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Benjamin Jacobs @VitaminDneeds

Paediatrician specialising in children's bone problems including Vitamin D Deficiency

Joined June 2013
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BMJ benign vitamin!
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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary
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The benign vitamin ! bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p115… x.com/i/spaces/1dRJZMNMMnNGB

Folic acid: The case to rethink the UK’s food fortification plans

The UK government has proposed adding folic acid to flour, to prevent hundreds of babies being born with neural tube defects each year. But is the recommended amount too low, asks Mun-Keat Looi , and...

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x.com/DebbieMonckton/status/… Eileen was our Director of Nursing when I arrived @RNOHnhs 20 years ago. She did great work here and continues on a national level

Debra Ford@DebbieMonckton
9 Aug 2022
Privileged to be invited to celebrate the service of Eileen Sills. Such a brilliant legacy you have left behind. Inspirational through and through
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Watch “Everyone in the UK needs Vitamin D” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/296374851?ref=tw-s…
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Vitamin D: alleged Covid ‘cover-up’ bbc.co.uk/news/health-561809…

Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’

The vitamin is being studied - but why do some claim evidence is being ignored?

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UK keeping research on link between vitamin D and Covid under review theguardian.com/world/2021/f…

UK keeping research on link between vitamin D and Covid under review

Matt Hancock asks PHE and Nice to keep reviewing emerging evidence as authorities encourage use of supplements

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Benjamin Jacobs retweeted
Vitamin D Society@VitDSoc
5 Feb 2021
Matt Hancock orders third review on link between vitamin D and Covid ow.ly/rjg650Dspvz #vitaminD #sunshine #COVID-19
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Vitamin D is effective for COVID-19. Treatment studies - 75% improvement, p = 0.00022 Sufficiency studies - 58% improvement, p < 0.0001 vdmeta.com/ #c19study via @CovidAnalysis

Vitamin D reduces COVID-19 risk: real-time meta-analysis of 370 studies (138 treatment studies and...

370 vitamin D COVID-19 studies. 38% improvement for treatment studies, p < 0.0001. 50% improvement for sufficiency studies, p < 0.0001.

c19early.org
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William B. Grant, PhD
@wbgrant2
23 Jul 2020
Researchers investigating possible link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via @azcentral

Researchers investigating possible link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19

Researchers are testing whether vitamin D helps prevent serious COVID-19 symptoms after noticing low levels of the vitamin among many severe patients.

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Benjamin Jacobs retweeted
ISCBH@childrensbones
23 Jan 2020
Julies et al: Nutritional rickets under 16 years: UK surveillance results ow.ly/ax3w30qbFi4
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youtube.com/watch?v=FcuPtqg8… Need to Stay at Home this Weekend but do stil get your Vitamin D needs @FOPFriends

A Message From Our Friends (2020)

Due to COVID-19 we had to cancel our FOP Friends UK Conference and ...

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Vitamin D: A dentist's perspective
William B. Grant, PhD
@wbgrant2
7 May 2020
Dr. Joel Gould on Vitamin D, Sunlight, the Immune System, and Coronavirus - goo.gl/alerts/yDqrd #GoogleAlerts
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Benjamin Jacobs retweeted
Vitamin D@Vit_D_immune
4 May 2020
Forget sun bathing you need supplements! It is time to take seriously the link between Vitamin D deficiency and more serious Covid-19 symptoms telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05… via @telegraphnews #immunesupport #immunesystem #vitamind #supplements #getyourfix

It is time to take seriously the link between Vitamin D deficiency and more serious Covid-19...

A suggestive set of numbers was published online in April by a medical scientist in the Philippines, Dr Mark Alipio.

telegraph.co.uk
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Mr Tom Quick explaining arm function so clearly at the RNOH GR this evening
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End of July today, yet not enough sun to make Vitamin D in London! Last week was sunny but too hot to go out!
Vitamin D Society@VitDSoc
30 Jul 2019
Don’t Forget the Vitamin D this Summer ow.ly/l0Ds50vgT28 #vitaminD #sunshine
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