<description>&lt;p&gt;Bret Speaks with Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin on the subject of Vitamin D as a preventative measure for Covid.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;https://www.gruffdavies.com/&lt;br/&gt;https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3669379&lt;br/&gt;--- &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Please subscribe to this channel for more long form content like this, and subscribe to the clips channel @DarkHorse Podcast Clips for short clips of all our podcasts. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Timestamps:&lt;br/&gt;00:00 Welcome and introductions&lt;br/&gt;01:15 Vitamin D initial review in May 2020&lt;br/&gt;03:40 VitaminDforAll letter&lt;br/&gt;https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html&lt;br/&gt;07:00 Inference and randomized controlled trials&lt;br/&gt;11:05 Vitamin D toxicity&lt;br/&gt;13:08 Public health authorities are worse than incompetent&lt;br/&gt;15:07 Vitamin A and D toxicity&lt;br/&gt;19:17 Negative Brazil vitamin D study&lt;br/&gt;21:05 Positive studies on vitamin D&lt;br/&gt;23:00 Normal function of vitamin D&lt;br/&gt;25:20 Vitamin D from the sun and supplements&lt;br/&gt;29:07 Africa and sunshine&lt;br/&gt;30:21 MERS and seasonality&lt;br/&gt;31:30 Ecuador and sunshine&lt;br/&gt;33:03 Air pollution in Italy and Korea&lt;br/&gt;35:00 Brazil and vitamin D deficiency&lt;br/&gt;36:55 Jamaica and politically correct science&lt;br/&gt;39:46 Censorship from big tech&lt;br/&gt;43:26 Health disparities and funding&lt;br/&gt;47:14 Operation Warp Speed&lt;br/&gt;50:18 Pascal&amp;apos;s wager&lt;br/&gt;52:02 Intelligent heroes and cognitive dissonance&lt;br/&gt;54:30 Financial incentives&lt;br/&gt;56:40 Pre-hormone D&lt;br/&gt;58:04 Vitamin D from food&lt;br/&gt;01:00:11 Avoiding colds and flu in winter season&lt;br/&gt;01:04:15 Australia lockdown&lt;br/&gt;01:05:10 Finland and food fortification&lt;br/&gt;01:05:54 Sweden and Somali refugees&lt;br/&gt;01:08:30 Recommended Daily Allowance&lt;br/&gt;01:10:44 Vitamin D and mechanism for COVID immunity&lt;br/&gt;01:15:00 Excusing doctors and &amp;quot;disproving&amp;quot; vitamin D in underpowered studies&lt;br/&gt;01:21:38 Fluvoxamine and monoclonal antibodies&lt;br/&gt;01:24:40 Emergency use authorization&lt;br/&gt;01:25:32 Reducing harm with vitamin D&lt;br/&gt;01:29:30 Zoonotic transmission and driving COVID extinct&lt;br/&gt;01:35:51 Influenza outbreaks and vaccines&lt;br/&gt;01:37:33 Not just vitamin D&lt;br/&gt;01:39:57 What distinguishes vitamin D&lt;br/&gt;01:42:00 Vitamin D, sun, and balance of risk&lt;br/&gt;01:46:23 3 recommendations&lt;br/&gt;01:47:47 Suspicion of public health authorities&lt;br/&gt;01:50:44 Debunking negative studies&lt;br/&gt;01:53:14 What does vitamin D expose&lt;br/&gt;01:57:40 Funding of journals and fact checkers&lt;br/&gt;01:59:25 Wrap up&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;</description>

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Vitamin D for Covid, What’s the Catch? - DarkHorse Podcast Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin

DEC 27, 2021120 MIN
DarkHorse Podcast

Vitamin D for Covid, What’s the Catch? - DarkHorse Podcast Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin

DEC 27, 2021120 MIN

Description

Bret Speaks with Gruff Davies and Linda Benskin on the subject of Vitamin D as a preventative measure for Covid.

https://www.gruffdavies.com/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3669379
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Find Bret Weinstein on Twitter: @BretWeinstein, and on Patreon. 

Please subscribe to this channel for more long form content like this, and subscribe to the clips channel @DarkHorse Podcast Clips for short clips of all our podcasts. 

DarkHorse merchandise now available at: store.darkhorsepodcast.org 

Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome and introductions
01:15 Vitamin D initial review in May 2020
03:40 VitaminDforAll letter
https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html
07:00 Inference and randomized controlled trials
11:05 Vitamin D toxicity
13:08 Public health authorities are worse than incompetent
15:07 Vitamin A and D toxicity
19:17 Negative Brazil vitamin D study
21:05 Positive studies on vitamin D
23:00 Normal function of vitamin D
25:20 Vitamin D from the sun and supplements
29:07 Africa and sunshine
30:21 MERS and seasonality
31:30 Ecuador and sunshine
33:03 Air pollution in Italy and Korea
35:00 Brazil and vitamin D deficiency
36:55 Jamaica and politically correct science
39:46 Censorship from big tech
43:26 Health disparities and funding
47:14 Operation Warp Speed
50:18 Pascal's wager
52:02 Intelligent heroes and cognitive dissonance
54:30 Financial incentives
56:40 Pre-hormone D
58:04 Vitamin D from food
01:00:11 Avoiding colds and flu in winter season
01:04:15 Australia lockdown
01:05:10 Finland and food fortification
01:05:54 Sweden and Somali refugees
01:08:30 Recommended Daily Allowance
01:10:44 Vitamin D and mechanism for COVID immunity
01:15:00 Excusing doctors and "disproving" vitamin D in underpowered studies
01:21:38 Fluvoxamine and monoclonal antibodies
01:24:40 Emergency use authorization
01:25:32 Reducing harm with vitamin D
01:29:30 Zoonotic transmission and driving COVID extinct
01:35:51 Influenza outbreaks and vaccines
01:37:33 Not just vitamin D
01:39:57 What distinguishes vitamin D
01:42:00 Vitamin D, sun, and balance of risk
01:46:23 3 recommendations
01:47:47 Suspicion of public health authorities
01:50:44 Debunking negative studies
01:53:14 What does vitamin D expose
01:57:40 Funding of journals and fact checkers
01:59:25 Wrap up

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