Understanding modifiable risk factors, like Vitamin D3 deficiency, can significantly alter life’s trajectory. Over 50% of the world is deficient in Vitamin D3, impacting immunity and increasing morbidity risks, notably in COVID-19 among minorities due to skin pigmentation affecting Vitamin D3 synthesis. This is for educational purposes only and not medical advice.
Um modifiable risk factor is is a risk factor that you have and if you changed it it would have modified it it would have a demonstrative impact on the trajectory of your life a modifiable risk factor would be something like um looking at the levels of vitamin D3 in
Blood blood in the body so it’s estimated that roughly 50% of the world’s population is clinically deficient in vitamin D3 why is that important well vitamin D3 is the only vitamin that a human being can make on our own there’s hundreds of vitamins in your bloodstream right now you’re only
Capable of making one and it’s vitamin D3 coloc calciferol we make it from sunlight and cholesterol you don’t even need to eat to make this vitamin there is not a single cell in the entire human body that does not have a receptor site for this vitamin it also acts like a
Hormone it’s calcium transport molecule it’s enormously impactful in your um immune system clinical deficiency in vitamin D3 was at one time the second leading cause of morbidity in Co and they said Co disproportionately affected minorities if you ever heard that it’s true so how did Co disproportionately
Affect in minorities it wasn’t like the virus didn’t start going after certain minority populations well it actually did but it wasn’t because they were minorities that had to do with the pigment of their skin the darker the pigmentation of your skin the lower the vitamin D3 the more compromised the immune system