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Does Vitamin D Boost Immunity Against COVID-19?

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Deb Shechter
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Jun 25, 2020
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Does Vitamin D Boost Immunity Against COVID-19?

Researchers are studying patient data looking to for a correlation between low vitamin D levels and COVID-19 mortality rates and indicate a link between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 severity and mortality. Vitamin D is known to strengthen immunity and prevent overactive immune responses.

Fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) are crucial for human health. The addition of these vitamins into foods, pharmaceuticals, supplements and topicals is challenging due to solubility, bioavailability and stability issues. There is a tremendous need to make water soluble emulsions out of these vitamins to improve the behavior in the biological system. BEEI technology provides a way to produce repeatable, homogeneous stable nano emulsions, micro emulsions, or liposomes of fat soluble vitamins. These emulsions are critical for effectively incorporating additives such as Vitamin D into products.

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For this reason, Pion's BEE brand equipment enables vitamins such as Vitamin D to be incorporated into oil or lipids effectively improving the efficacy of vitamin D delivery. Contact us to learn more about how we can help.


1. Petre Cristian Ilie, Simina Stefanescu, Lee Smith., The role of vitamin D in the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 infection and mortality. Received: 30 March 2020 / Accepted: 15 April 2020.

2. Frank H. Lau, Rinku Majumder, Radbeh Torabi, Fouad Saeg, Ryan Hoffman, JeffreyD.Cirillo, Patrick Greiffenstein, Vitamin D insufficiency is prevalent in severe COVID-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075838.

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