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Hello and welcome to this talk. Now if we compare populations and groups of people that are low in vitamin D, deficient, to people that have high or adequate amounts of vitamin D that are vitamin D replete, we find huge amounts of differences. So much so that if vitamin D was a new drug and it could be patented, it would be the world's first trillion dollar drug. If it could be patented, pharmaceutical industries could sell a trillion dollars worth a year. Now that is from a paper by

Dr Michael Hollick and Dr Hollick is the one of the, well he's the world's pioneering researcher on vitamin D and he's just written this paper here, revisiting vitamin D guidelines a critical appraisal of the literature and a completely readable paper it is. So let's give some evidence now for why vitamin D, if it were patentable, would be the world's first trillion dollar drug. Some of the things it does. So this is directly from the paper here. If the pharmaceutical

industry had developed a single drug, it's a single drug, just one thing, just the vitamin D, capable of reducing cancer mortality by more than 25 percent, reducing the incidence of metastatic fatal cancer by 38 percent. And I think most of us know that metastasis is when the cancer starts to spread around the body. And again, this is comparing populations that are low in vitamin D to populations that have adequate vitamin D.

These are the differences that researchers have found. Reducing autoimmune disorders by 39 percent, reducing type 1 diabetes by 88 percent, preventing advance of pre-diabetes to type 2 diabetes by 76 percent. In other words, many, many people are on the way to developing type 2 diabetes, developing insulin resistance, developing high blood sugar. You can stop them progressing. Many of those, you can stop them progressing onto type 2 diabetes from being pre-diabetic.

Reducing peripheral vascular disease by up to 80 percent, lowering the risk of upper respiratory tract infection by 58 percent, reducing COVID infectivity, how likely someone is to pass COVID on by 54 percent, reducing COVID-19 infection by up to 74 percent protection, reducing COVID respiratory distress syndrome by 78 percent protection, and reducing hospitalizations due to COVID by 22 percent, and reducing COVID mortality by 45 to 66 percent. Absolutely

incredible. And we did flag up the benefits of vitamin D in February 2020 at the start of the pandemic on this channel.