudes it is not possible to get vitamin d from sun. Most of the US and all of Canada just have to supplement with vitamin d3. But no one is talking about it here. It is so cheap. It is criminal not to tell patients this.

  22. I take vitamin D3, Vitamin C slow release, Zinc and magnesium – and selenium daily. Plus olive oil. I'm sure there are many other popular supplements out there. What do you take to boost your immune system that could benefit others?

  23. The people's wellbeing should be the main agenda of any government. Proud of the the Irish who actually talked about this in parliament level. Keep on choosing the right government for for the well being of the people.

  24. About covid cases, on the FDA's website it say's, Positive results do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease, SARS-CoV-2 RNA, Qualitative Real-Time RT-PCR (Test Code 39433) Package Insert

  25. I still think there is a hangover (in Britain), from the panic??? reaction to skin cancer – rammed down our throats at every weather forecast on BBC TV for years – without excepting brown-skinned people from the advice. So far (18minutes) into Dr Cambell's piece, he hasn't mentioned skin colour, but surely as the white skin of 'the Irish' & 'the British' bears testament, we have evolved to glean as much Vitamin D from our watery sunshine (we seem paler than our near neighbours on continental Europe too), you shouldn't tar us all with the same brush (sorry for the phrase)…. dark-skinned people are in much more need of supplement (at last you mention it John THANK YOU!) no need for political correctness in this story! p.s. as soon as it became evident that Indian and Black people were in more danger from covid than whites in Britain … then there was always the possibility that Vit.D was a factor (as I bored my black and brown friends about), but I do think there is a reluctance to actually analyse ethnical differences during the pandemic, the same lack of honestly for fear of being labelled racist that has stifled various open conversations in other fields apart from Covid recently.

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