Short Communication
Vitamin D3 and K2 and their potential contribution to reducing the COVID-19 mortality rate

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.07.080Get rights and content
Under a Creative Commons license
open access

Highlights

  • Vitamin D serum levels above 35 ng/mL seem to correlate with the mortality rate of COVID-19 patients.

  • The majority of the Western population is deficient in Vitamin D.

  • Vitamin D3 supplementation also requires additional vitamin K2 intake.

  • The immunoregulating function of vitamin D is promising and might decrease the global epidemic mortality.

Abstract

The world is desperately seeking for a sustainable solution to combat the coronavirus strain SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). Recent research indicated that optimizing Vitamin D blood levels could offer a solution approach that promises a heavily reduced fatality rate as well as solving the public health problem of counteracting the general vitamin D deficiency. This paper dived into the immunoregulatory effects of supplementing Vitamin D3 by elaborating a causal loop diagram. Together with D3, vitamin K2 and magnesium should be supplemented to prevent long-term health risks. Follow up clinical randomized trials are required to verify the current circumstantial evidence.

Keywords

Vitamin D
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Mortality rate
Immunology

Cited by (0)